Notices by ellie (dyke arc) 🖤 :nb_heart: (roadblock161_@ni.hil.ist)

abolish instagram. destroy it. burn it. hack it to pieces with sharpened spoons and eat it. use literally anything else to organise I beg you

"follow us on insta for more information on the may day demo" 🤮

"For millennia, all across the planet, humans have been using fire and tools to open up land for agriculture, gardens, grazing and hunting. In the process, we created ecological “mosaics”, or “patchworks”: landscapes that hold a mixture of habitats, like meadows, gardens and forests. These places were not designed as nature reserves, but they often catered to hugely diverse animal life. In her book Nature’s Ghosts, Sophie Yeo details research indicating that European hay meadows cultivated for animal feed were actually more successful at preserving a vast array of species than meadows explicitly cultivated for biodiversity. Looking back over the early Holocene – beginning 11,700 years ago – researchers have found that human presence was about as likely to increase biodiversity as reduce it."

"In 2021, Ellis published new research that looked back 12,000 years. He and his colleagues found that nearly three-quarters of Earth’s land was occupied and shaped by human societies. Other researchers have pushed even further back. Examining human-biodiversity interactions in the Late Pleistocene – back as far as 120,000 years – scientists concluded that across most of the planet, “‘Pristine’ landscapes simply do not exist and, in most cases, have not existed for millennia”.

Many of the landscapes people now tend to think of as untouched, from the savanna lands of equatorial Africa to the deep Amazon rainforest, have already been deeply transformed by human presence. “The essential role that people play in ecology is the critical thing, and it’s been ignored,” Ellis says. “The most biodiverse places left on Earth – this is almost universally true – have Indigenous people in them. Why? Well, they conserve a lot of that biodiversity and actually produce it. They maintain that heterogeneous landscape.”

What happens to the natural world when people disappear?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/28/great-abandonment-what-happens-natural-world-people-disappear-bulgaria

the other day I saw an article in the newspaper about how the number of sick days workers take are rising, how it's "costing" the "economy" billions, and how capitalists now demand tighter restrictions on sick days, want doctors to be required to give more information to them as to why a given worker is sick (yknow, medical surveillance), and want workers to return to work earlier, doing shit like part-time or WFH before they're fully recovered. regional governments have already happily obliged wrt some of this. one far-right politician (herself a capitalist, unsurprisingly) has even proposed ending medical confidentiality between doctors and businesses.

this is of course absolutely ghoulish, and it's telling that the average capitalist immediately assumes they're getting fucked over. they are entirely focused on fucking over the workers they're exploiting, so of course they would assume that their employees reciprocate that same attitude. noone seems to even consider, for just a second, that maybe workers aren't faking and are in fact sick more often, on account of, yknow, the easily transmissible and heavily disabling covid pandemic that the vast majority of society has given up on mitigating at all.

that article, btw, is titled "Firmen wehren sich gegen Ausfälle", in english "Companies defend themselves against absences". the companies pressing for more surveillance and less sick leave are actually the victims, you see. it's obvious propaganda. none of this is presented in even a slightly critical light.

(article in question is here: https://archive.ph/JlB1y the title is different from the print version. there's some ableism in there too, just for good measure.)

school is not about providing "opportunities" (i.e. work) to the beings who succeed in it, but about denying them to the beings who don't

which is not to say that there aren't necessary skills to do certain kinds of work - there are! - but that school is by far one of the worst and most exclusionary ways to try and learn those skills.

also an integral part of learning to do the work is actually just doing the work, which you only do in school for academia; lab reports, essays, research papers, shit like that.

I've said this before and I'm gonna say it again every time I see some fucker say that schools "provide education" thereby allowing for future employment.

this is horseshit.

the reason why a certain level of schooling is required for any job is because the structure of society, specifically *the existence of schooling itself*, has made it so. it's an arbitrary barrier imposed on employment to keep out those who are not worthy (itself an arbitrary concept determined by the state). people have been doing complex work without going to school for thousands of years.

circling back to my original point, many things in society that are billed as "getting people in" are actually about keeping people out. it's all just bouncers calling themselves ferrymen. once I realised this it became quite obvious how this is everywhere in society. prescription meds, land ownership, citizenship, fucking money. these things don't allow you to cross a barrier. they *are* the barrier.

we do not need a list of demands we need to destroy every institution we could ever demand anything from