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Negro Matapacos (“Cop-Killer Blackie”) was a famous stray dog from thestreets of Santiago who joined student protests across the city from 2010, and in particular during the 2011 movement for free education.

he was a stray dog from the streets of Santiago, and began joining student demonstrations in 2010. The following year, one of the biggest social movements since the fall of the military dictatorship began, fighting for free education and against neoliberal reforms to the education system.

Negro Matapacos was then seen regularly at every demonstration, defying tear gas and water cannons and always barking at or attacking only the riot police, and never any students or rioters. He subsequently continued to appear sporadically at future demonstrations, and hung out on university campuses, becoming beloved to student and radical movements as a symbol of resistance to violent authority.

His last days were spent resting with people who took him in, with a crowdfunded veterinarian.

Some people who knew him sent us some of their memories of him, telling us how he defied tear gas and water cannons, and only ever barked at or attacked police officers, and never students or rioters.

After his death, his legacy lives on in songs, street murals, an award-winning documentary and in the memories of all those who knew him. He was a good boy.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

So all the complaining I did about my boss taking over my station? He stopped working it yesterday and apparently my co workers had said after I left the numerous ways I did things differently and thar they preferred that. Which felt nice that people like having me in charge above the actual boss, technically I'm on the same level as any other line cook, I just work a position with immediate authority and people tend to assume I'm management until I start shit talking management. Anyway, I'm glad the chef pisssd off and let me do ehst is normally his job again cause holy hell am I better at it. I'm a great cook, but I'm fucking AMAZING at plating and calling and expoing. It's like playing papers please and I never can remember how much I kinda like it until.im at another part of the kitchen. It's no brains stuff if you know how to make food for.that place.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I am so wired rn I can NOT sleep.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

My RAT test for covid is finally negative!

But not asymptomatic yet. Constant sweating and last night had a heart racing episode, just like the ones I had with OG covid, but thankfully not bad on the anxiety/panic side, but 100% percent physical. Cuddling up to my partner helped, just like last time.

Heartrate is very elevated. I always get this with covid and it sticks around before turning into bracychardia. I fucking hate it. No nausea or pots stuff so far this time, but so worried they will start. Been working remote all week and it's been pretty taxing.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fucking hate portable air conditioners but apartment rules bullshit ect. Had to unscrew the entire back panel to clean the intake, which thank God I finally thought to do cause there was like 2 inches of cat hair in it. The fucking rental company office is on the bottom floor of the building so I can't even just use a normal one and ignore the rules like I normally would.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I think Americans should criticize their conception of ethnicity for functioning exactly like race, and introduce a new concept that encompasses all the other traits around which it is possible to form an ethnic identity. Then when the new concept turns into race, repeat the process. I bet we could fit in five layers of concepts of race where the only difference is how polite it is to talk about them.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I had a look behind the curtain last week at a defence engineering company (they also service the mining companies here).

God damn, they are badly organised, and they do not take opsec as seriously as random bunches of internet nerds. Like, I get that stuff like assigning parts numbers is going to have an amount of institutional inertia, but they do it based on indexing which parts get a drawing (so a part that does not get a drawing does not get a part number), and a project will often reference several drawings (and those parts might cross several projects). Also while they had a registered system for logging visitors, you could bypass it trivially. It would be easier to gain access if you knew some names though.

Also heard some of the people in the workplace talk about star signs, which made me reflect on my hippy friends talking about the same stuff and the banality of the MIC, as well as the cultural coding of "who is really into star signs, must be hippy chicks".

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

when you do self harm by Posting

Gnight

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Why must the pay always come late when I need it for something (I don't actually need it that bad, I just really want some fucking nicotine)

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

New traa mega, go there now

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

New liberal brainworm just dropped?

genocide + homophobic putler meme3 accounts posting the Palestine annexation map, but with more colors to make it confusing close up of the map

smuglord I added more colors to the map, because I'm the big nuance understander. This means no land is being stolen and nobody is being murdered.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

was anyone going to tell me that Dan Gheesling was a masterclass social engineer before I put his Balatro content on my sleep playlist

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

GW should just kill off the emprah let imperium collapse and make mechanicus (the most interesting human faction) the dominant human faction. They wouldnt even really have to give up the only thing they care (space marine models) since spesh marines chapters already practically have their own mini empires anyways.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Just had lunch at a great anti-italian-action restaurant and it was playing banger music (air, beach house, cristal castles, the strokes, lcd soundsystem)

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm on vacation visiting family. I went for a walk on the beach and dropped my vape pen/what was left of it. I have a bunch of Delta 8/CBD gummies on me, but I have been trying to quit, and I guess this is my sign to just get it over with lol.

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olimar-point pikmin-carry-lrebus-1rebus-2pikmin-carry-r pikmin-onion
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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

started playing the mad max game. it's been fun

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

down with cis

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

this is so fucked a timegussr picture that is 100% a shot from a film, but is this in a studio, should i guess where a studio is? where the film might be set? whatever mad scumbag thought this one up should be shot

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Blender adventure foibles:

So, I was being severely hampered by being stuck in a technical mindset, where I left every modifier and shape in the scene in sequence (like in Solidworks, so you can go back and edit a small detail and have it propagate forwards), instead of just applying mesh modifiers. Every time I did anything my computer had to slowly recreate the semi-organic models I was doing.

.<

My character's head is looking good though and now runs much better than it did yesterday though

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Going to a show tonight in a big outdoor amphitheater but it's gonna be hot as fuck out. Fingers crossed for some rain to cool things off. 10 years ago I was at a show at the same venue and the show was delayed for a HUGE storm that blew in out of nowhere. Trees were falling in the venue, power went out and everything, in all the panic I was able to sneak into the pit. screm-cool

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Tried of the Grindset? Try some of these other helpful sets!

  • The Funky Radical Bombset

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Feeling better with covid and my partner made us some fresh sourdough bread, and I can't smell or taste anything at all.😭 But tge texture was still nice.

My rat is still very clearly positive, but so happy both of us no longer have high fevers or pain. This was no mild cold.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Someone on here said something about the pathfinder game and my partner and i started playing it tonight and how in the shit ass fuck are you supposed to design a character the number of options is insane

It took us 40 minutes to basically go okay let's just be some kind of monk

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

well, it's been a rough spring and summer because ye olde spouse injured his back in March; he injured his knee yesterday afternoon, and it is significantly worse this morning

😑

in other news, fresh figs are amazing, and I don't ever want to eat anything else, which is a problem because there aren't enough on that tiny tree to last even one gluttonous afternoon

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