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I took my new medication Trintellix (a new antidepressant for MDD or major depressive disorder) about 3 or 4 hours ago.
It doesn’t have a Generic yet; just Brand, as of the current year.
So far, I don’t know how I should be feeling, but I don’t think I feel bad.
From what I understand so far, this is an experimental and new drug.
how’s everyone? it’s chuseok here
Merry chuseok! (I didn’t know what that was until just now but harvest festivals are the best festivals)
thanks a ton. it’s nice out here
Best political songs playable solo on paino?
This guy plays march of enthusiasts solo so I guess march of enthusiasts is one you could play. Or you could go with the classic the internationale.
The Internationale and the Workers’ Marseillaise cone to mind. Also if your country has a tradition with social-political songs I advise you to look there.
I am aware of the internationale. I’m collecting others. Till now I wrote down the Worker’s Marseillaise and March of the Enthusiasts from recommendations. The only communist party I’m aware of in Lebanon is the LCP and it hasn’t done anything since the civil war, so it’s not really something to honor
So a stabbing at a synagoge in Manchester today. The presumed suspect is an Arab/Middle-Eastern looking man and it is suspected he was wearing a bomb belt too.
This is just going to accelerate the already sky high tensions between white supremacists and the rest.
It’ll probably mean defcon 1 in our Jewish district in the city as well. So military in the streets, I guess.
Been really unfocused the last couple of days, they’ve been a blur. Need to snap out of it, maybe get some more sleep if I can find the time for it.
Have you gotten 8 hours of sleep at all?
Why are things a blur for you, exactly? Or do you not know?
Haven’t had 8 in weeks, usually around 5-6. A lot is going on is all, and I think I’m pushing past my limit for handling it all effectively. I’ve got a solid month out before it slows down though.
You absolutely need sleep then, especially since you don’t want to get a “sleep deficit.” You need to make up your “sleep debt” in order to think straight again, which will likely take a couple of days in your case. Melatonin or especially Flonase PM will put you to sleep. Even if a lot is going on, it’s best to think straight through it all.
I hear you, just wish there was time for it. Pretty stacked schedule lately, for the time being
Well, good luck on getting through it all.
Just remember your sleep hygiene by the end of it.
Thanks!
Watching the flotilla live feed. I think it’ll get deadly in the next 3 or 4 hours.
comrade kim you know what to do
Nuke Tel Aviv.
Oh, btw, I’m on my second day of taking the lowest dosage of Trintellix. (5 mg)
I’m taking 15 mg of Lexapro to ween off of it.
Eventually, I’ll be on just the Trintellix and maybe a higher dosage.
So far, so good, I think.
Interesting discussion so far in here:
Man I discovered working while standing and my productivity shot up.
I hope you’re getting paid by production. Otherwise you need to find some good ways to slack off while standing.
Whenever I sit down I have trouble formulating my thoughts but if I go for a walk it just starts streaming. Wonder if being neurotypical has anything to do with it.
Standing in general is just better for you anyway.
You are using this? 👀
I got the party overviews for the upcoming elections in The Netherlands today as I am living in another country and need it up front. One of the participating parties is NL Plan which is set up as some sort of meme thing by a Chinese dude and it might unironically be the most leftist thing out there.
Free public transport, in favor of building affordable housing, pro migration, pro public healthcare, etc. But it’s a joke of a party of course. The dude is pro China though lol.
i must organize in order to live. life without a political purpose or motivation is to accept the suffering of millions. i love organizing with all my heart!
I’m trying to find an org to join.
Lemme know if you have any advice.
i got introduced to my org through my friends. i think if you have any friends that are already organizing, go with them. i did this and found out that the deepest of all friendships is comradeship.
if you don’t, however, i would make the decision based on three things:
- are they ML
- do they do/want to do mass work
- are they intense about political education
if yes, join. all the smaller ideological squabbles you can ignore. if there’s no org like that around you, start one! black panthers started with six members.
Yeah, I might try to start a collective, but that’s beyond me right now, due to extenuating circumstances outside my control.
if you want to talk more you can shoot me a dm! the most important thing is committing.
Yeah, I’m not sure what to commit to yet, but I will consider that, thank you!
Protests in Peru
Reinstate Castillo already.
The coup was a rightwing putsch.
Did a vote test for The Netherlands to see which parties I should vote on and I passed the lefty test as all top 6 parties are left wing
I need to apologise to all the comrades who were saying Corbyn is controlled opposition, a distraction, and no better than Bernie.
You were right all along and I should’ve seen it back when Corbyn as the Labour leader banned socialists who supported Palestine for supposed “antisemitism” while keeping all the Blairites, neoliberals and imperialists like Starmer. I thought “he has to do that to stay electable and to survive in British parliamentary politics” but the truth of the matter is he was perfectly content to strangle the new party in it’s infancy the moment he felt attacked from the left, and suddenly being electable or survival of the party didn’t matter at all.
For context, he announced a new party with Zarah Sultana, she quit the Labour party for this, and the moment she went out of line (by launching the membership portal without checking with him first) he immediately threw a public tantrum, threatened legal action, sent a mass mail to all subscribers that the portal is “unautharised” and “if any direct debits have been set up, they should be immediately cancelled” and so on.
The portal was doing great by the way, it had 20,000 paying members within 3 hours of announcement which is completely unprecedented and he wrecked it and completely killed the momentum because he felt threatened by a young, brave, socialist, brown Muslim woman.
Now it seems Zarah has been completely sidelined, there is no mention of her in any communications, and today Corbyn officially registered the party with the Electoral Commission with himself as a sole leader and a transphobic, socially conservative landlord as Nominating Officer.
This is a complete betrayal and I feel sick thinking back to how I kept supporting him. He’s a wrecker, I was being a lib and I was wrong.
Tbh, he may feel that he has to do this stuff after what happened to him with the anti-Semitism charges, but he’s dead-wrong for doing them.
He couldn’t stand up for himself against Blairites and zionists but he can against a socialist and anti-zionist. It doesn’t just look bad, it is bad.
No, I agree, yeah.
Easy target.
Using the socialists and communists as a stepping stone, I see…
💯
Stop making excuses for a sheep dog.
i am not
he may feel that he has to do this stuff after what happened to him with the anti-Semitism charges
what is this if not an excuse?
Stop making excuses for a man who has never stood up for anything other than his own political career.
Corbin is not a comrade. He is not “hiding his power level.” He is not trying to “traverse a corrupt system.” He is building a transphobic crypto-zionist party for the bourgeois electoral system because that is who he is or at least who he thinks he needs to be to keep getting an MP’s salary.
It’s not an excuse.
I’m just trying to get into Corbyn’s head and his own internal reasoning.
Yeah he shit the bed massively it seems. Which sucks because he came to our party events a lot but this just looks shit. Fucker.
Kids never do Trotskyism, because that’s the end-result.
TERF Island?
More like:
TERF Trots
Or Trot Island.
Or TERF Trot Island.
Or TERF Trot Terrible Island.
Hello there.
General Kenobi.
I am a bold one.
