I like the old-book smell you get from a glass that used to have whiskey in it.

Really serious philosophy is a kind of Russian roulette. You’ve got to see through both sides’ eyes - and then kill one of them.

hexenharlot:

the-rogue-0f-light:

I think Equius’ death has caused permanent emotional damage to the fandom.

when they finally hunt me down

at the end of my mass murder spree

and ask me why

all I will have to say is this:

HUSSIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE

OH GODDAMNIT AMBER I’VE NOT GOT TO THAT BIT YET

(via nwahsinparis)

PSL Presidential Candidate Peta Lindsay Responds to Tonight's Presidential Debate - We need a foreign policy "based on mutual respect, equality and self determination."

votepsl:

As President Obama and Mitt Romney held their final debate tonight, socialist PSL Presidential Candidate Peta Lindsay - who has been excluded from the Presidential Debates - joined a protest outside in Boca Raton, Florida, prior to issuing the following statement on U.S. foreign policy.

Tonight’s debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney proved that the two candidates have far more in common with each other than that which separates them on the issue of foreign policy.

Both support crippling economic sanctions against the people of Iran on the pretext that Iran may someday build a nuclear weapon, while both support the maintenance of the U.S.’s own nuclear arsenal that includes more than 5,000 nuclear weapons. In this instance, both are guilty of using the issue of nuclear weapons as a smokescreen masking the real U.S. agenda, which is to overthrow the government in Iran and replace it with a U.S. puppet or proxy regime similar to what the United States and Britain did in 1953, bringing the Shah of Iran to power.

While Mitt Romney engages in the blame game over the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, both President Obama and Romney embrace and take full responsibility for NATO’s war of aggression that created the current chaos in Libya. Both President Obama and his Republican challenger desire the establishment of a client regime in Libya, a country that possesses Africa’s largest oil reserves.

While Mitt Romney pretends that the Obama administration has been less supportive of Israel, the facts are that the president and both houses of Congress continue to provide a blank check to the Israeli regime as it continues its endless war against the Palestinian people while threatening new wars against Iran and other countries in the Middle East.

Both President Obama and Mitt Romney are committed to spending hundreds of billions more to create a so-called Missile Defense Shield in Europe and in Asia, which can be considered only as a threat directed against Russia and the People’s Republic of China. The Missile Defense Shield is nothing other than an attempt to gain military superiority and a first-strike nuclear capability against Russia and China.

President Obama and the Republican challenger have supported the aggressive expansion of South Korean missile capabilities while insisting on massive war games against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and severe economic sanctions against North Korea.

President Obama and Mitt Romney intend to keep open the 900 U.S. military bases and installations located in 130 countries around the world in order to enforce the U.S. Empire; meaning, to pursue the interests of the biggest banks and corporations in their global endeavors.

Both President Obama and Mitt Romney are committed to expanding the network of U.S. drone bases and drone attacks in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Both candidates support sharp and deep social service cutbacks and reductions in Social Security and Medicare while spending more than $600 billion on war and weapons—more than any other country in the world.

The Peta Lindsay/Yari Osorio PSL Presidential Campaign calls for the creation of a foreign policy that is based on the actual needs of the people of the United States rather than an imperialist establishment that seeks to dominate the peoples of Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe for the sake of a small handful of billionaires, bankers, banks and corporations.

We call for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. and other foreign forces from Afghanistan, an end to all aid to Israel, the end of economic sanctions on Iran, an end to the U.S. policy of promoting civil war in Syria, an end to the 50-year-long economic blockade of socialist Cuba, a closing of all drone bases and an end to all drone attacks, and the closing of all foreign U.S. military bases.

Instead of a foreign policy based on the needs of an imperialist economic system, the people of the United States need a foreign policy that is based on mutual respect, equality and self determination.

Follow the PSL’s Lindsay/Osorio Presidential campaign at www.votepsl.org

This reads like a parody of kneejerk anti-Westernism. Like George Galloway, Lindsay is playing right into the hands of all sorts of vicious autocrats, because the ‘mutual respect, equality and self-determination’ she talks about is not between individuals but between states. What that really means is mutual respect and equality between political elites. And that isn’t socialism, it’s the polar opposite: an international order designed to keep things cosy for the people at the top of the pyramid. And she gets her facts wrong, in a grossly patronising manner. ‘NATO’s war of aggression that created the current chaos in Libya’? Were those people fighting for freedom in the streets, long before the (successful) NATO air campaign began, the dupes of the imperialist West? Is it inconceivable that Libyan people might have their own agendas and struggles that don’t fall neatly into the Oppressive White Capitalists-Virtuous Brown Victims dichotomy?

Socialism is most inspiring when it’s about people coming together to put an end to oppression. But this is not socialism. When she talks about ‘self-determination’, Ms Lindsay is patting on the head the kind of state-nationalism that, were she talking about her country, she would rightly call fascism. It’s almost enough to make me glad that nobody is listening to her.

(via afrofuturistaffair)

THINGS I LEARNED ASSEMBLING THE CROSSBOW I BOUGHT OFF THE INTERNET WHILST DRUNK

So a few weeks ago I got drunk and decided to buy a crossbow off the internet, having learned some weeks before that the amount of ID needed to do so is approximately the same amount you need to watch Bayonetta trailers on Gamespot. It arrived several days ago and I have only just now plucked up the courage to put the damn thing together. It now stands on the hoopy bit you put your foot in, between my desk and my chest of drawers. I’m still not sure how I feel about this. But I did learn some things! Here they are for your edification:

It’s very important not to get drunk and buy a crossbow off the Internet.
Crossbows come with Allen keys.
Crossbows have safeties. At least, I assume it’s a safety. The manual does not say what it is and it does not appear in the pictures, but it has something to do with the trigger and the way the trigger doesn’t currently make anything move on the top bit.
When writing a crossbow manual, it’s a good idea to mention that.
And how to un-cock it without firing it. That seems like quite important information too.
People who buy crossbows on purpose enjoy blurbs like: ‘The aloof, arrogant and stern hawk is the eye of the forest, which is wheeling over the forest, keeping crying. Shooting wings and sharp eyes are the essence of the crossbow of the Hawk of the Forest.’
It’s very important not to get drunk and buy a crossbow off the Internet.
The most common serious injury when using a crossbow is damage to the fingers.
Crossbows weigh a fucking ton.
‘As for the steel ball, the after crossbow top chord, from pipe behind puts in one steel ball, after the steel ball whereabouts, the buckle moves the trigger mays then.’ (p5).
It’s very important not to get drunk and buy a crossbow off the Internet.

If you are a potential future employer, be aware that yes, I will let you have a go with it if you hire me, and that no, I will not accept liability when that goes horribly wrong, nor will I help you hide the body afterwards. If you are not a potential future employer, I hope this has been useful to you, because I’m not going to see that £200 again.

Everything, everywhere

Surveillance
Advertising
Perpetual distraction
Analytics
Fascism
Terrorism
Space travel
Global warming
Revolution
Crowd-funding
Inequality
Recession
Social networking
‘Middle-income countries’
Green tech
Mobile phones
Counterinsurgency tactics
Materialism
Biotechnology
Sexual liberation
Irony
Drug cartels
Corporate capture
Occupy Everywhere
Futile protests
Anonymous
New Atheists
Cybercrime

So much promise, and so much danger, all mixed together and inseparable. How can one person ever know what to worry about? I’m glad I have a project, one little strange problem among the myriad to address. Otherwise I’d halt in confusion. Get one of your own, and don’t die without doing anything first.