I visited the Royal Palace today since they have opened their greenhouse for the public for a few days. My love for plants transcends my hate for the monarchy so I had to have a look.
It is absolutely obscene the area their palace occupies. Like, you could walk a 5km round through their gardens and still not see half of it. Paired with a ginormous palace. And not a single piece of grass is cut in the wrong way.
The most ironic moment I had there was when I overheard some guy talking about refugees being privileged, while walking around the palace gardens of a literal nepo baby.
We should 100% make this a public ground in the middle of a 2 million people city.
My gf needs chemicals for her work so every once in a while a box of chemicals gets delivered to my address and I wonder how long it takes before the alarms go off about a communist getting chemicals delivered.
A far right politician in Belgium had a liver failure because of being a gluttonous pig and eventually he got saved by a doctor with a migration backgroup. Can't make this shit up.
One of my favorite activities for when I'm bored is to go on football hooligan Instagram pages and call them Nazi shits. You'd think that people posing with a Sieg Heil and Totenkopf flags would be okay with that but for some reason they always get defensive and argue about how they are just 'concerned right wingers' and 'hitler was socialist, you know'. Like, you are posing as a literal Nazi why are you so ashamed lol?
Anyway I took a week of vacation this week. I always forget to do that except for in the summer so I end up with lots of surplus weeks at the end of the year. But for this year I wanted to do something different so I decided to actually take my vacation days for a change. Bought two books, 'The Vegetarian' by Han Kang and 'Strange Pictures' by Uketsu. They were the two best selling options at the store so I just got them. I always have a hard time picking fiction works because I often get bored by fiction quickly so I figured 'how bad can it be?'. Looking forward to read this week as well as visit a botanical garden and go to a concert.
Yeah for real. Antwerp bars and restaurants are usually in such small spaces they by default have one bathroom for everyone. Then it suddenly is no problem.
It's funny how gender neutral bath- and restrooms are such a problematic thing for some while I have been going to them at campings for forever. Everyone has the same toilet and shower building, everyone uses them together and it works just like it is.
I've worked at a lot of different places, mostly commercial companies. I have never been closer to actually workers' mutiny than I have been at my current employer, the actual union. Our board of directors are absolute dictators and the working conditions are insane. They won't listen. They act like we are lunatics for some reason. No sympathy whatsoever for us. And we have had enough.
The comraderie this creates is nice though. Gives me energy.
I find it funny that the people in a country, who couldn't be arsed to mask up or follow basic safety rules during a global pandemic, deem themselves fit enough to fight an actual war
After the drought we are seeing rain finally, be it ever so slightly. But the drought and the winter did make me forget what a humid hell it can be here, in the swamp. The gym is a nightmare and it's not even summer yet.
I've been to London twice, once as an exchange student for some time. Lived in Eltham actually. I've always thought it was a great city to live in. But that was around ten years ago, something like that. It faces the difficulty of every western city: overpriced, gentrified, housing shortage, etc.
I enjoyed the city very much. It is absolutely massive though so there is no 'one London' to speak about. Walking around Fulham is vastly different than walking around, idk, Hackney. The piss smell wasn't noticed by me at least.
I mean Che himself came from a relatively well off family, was studying to be a doctor, decided to fuck around traveling for a while like the rich kid he is and he became one of the most influential marxist figures there is. I think we should not let ourselves get hung up on puritan views of the ideal socialist because it is pointless to our cause.
It's always good to be aware of the privileges you may have but don't feel bad for having them per se. Just like poor people never asked to be (born) poor you didn't ask for being born into a middle class family, if that makes sense. What counts is that you found marxism and are contributing to achieving communism in this world.
There's people from the party (just member, not officials or anything) I follow on IG and it's a constant stream of political content. Even when on holiday. Like, enjoy your holiday maybe lol.
I always laughed at the idea but tbh better safe than sorry I guess. At least get a noodpakket like the government says. Can't hurt anyone with that. Maybe some canned food and some water bottles to last you a week or so if shit happens.
I went to Latvia and had spent several days living in the much hated commie blocks. They could use some upkeep for sure but the entire area was green with parks, playgrounds, shops, water, benches, gardens etc. Public transport nearby which would have you in the city center in no time. They beat every single urban design out there, 60 years after being build.
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I visited the Royal Palace today since they have opened their greenhouse for the public for a few days. My love for plants transcends my hate for the monarchy so I had to have a look.
It is absolutely obscene the area their palace occupies. Like, you could walk a 5km round through their gardens and still not see half of it. Paired with a ginormous palace. And not a single piece of grass is cut in the wrong way.
The most ironic moment I had there was when I overheard some guy talking about refugees being privileged, while walking around the palace gardens of a literal nepo baby.
We should 100% make this a public ground in the middle of a 2 million people city.