• Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    2 小时前

    I hate the fact that, in scifi book reading circles 1984 novel has become a standard of “dystopia”. I can’t escape it.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    2 小时前

    This has been going on for a while now but its absolutely dire seeing companies on the pride parade. Fuck you mean Takeaway needs a boat? Let them not abuse their employees first.

  • Man in the Moon@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 小时前

    [2026-07-06] @SOULPRICE@twitter.com: normalize putting ur favorite ships in your thesis acknowledgment

    [2026-07-06] @Netflix_PH@twitter.com: CAITVI MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️ congratulations!

    Terrible things are happening in the humanities.

    To explain why Netflix Philippines is replying, the rest of the thread shows she is essentially writing sapphic YA fanfiction based on Filipino mythology. It’s going in the files.

  • Man in the Moon@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 小时前

    [2026-07-26] @EllenAbare@twitter.com: Hinkle was a Climate Action Southern California boy before he was groomed by the Schiller Institute…and joined the ACiaP Psyop Crew.

    [2026-07-26] @Nat10921287@twitter.com: For some reason, they always end up choosing the wrong side

    Expand replies

    [2026-07-27] @MollyBuvoCia@twitter.com: We told [Yemeni journalist Ahmed Hassan] not to trust him!

    [2026-07-27] @EllenAbare@twitter.com: I heard some of them are going to Yemen in a few months without Hinkle but they’re the same as him.

    These 2: Helali and Bils

    Both Military👇

    People really overestimate how much of what they see online is organic especially when they want to believe there is some kind of pipeline from not wanting to fund Ukrainian neonazis to hating charming gay etcetera people. The truncated bit is a lot more important than the header. It concerns infiltration of Iranian and Yemeni media spaces.

    Not the only people who called out Ahmed Hassan for promoting these idiots. I don’t think his repeated paper-thin denials about it point to an honest mistake. Maybe he is just really hungry for clout, but that wouldn’t be very Ansarallah of him so don’t start excusing that please. Like there’s gotta be at least one Catherine Shakdam lurking around still, we know that because she willingly revealed herself to mock the Iranians. So I’m guessing there are hundreds of Catherines.

  • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    19 小时前

    I am looking into blocking infrasound as completely as possible.

    Learning how

  • Man in the Moon@lemmygrad.ml
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    21 小时前

    Reposting for absolutely no reason.

    [2026-08-01] @SxLongshadow@twitter.com: Streamers exist to ride waves of popularity and to distract people, helping to foment the idea that someone naturally came to something rather than fed it from the top down. Sneako is as performative as the rest. Not worth wasting time on. The empire uses the internet for control

    [2] This is from a 1968 study by Britton Harris “a technology of social progress” which is part of a series of studies funded by the USA to reverse engineer Maoist formations and combat communist organizing. Lot of folk have let the CIA convince them that theres a way to coup them.

    [3] That is to say, theres a very large segment of people who think that peacefully taking control of the internet and using it for “communist social progress” is possible bc they see China do it. Yet it ignores what had to happen first. That’s why we ignore streamers/internet

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    7·
    21 小时前

    The moment external investors acquire ownership interests in FIFA competitions, football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. Investor expectations become a daily pressure. From that moment onwards, every decision on the international calendar, every decision on competition formats and every decision shaping the future of football is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders. — UEFA statement

    Quite interesting that top executives from UEFA, whom also are quite embedded in the global finance capitalism, can acknowledge this fundamental reality. This is not even about football, it’s a reality that permeates every single corporate institution these days.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    24 小时前

    I’m taking up bouldering and for some reason it has a really left wing audience. I have been to multiple locations and they were all plastered with lgbtq+ flags or anarchist and communist stickers.

