manuallybreathing

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[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml -3 points 10 hours ago

Cultural sensitivity Deceased persons

In some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, hearing recordings, seeing images or the names of deceased persons may cause sadness or distress and in some cases, offend against strongly held cultural prohibitions

https://aiatsis.gov.au/cultural-sensitivity

I'm not fully versed in the complexities of this, but there's a taboo about depicting deceased Mob / Blak Fellas, this can extend to using a different name / not using their name, not depicting them in recordings, photographs, the like

it's important to be aware that during the more open colonial period, photographs like this were staged, likely coerced in contexts with limited consent. There's a lot like this where photographers have posed people beating women, and in other ways to justify their preconceived ideads about the natives they were actively involved in displacing

remembering this was at a time colonists did not consider Aboriginals as human, were stealing their bodies, selling their bones to museums, and treating them as animals

I encourage everyone to do some reading about this, and educate yourselves about cultures that have little to no understanding of

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

This is a staged studio photo that both exotcises and eroticises a woman from a group of people were and are still actively being genocided, but dorks on here are all why can't i see her tits tho

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

In the 1940s when the Empire of Japan was floating over terracotta pots filled with fleas and incindaries the usa clampped down on reporting very quickly, another good example is the spanish flu which did not start in spain, but neither side of the imperialist powers were about to admit they were losing millions of citizens to influenza

it will absolutely happen

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

You'd drive yourself insane trying to beat the market in day trading, the same way crypto bros do, you either need money to spare you can set and forget, or you need to not get involved

as much as I want to go and drop all my saving in a Chinese weapons company lol

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Cutting 1,000s of staff saves money and raises profits, ala DOGE

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

yet it's a problem when I do it

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 11 points 12 hours ago

if the usa pulls the rug out in the middle east and tries to swoop into Cuba to save them I'm going to die

interesting I am yet to see anything about anti-govt protests in Cuba

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is really uplifting thank you

Do you know what ended up happening with that rice and beans, but only directly to churches in Cuba thing the usa was on about 2 months back?

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

here's that video on xcancel - https://xcancel.com/Ryanmatta/status/2033237982556176834#m

and here's a way to access his instagram without having to be on instagram - https://insta-stories-viewer.com/shotsbymatta/

but also this guy is some christian weirdo who posts about satanists, and bitcoin, references things that "make america great", so not feeling great about seeing someone who's likely just a thinly veiled neo-nazi being shared here - the header on his twitter is even some third world child trafficking conspiracy "investigation" movie

also everything he explained as "evidence" the entire video must be AI could so easily be explained away by the fact it's probably just done in a studio, and had AI enhancement effects added or some shit. Old mate has never had a barista made coffee or something, the foam not jumping out of the cup doesn't mean shit (for example).

This is all leaning a little into some anti-Semitic conspiracy shit if you ask me, and as other people have mentioned, netanyahu having a schrodingers war criminal moment is irrelevant, the imperialist world order is rotten at it's core, western leaders are a reflection of this, there are no single Great Men responsible for these atrocities. Leaning into this kinda decapitation strike stuff is not better than what the USA has been doing.

Sorry I'm being kinda blunt here, I don't think this guy is worthy of being sourced in the news thread, be critical. <3

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago

The five U.S. Refueling Planes that were supposedly struck down and badly damaged, according to The Wall Street Journal’s false reporting, and others, are all in service, with the exception of one, which will soon be flying the skies.

🤣🤣🤣

perhaps he means they're ascending to the cloud

A(us)BC is reporting that they're launching at least 4 attacks a day lol

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

There are dozens of us and we demand to be taken seriously

 

Thought I'd check in on Drew Pavlou to see what he has to say about recent events.

