[sloppystyle]

[fording-the-styx]

[bruzum]

sixpenceee child slaves next

[bruzum]

[ozempicofficial]

[mikheevanora-deactivated2025062]

he is like a girl mutual to me

[nem23]

[pettycentral]

[dogpuppy]

[angelicguy]

jim henson died becuz he operated 20 puppets at once, shattering and stretching his available life force beyond what most puppeters would ever dream of

[gif87a-com]

Pipe expanding machine

[pjackk]

Wowww

[imakuni]

in pain from laughing at this fucking video

[rivesveronique]

Woman sitting on rock by the sea by Williamina Parrish 1915

[hangsawoman]

therapist: and what do we say when we feel like this?

me: no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

therapist: no

[natoapologistblocker]

There's a tendency in IR discourse that I've noticed where the fact that many so-called “authoritarian regimes” curtail what is often labelled as the “freedom of speech” of individuals is framed as evidence of some innate illegitimacy, often presented as a desperate gambit to maintain the power of those in control. I think this is a fundamental mistake. So-called “democratic” countries can afford free speech because they exist within a normative hierarchy stabilised by international institutions, the primacy of their economic systems, and, of course, an as yet unchallenged position within the world order. This makes them more resilient to ideological destabilisation, not because of any innate moral superiority of their systems or ideologies, but because they occupy a materially and normatively privileged position within a particular historical context. As the material power of this world order declines, its normative power follows suit, and this is already evident as states long self-styled as bastions of free speech become less willing to tolerate dissent, from the US to Germany, while at the same time states considered repressive begin experimenting with gradually opening space for discourse.

[dre759]

Reminds me of the point Syzmanski made at the conclusion of Human Rights In The Soviet Union.

[hyperions-fate]

A Labour MP and Cabinet Minister reported one of their constituents to the police for emailing them about Gaza, which led to their arrest in a dawn raid. In Britain, the classic liberal advice ('write to your representative!') means having PC Shit Beard and his sex offender friends ramming your front door down.

[balaclava-trismegistus]

what is my shampoo's political alignment on gender. what does my soap believe in. who am i

[vague-humanoid]

Mexico cuts workweek, bans after-hours contact, and guarantees no worker will take a pay cut in the most sweeping labor reform in a generati

Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ign

Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore their boss’s calls, messages, and emails after their shift ends, in the most significant overhaul of Mexican labor law in a generation.

Mexico has rewritten its constitution to guarantee every worker in the country a shorter working week, a legal right to switch off from work after hours, and a guarantee that no employer can cut their pay in response, enacting in a single legislative package a set of labor rights that workers in wealthier countries have spent decades campaigning for without success.

[micromontage]

We have so little time

[starjasmines]

let's waste as much of it as we can while we still can