Oliver Tambo, born on this day in 1917, was a South African anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991.
In 1943, Tambo, along with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, founded the ANC Youth League, with Tambo becoming its first National Secretary and a member of the National Executive in 1948. The Youth League proposed a change in the tactics of the anti-apartheid movement, advocating boycotts, civil disobedience, strikes, and non-collaboration.
In 1960, Tambo fled South Africa due to political persecution, living in exile in north London for thirty years. From London, he supported and helped organize the ANC in the fight against apartheid from a distance. On December 13th, 1990, Tambo returned to South Africa and was elected National Chairperson of the ANC.
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Fucking awful day at new job. So tired of pretending to be a "normal" person looking for "career advancement opportunities" (as if I want to advance into being a soulless corpo minion of orthodoxy or do wage-labor at all) and "great benefits" (that I already know are going to have a million barriers to access and a trillion caveats). So tired of the same old corpo bullshit slogans like "our workplace is different!" and "we're like a family" while you can see the faces of the tortured souls actually doing the work on the shop floor looking dead inside and knowing you'll soon be joining them. Stfu the only reason I'm here is not to starve or be homeless, the more you tell me I need to be a good """representative""" of the company looking out for the company's best interest the more I wanna steal, unionize, and do industrial sabotage.
Hate this shit, hate capitalism, hate wage-labor, hate being human, just wanna be a dog or wolf or other fluffy animal
Not been posting much but I'm still here <3
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Did that for a minute, then things got worse again and now I have no choice but to sell my body and time to parasites again ;w;
yep, I'm currently putting all my hope into getting disability for mental illness
if that doesn't work then idk, I'll just be lost and destitute until the revolution or collapse of civilization
OH! Fun fact about this particular company
On some of their workstations they are running some kind of Linux. They are using a WM that looks like JWM and they have configured fucking conky to show information related to the work being done.
What the fuck. Love seeing products of free, creatively-applied labor (barely including Linux because that is basically for-profit product these days) being appropriated to use as tools in the extraction of surplus value. Maybe I have said too much specific info but I don't care.
they have configured fucking conky to show information related to the work being done
I thought you meant the disk activity / CPU levels and such and I figured "so what" but you meant the human work being done, didn't you. In which case it's fucking grim.
you meant the human work being done, didn't you. In which case it's fucking grim.
Yeah!! That's what I meant. It really is :(
and they have configured fucking conky-
Oh that's nice, I like having a resource use monitor on the desktop
to show information related to the work being done.
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The contrast between the very real and terrible current events in the levant and the lame and fake "xinjiang ethnic cleansing" narrative is really something
Lots and lots of very real evidence of actual atrocities vs "they're FORCING them to celebrate their traditions/festivals" or literally "race mixing is genocide" (china watchers 🤝 falungong)
I mentioned this to some friends and it actually seemed to get through. The idea that authoritarian China is horribly oppressing its people, but they're somehow unable to have their voices heard in our terminally online society is completely absurd.
Ayuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.
Xinjiang evidence? Vague allegations, satellite pictures of construction sites with no context, some anti-communist christian freak, and really sketchy pictures of people sitting in a chair, again without context.
Gaza? Literal live video.
Libs? CCP BAD GAZA FAKE NEWS!
I guess a lot of libs have come around as they couldn't ignore the deluge of horror forever, but gd.
Ah the modern Nordic Left.
My countrys right wing gov is planning to cut almost all meaningful workers rights, including the right to strike.
Our leftest most "radical" political party, The Left Alliance has put up a petition that we can go sign to oppose this general strike demanding move.
Can't wait for the amazing impact this petition will have./s
we get to witness the undoing of everything that was won for the working class since... almost exactly a century ago
I wonder if I will also witness people fighting for those things again, or if people are too brainwashed and we have to wait a few generations.
Pete Buttigieg on hot ones but he's eating a mayo and ketchup sandwhich on white bread and can't finish it.
Look at the comment I'm replying to.
People who think Democrats and liberals are leftists need to be bullied harder
We shall make a locker so big god could not shove themselves in it, then we shall shove the entire democratic party in it.
The last nerd will design the locker that we will use to shove him in
All my favorite porn performers and sex workers and people in related jobs came out swinging for the cause of Palestine. I found it very reassuring. I've always been interested in the intersection of the internet, social media, sex work, and politics, and it's just nice knowing that people you admire share your ideals.
whiskey exists in a strange place because the best whiskey tastes least like whiskey, yet cheap whiskey is the most whiskey
Okay. So.
We're pretty much set in stone at this point. I will be homeless as of checkout time (11am) October 31st, four days from now.
There's a living angel among you who has stepped up and offered my cats a place to live while I figure things out. I offer them a Godfatheresque favor they may or may not ask for at some point in the future, along with my endless love and gratitude.
I'm in the registration/training process at my new Amazon delivery driver job. I think my late 30's body will be able to handle it okay for the seasonal duration I'm expecting to stay there for. With any luck it will be less than a month before I can prove myself worthy to a landlord to have a home over my head and a kitty in my lap. This is going to be an experience.
So anyway. Tomorrow I have my cats get their shots put up to date. Sunday is probably going to be filled with things I come up with doing phone calls today and tomorrow. Monday I need to get everything that doesn't live in my car either living in storage or living in Godparent's. Tuesday I move out to nowhere.
Today is my last chance to get drunk and play vibeo while the sun is up. You better fucking believe.
Hit me up if you're between platinum and champion in rocket league
This isn't about rocket league, I wish I were good at it, but if you'd like and you're not familiar with resources in your town/state I'm happy to see if there is any rental assistance stuff that you could access. Can be hard to find stuff like that sometimes but I work in social services and would love to help
God bless you and I'll keep this message for when the day isn't about rocket league and skypedia but what I really want to focus on now is what kind of takeout is within walking distance b/c I ain't driving lol
as an indicator of how i'm doing rn, i'm laying in bed rewatching the episode of utena where nanami lays an egg and sobbing
Omg I forgot about Utena 🥺 it's soooo good and definitely had a crush on Miki as a little weaboo
got a youtube ad for tucking underwear earlier so I guess I've had my gender assigned by youtube ads
you will live in pod, you will eat bug, you gender decided by algo
All these super-spreader concerts make me regret picking music as my primary way of making art since high school. Its hard to listen to new music that is not made decades ago because of this too.
This COVID shit has made me disillusioned with the arts and this civil society in general. Been doing my own thing with some comrades, trying to fight this ableist genocide. I feel we are doing something but its an uphill struggle.
Don't be too hard on yourself. It's just capitalism ruining the arts as it tends to do with everything.
Your only course of action is to become a cyber-goth dj so you can wear a gas mask all the time.
Shit's fucked for real. I feel a bit bad just for going to small local shows or jam sessions.
remembering that time I watched a streamer say like "I know I definitely don't have ADHD.... cause sometimes if it's stuff I like I can focus really well"
Chud gaming YouTubers preparing themselves to upload 200000 videos titled "Alan Woke 2"
folks, I have finally properly aligned the long screm 
