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Oliver Tambo, born on this day in 1917, was a South African anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991.

In 1943, Tambo, along with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, founded the ANC Youth League, with Tambo becoming its first National Secretary and a member of the National Executive in 1948. The Youth League proposed a change in the tactics of the anti-apartheid movement, advocating boycotts, civil disobedience, strikes, and non-collaboration.

In 1960, Tambo fled South Africa due to political persecution, living in exile in north London for thirty years. From London, he supported and helped organize the ANC in the fight against apartheid from a distance. On December 13th, 1990, Tambo returned to South Africa and was elected National Chairperson of the ANC.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Fucking awful day at new job. So tired of pretending to be a "normal" person looking for "career advancement opportunities" (as if I want to advance into being a soulless corpo minion of orthodoxy or do wage-labor at all) and "great benefits" (that I already know are going to have a million barriers to access and a trillion caveats). So tired of the same old corpo bullshit slogans like "our workplace is different!" and "we're like a family" while you can see the faces of the tortured souls actually doing the work on the shop floor looking dead inside and knowing you'll soon be joining them. Stfu the only reason I'm here is not to starve or be homeless, the more you tell me I need to be a good """representative""" of the company looking out for the company's best interest the more I wanna steal, unionize, and do industrial sabotage.

Hate this shit, hate capitalism, hate wage-labor, hate being human, just wanna be a dog or wolf or other fluffy animal

Not been posting much but I'm still here <3

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I simply refuse to pretend, so I am a NEET instead

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Based

Did that for a minute, then things got worse again and now I have no choice but to sell my body and time to parasites again ;w;

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

OH! Fun fact about this particular company

On some of their workstations they are running some kind of Linux. They are using a WM that looks like JWM and they have configured fucking conky to show information related to the work being done.

What the fuck. Love seeing products of free, creatively-applied labor (barely including Linux because that is basically for-profit product these days) being appropriated to use as tools in the extraction of surplus value. Maybe I have said too much specific info but I don't care.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (7 children)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The contrast between the very real and terrible current events in the levant and the lame and fake "xinjiang ethnic cleansing" narrative is really something

Lots and lots of very real evidence of actual atrocities vs "they're FORCING them to celebrate their traditions/festivals" or literally "race mixing is genocide" (china watchers 🀝 falungong)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I mentioned this to some friends and it actually seemed to get through. The idea that authoritarian China is horribly oppressing its people, but they're somehow unable to have their voices heard in our terminally online society is completely absurd.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

screm-aaaaa folks, I have finally properly aligned the long screm lea-finger-guns

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

edit: nevermind. I just had to clear the cache. Beautiful

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah the modern Nordic Left.

My countrys right wing gov is planning to cut almost all meaningful workers rights, including the right to strike.

Our leftest most "radical" political party, The Left Alliance has put up a petition that we can go sign to oppose this general strike demanding move.

Can't wait for the amazing impact this petition will have./s

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

People who think Democrats and liberals are leftists need to be bullied harder

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Pete Buttigieg on Hot Ones but he's eating cinnamon rolls with hot sauce

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

All my favorite porn performers and sex workers and people in related jobs came out swinging for the cause of Palestine. I found it very reassuring. I've always been interested in the intersection of the internet, social media, sex work, and politics, and it's just nice knowing that people you admire share your ideals.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

whiskey exists in a strange place because the best whiskey tastes least like whiskey, yet cheap whiskey is the most whiskey

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Okay. So.

We're pretty much set in stone at this point. I will be homeless as of checkout time (11am) October 31st, four days from now.

There's a living angel among you who has stepped up and offered my cats a place to live while I figure things out. I offer them a Godfatheresque favor they may or may not ask for at some point in the future, along with my endless love and gratitude.

I'm in the registration/training process at my new Amazon delivery driver job. I think my late 30's body will be able to handle it okay for the seasonal duration I'm expecting to stay there for. With any luck it will be less than a month before I can prove myself worthy to a landlord to have a home over my head and a kitty in my lap. This is going to be an experience.

So anyway. Tomorrow I have my cats get their shots put up to date. Sunday is probably going to be filled with things I come up with doing phone calls today and tomorrow. Monday I need to get everything that doesn't live in my car either living in storage or living in Godparent's. Tuesday I move out to nowhere.

Today is my last chance to get drunk and play vibeo while the sun is up. You better fucking believe.

Hit me up if you're between platinum and champion in rocket league

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

as an indicator of how i'm doing rn, i'm laying in bed rewatching the episode of utena where nanami lays an egg and sobbing

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

she thought all her friends would abandon her! kitty-cri-screm

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

All these super-spreader concerts make me regret picking music as my primary way of making art since high school. Its hard to listen to new music that is not made decades ago because of this too.