'twumpikins, harden your heart, free Iran, there are MINT women I could sleeze on'

he's fucking disgusting.

he's mostly been doing some bit about fraud in australias national disability insurance scheme (NDIS), ala that young yankee youtuber and the day care thing. He's not very original. The NDIS is honestly fucked, but funny to see him suggest it should be a centralised government run thing.

https://xcancel.com/DrewPavlou/status/2032599031982207298#m

 

Title written on a missile, some Arabic and or Farsi I can't read is there too

edit: probably not real but whatever

 

Comic was in theage.com.au letters today, the artist shares comics here https://meganjherbert.substack.com/

 

"Enduring peace will be achieved when knowledge and understanding are fully valued within all societies" - Melania Trump at the UNSC

https://xcancel.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/2029313033114148880#m

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No one's talking about it, so I'm going to, etc, whatever, OMG they were room mates

surely someone did make this comparison and I just missed it

 

Chinese Vlogger travels Solo in IRAN's MOST Conservative City 🇮🇷 I - Jan, 2026 - Little Chinese Everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_m9LxdQ0Xo

this person makes some of the best videos on youtube, just traveling around, showing people where they live, shining a light on their humanity

 

A tombstone reads here lies a good western leftist, died waiting for the perfect revolution, vale

 

Recording of a seminar hosted last week by www.red-spark.org

VENEZUELA — EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS Popular power in the face of US attacks

Red Spark organised this public webinar to examine the current phase of US aggression against Venezuela through first-hand eyewitness accounts from those living and organising inside the process itself.

The discussion focuses on what has actually taken place on the ground, including the role of Venezuelan state institutions, communal organisation, and government responses to external pressure.

The speakers address how this risk-back operates in everyday life: from shortages and infrastructural strain to political destabilisation and militarised threats. The webinar also explores how communal institutions and popular organisation have emerged as collective mechanisms for managing, redistributing, and resisting this imposed risk, while continuing to defend popular power under siege.

The discussion situates these experiences within the broader geopolitical and military dimensions of US intervention, cutting through disinformation to provide grounded analysis rooted in lived political practice.

Speakers

Chris Gilbert is a professor of political studies at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, a contributing editor at Monthly Review, and the author of Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project (Monthly Review, 2023), among other books and articles.

Cira Pascual Marquina is a popular educator at the Pluriversidad, El Panal Commune’s educational initiative in the working-class barrio of 23 de Enero in Caracas. She is also a founder and member of the Communal Democracy Network.

Chair: Marley L (Sydney)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7QbdwFTIXI

 

Beijing confirms Japan's pandas will leave before February, invites panda lovers to China

ShanghaiEye魔都眼 - 20sec clip from YT

🐼

FAFO 😤

 

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado says she has presented her Nobel Peace Prize to US President Donald Trump.

She did not say whether Mr Trump accepted it.

The pair met in Washington on Thursday, local time, for lunch before Ms Machado left to meet senators at the Capitol.

As she left that second meeting, she was swarmed by media and said she had presented Mr Trump with the esteemed medal in "recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom".

Ms Machado then referenced the 200-year-old gifting of a medal by the Marquis de Lafayette, a general who fought against the British in America's Revolutionary War, to South American revolutionary leader Simón Bolívar, to signify the pair's shared values.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-16/donald-trump-meets-marina-machado-venezuela-opposition/106235644

spoilersorry, if I was going to compare her to a coffee, she'd be a flat white

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38642992

Is China a socialist or capitalist country? Will China become the next hegemon as its global influence continues to grow?

Renowned leftist historian and writer, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, shared his analysis in this talk.


Li Jingjing, is a CGTN reporter and YouTuber.

Vijay Prashad is an Indian-born American author, journalist, political commentator, and Marxist.

 

Is China a socialist or capitalist country? Will China become the next hegemon as its global influence continues to grow?

Renowned leftist historian and writer, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, shared his analysis in this talk.


Li Jingjing, is a CGTN reporter and YouTuber.

Vijay Prashad is an Indian-born American author, journalist, political commentator, and Marxist.

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