2026-04-20T12:58:54Z https://yabu.me Feral Fury 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🫂🔞 https://yabu.me/npub1dmx4wfy3j277hmr332dyrggyyy2qnhts43uc4nnrejj2dw447uzst2gp5l https://media.beige.party/accounts/avatars/112/976/501/768/397/425/original/4a515c1a05c38b0b.jpg https://media.beige.party/accounts/avatars/112/976/501/768/397/425/original/4a515c1a05c38b0b.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz9hlgq6cn807hys3wua8htjq27fx8sl5fksm0elfpv5zz6ea7pkgzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms28mxs6k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0yhnc75ycdvt6mq59uds827qyn6msh3epunmje0dpv8fccqdnsncg0gjhl'>nevent1q…gjhl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Actually I missed someone out. Jim Reeves. 2026-04-20T13:29:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs25k2nftjyc7dap6xphmknumw0w24fy4t2lu776pugvgm3zzcpurczyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms20unqz3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy8e8fj57zcnxz8arfcrvu0esvgeuzcksjqlq6gauasmprcwurjhchws0uk'>nevent1q…s0uk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But if you just casually catch him on top of the pops you don&#39;t know his name and my mum&#39;s record collection consisted of Abba, Val Doonican and Gilbert O&#39;Sullivan. 2026-04-20T13:27:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv7nh57p28qdu5hcjnq4c66wduugja09ku89t0y3940g0qdxdychszyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2cduums In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyv7f7j80ml6lsxj5qtytpyrt7kj680sh02qqm2rwcm6r7h0n4tdsamxpn3'>nevent1q…xpn3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Different times. I had to tell my mum this was a man. Now she has a trans grand daughter. She doesn&#39;t understand that either.<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/437/206/591/406/191/original/c4c89538050e692d.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-04-20T13:13:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfnl7nkel2qczkrmazzcx6ymg4zln6kyfufrfa8zw3zugmr7qyrnszyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2m5zy2k To cut a long story short people in the 80s dressed funny.<br/><br/>#music #80s<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/437/137/771/847/711/original/99f0a319d150360e.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-04-20T12:56:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspz3uj8htkp6kfqpw7h36ypnugea8qsvzut3tx0szaezqfd3c50kqzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2wzvp54 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgshramcmycuy9askfaegr63gamumj4dymfu7e8mwn2pa7eynqjqgfzft79'>nevent1q…ft79</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you get too good I will suspect cheating. 2026-04-08T14:11:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw6qjnanttcal9y42lmy88r2dnrxsa9vnxg7a5jrwkert8xsayyvgzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2w9y622 Everybody ____ ____ ________ ?<br/><br/>#popqiuz<br/> <img src="https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/369/150/484/634/661/original/5da2211e35f6ea62.png"> <br/> 2026-04-08T12:45:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq9nmvctvnfzp97jfzdylwy42n4q54y0pqx7sc6r80h0kprmt3dggzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2mj9lp8 &#34;Don&#39;t wanna_______ ?<br/><br/>#popquiz<br/> <img src="https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/369/091/930/636/398/original/9de49ca23d353c88.png"> <br/> 2026-04-08T12:31:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyt3kwzp7k24c3pag950ruc5sdt355pl9tvwrap380nn4jdffadfczyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms22pr40l AI, TECH...<br/><br/>It doesn&#39;t matter whether &#34;AI&#34; works or not.<br/><br/>It matters if it should be allowed to exist or not.<br/><br/>Stop wondering what we can do and start thinking about what we should and shouldn&#39;t do.<br/><br/>We are not robots. We can make safe, ethical, caring choices.<br/><br/>Have we forgotten that?<br/><br/>#technology #ethics #ai 2026-04-07T13:17:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfcm0xk4f34a7yppvntcvdl0cqz6un7cvgsd33hrctquakzuslghczyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2ypcp5e WORDS<br/><br/>Why did Americans change &#34;defence&#34; to &#34;defense&#34;?<br/><br/>They didn&#39;t change &#34;fence&#34; to &#34;fense&#34;.