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What good things are happening right now? Good news from your neck of the woods? Good vibing? Anything to take the mind off of... all this?

Just seen a thread on reddit, where people are complaining about UK residents having to provide their ID to see online porn. The outrage is widespread, you never see this kind of outrage when kids or the disabled are being starved to death by the government. One redditor even said something like, "I was appalled when the government made it more difficult for people to get disability benefits, but this - requiring ID for porn - has gone too far and now I really want to do something about this!"

Hey Comrades 😍,

It’s been a minute since I last posted the internet where I’m at has been super spotty, and honestly, things have been really rough.

About three weeks ago, we got attacked in the camp just for being trans. They burned down our shelters. My sisters got hurt trying to run away, and we’ve been stuck in the hospital since then ...it’s the only place that would take us in. We don’t have much, but we have each other, and that’s been everything.

Thanks to some amazing people who stepped up, we covered emergency medical care. I honestly don’t have words for how grateful we are ..you helped save lives.

So far, we’ve raised $500 out of the $750 we need to move into a safe apartment in Juba. Right now, we’re still stuck in this hospital, waiting. Just $250 more and we can finally get out and have a place to breathe and heal.

If you can help out, or even just share this post, it would mean the world to us.

👉🏿 https://gofund.me/23fca5f6

Thank you for sticking with us, even while I’ve been quiet.

With all my love and hope, Onandrah

1. I think I fucked up my sleep schedule. Ended up sleeping before 4 AM and woke up before I PM shortly. On the other hand, I got some weird ass dream

2. My dream: I don't recall a structure

I was making a sweet lentil porridge. I used a fried egg, some chocolate-based substance, and stirred up together. (Idk if I ate it), then I took my nerf gun, this bolt action-ass rifle, I somehow shortened the barrel of the gun by pressing it down (like you do with a foldable table) and loaded up with its pellet.

3. I've just about wrote a singable cover for KINO's song "A star called the sun" (zvezda po imeni solntse)

I am now officially a turbo nerd. I should apologise to that one Linux guy my friends and I all made fun of in high school

I was going to try dual-booting anyway later this year once Microsoft takes Windows 10 behind the shed and forces Windows 11 on all of us, but the push for pulling the trigger now ended up being my recent post musing about AI. I was informed AI image generation is actually pretty doable on consumer-grade PCs these days and I wanted to mess around with it but it turns out that AMD GPUs + Windows sucks for anything AI. After not getting anywhere with ComfyUI-Zluda, I went out and grabbed a cheap SSD drive and installed Linux Mint on it. Not sure if I'll get anywhere with image generation with Linux either since my GPU isn't that great regardless, but the important bit is getting Linux experience

I'm currently setting up my programs and I really like the feeling of Mint so far, very reminiscent of Windows back when it didn't suck ass

If you couldn't tell already since I'm too vocal about It, I'm from Serbia.

After the fall of Yugoslavia, this place has become a place of deepest reaction. The people here have been doomed to elect between a neoliberal big tent right wing ruling party and a pro-west liberal opposition, most of the higher ranking members being your typical bourgeoisie.

To update you on the student movement that made a lot of noise a while back. It's falling apart really due to It losing It's originally decent focus from having to concrete leadership. It unfocused from student demands to parliamentary elections and begging the EU to intervene. Then again what was I expecting?

I didn't think I'd be jealous of American students protesting for Palestine while these fuckers are talking about "democracy and a fair state". Whatever that means.

I fucking hate It here man.

Yeah, title. I'm tired of being an addict. Literally everyday is a fight not to drink/use and ruin my life and I'm tired of it. Like what, I have 4 months sober and my life has only gotten worse since then. It's not because I got sober, but holy shit I lose healthcare, I have to deal with the shittiest roommates ever, and I'm not even high enough to not care? And I can't even sell weed anymore to keep my finances stable. I have to come on here and ask for $30 so I can have a chance at donating plasma every week just in hopes of making my situation better. Yeah, I've been thinking about trying to kill myself again recently because even when I was drinking a gallon of vodka a day my life was better than this, and it doesn't even look like I have prospects of making my life better. What's the point of being sober when my entire life just rots around me regardless of what I do?

What even happens if I get a better job with more hours, I literally solidify my position of not getting healthcare. And with recent cuts, I doubt I'll have it next year. Schizophrenia meds + hormones are nearly $100 a month, and that's literally just the baseline cost of not losing my fucking mind and doing some redacted shit that ruins my life. Like before I was on meds and still on Phenibut. I broke up a Nazi protest and almost ran one of them over, I was inches away from ruining my life and making national headlines that would have lambasted me for doing something fairly reasonable.

Speaking of Phenibut, I've been craving it like crazy recently. I've been in an auto immune flair up this week and existing has just been miserable, and I can't take time off without starving and missing rent. Phenibut completely relieved me of all my auto immune issues and gave me energy to work more than part time. I literally became a chef when I was on Phenibut, my life was better when I was on Phenibut and I just have to constantly talk myself out of ordering another tub of it. My life has only gone downhill since I quit, and I'm fucking tired of it. Like this is just my life now, I'm constantly in pain and struggling to get enough energy to do basic human functions and I'm just supposed to be fine with it, like this is how people are supposed to live.

