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It's Labour Day everyone! and let's give a moment to remember the Haymarket Martyrs—the five anarchists murdered by the USA Goverment for the crime of believing in anarchism. This is the event commemorated on Labour Day; do not let the States erase our history, do not let the States take our ancestors from us. And for fuck's sake do not let the goddamn Marxist backstabbers steal it.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/strangers-in-a-tangled-wilderness-hurrah-for-anarchy

This is an excellent day to read or re-read the martyrs' statements before execution
https://www.chicagohistoryresources.org/hadc/books/b01/B01TOC.htm
Ok maybe not Parsons', gods that man was a leftist, he discoursed for like eight hours, and would have carried on even more if not for the hangman. Wall of text kind of guy, Albert R. Parsons. He turned himself in to stand in solidarity with his comrades, the poor brave fuck. Died with his dignity intact and proving the State wrong. That's the one thing we anarchists consistently have on our side, and we have to cherish it: being correct. Because when given the choice between ethics and victory we pick ethics, and therefore we lose, often. To paraphrase Vietnamese anarchist collective Mèo Mun, we are not in the business of winning at political power-grabs—"we are in no business at all."

Which doesn't mean we have to take it lying down.

If you want to read just one statement try Louis Lingg, who famously denied that he had thrown bombs at the cops, with the iron-solid alibi that at the time of the riot he was at home making bombs to throw on cops:

> You have charged me with despising "law and order." What does your "law and order" amount to? ... I repeat that I am the enemy of the "order" of today, and I repeat that, with all my powers, so long as breath remains in me, I shall combat it. I declare again, frankly and openly, that I am in favor of using force. I have told Captain Schaack, and I stand by it, "If you cannonade us, we shall dynamite you."

> You laugh! Perhaps you think, "You'll throw no more bombs;" but let me assure you that I die happy on the gallows, so confident am I that the hundreds and thousands to whom I have spoken will remember my words; and when you shall have hanged us, then, mark my words, they will do the bomb-throwing!

> In this hope do I say to you:

> I *despise* you. I despise your order; your laws, your force-propped authority. HANG ME FOR IT!

Bring tears to my eyes, every time. Lingg later blew up his own head in prison to deny the State the spectacle of execution. He only had a blasting cap—no one knows how he got even that behind bars—so only his jaw was torn, and he bled slowly to death. Rumour has it that in his final moments he wrote in blood the same last words uttered by the kindly old toymaker George Engels when the noose closed on his neck: Hoch die Anarchie.

Do not believe that this couldn't happen to any of us. The USA is already talking of sending people to death camps for "wrong opinions". Because we grew up in a neoliberal order this feels exceptional but that's really the historical norm, this is how Statists white and red have always treated us. History shows amply that whenever we expand our solidarity and mutual aid to any appreciable success we get massive violence from the bloodthirsty Capitalist governments, and from the equally bloodthirsty Communist governments, nevermind we're just minding our own business taking care of our people. Neither flavour of State will ever allow the existence of communities who prove, by existing, that their cops and laws and great leaders are nothing but an extortion mafia and a ponzi scheme, an entirely unnecessary evil. (This is why they massacre indigenous folk, too; this is why the Turkish State massacres the AANES; counterexamples to the State are in themselves a threat, for the crime of being correct).

Every State is a structure of systemic violence, and no State will tolerate us peacefully opting out of the violence. We tried that, and we saw how it goes: There's no peace without justice, no justice without violence. Martyrs never die; and it's up to us, the living, to do the bomb-throwing. Happy Labour Day.

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Feliz día a todes

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If JoJo wore a kippah half of it would actually be his hair and the back half would have a safety pin to keep it on and it would be so badass

"On May 1, 1886, Albert and Lucy Parsons led 80,000 people down Michigan Avenue, in what is regarded as the first-ever May Day Parade, in support of the eight-hour work day."

Lucy Parsons was a Black anarchist and she continued her May Day activism into her 90s. Her legacy is complex but that doesn't make it any less powerful. Know her name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Parsons

#MayDay

QueerCoded Learn to Code Workshop

<p>QueerMunity, Saturday, May 3 at 01:00 PM CDT</p><ul><li><p>Learn to Code</p></li><li><p>Find Community</p></li><li><p>Get to Know your Computer</p></li><li><p>Build your own Website / Software<br><br></p></li></ul>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/queercoded-learn-to-code-workshop-1

I went out in sandals and this little friend hitched a hide between my toes... who is he? I had my hands busy carrying my big bag of bark so I couldn't check what was that wetness on my feet, I thought maybe it was a leech sucking me or maybe some type of worm, but now that I can look at him closely, it's more like a small slug...?

wait, those spots...... is this a leopard slug?? as in the ones I was planning to buy for my balcony?? did I get a leopard slug just volunteer herself???

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#memes #CSS

hey fediverse, i need a new work machine. needs to run Debian smoothly and not be a huge hassle to setup, needs to be powerful enough to run one or at most two modest VMs under Vagrant/Libvirt (which doesn't seem like a big lift these days). no need for a GPU. i would really like to buy new - having reliability issues with the two used machines i own - and my budget is around 700 usd. obv my timing is fantastic. any recs?

Well I didn't want to touch them before you showed me all those big blue arrows