<br/><br/>#words 2026-03-19T11:17:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2mrl94zrasms2zuwwllsnurqvycaretsl0svqftgh0q6fsttsehszyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2zjyuv0 VALUES<br/><br/>You live in a society that will let you die of thirst outside a shop full of bottles of water unless you can pay.<br/><br/>This is not how it has to be.<br/><br/>#politics #ethics 2026-03-05T20:30:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv83ac3tw5tpnysjf085rz0989zyrnzt92krdqqmqwl8m5auzd04qzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2ujrazp A PROPOS OF NOTHING<br/><br/>&#34;The Christian resolve to find the world evil and ugly has made the world evil and ugly.&#34;<br/><br/>(Friedrich Nietzsche)<br/><br/>#uspol #usa 2026-03-04T17:07:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxnyzcv0ad7fd2qc2n8a67she5de4qr98mk25cccqyuez9488dp8czyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2adl8rs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvpdymfej4wkxffr2zhech53tq0zghvl9fkg9kvrqjcfq0mrdqrtg06a7yg'>nevent1q…a7yg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You watched too much MacGyver. 2026-02-26T15:53:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw4c2utr7ya6q58tqkw0u6999umz42xswqhuec29xcm4syyrafk7szyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms20fp8yp POLITICAL REALITY<br/><br/>You cannot reform a system of exploitation. You must either accept it or destroy it.<br/><br/>You dig?<br/><br/>#politics #capitalism #fascism 2026-02-25T19:21:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxjwtjum4hx2zv30922qge9pwyqur59tlr8sw26vyqzh5qwgnldzgzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2w5n63q AN OBSERVATION<br/><br/>Ring cameras.<br/><br/>Teslas with always on cameras uploading footage to Musk HQ.<br/><br/>Facial recognition cameras in the streets.<br/><br/>Global age verification requirements.<br/><br/>Requirements for digital IDs.<br/><br/>If you ask me, someone wants to build and make use of a digital global panopticon.<br/><br/>Do you think it will make you safer... or more controlled?<br/><br/>#politics #surveillance #tech #technology #ageverification #capitalism 2026-02-14T15:23:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrq5dgka8lfgeg8mhnsjaxfjz64qm0d2yqhtu2qx086ck6yg34c7szyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2qwahvd Mandelson knew what he had been into with Epstein the whole time. They all did. Musk. Bill Gates. The Sweaty Nonce Prince. All of them. And after he was already a convicted sex offender they still kept it going. Went to parties, etc.<br/><br/>Now they all get to say they regret it whilst walking away free.<br/><br/>Yet if you or I so much as steal a bottle of water because we are thirsty or complain too loudly about genocide the full power of the state will be unleashed against us.<br/><br/>Justice is not blind. It never will be.<br/><br/>#politics #epstein 2026-02-04T22:02:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdjwuu45ly9n6u9h73ffv8l28sy8khrueu96c4flnv4nq48z6jfxqzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms20dqawy I was today years old when I learned that the BBC&#39;s &#34;US media partner&#34; is CBS News. CBS is run by the conservative Ellison family who are extremely pro-Trump, pro-AI and pro surveillance of everyone and everything. They are not nice people.<br/><br/>#bbcnews #cbs #ukpol #uk #usa #uspol 2026-01-29T12:39:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd0t8zdgjh7vprewzzzw8hpg3hdeulvkkezrwdg5alrulluxmlssqzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2llucce &#34;My culture is based on freedom and self-determination.&#34;<br/><br/>(Picard to the Borg in The Best of Both Worlds)<br/><br/>I wish it were Jean-Luc. I wish it were. Unfortunately, the rich and powerful have decided that&#39;s a bad idea - for them.<br/><br/>#politics #startrek<br/> <img src="https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/969/408/575/362/229/original/e513ce7ec967c186.webp"> <br/> 2026-01-27T22:27:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8j7ljxxpntcyzy3d8eprsvg8fgpcdwdhpkvrv0znz07tu3zh4rvszyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2xr2ye3 Need a secure, decentralised way to send messages that requires no telephone number or you to id yourself?<br/><br/>The answer is Delta Chat <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub17gpd02zrcswhzlwa7m9sz0tw76ylgncjy9xxa4ppkjzqyzhvygyqvynrxn" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Delta Chat</span> (<span class="italic">npub17gp…nrxn</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>PS Its also NOT American.