Luisa Capetillo, born on this day in 1879, was a Puerto Rican labor organizer, feminist, and Christian anarchist. Capetillo advocated for women’s suffrage, was arrested for wearing pants in public, and helped raise the minimum wage.
As a labor activist, Capetillo organized workers throughout the United States, worked as a reporter for the FLT (Federacion Libre de Trabajadores), and traveled throughout Puerto Rico, educating and organizing women. Her hometown, Arecibo, became the most unionized area of the country.
Capetillo is considered to be one of Puerto Rico’s first suffragists. In 1908, during the FLT convention, Capetillo asked the union to approve a policy for women’s suffrage, insisting that all women should have the same right to vote as men. Along with other labor activists, she also helped pass a minimum wage law in the Puerto Rican Legislature.
Today, Capetillo is perhaps best known for being arrested for wearing pants in public, although the charges against her were later dropped.
In 2014, the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico honored Capetillo, along with eleven other women, with plaques in the “La Plaza en Honor a la Mujer Puertorriqueña” (Plaza in Honor of Puerto Rican Women).
Capetillo, Luisa - a biography
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But yet my friends just casually spend 30 seconds before a video just watching this shit when they could LITERALLY install an adblocker in that time and be done with it.
Utterly perplexing. I don’t understand how you could just accept it, be so inured to it that you don’t even notice you’re giving some corporation precious seconds, minutes, hours, days of your life.
The shit that really blows my mind are the ones who actively defend ads and think they’re “supporting the creator” by sitting through the ads
You are supporting the creator. The lord. Supporting him by watching ads for the Neon Bible. It’s the Christian way.
And on the 7th Day, God enabled ads and sponsored content
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Anyone shocked by Hamas having stockpiles of resources is genuinely dumb af. Of course you have resources saved up when your opponents are constantly trying to target and cut off your supply lines. What the fuck do you expect them to do, use all their fuel and not be able to fight back?
Is it really shocking that the dimbulb IDF considers something as basic as “make sure you have backups for an extended campaign” to be unsportsmanlike and unfair for war
My worst day working ever happened today and I hate being alive.
I wish every idf soldier was in a body bag.
IDF = I Died Farting
I’m ducking fumb
It’s kinda insidious when you read the news about pro Palestine rallies from around the world and the article is always matched with pictures of only brown people (presumably Palestinian refugees) at the rallies. Like, yeah, of course refugees are gonna be out for peace and ceasefire but that’s not the only people attending… and it’s so deeply concerning that the media is pretending there’s no cross racial solidarity here. Like, maybe a significant aection of the masses aren’t as concerned about skin colour when they see people being blown up
And then you see videos of these same rallies and its a mix. The photographers for these articles and editors had to work hard to find pictures with ONLY brown people - it’s intentional when they’re doing it and it’s fucking creepy as shit.
Honestly, a similar thing was done with Ukraine a decade back. CNN was looking for the paler Ukrainians and Fox the ones with a more olive complexion. Or other way around? My mind is dusty.
It’s really fucked up and racist. Tryng to scare old suburbanites with images of pissed off arabs (who are totally all terrorists, we aren’t racist we swear!)
new south park dropped so its now time for my entire twitter feed to be conservatives with 0 media literacy not understanding it and radlibs being entirely to charitable about how reactionary that show is.
oh boy, I wonder what this episode is about.
Apparently about “forced diversity in media”
The right wing conception of life as fundamentally, inescapably being about familymaking and reproduction always sounded more like a prison sentence to me.
Like, shit, if propagation is my only purpose, why do I have a nervous system and all this apparently extraneous bullshit? Mint plants do it loads better. There’s a reason you don’t put them directly in the ground.
“That’s it?! That’s the journey of life? That was just budding, going to seed, and wilting!”
I get the impression that right wingers mostly use that argument to justify the subjugation of women. Women’s purpose is babies and homemaking while the men Make the Tough Decisions and Get Shit Done™. What this means in practice is that they expect their wives to be their mother, while they go out and do what they want. It’s a lot easier to make someone a subservient housekeeper and progeny maker if you convince them it’s their life’s purpose.
“That’s it?! That’s the journey of life? That was just budding, going to seed, and wilting!”
