August 4

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[August 4 @whyisthemoonmad]

@CultistCorasahn @PageSix It's also been connected to uterine and cervical cancer

[saira @sairaspooks]

thought this was a rly good video and wanted to share

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug.

You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form.

You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages.

You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution.

You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis.

You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from.

Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.

[August 4 @whyisthemoonmad]

@dianelyssa This is funny because I live in Seattle and this place ain't shit either. The people are rude, everything's expensive, and the amount of times I see people act like they're on the internet in real life is astounding.

[August 4 @whyisthemoonmad]

@acrossthemaps I've never had a cat and I am genuinely flabbergasted. Like if I got a cat could we be experiencing like rapid cycling together or on an every other week schedule depending on the weather

[jezz @JezziiB]

Prosecutors charging Keshia Golden with first degree murder after she called the police over 50 times for domestic violence is their way of telling her and every other survivor you should let your abuser kill you.
LET THEM BEAT YOU TO DEATH. Because if you defend yourself and your child, we will make you regret it. We will punish you for surviving.
Keshia’s legal team is asking for public outcry. Let’s give it to her.

[Nightcap Crimes @NightcapCrimes]

🚨 Public reporter who goes by the name TheBlackBeltDaily is building an interactive map of black hangings in the US over the last 8 years so others can see how the facts of each case look

She spent the last few days compiling data of hangings of Black people since 2018, and a lot of them had a common theme. Let's get into it.

[ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ ғᴏʀᴍᴇʀʟʏ ᴋɴᴏᴡɴ ᴀꜱ ᴀ.ʏ. @tafkaay]

@KarenAttiah @seunonigbinde So happy for you Karen
Quoted you on Substack recently for what you said in the Jason Arday case, based on your own experience

Keep being you!

[August 4 @whyisthemoonmad]

@SharkAttackMtn @MatrixOnVHS Portland is wayyy different from Seattle and Olympia. Seattleites are fucking miserable and now it feels like 1/3 of the city is in some sort of AI psychosis and the other 2/3 engages in too many hateful reddit snark pages. People are genuinely mean fucking spirited

[August 4 @whyisthemoonmad]

@yet_to_be_heard @luxemiaa You just want to argue. I hope you can find purpose in life that doesn't include dopamine farming from creating unnecessary conflict

[August 4 @whyisthemoonmad]

@Ariszn12 I use the slice app. It connects directly to the restaurant and they pay a flat rate fee at the end of the month. The tips also go directly to the driver

[August 4 @whyisthemoonmad]

@yet_to_be_heard @luxemiaa https://t.co/hj2NYdABUc

[August 4 @whyisthemoonmad]

@yet_to_be_heard @luxemiaa Nah dawg. Most bad breath comes from dead/dying teeth or some sort of infection.

[August 4 @whyisthemoonmad]

@PokeMarr This is how I feel about @wearewoxer . I thought they might be overhyped and then I bought a pair. Fucked around and got addicted to the comfort. Now I have like 8 pairs. Slowly trying to phase my other undies

[August 4 @whyisthemoonmad]

@sa1ntlotus @wetfIowers I have a stalker and it is hell. Now with shit like reddit snark pages, telegram, and signal they employ other people to stalk you as well. I've been getting gang stalked for a little over a year now and its made me hate the city I live in.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.

Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.

The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.

The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.

Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.

The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.

But sure. My paintings.

[Daisy @DaizyZeeX]

Men and their noise pollution needs to be stopped. Stop revvving your engines, stop blasting your shit music, stop bringing stereos to public places. The reason women don’t do this is because we are considerate of other people in our community

[August 4 @whyisthemoonmad]

@errai Get gloves. It makes it so much easier. I just remove them and throw them away after each different food I'm handling. Reduces my worry about contamination by like 98%.

[madison @madison_tayt]

need everyone in the world who asks questions like this or “why do conservative men want to date liberal women” “why do men who want [X] pursue [Y]” to get it into their heads that the entire point is power and control.

the point is to break YOU.