When Our Turn Comes We Will Make No Excuse

Catherine, She/Her, 31. Birds, planes, socialism. UK strikeposting blog. The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and the people doing it have names and addresses.

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[cathkaesque]

My understanding is that the cut funding from Durham council was £2,500 - the trade union donations raised in response were worth £25,000

[lanimaluu]

[ducks-unlimited]

[feralratbitesu]

IM TRYING

[dragon-in-a-fez]

does the body ALWAYS have to keep the score? maybe we could just have a friendly game this time. maybe we can just have fun without putting numbers on it

[wizardarchetypes]

scariest thing is when you're a kid in a huge family run by women and then you go over to a house that's deeply patriarchal & misogynistic. i remember when i was 8 years old and i got invited over to my friend's house for a big birthday party with her entire extended family. after the enormous lunch that served over 30 people, i got called into the kitchen to do literally hundreds of dishes, alongside all the other little girls and women. not only were the boys our age all excused from the meal to go play, but all the grown men went to the living room to watch sports together and drink. i couldn't believe it. i asked why some of the grownups were watching TV but the girls had to clean up and all the women just laughed and laughed at me.

[wizardarchetypes]

as a teenager when i learned the word "sexist" and used it the older women balked at it and tried to convince me this arrangement was a good thing actually because women need space from men, and cleaning in the kitchen after parties is a sacred domain of safety. and i was like actually i think needing private safety from your own husbands, sons, and brothers sounds even worse. like do you understand you somehow made this even more troubling than it already was

[wizardarchetypes]

like i think it's fine if a bunch of sister-in-laws/wives want time together without their husbands & brothers to talk together in camaraderie. i'm not judging that. obviously. but dare i ask why the women's meetup could only take place while doing manual labor for a nearby room full of men

[wizardarchetypes]

it's also interesting how this ingrained rigid social structures in children bc i was mostly friends with boys at that age and in fact was at the birthday party of a friend who was a boy so i remember complaining to him at school that it was weird all the girls had to help clean up because i didn't know any of the other little girls so i felt really left out that i didn't get to hang out with my own friends for a chunk of the party and he and the other little boys were like "that's just the rules."

[wizardarchetypes]

yeah growing up in the Appalachian bible belt I absolutely often saw this re-enforced by women.

[cathkaesque]

On the 2nd June 1962, the army opened fire on the strikers and inhabitants of the south Russian city of Novocherkassk during a mass rally in the central square: "Columns of marchers were converging on the city from everywhere and there appeared red flags, portraits of Lenin. The demonstrators were singing revolutionary songs. Everybody was excited, full of belief in their power and in the fairness of their demands. The column of demonstrators was becoming larger and larger. "While approaching the bridge across the railway and the Toozlov river, the demonstrator noticed a cordon of two tanks and armed soldiers on the bridge. The column slowed to a standstill and the revolutionary singing died down. Then the dense mass of people moved slowly forward. Outcries were heard: 'Give way to the working class!' Then the shouts merged into a powerful, unified chant. The soldiers and the tankmen not only did not try to stop the column of marchers, but actually helped the people get over the tanks. The stream of people flowed on both sides of the bridge cordon. The excitement grew. The revolutionary songs grew louder, more harmonious and more powerful. "Several witnesses reported that the officer who had been ordered to open fire, refused to give the order to the soldiers and shot himself in front of the formation. But nevertheless the soldiers opened fire. First upwards, at the trees, at the children who fell down, killed, wounded, frightened. In such a way the party, the state and the army were eradicating different trends of thought, asserting the unity of the party and the people, proving the democratic character of the socialist state. Then the machine guns were pointed at the crowd." From the account by Piotr Siuda, one of the strikers

[deadgenerations]

John Blanche died fuck all life

rest in peace to the OG, the greatest of all time. No one else has ever done it like him.

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Vietnamese painting (ca. 1970) showing a woman embroidering a cloth with Lenin’s portrait, the text reading: "Lenin is 100."

