I’ve been in Berlin the last few days, it’s been really interesting.

There’s the expected anti-communism literally everywhere (honestly even more than I expected). But there’s also some gems to be found, and I didn’t even make it to any of the Soviet or DDR memorials or locations. What gets me the most is the appropriation of communist landmarks and memorials for capitalist/fascist purposes.

I did find a really cool picture folder of the rebuilding of East Berlin at a flea market, as well as a book of speeches from a 1983 SED conference which I’ll share here when I have a chance. There’s also a few museum exhibitions now talking about German colonialism which positively surprised me.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

I did it. One and a half months later, I’ve finished an EPUB of Anarchism Or Socialism.

Im going to play war thunder to continue my painful grind as an F2P Player

There’s a huge international book and publishing fair in Frankfurt every year, this year’s edition is coming up this week. The entity that organizes it predictably condemned “terrorist attacks against Israel” and now many of the Arab participants are canceling last minute. The book fair organization is at a complete loss, at least in their external communications they pretend to have absolutely no idea why Arabs could be backing out.

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It’s a good time to rewatch the Palestine coverage from Empire Files, Abby has been covering this for years. In one video she interviews random Israelis and the things they say are insane.

Watermelons are interesting I mean uhh :checks notes:

Lemmy has been so enjoyable since we got defederated from .world lol.

average america appreciation post 🤮

So roughly how many blocks/unfollows have yall done on Twitter/X TikTok, etc, lately? It’s been unbearable past week. I could at least handle Ukraine-flag-in-bio ppl because there are so many different kinds of people that are supporting them, and some are just normal misguided people who just hear the “X” country is being attacked narrative and just jump in vaguely in support. Plenty of funny pages and channels I see have shown support for Ukraine and its cringe but I get why. They don’t hear anything about the Euromaidan, or what the Alley of Angels means to the people of Donbass. The media NEVER covers that. To openly support Israel after the decades of hatred and violence on Palestine is unmistakably genocidal. The News was not silent when Jenin Refugee Camp was attacked. The news talked about Shireen Abu Akleh and what happened at her funeral. And that’s just recent events for those with no attention span (or not old enough) to remember the other awful events in Palestinian history that Israel resided over, most infamously being the Nakba and redrawing of maps to overwhelmingly benefit Israel at the behest of Palestine. If people wanna openly ignore that and jump out of the woodwork when Palestine defends itself, I disregard their concerns completely and I block/unfollow them depending on how egregious their posts are

Someone I know who isn’t that involved in politics just asked me when I will join the next protest for… Pakistan lmao

My cockatiel just died of old age. RIP to a real one.