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 天前

    Sorry to jump topic a bit bit I cant believe Disney live action/realistic cgi remakes have been going on for so long. I mean, I guess they were making money so there was no reason for them to stop, but I for one don’t understand how they were making money tbh

    • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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      23 小时前

      I’m partially moving away from Hollywood bc of stuff like this. There’s gems from every country, yet people only watch things like this

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      23 小时前

      Honestly, I feel like they were sort-of “buying time” for their next big idea or push because the movies themselves seemed like afterthoughts

      (Just give some Disney fans something to chew on until the next big marketing push essentially)

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
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    20 小时前

    Sorry to vague post a little bit, but I hate “half denouncement.” [Term by me].

    What I mean is when people will rage so vehemently against something, but won’t actually rage against the implications of said thing.

    As much as I hate to bring the topic up, US veterans are a good example here. Here and other places like the deprogram subreddit will rage against veterans and take the BE position on things. This comment isn’t to debate that position, I think it’s an understandable one even if I have a few disagreements.

    But in none of these discussions no one ever criticizes, for instance, the PSL that holds what I’ll term the “old line.” The PSL is very explicitly in the camp of what people criticize, and yet I very rarely see it brought up. Either in discussions on veterans or on the PSL. Not saying it has to be every time, just that it feels like a blind spot

    This goes for other things too, but I just wanted to put this out here for rn while I was thinking about it

    Edit: another example is Russia. Again, not here to actually debate a position, but both r/communismmemes and the deprogram subreddits took an inter imperialist war position on the conflict. However, when the DPRK has taken a much more pro-russian position, I feel like that criticism kinda got blind spotted by a lot of people

    • lamassu@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      23 小时前

      Can you elaborate on what you mean by the “old line”? Are you referring to how PSL/Breakthrough will platform anti-imperialist veterans like Mike Prysner and Anthony Aguilar despite their past service of empire?

        • lamassu@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          5·
          21 小时前

          I struggle with this too. While I think there’s value in telling these stories from the Yankee perspective in order to agitate against enlistment, it certainly feels very dehumanizing for the author to completely exclude any mention of how much more those on the other side of imperialist aggression are suffering.

          Also, this paragraph seems to drastically contradict itself.

          Melonie grew up in South Georgia in extreme poverty where food scarcity was a common experience for her. Her father served in the Air Force, and in her household, the military wasn’t just a job — it was the clearest path to stability.

          ^emphasis mine^

          Then there’s this.

          While she never deployed, she was responsible for intelligence that “ended up with a man dead.”

          “I felt responsible for a human being’s death,” she said.

          The imperialist death machine is creating death. How surprising.

          • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
            3·
            20 小时前

            Tbf my great grandpa and great grandma were in the army [ww2, infantry and logistics respectively] and while my family isn’t like, destitutenand homeless, it’s not like we got generational wealth from that [but idk how much has changed in pay and benefits and stuff since then]

        • the rizzler@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          7 小时前

          what’s your take on prysner as a whole? i haven’t heard of him beyond the hexbear guys who think of him as “the only good veteran”. more relevant, what’s the implication w.r.t. psl?

          • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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            2 小时前

            I may be biased because I was apart of an org that is basically a rival with PSL (though I think I hate both now).

            But Mark Prysner having any leadership roles given his history is bad.

            He could even be an infiltrator or saboteur of some sort.

            IMHO

            But I don’t know.

            It’s possible he’s genuine.

            But if you’re a military veteran, especially one that did torture or was involved in interrogation, then you would be upfront about it at first, tell everyone how you “saw the light” at the end of it all, and then get in the good graces of people in that org and climb up the leadership ranks.

            That’s how one cop informant in the early 2000s did it with a friend of mine that started a trans mutual aid group (that also had firearms training) around the South.

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      24 小时前

      Yeah, I never really liked the Decolonized Buffalo podcast host saying “I joined the military BECAUSE I WAS POOR” (he always emphasizes that last part whenever he says it)

      It’s so… annoying…

      After a while, you’re stuck thinking to yourself “Yeah, but you were still there and still carried water for operations there, common, dawg…”