Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
- Matrix homeserver and space
- Theory discussion group on Matrix
- Find theory on ProleWiki, marxists.org, Anna’s Archive and libgen; audio versions by Socialism For All
- Spectre of Communism, A Twitter or Mastadon Alternative Admined by our own Elara
I guess I’m just not ever reading national news again because archive.is appears to be down, I can’t find any further reputable paywall-strippers, and I am not paying the spineless catamite propagandists for the tripe they call ‘news’
Archive.ph usually works for me when archive.org does not. Also I didn’t test it but it looks like its working for me
archive.* has been giving me “We’re having trouble finding that site.” errors for the past week now
From comrade Yogthos on another thread:
I also highly recommend one of these plugins, they get around most paywalls for me
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean/
Wait, Lemmygrad has its own Mastodon instance?
Its not ours, just one of our mods is an admin for it,
Also its an Akkoma instance, no i dont know the difference, it works just finw with mastadon instances
An Akkoma instance? But it works fine with Mastodon instances? Gotcha.
Ok I pull up
Funniest animal alive
Wat dat
it’s actually just a very distant relative
And you let them drive withput a seatbelt? I thought family looked out for family
firstly, they’re not driving, they’re passengering
secondly, it’s a highly advanced, thin seat belt specifically designed for large semiaquatic rodents; the low picture quality just renders it invisible smh
doxxed
Few things beat finding an old out of print Michael Parenti book at a thrift store
So uh how do I actually use the other instances on mobile like hexbear? Going to instances at the bottom just takes you there without the ability to post.
Ah so you click the all button at the top of the home page and that will let you see posts from all the federated instances
Is there any way to sort by instance?
What I do is block the lemmygrad instances that I don’t want to see. That means ‘local’ is like my own feed via a blocklist. Then I subscribe mainly to the Hexbear and some lemmy.ml communities. If I sort by ‘subscribed’, I mainly get Hexbear, or a lot of it via an allowlist. I sometimes miss not being able to see the blocked lg comms, like c/SRS, but this way is better for my mental health in the long run.
Not that I have found,
Hey, everyone.
How are you all doing?
Got a major update on a project due at the end of the month, unfinished and untested at the moment, with probably not enough time to get everything done. This happens every month and I hate it. I’m not having mini-breakdowns about it anymore though, so I guess I’m doing better?
That’s something, at least.
I’m vibing. I started research for my thesis a bit ago so it feels nice to have a big project to work towards, in something I’m interested in.
For your Bachelor’s?
For my Master’s.
So so. Life is more stable but it seems to have come at the cost of a less active social life. Back when I was in turmoil I somehow was seeing people more often and out and about more. Now I’m busier and have a stable home I find that’s beginning to dwindle. Can’t have it all it seems.
I get that.
essays, essays is how I am doing
Good, how are you comrade @Makan@lemmygrad.ml
I’m dong alright. I’m awake at around 4:30 AM today. Trying to read up on some articles before I take my ADHD meds and really start the day.
Happy Cakeday, @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
Thanks!
Np
I must say I’m enormously relieved that tha image for the post changed(or the post changed) the other one caused me some degree of distress, but I didn’t want to hide the post cause there might be some interesting stuff going on and such, but yeah this image is pretty nice
Y E S
There are talks about Senegal kicking out Fr*nce out of their country. Would be based.
Now there’s a string of anti-imperialist West African countries from the coast to Lake Chad. Very good, especially since they all border eachother.
Laos mentioned
You?cannot forget about Laos
Based country
Update on the cat: the surgery was successful, only one tooth was removed. I have already brought her back home. She is displeased. Her paw seems to be hurting somewhat due to the anesthesia catheter. Additionally, we’ll need to get her kidneys checked, because blood biochemistry had some stats in red.
Keep wondering if it’s easier with children, because they can at least point where they’re hurting. But then realise it’s probably worse, mentally.
Good job catto
I get that. I’m sure your cat will have a speedy recovery, though.
Thank you
Glad her surgery was successful! Hopefully she’ll be feeling better soon.
Yet another week on planet Earth
There’s this somewhat popular left wing reporter in The Netherlands who posted an instagram pic of a sticker that said Fuck NATO and it brought out the socdems in the comments. I started beefing with some of them and their responses boiled down to CONSPIRACY NUT/RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA/ITS JUST NOT TRUE REEEE and that was it. Everything I don’t like is fake.
I called America a “white supremacist state” and I was banned recently from a leftist forum.
They hated you, for you spoke the truth
I’m so happy with Left Laser. A true left wing channel to deradicalize people, and I think it’s working
It really is
Our party has started a push for nationalizing the recently declared bankrupt bus manufacturer in Belgium. We want to keep the productive forces capable of building (electric) buses instead of just letting them go bankrupt, forcing 2500 people out of a job.
I’d love to see more peoples talk about what their organizations are up to on grad, can we normalize that please?
Sounds like a great plan! Is there any process you can legally follow for this? Will the financial receiver not just ignore you and just asset strip the place?
I don’t know really, it’s the first time I see something like this. I know the Belgian government did something similar during the banking crisis years ago, so I guess it’s possible?
As for the asset strip: the company will go bankrupt if they don’t find someone to take over. So far no realistic offer has been made. The government is perfectly able to do just that. It’s a lost cause I think with neoliberals in charge, but it’s goot to get the message of nationalization out there for the people to consider.
Marvelous. Reminds me of Turkey.
Nice fort! Where’s that?
Marinid Tombs , Fes , Morocco .
Nice!
I wanna go there!