<br/><br/>#media #socialmedia #communication<br/> <img src="https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/944/649/931/000/245/original/b0052a355f01680a.png"> <br/> 2026-01-23T13:29:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqnwjqq8m8jtra3y6e3k544emded07ncrtzcugm6ujme55y9ra0agzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2s5rhkl INTERNATIONAL LAW<br/><br/>International law you say?<br/><br/>Well if international law allows Israel to pound the whole Palestinian people into the dirt over and over again, day after day, month after month, if it allows Israelis to shoot random children, torture people in prisons and camps, and to do all this whilst various Western countries provide it military and strategic support, not to mention bombs and bullets, then international law ISN&#39;T WORTH A FUCK.<br/><br/>#Palestine #gaza #israel #law #fascism #violence 2026-01-21T18:55:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0datdy5adngnt67cev9edsg27xs5pvg0lsu2u2pd28m3wrxfwhcczyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms29j5l3e Trump&#39;s desire for Greenland is on the same basis as all colonial desire:<br/><br/>I should have it because I want it.<br/><br/>#trump #usa #greenland #capitalism #fascism #colonialism 2026-01-21T12:12:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfhfymkzrgyr6ssv8x57mupv5gcdqcww4mwftrgeq5vwgyywgdk7szyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms279954f I always feel weird on my birthday. Still. I&#39;ll always be one day older than Dave Grohl. And 8 years younger than Suggs. And exactly the same age as Stephen Hendry. 2026-01-13T08:24:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyckdpvqgugvkxhrcrdy4uhjftpv5mf822ph89x2t5ysg7f0flm6czyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms277myux VENEZUELA AND TRUMP<br/><br/>All these toady Western politicians who will spend the next few days failing to condemn the murderous pedophile and kidnapper Trump should be aware that the only reason its not them being kidnapped yet is because they haven;t got anything Trump has yet decided he wants for himself.<br/><br/>Cowards enabling a mad terrorist president every one of them.<br/><br/>#usa #venezuela #trump #politics #war #fascism #terrorism 2026-01-03T09:47:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8shtywme8efqgwxf6gatu4vet6q4ufeyd9vpz3wwclvrdtea5xvgzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2aw4ers I am starting this new year of ours engaged in deep analysis of the libertine novels of the Marquis de Sade. The question on my mind is &#34;Are there any limits to pleasure?&#34;<br/><br/>#books #writing #philosophy 2026-01-01T09:43:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxxlss9e6ndyfvh7jupvqx4h8jc2260nzad66dk4tjx0cqs6qf9dczyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms267fpy9 New year, just as grumpy.<br/><br/>See, there are some things you CAN rely on. 2026-01-01T09:33:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr55s2y36pd6zea0j58zze8j28l6cqvsh0rewd6s8xxmw9tgsg57szyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2hyntl5 There is NO SUCH THING as universal female or universal male experience.<br/><br/>There is no universal male or female body or body type.<br/><br/>Being a man or a woman does not commit you to any set of beliefs, experiences, feelings or behaviours.<br/><br/>Thank you for coming to my talk.<br/><br/>#lgbtq #queer #lgbtqia #trans #men #women #gender 2025-12-23T10:33:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs80pqnw9u9cxw48tpt4xayxlx3vuthk7pmv7hu9ur2gpemrk5qhuqzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2g0du8u Imagine a world so fascist that you are told that unless you are flogging your body to its limits in acts of commercial worth then you are a useless non-being.<br/><br/>Oh wait. You live in that world.<br/><br/>Decolonise your mind. And your neighbour&#39;s too.<br/><br/>#politics #capitalism #fascism #anarchy 2025-12-08T11:23:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd528kalgf023ca39daukn052fkewpnx7vak0eyvjn96492pqrulqzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2xmvrfm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw3v89cye7kumeqyepd9zx7jwpmvf4s0vud2h0m6agpq445xpmphsnd47x4'>nevent1q…47x4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Who could ever look out the window (the real one or any of the electronic ones) and imagine that what they saw was progress?