On this day in 1911, the Japanese government executed twelve anarchists, including radical journalists Kanno Sugako and Kōtoku Shūsui (shown), as part of a widespread crackdown on left-wing activism. Among those executed were Uchiyama Gudō, a Buddhist priest and socialist who spoke out against the Meiji government for its imperialism and advocated for conscripted soldiers to desert en masse.
The pretext for this crackdown was the “High Treason Incident”, a plot to assassinate the Emperor of Japan. The incident began when police searched the room of Miyashita Takichi, a young lumbermill employee, and found materials which could be used to construct bombs, concluding that there was a broader conspiracy to harm the imperial family.
On the basis of this plot, the Japanese government rounded up leftist activists from all over the country. 24 of the 26 defendants actually brought to trial were sentenced to death, despite the evidence against nearly all of them being circumstantial.
Among those executed anarcha-feminist journalist Kanno Sugako (some sources say she was executed on January 25th). At the age of 29, Kanno became the first woman with the status of political prisoner to be executed in the history of modern Japan.
Prior to his execution, Kōtoku Shūsui etched this message on the wall of his cell: “How has it come about that I have committed this grave crime? Today my trial is hidden from outside observers and I have even less liberty than previously to speak about these events. Perhaps in 100 years someone will speak out about them on my behalf.”
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Went to the doctor with my partner after reassuring her that we were going to get peace of mind, instead got told that she needs to see a dermatologist for a concerning mole. Called the dermatologist myself instead of waiting to hear back so we could make an appointment right away, and the earliest available at all their clinics is almost a month from now.
This is on top of her mother getting diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, and after a very serious scare with her vision… it’s very brutal to have to deal with all this and have no money, so everything is just four times as hard as it would be otherwise. I just can’t believe how much shit is going wrong here… had to come out to the garage to scream and cry without making her more scared than she already is. I was already dealing with chronic stress symptoms before this happened.
What a terrible world this is.
update: Her white blood cell count is high. Fuck. I can’t handle this.
Apparently you can post racist caricatures of interracial couples labeled “this is what the JEWS want!!” On twitter and it’s not a violation of anything
Saw a tweet that said “You don’t have to medically transition to be trans, but you have to have medically transitioned to be able to detransition” and another tweet that explicitly stated that people who only socially transitioned and later changed their mind aren’t “really” detransitioners. In the replies there were picrew trans people like “Yeah, that’s sad but true :/”
Like ok, fuck you?? I went by a female name for over 2 years, I got yelled at in public by strangers for wearing dresses, I had to put up with a lot of shit during my time as a trans girl. Do you have any idea how shameful it feels to try so hard to get people to accept you for who you are for so long, only to then have to turn around and say “uh, so it turns out you were right and it was all just a temporary thing”?
Seriously, fuck you. You’re trying to gatekeep a community you’re not even a part of? How can it be “valid” to socially transition, but not valid to socially detransition?? I guess I’m stuck having socially transitioned then? Or did I just imagine the whole thing? I identified as a gender different from the one I was assigned at birth, that’s all it takes to be transgender, and now I don’t anymore. Just because I now identify as male again doesn’t mean I didn’t go through years of confusion, self-doubt and conflicting feelings about my own identity.
I know there’s a non-insignificant number of trans people who categorically deny that some people who transition simply “change their minds” about it later, which likely has to do with wanting reassurance for themselves and their surroundings. The prospect that you might change your mind about it later is scary (I know that because I fucking felt that fear myself), and the idea that that is literally impossible, that if you have any feeling you might be trans you 100% definitely are, is comforting. It’s also a nice line to feed your parents if they’re not on board with you transitioning. But it’s pure cope and you can’t just retroactively invalidate someone as never having really transitioned in the first place, that’s just trans-medicalism with extra steps. 3 years ago this person would’ve been all like “Yaaaas, of course you’re valid sis, you don’t need to take HRT to really be trans” but now, that I decided it isn’t for me, I guess I was a poser all along.
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TIL That the Japanese Anarchists mascot is a Pokemon
that dragon WHIPS
Shit goes hard as hell, may I screenshot?
yes, its from this pamphlet i linked in the mega
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That dragon is amazing
Thank you Leeds and Japanese anarchists for creating the first Advice Animal
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is there a specific phrase for guys who find themselves in the left-wing political sphere out of contrarianism and then proceed to contrarian themselves out of it or can I continue to call it the Fetterman Special
saw my parents recently and my mom gave me a bread, i was like thanks, she goes “😐 this is the worst one. the moisture level is off”
it was so good, she just picked up breadmaking out of nowhere and is instantly amazing
Critical support to rishi sunak and keir starmer for ensuring the uk has no future
Just found out Mordecai from regular show is supposed to be from Iran, I had no idea. Inshallah mordecai
it’s amazing how shitty every thing is and how this country constantly seeks new lows and is always trying to make things worse for the people who live in it and also every one else it makes me want to just curl up and cry amd sob and scream forever
buying “the shit thaat tastes like juice” may have been an unwise decision
I’m sick for the first time in almost two years and I forgot just how much this sucks
I’ve been mask wearing since the start of covid and it’s helped me steer clear of pretty much every other disease too which is very nice but I guess I was bound to get unlucky at somepoint. I really hope I don’t get any long term problems form this…
I was buying wine today and instead of asking me for ID they just took my word for it, I’m getting old
Is clickbait supposed to make me feel like I’m going crazy?
Shit is creepy. Especially the AI stuff. Millions of near identical youtube videos with only slight variations. Hell world. This is hell. Art is dead.
I turned my youtube feed off a long time ago and only go there for specific things I want to see. And they just broke through uBlock on Chrome so idk how much longer I’ll keep using it. : (
It feels like the internet is almost gone. Like there just isn’t anything left
There’s still hexbear <3
Firefox doesn’t have ads still. It also lets you turn off the fyp page with an extension.
It’s not really creepy as much as it’s annoying as fuck. I don’t really see it much on YouTube since I’ve spent years curating the content I get recommended, hut on other social media sites it’s really rampant. Like I’ll see a post with the same wording posted by different pages with the only change being the image used for the post. AI/Bots/Content farms are a fucking plague on the internet.
I think it starts to have that effect if you think about it too much (which in this context is more than not at all/slightly)
It’s fucking awful and everywhere now
You could try using this browser extension: https://dearrow.ajay.app/
It’s made by the same person who made Sponsorblock. It replaces clickbait Youtube titles and thumbnails with more accurate and descriptive (and less brain-melting) ones. All the replacements are user-submitted so it usually doesn’t fix everything. I try to add to the database if it’s missing stuff.
Thanks comrade
I genuinely can’t watch selfie cam videos and like, ppl harassing others in public, so I study all that shit sociologically by speaking to fans etc 😶🌫️
I ate a Keto soup because it was on clearance and it was absolutely fucking horrible.
I got sick and started vomiting like crazy. I looked at the nutrition facts of the can and 95% of the calories legitimately come from sunflower oil. I ate 5 tablespoons of oil in a bowl with some cauliflower sprinkled on top. This shit should be illegal.
guy in front of me is playing runescape in class, respect