Giuseppe "Pino" Pinelli (1928 - 1969) was an Italian railroad worker and anarchist who fell to his death on this day in 1969 while being detained by Italian police. His death became the subject of the play "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" by Dario Fo.
Pinelli was a member of the Milan-based anarchist association named "Ponte della Ghisolfa", and was also the secretary of the Italian branch of the Anarchist Black Cross. He organized young anarchists in the "Gioventu Libertaria" (Libertarian Youth) in 1962 and helped found the "Sacco and Vanzetti anarchist association" in 1965.
A few days before Pinelli's death, Italian fascists from the "Ordine Nuovo" orchestrated a bombing campaign in Milan; one bomb in Piazza Fontana killed 17 people and injured 88. The bombing was blamed on Italian anarchists, and Pinelli was detained along with many other leftists, including Pietro Valpreda, who was falsely convicted and served eighteen years in prison.
Just before midnight on December 15th, 1969, Pinelli fell to his death from a fourth floor window of the Milan police station. Three police officers interrogating Pinelli, including Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, were put under investigation in 1971 for his death, but legal proceedings concluded it was due to accidental causes.
Calabresi was later gunned down at his home in 1972, for which left-wing journalist Adriano Sofri was convicted in 1997.
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Had our first new blueskyer banned already, rip. I'm searching Hexbear on there and so many of the original poster's followers are resharing the message and getting their friends to make accounts. It's pretty wild to see.
i think given the external visibility of the bsky post there's gunna be opportunistic wreckers too :/ don't envy the mods rn
Absolutely, but so far even the application itself and the content warnings required for animal products are filtering people who would otherwise get banned pretty quick. The one already hit was a very young person lacking in self awareness and communication skills who mods thought was a troll.
The worst thing that could happen is if the Jesse Singal fanclub hears about people making accounts here and decides to follow, since they already harass people on Facebook and other sites they can link people to. They're teamed up with SomethingAwful and KiwiFarms.
There's a small possibility of Hexbear seeping into the mainstream considering people are currently writing articles about the situation re: Bluesky's failure to moderate his content and what is causing people to leave the site. One one hand, it'd be really funny, but on the other it means more heat for our trans users and the site in general than people might want.
It could also just fizzle to nothing, some people stay, some go after seeing too many Stalin memes. Who knows.