<br/><br/>We are swimming in self-destructive illusions. 2025-12-03T17:50:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp3p489spp8rxm9mzzqnah34cq823p0mnkjsa627p6gyg3ddrfxmgzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2g0k7ux In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdp7werh5057yg8fexu2zeruggp5ufgqpktzhw2azu3jawhsntq0cnknqg7'>nevent1q…nqg7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>None of this will matter when AI can create perfect replicas of human beings and fake their personalities. Then there won&#39;t be any actors. 2025-12-03T17:43:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0q4eynnfavnwavppufcm4jmsl2v0mfckps834mk5svt3hnh76szgzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms25x2nq2 Any version of queer that can, or seeks to, get on with this society, is one that wants to be assimilated into it..<br/><br/>As a consequence, it has ceased to be the weapon against it that it should be.<br/><br/>&#34;Queer&#34; is nothing so tame as a &#34;sexuality&#34;; it is an anti-politics and an ethics.<br/><br/>#anarchy #lgbtq #queer 2025-12-02T19:37:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgd50kvuf7d489e93wchjdgvgfund9eyvjyelrjjy2tukhg7ld55szyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms27f2kaq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2dq9u55jmlkfn7uu2lu765awdyvrer9jzpfyrxgwypxyhk2ylyncjukpqm'>nevent1q…kpqm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You are assuming they don;t just write names in. 2025-11-20T19:08:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8x3wsdnhaz8pmrun4acmndagkhqgrmazwjq9g7k020pn5ryjvyuczyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2e68yue In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdeyxcvdh9v6fdluj004j5dktfn082ls29ea8v4mzyafmehy6ctug9n9da4'>nevent1q…9da4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And this is why the people who think voting Dem is an improvement are talking out of their asses. Because both Rep and Dem simply want your cooperation with tyranny at the end of the day. 2025-11-18T05:49:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsts67vqa3wmwtm305vtgy22x574akhuunnp8yljc922x2xtpm0ktqzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2fhz5pk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd6tv7st5805tlgfjp4nm2p20fvem8vs2u5lpwulvcd4wgdcwzhds7aml8a'>nevent1q…ml8a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It will never be better than the 1987 one regardless. It was one of those &#34;so bad its good&#34; films. 2025-10-28T15:11:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdvcxmgrrl0wk4gpss4x23phlrnyf64sn3z3jxcqm8xctptdv56zszyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2r2tkvm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstqhly7fqltepm2fye8gqaprsuhd6u372mwlpk3p53yp6mewqxkwgdddk8w'>nevent1q…dk8w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Like most things, there used to be. Now everything is infiltrated with ads and tracking and won;t let you engage in the basic task of the software unless you buy something. 2025-10-27T16:05:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdswqkhpj3lw0epa55sr82va0egq02st0h5q6vkpa7zajssdfmsmqzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2qg7xq8 &#34;A large amount of &#39;mental illness&#39; is simply trauma caused by capitalism denying basic needs.&#34;<br/><br/>We need to remember this more often and recognise what it is we are tolerating and what it is doing to us.<br/><br/>#capitalism #politics 2025-10-24T08:18:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd9jc6puy5j8hhzer87aatvhv82rjwgjefngt69sxu28lagq9zh2czyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2c2wdcr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfpf75hppugf73xxy5crvtrx88dajqzklyast6vj5hwha7rc3d58g2xhuk2'>nevent1q…huk2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Its the deliberate lies that piss me off the most, the consciously deceptive framing. All the Labour front bench will have been briefed about the Maccabi fans. They will know about their violence, glorification of genocide and regular chants that Arabs die. <br/><br/>Instead they make it about &#34;Jews&#34; being victims. Its both a deliberate deception and running cover for a genocidal Jewish faction. 