WhateverGreen

🔻He/Him🔻 Seething Fuck the olympics and the world cup “We say it’s no longer a question of violence or non-violence. We say it’s a question of resistance to fascism or non-existence within fascism.” – Fred Hampton

[bugshroom]

the biggest basket fungus i have ever seen

[homoidiotic]

The mega basket …

[joeinct]

Alley between tombs, City of the Dead, Cairo, Egypt, Photo by Ed Kashi, 1993

[lamignonette]

[shetheyslain]

Trying to sleep during a heatwave is a great reminder that all oil executives need to die painful painful deaths

[segamascott]

[sivavakkiyar]

“…The company now controlled the eastern Gangetic plain from Banares to Calcutta. In the following year, 1765, the Mughal emperor appointed the East India Company his diwan (or chief financial manager) of the provinces of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa, thereby enabling it to collect revenue on his behalf. Known as the Treaty of Allahabad, this arrangement has been called “the truly inaugural moment of the Raj’. The company’s accession to diwani, Ranajit Guha says…”brought together in one single instance all the three fundamental aspects of colonialism in our subcontinent, namely, its origin in an act of force, its exploitation of the primary produce of the land as the very basis of a colonial economy, and its need to give force and exploitation the appearance of legality.”

There is to this inaugural moment of the Raj, as there was sometimes to the Raj itself, a touch of farce. When, thirty years later, the painter Benjamin West depicted the treaty—Lord Clive receiving from the Moghul the Grant of the Duanney—he showed the Mughal emperor Shah Alam in an imperial setting, seated under a canopy on a raised throne, from where he hands Clive a rolled document. There are elephants in the background and in the foreground attendants. Clive’s party, consisting of six Englishmen, is shown to the left of the canvas. Some of the Englishmen appear to be talking in whispers to each other, as do some of the Indians. The reality was quite different: Clive actually received ‘the Duanney’ in his tent. Two of the six Englishmen in the picture were not present with him in Allahabad on that day, and the emperor’s throne, far from being a canopied, oriental affair, was in fact Clive’s dining table surmounted by an armchair.

At about the same time Shah Alam was being reduced to a piece of rococo furniture…[…]”

—arvind krishna mehrotra, Introduction to “A History of Indian Writing in English”

[sunsetbuddie]

when you say something awkward and stupid in a social situation that probably no one will remember except you for the rest of time

[edwordsmyth]

"First we must study how colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism; and we must show that each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact, each time a little girl is raped and in France they accept the fact, each time a Madagascan is tortured and in France they accept the fact, civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place, a gangrene sets in, a center of infection begins to spread; and that at the end of all these treaties that have been violated, all these lies that have been propagated, all these punitive expeditions that have been tolerated, all these prisoners who have been tied up and interrogated, all these patriots who have been tortured, at the end of all the racial pride that has been encouraged, all the boastfulness that has been displayed, a poison has been instilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds toward savagery.

And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific reverse shock: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers around the racks invent, refine, discuss." -Aimé Césaire

[pvfpereira]

E uma das condições necessárias a pensar certo é não estarmos demasiado certos de nossas certezas. - Paulo Freire (📖Pedagogia da Autonomia)

[whatevergreen]

And one of the necessary conditions for thinking right is not to be too sure of our certainties. - Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of Autonomy)

[arcadebroke]

腐った

[federer7]

East 100th Street. New York City. 1966

Photo: Bruce Davidson

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[enby-butch-dyke]

From Dublin Trans & Intersex Pride March July 2025

Photo by Hasan Yikici on insta

[whatevergreen]

Oh if thoughts could kill

[creekfiend]

I'm so glad that that truncated fucking ran-into-a-wall-at-speed tadpole-ass looking squirrel only lives in high altitude forests in Borneo bc this means I am extremely unlikely to encounter one in my day to day life. thank god

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

Hello.

[creekfiend]

DID YOU MAKE THIS BLOG SIMPLY TO TORMENT ME

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

I can go upside down.

[creekfiend]

WHERE IS THE REST OF YOU

[between-stars-and-waves]

https://dcwitness.org/judge-continues-to-hold-defendant-charged-with-the-most-serious-crime-in-our-society/

Her name was Dream Johnson.

[tyrannosaurus-sock]

Judge Continues to Hold Defendant, ‘Charged With the Most Serious Crime In Our Society’ - DC Witness

DC Superior Court Judge Danya Dayson ruled to continue holding a homicide defendant as he awaits trial in a hearing on Feb. 13. The prosecut

[whatevergreen]

As people should have worked out by now, I'm not anti-China.

However

I'm often dissapointed with China because they should and need to take a more active and forceful role in global politics, in order to protect the likes of Palestine, Cuba and Iran etc from the lethal imperialist manace of the US/Israhell

I don't usually mention it but I'm also pretty pissed off with the Tibet issue.

Tibet is occupied, it is not legitimely part of China. Some may have participated in the invasion of Tibet with the best of intentions because Tibet was ruled by a fuedalist regime guilty of perpetuating gross inequality and the use of torture - but Tibet is a treasure house of natural resources and it's pretty clear that this was and is the primary motivating factor.

Tibetans have become a minority in their own country. The cultural revolution era saw the suppression of the Tibetan way of life (for better and worse) mass destruction of countless monasteries - and works of art dating back centuries. Much of the art which wasn't destroyed was sold off through Hong Kong.

To on one hand rightfully condemn the ongoing genocide in Palestine and the attack/propaganda on Iran, and then uncritically defend what is going on in Tibet does comes across as a pretty grotesque double standard?