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WittyProfileName2 , 17 days ago

There was this bloke who used to sit at the train station close to the uni I was attending at the time, he’d drink cans of alcohol and do a little trainspotting. We talked a couple of times and he gave me some advice that helped me get out of my shell and talk to people a lot more. I must’ve only chatted with him, like, once or twice but I think it made all the difference in pushing me into making friends in what would otherwise’ve been a very lonely and isolated part of my life.

WittyProfileName2 , 19 days ago

NO

Tankie has been shifting way beyond its original meaning to just be a vague leftward stab, but being an anarchist and everything I don’t think it applies to me just yet

WittyProfileName2 , 20 days ago

That’s a brave person right there, to stand in front of all those tanks.

What happened next? I bet it was something terrible.

WittyProfileName2 , 17 days ago

Not sure if I’d class it as the craziest moment of my life, but it was like a scene out of a sitcom:

When I was a teenager I briefly worked part-time at a place that refurbished various household appliances. Donations came in through the front and ended up in back with very little looking over. We took all sorts in and the workshop floor was split into various departments based on what appliances they dealt with. I was a new hire and they were still cycling me 'round various departments, my least favourite one was when I was assigned to cleaning out used ovens.

One day this box came in and, like, we opened it up and there were various electronic massaging gizmos. So, my supervisor is pulling 'em out, he passes some of 'em to me to give a lookover to make sure they’re clean and do, like, PAT tests and stuff.

I’m plodding along and he gets to work on the rest himself. I’m doing the tests on this thing that’s like a plastic plate with this piece on the top vaguely shaped like a pair of cupped hands, when my supervisor calls me over to lend a hand. He’s got this black tube that goes a bit wider on one end, about as thick as my wrist. It looked kinda like a torch but with a cap screwed over the bit the light’s in.

His hands are a bit slippy so he’s having a hard time unscrewing the cap, so he asked me to have a go. Wider end pointed away from me, I wrapped my hand around the cap and gave it a good twist. The first clue I had that something was amiss was that my supervisor went bright red. I asked him what’s wrong and just told me to see for myself, so I turn the thing in my hand and see this silicone orifice looking back at me.

That was how I learnt what a fleshlight is.

WittyProfileName2 , 1 month ago

When I was still in the closet, I grew and maintained a big beard as part of my attempts at performative masculinity.

Not saying that this is what’s happening with most men who’re growing 'em out, but sometimes I see a bloke with a well maintained set of facial hair looking absolutely miserable and my egg radar starts shrieking.

WittyProfileName2 , 1 month ago

No it’s just thinly veiled Islamophobia.

Some fascists have an urban myth that since pork is haram, Muslims shot by a bullet covered in lard go to hell.

Chechnya has a lot of Muslims and Ramzan Kadyrov is the head of state of Chechnya, so “Kadyrov orcs” is a dog whistle for Muslims.

WittyProfileName2 , 1 month ago

I can suggest an equation that has the potential to impact the future:

Acetyl-CoA + 3H2O + 3NAD^+^ + FAD + ADP + Pi → 2CO2 + 3NADH + 3H^+^ + FADH2 + CoA-SH + ATP + H2O + AI

This combines the Krebs Cycle which relates to glucose metabolism with the addition of artificial intelligence (AI). By including AI in the equation, it symbolises my ability to wank myself to completion without touching my cock, simply by massaging my engorged ego.

WittyProfileName2 , 2 months ago

IDK, there’s a long history of homoeroticism in islamic art (largely poetry, here’s a write-up about that), it doesn’t seem entirely implausible that this could be some of that.

WittyProfileName2 , 2 months ago

• Favourites
• artsy (for sorting all the pretentious crap)

And then the rest are sorted via genre tag.

WittyProfileName2 , 3 months ago

Careful not to burn yourself at that BBQ 'cos you’ll have to go into debt to afford a sticking plaster. That is if any gathering of Americans larger than two doesn’t just immediately devolve into a mass shooting again. Maybe you’ll see a weather balloon and have to hide indoors from the Chinese.

WittyProfileName2 , 4 months ago

Do murder ghosts or whatever count as dependents?

There’s probably some nightmare tax form for this, isn’t there?

WittyProfileName2 , 4 months ago

Yeah and HPV vaccinations are older than those still.

But, I guess “some scientists have developed a vaccine to lower the risk of one specific cause of one specific type of cancer.” is less attention grabbing than “X country has developed a cancer vaccine”

WittyProfileName2 , 4 months ago

Innocent smol bean pogromists.

