The map is also just wrong on several countries, like there’s no May Day in Liberia or Sierra Leone, Sudan, Mongolia, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan. And a lot more countries only have partial holidays

Yeah I get what the map is, but isn’t really accurate to say they “skip labor day”, and there is also significance to why labor day is celebrated at other times of the year in other places, like the two examples I mentioned:

Several provinces in Canada had worker-organized labour movements that created their own labour day in September, so that is a culturally significant time for it to happen. And in Ireland, to say they’re skipping May Day when there is a public holiday is inaccurate, and also fails to take into account the cultural impact of the start of May already being a traditional festival.

It’s funny that America doesn’t celebrate it in May, but it is ultimately a bit US-centric to present the information in this manner when the date itself was chosen by the AFL to commemorate an American strike.

Newfoundland used to celebrate it in July until they joined Confederation, now they have it in September like the rest of Canada, so it’s sort of weird that it’s green, but also sort of weird that Canada is black, cause it doesn’t “skip” it, it’s just a different time.

And the island near Newfoundland that’s also green is Anticosti, truly no idea why that is included, the 200ish people that live there have it in September like the rest of the country

I also question what’s going on with Ireland, because May Day is a public holiday, it’s just not necessarily May 1st, it’s the first Monday of May and is also Bealtaine, calling Bealtaine “just another day” isn’t right.

True, but surprisingly his home isn’t the lodge, it’s the Wellington Monument.

They’re in the UK (they’re from Belfast) so they’re almost certainly just worried about being charged with actual terrorism crimes if they publicly support organizations the UK has deemed terrorist (a lady was charged for having a paraglider sticker on her backpack, the UK are completely abysmal).

It just feels like they could have chosen to say nothing instead though, instead of repeating imperialist propaganda by condemning Hamas and Hezbollah and in the next sentence talking about civilian deaths. Like… come on, you’re doing the Zionists’ work for them when you continue to link talk about resistance fighters to civilian casualties. Bad form, but what can you expect from famous people who require visas and grants from government bodies in the UK?

“Let us be unequivocal: We do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah.”

Weird choice to add this part guys

The most stunning part of this is the use of the term “invert,” which has been outdated for nearly a century. They’re deep-diving sexological history to bring back Victorian-era greatest hits of transmisogyny and homophobia.

When you run the installer, uncheck the boxes for updating directx or c++ or whatever. That’s what is failing to download.

I supported Target (until they showed their true colors)

Target is a massive corporation that never hid its true colours. Its true colours: a massive forensics lab in a private-public partnership with the police to create a network of surveillance tied to facial recognition, racial profiling, and building enormous databases of biometric data on everyone in the US.

Supporting them because you thought they saw you as a human being and not a resource to be exploited and a data point to be sold is just proof of how well you fell for the corporate DEI-washing they briefly underwent when it was in vogue and seen as profitable. Corporations, and especially the police lab that is Target, have never cared. They aren’t people. They can’t care.

DEI (or IDEA, where I am, for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility) is about more than race, yes, but as a shibboleth for right-wing chuds it is the new AA, PC, CRT. Incantations they utter to summon the spectre of an insidious plot to dethrone white supremacy.

I don’t know who that is, I assume whoever first said it which is why Melian put it in quotes, just wanted to offer up that even if it’s in quotes, when you uncritically repeat demeaning insults like that you contribute to a hostile atmosphere that alienates people already on the margins of society who should be your comrades

edit: glad whoever that is stopped using that word, shouldn’t have taken so long. he desperately needs further introspection

I’m sure this wasn’t intentional, but using dwarf as an insult can be rather hurtful to people with dwarfism. There are reasons to be upset with Kruschev but that’s unrelated to his stature, and certainly has nothing to do with being a dwarf/little person, which he was not.

This is a fantastic album! I also highly recommend this performance by oklou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADtPzdWiTQ0

It’s three tracks done live in the middle of a skating rink while figure skaters do a choreographed routine around her, and it’s super beautiful <3

Or perhaps he has come to the truth that two unites into one, and that permanent tariffs can coexist with open borders as humanity unites in its next stage of social development.

Yes! Olivi is a sweet gem, been in love with her music for years but she doesn’t make much because she’s in grad school.

Hell yeah <3

As Kuro said below, gua (melon) is an insult meaning stupid (though in Sichuan it is used to mean a drunk, and this song is specifically about drunk foreigners, or party boys/fuckboys, who come to Chengdu to harass women). Xie Di is from Chengdu, all the best Chinese hiphop is from CDC or Xinjiang (in my opinion).

I don’t care about DNA stuff, and to be honest there is a lot of weird race science wrapped up in people’s obsession with DNA. Nor can DNA actually tell you how someone looked in real life; it is simply one of the many factors that go into someone’s complexion and skin tone.

I gotta say though, there is something a bit uncomfortable about asserting that Egypt is being “secretive” with their cultural honoured and revered dead, when the history of “Egyptology” is the pillage and plunder of Egyptian history at the hands of white scientists seeking to build their own civilizational narrative.

No one owes western science unfettered access to their history or the right to assert western science as some objective truth-building endeavour.

This would also kill everyone in Gaza. If seeing people suffer and die upsets you, the response should not be a belief that people should die on a larger scale, but that you should be looking for the people that are also opposed to suffering and death to try to create something that uplifts people. New futures are built through the dedicated application of human imagination: not through wishful (or vengeful) thinking, but through a conscious effort to create better possibilities.

There are billions of people on this planet, and wishing death on all of them is what the fascists are doing. Please try not to join them in that line of reasoning.

It’s probably because in real life Ramesses II had red hair, and a lot of white people seem to have a hard time imagining someone with natural red hair having dark skin and eyes, even though that was sort of a big deal for Egyptians at the time.

That being said, fair skin and light coloured eyes are not an entirely uncommon trait for the area (North Africa and West Asia, Egypt’s sphere of influence at the time). Not likely they were traits possessed by Ramesses, though a very questionable race science examination tried to assert he was a fair-skinned man of Amazigh (Berber) descent in the 70s, which is probably where they drew this idea of him from. Though they nailed his big beautiful nose.

Edit: On further inspection it sort of looks like they just made a beefier blue-eyed version of Yul Brynner from the Ten Commandments

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/former-acting-ag-whitaker-confirmed-as-us-envoy-to-nato-00006035

Edit: this was not unanimous. I think people are confused because the motion to invoke cloture was reached by unanimous-consent agreement (at a previous date). This just means that everyone agreed not to debate anymore about the nomination and set a date for the vote, which was Tuesday, and which was 52-45.

Most Americans have very little idea of how their government works, so it is not surprising that this misunderstanding has spread so much; I’ve seen quite a few people saying he was appointed through unanimous-consent. Appointments are never passed through unanimous-consent agreements, they always go to vote.