2025-10-19T09:56:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst7u6d6g2mx7fjkq9gmqqwjcq6znwus9hdszgpjf4qw5gynsnuzkqzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2cyay4u So the BBC and seemingly every politician asked in the UK (aside from Green party ones) is treating the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a game with Aston Villa in a residential part of Birmingham as a matter of &#34;antisemitism&#34;. It is presented as being they who are the victims. The BBC carries zero reporting of the Maccabi fans&#39; chants or actions and all the stuff in Amsterdam is reported as &#34;both sides&#34; stuff. It is simply a case of them being discriminated against which the govt are pressuring the relevant authorities to now reverse.<br/><br/>Beam me up Scotty.<br/><br/>#bbc #ukpol #genocide #football 2025-10-17T13:23:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2qzdsc4q37qhd63yvt2fz4eretwn4jhgm8udlsa44qx47wtxzuzczyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms25lyy4k &#34;No Kings&#34; is a start.<br/><br/>But we already had &#34;No Gods, No Masters&#34; and that&#39;s much better.<br/><br/>#usa #uspol #politics #anarchy 2025-10-16T12:46:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvame9s79rqrsf9kev38kng2d8hc28kjsp0n458rdwklzc42az9ugzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2wvkpqj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqdd3v2428l76uv78p8r9a2f5avyqytlys0j0x7epxpqxwurl5lychukaa3'>nevent1q…kaa3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There can;t be choice. It only works if people are forced to do it. 2025-10-15T12:15:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg0t7ddcqvfdtqthl3f3rxx0rd6ygvd4q46gvh69uczqmtk2g8whqzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2jelcqv &#34;all the knowledge on earth will give me nothing to assure me that this world is mine. You describe it to me and you teach me to classify it. You enumerate its laws and in my thirst for knowledge I admit that they are true. You take apart its mechanism and my hope increases. At the final stage you teach me that this wondrous and multi-coloured universe can be reduced to the atom and that the atom itself can be reduced to the electron. All this is good and I wait for you to continue. But you tell me of an invisible planetary system in which electrons gravitate around a nucleus. You explain this world to me with an image. I realize then that you have been reduced to poetry: I shall never know.”<br/><br/>(Albert Camus)<br/><br/>#philosophy #literature #knowledge #thought #nihilism #absurd 2025-09-15T09:24:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0e7qras0dqnslwzwkmwewekrfge6n6g50y3x656h6zwpur4zq2yszyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2qlgqcj A CAPITALISM STORY<br/><br/>&#34;A signature event of [the mid-seventeenth century] might be the new English republic&#39;s action to end the activities of the Diggers on George&#39;s Hill in which the state propagated a military intervention on behalf of private property. Its interesting that, retrospectively, [we may] see this as a matter of &#34;the commons or slavery&#34; but, of course, [we] are right to do so. If one has &#34;commons&#34; then one can subsist based on one&#39;s own labour without need for wealth. One life, as a matter of something that exists at a subsistence level, requires only the resources you have to hand and can maintain for yourself. People did this worldwide for centuries, millennia, in fact. But enclosure, private acquisition of land and wealth and the desire to produce more, made this increasingly impossible. Put very simply, if you don&#39;t have land to survive upon, if your access to basic resources is blocked by force, then your survival is put into the hands of others and you are made reliant upon them. This was exactly the issue as the Diggers saw it. Gerrard Winstanley then &#34;opposed slavery, dispossession, the destruction of the commons, poverty, wage labour, private property, and the death penalty.&#34; His plan was an urging of the &#34;common people&#34; to take their lives into their own hands, before it was too late, on common land. The State saw his ploy for what it was, however, and stamped it out definitively before it could go too far. As Winstanley saw it, the problem was simple: &#34;The teeth of all nations hath been set on edge by this sour grape, the covetous murdering sword.&#34; As a consequence, he advocated for a worldwide proto-communism which even Lenin would later recognise as such.