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James Connolly, born on this day in 1868, was an Irish socialist revolutionary, founder of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), and leader of the Easter Rising rebellion, for which he was executed by the British government.

Connolly was born in a poor Edinburgh neighborhood and spoke with a Scottish accent. He joined the British Army at age 14 to escape poverty and developed a hatred for the institution from firsthand experience. He deserted when his regiment was set to deploy to India.

He was also member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party. With labor radical James Larkin, he was centrally involved in the Dublin lock-out of 1913, after which the two men formed the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) the same year.

Connolly was opposed to British rule in Ireland and played a leading role in the Easter Rising of 1916, signing the "Proclamation of the Irish Republic" and serving as Commandant of the Dublin Brigade, the regiment that played the most substantial role in the Rising. Connolly was executed by firing squad following the Rising's defeat.

"If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs."

James Connolly

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Someone on twitter thought the eraserhead baby was a land before time reference and I'm gonna be thinking about that for a while.

work is DA POOP no more!!!

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

The mayor should not comment on facebook. They have nothing to gain by debating people on facebook! At the very least they should disengage when someone starts drawing parallels between their statements and the perpetrators of the holocaust. Under no circumstance should the mayor double down on their statement that has been compared to things said by perpetrators of the holocaust.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Free software is kinda like materialism. It changes your life but you are then doomed to hear idealist libs give their dogshit takes and turn shitlib when you challenge them. (People who use Windows as a bootloader for Google Chrome and Photoshop and call u a nerd for telling them to do self crit).

Anyway. I think GNOME is okay for not supporting server side decorations because you can do the chad move of writing the program with a libadwaita front end. I'd prefer a native csd rather than a artificial libadwaita header or gtk3 header bar and applications should just bring their own header bars and default to it when it detects it's being run on GNOME.

People who just understood what I said, wdyt? I think the CSD and SSD argument is just people making assumptions on what a compositor de is supposed to deliver on based on what proprietary os' do. I know some programa (like factorio) get fucked over because they don't bring a bar but maybe that's just a skill issue because Windows will always give you a bar so most people don't think about it.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rachel Sennot went from dating Stav to having to star in Canadian movies.

[–] 2812481591@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The Creamy Coconut Dr Pepper is pretty good. tastes like liquefied girl scout samoas. Makes me really eager to try brewing a brown ale inspired by it, even though I already have more stuff brewing than I have places to store (5 gallons Gruit Saison, 5 gallons PB+J Sour ale)

any suggestions? Recipe might look something like:

45% 2-row
10% Malted Spelt
10% Chocolate
10% Carapils Dextrin
10% Caramel 90L
15% Munich

1lb flaked oats
1lb PB2 Almond powder
toasted coconut extract and ginger to taste

.25 oz Mosaic Hops
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[–] blipblip@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

So it's not anything that I've done wrong that's broken my mouse software, NixOS just pushed a bad update to stable for some reason. I could spend time fucking around to figure out how to get an older version of the package but it looks like a fix is in progress anyway and it's not a big deal so I'll just wait it out

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Scrolling the volume wheel just skipped a cutscene. never had that happen before. Wonder if it’s on the dev end or the keyboard end?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Got pretty cocky so I declared one of the Awakened Empires in my Stellaris game my rival. here-it-comes

They declared war sooner than I expected, and things got ugly fast. They had 7 or 8 fleets with tons and tons of battleships, like 20 battleships per fleet juiced up by three times as many repeatables as I did. I thought I was going to get cooked until I realized my dimensional fleet (God bless psionic ascension) could tank while my fleets destroyed the enemy. I could only take on one fleet at a time so I decided to bait them out with weak fleets in their northern border, then strike at their lone fleets. That strategy helped me take most of their territory and I ended up weakening them to just 3 fleets and 3 planets by the time my dimensional fleet expired. After that point I had maxed out my war exhaustion so I began a mad hunt to gank all their fleets and invade their planets at all costs, before I had to surrender. I took some heavy losses (basically lost half my entire fleet) but I eventually got all of them... until I realized those sneaky fellas actually had colonized 2 systems across the galaxy during the war. I think it's a Nazis fleeing to Argentina situation. Good news is, I'm only getting stronger.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"

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[–] milk_thief@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

New genre of youtube video discovered: crackers in China being amazed at how nice everything is there

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"You need to communicate technical ideas to nontechnical stakeholders"

What I thought they meant: explain regressions and proncipal components to people who didn't know linear algebra

What they actually meant: explain a venn diagram to people who don't know what a number is

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

is my math wrong or do more people live in india than the entirety of the americas

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

It's been really cool being a social and active person again, but I keep accumulating projects now and I'm gonna have to be really careful more than I already have.

Finished the first pass on three pages of this comic and I think they'll work but I have given myself pretty involved panels to paint. Thinking about doing them a lot bigger and then somehow arranging them to fit the layouts. But then I gotta be careful with line weight. Maybe I can just figure out how big I wanna go and then enlarge my layout sketches. It's going to take so fucking long to do these nice. Haven't decided if I'll go with black and white or color. Color is sort of more work, but it's hard to break with that idea after seeing how gorgeous Blacksad was. But I also don't want to spend like a year making this little short story I think. I dunno. Lots of decisions.

[–] Kolibri@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

there so much aphids outside

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Youtube stop recommending me tennis videos with ZERO messy throuples involved.

Really unfortunate that Adventures of Priscilla has very blatant racist humour targeting asians because it's a really good queer movie. The racism obviously makes it tough to recommend lol.

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