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Lyndon LaRouche: The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Lenin: Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. Under capitalism, particularly in its imperialist stage, wars are inevitable. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Lenin: At the present time, the propaganda of peace unaccompanied by a call for revolutionary mass action can only sow illusions and demoralise the proletariat, for it makes the proletariat believe that the bourgeoisie is humane, and turns it into a plaything in the hands of the secret diplomacy of the belligerent countries. In particular, the idea of a so-called democratic peace being possible without a series of revolutions is profoundly erroneous. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Lenin: At the bottom of genuinely national wars, such as took place especially between 1789 and 1871, was a long process of mass national movements, of a struggle against absolutism and feudalism, the overthrow of national oppression, and the formation of states on a national basis, as a prerequisite of capitalist development. The national ideology created by that epoch left a deep impress on the mass of the petty bourgeoisie and a section of the proletariat. This is now being utilised in a totally different and imperialist epoch by the sophists of the bourgeoisie, and by the traitors to socialism who are following in their wake, so as to split the workers, and divert them from their class aims and from the revolutionary struggle against the bourgeoisie. The words in the Communist Manifesto that "the working men have no country" are today truer than ever before. Only the proletariat's international struggle against the bourgeoisie can preserve what it has won, and open to the oppressed masses the road to a better future. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Karl Marx: What we have to deal with here is a communist society, not as it has developed on its own foundations, but, on the contrary, just as it emerges from capitalist society…still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it emerges. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Clive Staples Lewis: The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Vaclav Havel: Why are people in fact behaving in the way they do? Why do they do all do these things that, taken together, form the impressive image of a totally united society giving total support to its government? For any unprejudiced observer, the answer is, self-evident: they are driven to it by fear. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Bhagat Singh: Revolution means action. It means a change brought about deliberately by an organized and systematic work, as opposed to sudden and unorganized or spontaneous change or breakdown. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Karl Marx: The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Joe Biden: Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Lenin: The state is a product and a manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms. The state arises where, when and insofar as class antagonism objectively cannot be reconciled. And, conversely, the existence of the state proves that the class antagonisms are irreconcilable. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Lenin: According to Marx, the state could neither have arisen nor maintained itself had it been possible to reconcile classes. From what the petty-bourgeois and philistine professors and publicists say, with quite frequent and benevolent references to Marx, it appears that the state does reconcile classes. According to Marx, the state is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression of one class by another; it is the creation of “order”, which legalizes and perpetuates this oppression by moderating the conflict between classes. In the opinion of the petty-bourgeois politicians, however, order means the reconciliation of classes, and not the oppression of one class by another; to alleviate the conflict means reconciling classes and not depriving the oppressed classes of definite means and methods of struggle to overthrow the oppressors. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Sidney Poitier: I never cross a picket line in a labour dispute. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Karl Marx: The ideas of religious liberty and freedom of conscience merely gave expression to the sway of free competition within the domain of knowledge. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Karl Marx: When people speak of the ideas that revolutionise society, they do but express that fact that within the old society the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Maurice Bishop: Revolution means that the abuses and excesses of the violent, reactionary, and disruptive minority has to be crushed so that a majority interest can prevail. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Garry Kasparov: The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Rosa Luxemburg: Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations. Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Lenin: The bourgeoisie needs hirelings who enjoy the trust of a section of the working class, whitewash and prettify the bourgeoisie with talk about the reformist path being possible, throw dust in the eyes of the people by such talk, and divert the people from revolution by giving glowing descriptions of the charms and possibilities of the reformist path. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Mao Zedong: All erroneous ideas, all poisonous weeds, all ghosts and monsters, must be subjected to criticism; in no circumstance should they be allowed to spread unchecked. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Kwame Ture: Is it not violent for a child to go to bed hungry in the richest country in the world? I think that is violent. But that type of violence is so institutionalized that it becomes a part of our way of life. Not only do we accept poverty, we even find it normal. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Lenin: Kautsky shamelessly embellishes bourgeois democracy and omits to mention, for instance, how the most democratic and republican bourgeoisie in America or Switzerland deal with workers on strike. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Claudia Jones: Imperialism is the root cause of racism. It is the ideology which upholds colonial rule and exploitation. It is the ideology which breeds fascism, rightly condemned by the civilized people of the whole world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

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Rosa Luxemburg: Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

George Patton: Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to the Jews, who are lower than animals. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Stephen Hawking: If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Lenin: A strike, moreover, opens the eyes of the workers to the nature, not only of the capitalists, but of the government and the laws as well. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Karl Marx: Just as, to the bourgeois, the disappearance of class property is the disappearance of production itself, so the disappearance of class culture is to him identical with the disappearance of all culture. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

After one of the owners died, work has been struggling with not having admin access to some of our systems, namely Google Workspace.

