Yeah, I’m a bit of a thinking man. A thinkerman, if you will.

One of my anarchist buddies was talking about how there are no longer proud boys because now they’re all ice agents

I also remember having a similar conversation with someone online who kept insisting that this very thing would be an inevitability (and thinking that they were paranoid at the time). I doubt they’re happy they were right tbh but holy shit I can’t even imagine what is to come

So here in Ontario Canada there’s a lot of wildfire smoke, due to almost-certainly-climate-change-induced wildfires. My city’s air quality is current among the worst in the world. It’s literally as high as the “from 1 to 10+” index used by government.

In photography there’s a rule of thumb for proper exposure called “sunny 16”. Set your camera’s aperture to f/16, and set your shutter speed to the opposite of your ISO (light sensitivity). So for an ISO of 200, set your shutter speed to 1/200th of a second. On a sunny day with a clear sky, this will give you a properly exposed photo of subjects that are in direct sunlight.

I just took this photo of the sky at local noon, using the sunny 16 rule, from my apartment window. Forgive the out of focus dirty window, I’m not going outside or opening a window today.

lol

Started reading This Soviet World in preparation for the upcoming reading group on c/soviet, as I like to get ahead and share my thoughts to get the ball rolling in these kinds of groups. Started tearing up a little bit with how beautifully Anna Louise Strong depicts the rising communal spirit of the people, where everyone sees technological advancement, the discovery of new resources, as a part of the common good and not something for someone else to exploit.

It reminds me of the Soviet time capsules from students, unearthed after the dissolution. Such hope and love for the future, dashed (for a time). It’s our duty to bring about that better world, even if we are set back by enormous obstacles. We can do it, humanity has done it before and it has done it several times since.

The “criticism” of The Odyssey not having any Greek actors is obviously farcical, but I do think they should have put Stavros Halkias in it

Trying to make c/soviet a bit more active now that the comm is open again, might as well! It’s nice to actually see what the Soviet Union actually was, to humanize its existence, not just read about it alone. It helps us connect our current struggle to what they went through. It means we carry the torch forward.

I need people adjacent to recovery spaces, but not necessarily in a recovery space if that makes sense. My girlfriend did something yesterday that I considered to be pretty bad. I know anybody who regularly attends meetings would never do this, but she’s never been a meeting person so she doesn’t understand a lot of recovery stuff, although she is 2 years sober from alcohol and 15 from opiates so she has struggled with addiction in the past

Re-reading lotr and find it interesting how completely unimpressed I am by the writing, the story, the poems. Compared to when I read it at 16 years of age.

It’s really pretty reactionary too, and so male centric it hurts, and the elitism oh my god… And kind of boring tbh, I was bored with the war stuff even on the first read as a teenager, but now I am just bored with all of it.

Not sad that I’ve changed this much.

Edit. Pictured my mood reading it. In the book Sam kind of does the carrying from day one.

So one of my co-workers is disgustingly heartless. My work is bwtween my house and the nearest grocery store so I was walking by around 1pm and there was a dude at one of the patio tables who looked to be nodding out, didnt think much about it until I got to work at 3 and the guy was still there in the exact same position. It’s 35 degrees out today, I asked the server who had been working the day and she said he hadnt moved. So I said to call a fucking ambulance, got the guy inside and sat him somewhere cooler, ambulance took another 2 hours to arrive. So this guy was passed out in the heat at a restaurant table where she is a server, this table is directly across the sidewalk from the front door, she would have a clear view all day of this dude rotting in the sun and juat ignored it. Like, first off, it’s a table at a restaurant so when he sat down he should have gotten water and a menu in the first place, and then there’s the basic humanity element where you dont let someone maybe die 30 feet from where you’re standing. She’s dead to me now.

A while ago on the side of the road, I found a discarded rear rack from some bike. It took some doing but I strapped it to my mountain bike amd have been hauling big bags of groceries strapped down with bungee cables home. Rear rack owns.

When I see someone eating a lot I think to myself wow damn that person must really like pooping

i saw the odyssey. mario doesn’t even show up. what a waste of time

C/Soviet is back open BTW!