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All my work crap. Long sleeve t-shirts for outside, short sleeve for everything else, maybe four items of my teenage son's laundry that got mixed in w mine. Nearly all inside out. Completely covers my double bed about a foot high. Yuk.

Here’s a bit of a personal list:

1. Undeniably the food scene in the US has changed for the better. Sometimes almost to an overcorrection (protein-slop and all). It’s great that so many different cuisines are easy to name and find even in more traditional rural parts of the country. Organic food isn’t seen as a weird hippie thing but an investment you make for your health.

2. A lot less smoking in the world. I say this as early gen Z but I never grew up in a time when smoking was seen as cool when I was a teenager. My uncle even quit and that was good to see.

3. It may not seem like it sometimes, but the one consolation prize of YouTube is I can theoretically be a content creator and never need to worry about the bottleneck that is getting chosen out of millions of people in Hollywood. I could theoretically just stay in the midwest and learn to livestream or make an anime discussion channel and produce content without needing a massive studio or working in Hollywood. Of course, it’s still almost impossible to get paid for it, but still.

4. More and more people are aware of cars not being the best way to get around which has sparked interest in walkable cities. Problem is, there’s too much demand and too little supply but seeing car culture be questioned is a great first start.

I don't even read yuri manga but I just know it from @Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 's posts lmao

[rolls around in the sunshine and warmth ]

[remembers it's climate change that's making it almost 80 in march ]

Chinese tech advancements notwithstanding

"Did I tell you that I thought you were [name] this entire time?"

"I am [name]."

I'm not making this shit up. I love it when weird funny shit that only happens in sitcoms actually happens IRL lol.

"Wow that was really fucked up. Sorry I didn't stop those guys sooner, I was baking bread."

'Why is the US bombing Iran?' has got to be one of the most searched prompts on google these past few days. And the closest thing to a current answer you will find is "We attacked them because they were going to have nukes and then use them on us, it's self-defense." - There is a lack of evidence for this claim btw.

That is like as if you invade someone's home, shoot and kill them and your defense in court for it is, "Your honour, I had to do it because I had suspicions they were going to adopt a guard dog and then use that guard dog to attack me while I was walking down the street!"

Blatant, mask-off imperialism. How anyone can continue to view America and Israel on the right side of history baffles me.

It's that or intense doomer posting. Just been feeling a whole lot of ways recently

A few weeks after my 16th birthday, I made a new friend at my new school, Steve. Within months we'd become best friends and basically inseparable. Just platonic friends but we did everything together, went to music festivals, had our first foreign holiday together, took drugs together, shared our favourite books, had discussions long into the night, shared our secrets and problems that we'd never tell anyone else. Went through all kinds of difficulties and hardships and loss side by side. He was my best friend for nearly a decade, and at age 25 we finally lost touch. He moved to another city and my health took a turn for the worse. One day it was just the last time we saw each other and now it's been 17 years.

Those 17 years haven't been good for me, with my worsening health, having to give up work and socialising, and just losing all hope of ever having anything worthwhile. But I often thought of Steve and everything we'd shared.

Today i was googling people I'd known and I found a social media page for Steve. He's now married with two kids. It seems crazy to me that this whole time I've been sitting here rotting alone he's been living his best life. He and his wife and kids all look so happy in their pictures. All the photos are of them happily goofing around together with all their friends and family, going on holidays and living life. And I am happy for him, he was always a great friend and decent person who deserves to be happy but it just highlighted to me how empty and pointless my life is. 17 years have passed and what has changed for me? Just everything getting worse.

It's also crazy to me that after such a long and close friendship i didn't even know he was married, much less being invited to the wedding. So strange how you can be such close friends with someone for so long and not even be at their wedding. I was not well enough to go anyway but the not even being invited does hurt.

I don't really know what I hope to achieve with this rant other than I have literally no-one else to talk to, and it's hard and embarrassing living such a pathetic life when everyone I've ever known turned out to be "normal" while I'm now a weird loner shut in who can't even eat without begging for handouts, who never goes anywhere other than hospital appointments and hasn't spoken to anyone face to face other than hospital staff and shop assistants for 17 years.

EDIT: I'm still creepily stalking Steve's social media and I can't believe this. He now works as a work coach for the DWP - one of those people who makes benefits claimants lives a misery by slave-driving them into unsuitable employment and sanctioning them (stopping their benefits) as punishment. I never thought he'd do a job like this, he used to be a real man of the people, now he's on the opposing side. He always used to want to be an engineer. I wonder what happened.

I showed up like an hour and a half late to my first protest in 3, maybe 4 years. Tiny Toese of Patriot Prayer fame showed up with an amp, a bullhorn, and a grip of fucking goons and started trolling and everyone kinda just left. I almost squared up with one of them (it's good I did not, because they love to instigate fights and then just deploy mace). I screamed at them and kinda made a fool of myself.

