Waluigi is the ultimate example of the individual shaped by the signifier. Waluigi is a man seen only in mirror images; lost in a hall of mirrors he is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. You start with Mario – the wholesome all Italian plumbing superman, you reflect him to create Luigi – the same thing but slightly less. You invert Mario to create Wario – Mario turned septic and libertarian – then you reflect the inversion in the reflection: you create a being who can only exist in reference to others. Waluigi is the true nowhere man, without the other characters he reflects, inverts and parodies he has no reason to exist. Waluigi’s identity only comes from what and who he isn’t – without a wider frame of reference he is nothing. He is not his own man. In a world where our identities are shaped by our warped relationships to brands and commerce we are all Waluigi.

Today is the 100th anniversary of Kropotkin's death. Bread Santa lives on in us.

Pentagon Admits It Has Been Testing Wreckage From UFO Crashes

📡@G3News: THE Pentagon has admitted to holding and testing wreckage from UFO crashes in a bombshell Freedom of Information letter.

Researcher Anthony Bragalia wrote to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) requesting details of all UFO material, which they hold and results of any tests they had been carrying out on it.

He wrote: "This could include physical debris recovered by personnel of the Department of Defense as residue, flotsam, shot-off material or crashed material from UAPS [unidentified aerial phenomenon] or unidentified flying objects."

In the response, the DIA released 154 pages of test results that includes reports on a mysterious "memory" metal called Nitinol, which remembers its original shape when folded.

Bragalia said it was a "stunning admission" from the US government and the documents reveal that some of the retrieved debris possesses "extraordinary capabilities" including the potential to make things invisible or even slow down the speed of light.
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1. First of all, it completely invalidates their status as WPOC, and it contributes towards their oppression as a minority when compared to the rest of Europe. The majority of them are working class cooks in small business pizzerias, they're literally marginalized.

2. Here are some anti-italianx slurs you should try to avoid (TW: Uncensored)

- Mama mia
- Fredo
- Luigi
- Mario
- Mafia
- Pasta People

3. Please listen to the italianx community!!! This is really serious and people don't pay enough attention to it.

4. There's also a lot of phrases and gestures that people use as a joke but they're incredibly insensitive

"I cooka da pizza"
*Italianx cultural hand gesture*
"I eata da meatball"

Etc. Etc.

From: https://twitter.com/Th0risy/status/1332171815850971136?s=19

Biden Removes "We the People" Petitioning From White House Website

📡@G3News: It appears that the ‘We the People’ petition system has been taken off the White House website. Here is an archive of what it looked like before Biden took office.

The system has been around for many years. At any given time, hundreds of petitions were active. If you get 100,000 signatures, the White House is supposed to give an answer. You may remember that there was an active “Free Assange” petition that the Obama Administration was obligated to answer (and gave a bad answer).

When Trump took office, he briefly discontinued it but put it back up after a media uproar.

Now it appears the Biden White House has removed it.
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Since it's only by random chance that I managed to escape a blackout in 20 below freezing weather, gas shutoffs, and frozen pipes, I'm going to talk about emergency heat.

A craft worth learning is an oil lamp. A wick of anything pure cotton dipped in a container of cooking oil works fine - once the wick is soaked there's a bit of fine tuning as to length, and it will need to be pulled longer and trimmed occasionally so I like to leave a good coil or two of the wick in the fuel.

If you're currently freezing and the roads are impassible, look for fuel in your home - that jar of used cooking oil above your stove, kerosene, shortening, animal fat, automotive lubricants. Anything not too toxic or volatile should work fine. Now get some container to hold the fuel and some means to put a lid on it with a hole to hold the wick. I like to just stab old pasta sauce jars through from the bottom to the top. so the jagged edges of the metal catch in my wicks. aluminum foil also works if you don't want to brute force sheet metal with a screwdriver in the icy dark.

Next you need a wick - an all cotton T-shirt might work, but who has those to spare? Most of my clothes are poly blends. Your best bet might be to cut a strip of hand towel, or if you know the materials, use cotton rope, cotton balls will work in a pinch, especially if you unroll a few, twist, and braid them together.

There's also no reason to limit yourself to one wick. If you want a lamp for heat, cooking, and light it makes sense to use a large metal can (since glass jars can burst if heated just on one edge) and rest a lid with multiple wick holes in it. I also Iike to use a metal can as a chimney/standoff if I'm cooking. Avoid cans that contained acidic things for chimneys as their liners are really stinky if they burn.

The best thing would be to prep ahead, or go for some parts from some oil lamp you might have laying around because they're cute and aesthetic. Those will work as-is when saturated with cooking oil or kerosene if you've got it. The cool part is the adjustable wick holder and wide cotton wick pictured here.