WittyProfileName2 , 4 months ago

"Hmm, why would aan sitting on the top of an inherently unjust system preach complacency with said system as a virtue? Must be because he’s super rational and smart."

• you, somehow still on that slave mentality in the 21st century.

WittyProfileName2 , 4 months ago

Ah, you’re right, I see now, boiling down Marxist critique into “can’t control emotions” and “only wants money” while celebrating the individualistic ramblings of a lead-poisoned imperial despot, is a much more rational outlook.

Systemic issues aren’t real, you just gotta stop thinking bad thoughts and suddenly the crushing oppression that Aurelius was writing in defense of don’t matter.

WittyProfileName2 , 4 months ago

Have a good day, friend

You too, mate.

WittyProfileName2 , 4 months ago

No one voted for the wanker, but we still have to pay to keep him and his incestous kin in riches while our fellow countrymen starve in the street.

He wants pity, he should abandon this hereditary rule bullshit and take all those unelected peers up in parliament with him back to the medieval age where they belong.

WittyProfileName2 , 5 months ago

And getting offended by it really isn’t helping your case here.

Yes, rush to the defence of misgendering, that’ll show us uppity transgenders. /s

WittyProfileName2 , 5 months ago

It’s a split between two things:

Firstly, I finally got my degree. People in my immediate surroundings got tired of the confirmed bachelor jokes after the first week of me making them.

And secondly, after a year and a half of waiting I got to talk to a gender service doctor back in February. Now I’m well on the way to get the bureaucracy part of my transition out of the way. And I’ll be getting my hormones soon.

WittyProfileName2 , 5 months ago

I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and then try to envision everything my body just did to take that breath.

The intercostal muscles expanding an’ the diaphragm contracting to make a vacuum in the thoracic cavity.

The air rushing down my trachea, into my bronchus, then into the bronchioles.

The alveoli swelling individually as the air fills 'em.

My lungs filling the vacuum that the muscles created.

It’s a lot of things to keep ahold of all at once, so there ain’t the space in my mind to keep thinking of what annoyed me (until some daft bastard goes and does it again mind you).

WittyProfileName2 , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I operate on the assumption that the overwhelming majority of people are nice, though I’ve run into more than my fair share of strangers that are complete dickheads. It feels like I’ve run into way more people who treat me kindly than cruelly (but that just be my own biases affecting my recollection).

Problem is, interacting with other people is tiring and after a long day I just want to curl up and stop existing but people waiting for the bus want to chat and strangers stop me in the street to make small talk.

WittyProfileName2 , 7 months ago

probably huge if not viewed on Hexbearsmuglord

Might suffice.

WittyProfileName2 , 7 months ago

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Was added (yesterday I think), so now you can!

WittyProfileName2 , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Allegedly, when William the Conqueror first landed in England he tripped in the sand.

I’d’ve left a land mine where he was going to fall, turning the future king of England into a fine mist and a scattering of viscera.

Probably Sound of Thunder meself out of existence, but it’d be worth for the immediate chaos it would cause.

WittyProfileName2 , 7 months ago

• the cape sundew I keep on my windowsill. As someone with a lot of house plants, it has been a godsend for keeping flies and other pests out of the house.
• my first aid kit. You never want to need one of these, but I’ve been glad to have it close to hand a fair few times

WittyProfileName2 , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I don’t know how you walked away from The Shape of Water with such a shallow reading, but eh, not everyone’s taste in films is the same.

I have a great dislike for the sorts of horror films where horror is conveyed entirely by long drawn out tension into a jumpscare. It bores me and then I stop caring about what’s going on in the film. The Woman in Black is one that immediately springs to my mind, ironically because of how bland I thought it was. It’s what you’d get if you told chatGPT to write the script for a horror movie. Just a bloke stumbling 'round a house at night being scared by random shit punctuated by daytime exposition scenes. I know it was trying to trying to say something about grief but I just couldn’t care enough about it after the spooky violin lead up to the protagonist being startled by a tap making a loud noise when he turned it on.

WittyProfileName2 , 7 months ago

• Eager to discuss the cool things they’ve read.
• Able to make me laugh.
• Cleans up after themselves (I know, low bar).
• Communist of some stripe.

Superficial but:

• Physically stronger than me.

WittyProfileName2 , 7 months ago

Y’know, I’ve never thought about that before.

I guess, I would.

WittyProfileName2 , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I miss the silence of empty rooms.

