Chapotraphouse

Marxism isn't some rigid political dogma. Its a powerful set of intellectual tools for criticising films and music you don't like.

Reminder to my comrades on bicycles to be very careful out there. I thought I saw the FedEx driver see me, but clearly I was mistaken. Now I've got new hardware in my knee (the good one, of course) and seven staples in my noggin.

I’m high functioning, but being just neurodivergent enough that you spend all your time in places you feel you don’t belong kind of sucks.

"America is a beautiful melting pot of monarchist Iranians, Shen Yun Chinese, Orange County Vietnamese, White Russians, Cuban gusanos, Miami Venezuelans, Afrikaners, Eduardo Bolsonaro. A rainbow of people who had their servants taken away."

https://xcancel.com/haramcart/status/2085662524431618535

I'm like "oh I keep on top of tech, the kids won't outpace me" but in like 30 years I'm going to go outside and see a bunch of kids throwing a tungsten cube at each other and I'll be like "stop!" And they'll be like "go away boomer, we're playing chudball" and I'll be like

From the NATOpedia page on the EU:

On 24 February 2022, after massing on the borders of Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces undertook an attempt for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

undertook an attempt for a full-scale invasion

They had to weasel their way into simultaneously calling it a "full-scale invasion" to make it sound as bad as possible, while also trying to make Russia sound weak. They made up a Russian goal ("full-scale invasion") then said Russia failed at its goal that they made up.

"Came out" as enbie to a friend (I'm pretty masc) and they came off dismissive and skeptical. I probably won't change my name or pronouns but it still felt bad.

Then a few months later they referenced it in like a sarcastic way. That's all pretty shitty of them right? It definitely feels shitty and like I'm not safe to talk about that stuff without being ridiculed.

Might be more of a demiboy, idk. She can fuck right off with that.

it is august 2 and stalin saved the world from fascism

Marxism isn't some rigid political dogma. Its a powerful set of intellectual tools for irritating everybody online.

If you told me that the voice actor for Pearl from Steven Universe would be MAGA and the voice actor of America from Hetalia would be to the left, I would have thought you had two heads.

Yet here we are

'The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.'

Lol never heard the full jefferson quote before, they always cut of the last bit for some reason lol

Sometimes ill think of a joke so bad it makes me laugh and I want to post it but think itll come off as unironic but at the same time finding it funny ironically and unironically are basically the same online

Anyway, guy who hates his honda and voting: fuck my Civic doody

Omae wa meow shindeiru

nyani?!

Taking steps to play a more active role in organizing! Been doing things mostly passively while still doing enough to not feel like I'm sitting on my hands, but I wanted to take it a step further.

Remember comrades, join an org!

TIL Tel Aviv has worse air quality than Delhi. What's up with that?

Gently petting the gills of a very large mushroom and putting your fingers between them and getting their spores all over your hands

i forgot how explicitly racist this painting is

Im so serious I forgot that gas was under 3 dollars at the beginning of the year

Guy i work with who looks like a tough dude, tattoos on his hands and such, just showed me that he has multiple conversations with character ai things from harry potter.

We're cooked. This guy is the last guy I'd have suspected

Wizards should look down on mutants cuz they got their superpowers from gene lottery not hard study and dedication

I'm pretty sure that the Wikipedia article for the main Yu-Gi-Oh animated series was written by a dissatisfied fan

The series begins from chapter 60 in volume 7 before loosely adapting the remaining chapters of the original manga by making story changes that conflict with the events of the manga canon.

I got a job rejection email (sad) but they were very about it and even explained why they chose not to hire me. This is so rare nowadays I don't know what to do. Do I email back? Do I just sad react?

Sad story I wrote

spoiler

For sale: Hog, never cranked

Switching to a new username, see you around

I hate that the only effective coping mechanisms for being overwhelmed in social situations is basically to leave. I just want to be normal lol.

Final touches for a friend's bday gift

The future is an old couple huddled together in a burnt out shopping mall -- specifically an Apple Store -- and they're holding an iPhone between them. They're taking turns saying "Siri, play music" "Siri, play songs" "Siri, play a song" "Hey Siri, is Russia still socialist?" "Siri, play a jingle". The white glow of the phone spills out into the darkness outside.

"Siri, open the music thing."

Still nothing.

love so so much to live in the imperial core; it's so fun to be made to feel like I am the weirdo because I still think about Palestine every day. the people who enabled the genocide should hang and I am never moving from that position

I'm not brave enough to be intolerably fucking weird & exuberant in real life, so the only outside-the-house conversation I get is with the psychologist at the clinic. She seems really incredibly into it though, when I relate anecdotes about people and talk around the concept of socialising. If you're reading this, I'm going to talk about you at the next appointment!!!

Mostly I'm thinking she's just being professionally polite but I'm kinda about it. It never hurts to take people at face value! Except for when they lie completely about their intentions and have weird ulterior motives, which usually doesn't happen!

The reason I was gifted with borderline paranoid anxiety is because I'd be too powerful if I was unbothered, see.

Hey whoever suggested library date in the mega, good suggestion, going on library date tomorro

spoiler ---- it was me

From a BBC article

BBC journos have a better read on Bernie and AOC than most people(even a couple here)

I run a trail that goes by a nesting platform for osprey. When I run under it, one of the parents will take off and do this little show of threatening me. The nest is really high up and the birds don't actually get close to me, but they kinda try to make it look like they're coming my direction and screech. It's pretty cool.

