its a tv miniseries

saw it mentioned in a youtube video by FD signifier, I just finished the first episode, and I enjoyed it a lot, something about needing positive propaganda not just constant commenting on reactionary garbage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_a_Virgo

synopsis below, directed by Boots riley, released 2023

Cootie is a 13-foot-tall (4.0 m), 19-year-old Black teenager raised by his Aunt Lafrancine and Uncle Martisse in Oakland, California. He is shielded from the outside world until being accidentally discovered by a group of teenage political activists

“I didn’t vote,” says the Kangaroo.

“Are you not allowed?”

“I am not allowed and I don’t want to.”

“You don’t want to?”

“No, because it’s not an election,” says the Kangaroo. “It’s just the illusion of democracy, a mock poll, the Fata Morgana of popular government. In short, it’s only the appearance of an election, or, to use the official terminology: a dummy ballot.

“A dummy ballot?”

“It’s as if you go into a supermarket and can choose between soup packets by Maggi or soup packets by Knorr, but in reality, it’s all Nestlé. The dummy ballot suggests freedom, but in reality, I tell you: it’s all capitalism, it’s all Nestlé, it’s all chicken. But because I generally do not wish to consume packaged soup, I don’t really give a hoot about brand options at the supermarket.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kangaroo_Chronicles

I never finished reading it, but the first chapter is on youtube as an audiobook read by the author, it's good for a laugh

Marc-Uwe Kling: Kangaroo Chronicles - Chapter 1 (youtube, 4m 17s)

NSFW probably

content warning for the article and anything related sexual violence, sex abuse (sorry this wasn't here initially)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos

🤓 nah you're right, the striking workers had not considered they could shoot their boss, you're so clever

sorry I'm cranky this morning

I should have shared this sooner, I made one of these events today, was really good, and I left feeling really invigorated and hopeful

November 6 at 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Palestine: Hyper-Imperialism and the Global South

November 2 at 10:00 am to 6:00 pm

Teach-In: Socialism and Anti-Imperialism – Vijay Prashad Tour

Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre Arts West (Building 148), University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Boorloo (Perth) Activist Centre 15/5 Aberdeen St, Perth, Australia

November 6 at 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

There Will Be No Modi 3.0 in India (Perth) – Vijay Prashad Tour

Herbert Smith Freehills Lecture Theatre Law Building (Building 465), Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia

hey comrades,

I've been having this issue that I thought must have been related to me using Voyager, but I just experienced the same thing through desktop firefox.

When I respond to some users the page load times out and says I can't reply, but it has posted my reply (often without upvoting my own comment)

Obviously not thrilled to be tagging people but one user I have noticed it with replying @Angel@hexbear.net, both threads and comments.

Which is extra annoying cause I've been really enjoying nerding out together.

I think it has happened with other users too. (Really regretting not saving the thread that was extra broken I saw earlier in the week.)

A comrade just sent me this, from https://cubaisnotalone.art/

Short video from https://means.tv via youtube

okay I admit this one is leaning a bit heavily into some of the libertarian energy they had in the 70s, but I've been (hounded) by older rush fans to tell me "THEY CHANGED"

but anyway, I'm listening to this because i am mad and the chorus is close to "you don't work, you don't eat"

the song slaps, dont @ me

I'm pretty embarrassed that almost every song from the We Are Lady Parts series gives me goosebumps. I hope this stuff inspires a whole lot of people to start playing guitar!

Sorry I'm posting a listicle, and I didn't CW for FOOD because it's c/food

I just went down a rabbit hole reading about Uzbek food and saw this

Uzbek-style plov is found in the post-Soviet countries and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. In Xinjiang, where the dish is known as polu, it is often served with pickled vegetables, including carrots, onion and tomato.

Yeah I shouldnt be surpised, you can walk from Xingjang and Uzbekistan, and I did know this, I'm just excited about plov! Years ago my housemate and I made an amazing vegan rendition of Plov with apples and cashews, I wish I could remember what else we used...

It doesnt feel possible for me, but I like to imagine one day visiting Xinjiang

anyway, #plovposting is a much healthier late night activity that peeling through imperialist rags

If we go to war with China there'll be nothing to buy, nothing to buy -- nothing to buy, nothing to buy

dorky song by a local band that I get stuck in my head on the regular.