I developed tinnitus earlier this year, and now I’m never gonna be able to just sit somewhere quiet and far away from everyone else and be alone with my thoughts. This ringing will follow me everywhere, drowning out the distant sounds of cars disturbing puddles in distant streets on a rainy night, obscuring all the subtle little noises that danced on the edges of my perception. But most of all robbing me of any truly quiet moment for the rest of my life.

WittyProfileName2 , 7 months ago

I might have to try that, thank you.

WittyProfileName2 , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

For what it’s worth, I do find this somewhat reassuring.

I don’t know if I’ll ever get to where you are, but to hear that it could get better does make me feel a little less shitty.

Thank you.

WittyProfileName2 , 8 months ago

spoilers for Dark Souls 2Meeting King Vendrick at the end of the catacombs. Since you first reached the hub town (Majula), you’ve been told that Vendrick has the means to cure the undead curse and all you need to do is find him. And so the entire game up 'till this point has been about reaching his castle and then when you discover he isn’t there, tracking him down to the very bottom of the catacombs. At the end of a long corridor full of enemies, past a recurring boss fight against one of Drangliec’s many dragon riders, you pass through the fog wall and face Vendrick’s bodyguard, Velstadt. It’s an okay fight, not particularly flashy or difficult but at least it’s not Prowling Magus. Velstadt falls, and the only way forward is a short, narrow corridor that opened up behind him. The corridor leads down into an unlit room and in the dark you can faintly make out some large shape moving about the farthest side of the room to you. As you get closer you hear Majula’s familiar theme begin to play as the creature in the room takes shape before your eyes. It’s Vendrick, succumbed to the undead curse. So hollowed by now that he doesn’t even acknowledge your presence, instead slowly walking the same circle in a loop. His withered arms barely able to raise the sword he once used to slay the king of the giants. “What am I supposed to do now?” As I sat there trying to figure out what my next steps were supposed to be, I couldn’t help but contemplate Vendrick’s fate. Time and time again this game presents you with the inescapable nature of death. Of how no matter how good a life you lived it will come to an end. No matter what legacy you try to secure it will crumble and be forgotten. The iron king in all his tyranny is naught but ichorous earth now, even Vendrick is dead (though his body hasn’t caught up on that yet). “If life is short, and my deeds are inevitably forgotten,” I thought to myself, “Why the fuck am I living as a man when doing so makes me miserable?”

Long story short, the next day I finally worked up the courage to talk to my GP about a gender service referral.

WittyProfileName2 , 8 months ago

It has its flaws, but imho Dark Souls 2 has some of the best moments in the series.

I’ll never forget riding the lift to Dragon’s Aerie for the first time.

WittyProfileName2 , 8 months ago

Every AI art one that’s popped up in my feed, all the ones for, like, individual cities, the anime communities, and a cryptocurrency community.

Not bothered to seek out communities to block, I just block 'em as the show up.

Hexbear isn’t federated with any instances with porn communities so I haven’t had to block any of those.

WittyProfileName2 , 8 months ago

I’ve love to see a remake of Dino crisis in the vein of the recent Resident Evil remakes.

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago

TMBG - Lake Monsters

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago

I think a key place where we are disagreeing is in the nature of Welsh identity. I don’t view it as a national identity but rather a cultural one. Even once all states have been dissolved, Welsh identity will likely persist through our language and traditions.

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago

Yes, but the cultural identity will outlive the national one when the state dissolves, it has millenniums of cultural inertia behind it after all. I don’t forsee any future anti-capitalists getting in the way of, for example, Eisteddfod gatherings or couples exchanging love spoons.

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago

If private property exists,

Private property will not exist under anarchism, since private property (read the means of production) will be placed into the collective hands of those who need it.

anarchy (which ultimately leads to individualism and capitalism)

Capitalism requires the maintenance of involuntary hierarchies (like that between the owner and worker) and thus is antithetical to anarchism.

I believe anarchy and communism are polar opposites,

The ultimate goal of communism is the dissolution of state, this is something even MLs agree on.

"Engels suggested to Bebel that all chatter about the state be dropped altogether, that the word “state” be eliminated from the programme altogether and the word “community” substituted for it. Engels even declared that the Commune was long a state in the proper sense of the word. Yet Marx even spoke of the “future state in communist society”, i.e., he would seem to recognize the need for the state even under communism.

But such a view would be fundamentally wrong. A closer examination shows that Marx’s and Engels’ views on the state and its withering away were completely identical, and that Marx’s expression quoted above refers to the state in the process of withering away."

