hey 4bicycles, do you like long-distance biking? what's the biggest trip you've ever done?

finished Capital Vol I, finished Food by Jennifer Clapp, now I'm onto Reaganland for something a bit more fun

giving me flashbacks to the "#fordiskawaii" flaired user in /r/canadapolitics in the leadup to the most recent election

I’ll haunt this site, like how a specter haunted Europe

lmao this is pretty good

o i am laffin

i mean yeah, maybe i should switch it with "games" but you know what i mean

i have a weird thing where i want to lock in this idea that if i'm ever in a position like that, i need to do something way more radical than i think is necessary to compensate for how smooth my brain will have become

the best radical art leans more anarchist imo; i hope this isn't too sectarian a comment

i thought everyone knew about that one but then i realized my mom was a bit hippieish and i probably only knew it from us listening to so much CSNY

i wanna do this. just a "nope i don't play politics, just stick to my principles even if i get nowhere" kinda candidacy

oh fuck i missed this, thanks! i read the one chapter that was released only in French

same, and a first degree relative just got diagnosed so i'm wondering if i have the same. i can't just sit and listen to a pod, and i can't just do a long menial task without having something on in the background

not all that much in this essay he hasn't said before. i'm much more excited for the book with david wengrow

i was thinking of maybe compiling some of the things i learned on this site into a book like that. i would call it "capitalists" or something and it would have P - M - C circuits i think

my mother, though not quite a hoarder, buys a lot of random shit, and especially a lot of decorative knick-knacks that create a lot of clutter. eventually it became impossible to keep any room properly clean

the book Direct Action: An Ethnography has some great insight into this but it's a real slog. the main tl;dr is that you organize in ways where it's very hard for one or two individuals to sabotage your group, whether it's a working group, general assembly, or affinity group

also, we've got to stay on our toes. permanent, above-ground political parties can't exactly carry out sustained illegal or violent operations except in moments of extreme crisis. it's just not on the table anymore because anyone connected is going to lose everything and go to jail forever. all the street action is going to have to be done by much more free-floating associations of people with only loose connections to parties, unions, or community groups

i have listened to one or two Silver Mt. Zion albums, and i really really really like 13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round The Side of Your Bed

i don't hate the rest of their music or godspeed, and it's been a while since i listened, but i guess their style of progression is just not for me. i like a lot of progressive music but something about the ebb and flow of their songs is just not rhythmic or alive enough for me, and it ends up feeling kinda directionless

they've had fantastic politics for a while iirc (montreal can be pretty good for that). i wish i liked their music more haha

my landlord company is based several thousand kilometers away and they've never been to the property since the previous owner sold it. they're just holding to rezone and develop or to sell to developers

any cool cat ways i can take advantage of this?

starting to do some research about my city that i can hopefully turn into some local activism and spectacle