my social life is much like the roman empire, in that it's diminishing and germanic peoples seem to be running what's left

‘Sally Carson wasn’t writing with the involved intensity of authors whose lives had been threatened, or irreparably damaged, by fascism. Like Michael, she is watching from a place of safety.’ Dinah Birch on novels that tackle the rise of fascism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

my sister is so excited about getting her cosmetology license i don't have the heart to tell her the USSR doesn't have a space program anymore

Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.

despite all the praise by marxists for The Capital Order I was still surprised at how MARXIST Marxist it is, anyway, great book

Whenever I have like 2 beers in the afternoon and then go back to working on a sewing project I feel like I’m getting in touch with my 19th century seamstress ancestors

Attention Berlin!! 🥔 🚨🥔 get ready for free potato week 🥔 🚨 🥔 🚨 The Berliner Morgenpost is coordinating the free distribution of more than 4 million surplus potatoes. That’s more than 1 potato for every person in Berlin www.morgenpost.de/berlin/artic...

back to the daily grind (completing the unfinished project of modernity)

it's funny when watching US movies or tv shows i used to be like "man, they sure do use food poisoning as a plot device *a lot* in america..." then i learned their food poisoning statistics and it blew my mind. that's just how they live! people DIE of food poisoning regularly in the US. it's MAD.

Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela. It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

In before everyone else posts this classic new year's quote

We’re going to see Home Alone 2 in cinemas tonight and I’m wearing two pigeon-themed articles of clothing

“I find it disheartening that instead of a society that once valorized translators as intercultural communicators and professionals who could uphold a bilingual society, we're flattening culture with AI systems that don't allow for a more organic exchange between languages.”

Coming soon in paperback! The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat by Patrick Eiden-Offe www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...

More "free speech" in the Times, as "Lawyers for Israel" suggest that booksellers could be criminally liable for selling Sally Rooney's novels.

Hanging out and catching up with a friend who is trying to make it in the academic job market atm has revealed to me that academics are the people in the modern word who are most likely to have a legitimate serious nemesis. A reoccurring evil character haunting their life.

There is a GIANT grasshopper on my window. How do I get it to leave. Also, how did it get there. I live on the TENTH floor

Literal Brownshirt behaviour

Bad news for Quebecers: I just overheard some clueless tourists look at the Quebec flag that flies from a building next to Brandenburg gate in Berlin and say “oh must be israel”

I’m giving away a signed & framed linocut print of The Mary Wallopers to raise funds for Gaza Go Bragh. www.idonate.ie/raffle/Print... The raffle will be running over on iDonate until the 17th and I’ll cover postage to anywhere in the world. Share with everyone and anyone!

The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.

under late Capitalism we only have working situationships. all meaningful relations of labor have been slowly degraded into temporary exchanges of services just to keep up with your rent

@remarksist.bsky.social and I have translated Florian Wilde’s biography of KPD chairman Ernst Meyer, pupil of Luxemburg, champion of inner-party democracy and leading theorist of the united front tactic. Out in December: brill.com/display/titl...

I spent €12 on worthless Weimar-era hyperinflation money

Heidi #Reichinnek sprach heute Abend kurz nach der Abstimmung vielen Menschen aus der Seele🔥 #bundestag #merz #niewiedercducsu

bad news for marxist defenders of Canadian independence. Friedrich Engels writing from Montreal in 1888

hard to describe the kind of freak I am besides telling you that reading this kind of sentence literally gives me a rush of exhilaration

Guy on the train was obviously bothered by my talking (looking at me muttering under his breath) but it was unclear to me whether it was because I was talking about Ernst Meyer and communism/the communist party of Germany in the 1920s or because I have an annoying accent/ voice. The duality of life

Isn’t this simply true? A world where there is less economic growth _is_ a more zero sum world. We can’t avoid distributional struggles when the pie isn’t growing. The already rich and wealthy have been winning these struggles for 45 years.

I consider myself vey tolerant of national differences but the way that germans transliterate "Zinoviev" is where I draw the line. "Sinowjew" looks insane

John Brosio, Dinosaurs Eating CEO (2013)

My latest post is about Warren Beatty's 1981 film Reds and the witness testimonies that make it the greatest historical drama in 20th century cinema (IMHO) archiverats.substack.com/p/dreaming-o...

Guy doing bus driver training in a big bendy bus blocked 2 lanes of traffic and 3 other busses from going anywhere for like 6 minutes. I would die of embarrassment

Every day I regret that I don’t have a video of the time my friends shouted down Wes Streeting at an event by just chanting “scum” progressively louder and louder until he had to address the disruption

Walter Gropius's monument in Weimar to the victims of the far-right Kapp Putsch of March 1920. Me for scale

Can't believe this question came up in my citizenship test. Props to the German Federal Government for giving the Motor City their dues.

Berlin people! Jacobin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social are having a pub quiz Christmas party on Friday! it is still possible to sign up (both to come and to register your team if you want to compete) through the link on this page. (Quiz bilingual de/en) jacobin.de/artikel/weih...

Christmas tree before and after. (+50 birds)

Imagining Liam neeson and Alan Rickman promoting the Michael Collins film like how Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo have been promoting Wicked

here's a good rule that might help you with housekeeping- your house has to be clean before you can decorate for a holiday. you can't decorate on top of a mess. then the decorating is a little treat you get, for having cleaned. and if you decorate for every holiday that's like 10 cleanings a year

so much of leftist politics is at heart just a call to examine the assumptions about how anything works (or doesn't work), and the resounding response from liberals is "Well chief, son, missy, that's not how things work!"

"We're scrapping free museum days and the 29€ transport ticket but you can park your car for two years for the cost of a good main course. People who want to fuck their cars run this city." - Berlin Government

I've got this coming out soon too.

Post in r/travel about what tourist traps are actually worth visiting. Ppl are saying things like the Grand Canyon, Stonehenge, the Roman Colosseum, the louvre. I’m losing it. Has tourist trap lost all meaning?!? Some ppl are pushing back, but Jesus, being popular doesn’t make something a trap

a cool thing that people In their early 20s probably don't realise is that once your friends are in their 30s/40s, you end up doing fun children's birthday party activities again instead of just going to bars. today I'm going to my second bowling-based birthday in the span of 10 days

In 1987 the hearst corporation did a survey where 50 percent of people thought "from each according to his ability to each according to his needs" was a line from the US constitution

When people think of Canada it’s usually Tim Hortons or Hockey but what they should really think of are things like this

camera roll reminding me of 2 years ago when I made this big bag of pierogi