&#34;<br/><br/>[From &#34;Pirates (as Anarchists?)&#34; in A Merry Life and A Short One: Essays on Pirates and Anarchy]<br/><br/>#politics #capitalism #anarchy 2025-04-26T07:52:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9uhm3xzuzzxmd2t4ycyr52es4jz8hlzy8el0jz3wc9z7ggghl3sczyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms24627j0 &#34;An ancient Greek Cynic would never worry about what curtains or carpets to have, what is on TV tonight or which brand of washing powder gets things whiter. These and similar concerns are the concerns of the civilized and their price is your freedom. The Cynic determines to do without not because without is better or recommended in itself but because this is the only way to demonstrate freedom from burdensome comforts and artificially created obligations. Civilization, to the Cynic, is unfree; it is a set of chains, and they are not worth giving up your freedom for.&#34;<br/><br/>(The Freedom of the Dog)<br/><br/>#philosophy #politics #civilisation #culture #freedom #liberty 2025-04-25T09:29:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8gyk45qwm8zaly6dpqe805ta0420jfqxthmmaxvpnljrzsq9vksczyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2x3tcnx HILLSBOROUGH<br/><br/>36 years ago today I set out for a football match in Sheffield. There was a great atmosphere when I got there and both sets of fans were confident. The game kicked off on time at 3pm and my team, Nottingham Forest, started well with several attacks.<br/><br/>But something was obviously wrong because Liverpool fans behind the goal Forest were attacking were spilling onto the pitch. At the opposite end, where I was, we had no clue why. Then the game was stopped after just six minutes. We all stood there, watching, as people were being dragged from the stand whilst others tried to escape to the sides and others even by being pulled up to the level above. Some of those were alright but others clearly were not. Some had clearly been injured or even worse. Advertising boards were being used as makeshift stretchers to carry people, some of them now just bodies, down to the Forest end of the ground where they were set down. I personally, and many around me, became numb. How could you die from watching a football match? It was too much to take.<br/><br/>When they eventually let us out literally every fan walked back to the railway station in silence. No one knew exactly what had occurred. By the time I was on the platform waiting for a train there were rumours of the numbers that had died but no one was sure.<br/><br/>In haste, sometimes stupid and sometimes evil things were said. Thatcher&#39;s Tories and the Sheffield cops - whose entire job was public safety and which that day was incompetently done - tried to blame the Liverpool fans. Rupert Murdoch&#39;s Sun newspaper, then edited by the odious Kelvin MacKenzie, made up lies about them. The tragedy was, simply put, entirely created by the Sheffield police and their lax approach to fan safety. Their incompetence and aggressive attitude to football fans literally killed people.<br/><br/>It changed football forever too for thereafter football safety was changed and all-seater stadiums mandated. I myself, as my own response to the avoidable tragedy, became part of the safety staff at Forest for the next ten years. I felt that I had to play my part in helping to keep people safe.<br/><br/>I learned many things that day and because of the aftermath. That Tories and cops don&#39;t care and are cavalier with other people&#39;s lives being only one of the things.<br/><br/>But today is not about them. It is about remembering the 97 ordinary men, women and children who lost their lives simply supporting their team.<br/><br/>You&#39;ll never walk alone.<br/><br/>#jft97 #lfc #nffc<br/> <img src="https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/114/340/976/240/451/970/original/7e926373317cb240.jpg"> <br/> 2025-04-15T08:17:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxzl5v4m6rq5cukakpf4jwrj69jgyl0gxk3vyczclju9skkp7c07qzyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2uhs37j The UK Online Safety Act, currently active UK law, polices websites WORLDWIDE sharing sexual content accessible by UK users. It is an act that was pushed by all the usual &#34;think of the children&#34; type people and is backed by authoritarian snoopers everywhere.