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I bet the doors have been blown wide open from all the people they've let inside them. It's probably loose and hanging off its hinges.

Found this in Colindale in northern outer London, which isn't exactly known for its gang violence. I'm getting "How do you do, fellow knife-wielding criminals?" vibes from whoever did this.

It's basic botany! I'm sick and tired of having to repeat this every summer.

Asking semi-seriously.

The Socialist Workers' Sport International (although I prefer its German name Sozialistische Arbeitersport Internationale as it was abbreviated as SASI) was formed in Switzerland in 1920. They organized three International Workers' Olympiads between 1925 and 1937 to offer a less classist version of The Olympics, which especially in the early days of its modern revival upheld a view of sportsmanship that was very upper class coded and upholding idealized images of a privately educated "gentleman amateur" who was an "all-rounder" who didn't specialize or excel in one particular area. The events emphasised international cooperation, shared class struggle, and solidarity above national identity.

If we were to bring the spirit of this idea into the modern age, would the obvious candidate not be the Eurovision Song Contest. Like the Olympics, it's based on international competition. and people have complained for decades that most countries just end up voting for their closest ally. Then there's the fact that the EBU still refuses to bar the genocidal apartheid state of Israel.

So do we need a "Prole-Oh-Vision" (Never said I was good at naming things. Fuck You. What are you going to contribute?) Song Contest? Keeping the libs and reactionaries out would solve most of the problems with Eurovision. You wouldn't even need to ban Israel, because any Israeli who believed in internationalism, shared struggle, and liberation for all wouldn't be a zionist.

I realised I still haven't made the trip to see Marx's tomb in Highgate cemetary despite being around 30 minutes from King's Cross, which I have to pass through in order to get to London.

With public toilets being scarce in London, I generally try to find options in advance. I checked to see if there's a consensus among leftists who've made the pilgrimage about who's the worst person in Highgate cemetary. I couldn't find anything, but I figured that with it being full of famous English people, the place was bound to full of monsters.

I took a look at the Highgate cemetary Wikipedia page for ideas. I don't have the time to view the page of everyone listed there, but the obvious answer seems to be Herbert Spencer. The one line summary of "evolutionary biologist, sociologist, and laissez-faire economic philosopher" makes him sound bad enough, but from glancing at his Wikipedia page, he was also heavily associated with Social Darwinism, respected by Murray Rothbard, and coined Margaret Thatcher's favourite catchphrase. His tomb is also directly opposite Marx's, which makes it the most convenient.

The only other person who seems deserving from the one line summary on the Wikipedia page is a teacher who beat one of his students to death, but he's on the opposite side of the cemetary to Marx.

Does anyone else have any ideas, or are we going to go with Herbert Spencer?

I need to know. I don't think I can be a part of the kink community if I have to share it with nazis.

Do they honestly expect me to believe that there wasn't a more appropriate way to abbreviate "cumulative maximum" than cummax? Imagine the headaches the inventor of the world's first Python powered sexbot will suffer when they realise that the method name cummin has already been taken.

Did I just discover Milo Yiannopoulos' origin story?

It scans the facial features of people with in view and displays information about their true gender. This information is always "Dunno. Just ask them. Or maybe just mind your own fucking business, TERF.

It's $5000 USD, and there will be no refunds.

Instead of TERFery, we could just hang out with lots of cool queer people and vibe to some 90's dance anthems.

This randomly popped into my head.

Wedge issues

I blame each and every one of you.

It's apparently about the UK Green Party's recent win in Gorton and Denton. All I can see in this image is progressive trans Muslims celebrating their marginalized gender identities. I assume I'm supposed to see something much scarier like "Sharia enforced gender pronouns", but I'm too out of touch with the reactionary mindset to know what I'm supposed to be afraid of.

I don't know if the people of Gorton and Denton actually voted for trans Muslims to live freely as their true selves, but I'm not going to object to that.