We have been conned into believing that struggling and competing with one another to stay alive is freedom; and that sharing the earth, food, land, water, medicine... that collaborating, singing, dancing and resting... is uncivilized, dangerous, and parasitic, a tragedy of the commons!

People say work is worship. What is more tragic than that? What is more tragic than people saying to one another: Time is money?

When we say abolish time we don't mean abolish the act of measuring durations of time for our convenience, but of the commodification of our time alive on earth, our time that we are forced to exchange in parcels to the capitalists so that they may bestow upon us a meagre amount of "money," points that we use to buy food or water or pay rent etc.

Money is a measure of the permission in numbers to access resources you need to stay alive. This permission you "earn" by being useful to the capitalist, "productive" and "efficient" as they like to say.

The reason we don't have time to ourselves is because we don't have anything, it's all gatekept by the capitalist. The reason nobody has any money is because you are not meant to have it. It's a leash for us, it makes us go back to work everyday. You get paid, your leash loosens a bit, you run out of money and you're back to work at 5am. You lose some more, and you're doing 2 jobs 6 days a week. Lose some more and you're homeless and dead soon. And there's always opportunities to lose money in this beautiful world captured by the capitalists.

That's the real tragedy.

Abolish time, abolish money, abolish work!

Abolish the enclosure of the commons!

Abolish capitalism!

and going to therapy is not gonna be the answer to this state of alienation and disligation

If your boss could, they would work you to death and dump your body behind your workplace without the police caring. If they cannot do this to you right now, that is historically contingent - they used to be able to do this to you, they currently can do this to other people, and in the future they will likely be able to do this to you again. The only thing that has ever prevented them from doing so is worker organisation and violent resistance against violence. You are livestock to the ruling class. Never trick yourself into thinking that these people will not slaughter you as soon as it benefits them, and do not avert your eyes from the slaughter now.

’Dubbed the “doomsday glacier”, Thwaites is about the size of Britain, but it is shrinking rapidly and is already responsible for 4 per cent of all global sea-level rise. Worse still, its collapse is expected to set off a domino effect in the entire West Antarctic ice sheet, ultimately resulting in a calamitous sea-level rise of 3.3 metres and changing the coastline of the entire planet.’

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2526826-the-doomsday-glaciers-giant-ice-shelf-is-about-to-break-away/

"Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."

— Arundhati Roy

Image: Indian Army officers carry the body of Ghulam Mohi-Ud-Din Rather for his funeral

A months-long investigation by Al Jazeera found that military-related goods from at least 51 countries and self-governing territories continued to enter Israel even after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.

Based on Israeli Tax Authority import data from 2022 to 2025, alongside customs records and other documentation, the findings trace global supply chains spanning Europe, Asia, North America, and South America. All of the countries identified are signatories to the Genocide Convention.

In some cases, these exports came from states that had announced arms embargoes or partial suspensions on military trade with Israel. The data shows that shipments increased after the ICJ ruling, with munitions forming a major share.

Among the leading suppliers were the United States, India, Romania, Taiwan, and the Czech Republic, all of which recorded increased deliveries during the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

“We need allies who are going to help us achieve a victory, not allies who are going to tell us to be nonviolent. If a white man wants to be your ally, what does he think of John Brown? You know what John Brown did? He went to war. He was a white man who went to war against white people to help free slaves. He wasn’t nonviolent. White people call John Brown a nut. Go read the history, go read what all of them say about John Brown. They’re trying to make it look like he was a nut, a fanatic. They made a movie on it, I saw a movie on the screen one night. Why, I would be afraid to get near John Brown if I go by what other white folks say about him.

But they depict him in this image because he was willing to shed blood to free the slaves. And any white man who is ready and willing to shed blood for your freedom—in the sight of other whites, he’s nuts. As long as he wants to come up with some nonviolent action, they go for that, if he’s liberal, a nonviolent liberal, a love-everybody liberal. But when it comes time for making the same kind of contribution for your and my freedom that was necessary for them to make for their own freedom, they back out of the situation. So, when you want to know good white folks in history where black people are concerned, go read the history of John Brown. That was what I call a white liberal. But those other kind, they are questionable.

So if we need white allies in this country, we don’t need those kind who compromise. We don’t need those kind who encourage us to be polite, responsible, you know. We don’t need those kind who give us that kind of advice. We don’t need those kind who tell us how to be patient. No, if we want some white allies, we need the kind that John Brown was, or we don’t need you. And the only way to get those kind is to turn in a new direction.”

― Malcolm X

"not all medical doctors (but certainly most) cannot stand well-informed patients"

— potatum

maybe you're not pretty. so what?

— sarah

it's behind a paywall so that we go to work for those who have built the paywall. without it, it would be difficult for them to coerce people to get up and do jobs for their entire lives. the paywall is what communists mean by private property, by enclosure, by capitalism.

"Queers are just better."

Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974)

"The idea is to avoid having migrants remain in a country where they have been refused asylum for extended periods because their host country won’t readmit them or for other reasons. Setting up centers to process asylum applications outside the EU follows a similar logic — prioritizing migrants for entry whose applications have been approved.

The first non-EU return hub, whose location has yet to be announced amid ongoing talks with several non-EU governments, would likely be used not just by the Netherlands but also by Greece, Germany, Austria and Denmark, all countries that have backed a push to crack down on migration into the EU."

https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-government-green-light-migration-return-hubs-outside-eu/

nobody should be hungry or homeless, that's the bare minimum

"it is absolutely imperative that kids feel welcomed"