Sorry for the rant, it's been a really bad week for me. I'm still sober, but I literally don't see the point in me being sober anymore. I don't see the point in not ordering another tub of Phenibut and using until I eventually try to kill myself from the suicidal ideation it causes in me. Life just keeps on getting worse and I'd probably be doing better if I was fucked up and just working through it, and it's hard to accept that doing good for myself isn't necessarily good for me.

https://theonion.com/belichick-magnet/

Im talking about these Beauties. They are like 20€ and they can package just about everything into a sand which.

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You want to make Egg Benedict to go, but don't want the cleanup? Throw it into a sand which maker, the sauce won't leak a bit. You want to make chicken bits with curry sauce? You can. Hamburgers? Salad with ceasar sauce? A simple cheese and ham sand which? Yes, yes and yes. If you wanna try you can make doners that don't leak everywhere. And all that, once again,with 2 slices of toast and a device smaller than a microwave

After getting a flat 10 km from home last month I wanted soemthing I could carry in my backpack for longer bike rids in case I hit a rogue piece of glass again

Briefly considered getting one of those small electric pumps but I ended up buying this small floor pump for about 7€ off AliExpress.

I can't get over how cool and compact the design on this thing is. Maybe they're really common elsewhere, but the only comparably small manual bicycle pumps I've seen in Finland are those absolutely dogshit hand pumps that I refuse to believe anyone has ever successfully managed to fully inflate a tire with

Marble Avengers Infinity Stoned

I like anime. It's definitely better than most white culture shit. It just feels like the #1 theme or trope for a video game or series (that isn't the West) is Japan. I'm just utterly bored to death of Japanese schools, Japanese feudal themes, yakuza shit, Tokyo streets, etc. Yes, it's 1000 times cooler than New York or Texas. I'd rather play Ace Attorney or a Yakuza game than COD or Modern warfare. I'd rather watch JoJo's Bizarre Adventure than Family Guy. Japanese stuff is often cooler than Western stuff.

God I can't complain if Japanese developers want to make something that they know with the language they speak. My big gripe is non-Japanese developers imitating Japan because that's what sells. Think Genshin Impact, Battle Realms, or Blue Archive. My steam recommendations are filled with Japanese themes made my non Japanese developers. No, I'm not offended. I'd just like to play a game, once, that doesn't have samurai and geisha. It would be neat to learn about another culture that isn't Japan. Maybe go to another continent.

Wouldn't it be neat to play a stealth game in Nigeria or Bolivia, and not yet another game with Samurai.

I asked out a friend of mine who I've been trying to ask out for a while now to grab coffee next week. They said yes but I don't think they got the more than platonic intentions I had, they seem kind of oblivious to it (or are just hiding it well). I can't flirt if my life depended on it, how can I convey my romantic intent without just... saying it outright?

idk if I'm giving enough context or detail here but feel free to ask if you need

What do I get? 6 texts in a row of her fumbling to say a bunch of points after points that are hardly coherent.

She starts by saying that I'm responsible because I'm the only person who lives here, but that rhetoric does not hold up legally. Also, I'm not the only tenant who has EVER lived here, either, and she has not taken before/after pictures of this. She even admits that she's just assuming that I caused this by letting water run down the cabinet and not wiping it, but she does not have any actual evidence that's the case.

Then she says she'll let it dry and do an assessment in a couple of months, but this seems weird to me because if you see merit in letting it dry and doing an assessment in a couple of months, then why did you immediately jump to a $300-that-I-have-to-pay-for solution in the first place? Wouldn't you, instead, have supported waiting for it to dry FIRST and then see if that's the route we need to go? Why is this only coming up NOW?

She basically just concluded on saying that we'll wait and see, but she did this across 6 texts that just seemed panicky in the way she sent them out... one after another after another after another.

And me? I didn't respond a word.

I don't think I will.

There’s this one simulation/sandbox game set in ancient Rome that I’m hella excited for, assuming I can get my hands on something that can run Steam.

I’ve always wanted to have an artistic hobby or whatever. I’ve never been able to draw anything more advanced than abstract shapes but learning to draw 2D sprites (especially 8bit and less) seems attainable.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5637857

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5637211

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5633856

Hello everyone. It has been quite some days since I last posted because I’ve been very sick and deeply depressed. It was unfortunate that immediately when I had just finished the treatment, I got badly ill to the point that I felt like I was going to lose life but I’m now fair and thank you all for your support. Honestly this is really super urgent and it really needs your intervention. Some host community members and refugees have now started to attack us. This comes after the government of South Sudan told every queer refugee to leave the Gorom refugee settlement. So now the attackers are now using this chance to harm us. They are doing this broad day light threatening to kill us. This is a very horrible situation especially to us who visibly trans and the fact that many know our faces in really scared that we might lose lives.

I’m sorry I know it’s really overwhelming especially to what’s happening to rest of the world but as refugees who are desperate, we have no where to turn to apart from you. I really don’t know how I can explain this but we need your support as the government told us to relocate to Juba a while ago but we can’t sustain ourselves without support. It’s extremely dangerous to stay on the streets especially in a country like South Sudan because even being of different nationality makes you a target.