When I first got there though there was a guy from PSL gathering like an email list or whatever and I told him I was interested in joining, and filled in the "I'm interested in joining" box.

EDIT: I see now someone else has beaten me to the finish line with a more eloquent and more thorough post. Even my rage is not novel.

First off, a brief overview of the parties in play. Each party gets assigned a letter, so you know where to put your checkmark on election day. I'll put the letter in square brackets.

Konservative (conservative) [C] Which is a party that isn't very conservative to be honest.
They want to change a lot of things about danish society. Especially the taxes and the welfare. Get rid of it. Their old leader Søren Pape died of a brain aneurysm in 2024 and we were all supposed to be sad about it for some reason. I saw him about 6 days before he died hanging out in a local gay bar and I had to leave because the man and his cronies made me sick to my stomach. I can't remember, but I'd like to think I muttered some curse that damned him. Now headed by Mona Juul who is something very rare for danish politics - Someone who had a career before becoming a politician. Typically they do it the other way around. Here she is

Dansk Folkeparti (Danish peoples party) [O] They mainly want less danish people - As in get rid of immigrants.
They're also big on animal rights, allegedly, though they mainly market themselves via pork. Big on racism. We have them to thank for the fact that the danish national dish is a french peasants' dish (It's pork with potatoes basically. Gotta keep the muslims out.) Helmed by Morten Messerschmidt who has the vibe of a bond villain

Danmarksdemokraterne (The Denmark democrats) [Æ] Which is sort of an offshoot of Dansk Folkeparti started by its old leader Inger Støjberg after she got kicked out for doing a bunch of illegal political stuff. Even bigger than the old party on racism. Here she is

Borgernes Parti (The Citizens' Party) [H] Which is just...
So there used to be a party called Nye Borgerlige (New Bourgeois) which was created in 2015 because the racist parties we already had at that point just weren't racist enough. That party changes leadership in 2019 to a guy called Lars Boje. Lars Boje and the party has a bunch of scandals and Lars leaves a few months after becoming leader, because he wants to be paid a bunch of money by the party and the party doesn't want to pay him. So he creates a new party, which is this one. He also thinks menstruating is equivalent to shitting your pants. Look at this dickhead

Liberal Alliance (Liberal Alliance) [I] Ironically a party that quite often votes against personal freedom, if that personal freedom is enjoyed by a woman. To sound like someone from 2016 they're what you'd get if reddit and the concept of mansplaining had a child.
Apart from that they're big on tax cuts. Their leader, Alex Vanopslagh, got caught a bunch of years ago drunkenly heiling and singing nazi songs in a bar, and apparently that was a scandal for the journalist who broke the story, because how dared he encroach on a mans personal life like that? Big on tax cuts and "effectivising" everything (tax cuts). Alex is referred to by his supporters as "daddy Alex". He's very big on tiktok apparently. Currently slated to be the biggest party on the right. I want to drown this man

Venstre (Left) [V] which used to be the biggest right wing party, but the last few elections have been rough for them.
Kind of your run-of-the-mill european right wing party. Love me farmers, love me tax cuts, 'ate education, 'ate regulation, simple as. I don't know a lot about their current stuff, but I'm sure they still suck. Their leader, Troels Lund Poulsen, looks like an aggregate of their electorate

Radikale Venstre (Radical Left) [B] Which is an off-shoot of Venstre from a long long time ago.
They're centrists. Big on culture. It was their old party leader who was at the helm of EU when it forced Apple to change to using the industry standard charger cable, so that's nice I guess. If they were in the US they'd all have knocked doors for Hillary and chanted ITS Her Turn!

Moderaterne (The Moderates) [M] Which was started by the ex-leader of Venstre, Lars Løkke. Ostensibly a centrist party, because he says it is and that's good enough for danish media apparently.
Currently in government. Lars Løkke donated 50k Dkk to the Mujahideen in his youth, and has kept up doing stupid shit with money ever since. He is known as the "quota king" due to his time as State Minister where he would sell commercial fishing quotas on the cheap to his friends. The guy is the epitome of politcal corruption
Everyone loves him. The party got nearly 10% of votes last election.

Alternativet (The Alternative) [Å] which is mainly a slightly more leftwing alternative to Radical Left.
They came onto the scene little over a decade ago and announced they were an apolitical politcal party, that would function as a sort of "political laboratory". They got some wind in the sails early on, but lost most of it when they released a calendar with pictures of a bunch of the party members' members.

