I’m so fucking guilty of this too. I’ve been in a huge reading kick lately but also “tune out” the text sometimes and realize I’ve read whole paragraph without paying attention. What I’ve found is actually helping is to read something first, then hut the audio book after to help clear things up and to get a better understanding.

I will say with how some of the older stuff is written, it’s helpful to hear someone else read it. Especially with how Engels, for example can write multi-page paragraphs.

I’ve done the read/audio combo for both State and Revolution, and Reform or Revolution and, though I’m not a mater of the texts, it’s really helped me get a more rounded understanding.

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.

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.

It is Texas so yeah.

Disclaimer: I daily drive, including write code, on a Ferris Sweep.

Each of my 4 thumb keys are tap for space, tab, enter, and backspace. But I hold one of those keys and I enter a dedicated layer for navigation, a 10-key number pad, a custom symbol layer, and my media and F-keys.

It does take a bit of getting used to but the trade off is holding an extra key compared to having to lift my hand off of home row and moving to arrows, number row, number pad, etc. I basically never have to look at where my hands are and still retain 100% functionality of a full size board.

Haha let’s go!

If it isn’t called The Giant Spoon I want no part in it.

Dark mode all day and redshift set based on the sunrise and sunset on both desktop and phone. I won’t go back.

Also I’m gonna do another suggestion for Dark Reader browser extension. It’s great!

I think for others it’s having different switches and keycaps for different feeling when typing. For me it’s trying to find what I think is the most optimal typing experience and the least amount of strains on my hands while typing.

That’s why I’ve gone from row stagger and qwerty to Ortholinear. I switched to that because it makes sense to me that your fingers move up and down better than they move laterally. Lateral movement like in a row stagger layout is more strain since you have to stretch to reach keys. Qwerty also never made sense to me since alphas aren’t optimized based on location but rather purposefully unoptimized as a hold over from the typewriter days in order to slow down typists to help stop keys from jamming.

When I was on my Ortho boards I learned about layer switching that allows for keys that are further away to be moved under my fingers by activating a second layer. This was when I moved from my 60% Ortho to my 40% Ortho.

After that I got interested in ColemakDh since it fixed a lot of what is wrong with qwerty. So I decided to learn it. Then I got real into column stagger and wanted to try my hand at soldering. I ordered the parts to make a board called a Cantor Remix. I had enough parts to build 2 and did that. Building my own keyboard from basically parts and programming was a lot of fun and I got bit by the bug.

It’s a dumb argument since most people don’t care but I believe that something like a column staggered layout and something like Colemak or Canary should be the standard keyboard format. It’s hard to relearn typing all over again as an adult so the default is an archaic row stagger that feels unnatural and a very unoptimized alpha layout. I know most people just don’t care and I hyper focus on stuff so it’s just something I don’t bother telling most people, unless they ask of course.

I don’t think everyone needs a bunch of keyboards but I’m on this weird journey to find what feels the most optimized for me. I’m deep in the rabbit hole lol.

If you haven’t been tainted by the mechanical keyboard hobby, be aware.

I started with a TKL with Outemu blue switches just to see what the hype was about, then moved to Anne Pro 2 with Gat browns.

Ortholinear made sense so I got an XD75 followed my a Planck after getting curious about 40% boards.

Now I make my own from printed PCBs and soldering, custom programmable firmware, and my own custom key map.

I now use a split column staggered 34 key board with hand dyed keycaps and custom aftermarket switches.

I own 7 boards now and have plans for at least 2 more and a partial split for gaming.

Greetings! I’m also considering purging my lemmy.ml account and just subbing to the more mainstream comms from there that I care about on this account. I’ve very much realized I’m not missing out on the content from the servers that are hostile towards or defederated from lemmygrad.

I will so deeply miss the fantastic content of the lemmy.ml memes comms though 😭

As another comrade stuck in one of the more facisty parts of the South, welcome!

I felt this when I was on Lexapro for my severe depression. I gave up on jumping through hoops and weened off because I didn’t also need micro anxiety attacks from feeling like I was gonna run out of meds while waiting on bullshit red tape theatrics.

Cool and I propose we make the minimum wage a living wage instead.

I only used GitHub because it’s an industry standard. It’s on my resume and most places I’m applying at knows GitHub. I can try and get an apk made of what I currently have once I get those last few things sorted out and send that your way.

It would mostly be just testing accuracy of the translations since that’s the only real feature. I guess testing on multiple screen sizes too but I’ve tested on 3 sizes so far.