☭

sin | 28 | any/all

[gazanarchive]

Today marks the 56th anniversary of Algeria’s independence from France on 5 July 1962.

Never forget the 1.5 million martyrs slaughtered by the French.

Never forget the millions of Algerians raped, tortured and dehumanised by the French.

Never forget the 200+ Algerian civilians drowned at Seine by the French.

Never forget the millions of Algerians dehumanised till this day in France for simply being Algerian.

Never forget that France still doesn’t want to recognize the damage of their colonization that still affects Algerians to this day.

[jareckiworld]

Yelena Popova — Fern Flower (jacquard woven tapestry, 2025)

[sanminzhuyi]

Chengdu through the lens of Alain Le Garsmeur, 1985.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

do any of you even enjoy reading or watching fiction at all? if i wanted the plot with virtually nothing else i would read the wikipedia page

[nemfrog]

Two crows. Mother Goose Rhymes. 1915.

Internet Archive

[siniov]

armando iannucci could never even have conceived of a man as pathetic as keir starmer

[siniov]

rambles about things i want to do to waste time

i'm thinking of starting to consistently write (not fiction) and upload it somewhere to give some record or reason to keep going and being consistent.

i'd do it here maybe on a separate blog but i'm not sure if this website truly is the new pdf and maybe not the best place for it. maybe here or on a sideblog because its where i've always been as well as on substack since they let any insane person post there too.

what was it that people used all those years ago? wordpress? is that still a thing?

anyway i think i've got a fairly novel idea for a piece. in fact i'm scared to google it in case i'm actually the 57th person to conceive of the idea and all my points will be complete trite.

but i'll have to do some searches at some point for research. if it never gets written assume i am incapable of envisioning a unique idea let alone actualising it.

i don't really speak on pop culture things i'm interested in on here anymore so i'll have to out myself a bit which feels very vulnerable too.

and then will other ideas come to me? maybe i'm observant and not creative. but maybe that's enough.

not to mention i have no academic background in journalism or anything adjacent, only scientific publishing and communications.

?????????????? tbc i suppose.

[lascitasdelashoras]

William Blake, Stonehenge

[sanminzhuyi]

A bookseller in Shanghai posing along some posters supporting the communist cause plastered on his windows, possibly shortly after the PLA's entrance into the city, ca. 1949.

Photo by Harrison Forman.

[siniov]

im straight up throwing my phone out if this government gets away with all the internet bans its pushing through

[drapeau-rouge]

“We will go towards the sun of freedom or towards death. And if we die, it doesn't matter. Our cause will live on; others will follow us. FMLN”

“Nosotros iremos hacia el sol de la libertad o hacia la muerte. Y si morimos no importa. Nuestra causa seguirá viviendo otro nos seguirán. FMLN”

[lostfunzones]

Wassily Kandinsky, Inner Alliance. 1929.

[bedlamcorners]

Provisional IRA patrol in Derry, early 1970s.

[siniov]

drinking a coffee and taking a melatonin.

hashtag dialectics

[stillnaomi]

the genocide in Gaza is still ongoing. Israel has directly killed over 900 Palestinan people in Gaza since the ceasefire was declared, and is still only letting 150-200 trucks of aid through per day out of the 550-600 that UNWRA says is necessary to meet their basic needs. in other words, Israel is still killing Palestinians with guns and bombs, and by denying them adequate food, clean water, medicine, and sanitation. at the same time, Israel has only met around 30 percent of its obligations for the first phase of the ceasefire, and is trying to increase the amount of Gaza it securely holds from 60 to 70 percent, while insisting that the resistance disarms before moving onto the next phase of the peace plan. the "ceasefire" is just another phase in the genocide

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[guerillas-of-history]

A member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) fires a pistol in air during a symbolic funeral for PFLP chief Abu Ali Mustafa who was assassinated by israel, Beit Jala, West Bank August 31, 2001.

(Photo credit: Musa Al-Shaer/AFP)