Stirring from my slumber to tell you I now have long hair and also a Bachelor's in Physics with honors

*вітаю усіх, хто відчуває щось

I'm never beating the socialism allegations
(I don't vape, though)

I tried to learn Mandarin once for about two months and made next to zero progress. Duolingo kind of sucks for that, sure, but it also really is just hard

About 80% of the political people I know of are twinky to some extent, and the rest 20% are women with depression and/or anxiety
(Tag yourself)

The phenomenon of twinks being very involved in politics on the internet must be studied

Just saw a progressive American saying they are basically just as oppressed as Palestinians because a lot of people died because of the US covid response. I'm trying very hard not to say something rather unfriendly

Famously, prior to 2022 American healthcare was completely covered by the state. It also cost comparably to the direct financial help Ukraine received.
I refuse to believe these morons are serious

Бійці 35-ї окремої бригади морської піхоти просять допомоги зі збором на автівку.

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Їм немає до кого звернутися крім нас з вами, тож давайте допоможемо їм.

Якщо у вас є вільні 10 секунд - поставте, будь ласка, лайк фіду зі зборами, якщо ви ще цього не зробили, бо він вже вилетів з Топ-50 всіх фідів.
Зборів багато, а от донатів не дуже, хотілося б побільше.
Ну і задонатьте, звісно, якщо ви раптом теж цього не зробили.

you? call yourself submissive?? when you still haven’t submitted your final draft???

And guess what, I don't like vague three-word AI-like "reviews" on the back either. It's depressing that even the publishers think the only reason people might buy books is a famous actor or a NYT quip

My pettiest pet peeve is that writing "now a tv show/movie!" on a book cover must die. It's so maddeningly disrespectful to books as a whole. "Please buy me, you will hardly read me but I promise I'm a great merch to to something you will actually enjoy!"

Went into a rabbithole about my name

my shitlib loser political positions include “it is never morally correct to gun down seven year olds”

It doesn't surprise me when tories do it, but there's a specific place in hell for Starmer

It wouldn't be contradictory to claim that settlers are complicit in Israel's crimes or even that they aren't civilians (a position none of the people I talk about take openly anyway) and that senseless violence is evil. It's campism for campism's sake

It doesn't sit right with me how many influential (Western) people are implicitly dismissing brutalizing civilians/raping women/kidnapping children. There isn't a cause just enough to excuse that, and you shouldn't even wish for there to be

I'm so sorry. It's insane how virulent UK transphobia has gotten, and it's sickening to hear people in the highest offices officially, openly endorse hate against minorities

The type of guy who would happily let millions die as long as they get to feel blameless and morally pristine

I wondered how much time would take tankies to shill for the "I will stalk and deport every single Muslim from Slovakia" guy. Turns out, none at all

The most politically literate tankie

I'm not saying this to feel superior, and the "camps" here are vague and have exceptions, of course. I just expected to have so many moral conflicts over something so life-shattering, and I didn't. People mostly stayed true to the exact values they showed before

It was less involved back then, but we did have our share of pull-yourself-by-the-bootstraps strongman fans who rooted for Trump and similar politicians and mocked progressive causes incessantly. And, of course, they were shocked when the leopards finally got to their faces, too

Sometimes I remember what local discourse about foreign politics was like pre-2022 invasion, and isn't it curious how people who advocate for empathy and mutual aid turned out to be better allies than those who only care about themselves

I just don't understand how a massive corruption scandal and a political murder weren't the final nail in Fico's coffin. Or the racism, the russophilia, the cosying up to nazis and the million other ways Smer blatantly mocks the idea of social democracy

I got extremely lucky with my university social bubble, as someone openly trans and Ukrainian. I can't say the same for any of my other acquaintances, though. The next 4 years for Slovakia look very grim on both fronts at the moment

Slovak election results are disappointing and worrying, to put it mildly. But it's still a marginal improvement over the previous government. The two most openly alt-right parties are out, and there's a sliver of hope that PS will manage a decent coalition

I have broken like three virtual machines. All the software I need was discontinued years ago. None of the instructions work. I don't understand my task. I am not even a programmer.
And yet somehow it kind of works. Magic