Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home, and help with the dishes. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread.
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I fucking hate just how desensitized I’ve become to videos of dying kids the past 3 weeks. It’s difficult trying to stay in the loop while also preserving sanity.
Yeah but do you condemn Hamas tho
no, I only condemn Hummus
It’s fucking awful.
I don’t share all the triggering material for the respect of my Palestinian friends who actually have family in Gaza. But god damn do I just want to rub everyone else’s face in it.
I was looking through the flags of the SSRs. It’s a collection that spans from beautiful to horrendous, imo. Georgia is cool because it kind of hurts my eyes to look at, but in a good way, I think. Waves on flags looks pretty good. Some of my favourite are in the “other republics” section, Bhukharan and Transcaucasia.
Georgia is my least favorate because it always hurts my eyes and gives me a headache
How careless of me. Added a cw. My bad.
There’s actually a Palestine rally in Tallinn’s Vabaduse Väljak this Sunday.
It’ll be almost like a slice of home, at least for me. Exceedingly rare :estonia-burning: W moment.
مرگ بر آمریک
Invented a tart recipe in my head a few weeks ago and just absolutely no-scoped the motherfucker tonight. It was a pear-frangipane tart with the tart crust flavored with herbal liquer, the frangipane flavored with orange blossom water, and the pears’ main flavor of ouzo.
It was my bf’s birthday dinner I made it for. He invited all of his lovers over and it gave me a bit of (maybe this is the word?) schaudenfreude that my dish was the best received of all of them.
Still not super into poly, but it has been a big learning experience.
Already working on my next epub (could be a few months before I’m done): This Soviet World by Anna Louise Strong.
That’s awesome. I enjoy doing this kind of stuff if you have a backlog and want someone to convert a few books I’m happy to help.
If you want to, do help, it’s a tiny project of mine, very… creatively… called “Comrades Library” and I’m just trying to create EPUBs of stuff, so there will always be something on the backlog. Maos Five Essays is currently the only one my list.
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How do you go about doing these? Do you convert the PDF with something like Calibre then read it through to fix the typos, etc, and add tags (html tags)?
I can’t decide so I’m gonna ask you: External link (to marxists.org) inside the EPUB?
Hmm… I’d maybe include the URL but not make it a hyperlink? I’d be worried about the security if there were links in the text. I don’t know whether there is a security risk, but I’d want to play it safe.
In this case I used OCRMyPDF to get text out of the PDF (Calibre doesn’t do that), and then I’ll create an empty EPUB in Calibre and import the text slowly, going through it with the PDF open to ensure it is correct, then finally add tags.
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Happy Halloween!
do lemmy devs ever lurk this instance?
Well I know of 2 who are active users
The fact that anyone can still think the accusations about Xinjiang are real now that they’re seeing what a real genocide looks like - and how hard it is to keep a lid on solid evidence from escaping in this modern era - is wild to me.
I’m seeing lots of Arabs and Palestinians lump Xinjiang in the conversation about “liberation from occupation everywhere.”
Hopefully people continue to dissect the CIA origins of the Xinjiang accusations, but I’m not super optimistic.
The mental gymnastics liberals must engage are impressive.
I scored 9/11 at my workplace battery safety training course
I hope you all have a nice week :D
🛸 f=t +o
Utoo yeah you see I am smart uwu
are you doing this just to flex on us that you’re admin twice in a single comment?
Are you SURE?
yes
Europeans on the DPRK: ‘lmao they are so brainwashed, how could they let that happen?’
Europeans in history class: ‘And then our brave adventurers set sail to the rest of the world, and DISCOVERED Asia, Africa and the Americas!’
Blows my mind how we keep telling ourselves that we discovered the world while people were already living there. Pure white supremacy.
Lovely! Where is that?
International Grand bazaar of Urunqi , Xinjiang , PRC .
Thanks for sharing!
You welcome 😁👍🏼
Someone on the internet used the “for babies” insult and i’m ANGRY. Prestige tv bazinga brains can fuck off forever.
Today is my birthday. Enjoy puppy.
Happy birthday comrade!
Happy birthday
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Happy birthday, hope you can get some sleep~
Happy birthday comrade
Happy birthday homie.