To clarify, when knowone says “that’s not a fun time” they don’t mean “oh it tastes bad”. They mean it’s really not a fun time, avoid going anywhere near giant hogweed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum
NSFL (if you’re squeemish):
How to harvest, dry, and make tea with nettles:
https://slrpnk.net/comment/16978019
If you have arthritis or hayfever they’ve been shown to help with that. Science has confirmed the old wives tales traditional herbal remedy works for this one. Not as effectively as modern medicine of course but if it’s all you can afford, or whatever, then something is better than nothing.
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable-but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art.
If you have a vote in the English/Welsh Greens leadership election vote for Polanski then.
He’s stated a willingness to work with this new party so they don’t put forward candidates in the same seats and compete with each other. The other candidates have done no such thing and are greedily and delusionally running on the idea that they can convince enough people to vote Green that the Green party will be able to enact change on its own.
Labour are not left wing, that is evident from the last year.
The Lib Dems are not left wing and will sell their principles for a whiff of power.
A Polanski led Green Party working in tandem with the Corbyn/Sultana party (and possibly the SNP and Scottish Greens) is the only hope I see of the left enacting any serious change. One of the most important of which being proportional representation.
Radioactive discharge spews forth from wastepipe
It poisons land and sea
It poisons you and me
NO FILTHY NUCLEAR POWER
This filthy stinking waste
They try to tell us it’s safe
Try telling that to those dying slowly of leukaemia
And while officials lie
Diseased young children cry
Their changce for full and healthy life has been denied
Our planet’s slowly dying
The earth is being abused
Yet cheaper and safer alternatives lie unused
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE_4WrxEQeA
Scottish punks called it all the way back in 1985
And English punks got there even earlier, in 1981
build your nuclear power stations
in your money making haste
but what will you do
with all that nuclear waste
bury it in the land or
dump it in the sea
you’re not bothered about the future
because you won’t be there to see
you’ll be dead inside twenty years
you won’t be there to see the tears
you won’t be there to see the pain
the people you’ve distorted, murdered and maimed
nuclear power, no room for you
nuclear power, we don’t want you
a nuclear future is no future - understand
it will get to the people and
contanimate the land
five billion to one they said in 1976
so they went ahead and developed ther nuclear risk
if their bomb don’t get us, their radiation will
because nuclear waste is inevitable
nuclear power, is too much risk
nuclear power, will give you cancer, make you sick
a nuclear future is no future - understand
it will get to the people and contaminate the land
nuclear power no room for you
nuclear power we don’t want you
a nuclear future, is no future - understand
it will get to the people and contaminate the land
nuclear power - no thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVHVTwp6lYQ
Bonus track! This one’s a belter:
Safety rules - corners cut
Just to keep the profits up
Money saved - profits rise
But consequence is someone dies
Victim of a chemical spillage
Safety regulations breached
Critical concentrations reached
Money is saved but a live is lost
Loved ones left to count the cost
Tanker crashing the village
Death could from the spillage
No escape from the fumes
Peoples’ homes become their tombs
In the face of corporate greed
Ecodefence is what we need
Read and act upon this text
Or you become the next victim of a chemical spillage
Never forget that one thing that motivates big business is profit. As far as the multinationals are concerned, there is nothing that they will not destroy in their insane drive for increased takings: forests, meadows, rivers, the sea - even their own employees are all seen as expendable. This kind of omnicidal madness is killing our Earth and can only be stopped by mass direct action. Anyone who advocates this of course is branded as an extremist - Yet what could be more extreme than the mass poisoning and polluting of our planet, the destruction of huge areas of rainforest and the wholesale slaughter to extinction of vast numbers of species of animals? It’s time to stand up and be counted - If you’re not part of the solution. You’re part of problem.
No compromise on defence of our Earth
You can be an anarchist and still understand the system we currently live in.
Recognising a people are being genocided and should be given legitimacy on the world stage, to help protect themselves, to get aid that they couldn’t unless they’re a nation state, is more anarchist than always living in the theoretical, hoped for, future world.
Eventually, yes, borders should get to fuck. But we don’t live in that world yet. Right now Israel is killing Palestinians in droves.
