Chinese researchers sprayed cyanobacteria onto desert sand and turned it into stable soil in just 10 months. Cyanobacteria oozes sticky sugars that glue loose grains of sand into a crust that’s tough enough to cut wind erosion and trap water — and then those bacteria photosynthesize, leaving behind organic matter, and pull nitrogen from the air, converting it into fertilizer. Drop seeds into the soil 10-16 months later and they’re very happy. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/chinese-researchers-turn-desert-sand-into-fertile-soil-in-just-10-months-using-cyanobacteria/articleshow/130391558.cms
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The Battle of the Bulge is when the polycule is home and fighting for who gets to be topped by-gets dragged off-stage by a hook
@dyani it would mostly make me feel like I wasn't expected to simply view/browse the site, but load something more bandwidth-intensive like a web application. Certain webapp sign in pages do this.
@shroomie If what you are after is less biography, lived experience, and history, and just more theory. Then I'd recommend Herbert Marcuse's western marxist perspectives from One Dimensional Man. Suitably critical (arguably) communist text on soviet communism as social control, but more importantly American capitalism and society.
@shroomie Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance by Gary Edward Holcomb looks like a good reading choice too. Different focus, more centered on communism and anarchism.
@shroomie I''ll reply as things come to mind. I think decolonial works are relevant right now, so I'd point to The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon, as a relevant communist today.
Noticed a large amount of traffic started coming from Meta/Facebook AI bots crawling public posts, and thus filling our instance storage with 100's of GBs of cached media within 24 hours, much faster than our usual cleanup job would catch.
Suggest blocking the "meta-externalagent" user agent from your web server, and the following IP ranges:
57.141.6.0/24
2a03:2880:f806::/48
New on From The Periphery dot com: our transcript of a recent episode of From The Periphery Podcast (FTPP) with guests Juls and Alaa of The Peoples Want internationalist network.
FTPers @leilashami and israa' talked to their TPW comrades about internationalism from below, their journeys that led them to The Peoples Want gatherings, and what the relationships they are building in that space mean to them.
https://fromtheperiphery.com/2026/05/11/revolutions-of-our-times-an-internationalist-manifesto/
Racists ain't the only ones with #MutualAid posts.
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Also dansup still hasn't put his money where his mouth is re: mutual aid (now that's a deep cut as I continue to bring up Old Shit!).
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