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If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

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Dudes rock

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ACABadabra wholecar seen in France

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Eet's one évent at ze "cheap", "accessibeul" "people's Olympiques", Michel. What could it cost, a month's rente?

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Ron Cobb’s Alien concept art

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Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta

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Update on May 1st protests and how the french goverment handled them?

^ The May 1st protests were pretty violent esp. in Paris; two cops were set on fire (they're ok, one has 2nd degree burns), lots of destruction in city streets, and hundreds of injured protesters. The French gov is sticking to its M.O. of denying any police violence against protesters, emphasising protesters' violence and portraying it as mindless anti-democratic savagery rather than the result of their own anti-democratic policies.

There were more people protesting in the streets on Monday than at any other May Day protest in the past 20 years (by a large margin—7 to 10x more people than usual.) And the numbers are still impressive in terms of this current social movement—there were about 1.2 million people at the first protest against the pension reform in January, 900K at one of the February protests, around 1.1M on March 7 and I think 1.2M on March 23rd... We're in May and there were 800K people in the streets on Monday (using the police's probably low estimate). The first marches earlier this year were peaceful; people started destroying shit in March after the 49.3 (=the gov not letting elected representatives vote on the reform); in the following weeks we saw a brutal escalation of police violence + suppression of just about any means of non-violent protest, which results in more violence.

The vast majority of protesters are still peaceful, but in terms of providing context for the increased violence, well—people protested peacefully, peaceful protests got banned. People banged pots and pans, pots and pans got banned and confiscated. People started a petition on the National Assembly website which got a record number of signatures, the petition was closed before its deadline and ignored. MPs asked (twice!) for a national referendum on the reform to be held, their requests were denied. Electricity unionists cut power in buildings Macron was visiting, now he travels around with a portable generator. Unions tried to distribute whistles and red cards (penalty cards) to football supporters before the French Cup finale last week, so the ones who wanted could use them if Macron showed up (he ended up hiding and greeting the footballers indoors rather than publicly on the stadium lawn); the police prefecture tried banning union members from gathering outside the stadium to distribute these items (although the ban was struck down by the judiciary as it was illegal, like most bans these days...)

Confiscating saucepans was already so absurd it felt like a gratuitous fuck you, but now they're trying to prevent the distribution of pieces of red paper. Cancelling petitions that would have had no real impact anyway. Prosecuting people for insulting Macron. Arbitrarily arresting hundreds of nonviolent protesters to intimidate them out of protesting (guess who's left then?). The French gov is systematically repressing democratic or nonviolent means of making your opinion heard, and when people get more violent they're like "This is unacceptable, don't these terrorists know there are other means of expressing dissent??" Where? This week a 77-year-old man was summoned to the police station and will be forced to take a "citizenship course" for having a banner outside his house that read "Macron fuck you" (Macron on t'emmerde). Note that he would have been arrested (like the woman who was arrested at her home and spent a night in police custody for calling Macron "garbage" on Facebook) but they decided not to only because of his age.

So that's where we're at; on Monday two cops caught on fire (well, their fireproof suit did) after protesters threw a Molotov cocktail at them. (The street medic who tried to help them with their burns ended up getting shot by a cop's riot gun a few seconds later—with French police no good deed goes unpunished!) The media talked a lot more about this incident than about the fact that the cop who got most severely injured on that day (broken vertebrae) was injured by an explosive grenade that a colleague of his meant to throw at protesters (you can see it at the end of the video below). If police with all their protective gear get so badly injured by their own weapons, no wonder the worst injuries have been on the protesters' side. (nearly 600 injured protesters on May 1st, 120 severely, according to street medics.) I'm not including images of these incidents in the video but on May 1st a protester had his hand mutilated by a police grenade + a 17 year old girl was hit in the eye by a grenade fragment, may end up losing it (during the Yellow Vests protests, Macron's first attempt at repressing a social movement, 38 protesters lost an eye or a hand).

What you see in the video: cops charging the front of a march to tear a banner off people's hands then retreating and drowning the street in tear gas when protesters throw paint bombs at them (protesters have umbrellas because of police drones); at 0:30, a journalist saying "They're not even arresting him, just kicking him when he's down—they kicked him right in the face!" then police spraying with tear gas protesters who try to fend them off; at 0:46 when a protester being arrested asks a journalist if he's filming and starts reading out loud a cop's ID number, another cop shoves the journalist and throws him to the ground; at 0:54, an Irish journalist runs away from the police tear gas grenades that you hear going off, at 01:08, the incident mentioned above when a cop drops a grenade he tried to throw, which explodes in his group, breaking another cop's vertebrae. There's a lot more I'm not including, like how CNN said "there's so much tear gas in Paris, our foreign correspondent can barely breathe", how another journalist was hit by a sting-ball grenade (he was also bludgeoned on the head so hard it broke his helmet—even though cops know the people wearing helmets are journalists...), and yet another journalist who was calling out a cop for aiming at people's heads with his riot gun (which is illegal) ended up having the guy aim the riot gun at his head from 2 metres away (getting shot with this "less lethal weapon" from that distance would be lethal.)

