chapotraphouse

Invidious instances work less than 10% of the time, and it's annoying to keep hopping instances to get on to work

Now ghostarchive.org seems to be blocked too?? I submit something and it stays 'archiving' for a very long time, seemingly indefinitely.

https://archive.ph/tR7s6

Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”

"But I still want to get paid for it."

Some nerds were doing that thing where 40k fans are like "OH NO SEXZ IS HERESY!" when it's pretty definitively not and is basically one of the only things in 40k that isn't heretical (as long as you're not doing evil slannesh shit) and it got me thinking about repression of sex under "in bad country regimes".

And a whoooooooooooooooooooooooooole fucking thing in 1984 was how liberating and humanizing it was that the author's grungy middle aged self-insert was boning a 19 year old member of the Junior Anti-Sex League, and, like... America has several thousand different Junior Anti-Sex League and I'm not sure if the USSR ever had any? Like, yeah, maybe they did, but under capitalism Americans have literally convinced themselves they'll go to hell if they see a tiddy and the English famously just hate joy. So what the fuck was Orwell trying to critique with his "Junior Anti-Sex League" in spoooooky Stalinist England?

i know but still a good read

Being a shithead can manifest itself in many ways:

If your friend says something offensive, and you don't call them out, or you only gently scold them so you can stay on good terms - you're being a shit head.

If you're criticising people behind their back, or holding your tongue in a meeting, and gossiping later - you're being a shithead.

If you're letting people off lightly because what they say doesn't personally affect you - you're being a shithead.

If you're demanding special treatment, while expecting others hold themselves to a higher standard - you're being a shithead.

If you resort to personal attacks, instead of arguing against an incorrect point - you're being a shithead.

If you hear someone state a falsehood as fact, and you don't correct them - you're being a shithead.

If you're at work and you're not agitating, and showing no concern for the well-being of others - you're being a shithead.

If you see someone harming others, while you do nothing to stop them, and do not try to reason with them - you're being a shithead.

If you do the bare minimum, with no direction, plans or goals - you're being a shithead.

If you consider yourself a veteran, better than others around you, and above menial tasks, - you're being a shithead.

If you're aware you've made a mistake, and you do nothing to correct it - you're being a shithead.

Being a shithead might keep you comfortable and safe, but you're doing harm to those around you when you engage in these behaviours.

If you're being a shithead, do not.

I try my best to uphold these principles, so yeah I guess you can say I'm pretty unpopular.

😎

Yes I did just do a shorthand version of combat liberalism and ctrl+h "liberal" with "shithead", the idea of making a poster with these points that just says "DONT BE A SHIT" has been floating around in my noggin for a while, yes thank you, I am very funny.

spoiler 😱 actually if the original copy of this said "shitremoved" and I changed it to "shithead" so I don't upset anyone, is that liberalism? 🤔 /s :::

I feel like this should almost go in c/badposting haha

This is cute as hell

The Irish just keep winning

https://www.reddit.com/r/hurricane/comments/1fr1iep/massive_house_fire_in_tampa_fl_neighbor_said_it/

https://fxtwitter.com/8BitProletariat/status/1842308945375015362

Dealing With October 7: 'Trauma Is Like a Scar, or a Tumor, and It Ripples Out to Friends and Families'

Ilana Kwartin talks about setting up a space to help traumatized victims of October 7 and the war with non-traditional, mind-body methods: 'This is a huge change in our Israeliness. It's not for nothing that the Shin Bet, the Mossad and the police send us their people'

Unfortunately it'll only be for 6 months due to the Antarctic polar night, but still, the old world is dying

Commies have always done this kind of thing, but it's long been a core of Anarchist thought - Small affinity groups, ad hoc organizing, mutual aid networks within the decaying corpse of the state.

I'm not talking about nihilistic ecofash crap like "Desert" or whatever, but rather how to work in these small, nimble, and responsive groups and organizations. I think that as global warming rips nation states apart and capitalism continues to fuck everything this kind of organizing is going to be very important. There may not be an industrial proletariat to organize by mid century if global warming puts enough pressure on the world to cause widespread logistical and economic collapse.

I think that's likely enough to merit serious consideration, including working out what communist organizing would look like, and how it would work, in a post free-trade, post-international just in time logistics world.

There's that old story where an old man is walking down the beach after a storm. The storm has washed up thousands of starfish who are stranded now. The man sees a little girl throwing starfish back in to the ocean. He says "Why are you bothering, you can't save all of them." and without looking up the girl says "I can save this one" and hucks another starfish in to the surf. The man thinks about that for a second and then joins the girl in hurling starfish.

As global warming continues to worsen, as the neoliberal state continues to auto-cannibalize, all these disasters are going to add up. Things that are destroyed won't be repaired. There will be knock-on effects as the collapse of infrastructure in one region accelerates the collapse in surrounding regions. Flexible, relatively small scale organizing groups doing on the ground relief, repairs, or even outright replacing infrastructure will likely be vital for the survival of many communities.

A lot of us are already involved in projects like this in one way or another. Pooling theory, personal experiences, and other resources to apply our dialectical magic to the problem can only make us stronger.

I wasn’t aware that cats engaged in agriculture. My ignorance was showing, and I want to apologize to all the cats who farm.

Sincerely, Comp4

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