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cyril lancelin imagines symbolic structure made of gigantic rotating bitcoins

dubbed 'house bitcoins', the project stands right on the line between reality and the digital world.

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'An anarchist society is and always will be an aspiration, an ideal — a ‘star’ to follow — one that provides us with an ethical code, a moral barometer and a libertarian political template for our everyday lives. If and when a social revolutionary situation recurs again (in this country or anywhere) the role of the anarchist will be to do what they can to ensure that the social institutions required to ensure that any human society (including health and welfare,and security/defence services), function justly, fairly and as conflict-free as is humanly possible, are — and remain — fundamentally democratic, libertarian and answerable to the community. It’s not about achieving Nirvana or a Utopia, only religious zealots and ideological fundamentalists believe in the ‘rapture’ that creates the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, or the ‘last fight’ mentioned in ‘The Internationale’. Anarchists appreciate only too well how ‘imperfect’ human beings are and, doubtless always will be, which is why they reject institutionalised power structures as the bedrock for the creation of oligarchies (well-meaning or otherwise) and the corrupting of the body politic.' Stuart Christie. • On this day in 1964, 18-year-old Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie was arrested in Madrid while carrying explosives to blow up Spain’s fascist dictator General Franco. When arrested he was wearing a kilt, which confused the Spanish press in to describing him as "a Scottish transvestite." Here is his personal account of those events:

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Stuart Christie's account of his actions in a Franco assassination attempt, 1964

An extract of Stuart Christie's book Granny Made Me An Anarchist which describes his involvement in an attempt to assassinate Spanish dictator...

• "To me, the Spanish Revolution of 1936, was the moral touchstone of the 20th century." Kill Franco! By Stuart Christie and Wesley Magoogan. In this short film, Christie recalls his clandestine journey across Europe, the secret signals and passwords he used, and his eventual arrest by Franco's secret police:

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The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. Eric Schmidt #nostr #bitcoin #beyondideology 📸Micro: two neurons interlace, forming connections and providing mutual support for growth, By Nadia Cummins

#X s over, hail #nostr

“Everything that exists, from consciousness to the digestive workings of the human body to sound waves and bladeless fans, is magnificently unlikely. This is the way to survive in this world, to wake up in the morning and receive a cancer diagnosis, discover that a man has murdered forty children, discover that the milk has gone sour, and exclaim, “How unlikely! Yet here we are.”” (Jaroslav Kalfař, The Spaceman of Bohemia) #improbablenotimpossible 📷: close up of a wolf spider’s head

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René Magritte (1898 - 1967) #joyofrevolution #joy

Me: ‘I Love Nature’ Also Me ‘I hate mosquitoes, they bite me and give me a persistent itching. No “natural” way of dissuading them from sucking the blood dry of me works. I may HAVE TO BUY a “proper” insecticide. Also Me: ‘Love is wanting the best for the beloved, fighting for it. Love is understanding the loved one. You think you love nature, but you’re yet to understand it. Then, once you anderstand it, only then you Love Nature’. Me pays for cool citronella sticks and that anti-itching pomade thing at the selfcheck with his mobile phone, all facilitated by a corrupted system. We are trapped within a construct that doesn’t has any room for Love. Let’s change it, not by making room for Love, but by bursting it with it. #joyofrevolution #bitcoin #JOY