[dessalines-raised-sword]

I feel this information is better to be on it’s own as it deserve more attention and knowledge.

People tend to mythologize black panthers in the past. It is good to study history of the black panthers and BLA to understand their success, failures, state repression and strategies. But black panthers are not just in the past. Black panthers are still alive and still in the struggle like Sekou Odinga and Jalil Muntaqim who from the moment stepping out of prison started the fight for political prisoners in the US. Some of them are living as political prisoners in horrible conditions. We just lost Russell Maroon Shoatz to state medical negligence.

We should support out freedom fighters and revolutionaries. And do all we can to free them from the state repression and not just talk about them in a mythical past.

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Jericho movement started by panthers veterans fights for political prisoners in the US. Please join them. They have a lot of information about political prisoners.

Mumia Abu Jamal, one of the foremost journalist and panther is still in prison.

You can listen to Mumia’s excellent analysis and voice in prison radio as he never stopped his work even in the prison

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Imam Jamil Al Amin who has glaucoma and health conditions.

Ruchelle MacGee who is the longest serving political prisoner in the US

Dr. Mutulu Shakur who is suffering cancer.

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Kamau Sadiki who was jailed to use as leverage against Assata Shakur.

Leonard Peltier who was framed and jailed by the FBI. He has COVID now in prison.

Free them all

[mccleans]

me as an arsenal fan

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Northern firms leverage monopsony and monopoly power to depress Southern suppliers’ prices while setting final prices artificially high. Patents play a key role here: 97% of all patents are held by corporations in high-income countries. We can see how this plays out in the case of major products like iPhones. The iPhone is produced almost entirely in the global South, by arms-length suppliers. Apple, headquartered in the North, forces its suppliers to compete to drive prices down to cost, with wages depressed to the level of subsistence. This allows Apple to obtain the iPhone for cheap, and then, leveraging its patent monopoly (a privilege granted and enforced not by the market but by the state), mark up the final price by over 100%. In some cases, patents involve forcing people in the South to pay for access to resources they might otherwise have obtained much more affordably, or even for free.”

— Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015

[h-isforhome-deactivated20261708]

Mothers have martyred themselves in their children’s names since the beginning of time. We have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist.

What a terrible burden for children to bear—to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living. What a terrible burden for our daughters to bear—to know that if they choose to become mothers, this will be their fate, too. Because if we show them that being a martyr is the highest form of love, that is what they will become. They will feel obligated to love as well as their mothers loved, after all. They will believe they have permission to live only as fully as their mothers allowed themselves to live.

If we keep passing down the legacy of martyrdom to our daughters, with whom does it end? Which woman ever gets to live? And when does the death sentence begin? At the wedding altar? In the delivery room? Whose delivery room—our children’s or our own? When we call martyrdom love we teach our children that when love begins, life ends. This is why Jung suggested: There is no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.

—Glennon Doyle, Untamed

[once-a-gunner-again]

Arsenal wanted to be in the Super League

[pasarelas]

Zentyatze Echeverria shot by Enrique Leyva

[knottybliss]

I finished the Edlothia shawl, and holy crap is it hard to take pictures of by myself…it’s massive!!

Here it is hung on my bathroom door:

Here I was trying to get a shot of it on me. I am Not Tall but still - I couldn’t get the whole center length visible in the mirror.

I tried to get a shot that showed off the different patterns in each stripe…

…and then another by pulling the whole thing to length. This thing is So. Big.

One last wing-shot. I really love how well this yarn drapes, and bamboo feels so nice and silky.

Anyway, I am definitely going to do this one again in different colors; I love the contrast of the charcoal and the petal pink, but it doesn’t go with a lot of my outfits. Therefore:

FOR SALE! Make me an offer!

[knottybliss]

@headlamprey asks “How much would it go for???” and those of you who have been around since this post/thread know how much I am into that question because it has multiple answers.

First answer:

There’s over 30 years of practice behind the crocheting of an object like this, and while I did not design the pattern I nonetheless employed years of skill in the process of following it. Creating the shawl took at least 30 hours of work, and if we want to pay me an expert wage on this…let’s be wild, let’s say the work is worth $30/hour. 30x30= $900.

But this isn’t my sole means of income. It helps me handle holidays, build my emergency fund, buy more yarn to make more pretty things. Let’s say it’s worth the $15/hr wage that a lot of folks are fighting for as a new minimum. 15x30=$450.

Let’s throw minimum wage at it instead, which in my state is $13.50 right now. 13.50x30=$405

For that matter, we could crunch federal minimum wage, which is $7.25. 7.25x30=$217.50

Could I sell it for that much, any of these amounts, though? Maybe. There are folks in the world with funds to spare for quality handmade items, and occasionally I’m lucky enough to cross paths. Sometimes it’s the kind of thing where I take partial payments for a while. Mostly, if I price it anywhere near the range I probably should - the $450-$900 range - it would sit in my Etsy shop, and in my cedar chest, and make nobody happy.

Mostly though, there are lots of people who would love nice handmade things that just cannot make it happen even at a minimum wage. Either of them.

So while I know 30 hours is on the low end of my time estimate for this project, and it doesn’t take into account cost of materials either, there’s an array of answers to how much it could go for. How much WILL it go for? Well, I’m taking offers. Yes, even ones below minimum wage.

And if one of you folks out there really does have the money to throw at a beautiful handmade shawl, I have this yarn in several other colors and can get it in more, and am happy to take commissions. :)

[yarnaddiction]

Can I please just say, I love how you do this! Like YES! Educating people about the value of handmade things!!! But also the "make me an offer" thing is brilliant!

