• rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    22·
    2 months ago

    🇰🇵 Symbolic parade of the Korean People’s Army for the 72nd anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    2 months ago

    Apparently Chris Smalls, the Amazon union guy, who was also on the boat to Gaza, was abducted and severely beaten by Israeli forces.

    What’s even more fucked up is that there is 0 news story about it, it seems.

    I met Chris through our party and he is a really cool guy. I hope he manages to stay safe.

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    2 months ago

    🇰🇵🇷🇺 The air route between Pyongyang and Moscow is now operational.

    ✈️ Regular flights between the two countries have resumed this week. Sharing this here in case anyone is interested in paying the DPRK a visit!

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      2 months ago

      Would love to visit. A tour would be nice but ultimately I’d love to go and move freely if possible. Not yet though I think.

      • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        2 months ago

        If you ever decide to go, don’t forget to take some pictures for Lemmygrad! If I had more money, convinced my lib wife, and was in peak condition, I will probably travel there for the marathon.

        Like these people:

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      1 month ago

      I always wonder how wary they are against non Western non communist countries. Ultimately opening up to more countries and doing stuff like this seems like a good way to break the western hegemonic view of the country.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    1 month ago

    I can’t deal with pride being coopted by liberals. In our canal parade in Amsterdam there would have been a boat of a gym who was found treating their South East Asian employees as slaves. The organisation of the parade didn’t ban them from the parade, it’s only because the gym pulled back after criticism that they won’t be participating. Our pride is sponsored by Booking.com who are on the BDS list because they are listing accommodations in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. I also saw one of the drag queens I follow do an advertisement for Booking.com. There will be a police boat at pride, and a political boat with some parties who are pushing some anti-LGBT laws.

    Furthermore, I was at another pride event today, and there was a cop handing out stickers of the police logo to little children.

    This is what happens when most pride events are organised by the municipality.

    I really hope more radical LGBT people like myself can help stop this, but it will require organising.

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      1 month ago

      Same here. Companies like Total Energy, Deloitte, the cops, multiple right wing parties are joining. It’s just a corp and pink washing fest at this point.

      Some left wing orgs organised an alternative pride some weeks ago with a decent turnout. Hopefully it gets some following here and inspires people abroad to do the same.

    • Narri N.@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      1 month ago

      I was volunteering with the local LGBTQ+ org at a local music festival in June for the second time, and the hypocrisy going on behind the scenes is just midblowing. Like they’ve been branding themselves as “People’s Party” (or more like Humans’ Party) for some years now, but based on what I’ve seen and heard these two years it’s more like “Rich Peoples’ - who can pay for their goods and services - Party” because most people who work there to run the festival are unpaid, but instead volunteer to work for a three day pass, most of these being underage kids. Last year a friend of mine was in cocharge of those underage volunteers, and mentioned some huge oversights by the festival org on the safety and well-being of those kids.

      I’ve also enjoyed seeing my face on their social media (usually belatedly because i myself don’t fuck with meta), because our rainbow org has held a pride march at the fest these past years I’ve been there also, and me with my brightly coloured hair holding a sign up defiantly with my head held high and proud is a bunch of great pr that they ain’t gotta pay shit for me, or anyone else who’s a part of this fucking propaganda machine. The festival org, who asked our rainbow folks to come in again “for exposure” i guess, deemed it befitting that each one of us was given one (1) food ticket to the fest cantina for the entirety of the three (3) day festival. Other food we had to supply or pay for ourselves. Or starve ig. This isn’t an issue only because of the absolute hypocrisy but also because everything you can buy on the festival area has to pay the festival for the privilige, and is thus expensive as shit.

      Ugh, I feel tainted by this shit.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    2 months ago

    Rode my bike through my hometown yesterday which sparked some severe nostalgia it seems. This night I had an intense dream of waking up in 2009 in my old bedroom. Jersey Shore was playing on the tv and I lived a day like it was 2009 again. Going to school, dicking around outside, playing games with my brother. I woke up with food poisoning so that probably didn’t help either. Which is funny because I commented on someone here the other day who was also having a stomach bug.

    I have to renew my residence permit over here soon and that has sparked some thought regarding what the fuck I need to do with my life and for the first time in years I seem to be somewhat homesick and I’m not really sure what it is that I’m staying for here.

    Political wise nothing seems to be happening. The party wants to be open to new ideas from members but whenever I present my ideas I get hit with an ‘awesome that sounds cool’ and nothing happens. I’m not really sure what to do right now. We have a meeting every month and for the past month or three-four that is the only moment something seems to be happening. Basically all political action I did in the last few months were organised by other orgs. Sure, I could set up shit myself but my life is busy anyway and I seem to have resorted to minding my own business some more.

  • She Was Speaking@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    2 months ago

    Tsunami warning on my island. I’m out of the evacuation zone, but still got me rattled. Likely not to have power tonight at the very least.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    1 month ago

    I’m crashing out harder than I expected. On day three of staying at home right now thinking it was going to be a little break to prevent a further crashing but I’m starting to wonder if it isn’t too late already. I’m just really tired and emotional. Like, even standing up requires an unreasonable amount of effort. I have one task for the day of picking up a package for my partner and it’s stressing me out. But at the same time I don’t want to sleep or stay in the house for the entire day.

    It’s a really strange experience to say the least. Looking back there were definitely some signs that I should slow down but honestly I expected a more gradual change in mental state. This just feels like hitting a wall that was suddenly there. Fuck this system man.

    • SugandeseDelegation@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I can relate to that, most of my working life has been burnout after burnout. You ignore the signs for too long, then finally take a break when it’s too much, and then it all comes crashing down worse than you thought it would.

      I hope you’re able to prolong your break somehow, I’ve found these things need a long time to go away. Although I know it’s rare privilege to be able to do that.

    • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      I do love how Mexicans are identifying that yes, although USAians are coming in droves, destroying the local economy and displacing people, the blame lies on the government not regulating the housing industry.

      AirBnb is a leech to society. Anyone who thinks hosting on Airbnb is a full-time job deserves 🔻