Via Propagandopolis

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

some days i feel overwhelming grief for the fact that i never got to be a teenaged girl

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

i should have been an awkward tomboy slowly figuring out she's a lesbain and crushing on my best friend but instead i was crushed into nothing by feelings i couldn't even point to

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

it's so fucking unfair

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

i cannot forget that everything led to where i am now, im happy now, im who im meant to be.

but every day i mourn the girl that never got to live, she deserved more.

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

[probablyasocialecologist]

After Brent | Freddie Daley & Ewan Gibbs

The future of North Sea Oil

During the 1960s, the British state managed a relatively successful transition of workers from contracting coalfields into emergent assembly-goods sectors—automobiles, commercial vehicles, household appliances. The number of miners in Britain declined from around 700,000 in the late 1950s to fewer than 300,000 in the early 1970s, but this shedding of jobs in one sector was accompanied by the creation of new industrial employment in the same communities. Hoover employed thousands in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, and Cambuslang in Lanarkshire, a coal and steel settlement on the edges of Glasgow. Caterpillar, the tractor and bulldozer manufacturer, operated plants in Birtley in County Durham and at Tannochside in Lanarkshire, a site which repurposed land cleared of derelict miners’ housing. Rootes was obliged to build a large car factory at Linwood outside Paisley, employing former Clydeside shipbuilders, Glasgow locomotive engineers, and Lanarkshire miners.  In the 1960s and 1970s, Labour governments used the state’s capacity to compel capital to locate private investment in regions marked for manufacturing expansion. The British state stewarded investment into emergent industries where disinvestment appeared inevitable, and coordinated the transition between them. This makes these earlier decades stand apart from what followed under Tory rule and New Labour in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Cumulatively, these changes created a more balanced and equitable labor market, including new centers of manufacturing and white-collar work for women in areas where such jobs had previously been scarce. The North Sea petroleum complex was itself a creation of the planning state of British social democracy. During the 1970s, the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan operated an Offshore Supplies Office (OSO) alongside the nationalized British National Oil Corporation. The OSO applied pressure on oil majors to place orders at British yards—including converted shipyards on the Tyne and the Clyde, and at Burntisland in Fife. In Fife, itself a contracting coalfield, a large oil rig fabrication yard was built at Methil on the former site of Wellesley colliery. This precedent demonstrates that the state capacity to direct private capital and coordinate industrial transition exists within living memory.

15 May 2026

[renixie]

terminally fagged up, I'm afraid

[suspiriously]

Gladio is the most insane thing you will ever learn about

[sanguinesylph]

hold on I have to look something up

[suspiriously]

TLDR: after WWII, the US took nazi war criminals and set them up in sleeper cells all over Europe, “activating” them whenever the “threat of communism” was deemed too much, like in the Years of Lead

[sanguinesylph]

oh my god?

[suspiriously]

Stay-behind - Wikipedia

Stay-behind - Wikipedia

they’re called stay-behind networks, here’s a list of a bunch. Technically, Gladio was the one that operated in Italy

[cathkaesque]

Look up the BBC timewatch documentary about this

[cathkaesque]

As I understand it, this documentary was when Gladio first became known to the world.

[excitementshewrote]

[queer-as-city-folk]

Anti-city people are just plain fascinating to me

[notaaronsroommate]

pride month.

ok, listen, shut the fuck up, shut the fuck up do not say any fuckshit you dumb bastards.

if you want to see sucking and fucking go to folsom street fair in San Fran, that's where you see people bouncing cocks off eachother and it's fine and self contained. No one is sucking and fucking at pride even if I wish they were. Everyone is fine there, yes whatever micro identity you just came up with, no one is stationed at the entryway to each blocked off street with a gaydar detector.

if you see the bank of america pridefloat shut the fuck up about it and ignore it. yeah, I KNOW. I been doin this for damn near 20 years at this point shut the fuck up "ooo corporate pride, pride was a riot" I KNOW. EVERYONE KNOWS. It is way BETTER if the billion dollar corporation thinks you are a non exterminatable customer base they must pander too rather than having no rainbow colored bullshit whatsoever.

shut the fuck up. shut the fuck up. get off the fucking computer. go get rammed up the ass. shut the fuck up.