Gaffen @gaffen@mastodon.social

Children read a wirelessly-transmitted newspaper in 1938.

Our CEO just referred to SaaS as "Software as a hostage" and I think that's pretty spot on.

This list was originally put together by the Venezuelan anarchist collective El Libertario, I've found the original dubs and tried to find versions with english subtitles (Versions without english subtitles are marked NS, you can find srt files on OpenSubtitles):

The Wave (2008) - German film that portrays the rise of Nazism amongst a group of students. Based on a real United States experiment. [NS]
​ https://vimeo.com/404096663

Libertarias (1996) - Film about the role played by the anarcha-feminist group Mujeres Libres in the middle of the Spanish Civil War.
​ https://archive.org/details/libertarias_1996

Land and Freedom (1995) - Film based on 'Homage to Catalonia' by George Orwell.
https://archive.org/details/LandAndFreedomFullFilm

Salvador (2006) - Dramatic film about the attempt by family and friends to prevent the Franco regime's execution of the Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich. [NS]
https://www.veoh.com/watch/v21166172GzK9Bae5

The Green Beautiful (1996) - The film portrays a utopian planet where its inhabitants develop themselves as they get rid of the hindrances of the modern world. [NS]
https://archive.org/details/labelleverte1996thegreenbeautifuldvdripx264highcode

Simón, Hijo Del Pueblo (2013) - Documentary that recreates the historical memory around Simón Radowitzky. [NS]
https://archive.org/details/SimonHijoDelPueblo

Lucio (2007) - Documentary about the anarchist bricklayer Lucio Urtubia.
https://archive.org/details/luciourtubia_201911

The Anarchist's Wife (2008) - Film about a passionate woman who must search for her anarchist husband after the Spanish Civil War. [NS]
https://invidio.us/watch?v=ODoXlf348Ho

Manuel (1991) - A Spanish refugee in Canada, picks up Manuel, a twelve-year-old Portuguese teenager, who he teaches to read, to assert his rights and to whom he talks about the Spanish civil war. [NS]
https://invidio.us/watch?v=6cMtwLZ2K-s

Animal Farm (1954) - Animated film based on the Orwell novel.
https://archive.org/details/animalfarm1954_20190809

Hombres de ideas avanzadas (2011) - Documentary about the Catalan anarchist Penina, who was shot by the Argentine military. [NS]
https://invidio.us/watch?v=ysf9x6YHqA8

Sacco & Vanzetti (1971) - Film about the process that the US government unfairly carried out against two anarchist workers.
https://archive.org/details/sacco.and.vanzetti.1971

Joe Hill (1971) - Film about the poet and singer Joe Hill, member of the IWW and persecuted by the US government.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=LKcPpEGBaGQ

Libera, My Love (1975) - Italian film that portrays the anarchist struggle against the rise of fascism. [NS]
https://invidio.us/watch?v=cLLtq04M3tI

my heart goes out to the real victims, airnbnb landlords

can we declare "real name" policies on social media to be an unmitigated disaster and an utter failure at every possible level from start to finish yet

Shout-out to the folks who keep your Mastodon servers up and running.

Finally

FRAGMENT THE FUTURE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao7EvsCO2kM

/britpol

The House of Lords.

How about, from now on, Lords are appointed by qualified #sortition? I.e. if you get 10 people to support you, you can put your name in a lottery and every time a Lord quits/dies a new name is randomly picked to replace them.

We would then have a second house which is way more democratic/representative and can think longer than the political term...

We can also rename it to the House of Citizens or something 😆

Hello world!