A rascal with a question

Literature, series, movies, fairy tales; nothing particularly interesting

[ulteriorfirmament]

Remek,

sőt, kurvajó. Eljutottam odáig, hogy már a kitalált születésnapomon is szarul érzem magam. #fvkcthis

[ulteriorfirmament]

[antifainternational]

[baredwolf]

Take what you need and pass it on:

A hug

A smile

A joke that makes you belly laugh

A snack

A butterfly in the sunshine

A grilled cheese cut diagonal and a forehead kiss

An encouragement: “You’ve got this!”

A nap

A high five

Voting ended onSep 19, 2025

[communistsloth-deactivated20220]

On 11th September 1973, Marxist and democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende was overthrown in a US-backed coup.

Among the many policies which Allende’s government carried out were:

- Efforts to integrate the Indian minority into the educational system (including allocating 3,000 scholarships to Mapuche children) - Payment of pensions and grants - The construction of 120,000 residential buildings - All part-time workers were granted rights to social security - Withdrawing of a proposed electricity price increase - Restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba - Amnesty to political prisoners - Fixing of bread prices - 55,000 volunteers were sent to the south of the country to teach writing and reading skills and provide medical attention to a sector of the population that had previously been ignored - Establishment of a central commission to oversee a tri-partite payment plan in which equal place was given to government, employees and employers - Wokrers were granted representational rights on the funding board of the Social Planning Ministry - Introduction of an obligatory minimum wage for workers of all ages including apprentices - Free milk was introduced for expectant and nursing mothers and for children between the ages of 7 and 14 - Free school meals - Rent reductions - The rescheduling of the Santiago subway so as to serve working-class neighbourhoods first - Increases in social security payments - An expanded public works program - A modification of the wage and salary adjustment mechanism to benefit workers - Programs distributed free food to the country’s neediest citizens - Establishment of peasant councils were established to mobilise agrarian workers and small proprietors - Increase in the minimum taxable income level - A campaign against illiteracy & expansion of adult education programs - 18 year-olds and illiterates granted the right to vote - State-sponsored cultural education initiatives & music festivals/tours including Chilean folklorists and nueva canción musicians - Establishment of the Women’s Secretariat to improve women’s rights, gender equality - Maternity leave extended from 6 to 12 weeks - “Democratisation” of university education, including abolishment of tuition fees - Co-operative laundries, communal food preparation, expansion of child-care facilities - The CUT (central labor confederation) was accorded legal recognition and its membership grew from 700,000 to almost 1 million - In enterprises in the Area of Social Ownership, an assembly of the workers elected half of the members of the management council for each company, these bodies replaced the former board of directors - The incomes of retirement pensioners were increased by the government from one-third of the minimum salary to the full amount - Labor insurance cover was extended to 200,000 market traders, 130,000 small shop proprietors, 30,000 small industrialists, small owners, transport workers, clergy, professional sportsmen, and artesans - Project Cybersyn to aid in the management of the economy

As a result of these policies:

- Purchasing power went up by 28% between October 1970 and July 1971 - Average real wages rose by 22.3% during 1971 - Minimum real wages for blue-collar workers were increased by 56% during the first quarter of 1971, white-collar workers’ wages increased by 23% - An average of 52,000 houses were constructed annually - Despite the increase in inflation (a long-standing problem in Chile) wages still rose (on average) in real terms during the 1971–73 period - From 1971 through to 1973, enrollments in kindergarten, primary, secondary, and postsecondary schools all increased - An 89% rise in university enrollments between 1970 and 1973, increased enrollment in secondary education from 38% in 1970 to 51% in 1974 - The illiteracy rate was reduced from 12% in 1970 to 10.8% in 1972 - The growth in primary school enrollment increased from an annual average of 3.4% in the period 1966–70 to 6.5% in 1971–1972 - Secondary education grew at a rate of 18.2% in 1971–1972 - The average school enrollment of children between the ages of 6 and 14 rose from 91% (1966–70) to 99% - Wage and salary earners increased their share of national income from 51.6% (the annual average between 1965 and 1970) to 65% - Family consumption increased by 12.9% in the first year of the Allende Government - Annual increase in personal spending rose from 4.8% in the period 1965–70, to 11.9% in 1971 - During the first two years of Allende’s presidency, state expenditure on health rose from around 2% to nearly 3.5% of GDP - The proportion of children under the age of 6 with some form of malnutrition fell by 17% - Pensions increased by a total of 550% - There was one healthcare centre for every 40,000 inhabitants - 4 million square metres of housing & other construction works were completed in 1971–72, compared to an annual average of two-and-a-half million between 1965 and 1970 - There was 12% industrial growth and an 8.6% increase in GDP, decrease of inflation from 34.9% to 22.1% and unemployment went down to 3.8% by the end of 1971

[depsidase]

[ulteriorfirmament]

Jövőre egyetlen dolgot akarok biztosan: eljutni július elején a Hebridákra.

[pathsofart]

The image shows the work "Le Défenseur" (The Defender) by Honoré Daumier, created around 1845. The painting depicts a lawyer and a woman in a courtroom, with spectators in the background. The work is known for its realism and social critique, which are hallmarks of Daumier's work. Daumier was a 19th-century French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, famous for his satirical caricatures and socially engaged artworks. He is considered one of the most important political caricaturists in the history of art.

[it-is-only-a-novel-deactivated2]

Reminder to self:

[ramshacklefey]

What do you mean?? I took one whole day off! Why am I not immediately recovered from years of barely scraping by at subsistence level???

[kimwxller]

I am the vampire Madeleine Eparvier. And my immortal companion is Claudia. My coven is Claudia.

[ayeforscotland]

Scottish Government halts cash for arms companies supplying Israel and flies Palestinian flag

John Swinney announced a range of actions the Scottish Government is to take in response to the 'unacceptable' situation in Gaza.

Took long enough but good to finally see.

[bungcar]

[deareadersmanuscript-deactivate]

This is the cutest and you will not convince me otherwise.

[ulteriorfirmament]

Igen fiatalon Stoner azt hitte, a szerelem abszolút létállapot, amelyhez, ha szerencséje van, az ember hozzáférhet; érettebben úgy döntött, hamis vallás mennyországa az, amire csak derűs hitetlenkedéssel, szelíden ismerős megvetéssel és kínos nosztalgiával tekinthet. Most, középkorúan kezdett rájönni, hogy nem kegyelmi állapot, nem is önáltatás; a valamivé válás emberi folyamatának látta most, olyan helyzetnek, amelyet pillanatról pillanatra, napról napra újra feltalál és alakít az akarat, az értelem, a szív. (John Williams: Stoner)

[ulteriorfirmament]

[taigacryptid]

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

[ulteriorfirmament]

Szélvész, söpörd ki végre a régi világot.

Szélvész, sodorj el, engem is röpíts előre.

Szélvész, éneked ordítsd szabadon,

bátran néma tereken, alvó városon át.

[ulteriorfirmament]

Attól,

hogy sajnálom magam, még lehetek konzisztens. #ma is tanultam valamit -.+