• Lenin, State and Revolution, Chapter 5

If you wouldn’t mind me making an assumption, it appears that you have very little knowledge of anarchism’s philosophical framework. I can give you some reading suggestions if you’d like.

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

If an anarchist revolution is successful, the dissolution of the state is inevitable.

If a socialist revolution is successful then the eventual dissolution of the state will likely occur in a framework such as Engels’ “withering away of the state”.

Since capitalism cannot sustain itself indefinitely, it is likely that one of these two revolutions will occur (or there will be a backslide into fascism).

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago

Communism always needs to be enforced, it doesn’t happen naturally. Capitalism does. That’s why I don’t think communism can exist along with anarchy.

Capitalism also has to be enforced.

What do you think all those counter revolutionary insurgencies like the bay of pigs invasion are?

Or the state crackdowns on communist groups like the red scare?

Capitalism is not a natural state that things can revert to, it is a system that needs to be imposed.

You’re right, I don’t have much knowledge of anarchism’s philosophical framework, but I do know that the definition of the word means that there is no authority.

Anarchism is the absence of involuntary hierarchies such as the state. Authority and authoritarianism is meaningless in drawing a dividing line between ideologies because every socioeconomic framework needs to defend itself from being undermined one way or another. A good place to get started on this matter would be On Authority by Friedrich Engels.

If you actually care about digging deeper into anarchocommunism as an ideology, I’d recommend starting with mutual aid, a factor in evolution and Communism and Anarchy (both written by Pëtr Kropotkin).

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago

Pëtr Kropotkin wrote a lot about possible organisation of anarchist society after the revolution, at this point it’s a meme to recommend reading “the bread book” The Conquest of Bread and I don’t personally recommend starting with it and instead beginning with a pamphlet like Anarchism and Revolution.

The ZAD de Notres-Dame-des-Landes, is a good example of a long running commune that has managed to withstand assault from an external state. But the kinds of large scale anarchism that will do away with the state in its entirety has not yet been attempted.

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago

If capitalism is the natural way for civilisation to organise itself, how come it took until the 1700s to become a widespread ideology? Humans have been around for a hell of a lot longer than that.

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago

I’ve got nothing against any of them, I just wanted to mention one that’s a bit less well known.

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago

Revolutionary Catalonia provides a good example of an anarchist project where large scale industrial infrastructure was maintained and could help form the blueprint for decentralised industry. Much ink has been spilled pointing fingers about who was to blame for the sectarian infighting that ultimately led to its collapse, I think a more important question would be “how do we stop something like that happening next time?” A question that I have no clue how to answer.

Anarchist Ukraine - correct me if I’m wrong, but this is about the Mahknovists right? Despite being largely agrarian, they were able to rebuild destroyed infrastructure an astounding rate in the face of multiple invasions and an ongoing civil war. There are rumours of antisemitism within Mahknovshchina but a lot of them come from USSR aligned sources and are hotly debated by different anarchist groups, I don’t know enough about Ukrainian history to know if the accusations are true.

The Zapatistas are not anarchists and have never claimed to be. While they do have some similarities to historical anarchist projects it would do them a disservice to lump them into an ideology with which they don’t identify.

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Was actually goading you for more information lol.

Give me a bit and I’ll track down some sources on them. Check back in, like, an hour or so and I’ll have a list edited on this comment.

Revolutionary Catalonia

Here’s a first-hand account from someone who was a child at the time.

Murray Bookchin on the Spanish revolution.

Write up on the Mujeres Libres, a group of women anarchists.

George Orwell was a snitch who did a lot of work to undermine British anarchists, but he did witness the Spanish civil war first-hand here’s a link to what he wrote about his experiences

The Spanish Communist party’s take on the Spanish Civil war because this list was looking a little one sided (this one is a downloadable PDF not a webpage).

Gonna a take a while longer for more on Makhnovshchina. So I’ll edit again when I’ve found sources.

Makhnovshchina

Only found a couple this time.

Here’s a defence of the Makhnovists, chapter 5 discusses the anti-Semitism claims (though imho not very well).

And some Trotsky criticising them for balance (bit of a biased source since he oversaw the Bolsheviks’ purging Makhnovists).

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago

You’re welcome.

I’m a little taken aback that this thread didn’t rapidly degrade into the shit flinging that political discussion is doomed to become online.

WittyProfileName2 , 9 months ago

Didn’t check the rest of the thread and therefore didn’t see 'em cisplaining at my queer comrades.

Seemed in good faith so I responded as such, which is how I try to interact with most folks online.