Oh wow ok so it's locally banned in my country. Looks like the block is based on the phone number, a VPN doesn't work. Thanks anyway...

Strangely enough the Quds News Network channel isn't banned, even though it's directly affiliated with Hamas.

I thought the RNN channel got banned, is this a new private one? Can you share an invite?

It's fine, I didn't need groceries anyway...

A good post? At this time of the year? In this part of the internet? Localized entirely within my badposting community?

Fun fact: in some places in Italy it also used to mean a rich person, cause rich people could eat enough to shit a lot

Oh cagone means the same in Spanish too (big shitter / coward)? Neat...

Ayo wtf is going on in Latvia?

The idea of capital acknowledgements is gonna haunt my dreams

Phones these days are seemingly optimized exclusively for playing games and literally nothing else, and the way they chose to do that apparently is removing object permanence from the OS entirely. It's ridiculous that the average 100-bucks device has enough resources to sent a dozen Apollo 11s to the moon, and yet the OS rations hardware resources like bread during a famine. The existence of dontkillmyapp.com is a testament to the fact that there's something seriously wrong with OS development these days.

Yeah I'm kinda expecting that from a book about this topic. That's actually good advertising for the book if it gives you the full scale of the facts, but given that I'm already constantly angry at the world this is probably masochism for my mental health...

Alright when I manage to read a few chapters I'll let you know my feelings about it. Idk, Gladio was something that I've been vaguely aware of for quite a while, but I realized I've never properly informed myself about it beside the stuff I picked up from podcasts, video essays, etc.

have been doing a lot better overall, but it never feels like enough and each falter feels worse when I've trying to be committed to being sober

This one hits particularly close to home. What you realize after a while is that getting better is a tiring full time job, and you don't get to take a break from it cause that's called a relapse. It's like the IRA's "we only need to get lucky once, you need to get lucky every time" and you're Margaret Thatcher. It's hard. You need to stay strong in your weakest moments which... uh... they're called weak for a reason???

Idk, all I can say is don't let the guilt take over, comrade. You had a moment of weakness today, tomorrow you keep fighting like you were two days ago. A couple of fuckups don't define your overall trajectory, you're still getting better and that's what matters.

And you're definitely not alone in feeling lonely, comrade. It's not exactly an uplifting thought but it's something I guess...

Oh yeah no worries I got which book you were talking about. And ok gotcha, that seems fair enough. It's often difficult to tie all the threads together when you're talking about covert operations with a bunch of different actors collaborating for different interests. It still sounds like it's worth a try.

I keep hearing about the Unholy Alliance so I guess I'll have to try it for myself. Also my ADHD is very grateful that you added a documentary as well

Thanks for the recommendations! What was your issue with Unholy Alliance?

Damn ok this is a big one, both in scope and just number of pages... I'll definitely add it to my reading list, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not a bit intimidated by it.

Yup, I have no clue how him and Ezra Miller got involved with a movie so niche.

Neptune Frost is a one-of-a-kind movie. It's weird, cryptic, experimental, beautiful, and honestly just a unique experience. It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea but it's a movie I won't easily forget.

Oh, it's also about being trans hackers. And about dying in the cobalt mines.

Fuck I got beaten to the punch...

Edit: Saloum is an amazing movie, can't recommend it enough!

Hmmm good question. I don't know of any official repository, I can see a bunch of their most famous works in English on Anna's Archive though.