Might Is Right is less anarchist than borders.
Being anti genocide is more anarchist than being anti borders.
And Guantanamo Bay, black sites, Alligator Auschwitz, and the American prison population confirms the downsides of capitalism?
One shit iteration of “communism” that by definition didn’t meet any of the requirements to be called communism can’t be held up forever to be the boogeyman to prevent progress.
Communism (from Latin communis ‘common, universal’)[1][2] is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement,[1] whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.[3][4][5] A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes,[1] and ultimately money[6] and the state.[7][8][9]
The USSR:
I’m sorry, but there have been regular protests since the proscription of Palestine Action, around the country, and large enough for the attention of national news.
And another direct action group has formed and already got to work.
Apart from No Kings, a one day event more akin to a parade than a protest. And some unrest in LA that never amounted to anything. What has America been doing against their rise of fascism? Fuck all.
Not to mention our population is unarmed, protesting in the knowledge they are risking 14 years in prison, and doing so on behalf of people on the other side of the planet, not for their own benefit.
The UK is making America look like a push over in comparison.
Land of the Brave Cowards.
Neat flyer ProdigalFrog!
I’ve put page 1 and page 2 visible together if that’s of any use: 
https://lemmy.world/post/32722607
Dude… I just posted this 3 days ago. It’s still in active, hot, and new. I know this is a quiet community that needs more posts but posting the same songs on repeat generally isn’t healthy for a small community
Where’s the Curly Wurlies?
For anyone who would like to learn more about what Nigel is talking about I recommend you watch this documentary: The Labour Files
Yeah but guys, you’ve got to remember, money doesn’t grow on trees.
So despite me owning multiple properties, owning so much land I must employ people to maintain it for me, and owning multiple cars that are worth more than you earn in an entire year, you have to remember it’s the immigrants that are making everyone poorer.
Look! They dress and look slightly different from you, therefore it must be them at fault. Ignore that they’re here because their country is currently going through war/genocide/famine/mass poverty, they’re different!
What do you mean you want me to pay 2% more tax per year? Fuck off you communist scum!
/s
For a decade, Russia has submitted a text denouncing the ‘glorification of Nazism’
In the context of the war in Ukraine – and with Russia justifying its invasion, which began on 24 February, by the desire to “denazify” the country – many states that had previously abstained decided to vote against the resolution
In its explanation of the vote, the European Union recalled that it had been advocating “for years that the fight against extremism and the condemnation of the despicable ideology of Nazism must not be misused and co-opted for politically motivated purposes that seek to excuse new violations and abuses of human rights.”
According to the press release published on the UN website, Ukraine called this text hypocritical believing that, contrary to its title, it was a pretext used by Russia to justify its brutal war against its country and the despicable crimes committed against humanity.
The countries opposing the resolution emphasize at every turn that they do not in any way condone the Third Reich. “We reaffirm our strongest condemnation of all forms of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” Ukraine insisted in 2019, while recalling that 8 million Ukrainians died in the Nazi offensive.
Before the vote, Australia managed to get an amendment to the draft resolution adopted (63 votes in favor, 23 against and 65 abstentions) inserting a new paragraph in which the General Assembly “notes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism.”
Hmm…
The amount of Americans that claim to be Scottish because their great great grandparent once farted in Edinburgh is pretty damned high to be fair.
The difference between the amount of Americans with genuine Scottish ancestry and the amount who arbitrarily claim Scottish ancestry is absurd. I dunno if they all saw Braveheart and decided “Freedom! Fuck yeah, I want some of that!” or what but it’s ridiculous.
Hell, even flat structures seem to trend towards an informal elite of psychopaths.
The average person doesnt have the energy or desire to be constantly vigilant against overreach of power, but psychopaths do, to figure out weaknesses.
The only effective combat against this that I’ve seen is nonnegotiable time limits on positions. You get your chance in the sun and then you need to find another role, otherwise tendrils get planted and power gets consolidated.
The smaller the group or more complex the roles however, the harder that is. That’s why education and skill sharing is so important, so that no one person becomes indispensable.