All of these videos are from May 1st (most of them from this account monitoring police violence.)

So yeah, nonviolent protests followed by violent police repression and bans of nonviolent means of protesting result in more violent protests. The French government responds by a) pikachu surpris, b) condemning violent protesters and praising violent police to the skies, c) continuing to ban everything they can think of. Confiscating saucepans didn't work but confiscating pieces of red paper will do the trick! Let's prosecute people for bashing or burning an effigy of Macron, because banning symbolic violence always works to prevent actual violence! And this week after the May 1st protests we learnt that the gov is thinking of making street barricades illegal, because that'll definitely solve everything. It's going to be interesting for history teachers to teach students about the 1789 revolution that allowed us to take down an absolutist regime and become a republic, under a government that banned barricades because they see them as terrorist anti-republican structures.

^ Statue symbolising the French Republic (on Place de la République in Paris) dressed with a 'Macron resign' shirt by protesters on May 1st.

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Here's to the disabled people who aren't "succeeding despite their disability." The ones who aren't able to study or work. The ones without impressive skills. The ones who need a lot of support, treatment and accommodations just to manage basic self care. The ones who need economic support from loved ones and/or welfare and disability benefits. The ones who can't live independently. The ones who aren't "inspiring" anyone but are instead looked at with judgment and pity. I hope you know that you don't have to do or achieve anything whatsoever to be a worthy, valuable, good person.

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I'm saying this as a fan, but also as somebody who worked their arse off writing screenplays at film school, don't hate on the writers when they go on strike.

Writers control the story of the show, there is so much detail and fine tuning done in the scripts. Everything an actor or a director adds, is adapted from the script. There is no show without the script, but still screenwriters are horrendously underappreciated and underpaid.

Director, actors and producers usually end up with most of the credit.

Writers deserve to be seen. If your favorite show is delayed because of the upcoming strikes, don't be surprised and please don't be angry at the writers. They are fighting for their art to be appreciated.

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hate 2 say it but british ppl had the right idea with saying whats all this then. like literally whats all this then

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What if we kissed under the Macron piñata 🤭?

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English translation lower

LA LIBERTAT

Tu que siás arderosa e nusa Tu qu'as sus leis ancas tei ponhs Tu qu'as una votz de cleron Uei sòna sòna a plens parmons Ò bòna musa.

Siás la musa dei paurei gus Ta cara es negra de fumada Teis uelhs senton la fusilhada Siás una flor de barricada Siás la Venús.

Dei mòrts de fam siás la mestressa, D'aquelei qu'an ges de camiá Lei sensa pan, lei sensa liech Lei gus que van sensa soliers An tei careças.

Mai leis autrei ti fan rotar, Lei gròs cacans 'mbé sei familhas Leis enemics de la paurilha Car ton nom tu, ò santa filha Es Libertat.

Ò Libertat coma siás bela Teis uelhs brilhan coma d'ulhauç E croses, liures de tot mau, Tei braç fòrts coma de destraus Sus tei mamèlas.

Mai puei, perfés diés de mòts raucs Tu pus doça que leis estelas E nos treboles ò ma bela Quand baisam clinant lei parpèlas Tei pès descauç.

Tu que siás poderosa e ruda Tu que luses dins lei raions Tu qu'as una vòtz de cleron Uei sòna sòna a plens parmons L'ora es venguda.

In english, roughly:

You who are ardent and naked You with your fists on your hips You with your voice like a trumpet Today chant, chant at the top of your lungs O good muse

You are the muse of the beggars Your face black with smoke Your eyes smelling of gunfire You are a flower on a barricade You are the Venus.

Of the starving you are the mistress Of those who are shirtless The beggars who go shoeless The breadless, the bedless Have your caresses

But the others make you burp The big rich ones and their families The enemies of the poor For your name, you, oh holy girl Is Libertat.

O Libertat, how beautiful you are Your eyes shine like lightning And you cross, free of all evil, Your arms strong as axes On your breasts.

But then you say hoarse words, You, softer than the stars And you trouble us, my beautiful When we kiss, closing our eyelids Your naked feet.

You, powerful and rough You who shine in the rays You with your voice as a trumpet Today chant, chant at the top of your lungs The time has come.

Written in the late 19th century in memory of the short-lived Commune of Marseille in 1871 (in french)

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the real European union is french people chanting "siamo tutti antifascisti" and Italian people chanting "tout le monde déteste la police" during protests happy may day

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May day, East Bay, CA, 2014

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Twitter has peaked.