Kindly consider supporting us to get shelter. Shelter is all we need right now as we wait in for UNHCR’s support.

We are trying to raise 850$ for three months that are supposed to be paid prior the entry and transportation of our belongings. We’ve raised a little, but it’s nowhere near enough. It’s really urgent and needs your immediate rescue.

The support link is on my profile, please consider helping us through it. We shall be grateful

I decided against posting this to c/vegan as I want some negative feedback.

For the record, I absolutely am not saying that my not killing bugs is a noble act. Frankly it's just vibes. I've been on this planet for 40+ years as a bug murderer. I would not be invited to the Bugs are Friends convention.

I've just been feeling a lot of personal stress this year. A lot of stuff has been going on in my personal community, and I'm seeing a lot of hostile stuff from the state as well as a lot of people are struggling more. I do mutual aid but it just feels like a drop in an ocean of need. On top of that, a situations happening that cause me to be homeless is not far from the realm of possibility. I'm unsure if I'm overreacting, but I can imagine myself being homeless. (Sorry homeless comrades if this feels like I'm trivialising it).

Obviously the attacks on vulnerable groups are terrifying, and as active as I am in orgs to agitate against it, I feel hopeless to do anything about it.

So with all that happening, I just have this dude chilling in my room:

He's not hurting anyone. He's responsible for non of the shit that's going on right now. He's just living. Why should I give a fuck about him???

Previously I would occasionally spray and leave traps. I'd squash a bug if it was annoying. Now I just keep my place clean. If I see two that means there's maybe many more under the sink and shit. But are they hurting me? (That is a real question if you want to answer.) I'd probably slap a mosquito if they got close, as I don't want a disease, but wearing long trousers and long sleeve shirts when in nature takes care of most of it. In fairness, many a friend and comrade how commenting how I'm weird that I can wear long sleeves/trousers in 40 degree celsius weather.

I'm a middle aged guy. You're not gonna hurt my feelings by critiquing me. BTW I'm not yet advocating for not killing bugs, this is 100% my feelings at this point.

he made his fundraiser like a day after it aired. i doubt he had a job to get fired from. seemed like a loser lol. probably just knew he could get money from even dumber racists by saying he lost the job he never had.

I made a website where you can draw a fish. And you can watch it swim around. If you're interested in it. I spent a lot of time on it and I'm not really sure who to share it with.

http://drawafish.com/ if you are interested. would love to hear your thots...

But I'm easy to gaslight, so I need input from others.

My landlord came over today and saw that the wooden cabinet of my sink has endured some water damage. Of course, this means that the wood has broken down a little. However, ultimately, this is a cosmetic issue. The cabinet isn't any more or less functional because of this. That being said, it's still understandable that she wants it to be fixed.

Now, she is saying that she has to get someone to replace the whole sink.

To me, that seems overkill for one portion of a wooden cabinet with some water damage. She says that it can cost $300 USD or more, and she wants to take this out of my security deposit.

A part of me deeply feels like this is a manipulative attempt for her to get more money out of me than actually necessary.

I texted her that I'm seeking DIY solutions because I do not think that a cosmetic issue is so urgent that we need to impulsively seek such a pricey fix like that. So far, she hasn't responded, but I don't know what she'll say.

Is this a bunch of bullshit?

Update: I will not DIY so that I'm not held liable for any fuck-ups I do, but I drafted a text I will send her tomorrow letting her know that, legally, she has no evidence to use this against me in a way that makes her able to charge for it. Therefore, I refuse to take financial responsibility for it. Fuck landlords.

Looking for some slop I can binge watch.

Any suggestions? Currently on the final season of Schitt's Creek. Just rewatched The Expanse, Better Off Ted and Letterkenny before I started Schitt's Creek.

Nothing serious. I don't want to learn anything. No true crime or docuseries whatevers. No an*me. Nothing political (I know I know everything's political). I'm fine w it being something you have to pay attention to from ep to ep. I'm fine with something you don't have to pay attention to. Doesn't have to be modern, or new. Doesn't have to be in English as long as there's some subtitles.

Just need some slop. Please and thanks n stuff.

I was eating lunch and had the news on. Another aid site, more killed in a baltant kill zone set up by the IOF. Last night I watched footage of a father holding his dead boy as bullets whizzed by overhead at one of these sites. The children are starving to death and here I am with a full stomach.

It makes me despair so much. I try and just disassociate most days, filling my time with mindless shit like youtube or video games. But there's days like today that the façade cracks and the suffering shines through.

The USA is like a cruel owner of a vicious rabid dog that's Israel and it's mauling children and you're not allowed to intervene. No matter how gruesome the scene is all you can do is standby and watch.

I was thinking about it: conspiracy theorists say events like 9/11 were a human sacrifice done to appease the mad god people like Nancy Pelosi worship. Okay, then by that logic, is Gaza not? What else do you call a broadcasted genocide the world tunes in on to catch a glimpse of the barbarism, other than a human sacrifice on an industrial scale?

I think it will go down as one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th/21st century that the Jews became the very fascists they loathed.