coffeepine

coffeepine, 15 hours ago to random

Just saw a post urging Americans to "Vote Blue" if they don't want violence at their protest camps.

double-checks party affiliation of current US president who is in charge of violence in protest camps

blinks slowly

Uhmmm....

coffeepine, 2 days ago to random

Der entscheidende Unterschied ist manchmal: Es gibt Leute, die haben ein grobschlächtiges Auftreten, aber sie sind weltoffen, interessiert und gebildet. Und dann gibt's Leute, die am Ku'damm Aperol Spritz saufen und "Gnotschi" sagen.

coffeepine, 6 days ago to random

Just learned that ChatGTP can flirt now. I swear to the Unspeakable Ones, if a machine gets dates when I don't, I just give up.

coffeepine, 7 days ago to random

Hmm, I now have this "Hello Oakland" sticker, and I need to find a place where it could possibly be found by an American tourist but where it also is ABSOLUTELY out of place.

Just to fuck with their day.

coffeepine, 7 days ago to random

Exhibit A:

coffeepine, 7 days ago to random

Finally some time to actually open @Alice letter.

I felt so bad breaking the scratch'n'sniff sticker already.

That said: Please follow them, they are fun quirkyness personified, and you'll love them.

:ablobcatheart:

coffeepine, 10 days ago to random

@Alice Your letter arrived. Couldn't open it yet but it made its way across the pond.

coffeepine, 14 days ago to random

ALICEEEEEEEEEEEE! \o/

@Alice

https://youtu.be/jJzS7rNfMDU

The happiest of birthdays!

coffeepine, 14 days ago to random

People who still think that capitalism will work out if we just regulate it enough or in the right way are the dumbest fucks around.

"But look at Scandinavian countries, it works there. I'd rather have that than Chinese communism."

1.) Your McCarthy is showing.
2.) There's more than one way to do this "communal" thing.
3.) Apart from bloody tankies most leftists agree with you that neither the Soviet Union, China or Cuba are worth aspiring to.

4.) Scandinavian countries are RICH and have to take care of relatively small populations.
5.) Scandinavian countries are RICH because of FOSSIL FUELS.

Think about this for a while and then shut the fuck up.

6.) Right wing/fascist parties are on the rise all over Scandinavian because even the well-regulated capitalism is failing. (for more examples: see Germany)

It cannot be reformed. It will not solve the issues it creates. #Capitalism has to go. It works in tandem with #fascism (see Joe Biden).

As long as you do not get into your head that antifascism, anticapitalism and anti-climate-crisis are the same fight, we will lose it.

coffeepine, 15 days ago to berlin

Berlin!

Heute (05.05.) ab 18 Uhr spontane Demo vor dem Brandenburger Tor.

Nach vermehrten verbalen und körperlichen Attacken, sowie dem verachtenswerten Angriff auf Matthias Ecke heißt es Visage & Courage zeigen unabhängig von Parteizugehörigkeit und Wahlkampf.

Wer nicht kommen kann, wäre super, wenn ihr es wenigstens teilt.

#Berlin #noAfD #BrandenburgerTor #Demo #WirSindMehr #NieWiederIstJetzt

coffeepine, 17 days ago to berlin

It's a weird, empty space. Not a lot of people pass this place even on a Friday evening (unless there is a convention). Today, even the skaters are absent.

And yet, it is one of my favourite #Berlin spaces.

#MesseICC #BerlinSoWunderbar #Liminal #Snapshot

coffeepine, 22 days ago to random

Okay.

Do other #Vans lovers (the shoes; shove your car's up....) also have issues tying their shoes?

Wait, before you declare me an absolute idiot. I am talking about sometimes tying them too strictly it hurts. But most of the time I tie them to loose and they open up after 10 minutes.

I seem to never get it right, and I just need someone with the same issue to not feel like an imbecile.

coffeepine, 22 days ago to random

Look, I repeat myself:

You are absolutely allowed to believe Taylor Swift is a good person.

You are just wrong, though.

coffeepine, 24 days ago to random

(Racist) Germans like to make fun of Hindu people considering cows holy. They hoot and holler.

And then they fellate cars....

Paris proves that a consequent policy of driving back traffic and considering a city the habitat of PEOPLE works. They adapt and everybody loves the improvements it brings.

