Im thankful to be alive. Im thankful for my kids. Im thankful for homegrown tomatoes and roadside peach stands. Im thankful for spaghetti bolognese and real Alfredo sauce. Im thankful for living next to an ocean where i can sit and watch the waves and tune out. Im thankful for being a tiny little spec of insignificant nothing on a mote of dust floating in the beam of a star in the middle of a cosmic vastness that brings me to tears when contemplating its vastness and my place amongst it all. Im thankful for being able to go camping the couple times a year i can afford it, its always low tech and cheap (bedsheets and ramen noodles in cheap walmart/amazon tents) but it affords me a chance to be somewhere semi quiet, semi alone and attempt some self reflection. Lately it placates the urge to go back home when im feeling needlessly wistful.

I think back on my life and there are things im thankful for. Im thankful for the year i spent in a squat in New Orleans sparing for change. Im thankful that year, and the years after spent dealing with drug addiction didnt kill me despite my best efforts. Im thankful for the folks i met out hitching the roads who showed me how to get by. Im thankful to have achieved sobriety (well, 90% anyway) or some semblance of it despite it not bringing the much longed for clarity of mind. Yet. I hope. Im middle aged so who knows. Maybe 2025 is my year.

Im thankful for this place and the mostly anonymous folks that make it up. It tempers my misanthropic tendencies and i enjoy shitposting with some real elites. It encourages me to get better at shitposting and get better at being a good person.

Im thankful i am the age i am. I am at best, halfway through my expected lifespan. Likely closer to 2/3-3/4 of the way through given all the previously referenced drugs and efforts to off myself, but still. I am learning to look back on my life less with embarassment and more with grace, i guess. Beating myself up over it will not change the decisions i have already made. There really is no use crying over spilt milk. All the same, i would not do my 20s again. Likely not my 30s either. Its taken me a long time to even grasp the concept of being comfortable with oneself, let alone understanding that eventually i can get there too. Slowly becoming comfortable enough with my own skin to no longer hide behind a shirt at the pool. Not literally, im a chubby dad bod but metaphorically im getting my swimmers body, svelte even.

Im still broke. Chronically behind on bills, always more going out than coming in. Im not thankful for that, however.

Life seems to pose more questions than answers the older i become and even more so recently than the norm but i have moments where i am happy, life is truly enjoyable, and im thankful for those too. Im trying to make the most of my time here, and despite being generally a misanthrope, and a grumpus, i see how to be happy i think. I guess we will find out.

Anyway. Goodnight yall.

A few months ago in January, I posted on this sub when Google updated the images to early November 2023. The damage was extensive, but I was definitely cherry-picking the worst areas. Now there are images available from 13 months later, and the scale of destruction is almost incomprehensible. Entire villages have been wiped off the map. In the Netzarim Corridor, there are entire square miles without a single standing building. Just vast networks of damaged roads which lead only to dunes of rubble. It’s more than destruction, it’s utter razing.

The majority of these are from northern Gaza (Jabalia, Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, Gaza City) and the Netzarim Corridor, except for the village of Khuza’a which is in the southeast where the Gazan border juts out. I included a more zoomed out version of the photo of Mughraqa since the damage in the Netzarim Corridor was particularly extensive. In the south, images are only available from June 2024 which is before the large scale demolitions in Rafah began.

I see nothing. / This statement is provided by r/worldnews

They even destroy the fields. Because hunger is a weapon.

After the Holocaust where it was being broadcasted on radio worldwide they said never again. / After the Rwandan genocide where it was being broadcasted on TV worldwide they said never again. / Now literally open Google Maps and this genocide is being given to us in 4K. Humanity never learns.

Reminder that Israel has blocked food from entering Gaza since March 2, meaning that they are actively dying from starvation. And this is a war crime.

