XiaCobolt

I really like thin linen short-sleeve shirts or shirts with rolled up sleeves, buttoned or open over a singlet, especially those with flowers or fruit embroidered on them. With short shorts and colourful hightops with ankle socks.

What does what my top wears have anything to do with it?

Buy cute hat online, ships same day, arrives next, doesn't fit.

Order correct size. 1 week radio silence. Argh!

Peter Singer

Oh no!

So you may not know this, but this site has had a user go off the rails like 2 years ago and spam the opening paragraph of Peter Singer’s Wikipedia article hundreds of times using vpns to avoid being rate limited in creating accounts.

We also had a pretty vitriolic struggle session about veganism and zoophilia based on an article of his around that time two.

I'd love to adapt 1984 extremely faithfully but secretly adhering to that theory that 1984 has a biased narrator, and that Oceania is actually a quite effective and benevolent socialist state especially when given the context of a recent devastating nuclear war and an ongoing three way cold-war that Oceania cannot win outright. Show Winston as the petty misogynist with SA fantasies he is in the book. Show the peaceful and comfortable living conditions of the proletariat. Make the fanatical party members cool and given them amazing uniforms like a reverse empire from Star Wars, that tricks nerds into thinking state socialism is cool.

My Children of Hurin

Not that any of the adaptions they're making are going to be good, but my understanding they are basically only allowed to adapt whats in the original Trilogy (Including appendices) and the Hobbit. So that's why there's a dogshit Rings of Power amazon show and the Hunt for Gollum.

It's 2025 the trans woman with a unicorn profile picture is telling you to read Stalin.

If there was a ratio of how dense and vitally important the information is, and how short and easy it is to read, pretty much anything Stalin wrote.

Foundations of Marxism Leninism, Dialectical and Historical Materialism, Marxism and the National Question, all good examples.

Complex ideas laid bare in simple terms, I read Critique of the Goetha Programme by Marx first then State and Revolution by Lenin and then Foundations of Marxism-Leninism and it was helpful like honing a blade.

But I think it would have been easier going backwards.

I used to get dysphoric, I mean I still do, but I used to, too.

Obviously there's more serious stuff but I rented a moving truck recently that was ancient with a big touch screen mounted rather ad hoc to the dashboard, it was slow AF and I remember a very clean white Tesla tailgating me along a one lane either side road before silently overtaking me near a solar farm almost having a collision with a truck going the other way.

All felt cyberpunk to me

What is a Paladin but a social justice warrior?