We finally got that access... so now I've sent the email to my boss about my name change. I verified with my boss a month or two ago that he's not going to fire me for being trans (it's actually a cute story...), that way I could safely start the legal name change process... but I've been holding off on otherwise being "out" at work because of this account thing...

So finally sent an email to my boss about the new name... it's the last place where I wasn't out!

#lgbtqia #trans #ComingOut

#trans #lgbtqia #comingout

I made something to scratch an itch that's been bugging me for years... will save me a lot of time and trouble on some of my work (and possibly personal) projects...

In other words, I made something: pypi.org/project/pyasdb/

(For anyone wondering my current use case, I have a tool I wrote for work that's sitting on top of peewee and sqlite and it's been a massive pain to expand it out... this isn't something super special, but for the 20k-40k or so entries this should do just fine searching/querying/etc, even before adding indexing... and it'll make rebuilding my toolkit faster as well as easier to maintain since there's no firm structure to the resulting database)


pyasdb

A simplified NoSQL offline database built on top of shelve/pickle
PyPI

Want to learn real quick that "leftist" does not automatically mean "good person" or "free from bigotry"?

Call them out on body shaming or misgendering monsters.

It's also a painful reminder that so much "acceptance" is just performative.

If you think I'm valid for being fat, but then insult a monster for being fat, it tells me that you never actually saw me as valid.

If you think my gender transition is valid, but then purposefully misgender an awful trans person, it tells me that you never saw my transition as valid.

Because if these things are true and valid, then being an awful person wouldn't matter!

#lgbtqia #leftist #bigotry

#lgbtqia #bigotry #leftist

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OMG I'M WHEEZING!

Tumbler Thread: Post by UnhingeMyHeart reposted by Neil Gaiman written as dialogue: Prime Video: So, Good Omens Season 2 Neil Gaiman: Yes Prime Video: What's the Story? Neil Gaiman: No story, just vibes. Prime Video: Neil, we need a little more to work with. Neil Gaiman: Okay, do you remember Sister Theresa Garrulous and Sister Loquacious from Season 1? Prime Video: Yes? Neil Gaiman: They're in a coffee shop AU. Prime Video: (drawn out) and? Neil Gaiman: And they need to fall in love. Prime Video: But Neil, what about Crowley and Aziraphale? Neil Gaiman: Oh, don't worry. They're already in love. Follow up by user Vidavalor: Prime Video: Not sure this is enough. Neil Gaiman: Naked Jon Hamm. Prime Video: OK, yeah, sold. Final follow up by Neil Gaiman: Actually I started with Naked Jon Hamm. But otherwise, yeah, more or less accurate.

#GoodOmens #GoodOmens2 #NeilGaiman

#neilgaiman #goodomens #goodomens2

too many people outed themselves as bigots and Nazis, Elon had to fix it... theverge.com/2024/5/23/2416315…

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PCR comemora 58 anos de fundação com ato em Salvador pcrbrasil.org/pcr-comemora-58-…

... now, to cry in relief...

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So the temporary system had some sort of failure, I'm not even 100% sure what caused it to be honest. It went down sometime yesterday and some of the virtual drives got corrupted, which caught the database and the virtual gateway device.

I was able to restore the system... most of the way. Thankfully there are backups of the database, but some of them were also flawed as well, the most recent intact one was from 5/16, so 5 days were lost.

To be clear, this problem was exacerbated by the fact that there's not as much redundancy in the temporary setup (sadly it looks like it'll be a few more months before I have a place of my own and can spin up my own hardware again). But I'm going to still look at how I might get those in better shape.

As far as how long it took: I had a busy day yesterday and didn't see that the server was down until I was too exhausted to do anything about it, so it had to wait until I got off work today... each attempt at restoring the database takes around an hour, so that took *a while* to get restored.


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So the temporary system had some sort of failure, I'm not even 100% sure what caused it to be honest. It went down sometime yesterday and some of the virtual drives got corrupted, which caught the database and the virtual gateway device.

I was able to restore the system... most of the way. Thankfully there are backups of the database, but some of them were also flawed as well, the most recent intact one was from 5/16, so 5 days were lost.

To be clear, this problem was exacerbated by the fact that there's not as much redundancy in the temporary setup (sadly it looks like it'll be a few more months before I have a place of my own and can spin up my own hardware again). But I'm going to still look at how I might get those in better shape.

As far as how long it took: I had a busy day yesterday and didn't see that the server was down until I was too exhausted to do anything about it, so it had to wait until I got off work today... each attempt at restoring the database takes around an hour, so that took *a while* to get restored.

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