In Berlin, we vote in the party that promises to reopen a 400m stretch of road to cars, as well as extending an inner-city highway for BILLIONS just so you can be stuck in traffic five minutes earlier.

coffeepine, 25 days ago to random

It's so tragically obvious that #Zionism is nothing but #fascism of another ilk. Underlying is the same greed for money, land and power that signifies #Capitalism.

In the end, when all is said and done this is what it is. Fascism donning its favourite costume of #Nationalism and religious zealotry.

Pointing that out is NOT antisemitism. Get it into your bloody heads.

coffeepine, 26 days ago to random

I just realised I wasn't following @RickiTarr and now I feel like an absolute doofus.

coffeepine, 27 days ago to random

Whenever I run into any sort of gender debate in the wild, I recognise the trend that defenders of 'manliness' usually either have no real clue what makes a man, or they put up 'rules' that are totally arbitrary and often they don't fulfil those themselves.

Guys, wouldn't the following three steps make everything easier?

1.) Acknowledge that there are no rules about what makes a man.

2.) Abandon all the stupid notions and just try to be a better human.

3.) Chill the fuck out!

coffeepine, 28 days ago to random

Welp. That was a first.

A 'leftist' at a literal party meeting of "Die Linke" who argued we shouldn't be present at strikes or union work because that is 'communist bullshit' and 'disrupts the economy'.

Look, these party meetings, generally speaking, have a very pluralistic atmosphere and loads of discussions. And honestly, a percentage of these discussions is pointless.

But the absolute resounding silence that guy earned was the loudest form of unity I have experienced in the party.

:blobcat_smileopenmouth:

coffeepine, 29 days ago to random

Stop making "extroverts vs introverts" the new jocks vs nerds.

• no one is fully an extrovert

• no one is fully an introvert

• most of us are ambiverts (ex- and introverted depending on form, social context etc.pp)

• not all extroverts are loud and stupid

• not all introverts are quiet and intelligent

YOU ARE NOT that FUCKING SPECIAL!

This is just some new tribal bullshit that is pushed on social media, so you can arbitrarily have a little hate-boner while bigging yourself up....

And it is well and truly annoying.

"Oh woe is me. I hate people yadda yadda something something blah"

By the way, I have not seen a single 'extrovert' complaining about 'introverts'.

coffeepine, 1 month ago to random

folds laundry

finds Beige egg

How many drinks did @theropologist have last night?

:blobcat_reachsad:

coffeepine, 1 month ago to random

Well, the rapture took me away. We have beer and kebab here. Rents are reasonable and headaches aren't a thing.

Bye losers!

coffeepine, 1 month ago to random

Odd weekend. How are y'all doing?

coffeepine, 1 month ago to random

The young gals behind me in this café loudly talk about being sapiosexual, and from hearing them talk about it for a while, I don't have the heart to tell them that intelligent dudes probably won't date them.

Then it turns out, they think that sapiosexual means being attracted to hot dudes wearing glasses.

I might have just spewed half my beer all over.

coffeepine, 1 month ago to random

"A majority of people are for climate protection, still nothing gets done. Why?"

Newspapers ask the darnedest questions. Here's why..

1.) Climate action entails less consumption. FAR LESS consumption. However, not consuming is deadly for capitalism.

They will sell you every bogus solution under the sun but all of these will make you keep consuming. This will lead to the extraction AND exploitation of resources and labour. The best capitalism will ever do is delay the collapse either temporarily or locally.
Capitalism CANNOT solve this issue.

And our capitalist overlords KNOW this.

That's why they chug either bullshit solutions or (culture) wars your way. It's a distraction.

So, first of all you finally have to get it into your head that saving the planet means toppling capitalism and subsequently means fighting fascists. These three things are linked. Details may vary. Sometimes it is murky but these three things make the world's ugliest threesome since I kissed both Fülber-twins on one evening in 5th grade.

2.) This necessary fight and transformation will and can come only at the price of your comfort zones. Replacing plastic straws at fast food restaurants is neat but that's not what's needed.

You cannot just be in favour of measures to save the planet, save humanity. You'll have to, on some level, fight for it.

coffeepine, 1 month ago to random

I said it before: I need a fediverse function that allows me to not block a person entirely but makes it so that boosts of that account don't make my feed.

Look, I don't mind George Takei and don't want to block him. I also don't want his - frankly mostly boring - takes reblogged into my feed 6-9 times a day.

It's exactly this kind of celebrity worship that made me leave Twitter years ago.