Today I kept thinking about the utter fucking waste the capitalist system is. In terms of natural resources but also in terms of human resources.

Like, tens of thousands of people are unemployed in this country and many of them can and will work in some form or another. They get harassed continually about finding a job and the have to fill their time doing shit temp jobs that pay very little, creating profit for someone else while barely getting by and falling into an endless cycle of unemployment.

And then there are millions of people in The West stuck in some shitty wage slave job just because it costs money to exist. And then I haven't even started about actual slaves in the third world who get exploited to the max.

Imagine how much we could do if we could all get along and if money wasn't the single most important thing in life.

Today is my birthday. Enjoy puppy.

I fucking hate just how desensitized I've become to videos of dying kids the past 3 weeks. It's difficult trying to stay in the loop while also preserving sanity.

I have a lengthy rant prepared for the day after tomorrow.

Here is a hint: it has something to do with horseshoe theorism.

The fact that anyone can still think the accusations about Xinjiang are real now that they're seeing what a real genocide looks like - and how hard it is to keep a lid on solid evidence from escaping in this modern era - is wild to me.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

Had one of the best interviews in my time as a wage slave last week and really felt like I hit it out of the park. They said I'd know on Friday. Well here it is Monday and still donno. Should I keep holding out or just blow my brains out now get it over with?

On a more cheerful note, I'm finally starting my dive into non-ML leftist theory and started Anarchy Works by peter Gelderloos and it's been a pretty enjoyable read. The format is basically Idea, historical example, and synthesis of ideas with praxis for each chapter. But it's clear and easy to digest. I'm 1/4 in and started Saturday and that with barely any time to read and I'm not a fast reader normally.

I'm pretty sure I'm definitely not an anarchist but I like that I am developing a fuller understanding of the concepts. I do like the idea of little pocket anarchist communities popping up all the time tho because even if they never last, it does show that humans can still be communal for at least a moment.

Might take a sidestreet after this book and read up on syndicalism since that's also piqued my interest recently.

Apparently my “anarchist” aunt likes to feel like a cop.

I scored 9/11 at my workplace battery safety training course

Europeans on the DPRK: 'lmao they are so brainwashed, how could they let that happen?'

Europeans in history class: 'And then our brave adventurers set sail to the rest of the world, and DISCOVERED Asia, Africa and the Americas!'

Blows my mind how we keep telling ourselves that we discovered the world while people were already living there. Pure white supremacy.

Invented a tart recipe in my head a few weeks ago and just absolutely no-scoped the motherfucker tonight. It was a pear-frangipane tart with the tart crust flavored with herbal liquer, the frangipane flavored with orange blossom water, and the pears' main flavor of ouzo.

It was my bf's birthday dinner I made it for. He invited all of his lovers over and it gave me a bit of (maybe this is the word?) schaudenfreude that my dish was the best received of all of them.

Still not super into poly, but it has been a big learning experience.

I was looking through the flags of the SSRs. It's a collection that spans from beautiful to horrendous, imo. Georgia is cool because it kind of hurts my eyes to look at, but in a good way, I think. Waves on flags looks pretty good. Some of my favourite are in the "other republics" section, Bhukharan and Transcaucasia.

edit: cw: eye strain