i wear my Free Palestine shirts on the weekends mostly out of habit now. I often forget about it once we’re out doing our errands but lately people have been much more outspoken in their support.

Today a couple of young teen girls came up to me while we were buying some fruit at the farmer’s market and said “Free Palestine! Great shirt!” I fist bumped them and said it’s always nice to see when other people also support Palestine.

They said “you’re brave for wearing that” which is a somewhat common thing people say to me when they actually stop to talk. I told them nobody ever harasses me for it. Most people voice their support if anything. Those who don’t agree will give a stinkeye but they never say anything.

They were shocked to hear that and said they’re going to go out and hit some shirts right away because more people need to voice their support loudly. I agree, we need people to realize there are far more of us than it seems.

They also told me they know there is a lot of support in their generation because they see it on TikTok all the time.

I didn’t say it, but I believe that’s a large part of the push to now ID everyone online.

The kids are alright!

Was learning about King Charles of England in the Civilizations Series podcast that was recommended to me. How it was king but with parliament of nobles and yet the king could kind of just be like “nah I don’t want to listen to parliament” and parliament couldn’t do much about it. And it doesn’t feel that distant from the modern day US if you replace “king” with “president” and “parliament” with “congress of capitalists.” If the president wants to do his own thing and congress doesn’t band together to stop it, the so-called “checks and balances” aren’t worth much.

It also reminds me of it in that, according to the history told in the podcast, most of parliament was in favor of having a constitutional monarchy. They just had problems with how King Charles was running things and ultimately brought it back after the civil war inducing problems with King Charles himself were resolved. Similar to how some members of congress might crow about Trump, but they’re not saying the system is bad and we need a different one, they just don’t like the way he’s doing things.

it’s truly a whole other world out there. the attention economy and the misanthropic nature of capitalism (and the constant infiltration of spaces by malfeasants and state actors) has made rotten american society and as such the anglosphere internet is hell on earth to be on.

Iran are out of the football world cup and I’m feeling sad. I wish they could’ve made it through as a statement about how they’ve been treated, but alas. I really hope some FA’s will side with Iran and point out how Iran’s team has been mistreated

We finally have somewhat of a cool breeze again. The heatwave is coming to an end and in a festive way it will end in a giant thunderstorm in a few hours.

It was the hottest period of time I ever experienced. I dealt with even higher temps before on holiday but nothing comes close to the ten days of suffocating heat of the last ten days. No AC, just rawdogging the heat and humidity. It was fucking awful but we made it. Fuck every single capitalist shithead for creating this.

On the one hand, having niche interests is fun because you get to be pretentious and have a monopoly of talking about said interests.

On the other hand, you share common interests with like 5 people, 4 of which are probably on a different continent, so it’s hard to make friends

So yknow how there’s an everything app like wechat? We should have an everything game that’s a combination of Conquest of elysium, dominion, dwarf fortress, and tales of maj’eyal. I’m sure this would be simple /s

Gotta love people coming out of the woodworks to say it is hot elsewhere too when referring to our heatwave in Europe. Yes, I know Texas and Arizona and Carolina are hot and humid. Good that you can handle it. The point is that it’s not supposed to hit 37 in inland The Netherlands and combined with 70-80+% humidity we are in actual danger. This country was not build to handle these temps for days on end because it is not supposed to be this warm yet every year for the last decade we keep shattering records.

Tens of thousands of people across the EU die every year because of increasing heat and adapting to it and improving our housing and whatnot is painfully slow and ridiculously expensive.

Some months ago the city cut down some trees in a street to make a useless turn around loop for our tram system. Years of protest were denied by then. The people living in the streets did not want this to happen. So eventually a big protest erupted and it turned violent because the police just knocked people down. One of our elected reps to the city was arrested and confined for over ten hours without being able to communicate to anyone what happened.

The trees are down now. One of the functions of trees in a city is to cool down the place. During the current heat wave, residents of the street measured a temperature increase between 7 to 13 degrees celsius compared to previous heat waves. They are now cooking in their appartments. The loop has not been build yet.

If I’m going to hear one more person during this heatwave saying we as a country can’t fight global warming because CHINA IS PRODUCING MORE CO2 I will be violent. Please for the love of god use your two braincells to reason why China produces more.

Have y’all ever been afraid of taking action? Reading about Fred Hampton doing all the stuff he did before he was 21 makes me think about how much I avoid doing stuff that I really need to do.

The Dutch state will introduce a law that makes glorifying terrorism illegal. Terrorism of course being whatever the fuck the right wing loonies in charges deem it to be.

jesus christ the earthquake in venezuela was devastating

found the image from this thread in a Kazan metro station

Some banners from the Tatar ASSR