bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

Good morning weeds!

I have been long thinking why I am moving to HK, which is a complicated.

In a #totalitarianstate , people more or less embed a sort of #oppression in their daily work and life, in terms of person relationships and work culture.

Sometimes the oppression is either covered or revealed by a person's personalities. So it becomes hard to distinguish where the oppression is originated.

google truly is useless now. you cant search for shit

I like this.

I also came here to whinge a bit about how my small town public library book group is reading Orwell's 1984. I think they think it was a funny choice. I've never read it before. I get queasy and can only digest it in small portions, mostly laying down. Ooof. It's so sinister and infuriating, probably because it reads like a how to guide for the current era.

Remember to turn off the faucet when brushing your teeth so there's enough water to cool the data center.

Whistling jars are pottery vessels from Chimu culture of North Coast, Peru, that date back to 1000–1476 CE. The jars are often decorated with bird's heads that conceal whistle and smaller whistles may have fingerholes to adjust pitch. The sounds jars make depend on their size, shape, and fluid levels. These unique instruments or shamanic tools as we will later discuss, are called whistling vessels or otherwise known in Spanish as huaco silbadors.

🎥 : Credit to the Owner

#archaeohistories

https://youtu.be/0LDncaOZYqA

#JesseWelles

I've just witnessed a completely civil and righteous rage against the machine by an elderly man (80s+) at supermarket self-service checkout here in small city Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was a little bit wonderful.

He'd just finished paying for his groceries when the machine started saying "Please take your items" every 15 seconds or so. At first he just says "I'll do it in my own time thank you," while bagging things up.

The machine keeps telling him to take his items. After around the 5th time, he starts really arguing back:
"I don't have to do what you tell me to do."
"I'll take as long as I need thank you."
"I'll thank you to stop harassing me."

On around the seventh or eighth request that he take his items, he stands back, crosses his arms and says loudly snaps, "No! Not until you be quiet!"

The machine keeps going. The man just stands there, crossed arms, chin stuck out. A standoff is on. Staff come over and ask if they can help and he tells them that if they switch the voice off, he will continue bagging his things and go. If they don't, he's retired and can wait all day.

Machine is turned off/down with sympathy from supermarket staff. Moments later the man leaves the supermarket with the air of someone who's just won a war, expression completely stoic.

@sun @mangeurdenuage i do actually think there is some complex of ecological disasters happening fwiw i just think carbon theory is there to suffocate them

13 goddess figurines found in Balzi Rossi caves near Grimaldi di Ventimiglia, Italy. Made of steatite between 24,000-19,000 years ago and measuring from 2.4cm to 7.5cm in height, they stem from the widespread Gravettian culture.

Between 1883-1895, figurines were discovered by the antique dealer Louis Alexandre Jullien at the cave complex Balzi Rossi ("red cliffs") at the Ligurian coast. Eight of these sculptures are housed in museum Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris, France.

#archaeohistories

No, a restaurant is a private establishment. In a free country they would be able to refuse the unvaccinated, or blacks, or gays, or democrats, or ANYONE they want. If their choice of who to refuse bothers you, you should be able to choose not to go there, that is freedom.