It's just grossShaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson, Homo Tesco Metro, 2015GDP is literally a garbage metric. The vast majority of consumer goods get binned within a year, 'durable' goods within years, and everything is garbage within evolutionary time. Everything we produce has some 'value' which gets written down as GDP, but, historically, this is just dead people's feelings about undead ...
Keeping the 10 precepts, and failingToday is Poya. A full moon day. Poya is a public holiday in Sri Lanka and you can do nothing, but you're supposed to do a very specific sort of nothing. For a day at least, Buddhists are supposed to try and be Buddhist. So I've been trying. Going To TempleThe Buddha's path is clearly ...
I can't. ViaThe people in Gaza are being starved to death. It's just a medieval siege with modern machinery. It's barbarism via bureaucracy. It's not just 'Israel', it's the entire White Empire, America and all its bitches. They've cut off funds for the UNRWA that delivers food, while delivering even more bombs to the people literally bombing food supplies. The ...
It can't all be killerCat on drugsIt's hot as a furnace in Colombo and my house smells like fish. We bought the cheap fish for the cat and it actually stinks. The cat got his nuts snipped today. Today he's wandering around, stoned out of his gourd. The kids are home and they want to play. I've been playing so ...
Inflation is because we're actually running out of 'supply', and demand more than everBehold how the Horseman of Famine carries scales. Food is available, it's just too expensive. Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen, probably c. 1496/1498When I took intro economics—which, in hindsight, was akin to a Hitler youth rally—they showed us supply and demand curves. If there was less of ...
My daughter was yelling at the maids, which is the one thing she cannot do. My wife said she must get that from her, but my wife never yells at the maids. I was confused. Then I thought about it, and it's true. My wife must be yelling at the maids inside her head, and my daughter just can't control ...
'Israel', America, and ClimateWe've discussed the 6 fronts of 'Israel's' war and the 6 wars America is losing. Now we'll discuss 6 ways the climate is collapsing. 666. Now we finally meet the final boss. The climate collapse that all other collapses are contained within. The sphere that crushes all cubes into meaninglessness.The big question is, even if 'Israel' manages ...
‘Israel’s’ six-front war is just one theatre in the American multiplex of horror. America is fighting multiple wars, and constantly trying to start new ones. I know they’re only called ‘World Wars’ when white people are fighting each other, but I don’t know what else to call this. America is at war across the whole world and losing on all ...
A perfect cube of resistance'Israel' is fighting on at least six fronts. They're basically stuck in a perfect cube of fucked. To the north, against Hezbollah. To the east, against Iraq, Syria, and Iran. Then to the south, against Yemen. Within Palestine, the Resistance is literally underground, and the malevolent presence of Iran is all around. And this is just ...
I don’t want to post pictures of Gazans starving. This is a handmade tatreez from Resistance News Network. You can read what each bit means.We are witnessing the planned and brutally executed starvation of two million souls. I struggle to engage with this fact directly, I find it viscerally difficult. As Chris Hedges writes in excruciating detail, ‘Israel’ is starving and ...
The horse hiding behind a bush (top left) started it. From an alternate ending to the Ramayana.In the old Hindu stories I grew up with, the Ashvamedha is a classic tale. The tale of the wandering horse. In this ritual, the king lets a horse wander around for a year, accompanied by some warriors. Wherever the horse can go unmolested, ...
Pippi the catYou can read me directly at www.indi.ca.We have a cat, or should I say, the cat has us. During the rainy season a kitten took shelter under the security guard’s chair and my daughter took it into the house. I spend a lot of time with this creature and it gives zero shits about anything I’m thinking about. ...
I’ve been writing on Medium for over five years and I know that any algorithm is a harsh mistress. Sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down, it’s a mystery. But since October 7th I’ve been way down, and I know why. The algorithm hates Palestine. As Audre Lorde said, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” and right now, ...
Tyranny by teletype (touring a modern-day cargo ship)An empire can be feared or loved, but they cannot be ignored. The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference. This is no different for empires as for men on Earth. For decades America has used sanctions and the fear of sanctions to rule the world. To get natural resources and labor, and ...
I was in my daughters class for her ‘book look’ and I saw something interesting. It was a map of the world by climate zones. The colder countries in the north and the warmer climate to the south. This struck me because it’s a map of why colonialism happened.The cold, sun-poor regions stole solar energy from the south, and the ...
One of the curious things about the Hypocritical Hegemon (America) is that it never declares war and never uses the word ‘siege’. But it’s always at war, and always besieging people!Right now, to take just one example, Gaza is under siege. That’s a simple historical fact, buried in the news. What else do you call cutting off a population from ...
Sabrina Singh, awful personPentagon spokesghoul Sabrina Singh was asked, “We’ve bombed them five times now… If this isn’t war, what is war?” She laughed. Not a funny question, but she laughed ghoulishly and said, “Great question… we do not seek war, we are not at war with the Houthis [Ansar Allah],” as if that explained anything. It doesn’t explain anything. ...
States that have declared support for Texas’s posturing cruelty to migrants, and other states who like to oppress more discretely. ViaThe one thing Americans will fight a civil war about is how to oppress their underclass. Whether they’re legal property (slaves) or illegal immigrants, America requires an underclass, that goes without question. The only dispute is how crass they are ...
An AI representation of the Captain of the USS Eisenhower, ‘Chowdah’ Hill. I didn’t make this. They actually think it’s cool. ViaAmerican propaganda today consists of the Captain of the USS Eisenhower eating cookies, constantly. ‘Israeli’ propaganda consists of soldiers dancing really badly, and also constantly. WTF is going on? I suppose the Empire is trying to convey how dominant ...
Islamic Resistance (Hamas) leader Yahya Sinwar in the ruins of his Gaza house. The inheritor of the ruins.Colonies, colonizers, and the planet they were colonizing are collapsing all at once. It’s hard to tell what’s causing what. It’s collapse within collapse within collapse and the most salient collapse is actually the most superficial. As Nine Inch Nails said, it runs ...