<br/><br/>Under the legislation propagated under this act you may be prosecuted if your site (which could even be a sexual health site or a Mastodon instance) allows access to visual or audio sexual material (what&#39;s &#34;sexual&#34;?) if UK users can access it without a robust enough check of their adulthood.<br/><br/>But if you write the filthiest and most degrading sex story that is far more potentially harmful than simply seeing or hearing sex and a ten year old child reads it online NOTHING WILL BE DONE because text is not within the scope of the Act!<br/><br/>PS as far as I am aware, a simple VPN, some of which are free, entirely defeats the measures Ofcom, the policing authority, expects website owners to take to be in compliance with the Act. This is, obviously, an entirely farcical situation.<br/><br/>#ukpol #sex #uk 2025-03-05T12:52:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr59wep5f5yewhlntgvu9054tv4ptcf0h83tkpy63tfqgytdlnceszyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2zxsagr NIHILISM is the belief that life, existence itself, has no ultimate, cosmic or eternal meaning or significance. From this perspective, it is, thus, a void.<br/><br/>Consequently, it would follow that reality has no truth or morality of its own, that it cannot, and does not, speak for itself and that, as a further consequence, that it cannot, and does not, care.<br/><br/>As a result, there are those who despise both nihilism and nihilists because they believe that if nihilism is true then there is nothing to stop someone becoming a Nazi, a terrorist or in general leading both terrible and destructive lives.<br/><br/>Nihilism, then, is ultimately the view that life must be lived without ultimate grounds or foundations, that such things, where they exist, are pure invention.<br/><br/>This, I believe, makes it politically interesting.<br/><br/>#nihilism #philosophy #politics 2024-10-11T14:16:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0s6x05w0cl6cn0xyxw4jkjal0xlt8nlgplq3xj5z76etxdy4u2lczyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2q8n2dv “Pope Benedict XVI has complained that it is becoming very difficult for the Church to say what it believes. Very soon, the pope has written, one will not be able to affirm that homosexuality constitutes, as the Catholic Church teaches, an objective disorder in the structure of human existence. The pope’s prediction may well come true. Where I come from, on the campus of my university, it is already the case that to condemn homosexuality or to treat homosexuality, homosexual desire, as perverse or somehow immoral would be regarded as an outrageous display of vicious intolerance. So the pope is justified in fearing that the pressure of outraged public opinion may force the Church to pass over the topic of homosexuality in silence. I hope that this will happen. I hope that the pope’s fears will be confirmed because I think that condemning homosexuality has produced a great deal of unnecessary, pointless human misery. The Church’s attitude has greatly decreased the sum of human happiness. The controversy about homosexuality raises a central question about the nature of morality. Is the Church right that there is such a thing as the structure of human existence, which can serve as a moral reference point? Or, do we human beings have no moral obligations except helping one another satisfy our desires, thus achieving the greatest possible amount of happiness? I agree with John Stuart Mill, the great utilitarian philosopher, that that is the only moral obligation we have.&#34;<br/><br/>(Richard Rorty, &#34;An Ethics for Today&#34;)<br/><br/>#gay #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #ethics #morality #philosophy 2024-09-27T08:40:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrt7hxz40ml922467wvlpr4lxpptsjn2tcekjy78unkc8wvwh7qhczyphv64eyjxftm6lvwx9f5sdpqss3gzwawzk8nzkwv0x2ff46khms2cf9k8y Welcome to fascist Britain where discussing anarchist beliefs, downloading anarchist books or attending a letter-writing event hosted by anarchists at a social centre can see you targeted, put under surveillance and jailed by the fascist UK state.<br/><br/><a href="https://thebristolcable.org/2024/08/bristol-anarchist-community-centre-under-surveillance-counter-terror-police-anarchist-locked-up-for-visiting/">https://thebristolcable.org/2024/08/bristol-anarchist-community-centre-under-surveillance-counter-terror-police-anarchist-locked-up-for-visiting/</a><br/><br/>#politics #ukpolitics #uk #fascism #farright #anarchy 2024-08-21T07:41:52Z