The last month or so I've been able to see their kids up on the platform. 5 days ago I stopped seeing anything, so I figured they'd migrated a little early. But I did some research and it said the father will stay behind for a few weeks to help teach the juveniles to hunt.

When I went out today I looked down by the water(the platform is on a hill by a river), I saw the 3 of them on a dead tree hanging over the river.

It was beautiful, it made me kinda of wistful that I won't be seeing them anymore.

I've been talking with a woman I met on a dating site, and it has made me so much happier over the past week. She is really great, we share a lot of interests, and I really like spending time with her.

USian activities

Things have been quite bad for me lately and it's taking a toll on my cats. It's now starting to worm into my head that I'm not able to properly take care of these children I've had for 13 years. And that in itself is unfair because I have a full time fucking job. Or at least it used to be full time when I guess the economy was better? But if I'm not getting full time hours why am I seeing new faces?

Anyway I never even blogposted much about the last place I had to live. Fucking psycho landlord with a large post worth of stories that ended up in me getting physically assaulted by her. So as of basically two days ago I'm full time living in this new place (I overlapped my rent x.x so that I could survive a sheriff showing up and violating my rights but I also ended up keeping my cats there for a week early when they felt unsafe).

This new place is horrible but I needed to land fast so I grabbed it. My roommates are hoarders. They have a cat of their own that's unneutered. You can smell the place from the street. And it's already gone from bad to worse from there. When I go to make my last trip to the old place, I take some of the extra furniture the last tenant left in the room to throw out. They're both broken, cheap, clashing with my stuff. Except primary guy (not recluse guy) starts freaking out about keeping it and wants me to put it in the hallway. I just do firm 'no' and move along so there's no discussion. He's blowing my phone up with texts "my roof not yours" shit. I don't respond (1) because I'm driving (2) I'm coming back that night I can just talk in person. Well that's not good enough. He hands the phone over to the psycho recluse who proceeds to "bet you wouldn't like it if one of your cats wasn't home when you got back"

...

"Are you threatening to release my cats??"

"Take it however you want to"

So I DON'T finish cleaning the room I just rented and just grab the last of my shit and go back, cramming it all uncomfortably alongside the fucking dresser I'm being blackmailed for that should be in a dump. I get back and both my cats are thankfully still there but the humans (I reluctantly call them) are unrepentant. Narcissisticly bouncing from one rhetorical position to another. "It was just a tactic! You weren't responding! I would never!" "You deserved it because you took our things" "If you don't like it maybe you shouldn't live here".

So the next day I'm texting with primary because he's upset I threw his towel he left on the shower curtain rack on the floor. I negotiate a pro-rate on the rent if I leave quickly (wish I had a place now). I'm just full 'fuck you fucking violent psycho threatening my cats and then octupling down on it" mode. I walk past him to go to work and "sorry I'm going to be at work so I'm not going to be fast to respond to your last text. Please don't poison my fucking cats."

Offended. How could I portray him like that. He responds "Be respectful."

And I immediately cut him off. "FUCK YOU"

Out the door.

The last text I got from him was basically threatening to sic his psycho mutt on me. "Don't make things worse for yourself. Antonio makes me look like an angel."

So now I'm gonna carry a flip-out box cutter on me and lock every door behind me.

New Ghost in the Shell anime and I find out bc famous e-streamer gamer grrls are noting how transphobic it is. Cyberpunk will never beat the allegations.

The lights on a car's dashboard indicate impending financial ruin

Pay special attention to the "check wallet" light

Thank you mister Ford

My ex was really really into Hamilton, but I was too young at the time to realise how much of a red flag that was. I still have lyrics stuck in my brain, which I think might be worse than knowing all the words to Save a Horse, Ride A Cowboy by heart.

holy shit jon favreau in the director's commentary for the lion king talking about all of his awful decisions like they're inspired artistic choices

Not to be all 😮🫵😲🫵 but I just got some Palestine Cola* in the mail :)

Palestine Cola is a brand beneath Sweden-based Safad Food AB, founded by two brothers whose ancestors displaced by the Nakba.

They supposedly donate a portion of profits to Gazs aid orgs but supposedly this hasn't happened because of the siege? Still, it's a drink I can order in bulk that isn't Pepsi or Coke or whatever the fuck brands there are nowadays.

Aaaaaaaaaand my company has fully embraced claude

I need to know how this shit is sustainable because there is no fucking way they can continue getting away with these measly subscription/token fees. No fucking way

On the gay dating apps, there's such a depressing amount of normal people who just happen to be gay, I don't get it. Where's theremovedots at? Where's the freaks and queers? Like, if you don't get slurs shouted at you on a regular basis, I do NOT fuck with you

Portal Fandom Discourse?

If socialism was a beer

The current/recent bluesky centrist {|struggle session}--soon to be replaced by whatever happens in michigan--centers on the Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Economic Unfairness. It's a direct sequel to their chart-for-dinner fight. We had a nice thread about the theory some time ago.

The fun part about the Bluesky take on it is that the "that is nonsense writing from a fantasy author" crowd is not just doing the "um actually $900 boots are not six times better than $150 boots" thing, they're also actively saying "well yeah obviously $15 bottom of the barrel shoes exist, but who in their right mind would ever buy those? They'd be far better off just saving up for $150 shoes"

All my studies for commercial grade toilets is in vain since place I'm working at just uses residential toilets