#InPlace 27

Winds from river by day

winds from mountains at night

sing to cottonwood branches:

cottonwood branches clack back


Though the old woman has a cot in the hut and naps there often, she has seldom slept in it overnight. But she does lie long abed in the afternoons, attending the rustling leaves or rattling twigs.


The dharma does not rise up alone—it can’t emerge without reliance on the world. If I take up the challenge of speaking I must surely borrow the light and the dark, the form and the emptiness of the mountains and hills and the great earth, the call of the magpies and the cries of the crows. The water flows and the flowers blossom, brilliantly preaching without ceasing. In this way there is no restraint.

— Ziyong Chengru in The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women, Caplow and Moon, 241

You know how people say that mushrooms are only the most visible part of a much larger and mostly invisible mycellium network?

This is a metaphor.

Uniforms like this are an indicator that when you look at the fascists wearing them, you're seeing the visible part of a much larger and mostly invisible network of logistics, support and money.

You should not trust people who wear uniforms. But you should certainly not trust those who provided them those uniforms.

Secondly, the clothes fit and they're clean.

Black blocs usually include a fair percentage of squatters, as well as metalheads and other reprobates. Some people clean their clothes, others live with parents or partners who do that for them, but you're never going to get everyone turning up in crisp stuff smelling like it came out of the dryer.

Likewise, a lot of anarchists wear second-hand clothing, either passed around via free shops or by hand, or from charity shops. Clothes stretch over time, and human bodies change. Ill-fitting black hoodies are practically de rigeur. This is reflected in the appearance of the black bloc.

These fash, though? All their stuff fits perfectly. Their patches are all well-sewn. Look at them. Derek Guy might criticise the sizing or the cut, but I am not Derek Guy. To me, this is well-kept clothing carefully sized and washed, and possibly new. This is clothing-as-class-signifier.

What you are seeing is not just a display of racial supremacy, but of class supremacy.

There's a few pictures currently going around of a group of Patriot Front fascist paramilitaries on Washington DC public transport.

A lot of people are worried by this. Some have talked at length about their worries.

As someone who spends a certain amount of time in black bloc, let me talk you through some things I haven't seen said about these pictures but that I think are very relevant.

(EDIT: people who know much more about PF as a group have commented below, please read what they have to say.)

I’ve been making bedside water bottles for years but I don’t make them very often. They’re inspired by Mexican botellones—small clay water jugs with an accompanying cup which serves as a cover. Sometimes the cup has a handle. I’ve also discovered a Congolese version of the botellón. It’s such a simple and effective idea that it’s no surprise it would appear in multiple cultures. #pottery #ceramics #beautility

Where do #heatwaves come from? - by Andrew Dessler

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/from-the-archive-anatomy-of-a-heat

🚨 Well that's that. The Barents Sea had its earliest melt-out of #Arctic sea ice on record this summer!

ICYMI: I wrote up a blog on this extreme event: https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/. This is already one of the fastest changing climates in the world.

Curb cuts for #rainwater runoff access >>

FREE Water was ILLEGAL…He Changed That… - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ-jdUGCxcc

Samedi, voilà. (Oui, en retard, mais je n'arrivais pas à poster l'image)
On se (re)lache

Sutlej - Tell Me You Care
https://youtu.be/GbtJztOhh0E

I finally finished this blog post, which was very difficult for me to write, but I think it says things I needed to say.

It's about how AI has personally harmed me and has been hurting my motivation to write for years.

If you're a writer, I do have some hope and vision for the future I've written here, and I'd like to share it for you. It's not all doom and gloom.

https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/stop-asking-writers-about-ai/

I look forward to hearing from people what they think. Hopefully this piece helps some people. (Boosts are very welcome.)

Il est très joli le nouveau site de l'IGN mais le présenter comme alternative européenne à Google Maps, sans même mentionner l'existence de Openstreetmap, c'est juste mensonger.

Premièrement @openstreetmap existe depuis des années déjà, avec des données souvent de meilleures qualités que Google et cie

Deuxièmement, même si les cartes de l'IGN sont passionnantes, il manque les infos essentielles pour une carte d'usage quotidien: commerces et autres points d'intérêts, etc. Osb du cadastre.

Sirocco Records : ce vent chaud et sec qui assèche la langue kabyle à coup de clavier.

🚨 They are bringing back #ChatControl 🚨

Discussion is scheduled for Monday, so act now: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

#No2Surveillance #Privacy #Security

@cwebber Reminds me of "rabbit" which used to specifically refer to baby lagomorphs - the equivalent of "puppy" and "kitten". The name for an adult was "coney", and it rhymed with "money" and "honey" as you'd expect.

The problem was that "coney" became slang for lady-parts, and so (a) they used "rabbit" instead and (b) they changed the pronunciation to cone-ey.

Fortunately English responded to having "coney" removed from common use by making "pussy" slang for lady parts instead. Indomitable!

RE: https://solarpunk.moe/@vv/116862340401012931

this is a real thing https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2012/01/30/gender-benders/

> Girl itself evolved in much the same way. The word originally referred to a child of either sex. Back then, prior to the sixteenth century, girls generally were divided into knave girls, which were boys, and gay girls, which were female girls.

EDIT: I added context, because it may have sounded like I was joking originally. It really is a really thing. boys used to be knave girls and girls used to be gay girls

"I don't like the compiler yelling at me."
My sister in RISC, that's the compiler's main job.

Justice : l’Assemblée nationale approuve la consultation de bases génétiques privées pour résoudre certaines enquêtes criminelles
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2026/07/03/justice-l-assemblee-nationale-approuve-la-consultation-de-bases-genetiques-privees-pour-resoudre-certaines-enquetes-criminelles_6718482_823448.html

Et voilà ! C'est toujours "pour votre sécurité" qu'on autorise les pires saloperies.

Les tests génétiques récréatifs sont interdits en France mais on veut autoriser l'utilisation de leurs résultats. Y compris par rapprochement.

On imagine la cata quand ces infos vont commencer à se balader dans la nature

Évidemment ça ne concernera pas seulement ceux qui ont fait les tests, mais tout le monde est menacé

@cptbutton @book

the #Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) explicitly called their game ( #lacrosse) "little brother of war"

a conscious purposeful substitute for war

the function of sport is to release physical aggression harmlessly

however for the Haudenosaunee, games would range over vast distances and last for days. so sometimes, in the woods, someone would come back bloodied, or not at all. a way of settling scores (rather than war) that was not encouraged, but was understood to be part of the game

#Amazon #drought is changing the chemistry of Earth's #atmosphere - Earth.com

https://www.earth.com/news/amazon-drought-is-changing-the-chemistry-of-earths-atmosphere/

With the sudden rise (sudden = 1970-present) in #heat we find ourselves talking about limiting #carbon when it would be more to the point to talk about limiting lack of #accountability. So long as #capitalism implies #LLCs, just so long will we be imperiled by unaccountability. Heat is only one of the consequences, though it may wind up be the one with the final say. >>

#Women are left picking up the pieces in #heatwave disruption | Inequality | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2026/jul/03/women-are-left-picking-up-the-pieces-in-heatwave-disruption

<< as we say in Buddhism, greed, anger and ignorance are the three poisons.