How Byronic

The human race doesn't deserve the grace of my contribution to the gene pool

[ravioliet]

they should invent a disproportionate emotional response that goes away when you understand it's disproportionate. they should invent a way to logic yourself out of emotions

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 11 August 1979, 2,000 riot police attacked 187 women workers in Seoul, South Korea, who had been occupying the headquarters of the opposition New Democratic Party in protest at closure of the YH wig factory they worked at. The women had taken over the fourth floor hall two days previously. The US-backed military dictatorship completely ignored the demands of the workers, instead deciding to violently repress them. One woman, Kim Kyung Sook, was killed by police, while the union leaders were arrested and the other workers sent home by bus. The violence against the women provoked widespread outrage against the government, and was a major contributor to the uprisings which swept Busan and Masan a few weeks later, after which the dictator was assassinated by his head of intelligence. Learn more about this time period in South Korean people's history in our podcast episode 51: https://workingclasshistory.com/2021/03/24/e51-jeon-tae-il-and-lee-so-sun/

[schmergo]

Yesterday, I was at dinner with some friends and briefly forgot Harrison Ford’s name, but I was like, “His name is a president and a car,” which is how we got such acceptable alternatives as McKinley Camry, Van Buren Gremlin, Clinton Infinity, and Range Rover Cleveland.

[caesarsaladinn]

Lincoln Lincoln

[naidje]

[tijdvoormemes]

Danku lesbiennes!

[the-pink-hacker]

Sadly it is impossible to know what this means as an English speaker

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 12 August 1982, the Maghen Abraham Synagogue in Beirut was badly damaged by shelling by the Israeli military. The only synagogue in the city, it had been housing Jewish and Muslim refugees during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, during which Israel was attempting to destroy the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). The building had been damaged by Israeli shelling the week prior as well, after which the building was evacuated and the doors locked. The second attack rendered the synagogue building as unusable. According to the Jewish newspaper Forward, Israel was trying to target PLO fighters who were protecting the building. Around 100 Jewish families had lived in the vicinity of the synagogue, and despite the invasion, Jewish residents reported that there had been no harassment of them by Muslim of Palestinian neighbours. One Jewish resident, Khuder Namoud, told the New York Times: ''We are sick of this war… All the money is gone. We can't work. The electricity is gone, the water too. We have just stayed here in the house for two months.'' Meanwhile, another elderly Jewish woman muttered “'My house is broken, my house is broken”. The destruction of the neighbourhood forced nearly all of the Jewish residents to flee. The Israeli government claimed that several families emigrated to Israel. In 2009, the Lebanese government, Hezbollah, and Jewish Lebanese residents approved a plan to rebuild and reopen the synagogue, which it did some years later. Learn more about Palestinian history in these books: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/palestine Pictured: Palestinians protecting a synagogue during fighting in Lebanon, 1975

[corvidaedream]

imagining a late 18th/early 19th century young lady standing proudly in a fine gown with a labubu clipped to her chatelaine

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 12 August 2017, 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and dozens injured in a white supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. Heyer was one of thousands of people protesting against a Unite the Right rally of neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan activists and other white nationalists and antisemites, when she was hit by a car driven at speed deliberately into the crowd by a 20-year-old Nazi, who was pictured previously on the Unite the Right protest holding a shield emblazoned with the logo of Vanguard America, a far right group. Elsewhere in the city, another group of fascists attacked and viciously beat DeAndre Harris, a young Black education worker, leaving him with spinal and other injuries. Then-president Donald Trump described some of the neo-Nazis as "very fine people". Over the next few years, over 100 other vehicular attacks took place, mostly targeted at Black Lives Matter protesters, killing several and injuring dozens. Republican lawmakers responded by attempting to introduce laws to legalise attacks, or prevent lawsuits against attackers who killed protesters with their vehicles in at least 15 states, successfully introducing them in states such as Florida, Iowa and Oklahoma. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8376/heather-heyer-murdered Learn more about US white supremacists and their relationship with the state in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/insurgent-supremacists-the-u-s-far-right-s-challenge-to-state-and-empire-matthew-n-lyons

[ichorknight]

driving my chevy to the levee today

[ichorknight]

what the fuck

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 13 August 1977, anti-fascist South Londoners battled with police and National Front (NF) members in what would come to be known as the Battle of Lewisham. The fascist NF had hugely grown in strength and numbers during the 70s, and was winning tens of thousands of votes in London. They were also carrying out frequent racist attacks, and firebombings and physical assaults on left-wing groups. In a clear provocation, the NF planned to march through the multi-racial, working-class area of Lewisham. However, around 10,000 local residents decided to try to confront the NF directly at their assembly point. 4000 police, using riot shields for the first time in mainland Britain, were deployed to try to protect the NF and facilitate their march. Despite the police guard, anti-fascists, including many Black, white and Asian youths, began pelting the fascists with bricks and bottles, injuring many. Police indiscriminately attacked anti-fascists, but residents used their superior knowledge of local geography to outsmart the police and launch surprise attacks. At one point, anti-fascists managed to breach police lines, break the fascist march in half and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the NF. Many of the fascists were forced to flee. One eyewitness, Suzy Harding, recounted: "There was a bit of fighting but most of the [fascists] were so terrified that they just ran away." While the NF complained that the police did not protect them well enough, the Daily Mail attacked anti-fascists as "red storm-troopers". The right-wing Daily Telegraph decried the idea that "native-born Englishmen [were] denied the right to march through a part of their city merely because it is settled by immigrants", and suggested that socialist and communist protests be banned. The abject defeat of the NF helped create a groundswell of enthusiasm for militant, direct action against fascism, and significantly boosted the anti-fascist movement. We have anti-fascist books, posters, and more, in our online shop: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/anti-fascist Photos: Peter Marlow/Magnum

[kelcipher]

[chestnuthorse]

[politijohn]

[howbyronic]

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

[kropotkindersurprise]

[geocitiesephemera]

Eyewitness Series II by DK Vision (1996)

[thatsbelievable]

[rexuality]

hikes are very good yes but a deluxe hike is when you are accompanied by a freak with niche nature knowledge. they’re like omg stop there’s a horned valerian varmint beetle here and then you both get to crouch down and look at a bug like :)