Socialdemokraterne (The Social Democrats) [A] They still brand themselves on being leftist and for the working man, but christ all of that is long gone. Helmed by Mette Frederiksen.
About 15 years ago or so they decided to be racist in order to steal votes from Dansk Folkeparti. Now they're just racist for the love of the game I guess. They're conservatives. Despite how much shit they suck they managed to get 27% of the votes last election. Maybe that has something to do with how they're treated with kid gloves by state media. Fun fact: The last editor in chief of the danish state broadcaster DR was childhood friends with Mette Frederiksen. And the current editor used to be a party member! Fun! Yay!

Socialistisk Folkeparti (Socialist Peopleparty) [F] They're social democrats. Started by a CIA asset in the 60's or something. Another party I haven't kept up to date with.

Enhedslisten (The Unity List, also known as The Red Green Alliance) [Ø] You might have seen @SoyViking@hexbear.net refer to them as the "pro-democracy party" in his reports on the situation up north.
Started by a bunch of teeny tiny communist parties that decided to band together in order to actually get enough votes to get into government, the unity list recently kicked out a bunch of the old guard of communists that created the party because they were too enthusiastic about supporting Palestine. Or so I'm told, the situation here is so bleak I'm kind of checked out on politics in Denmark, everything sucks so goddamn much. Their leader is Pelle Dragsted who really ought to be cool. He was in black bloc when he was younger, and he's in the administration for the union of collectives in Denmark where he has agitated for some of the older collectives with bigger houses and lower rent putting in more cash than the younger collectives.

These parties are typically put into two groups: "Red block" and "Blue block". Last election danish state media suddenly started talking about a third "purple block" which was just Lars Løkkes party Moderaterne - They had declared themselves centrists you see? Why not put the other centrist parties in purple block? Who the fuck knows.

Anyway, this was the election result in 2022

The parties in Red Block just barely managed to get enough votes to put together a coalition government, but the leadership of The Social Democrats, headed by Mette Frederiksen, decided to cut a deal with the "purple block" (which is just Lars Løkke and his stooges) and Venstre, which shocked a whole bunch of people.

I was mainly shocked because Socialdemokraterne got 27.5% percent of the vote despite how much shit they'd already sucked. There had been a huge scandal during COVID wherein Mette Frederiksen, in capacity as Minister of State, had danish mink-farms cull their mink, due to issues with disease in the population. This supposedly crushed the minkfarmers, who then got bought out based basically on their own valuation of farms that had not made a profit in decades. The scandal was of course that she dared do something proactive like have the mink culled, not that she paid a bunch of fuckhead farmers a fortune for their pile of tortured rags.
I was also shocked that LARS LØKKE THE QUOTA KING got 10% OF THE VOTE WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS PLACE???

Anyway, that's sort of the preamble/context you need.
One of the first things the new government did was remove a holiday because we simply didn't have the money in state coffers to pay for everything if we kept the holiday. Then we bought a private jet for Lars Løkke and then we managed to find a couple billion that were just lying around somewhere, so we could give that to Ukraine.
Recently there was a minor scandal of an interview where Mette Frederiksen was asked to choose between a series of issues. Above everything else, more money for hospitals, better education, the climate, development, etc. she felt that the most important would be to get age restriction on TikTok...
And during elections for municipal governments it came out that large companies like JEUDAN (danish Blackrock more or less) paid for commercials for the Social Democrats and had given multi-million kroner apartments as "gifts" to several politicians.

Despite ALL OF THAT this is how the latest polls look

The social democrats are still the largest party BY FAR. And media still talk about them being part of "red block" for some reason. All western journalists get the fucking wall. We're probably getting "Daddy Alex" into government jesus fucking christ shoot me dead. The welfare state is already being gutted to shit. Between 2016 and 2021 universities had to lower their budget by 2% EVERY YEAR. And they've cut even more after.

The social democrats are running on "no more than 14 kids in each class in the lowest grades" and it's like WHO STUFFED THE GRADES FULL OF KIDS IN THE FIRST PLACE? YOU DID! But Mr. and Mrs. Denmark just eat their slop and listen to the "objective reporting" and AAAAHHHHHH 21% STILL VOTING FOR THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS??? AND ALL THE OTHER PEASANTFUCKING PARTIES AND THEIR INANE FUCKING RACISM! WHAT THE FUCK?

I know the election is going to be bleak, I can feel it in my bones.

In my state, when you purchase certain canned/bottled beverages you pay an extra $0.10 deposit, which anyone can redeem by turning in the can/bottle. The practice of collecting these cans/bottles and returning them for the deposit is colloquially known as canning, and a lot of homeless people do it.

Some people want to repeal the Bottle Bill. These people are very loud and vocal online but in reality they're almost nobody. They want to repeal the Bottle Bill because it's how a lot of homeless drug addicts get their cheese. Some dealers even accept cans as payment.

