American women learning from Lysistrata by a national transitioning of gender.

I dont respect any abrahamic religion

~ Christopher Hitchens, explaining why we should invade Iraq

You’re going to get called a Chinese bot account for this

No. Go big or go home.

Please don’t tell Robespierre

make your own point

copying your thoughts

Brother. This is Orwell’s biography. It’s not a “point”. It’s how he lived his life.

I’ve seen your posting history. Being this horny is political.

Damn. Beginning to think race might be some kind of socio-economic construct used to mystify material conditions of the proletariat.

CCP incel

Can’t count the number of times I’ve seen “You’re a secret agent of an enemy government!” in a shit flinging fight between two assholes on Reddit Lemmy.

Read it again. Think harder.

He hated his time with the police force, hated the British empire, and called imperialism “an evil thing.”

Incredibly, the man once accused of communist tendencies and the creator of Big Brother, was by 1949 surreptitiously working for British intelligence. He drew up a list of names of crypto-communists for Britain’s Foreign Office Information Research Department, the spies who led the UK propaganda war.

Orwell’s contact was Celia Kirwan, a former flame who visited the author while he battled tuberculosis at a sanatorium in England. Orwell had proposed to her years earlier but they were simply friends at that point - friends in high places. During her visit, Celia and Orwell discussed the secretive projects the IRD was doing “in great confidence, and he was delighted to learn of them, and expressed his wholehearted and enthusiastic approval of our aims,” according to Britain’s National Archives and Foreign Office records.

Orwell listed the names of suspected communists who might betray Britain if they were hired to work as writers in the propaganda unit. In his now-famous letter dated April 6, 1949, Orwell writes: “I could also, if it is of value, give you a list of crypto-communists, fellow-travelers or inclined that way and should not be trusted as propagandists.”

Orwell wanted his list to be ‘strictly confidential’. It includes dozens of literary luminaries of the ‘40s including J. B. Priestley, the novelist and playwright, and Manchester Guardian industrial correspondent John Anderson, described by Orwell as: “Probably sympathizer only. Good reporter. Stupid.”

…

Orwell collapsed with tuberculosis after writing the first draft of Nineteen Eighty-Four and typed the second version of his novel while recovering in bed. He collapsed again when he had finished and died on January 21, 1950. The CIA, US Army, and British spies began courting his young widow, his second wife Celia, almost immediately hoping to buy the firm rights to Animal Farm. The CIA closed the deal with a promise of cash and an introduction to Hollywood movie star Clarke Gable. The Brits settled for the rights to turn Animal Farm into a comic strip.

I think there’s a setting that’ll turn that off.

But also… Linux Mint is a pretty easy lift and shift.

Nintendo has the securist market with its portable console.

Cause they actually try to make a console that’s not just “Discount PC With Coupon For Streaming Service”.

Even then, it’s mostly an under-powered PC that makes up the difference with a few gimmicks. Which is fine. But you’re still left asking “Why would I buy a PS6 / X-Box One+One+360^Infinity when I could just get this shit on PC in another six months?” Other than tinkering with controllers, neither have done anything interesting since the Kinect flopped.

XBOX COFOUNDER SAYS MICROSOFT IS QUIETLY SUNSETTING THE PLATFORM

More seriously, the distance between the X-Box OS and the Windows OS was always measured in inches. Maybe they finally decided to give up the ghost and just admit they were selling people mid-range PCs with a console skinned GUI.

~ Unironic Steven Crowder

Wait, but if the second part is true then… omg, I’m gay.

Oh no. Are you telling me that only Sony products will have this feature? Damn, sucks. Now what will I do?

If it is publicly-traded, it will be enshittified.

Well, thank goodness Elon Musk took Twitter private, amirite?

I’m a Virgo

It’s a superhero TV show from the perspective of a kid growing up in the hood who is just a really big guy.