mallaidh (dork aspect) @mallaidh@witches.town

structure and interpretation of computer polycules

"considered one of the finest images"

you're goshdarn right it's a fine image ❤🦎

please appreciate: the cape skink, indigenous to south africa, sitting on purple aster flowers
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cape_Skink_Flowers.jpg

https://witches.town/media/NoWTfteMVNS1TmM0Gm0

consider: slime friends

"It is also important to remember that the Conquest provided the European ruling class with the silver and gold used to pay the mercenary armies that defeated the rural and urban revolts; and that, in the same years when Arawaks, Aztecs, and Incas were being subjugated, workers in Europe were being driven from their homes, branded like animals, and burnt as witches."

Ibid.

"Let us remember that it was the intensity of the anti-feudal struggle that instigated the lesser nobility and the merchants to seek colonial expansion, and that the conquistadors came from the ranks of the most-hated enemies of the European working class."

Silvia Federici, "Caliban & the Witch"

witchcraft was sexual independence, the absolute right to control your childbirth, to pass down knowledge independent of the church and the state. when those parties violently suppressed witches, they in turn suppressed any abilities to resist the reproduction of labor.

i feel like reading caliban and the witch is a good idea for folks of witches.town and beyond. witch-hunting and the subjugation of women's bodies was essential to proletarianizing the west.

https://www.gitbook.com/book/anarchivists/caliban/details

"The counterpart of the market, the instrument for the privatization of social relations and, above all, for the propagation of capitalist discipline and patriarchal rule, the family emerges in the period of primitive accumulation also as the most important institution for the appropriation and concealment of women's labor."

Caliban & the Witch, Silvia Federici

when the worksheet asks which axis the cross-sections are perpendicular to, but they're given in the diagram at about a 45deg angle

nice to see the ol' sports getting back going, almost missed paris-nice entirely (quite an ending there).

race seems to be unfolding well in phoenix. kyle busch in the lead, 63 laps to go in the hot sun.

lydia lunch on no wave and punk rock:
"I hated almost the entirety of punk rock. I don't think that no wave had anything to do with it. Who wanted chords, all these progressions that had been used to death in rock? To play slide guitar I'd use a knife, a beer bottle... glass gave the best sound. To this day I still don't know a single chord on the guitar."

[wendys commercial voice]

where's the hyperlink