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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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Seditionist Distribution @seditionist.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

[Mexico City, Mexico] Following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. So actionists from the Mexican sex workers union stormed the judicial building. Via Ghost of Durruti

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I embrace and endorse this summary 🗣🔥

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Objection.lol is among the greatest inventions of the modern era

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Yes I'm a dungeon meshi girl, yes I'm literally Marcille, sue me

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

First time posting in a while so I'm doing it in the way I know best. A silly meme.

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

The world has moved beyond the need for firecrackers. Between being terrible for our pets, unnecessarily dangerous for ourselves, and generally annoying; the sooner they're phased out of use the better, ong.

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Exactly! Though my usual problem is: "The locals of wherever I'm occupying are getting too rowdy. Where's a war crime button?"

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Help me, I'm getting mixed signals.

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Having doubts about the kind of d&d character I wanna make for later use. One part of me wants the old dwarven druid, but the other desires a strong woman in armour. Oh the dilemmas of life...

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

What's a girl gotta do to get ahold of a nice suit of armour?

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

I'm bad at signs, what are they trying to tell me?

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Some great works of literature entering the public domain soon, All Quiet On The Western Front particularly piqued my interest.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 19/12/2023

Interested in the works of art & culture that will enter the public domain in 2024? 🎶🎞️📚 Check out the newly published list from Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

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Public Domain Day 2024

Tweet January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1928 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1923! By Jennifer Jenkins Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

So in other words, thank you everyone for making this a cool place.

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

I love having this place to just post my silly stuff and thoughts on said stuff, it feels surprisingly chill after the twitter cesspool. I'd leave it behind entirely if it weren't for the people I would miss who haven't moved over. Not yet at least.

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

I swear to god, a random twitter artist would do a much better job at this than however many netflix people worked on this. (Art by @capelin_s on twitter, big fan)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

There's so much I could pick apart just in that one image but let's just focus on the drab, colourless, ahistorical clothing. Why on god's earth does so much (bad) historical media look so gray and mono-coloured? They would in most cases be both better looking and more accurate with more colour.

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Netflix' "Alexander" docuseries is going to be so fucking bad I'm not sure if I should dread it or be excited for the shitshow.

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

The leftism leaving my body when I play a strategy game.

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

This is now a part of my headcanon

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

According to a 17th century Turkish travel writer, my hometown had the best cherries in the Ottoman empire, and the best kaymak-baklava *anywhere in the world*

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

This is something I've been thinking over a fair amount during the last few days, so I hope as a whole this thing has maintained some sort of coherence. It's hard to do so in a 300 chracter format without a formal script to copy-paste. 🙏 Peace out. (47/47)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

I should probably close this off by saying: Remember the dead, remember the pain and suffering of war, before WW1 during and after. Also remember the living, those lives we're meant to protect and shelter. Militarist and nationalist narratives don't have a place in Armistice Day. (46/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

who came into open conflict with the police. Again, the cognitive dissonance of sowing hatred and turning away calls for a ceasefire by describing them as hateful (and thus further enabling the war effort) on a day dedicated to remembering the consequences of war is almost saddening in a way. (45/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

This sort of culture has culminated during last month's Armistice Day in London where the far right came out in droves to cause trouble. While that same day the march for a ceasefire in Gaza was banned from the most heated area Suella Braverman egged on the far right until they were the ones (44/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

In Britain specifically, if an anti-war message such as wearing the poppy has come to have a message of nationalism, if wearing the white poppy as a mark of anti-militarism instead of the red one makes you a disrespectful, unpatriotic heretic; then something has gone badly wrong somewhere. (43/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

victims of war. Another thing worth pointing out is that while I can admire the gratitude that these events give veterans, it can fall flat in places where the same veterans are consistently ignored on any other day. Armistice Day is grandand all but what about the other 364 days of the year? (42/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

The narrative around Armistice Day can also vary and be used to further more national(ist) narratives through selective memory and focusing only on the victims of your own country. It would be a bit harder to justify further military interventions when equal attention is given to all innocent (41/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Another concern is the heroism and glorification of the dead which may come with the myth of war, while forgetting those who lived on. Even in 1921, ‘Armistice Day ceremonies were disrupted by groups of unemployed ex-servicemen stating: “The Dead are remembered but we are forgotten”’(40/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

who fell fighting these ideologies. If the poppy is to wear any ideological message besides the one of remembering the dead, it must be the one of pacifism. Only that would be consistent with the overarching message it's supposed to convey. (39/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

wearing 'future soldiers' shirts, and major weapons manufacturer sponsorships funding related initiatives are all massive head scratchers. At the worst of times, one won't be too hard pressed to find various neofascists and other bigots donning the poppy that should serve as memory for those (38/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

and hegemonic implications, glorifying war as much as mourning it. In what I can only describe as cognitive dissonance, the poppy (traditionally a somber symbol of Remembrance sunday) has been used in quite a few jarring ways. Fighter jets with red poppies, children holding poppies while (37/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

While it was something that caught my eye recently, there's a plethora of debates and critiques to be had around the event in the UK. From a pacifist perspective, while the event did indeed originate with noble intentions it also seems that in recent times it also developed its own militarist (36/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

commemoration in the honour of Vichy collaborationist Philiippe Petain for the work he did in WW1 with Macron describing him as a "great soldier" who made "disastrous choices", but the commemoration was withdrawn as a result of public controversy that broke out over the fact. (35/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

being the most notable one. Though this was before the full scale invasion of Ukraine, in 2018 he already annexed Cimea and was well underway fueling the fires of conflict in the Donbas. Also notable from that occasion was the fact that in the original schedule there was going to be a (34/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

I apologise for the long wait, but now I want to get to the more controversial aspects of the day (spoiler, the UK comes up a lot. I'll start off with the 2018 centenary of the armistice in Paris which hosted a plethora of world leaders with a couple controversial inclusions, Vladimir Putin (33/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

in Athens back in 2018 and the momument does its job very well. It's a sombre place in space and time, and worth visiting when in the city even if you only have a single day to spend in Athens. (32/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

UK and France who helped the tradition take off in the first few years right after the war. It has since developed, as is right, to not only be done in the context of WW1 but also war in general with over 60 countries having at least one. I don't have any pics to share but I've been to the one(31/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

with respect to other countries, the UK probably developed the occasion the most, especially in terms of grandeur. Also worth mentioning is tombs of the unknown soldier. While some existed even before WW1, only after it did the tradition really take off. As expected by this point, it was the(30/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Remembrance day specifically, in the UK as Remembrance sunday, and Veterans day in the US (though it originated as Armistice day). Both in the UK and US the observation became a place to remember not just WW1 but also the deaths from other conflicts. Though I think it would be fair to say that(29/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

by that point and with an expectation for a long term peace. It's more than understandable why a desire to celebrate that day existed. So the first celebration ever was in 1919 at the court of king George V, and with time it developed into an official state observance. In several cases as (28/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

in Serbia just as much in France and the UK and other places pretty quickly after the end of the war. The question of how to observe 11/11 1918, the first day of peace after 4 years of slaughter. And you can only imagine how that felt for someone who lived through this, the largest ever war (27/?)

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elenapostates @elenapostates.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

by humanity at the point when it just ended and up to WW2. A war which was very layered, fought on land, sea, and air. A war greatly contributing to the advancement in technology. And out of all the harm and destruction it caused came a need for memory, almost bordering a myth. This is seen (26/?)

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