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user-inactivated  ·  288 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 14, 2023

1 year without nicotine!

user-inactivated  ·  1144 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mining Ethereum in the Closet

The year is 2150 and you're traveling through the nuclear winter wasteland, searching for somewhere to settle that's safe from the packs of feral self-driving cars and rogue delivery drones. Inside a derelict Amazon fulfillment center you come across a group of silhouettes huddled around a crypto miner for warmth, drawn in like moths to a flame by the steady rainbow pulse of RGB lighting emitted from the old gaming rig.

user-inactivated  ·  1289 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 16, 2020

Got a text today from my mother that my grandmother had stopped breathing. She's breathing again now, but it's faint and it can't be much longer now. My mother and her sisters had to raise hell to be allowed inside the care home to see her, since visitors are officially not allowed in for two more weeks. She turned 90 last week, I tried to call her but she was unable to speak. I haven't been able to see her since Christmas because 2020, and now I'm 600 km away and will probably not be able to get there in time, I don't even know right now if I'm going to try. Last time I saw her she had forgotten how to read, her greatest joy in life, so together we read poems by Harry Martinson and Stig Dagerman. She only needed me to read a few lines before the rest of the poem came to her from memory. Before I had to leave, she grabbed my hand and recited from memory:

    No one can reinvent the world.

    Quiet your hurricane soul.

    A hand out held may be all you can offer

    to help make a broken man whole.

    But this, friend, is more than enough –

    a star's steady smile through the rain.

    One less human heart bound to hunger

    is a sister or brother we gain.

Edit: Just after I posted this my father called me to tell me she had passed away.

user-inactivated  ·  1241 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 4, 2020  ·  

Get a load of these guys, thinking they had it rough!

user-inactivated  ·  1855 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who Is Left on Hubski?

Name: Johan, here and afk

Location: Malmö, Sweden

Age: No longer in my 20s!

Current Preoccupation: Never-ending studies, my allotment garden, local issues. I don't think I've ever really been a frequent contributor around here, but I lurk around almost daily. Even though I read a lot, writing in english has never been effortless for me, so I end up sitting out most discussions.

Previous Preoccupations: Heartbreaks, setbacks, breakups, makeups (stuck on repeat)

Role and purpose: Maybe I will figure it out some day!

user-inactivated  ·  1972 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry

Pathar Masjid in Srinagar, Kashmir.

user-inactivated  ·  2100 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 27, 2018

Holy shit, we actually made it past the group stage?! All drinks on me! Shout out to the Swedish fan who spent a fortune to go to Moscow only to fall asleep in the stadium wearing a Pippi Longstocking wig!

user-inactivated  ·  2546 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stockholm lorry rams crowds, killing at least three people

I presume you are not Swedish, since you seem to be under the impression that we don't discuss immigration. Trust me, we do.

All. The. Time.

We even have a party in our parliament who's main goal is restricting immigration. If we had an election today, they would become the second biggest party.

I listen to "Ring P1" almost every day, which is a call-in show airing on the national public service radio channel. Immigration is on the agenda every single day. I watch weekly debate shows on public service television, and immigration is a frequent topic. Same thing in the regular debates between the different party leaders.

So please, fuck off with this meme about how immigration is a taboo topic in Sweden.