ACTIVATED

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 23 July 1944, 19-year-old French communist resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud saw a German military officer taking a walk over a bridge on the river Seine in Paris and got off her bicycle. As he looked at the Louvre, she took out her gun and shot him twice in the head, killing him. As she cycled away, she was pursued and knocked off her bike by French collaborators in a car. Riffaud tried to shoot herself to avoid torture but was captured and handed over to the Nazi SS. She was beaten repeatedly, escaped but was recaptured and deported to a concentration camp. There, she was released in a prisoner swap, and took part in the armed uprising which liberated the city in August. She later recounted to Agence France-Presse in an interview, “It was joyous… People were falling in love and kissing each other without knowing each other. After years of having to do everything in secret, we could fight in the open.” Riffaud survived the war and later became a journalist, supporting and reporting on anti-colonial rebellions in Algeria and Vietnam. She eventually passed away in 2024, at the age of 100. Learn more about resistance to the Nazis in episodes 63, 64, 72, and 77-80 of our podcast. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on our website, or wherever you listen to podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/working-class-history/id1355066333

[rubysapphrald]

i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people

[rubysapphrald]

people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!

[darkmoonhyena]

Inspecting my grean

[darkmoonhyena]

Yep that's grean!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Someday I'm going to have to learn how to actually do my job.

[foamcraft-armory]

I'll do it if you do my job

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#all you have to do today is build a lifesize human skull out of foam and glue an octopus to a flintlock pistol

Someday I'm going to have to learn how to actually do your job

[foamcraft-armory]

You also have to build the flintlock pistol. I should have mentioned that

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Fine I'll learn my job (marketing a damn web serial) instead.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Everyone read my stuff.

Help pay my mortgage if you want to read my stuff faster.

[princessparadoxical]

I love the implication that the web serial is the only thing keeping you from getting into American Revolutionary War firearms 🤣

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Gotta keep the hands busy on something

[wheatforme]

definitely gotta do more of the spreading the word bit. i’ve followed you for years and i didn’t realize until now that there’s a sequel series to time to orbit: unknown and it started 6 months ago 🙃

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Technically speaking there's two, if you count Child of a Wandering Star.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#THERES A WHAT

Okay so I am worse at this than I thought

[halondrus]

[normalwomansstuff-deactivated20]

HOT AUTISTIC ADULTS IN YOUR AREA ARE UNSURE IF YOU WANT TO TALK TO THEM...CLICK HERE TO ESTABLISH CLEAR INTENT

[eisenkrahe]

[flipocrite]

not she berry or he berry but no berry

and that is berry good

[thatpollguy]

I humbly request "Have you played the sámi video game Skábma - Snowfall" ✨️

Your wish is my command! Thanks for the poll request, anonymous. Keep 'em coming, folks.

Have you ever played the Sámi video game "Skábma - Snowfall"?

Yes

Not yet, but I've bought or downloaded it

No

Voting ended onJul 22

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are an adventurer in a generic fantasy world and you use this weapon!

Do you like it?

YES!!!!!

yes

Eh it's okay

No

NO!!!!!!!

Voting ended onJul 21

[scoutsmoocrew]

This person needs to be arrested im going to cry

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

How do you go through all the effort of setting up a sous vide to do this????

[swagforbirds]

never tell me that magic isnt real ever again when this is clear evidence of a person transmogrifing Meat into Wood

[thyrell]

i can transmogrify meat into wood by lookin at pictures of titties if ya get what im sayin

[weaselle]

hey, we all love tiddies here but this person has perpetrated a crime against nature and we need you stay focused

[pupucino]

imagine someone died for this

someone died and this is what happened to their body

meat turned into wood

[backtornado]

insane headline to pair with the actual photo of the beastie itself

this is just a gormless little creature. what are we doing here.

[mlarayoukai-archive]

"ingredients you can pronounce" "all natural" "organic" "no chemicals"

[boyholes]

i think im in love with you

[theradioghost]

hyena positivity that focuses on spotted hyenas only is so fake. if you don’t love brown and striped hyenas then get out. if you don’t love aardwolves I can’t even look at you oh my god

[theradioghost]

oh shit wait you guys know about the aardwolf right?????? right???????

leeeeeetle hyena? eats bugs?

[jofiah]

discord dms aren't enough I need to lounge on a sofa and have besties lounge on me

[jofiah]

how are we feeling, fellow touch-starved transfems?

[redstonedust]

the problem with movie remakes is that they always remake something that was already good, meaning at worst you ruin it and at best your remake is largely redundant. to make a truly good remake you need to start with source material that is absolute dogwater. ignore the pull of nostalgia. redeem the sins of moviemaking past.

[blessphemy]

this is how morbius can still win

[hjartasalt]

We need a third space between life and death

[hjartasalt]

Maybe taking yak tranquilizers in a berlin warehouse is the answer after all

[syn4k]

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

[joyflameball]