[knottybliss]

Thank you! I love going through the educating process - we are collectively so used to mass produced fast fashion prices on things that it does well to dig into why some handmade things are priced the way they are and how that pricing reflects not only materials and time spent but years of skill development as well. It fosters appreciation, I think, for handmade objects of all types and skill levels.

It also encourages folks to share my posts around, which increases the likelihood that someone will see some of my work and have an Oooh Gimme moment. XD

[swords-n-spindles]

^^^ what @yarnaddiction said ^^^

[knottybliss]

💜💜💜

[knottybliss]

Oh Zod, I named it but didn’t link it! It’s the Edlothia shawl by Jasmin Räsänen and you can find it here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/edlothia

Edlothia pattern by Jasmin Räsänen

English pattern with chart added

[aurora1040]

i love literally everything about this post and reblog chain

[knottybliss]

Thank you. ^_^

[wagahai-da]

[thelastlightningbug]

[Image ID: a photo of a group of people looking at a picture frame, saying “I’ve had enough of this nazi meme” about the chad meme wojack that has been photoshopped into the frame. The meme shows a blue eyed, blond haired white man with a large beard (originally in contrast to a man with “inferior” traits like a weak chin and brown hair). End ID]

[hotvampireadjacent]

Boycott sabra/ barada goods

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

Ever since that Steven universe smut blog turned out to be a republican senator I knew I’d never leave this hell site. You just don’t get drama like that anywhere else

im sorry What

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

the way they just dropped this bomb and did not follow up. king

[fallingnebulae]

smth i’m struggling to understand w tumblr’s new post+ is that it seems to at least in some form be directed at like. fandom content creators? bc that’s such a big part of content creation on tumblr is fandom

but isn’t it like. illegal to monetise fan content? is tumblr telling us to put like. fanfic and art and shit behind a paywall despite copyright? how many people are going to use post+ for that and get so completely fucked by it lmao

[fallingnebulae]

SURELY THIS IS STRAIGHT UP ILLEGAL

[daevite]

op i thing you overestimate how much fictional media creators (bigger ones at least) will care abt this kinda thing like tons of fanfic/fanart creators have stuff paywalled on patreon without repercussion and tons of artists go to anime cons and stuff and set up whole stands selling fanart prints like + sell merch online featuring copyrighted characters like. ime unless it’s along the lines of anne rice ppl are unlikely to see any actual punishment for it

[avocado-moon]

are you kidding?? is this post kidding??? disney sends DMCA takedowns to people selling loki pins on fucking etsy. they ABSOLUTELY care lmfao

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

"this would kill a medieval peasant" yeah and a halberd or the black plague would kill you too so stay humble

[fallingnebulae]

smth i’m struggling to understand w tumblr’s new post+ is that it seems to at least in some form be directed at like. fandom content creators? bc that’s such a big part of content creation on tumblr is fandom

but isn’t it like. illegal to monetise fan content? is tumblr telling us to put like. fanfic and art and shit behind a paywall despite copyright? how many people are going to use post+ for that and get so completely fucked by it lmao

[fallingnebulae]

SURELY THIS IS STRAIGHT UP ILLEGAL

[daevite]

op i thing you overestimate how much fictional media creators (bigger ones at least) will care abt this kinda thing like tons of fanfic/fanart creators have stuff paywalled on patreon without repercussion and tons of artists go to anime cons and stuff and set up whole stands selling fanart prints like + sell merch online featuring copyrighted characters like. ime unless it’s along the lines of anne rice ppl are unlikely to see any actual punishment for it

[nicollekidman]

no it’s so fucking funny staff is just apparently ignoring the fact that 90% of the content on this website basically becomes illegal the second you bring money into the equation sdkfjghfjdslk

[justpastryvideos]

x

[krystal-prisms]

Babe, wake up, it’s that fucking chocolate guy again

[fishyandclintbarton]

BABE!! NEW CHOCOLATE GUY CONTENT JUST DROPPED!

[bunjywunjy]

if Chocolate Guy had been alive and doing his thing in the mid 17th century the royal families of Europe would have started actual wars over who got to hire him

[alivehouse]

[ghostfires]

i’m crying so hard

[ghostfires]

Afghan Teacher Killed & Leaves Behind Family of 8, organized by Bashar Mal

Omid was a literacy teacher at Ketab Academic Center, on his way home fr… Bashar Mal needs your support for Afghan Teacher Killed & Leaves

this is my friends uncle, one of the teachers at ketab—an organization some of you might remember me posting about a few months ago.

ketab not only provides financial aid, personal supplies (clothes, food, whatever to accommodate the needs of the people in kabul), aid to displaced families, and medical supplies, but also nourishes the lives of the future generations in afghanistan. omid, the teacher mentioned, was my friend’s uncle. my friend, who started this beautiful organization. this fundraiser is for his funeral expenses, as he was the breadwinner for the family and his family didn’t have anybody else to earn income for them.

this is him teaching literacy to one of his many students. he was a kind soul, and refused to get paid the regular salary of a teacher as he wanted more for the students. please share this. for my friend, for the students, and for the family mourning. thank you all, and may God have mercy on him.

[ghostfires]

here’s the linktree for all of the current ketab gofundmes and other important links :

@ketabeduservices | Linktree

We are an organization dedicated to providing relief in Afghanistan

you can also follow their instagram : @ketabeduservices for more updates, both on the current news of what’s happening in afghanistan, and of the new events and donations for ketab.