🇨🇺 Amid fuel crunch, Cuba mechanic converts car to run on charcoal
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-mechanic-charcoal-powered-car-9.7135240
Scarcity, a constant in Cuba, has grown worse since U.S. deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, cutting off Venezuelan oil while threatening tariffs on any other countries that supply Cuba with fuel.

Just about any engine can be converted to run on charcoal by drawing ⁠hot gas ⁠instead of gasoline into the carburetor

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> Remember: The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by a LLM right now.

Of all the thousands of pictures I’ve taken of my three cats, this might be my favourite

Look at that bundle of absolute chaos - awakening from his slumber to cause more havoc

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Lucy Parsons fought hard to get her husband freed and exonerated for the Haymarket bombing. Despite the fact that he wasn't even in Haymarket Square the day of the bombing, he was still wrongly convicted and executed along with 3 other innocent anarchists. They had been fighting for the 8 hour workday. Their struggle, and their execution, are the basis for why May 1 is celebrated as International Workers Day in nearly every country in the world (except the U.S.). Lucy Parsons, was an African American and indigenous anarchist, would go on to cofound the IWW, along with Mother Jones, Eugene Debs, James Connolly, Big Bill Haywood, and others.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #lucyparsons #anarchism #blackhistorymonth #eighthourday #haymarket #IWW #BlackMastodon

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"موقوفیت خاطره‌لای - Mevkufiyet hatıraları" by Yusuf Akçura

[Orenburg: Kerimof, Hüseyinof ve Şürekası Matbaası, 1907]

http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/121282

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Today, for Black History Month, we remember Hiram Rhodes Revels who, on this date, February 25, 1870, was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress. He was a Republican from Mississippi. His cousins were killed participating in John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. During the Civil War, he helped recruit and organize two black Union regiments. When he first arrived at the Senate, southern Democrats refused to let him sit, arguing that the Dred Scott decision, in 1857, ruled that he wasn’t a citizen and had no right to serve, despite the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, which gave him birthright citizenship

#workingclass #LaborHistory #congress #slavery #racism #reconstruction #johnbrown #harpersferry #republican #slavery #abolition #CivilWar #HiramRhodesRevels #uprising #revolt #birthrightcitizenship #blackhistorymonth #BlackMastodon