riga @riga@refactorcamp.org

on the bright side I do enjoy the new UI design

protip: if the windows installer forced you to sign in with an online account during installation, you can replace it with a local account after, and then delete your email from windows' managed identities

using windows for the first time in years and wow it just really wants to be spyware

computers are terrible

Said this once and I'll say it again.

Coups and 'states of emergency' are not exceptions to capitalist representational democratic regimes. They are an integral part of those regimes -- keeping democracy in its place.

I don't think this genre of "rich people doing ordinary people work" is as endearing as they imagine it to be.

we're only at the end of the first crusade!

I'm listening to a podcast about the crusades and it's amazingly gonzo so far:

example 1: Priest declares that 2/5 of the crusader army (which he points out) are sinners, and will have to be executed. To prove his vision, he subjects himself to a trial by fire. It ends like you think it does.

example 2: The first crusader assault on Jerusalem uses a single siege ladder, because that's all the wood they can find. It ends like you think it does.

everyone: you should meditate

me: *old town road on repeat

Using my phone as a source of idle distraction seems like years long failed experiment at this point. Time to detox.

I’m unfortunately pessimistic about the political prospects of the left because left ‘solutions’ are complicated and difficult. The right offers non-solutions to some of the same problems and they’re way easier for many ordinary people to understand and stomach.