I mean, unless you have some spiritual beliefs that is what the evolutionary concept of life is about. The fact that humans live relatively good lives is the exception to the rule of life. Some animals live short shitty lives and die in extremely painful ways because evolution found that strategy to be advantageous. It’s like those boars who tusks routinely grow into their skulls and kill them. “What a stupid thing to happen” you may say. But this happens long after the boars mate and thus has no real evolutionary pressure to change. Nature doesn’t give a shit about the individual, only the species. If it became advantageous to torture you, it would eventually do so.
The reason you’re not mint is because a long time ago more mobile, longer lasting, fruiting bodies of fungus found an evolutionary niche. You can certainly find purpose beyond that, I highly encourage you to. But that doesn’t change the fact that the reason you have all these emotions/highly complex instruments is because it was evolutionary advantageous.
It’s honestly kind of absurd in that typical cosmic way. I almost can’t understand how people find beauty in this shit anymore.
I sometimes wish I could autoclave the earth clean out of spite for the mechanisms that gave rise to me. Sure, abstract natural processes can’t understand or feel spite so it’d all just be collateral, but god damn it
I sometimes wish I could autoclave the earth clean out of spite for the mechanisms that gave rise to me
I’ve literally thought the exact same thing, like today even. Nietzsche’s Death of God is a question that has been haunting me for a while now. I don’t like his solution but I understand the feeling. I think a legitimate answer to the Ferni paradox is that sentient life is inherently prone to self-destructive urges as it realizes what it is. I think most people are still social animals instead of thinking animals. When we reach a critical mass of fully-aware thinking animals, I think it could lead to extinction. Life evolves into thinking animals and either destroys itself intentionally or chooses to live in ignorance.
The only way I sorta cope is taking a pseudo-Buddhist approach. If I’m just a vague collection of experiences and neurons, then I was never really sentient in any way that matters. All that was me was just an organ created by the body in order to navigate society. I don’t think I’ll really die because I never really lived in the first place.
I really do hope I’m just a mistake and life is inherently self-affirming enough to survive the weight of existence. I wouldn’t be too upset then, to see myself as a mere link to a theoretical human species worthy of a soul. Even if I’m not evolved enough to deserve a soul, I hope I can contribute to the development of a species which is.
Embrace the absurdity. Laugh at the absurdity. Life is a meaningless struggle to survive and procreate. The entirety of the universe is a pointless expression of chaos resulting in order and order resulting in chaos. Everything is always doing the unexpected and moving towards higher complexity in an attempt to create something new. Even the universe is just doing what it is driven to do because it cant figure out what else to do. Its incredibly depressing to the point of absurdity, so just laugh at it. Its more enjoyable than crying and by laughing in the face of depressing pointlessness you win.
Oh yeah, I like dicking around with electronics a lot but the pressure they put on me - even indirectly - is enough to refill me with that existential dread. I’m trapped in a small enough box without their shit
Appearance I’m going with for my totally for real no more restarts FO4 survival run. What do we think gamers, pog or slog?
(also shoutout to modders for liberating us from Bethesda’s compulsory heterosexuality. Still got a baby tho¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, the baby is a plotpoint so there’s not much they can do about it
Actually you can debabify yourself with alternate start, it’s just a little jank
Really? You didn’t have to be straight in new Vegas. Fucking learn things bethesda
Obsidian > Bethesad
Lingua Franca, more like Lingua wanker. Am I right, fellas?
The wife, ayy? She told me I gotta learn Esperanto, I tell her she gotta Esperant-go away when I’m tryna watch the footy.
The in-law, she’s giving me hell. She tells me she’s a polyglot, and I’m all like “you’d don’t look like a parrot to me.”
The wife, she called me monolingual. But the Doctor told me I ain’t got anything wrong with my tongue. The wife though, must be something wrong with hers 'cos it never stays still. Guys in the audience know what I’m talking about.
Women am I rite ?
Vocal fry? I just wanna grill for god’s sake.
Watching my org clarify to folks that wearing a Keffiyeh isn’t cultural appropriation, since apparently that’s a conversation we had to have…
Sounds like wreckerism. If someone starts demanding a committee to discuss the wearing of Keffiyeh then they’re a fed.
Unloading two semi-traumatized cats from my car after a vet visit. Fucking 15 year old pair of kids rides by on their bikes and one shouts 'HEY" at the top of their lungs right into one of my cat carriers. Losing my mind right now.
Harassing animals is one of the only times I think it should be legal to punch a kid
I ran into the little shits waiting outside the hotel lobby I’m at. Yelled at them some. They acted like I was the idiot taking my pets outside not expecting ‘stuff to happen to them’. I had to leave because I couldn’t even talk I was so mad.