I plan on getting a job after a year or so of unemployment, like it for a few months, then hate it, get burnt out, and get fired after 1.5 years. So, you know, the usual.

We have Bone and All scheduled for tonight and gonna play catch up with Scream 6 and Final Destination 5 later this week since our marathon got screwed up after we bought Borderlands 3 lol.

If you haven’t watched it, Bones and All is a pretty original take on cannibalism, as a metaphor for addiction.

I do have a few buttons on my hat that are sort of “if you know, you know”. I have the Anarchist black flag, an AnCom flag, and a Anarcha-feminism flag button.

But I also have a button that says “All Cats Are Beautiful” and no one has picked up on it being an allusion to ACAB.

I forgot to look up the Disco Elysium symbol until just now and yeah, I can see that definitely working lol.

I def still need to play Disco Elysium.

I only have one tattoo and it’s Hunter Thompson’s initials on my wrist. I’m a fan of his work and it’s sort of a reminder to me to stay weird.

It hurt and I was like “never getting one again” but now I’m considering getting an ASD infinity symbol somewhere noticable but out of the way. I don’t know if I’d ever get anything that showed my political affiliations but I guess to be fair. To my edgy ass brother, at the time anarchy meant something not related to actual theory. I doubt he even knows that there is anarchist theory.

My brother legit has an A tattoo on his arm and now he’s a chud libertarian/fascist.

This is my first foray into anarchist theory so I really only know a bit about mutual aid and sef-association so far, outside of the concepts that overlap more with ML, the state, police, church, etc.

I have tried listening to Anarchy and other Essays by Goldman but realized I really wasn’t paying attention so I will start that over at some point. I also have some more Errico Malatesta and some Daniel Guerrin on my list. I think Guerrin might be more modern though. I did toss God and State by Bakunin on there as well. There is a few counter argument pieces I wanna get to but that will be for later.

Lol yeah. Epub*

Anarchy Works was recommended on a few reddit posts while I was looking for books to add. It seems like a modern take on the theory. Conquest of Bread has been on my list since I started reading theory because it’s so highly regarded. The question is, do I wanna keep reading really old stuff and get the foundation or read something more modern for a change of pace?

I do plan on reading both this next year though.

If you are gonna do Mao, I’d say grab Five Essays. It’s got On Contradiction and On Practice both, which are always recommended for good reason, but it also has a few other really good works by him.

I’m trying to find it as an epud to add to my collection but I listened to the audiobook version which is on Spotify.

I finished The Origin of Family, Private Property and the State last week and then decided to finish this chunk of my deep dive in theory with Critique of the Gotha Programme.

My next big focus is gonna be in anarchist theory so I picked 2 small pieces to read through to get a basic understanding: An Anarchist Programmer by Errico Malatesta and Are You An Anarchist by David Graeber.

Before I actually jump in to that I wanna get a few more chapters knocked out of Inventing Reality and Killing Hope though. I’m having a hard time deciding on Conquest of Bread or Anarchy Works for my next book though.

Joke’s on you, I’m already unemployed.

I’m listening to their whole discog from newest to oldest today. That’s my mini goal lol.

I’ve been considering getting something for the Black Panthers but want to wait until I focus my reading on that subject. Palenstinian flag might be fun since it will piss off both dems and reps. You know what, maybe some purchase therapy might be in order today.

First, it looks like I’m gonna be listening to SoaD today lol. Second, I’ve actually been wanting to get a few custom pins made and have a friend that does graphic design. I have an idea for one with like a big rainbow and clouds but the clouds are big bubbly text that says “Stay woke, comrade.” The idea is sort of a on-the-nose way of making fun of the chuds that decry “woke culture” and such.

I have a few antifa pins that didn’t make it on the hat and I think the Antifascist Action one is a bit more known so maybe too obvious? I think my friend ended up nabbing the scared cat pin one from me.

I should clarify I didn’t mean the Black Flag band logo, but just the black flag anarchist one. I do have a Misfits pin that an old friend gave me and I was gonna look to get an Anti-flag pin but the SA allegations happened so idk now lol.

Sweet thanks. I might have to order this in the near future lol.

I need to look into it. The book might even be a reprint. It’s old and in poor condition but the last date states 1935 so I am going off of that. I can look into getting it rebound. I’m afraid to really even touch it because the spine creaks when I open it like it’s begging to fall apart.

You got a link to the QR code one? I kind of love that idea.

I have a black flag, an AnCom(like my banner), and Anarcha Feminism(purple and black) one. Then I have a trans rights one, a smash the patriarchy one, and one that says All Cats Are Beautiful(ACAB). I also have Black Fist and Pride Flag/Inclusive one. I stay away from Hammer and Sickle just because it’s so known. The earnings sound cute though lol. A lot of these can be marked up as like just being progressive I guess.

I want a DSA rose eventually.

Overall, it’s sort of all over the place but each sort of represents the stages I have gone through along my leftist journey.

I was at a local bookstore/clothing consignment/vinyl shop with a friend because he collects vinyl. I was looking through the books and spotted “A People’s History of the United States” by Zinn and ended up picking it up for another friend. I started talking to the owner as I was ringing up about the few leftist texts that he had and how it’s kind of cool to see that sort of thing in the TX panhandle since there aren’t really many leftists here and he simply replied “yeah, we’re out there.”

I now call that place the “Commie Record Store” lol.

Last time I was there he had a 4th print edition of State and Revolution from 1935, that is now in my possession. The book is super old and the spine is brittle and I don’t know what to do with it, but I feel like it’s somehow special now.

He now acts as my source for physical books. I mostly read digital but I would like a small collection of “the classics” so to speak.

And similar to comrade Queerecommie, I have a hat with several buttons that anyone here would recognize but the average lib won’t. I also use the big nerdy Marx words like dialectics, material conditions, praxis, bourgeois, etc.

Can we just let all the fashies in here so we can all just get along and have tea and scones together puh-leaaaaaaaase???