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Didn't see a whiff of Northern Lights during the solar storm earlier this year so this is pretty cool

I write SEO drivel for a living. I'm fairly good at it, even if the products I shill for are useless to 90% of the population... and that's the problem. There was a time when I was able to not think too much about it, even if I was a little uncomfortable with the fact that my "job" basically shouldn't exist and contributes to the eshittification of the internet. I was just happy to finally be able to learn a living after being unemployed for so long.

But I can't ignore it anymore. The articles get harder and harder to write, the research is boring and pointless, and search engines aren't exactly helpful either on account of said eshittification, which I'm contributing to. And that's on top of all the extra requirements the clients have.

But the thing that makes it the hardest to keep going is that I can't in good conscience market things to people, however indirectly, unless I am absolutely sure the product will help them or I can personally vouch for the usefulness of the product. Which I obviously can't because I've never tried any of the products I'm writing to shill for. And I think it's deceptive, which doesn't sit right with me.

I also hate that I'm contributing to the selling of more useless shit that nobody actually needs. Like, we're wasting tons of water to power some AI are convinced is the next coming of Jesus?

I think I'm going to quit this line of work. I just can't do it anymore. Apparently, some people can make a butt load of money writing this drivel but I personally have never made all that much. And honestly, I don't even think the money would help at this point. But with my lack of skills and social anxiety, I'm not really sure what other jobs I can do.

He called me this morning to let me have it over the phone. Then he asked me if I wanted a ride to the store. Yeah man like I'm going to want to sit in the car with you while you tell me how much of a piece of shit I am then go grocery shop.

So now I'm out a trip to the store for who knows how long. Until this blows over which could be days.

I feel so small after this, I feel like I'm the world's most shittiest person.

Uhhhh I am in Krakow, any suggestions for an English speaker? Obviously hard to for someone visiting but I would love anything that could put me in touch with locals, show me pretty sights, or feed me yummy treats 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙

the floor is open give me your ideas or just debate the concept of Poland in general to increase engagement

They were too heavy to carry off to the British Museum.

Is it because he's always nailing smug weirdo rich fuckbags? Is it the peter falk hard carry? Is it because despite being canonically a cop he does anything but act like a cop?

Is everything downstream of columbo an attempt to erase his legacy as the hound of wealthy sociopaths?

Is Columbo a demigod?

I saw this new video of BadEmpanada on Bangladesh. As someone from India, I cringed so hard:

• According to BadEmpanada, it is a revolution of the proletariat 🤡. The students protest, which was marked by the death of a young man, shot by a copper pig, turned into a violent riot, which was then conveniently hijacked by the populist military switching sides, just to commit a coup.

• And then they finally install a interim puppet of the US. Yep, that microfinance Nobel laureate guy, Mohammad Yunus, who is responsible for a disastrous loan system that has caused farmers and small business owners to common suicide in droves in South Asia.

• For software engineers out here, Narayan Murthy, the capitalist chuckle-fuck running a IT sweatshop, and father-in-law of Rishi Sunak, endorses this guy. Villains looking out for each other, amirite?

• Haseena's claim that the US wanted to set their air base on St Martin’s Island to dominate the Bay of Bengal seems to make a lot of sense, given USA's anti-Chinese policies. I mean, the US is know for backing color revolution.

• the leftists in Bangladesh have been very, very weak, probably after seeing the failures of Jyoti Basu in West Bengal, and have never secured a significant amount of seats. The Awami League, despite being centrist, was a majority party that prevented the descent of the mad fascist Bangladesh Nationalist Party, who are allied with the extremist Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious expansionist group. But not, there's no one stopping them to win the next election.

BadEmpanada also removed several comment which called him out for his ignorance on South Asia. I should've taken a screenshot, because it was so well-written.

Edit: yup, he is deleting comments, lmao. Another thread gone to dust, because he could not answer.

Got him some Purina with chicken and no dice, runny poopy. But I did find out the grocery store near me carries Fresh Pet. So I'm going to try that out. Maybe mix it up with his old favorite Iams and see how it goes.

If the last thing Joe Biden does in office is kill my dad, I'm running into the woods and starting a Maoist insurgency group.

