From Rusia!

A while back I participated in DBT (dialectical behavior therapy). I’ve been wanting to tackle my anger with thinking about or talking about politics. I couldn’t sleep as I was getting angry in my head over make believe scenarios lashing at liberals for all of the insane, fascistic shit they spew. Then in person, I get so blindly angry I just want to scream. The “this is not who we are” schtick from liberals boils my blood, I’m about to strangle someone. I tried all of the therapy techniques and none of them worked.

I feel that this anger is turning me into a reactionary. The only way I can throw water on it is to not participate in politics at all.

Lmao @ the Ukrainian athlete who ruined his shot at the Olympics because he just had to wear a helmet with killed people on it. Mate, the IOC is on your side. Russia is already banned. They’re not going to jump through any more hoops.

i wonder how that youtuber bayarea smt is doing, hope he doing well.

Thought after reading the ad script on a box of tuna cans: capitalist marketing is the art of sounding like you’re saying something without actually saying anything.

It’s key to committing to nothing, so that you won’t be held liable for anything.

the stuff in my cultural anthropology class is literally just marxism but with a different name

Been thinking about that tweet that goes, “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it”.

Metaphorically, this is true of capitalism and its contradictions, not just climate change. Some are more insulated than others for now, but that won’t always be the case.

I don’t mean it in a scary doomer way either, it’s just like… living through decline is not going to be pretty, already isn’t. And it’s not going to turn around unless the regular people oust the imperialists and the capitalists from power.

Sometimes I just look at my uni’s degree sheets and think about double majoring for no reason. Idk why, but it feels good imagining me getting another degree. I think I just like completing things on lists and getting recognition of task completion once I’m done.

Edit: I won’t cause I need to graduate though. But I might minor in physics or stats or something

I knew it was inevitable, but I finally decided to part ways with some people who I’ve been clinging onto. They’ve been a bad influence and refuse to change for the better. I have treated them with my utmost patience and given them every opportunity to show even the slightest willingness to be better.

The only thing it has cemented in me is that I can’t beat material conditions with ideology. I’m always open to the possibility that I am wrong, it just hasn’t happened. It’s like water mixing with oil, destined to separate, without an emulsifier.

Part of this has been my own faul with my lack of trust in people, fluidity can be a good quality it makes adapting to new things easier, but without a current-water can become impure and repulsive.

And maybe it’s true, maybe a lot of people have become untrustworthy, maybe there are a lot of liars and schemers out there who want to take advantage of each other. It’s possible that I will run into such people again, some of them are the vilest they’re the ones who hide their fangs and bide their time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to pounce on you, but courage is required to build a better world. Otherwise you’ll just end up with liars and schemers on top of everything.

Thoughts on Incendies? I am convinced that it is hugely self-censored. Its quite clear that the setting takes place in the Lebanese civil war.

The movie obfuscates the historical setting by making up names of the cities, however it does not make up names for Canada. For an average western viewer, it could very well be any arab country, after all a place in the middle east where muslim fundamentalists fight christians sounds like any day of the week!

However there are some very obvious references and breadcrumbs to the region, a muslim refugee wears a black and white keffiyeh, a scene there is a sticker in a window that says Palestine, another scene has a half view of a flag that could be very well jordan flag or palestine flag, it is not clear which. The movie itself was filmed in Jordan, so they definitely filmed a Jordan flag but in a way that it is not clear so it makes us think it’s the palestine flag. There are several more references, however i couldn’t see a single reference towards Israel and i was paying very close attention.

The movie is almost 2 decades old, quite before it was plain clear to the mainstream that Israel has been waging war in the region so i imagine the director was very careful here and engaged in self-censorship, which i find disgusting because it clearly gives Israel some plausible deniability of their huge involvement in the war, ffs they leveled and occupied half the country how can you omit this.

What a beautiful gift this XHS user received from his father!

Please could we do trigger warnings and sensor the r word in a similar way to Hexbear? Thank you.

Lemmygrad Continues to Show Resilience in the Face of Extraordinary Challenges

11.02.2026

Starting from the 9th of February 2026, many users have reported that images on Lemmygrad have not been functioning as expected. A large amount of older images in posts, comments, and profile pictures have become unavailable across Lemmygrad communities.

This issue was not caused by any failure of Lemmygrad’s infrastructure, rather due to an unexpected and untimely disruption to one of Lemmygrad’s primary logistical partners.

Since its founding, Lemmygrad has had to overcome many unique challenges not faced by projects less hostile to capital. A lot of diligence went into finding reliable hosting partners, a task made considerably more difficult given the project’s orientation. On Lemmy, it has been the target of strategic defederation campaigns, anti-communist propaganda in liberal and anarchist communities, and has been placed on a hard-coded block-list for Piefed, an explicitly neoliberal and NATO-friendly alternative to Lemmy.
At the time of writing, it is not known whether the disruption and reported decommissioning of Lemmygrad’s multimedia host is another deliberate act of anti-communist hostility.

Regardless of the cause of disruption, Lemmygrad has once again addressed the challenge with the utmost urgency and resolve. Respected comrade @[email protected] has managed to establish relations with another logistical partner, minimise the potential damage from the incident, and is working tirelessly to make the transition as smooth as possible.
Whereas many other communities may have faltered and expressed frustration, the Lemmygrad community rallied around their comrades, showing support and appreciation for their efforts in addressing the issue.

Lemmygrad has not only overcome challenges like these every time, but has also never turned down the call to assist its friends and partners when needed. During the notorious Hexbear domain incident, an existential issue for the socialist instance, The Embassy of Hexbear on Lemmygrad was established to provide refuge and an open line of communication and coordination for Hexbear users.
It has also provided a community for feedback, recruitment and support for sister project ProleWiki.

Lemmygrad has shown itself time and time again to be a reliable partner, but increasingly finds itself having to rely on self-sufficiency. It is not yet known what the long-term solutions for such challenges will look like; what is known is that Lemmygrad, with the support of its community, will always overcome them.

I wonder if statistics should be considered partially a social science rather than an entirely mathematical one. Obviously math is important but…I’ll think about it and come back to this

Edit: mm probably not. I was just thinking about how economics is very much more a social science than what “economists” want it to be so I was trying to think of any other fields that may be like this

The Winter Olympics is dope as fuck. Yesterday I was really invested in curling. Today got me yelling at the ice skating. Really impressive performances.

Fuck the IOC though. Fuckers can’t even ban Israel.