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Got back from Otakon!!

Honestly, the Avatar movie kinda sucked though.

Honestly, nothing substantial happened.

My local library has barely any Marx, so I'm looking for other fun things to read, any ideas?

I had not watched a movie for more than a year and yesterday i decided to open up Netflix, and chose the first thing there. The lady in cabin 10 or smt like that, it's like a boring Glass Onion clone. Not 10 mins in and it tries to whitewash the Guardian as honest journalism and has a mention of brave kurdish women, also

I drew the murderous aberration that drags people into the murky depths cutely, so you think Stalin's great blood hunt was a bad thing now right?

[2026-07-30] @FluffKaiser@twitter.com: Old people say rusalki were a common sight all around central and southern Russia

And each one says they disappeared when the bolsheviks came

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This has been going on for a while now but its absolutely dire seeing companies on the pride parade. Fuck you mean Takeaway needs a boat? Let them not abuse their employees first.

I hate the fact that, in scifi book reading circles 1984 novel has become a standard of "dystopia". I can't escape it.

I was told there would be posts

[2026-07-06] @SOULPRICE@twitter.com: normalize putting ur favorite ships in your thesis acknowledgment

[2026-07-06] @Netflix_PH@twitter.com: CAITVI MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️ congratulations!

Terrible things are happening in the humanities.

To explain why Netflix Philippines is replying, the rest of the thread shows she is essentially writing sapphic YA fanfiction based on Filipino mythology. It's going in the files.

[2026-07-26] @EllenAbare@twitter.com: Hinkle was a Climate Action Southern California boy before he was groomed by the Schiller Institute..and joined the ACiaP Psyop Crew.

[2026-07-26] @Nat10921287@twitter.com: For some reason, they always end up choosing the wrong side

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[2026-07-27] @MollyBuvoCia@twitter.com: We told [Yemeni journalist Ahmed Hassan] not to trust him!

[2026-07-27] @EllenAbare@twitter.com: I heard some of them are going to Yemen in a few months without Hinkle but they're the same as him.

These 2: Helali and Bils

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People really overestimate how much of what they see online is organic especially when they want to believe there is some kind of pipeline from not wanting to fund Ukrainian neonazis to hating charming gay etcetera people. The truncated bit is a lot more important than the header. It concerns infiltration of Iranian and Yemeni media spaces.

Not the only people who called out Ahmed Hassan for promoting these idiots. I don't think his repeated paper-thin denials about it point to an honest mistake. Maybe he is just really hungry for clout, but that wouldn't be very Ansarallah of him so don't start excusing that please. Like there's gotta be at least one Catherine Shakdam lurking around still, we know that because she willingly revealed herself to mock the Iranians. So I'm guessing there are hundreds of Catherines.

[2026-07-30] @radiosalamandra@twitter.com: col. james salvador option steele in the middle later directed the iraq dirty war (phoenix program)/blackwater-guarded network of torture sites that proliferated after the abu ghraib reporting

Iliad can accurately be called Troy Story.

The moment external investors acquire ownership interests in FIFA competitions, football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. Investor expectations become a daily pressure. From that moment onwards, every decision on the international calendar, every decision on competition formats and every decision shaping the future of football is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders. — UEFA statement

Quite interesting that top executives from UEFA, whom also are quite embedded in the global finance capitalism, can acknowledge this fundamental reality. This is not even about football, it's a reality that permeates every single corporate institution these days.

Reposting for absolutely no reason.

[2026-08-01] @SxLongshadow@twitter.com: Streamers exist to ride waves of popularity and to distract people, helping to foment the idea that someone naturally came to something rather than fed it from the top down. Sneako is as performative as the rest. Not worth wasting time on. The empire uses the internet for control

[2] This is from a 1968 study by Britton Harris "a technology of social progress" which is part of a series of studies funded by the USA to reverse engineer Maoist formations and combat communist organizing. Lot of folk have let the CIA convince them that theres a way to coup them.

[3] That is to say, theres a very large segment of people who think that peacefully taking control of the internet and using it for "communist social progress" is possible bc they see China do it. Yet it ignores what had to happen first. That's why we ignore streamers/internet

I'm taking up bouldering and for some reason it has a really left wing audience. I have been to multiple locations and they were all plastered with lgbtq+ flags or anarchist and communist stickers.

I am looking into blocking infrasound as completely as possible.

Learning how

Sorry to jump topic a bit bit I cant believe Disney live action/realistic cgi remakes have been going on for so long. I mean, I guess they were making money so there was no reason for them to stop, but I for one don't understand how they were making money tbh

Sorry to vague post a little bit, but I hate "half denouncement." [Term by me].

What I mean is when people will rage so vehemently against something, but won't actually rage against the implications of said thing.

As much as I hate to bring the topic up, US veterans are a good example here. Here and other places like the deprogram subreddit will rage against veterans and take the BE position on things. This comment isn't to debate that position, I think it's an understandable one even if I have a few disagreements.

But in none of these discussions no one ever criticizes, for instance, the PSL that holds what I'll term the "old line." The PSL is very explicitly in the camp of what people criticize, and yet I very rarely see it brought up. Either in discussions on veterans or on the PSL. Not saying it has to be every time, just that it feels like a blind spot

This goes for other things too, but I just wanted to put this out here for rn while I was thinking about it

Edit: another example is Russia. Again, not here to actually debate a position, but both r/communismmemes and the deprogram subreddits took an inter imperialist war position on the conflict. However, when the DPRK has taken a much more pro-russian position, I feel like that criticism kinda got blind spotted by a lot of people

No serious rain for the next ten days. The Rhine river is at its lowest ever. Everything outside looks beige.