When I got out, I nearly fainted on a seat, feeling weak, couldn't walk or see for a few minutes, head felt like shit (lack of oxygen)

2 of my friends were there trying to keep me up

[CW: DEPRESSION]

Today's bit accounts just don't feel the same

Or do bookstores only stock right wing books? The most "left" book I can find at this Books A Million is the latest from Bernie Sanders 🙃

Edit: Im not being serious. please dont feel bad for liking transformers or scifi or whatever. Thanks

I am elevating this from megathread post to real post

I regret looking at X almost every time

This weird discourse has done actual psychic damage I think

Can someone make this make sense to me? Not uncritically adopting the weaponization of language traditionally, normally even, used to attack queer and neurodiverse people against less-lib American reactionaries by Democrats makes you a fed? It's not a hill I would die but yeah

We are truly reaching levels of normality never seen before, regardless of how not weird and normal it is in many sections of society to be a turbo-reactionary

Have we entered a period where internet leftists and ~~K-hive~~standard internet left-libs become almost indistinguishable? I feel like I'm stuck in the event horizon of a terminally online singularity, spiraling toward a center of infinite onlineness

The most online people I have ever seen are telling other online people to log the fuck off, the 🥥🌴 usernames are joining with the 🍉🇵🇸 usernames in fed-jacketing people, the Democrat campaign is reposting dril tweets

We are cooked, the internet singularity consumes us all

Weirdn ormal weird werird normal couch weird weird normal

It took me 23 years to realise this what is wrong with me.

Also how did Dreamworks get that past the censors

Ishi (cw: NATOpedia)

Ishi (c. 1861 – March 25, 1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States. The rest of the Yahi (as well as many members of their parent tribe, the Yana) were killed in the California genocide in the 19th century. Widely described as the "last wild Indian" in the U.S., Ishi lived most of his life isolated from modern North American culture, and was the last known Native manufacturer of stone arrowheads. In 1911, aged 50, he emerged at a barn and corral, 2 mi (3.2 km) from downtown Oroville, California.

Ishi, which means "man" in the Yana language, is an adopted name. The anthropologist Alfred Kroeber gave him this name because in the Yahi culture, tradition demanded that he not speak his own name until formally introduced by another Yahi. When asked his name, he said: "I have none, because there were no people to name me", meaning that there was no other Yahi to speak his name on his behalf.

this history made me intensely sad back in school when I learned about it, thinking about what it must have been like to be him. it's lonely not being able to authentically relate to anyone except the few commie weirdos on this website but I guess Ishi's story is a helpful point of contrast. at least I'm not the last member of a murdered culture yet

beanis

Feel like shit, just want him and his excessive emojis back.

EDIT: Jesus Christ guys

how are most of yall doing.

This community has been my oasis throughout the darkest times of my life. When I was being abused by my ex, you guys were there for me when nobody else was. When I became a foster parent overnight and had to start supporting another kid and do court shit? Hexbear not only dealt with the court shit, but you guys got him a Halloween costume. And when my state started banning HRT? It was Hexbear supporting me through those times, when nobody else in my life could.

I've been here ever since the major reddit exodus, and I honestly don't know how I made it before I came here. As a trans schizophrenic alcoholic, people in my daily life distrust what I say, what my needs are. I'm generally seen as a burden by the people around me. But I don't feel like that on here. It feels like maybe I'm not fucked up, but the world is fucked up. This place has helped with my mental health so much it's unimaginable.

Had a dream about my mom last night. But it was really weird. I was somehow in space and she was an astronaut and she was traversing warp holes and I was like "mom, isn't that scary?" and she seemed unphased by that.

My mom passed in 2021 for reference.

what's good comrades? i'm just curious if anyone on here is into the same shit as me. i'd love to have some leftist friends who i can talk skating and politics with. i know aggressive skating is a niche thing these days, so the odds of finding anyone else on here doing it are slim, but doesn't hurt to try

i'm getting over a recent injury (tripped over a scooter kid, busted my chin open, bled all over the skatepark) and i'm dying to get back out there

I've seen people get upset about discussing what's happening in Gaza and trying to dismiss it by saying 'no politics'; if America was at war (I mean an actual war, not a beatdown of a country that can't fight back) and we had enemy troops occupying our country and slaughtering a ton of people, would we really consider discussing it a taboo and as just 'politics'?

If a black person in my old neighborhood got gunned down by the police, am I not supposed to get upset because black people being murdered by pigs is just politics? (I mean I ask but people would probably classify it as being similar to BLM and they consider BLM to just be 'politics')

MLK hit that right note with his letter from Birmingham jail (I'm posting a large portion because it's all amazing, but the part I recall most starkly and keep quoting time and again because of its importance and universal relevance I've gone ahead and bolded):

"...You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word “tension.” I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation. Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue.

…We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

…I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."