Pets Yanqui_UXO • Now • 100%

Cat update

He's all good

politics Yanqui_UXO • Now • 100%

A somewhat cautious bloodbath

[Shit BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjjj26d0eqxo)

chat Yanqui_UXO • Now • 100%

I thought my account was deleted

For half a year I thought my account was deleted because I couldn't log in. Turns out it was a Firefox problem (and a million plugins I use?). Now I'm here using Chrome smdh

Pets Yanqui_UXO • Now • 100%

Say meow to Tofu

This is my cat Tofu. About 2 yrs old now, he was thrown outside by the previous owners at some point, lost a few teeth on the streets. He's the gentlest creature I've ever met. Throws himself on the floor so you rub his belly. Lets you stroke his paws. Spends hours looking outside the window, recognizes his reflection in the mirror, and just learns learns learns as he goes. I took him in expecting nothing, but this cat has the best personality I could've ever imagined.

chapotraphouse Yanqui_UXO • Now • 100%

I simply cannot

BHL in Rojava, 2020 https://hexbear.net/post/223315

[I posted two months ago](https://hexbear.net/post/163072) that I had left the US to... somewhere. Well, it was Belarus. Because my mom is from here. So there's that. I'm just one smol human bean with vicious brain worms, but I'd be happy to answer questions about/from the perspective of this point on the Google Maps before we're disconnected by the Iron Curtain 2.0. (It's evening here, I have a few hours, but if I don't answer your question I'll get back to it tomorrow I promise (unless it's redundant/silly/makes me mad lol)) E: I'm going to bed but I'll answer any new questions when I'm up, as promised.

music Yanqui_UXO • Now • 100%

No reason not to lie on your resume

https://www.nme.com/news/music/jonny-greenwood-pretended-play-keyboards-radiohead-3156953 > “Thom [Yorke]’s band had a keyboard player — [whom] I think they didn’t get on with because he played his keyboard so loud,” he told NPR’s Terry Gross. “And so when I got the chance to play with them, the first thing I did was make sure my keyboard was turned off … I must have done months of rehearsals with them with this keyboard, and they didn’t know that I’d already turned it off.” >“They made quite a racket, quite a noise. It was all guitars and distortion — and so I would pretend to play for weeks on end and Thom would say, ‘I can’t quite hear what you’re doing, but I think you’re adding a really interesting texture because I can tell when you’re not playing,'” he said. “And I’m thinking, ‘No, you can’t, because I’m really not playing.’ And I’d go home in the evening and work out how to actually play chords and cautiously over the next few months, I would start turning this keyboard up. And that’s how I started in with Radiohead.” lol damn i sure hope he wasn't just trolling, which is a real possibility too

movies Yanqui_UXO • Now • 0%

Choose your fighter

[The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_at_Lake_Changjin) I went on a bit of a research expedition and learned that Mao's eldest son, Mao Anying, who was killed in 1950 by a US bomber during the Korean War briefly depicted in the movie, studied in Moscow, petitioned Stalin to send him to the front during the WW2, got his wish, and served as an artillery officer, during the final Battle of Berlin including. Also had no idea Mao had 10 children lol

history Yanqui_UXO • Now • 0%

Rudolf Höss, the SS officer who made Auschwitz, in his own words, into "the largest killing center in all of history" also wrote a memoir and you should read it

He was captured in 1945, was a witness at the Nuremberg trials, and was tried and hung in Poland in 1947. While in prison, he wrote a memoir that is much more chilling than "the banality of evil" of the dumb fuck Eichmann variety. The history of the Nazi Germany has become so Disneyfied. No one reads or really knows much about it anymore. Everyone vaguely knows (if that!) that the Nazis did camps and that was bad, but that's all. But when you read that text, I think it becomes clear that not only such atrocities can be repeated very easily today, they will be repeated precisely in the name of all that is "good." Anyway. Höss was the only SS officer at the Nuremberg trials who testified to everything that he'd done. During his own trial he confessed, admitted his guilt, and refused the opportunity to appeal. You will see from the memoir he was a smart, and not even particularly callous man. AND FUCKING YET. That's the point. It is chilling to the bones, and is all the more chilling because of how lucid that memoir is. The only reason he admitted his wrongs was because the Nazis were defeated. It will make you think about those yet undefeated and the atrocities they commit in the name of what they may genuinely consider to be "good." Links, **huge trigger warning obviously** : [The memoir](https://3lib.net/book/2776571/0cb7a0) (skip to page 118, that's where his tenure at Auschwitz starts) [A kind of condensed article about Höss](https://web.archive.org/web/20110927055148/http://www.shu.edu/academics/theology/upload/mass-murderer-repents.pdf) , with some quotes from the memoir + the trial in Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_H%C3%B6ss https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rudolf_H%C3%B6ss People are forgetting this shit. It is not enough to know that Nazis = bad. We'll fucking repeat it without learning what actually happened. Look at Ukraine where an SS division has recently been celebrated in the capital because some people there hate the USSR legacy more than they hate fascism, treating these death squads as "liberators."

games Yanqui_UXO • Now • 100%

What a perfectly succinct way do describe the entire neoliberal paradigm

We're all in this together ™ ✌️ Replaying the Outer Worlds sober is already paying off, I didn't read all those computer things before

libre Yanqui_UXO • Now • 0%

TF no GF

The struggle is real.