SpiderFarmer

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Actual pain. Like a lack of object permanence, but for periods of time. What is that called. Am... Ambrosia, right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm flattered. I'll send a link your way. I just strummed my banjo and sang. It's not picking up steam yet, but we're kinda waiting till it clears on streaming sites to start advertising ourselves. This is my first actual contribution to an album. Before that I just sat in jam circles or did some FAWM stuff.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

Dog kills Cop is such a bizarro-world headline.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

Holy fuck! They're saying Kamala lost Michigan because of Iranian disinformation. I almost want to make a reddit just to hop in and mock them.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 14 hours ago

Sounds like we need to liberate Minnesota, no matter how much white phosphorus it takes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

That raises my spirits, honestly. I expected waaay worse numbers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Sleeping well and getting back into running. Trying to ignore a lot of leftist posts to get involved in stuff. I am involved, just trying to lay low for a week and recover. Oh, and the album I contributed to was officially released on Bandcamp last week. Been riding that high.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Going back into the activism next week. I sort of have a history of crash and burn cycles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Fuckers like these are really ruining the rainbow flag for me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Thought that was Timothy Chamalet for a second. Tbf, I was reaaaally zoomed out.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm hopeful. The PSL I know are nearly tireless.

 
 

I swear, every time I find the perfect brand of minimalist shoes for running with my flat feet, they get popular, then to appeal to the growing crowd slowly morph into more of an Air Jordan bodyplan. It happened with Sauconys way back in the day and now I'm watching it happen again with Altras. I'm a bit too poor to buy my running shoes in bulk. If I'm lucky maybe I can get an older model off of Ebay for cheap.

And yeah, I love my toe shoes, but those are more for trail running or just doing errands.

 

I know some five years back when I was more lib, there was talk and articles on how palm oil harvesting was using slave labor and people were killing orangutans and stuff. It's basically resulted in me avoiding stuff with palm oil, which tends to include some of the fancier snacks at times and convenience foods as well.

But it wasn't until recently I found myself wondering, is palm oil really on par with the shit that goes on with chocolate? Or is this on some level the usual anti-Asian sentiment I see in so much Western media, possibly taking some bad instances and extrapolating it to countries and peoples' as a whole?

P.S. sorry for the run-on sentences. I actually shaved it down a bit. Anyway, may disappear for a few hours, but this has been weighing on me a bit.

 

And if someone beat me to it and I missed it, just lmk.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I should likely preface this to say this isn't an explicit defense of that chain of stores and that I am as Polish-American as a pierogi. So..., super cracker .

On a recent trip there for some reasonably priced clothes ~1~ the overall vibe kinda set in. You pick up a coffee~2~, grab a cart, and just wander through the aisles looking at the basic colors and neat little things. What this is effectively creating is a "sanitized" version of a Farmer's Market or Flea Market.

The years of wastes composed of manicured lawns and bloodthirsty stroads, paired with decades of neoliberalism and nuclear family focus has left people wanting. People are spread out, alienated, and rarely if ever get the feeling of a third space or place to wander without spending money. While money is certainly being spent on Target, in a weird way I can see how it tickles a small part of the brain when you're out replacing a jacked-up appliance or grabbing some school supplies for your kid.

Maybe you could argue this goes as far back as the enclosure movement or that the only time it felt pronounced was within the past 50 years or so, but it's a weird flocking spot for those clearly experiencing an emptiness or lack~3~. This is a case to maybe feel less anger and more pity~4~.

  1. Finally affording better than the Ace Hardware jeans, baby!
  2. Though I won't cause I'm not a Zionist and I'm picky enough that I own a 1 pound roasting drum.
  3. I think I'm using this right.
  4. Though I also know people who have worked Target and some of those suburbanites can only get off if they made some teenage worker cry.
 

Some Hall'oweeny music from an artist who's really been gaining traction lately.

 

I'm a bit fond of collecting stuff. Coins, cards from defunct TCG's, books, and I'm doing my best not to get into stamps. Oh, and of course anything spider themed.

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