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Got back from Otakon!!
My local library has barely any Marx, so I’m looking for other fun things to read, any ideas?
If you haven’t read it already Wretched of the Earth by Fanon.
every classmate in my high school had that and I love that
edit: this would’ve literally been during the very early 2010s, FYI
Honestly, the Avatar movie kinda sucked though.
Honestly, nothing substantial happened.


R E A L
New Avatar game looks 'ight
I had not watched a movie for more than a year and yesterday i decided to open up Netflix, and chose the first thing there. The lady in cabin 10 or smt like that, it’s like a boring Glass Onion clone. Not 10 mins in and it tries to whitewash the Guardian as honest journalism and has a mention of brave kurdish women, also
spoiler
literally every guy was a villain and every woman was dope.
I watched The Death of Robin Hood last night and it was much better than I was expecting.
Ah, I should watch that.
Still aim to watch the man who killed Don Quixote
the man who killed Don Quixote
yes you should but for the exact opposite reasons you would watch the death of robin hood.
I drew the murderous aberration that drags people into the murky depths cutely, so you think Stalin’s great blood hunt was a bad thing now right?
[2026-07-30] @FluffKaiser@twitter.com: Old people say rusalki were a common sight all around central and southern Russia
And each one says they disappeared when the bolsheviks came
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This has been going on for a while now but its absolutely dire seeing companies on the pride parade. Fuck you mean Takeaway needs a boat? Let them not abuse their employees first.
I hate the fact that, in scifi book reading circles 1984 novel has become a standard of “dystopia”. I can’t escape it.
It’s literally everywhere and I hate it.
It’s not even a good book, never mind the author being… bleugh.
…a sex pest?
…an anarchist?
…abusive?
…voyeuristic and paranoic?
…rapist? snitch? fed?
What?!
WHAT?!?!?!?
TELL ME!!!

ahem thisisliterally1984
I saw a camera at Otakon today and it really felt like 1984.
I was told there would be posts
You misheard. There was a suggestion that there could be posts that leaned to the affirmative but there was no commitment overt or implied.
[2026-07-06] @SOULPRICE@twitter.com: normalize putting ur favorite ships in your thesis acknowledgment

[2026-07-06] @Netflix_PH@twitter.com: CAITVI MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️ congratulations!

Terrible things are happening in the humanities.
To explain why Netflix Philippines is replying, the rest of the thread shows she is essentially writing sapphic YA fanfiction based on Filipino mythology. It’s going in the files.
[2026-07-26] @EllenAbare@twitter.com: Hinkle was a Climate Action Southern California boy before he was groomed by the Schiller Institute…and joined the ACiaP Psyop Crew.
[2026-07-26] @Nat10921287@twitter.com: For some reason, they always end up choosing the wrong side

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[2026-07-27] @MollyBuvoCia@twitter.com: We told [Yemeni journalist Ahmed Hassan] not to trust him!
[2026-07-27] @EllenAbare@twitter.com: I heard some of them are going to Yemen in a few months without Hinkle but they’re the same as him.
These 2: Helali and Bils
Both Military👇




People really overestimate how much of what they see online is organic especially when they want to believe there is some kind of pipeline from not wanting to fund Ukrainian neonazis to hating charming gay etcetera people. The truncated bit is a lot more important than the header. It concerns infiltration of Iranian and Yemeni media spaces.
Not the only people who called out Ahmed Hassan for promoting these idiots. I don’t think his repeated paper-thin denials about it point to an honest mistake. Maybe he is just really hungry for clout, but that wouldn’t be very Ansarallah of him so don’t start excusing that please. Like there’s gotta be at least one Catherine Shakdam lurking around still, we know that because she willingly revealed herself to mock the Iranians. So I’m guessing there are hundreds of Catherines.
Catherine Shakdam does not require rare earth metals to manufacture. Just dollars and lies, which are renewable resources
[2026-07-30] @radiosalamandra@twitter.com: col. james salvador option steele in the middle later directed the iraq dirty war (phoenix program)/blackwater-guarded network of torture sites that proliferated after the abu ghraib reporting

Iliad can accurately be called Troy Story.
Is the Odyssey supposed to be Troy Story 2
Odyssey is like Cars 2: a sequel that follows a character from the previous movie and is completely divorced from the plot of the previous movie.
and the Aeneid is what in this case
Fanfic
The moment external investors acquire ownership interests in FIFA competitions, football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. Investor expectations become a daily pressure. From that moment onwards, every decision on the international calendar, every decision on competition formats and every decision shaping the future of football is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders. — UEFA statement
Quite interesting that top executives from UEFA, whom also are quite embedded in the global finance capitalism, can acknowledge this fundamental reality. This is not even about football, it’s a reality that permeates every single corporate institution these days.