Israel: trust me bro the whole village was Hamas. The orchards? Hamas trained birds in the trees

Wassup, comrades? I used to post on here constantly. Then I very consciously took a break because I thought it would be good for me. Removing some internet stimuli from my life brought me some peace I hadn't felt in many years. More importantly, since I had some extra time on my hands I went ahead and organized a union. We won our certification vote yesterday.

There was a little more to it. Some people at other worksites had already started the campaign, but as soon as someone approached me about I jumped in all the way. It's the coolest thing I've done in years.

I just wanted to remind you all that working class organizing cuts through a lot of bullshit and it's good for the soul. I'm sure all run into frustrations with this project, but at least it's real.

If you're looking for direction for your political energy, the AFL-CIO organizing institute is something to look into. I went into the program a long time ago (decades ago). They gave me a little training and gave me a list of factories to apply to so I could work on organizing campaigns. The experienced has shaped my entire adult life and given me skills and experience that have made me both a better organizer and Marxist.

I am Joseph Stalin now.

Took a much needed day away from as much as possible. Burned off for a local beach along the Gulf of Mexico with my two tweenagers. Not much surf to speak of today but i don't surf anymore, so not that much of a deal. Found a nice flat spot, we brought out boogie boards, a wood skimboard and a Zap board and just goofed off in less than 2" of water almost all day. Didn't go out much past the knees/mid thigh though. Calmer days like today the sharks come closer to shore and we are multiple miles from city proper here. Built sand castles, dug holes, watched minnows in the foreshore, saw redfish swimming in the breakers, cleaned up some flotsam, ate a picnic lunch under a sun shade ..

All around just a great day and I'm thankful for it.

Bumper stickers aren't as big in Aus as the are in the US, don't often see them. I haven't seen a single pro-Ukraine sticker or Israel Sticker.

But today on my daily commute I saw a ute drive past me with a Free Palestine sticker.

I know it's not much, but it made me smile a little.

A couple months ago I posted about finally getting a interview, and today they called me back with an offer! I'm finally gonna be employed!

Im schizophrenic and have been struggling with paranoia and anxiety these past few months, but I recently got a higher medication dosage, and I think Im feeling much better.

It feels like I can actually win. Not that I necessarily will—but theres a legit shot at it.

I know the world is a scary place for a lot of people, but , I’m feeling kind of upbeat, even though it feels like were reliving the final days of the Weimar Republic in a way.

It's kind of weird when I think about it, but even in a grimdark setting, there will be people who, somehow, despite bad odds, remain hopeful. I want to be someone like that.

Have an owl in these trying times

The video is an American family out catching crayfish. That sticker with the dog using chopsticks is too funny. They have Hexbear level emoji over there.

The vibes are good over on Little Red Book.

I just wanted to post something happy for once.

I have never felt this loved. I never knew I could make someone else feel this loved. I relate to her so much that it's shocking honestly.

It's just so damn genuine...

I could gush and gush for ages about all the things I love about her, honestly, but to keep it short, I'll close with this: this love just feels magical. I have never felt this way in my life.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4130056

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After 6 months of applying to jobs I finally had an interview today and it actually went well. It's for a support worker position in a group home, fingers crossed I hear back.

Let this man fill your heart

My friends and I are all in our early 20s, most finishing/ out of college. A few years ago they were all liberals who either turned their nose up at the word socialism or were "apolitical".

Now, having been through a pandemic, living through a housing crisis, working in minimum wage jobs, witnessing the rise of European fascism and seeing the sheer disrespect capitalists have for us, all of them, without exception, have become or are becoming leftists. I don't even talk about politics that much with them, although they know I'm a communist. They have all voiced dissatisfaction with capitalism and named capitalism directly as the cause of their problems. Some of them openly call themselves socialist. None of them have any faith in liberals.

My main political issue now is to get them to become active in politics. I've encouraged them to join workers and tenants unions and will do that more every time I'm drunk. I try to get them to pro-Palestinian protests. I have high hopes that within a few years, I will successfully convert most of them to communism

it is never joever for the working class