Had our first band practice. It went ok. We got a rough idea of a song that leans a bit doom and crust punk, maybe even a bit black metal. It’s interesting.

Everyone in the band knows I’m autistic bc leave it to me to blurt it out within the first 15 minutes of any sort of gathering of people lol.

I sent the lyrics I’m working on for this song to the group chat and got the seal of approval. The lyrics are a very biting summary of American Imperialism so getting the approval of the drummer and the bassist is very promising. I don’t know their political views quite yet. Our guitarist is a closet leftist so I think I’m in good company.

I also mentioned I’d like to tackle a sort of punk x hardcore sound with a bit of metal here and there and they seem to be on the same page. I was talking to the bassist a bit about direction and he said the same thing that a drummer from another band said, that we have too much metal in our area. I think that’s a sign to stay more in the punk genre.

Yesterday I also finished a rough version of a song I’ve been trying to work on. I only really had the chorus written but got inspired. Sent it to a friend who is in a punk band and he said “Fucking love it!!!” with three exclamation marks. So I’m gonna present this song to the band soon. I have an idea on how I want it to sound too.

That’s all. Not much bad going on personally with me. I’m taking the politcial news in strides right now and trying to channel my adsurdism to not get too detached from reality while keeping up with the now overt fascism of the United States.

Anyway, love you all and stay healthy!

Can this be part of the deep lore?

Yeah, if your “political opponents” are making AI CP, they shouldn’t just get banned, they should probably get the fucking wall.

Tim Sweeney can eat my entire ass. I hate this motherfucker.

I got a few coworkers that I’ve become friends with. Most are libertarian-flavored but some lean socialist libertarian. I’m working on one of them but he’s a bit hella ADHD so it’s been a trip. I also did a standard issue wall of text with another trying to help him navigate the negative propaganda around socialism. He’s a real “French Revolution” kind of dude so there is something there, I think. I got another coworker that posts some socialist leaning stuff and even interacts with my socialist posting on Facebook. I pegged him as libertarian but I think he’s a closet socialist. Another coworker is my guitarist for my band project and he’s said a few things that lead me to believe he’s radicalizing.

It’s funny because even though I’ve taken a step down from organizing, It feels like I’m still in the trenches.

Cowbee is goated. I don’t understand how they stay composed instead of losing their shit in the comments half the time. I wish I could have an ounce of their power.

Not me being a enby Linux nerd lol

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I think I’m finally over the hump on my shitty end to 2025. Hoping to focus on the band project hard over the next 6 or so months because I really wanna start playing out by summer.

The Dems are really coming out of the woodwork with my takes on how maybe the US was wrong on trying to depose of Maduro.

I’m stealing “non-guynary” lol

I haven’t been active on here lately because of band stuff, work, and arguing with Dems on Facebook. But I just wanted to stop by and say I love you all and I know you are doing your best!

This is true lol

Just saw a FB post from our local warming station that activates when it gets cold out for the unhoused to go to to be safe from last night. My ex was in one of the photos. She kicked me out and made me homeless for 2 months, so the irony isn’t lost. Just not sure how I should feel about it. She’s helping people, but I used to think she did this stuff out of the kindness of her heart and now I can’t help but think she only does it because she’s religious and wants “Jesus points” as my brain has officially dubbed it. That’s all. Idk where else I should post this so y’all get it. Hope everyone is doing their best while we wrap up this shitty year.

I decided to start playing through the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot series. I was playing Deus Ex but kept fucking up so bounced off. I’m about halfway through my 3rd playthrough of the 2013 Tomb Raider and it will be my first playthrough of both Rise and Shadow. Well I did start Rise a few years ago and got a couple hours in but my save corrrupted.

I’m getting interesting frame drops in 2013 on Linux. I say interesting because the game is the oldest of the bunch and I did test the other 2 to see if they needed any proton magic to run. Those run at a solid 120 fps on max settings but 2013 will go from 80 to 30 in spots witlh a lot of on screen stuff going on. I did drop the resolution back down to 1080p and that gave me like 5-10 frames but it’s still goofy considering the game is 12 years old.

Edit: I just checked and both Rise and Shadow have proper Linux ports while the 2013 GotY edition was only ported to Mac. So that prob explains my frame issue.

The liberal brain is an interesting thing to behold at times. Boycott a free site. That will crush the megacorp that is Lemmy.ml.

How is this not surprising lol

You put a lot of effort into that post so it’s saved lol.

Shit my bad. I usually check formatting when I do this but I just woke up lol.

This is my short and sweet list:

• Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
• Principles of Communism - Engels
• Communist Manifesto - Engels & Marx
• Elementary Principles of Philosophy by Georges Politzer
• Wage Labour and Capital - Marx
• Value Price and Profit - Marx
• Reform or Revolution - Luxemborg
• The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism - Lenin
• What Is To Be Done - Lenin
• State and Rev - Lenin
• Inventing Reality - Parenti
• Blackshirts and Reds - Parenti

I also tend to send people Cowbee’s list as well.

I have a friend that is working through this one and it seems very well rounded: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQbU3KmoemuCAPO_b4HMaB8uvY9JGPrhH5aMS3Mm8AL8hjr2kT2ewjcfnsNgqJpMEmEe8Jbr6g9uPf0/pub

Gonna be the odd ball out and say Ugly Stepsister. I thought it was a fun spin on Cinderella.