🐊 It is world croc day! 🐊

Orthosiphon aristatus in two colours 😍

The error of the neo-Luddites is that they have lost the experience Marx refers to; half of them valorise the Chartists & the Luddites as superior examples to follow than e.g. the Bolsheviks. Even that's charitable; for many red liberals it's as simple as "technology bad".

Marx would've eaten them.

Yes. Marx on Luddism: “It took both time and experience before workers learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and therefore to transfer their attacks from the material instruments of production to the form of society which utilises those instruments.”

Nothing worse than when the manic upswing passes and you failed to capitalize on it

Potentially some daucus glochidiatus - Australian native carrot (?), amongst some invasive species in a garden bed (and among the grass on the curb). They're loving the seed pod mulch from the grevillea.

Vale Pope Francis

Today, high on a rocky ledge in the mountains of China, I found Rehmannia glutinosa: a beautiful hemi-parasitic plant with large, upside down flowers that seem afloat.

Red, brown, and green seaweeds #PhycologyFriday

Xanthostemon chrysanthus "Golden Penda"
#brisbaneplants #qldplants #australiannatives #horticulture

"For the creative friendship of science and labor", soviet poster, 1960

Australia needs to start seeing other superpowers

Gouache painting "Lenin", by Andrei Andreevich Mylnikov, 1946

Cool graphic from the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)

And the thing is, the war never ended. The tactics just changed. 'More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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