Oh I’m probably too late for this, but if you ever see this and have the time, I’d love a tarot reading for New Years.

I was thinking it might be the latter, I know working at uni sucks these days.

Posted this about a month ago:

Finished a pretty spicy marxist essay for my studies today and feeling a bit nervous if it will even pass, I wasn’t kind on the field I’m in.

Openly stated that I consider the poststructuralist and postmodernist focuses in the field to be fully in line with the ruling class and emitting an end of history vibe, meaning that they acknowledge the issues of capitalism and leave them untouched. That the never-ending preoccupation with “power” just muddies the waters on who actually only has power (control) over how we all live and who doesn’t. A whole lot about alienation too and the psychosocial framings of it that place all the responsibility on the individual.

Every day I grow more disillusioned by Western academia and care less about saving face within it.

So, what happened was that the person grading these has changed and the new person responsible for these had clearly dropped the ball and not graded the essays in time as the time to grade is three weeks. So yesterday I asked them via email whether I’ll get my grade before the semester ends as promised. They quickly replied that it will be graded by today.

And they graded it a 3 (grading is 1-5) today, without any feedback whatsoever. It’s the lowest grade I have, of all my exams and essays. I typically get a 5.

Not sure what to think. The grade is techically fine, but the essay is no different from my last one which was a 5. Only difference is the heavy presence of Marxism.

Hell yes. I was just thinking along these likes today as my proletarian partner was at work doing the sort of labor none on one side of my family ever could do and how he has never been invited to this shitty male bonding thing these relatives and my dad do every summer.

And I was both thinking about how these people come from families that were firmly Whites, how they think they are better than working class people and how they clearly hold on to this position to this day and so should we. Fuck em.

I don’t know where you are in the EU, but at least from where I am, this “freedom” to travel and especially work wherever has never applied to anyone apart from the ruling class and labor aristros/nepo babies/upper middle class.

Had to do an internet search to understand what this is and as far as I can tell this is just porridge made from the wheat kernel (semolina)? It’s considered the less healthy porridge in my part of the world as it skips all the fiber and is often made into a whipped lingonberry dessert because the semolina whips up great.

There used to be a chocolate flavoured semolina in the 80s that was often made as a dessert too.

I really recommend trying the whipped version, it’s very good.

Very common where I am, Finland. Probably one of the most common fertilizers. And horse poop for roses.

It’s so incredibly hard to believe these are real. But here we are.

“a masked woman getting ready to throw a flare at a ptotest, surrounded by smoke”

Jesus fucking christ, how have the local ghouls managed to make this shit go international… This crying about wolves has been going on forever, the kulaks would like to shoot them all.

Must be the nato membership.

I don’t know about school elsewhere, but we have 1 to 3 years of basic home economics in middle school where everyone cooks. You learn to dice an onion, use aromatics, bake a bread and all of it if you don’t have anyone to teach you.

I also very much think that the sort of wholesome home cooking that was essentially taters, veggies and a protein aren’t in any way slop. The best tasting and most satisfying food I’ve ever had came from my grandmothers low budget kitchen. Difference is she cooked for days at a time typically, I do the same. This way you only spend a lot of time cooking a few times per week.

I am lucky enough to have been brought up cooking wise by a grandma who was a master of this “slop” and feeding a family of six from a small apartment building kitchen with a very low budget. Actual cook books of that time and the home economy class books we got at school were also all about this basic everyday cooking.

I’ve watched probably all the cheffy chef shows and made lots of stuff from them. They are always needlessly complicated and I cut all the corners I can think of when making them, just because I got that grandma knowhow.

These basic home food things are still in books most of all I think. Especially in older ones.

Not to mention that the swastika the Finnish air force was using came from the Swedish Eric von Rosen who was a family acquaintance of Hermann Göring and a personal friend of Hitler and the founder of the Swedish Nazi Party.

It has even been speculated that the Nazi swastika actually came from von Rosen.

Me neither, we really need a sharp red wedge.

Took my coworkers out for walkies today and we had a really nice time. This was on employer time too which I was able to pitch to our manager as team building and getting to know the neighbourhood-time, we went and got glögi at the end. Also it finally started snowing today.

Our move is almost done, as in all our stuff is finding their places. My partner made us a new baking table for our kitchen (that we hauled up the stairs of this glorious Soviet block building yesterday) and it’s amazing. All diy so didn’t cost much at all.

Doing my Christmas cooking and enjoying this very silent apartment. No traffic noise at all as this is a building inside an older zone of these Soviet style buildings. No car lanes nearby, lots of trees and the only things you hear are neigbours kids playing. Everything is within walking distance from here and there are gorgeous tall pine trees behind our windows. I love it.

How would a blackout affect posting on a website in the age of smartphones, lol. Unless they see Russia as having no mobile service and no smartphones, which tbf people like this might.

I have, agree that they are better, but interestingly I find the Tiffany books to be a bit darker too.

I’ve read the Wayfarers and wish I could do it as an audiobook, but the narrator in them is super perky and annoyed me too much. I am very particular about the narrators, I’d listen to lotr if there weren’t the singing, lol. I just want the book to be read out loud to me, not acted.

But I’ll check out Monk and Robot, thanks so much.

A Finnish academic on the class war:

Almost immediately in 1918, the country was plunged into civil war between the Reds—the radicalized wing of the Finnish social democratic party—and the Whites, a loose confederation of non-socialists.

Reds = actual commies and socialists, not nearly all socdems

Whites = fascists, not in any way a loose confederation, but an organized gang of killers with a clear goal to purge the Reds

Oh yeah, it’s incredibly nauseating. He seems to have a hard-on for all the aristros, even in Interesting Times the tyrant or whatever is the smart, intelligent one. It’s pretty disgusting.