And these people are just, so fucking disgustingly paternalistic. And their saccharine fake concern gives me ketoacidosis.

They say that recycling wasn't intended to be a way to make a living. They say that there's better things to do than rooting through recycle bins to make money and pretend like they're so concerned about the well-being of canners.

That makes me so angry it becomes impossible for me to keep my cool. They think that it's their right to stick their noses in my business like this. And when I call them on it they proudly admit it. They believe it is their business because they pay fucking taxes. I turn into an incoherent loon. I demand to know what they do for a living and how they spend their paycheck so I can decide how I feel about whether they should be allowed to work their job, and then I usually rage quit.

1. You're only giving child removed-ists a reason to murder their victims as well.

2. Because a lot if not most kids who are victimized this way are victimized by a family member/"loved one," this will only make these kids even more scared to come forward than they usually already are. It will also give the kind of piece of shit parents who either don't believe their kid or actively side with and defend the removed-ist over their kid more reason to do that.

Now, I'm all for killingremoveds, but this is just dumb.

My brother in christ, the Epstein files are distracting you from all the awful shit the US does at this point.
(The Epstein files are also gruesome. It's just... At this point it seems like it's just an excuse for a bunch of people to not confront US foreign policy."

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Some fucking MBA shithead decides to save a couple bucks on parts by putting plastic internals in a part that sees torque and now my fucking shower valve face comes shooting off the wall like it's a goddamn rocket and I come back from being away to steam condensation dripping off the ceilings and water rifling out of the wall like the goddamn Trevi fountain

So now I shut off the water, pulled out the old cartridge with the valve stem broken clear in two and replaced it with a CHINESE one that is properly made out of FUCKING BRASS like it should have been in the first place, all of which could have been avoided if this made in germany bullshit had been properly built to begin with

German engineering my fucking ass

Whenever my local PSL branch posts on IG about an upcoming protest or something, I always hit "Save" and then fucking forget about it, but this time I thought ahead and preempted my idiocy by creating an entry in my calendar app.

Someone just gave me a balaclava too, so this'll be fun.

I'm gonna have to stash almost everything I own (incl. my sleeping bag, something I can't really afford to lose) in a fucking bush for a few hours though. And I'm not exactly in the best physical health right now; I changed my clothes today for the first time in fucking over a month and holy shit I'm skinny.

My little sister joined the US National Guard apparently and didn't tell anyone

If keir starmer says 'we need a legal basis for attacking Iran'. And that 'Iran has been caught trying to attack the uk 20 times', at which point do you lose the most respect for politicians, for the lying or the being bad at it.

We had a server in the Matrix chat but it had no whitelist nor backups, so a group found the IP and griefed it. The group seems to claim to act against servers that permit cracked clients, since they seem to suck up to their beloved billionaire overlords. So not a great thing to wake up to this morning.

Most of these replies are surface level misanthropy at best or conspiracy theory at worst. No, it isnt about "population control", neither is it "human nature".

There WAS a time before war, but not a time before violence. The reason war exists is not unlike why there are earthquakes: tension builds up between two opposing sides due to forces that act on both of them, until that tension is released. If we want to imagine the world in which there is no war, we have to imagine the world in which both the tension AND the causes for that tension are done away with.

The majority of our modern wars are over material conditions: needing to seize control over resources or land that can bring opportunity for resources. For our last few generations, it has been the US using war to maintain its stranglehold over economic resources like oil, shipping lanes, and denying them to its rivals. The previous superpowers, like Nazi Germany, Britain, France, etc. fought wars over the same thing. That's what shapes history, moreso than our ideas or individual actions: we are driven to maintain material conditions that keep us comfortable and alive: most forms of petty or even violent crimes are driven by material conditions.

For the capitalist class, though, it is not enough to simply be comfortable, because to be comfortable in their system means that they must command (and suppress) the working class. Therefore, they amass greater wealth and power to protect their positions, but in doing so make all of us poorer, hungrier, unhealthier. We are driven into war between our classes.

At the international level, the capitalist classes compete for this same control over eachother and the working classes of other countries, leading to the same result: war.

I love them. Red globe grapes. Muscatel grapes. Dominga grapes. Thompson grapes. Seeded grapes or seedless grapes. Moon drop grapes. Gumdrop grapes. Concord grapes. Kyoho grapes. Autumn Royals.

But not the Cotton Candy ones better miss me w that shit.

Here are a few I've heard:

• "Identifying as demisexual is just a form of slut-shaming"
• "'Demisexuality' is just the human norm, most people don't fuck someone they just met"
• "Asexual claims of discrimination are an insult to the Black Americans who struggled in the Civil Rights Movement"
• "Anyone who identifies as asexual is either an incel in denial or has a medical problem that needs to be cured"