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Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution is fantastic. Over a hundred inspiring posters celebrating moments of resistance and revolution.

The posters: https://justseeds.org/project/cph/

The book:
https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/celebrate-peoples-history-second-edition

(Christmas 2020 present from my bro that I finally just received.)

Protect public spaces

"when public spaces are eliminated, so ultimately is the public; the individual has ceased to be a citizen capable of experiencing and acting in common with fellow citizens" — Rebecca Solnit

The government is playing chicken with GPs. Ultimately to undermine the NHS. Part of a narrative that Sajid Javid wants to push that it is to blame for any shortcomings. A narrative aided and abetted by papers like the Daily Mail.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/oct/21/face-off-the-government-versus-gps

Heh, Truth Social is an (uncredited) fork of Mastodon.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump

Robot dogs with guns. What could possibly go wrong.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42717/robot-dogs-can-now-have-6-5mm-assault-rifles-mounted-on-their-backs

> If money, according to Augier, ‘comes into the world with a congenital bloodstain on one cheek,’ capital comes dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt.

― Marx, Capital, Vol. 1

True fact: the Thinkpad nipple mouse thingy was designed to allow you to carry on working when your cat has rocked up and sat on you and most of the trackpad.

Bookmarked: On the Sustainability of Free Software

> the FSFE demands the publication of a device’s underlying source code under a free licence 30 at the end of support for any software necessary to run or modify the initial functioning of the device.

https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/sustainability/sustainability.html