This COVID shit has made me disillusioned with the arts and this civil society in general. Been doing my own thing with some comrades, trying to fight this ableist genocide. I feel we are doing something but its an uphill struggle.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

got a youtube ad for tucking underwear earlier so I guess I've had my gender assigned by youtube ads

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

remembering that time I watched a streamer say like "I know I definitely don't have ADHD.... cause sometimes if it's stuff I like I can focus really well"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

I'm finally trying Starfield. It's probably because my expectations were in the gutter but it isn't that bad, I'm actually having fun. It's a bethesda game for sure: zero personality, you'll probably get tired of it before finishing up the main quest or exploring every mechanic, and it'll make a great engine for future mods. But it is pretty fun in the meantime.

Edit: also they went all-in with fast travel to an absurd degree. I discovered like 15 hours in that the main city was not, in fact, a set of disjointed maps (one for each quarter) with fast travel or tram between them but that they're in fact all perfectly connected and you can go from one to the other on foot without loading screens, for example

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Chud gaming YouTubers preparing themselves to upload 200000 videos titled "Alan Woke 2"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Imagine how many more bad guys spiderman could kill if he had a gun thinking-about-it

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

the lengths to which the ps games go to maintain the pretense that you don't actually kill anyone is very silly and funny to me

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

I just realized that on the off chance I ever get eaten by wolves I am going to die thinking the phrase "you are inside two wolves".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Sometimes I wonder if transitioning to a cashless society is just another way for the ruling class to cull the homeless.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

I wish china had a more belligerent foreign policy for anticolonial things like Israel/palestine

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

hexbear is getting me back into FTL kris-dance

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

just had a 9AM friday meeting that was supposed to last half an hour somehow take 90 minutes. i hope somebody flies a plane into my office, i hate every single one of these fucking ghouls

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Only semi-related, but yesterday-ish in the mega you asked about free browser-based games to play in said office. It may or may not be up your alley, but archive.org has thousands of old games that are emulated in-browser

Here's a collection of collections of those in case you're interested

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Thinking about how my mom, the person who's emotional abuse gave me CPTSD, once expressed concern about me being "too easily influenced".

Wow mom wonder how i got that way.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Looking so pretty in full makeup rn. I gotta learn how to do this on my own

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

We should make a deal with Hamas that they release the hostages but get to behead Amy Schumer. Seems like a win-win.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

I can not sleep. I can only pray for Palestine. I am not doing well.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's mid 60s today but I'm bravely still wearing a sweater because I refuse to let weather dictate my wardrobe.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I briefly went outside at night and it's very bone chilling cold shatter

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On Wednesday I did a great job doing my whole scene off-script for my Acting midterm and tomorrow I'm going to a Halloween party for the first time in years

Hoping for a good day today

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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What would you do if you were in an uncomfortable social situation? Could you talk your way out of it? Ir would you be forced to endure it like a chump? I'm Todd McFarlane, and I created Spawn. When Al Simmons fell into darkness, at the moment of his death, he heard the voice of Malbolgia call out to him, and ask him to hang out. Hard as he tried, he didn't feel he could just say no, and couldn't think of an excuse to get out of it, even though he only really wanted to keep the relationship professional, and Malbolgia had friends he didn't really like and he was worried that he'd be forced to hang with them too. He'll soon reap the consequences of that. Spawn time now.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

fuck landlords
fuck cars

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As a former Amy Schumer non-hater i-get-it

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Andor was that star wars show y'all liked right?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In a sort of cruel, poetic(?) way, the airport of the 3rd largest city in Africa, named after a prominent anti-apartheid activist is still bugged by Mossad to bring that small bit of Apartheid back from 7,000 kilometers away

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The Dark Souls games are an accurate representation of what its like to be a short man in society

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Doing a group project, teammate asks me to look over his part. I take a quick look. It's obviously Chat GPT generated. I tell him he should try to do it himself and only use Chat GPT to format it since he wasn't super familiar with the syntax for the assignment.

He doesn't reply for a day then comes back with a mess that is also very obviously just the result of prompting Chat GPT three times.

I understand using a LLM to help you out if you don't want to go through too much trouble in putting everything in the syntax for the program we're using, but repeatedly trying to get Chat GPT to do the entire thing for you, even when you're told how obvious it is that a human did not write it? yikes

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

I am feeling so much better compared to days ago, it is a very big world of difference

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Lol IDF shpuld've just vaguely hinted about the Hamas base and people would've just gone along. Posting the 3D rendering of the insane bond villain tunnel network that would require an expensive and obvious construction project and the most insane HVAC system imaginable is just embarassing. But whatever you gotta do to justify blowing up a hospital sheltering tens of thousands of civilians I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Hearing reports that there is a secret hamas base under the pentagon and white house

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

oh shit project zomboid is on sale

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