@DetritusBooks a small collection of malatesta works for the broad category of "Anarchy'
in case you didn't see this yet https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
@ch4r10t_tv i really enjoyed this video. i thought my excitement for Invincible had waned to the point of me being uninterested in the new season but this pulled me back into the world. keep up the great essays!!
@ZiaNitori yeah there's a lot of crows and a few gulls at the nearest grocery store parking lot. it seems to be a no man's land for the birds. the grocery is right around a lot of fast food so there's always trash food for them to eat so it makes interacting with them a bit harder.
you could probably encourage the ones in the more public areas away from the public areas with food still though.
i don't know how good gulls are at recognizing people. i know crows are very good at it. so like, you'd have to make it a regular activity - walking from the parking lot to more private areas while spreading food for them. you can't do it just every once in a while if you want them to recognize you.
@ZiaNitori i usually avoid it because the gulls are usually just like, at beachfronts and stuff so they're more interested in stealing from all the random people instead of developing relationships.
i live close to a big lake with lots of seagulls, but my neighborhood is crow territory, the seagulls get kicked out by the crows around here. gull territory here is the area more directly around the lake.
if you want to start though, i would try looking into what foods they prefer (so like, *not* just bread) and talk to them and call out to them in sounds similar enough to their own that you get their attention as you toss out food to them
it's gotten to the point where every morning, as i'm walking my dog for the first walk of the day, i'm joined by 3-5 crows who follow me for the whole walk. flying by and landing on nearby street signs, electrical cables, houses, fences, all until we get back home and then i feed them some (usually nuts or dog food)
"It seems to me that at least one of Marx’s observations is true: every minute devoted to the capitalist production process, every thought contributed to the industrial system, further enlarges a power that is inimical to nature, to culture, to life... Nationalism is not flown in from abroad. It is a product of the capitalist production process, like the chemical agents poisoning the lakes, air, animals and people, like the nuclear plants radioactivating micro-environments in preparation for the radioactivation of the macro-environment.
As a postscript I’d like to answer a question before it is asked. The question is: “Don’t you think a descendant of oppressed people is better off as a supermarket manager or police chief?” My answer is another question: What concentration camp manager, national executioner or torturer is not a descendant of oppressed people?" -Freddy Perlman, The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/perlman-fredy/1984/nationalism.htm
"The warrior is in the position of betraying everything, including the function of the military, or understanding nothing.
It happens that historians, both bourgeois and Soviet, will follow this negative tradition and explain how Genghis Khan understood nothing: he "didn't understand" the phenomenon of the city. An easy thing to say..." -D&G, A Thousand Plateaus
@eris lmaooooo fat chance
"The world’s solution to safety and security, for Jews and for others, continues to be inextricably linked to the nation-state and its sovereignty — to militarized borders and an obsession with demography. As modern history has shown, such an idea always has the potential for exclusionary politics and mass violence. Perhaps most damaging of all is how such a solution propagates a diminished understanding of safety: It is the state that needs defending, not people. It is the state that holds sovereignty, not people. This logically leads to policies that label certain elements of society acceptable losses in times of conflict — sacrifices in the name of the state. And it facilitates an essentialist view of the world that cannot include the history of human migration and leaves no room for the fluidity of identity."
https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/memory-voids-and-role-reversals/
A wandering deer, building shrines along the way.