Today in Labor History January 26. 1682: Benjamin Lay was born in England. Lay emigrated to the Provine of Pennsylvania, in British North America, where he became a radical Quaker activist against slavery, and for the rights of women and animals. He was a prolific writer on abolition and his “All Slave-Keepers that Keep the Innocent in Bondage” was one of the first abolitionist works published in the 13 Colonies. In an act of protest, he once stood outside a Quaker meeting in the middle of winter, barefoot, and without any coat. When passersby expressed concern for his health, he asked why they were not concerned for the health of the slaves, who were forced to work in the snow dressed as he was. He also once kidnapped the child of slaveholders temporarily to demonstrate to them how it felt when one’s relatives were stolen and sold. In another act of protest, this time in front of his Quaker brethren, he quoted the Bible saying that all men should be equal under God, and then plunged a sword into a Bible containing a bladder of blood-red pokeberry juice, which spattered over those nearby. He refused to consume any products made from slave labor. He was a vegetarian. He was roughly four feet tall, with a hunchback. He referred to himself as “Little Benjamin.” During the 2012 Occupy Movement, the Occupy encampment in Jenkintown, PA, where Lay was buried, activists renamed the town square as “Benjamin Lay Plaza.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #benjaminlay #slavery #abolition #racism #quakers #civildisobedience #directaction #feminism #animalrights #occupy

W dyskusji o dekarbonizacji energetyki w UE i w Polsce za mało mówi się o zyskach.

UE wydaje 360 MILIARDÓW Euro rocznie na import gazu, węgla i ropy.

W zeszłym roku 30% zużytej w UE energii pochodzilo ze źródeł odnawialnych. Gdyby nie to, wywalilibyśmy w powietrze 100 miliardów Euro więcej.

Dekarbonizacja to nie jest fanaberia ekologiczna. To jest oszczędność. Wprowadzana racjonalnie zmniejsza trwonienie naszego majątku.

#energetyka

In recent times, my search engine of choice has been #DuckDuckGo, followed more recently by #Kagi.

I have been trying out Kagi since December 2025 and it is still in its trial period.

Today, however, I decided to delete my Kagi account and give preference to leading European search engines such as #Ecosia and #Qwant.

I will use #Ecosia as my primary search engine and Qwant as my secondary one.

I have already set these as my preferred search engines in my browser and can easily switch between them. I have also removed all other US-based predefined search engines from my browsers.

The #EUSP (led by Ecosia and Qwant) is developing and building search engine infrastructure in Europe. - https://www.eu-searchperspective.com/

#eu #eusp #sovereignty #kagi #duckduckgo #ecosia #qwant #bigtech #sustainability #privacy

Fellow *non*-Americans—are you using any or all of the U.S. support for Israeli wars and the Israeli genocide on Palestinians, the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the annexation threats against Greenland, or other U.S. policy decisions to move away from U.S. products and services?

(Votes are anonymous. Please reshare for reach!)

#usa #uspolitics #bigtech

So according to the UK government, Greta Thunberg is now a dangerous terrorist.

I'm beginning to think the UK government may have lost its moral compass.

https://news.sky.com/story/greta-thunberg-arrested-at-a-protest-supporting-palestine-action-hunger-strikers-13486842

#GretaThunberg #PalestineAction #UKPolitics

Kiedy vibe coding (i vibe hosting) wejdą za mocno – studium przypadku z naszego podwórka

https://zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl/post/kiedy-vibe-coding-i-vibe-hosting-wejda-za-mocno-studium-przypadku-z-naszego-podworka/

Zobaczcie, czego zdecydowanie nie robić na serwerze deweloperskim-chyba-że-produkcyjnym.