My mum spotted an elephant pointing East tonight at sunset in Trieste :)
Had a swim in the mediterranean, hugged friends and family, got everything ready. Flying east to Beijing tomorrow, and then I’ll find my way back home. Through Tibet, India, China, Russia, and Northern Europe. In 2 months time. Never done anything like this before, but I’ll make it somehow…!
(Trieste, May 21st, 2013)
“One bystander said that officers had clashed with protesters, beating them and dragging them into vans.
On the Sina Weibo microblogging service, the name of the bridge where the protests took place was being blocked, as was that of nearby Yongdingmen. But “Anhui Girl” was trending as a top-10 search term.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/08/chinese-protest-woman-death-beijing-shopping-centre
(May 21st, 2012)
“Yahoo PLEASE don’t buy Tumblr. Can everything stop being bought? Enoughhhh.”
Yahoo’s move aims to make up for years of missing out on the growth of social networks and mobile devices.
NYT
Protests in front of the Supreme Court ruling on Homo Marriage?
Thank you, George Takei in DC, for being one genius in that crowd of goats.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/george-takei-responds-to-traditional-marriage-fans
Trainhopping pics.
This whole thing is too much, I need time to process it. Awesome.
Also sending love to a friend of mine met last year in Oakland, who might never see this, wherever he is.
(Milan-Trieste, May 10th, 2013)
one-way to Beijing and then slowly back home overland, inland from there, leaving 2 weeks from now. just get away.
Partied all night in Munich, made my morning flight, and now facing a 9 hour layover in a random German city, on my way to Milan.
Stranded in Dusseldorf, from 12 noon to 9pm, on a Sunday.
Worst European airports to sleep in: http://www.sleepinginairports.net/2012/worst-airports-europe.htm#.UYaAsyuA2z4
Rome Fiumicino:
Berlin Tegel:
Paris Beauvais:
…
Dusseldorf:
The best indicator is whether seats have ARMRESTS on them. Like against the homeless in PARKS.
DUS is taking them all down.
I slept like a baby.
…
Dear powerful ones of the earth, do the same in parks now.
(Randomly, Dusseldorf, May 5th, 2013)
I think the blogger has a clear idea of who is most likely to become a terrorist or a serial killer… Thanks mum&dad!
http://onedio.com/haber/tum-dunyadan-18-cocugun-yatak-odasi-106918
BEWARE OF KINDER EGGS!
Bullet-proof uniforms spread in US schools.
We’re getting further and further away from (were we ever close to) a world I’d actually like living in. Either you devote your life to trying to change italian society, american economic approaches, chinese political interactions, trying to change the world, or you move into the woods. The second option sounds more and more appealing as years go by.
XYZ Security (CO company) “also sells sheets disguised as rainbow-covered posters to hang on the back of classroom doors to prevent someone trying to shoot their way in.”
http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/apr/26/us-bulletproof-uniforms-gun-control
(San Francisco, CA. April 26th, 2013)
“Fischia il vento, infuria la bufera,
scarpe rotte eppur bisogna andar,
a conquistare la rossa primavera
dove sorge il sol dell’avvenir.Ogni contrada è patria del ribelle,
ogni donna a lui dona un sospir,
nella notte lo guidano le stelle
forte il cuore e il braccio nel colpir.Se ci coglie la crudele morte,
dura vendetta verrà dal partigian;
ormai sicura è già la dura sorte
del fascista vile traditor.Cessa il vento, calma è la bufera,
torna a casa il fiero partigian,
sventolando la rossa sua bandiera;
vittoriosi e alfin liberi siam.————————————————————
The wind whistles, the storm rages,
our shoes are broken but we must go on,
to conquer the red spring
where rises the sun of the future.Every country is home to the rebel,
every woman gives him a breath,
the stars guide him in the night,
strong is the heart and the arm to strike.If cruel death catches us
the partisan’s revenge will be hard
already the hard fate
of the low treasonous fascist is certain.The wind stops, the storm calms,
the proud partisan returns home,
in the wind his red flag blows,
victors, at last we all are free.(Everywhere, April 25th, 2013 -
”
Italian national liberation day)
Da Il Fatto Quotidiano
Italia
Liberiamoci da noi stessi (April 25th, 2013)
Slow down, arrest, decrase, our ecological footprint.
#persquaremile.com
If we crammed the world population all in HK-type housing, taking as a sample the different densities of cities such as Paris (densest here) and Houston (least dense here), we would occupy this much land, with HOUSING ALONE.
Again, that’s housing alone.
But obviously people need water, food, materials for shelter and clothes (plus, according to the article I got this from, link below, lots of other really superflous things). If we all lived like Americans…..or worse, like in Dubai, this planet would not be enough. Actually, it already is NOT ENOUGH for that lifestyle.
HOW MANY PLANETS LIKE OURS WE WOULD NEED….
Remember Bush Senior at the Rio conference: “the American lifestyle is not negotiable”. Yeah okay there are disgusting people in the world. Yet we really know that what we need to do is obviously downscale, downsize, back with our feet down-to-earth.
http://persquaremile.com/2012/08/08/if-the-worlds-population-lived-like/
Also: reported by NPR, http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/04/08/176565424/the-big-squeeze-can-cities-save-the-earth?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130408
comic from the New Yorker.
Some say that we are too many on this planet.
Yes we are, if we all drive SUVs to buy strawberries for Xmas. Californian cuisine makes sense not coz thousand-Michelin-starred Chez Panisse restaurant food is delicious, but coz local, seasonal, organic food is sustainable.
Keeping the population of the world as it is, or even allowing a certain growth, really this planet CAN be enough.
Really, in a possible world where we all live in smaller sustainable cooperative communities and think smaller, also without going back to the caves this planet IS enough.
(Trieste, Italy, April 10, 2013)
HOPEFULLY WE’RE GONNA BE EXTINCT BEFORE THAT
WAR! first quote:
“I’m tired to of this terrorist bullshit fucking w our country. Fuck it, just nuke Czechoslovakia”
there are dummies eveywhere, the problem is that US dummies have the power to actually destroy the rest of the world, and ultimately themselves (but they don’t know that yet, so it’s fun). I wanna cry.
reblogging “public shaming”, title-link
