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or, to get to my point: stop the waste, yes. but then get the stuff to those who actually need it. i'm not sure how to do this, but i just know this is the wrong way, and nobody seems to care, and i'm angry about that. sorry. rant over. (7/7)

before, i could just walk 10min to the supermarket (because these are usually where property is cheap, and that's the shit part of the city, where poor people live), now i have to bike 20min to this gentrified-citycentre-hell to find out there's nothing there. before, i fought for myself, now i have to rely on their goowill. sometimes they do "volksküche", which should mean they cook for everyone, which they don't, because most times the food is neither vegan nor halal. (6/x)

these foodsharers show up like 20min after closing time (sometimes with cars) and take everything. then they take the best for themselves (i hung out with two different groups, i saw that shit with my own eyes), and leave the rest at "share-points". funny thing about that: the share points are usually where they live. in the rich part of the city. (5/x)

i know the team behind the biggest foodsharing website. they are white kids with rich parents who treat this like a fucking start-up. several of them are misogynist, homophobic, transphobic pieces of shit. the others i didn't really talk to. and i don't really want to. there are several obvious problems: they take everything. usually me and the others only took what you needed, and in quantities you could actually use before it went bad. (4/x)

and people would post stuff like "there's a whole pallett of xy at z, the truck usually comes on tuesdays, you can pick it up before then". simpler times. then there was weird shift - suddenly "saving food" was hip and trendy and the young white middle-class started doing it. it's now "foodsharing". don't get me wrong, it's wonderful to fight against this huge waste, i'm totally behind that - but the way it's done is fucked up. i met the people, talked to them. (3/x)

and there's only a finite number of days you can live off cabbage without going crazy. i sometimes met other people. impoverished pensioners, punks from the squat, homeless people, undocumented immigrants, sometimes anti-consumerist hippie types. that was back in 2012 or something. there were online forums for the bigger cities where you could find infos on locations. (2/x)

ok, i'm just pissed right now and need to vent, sorry about that. :( so, i'm poor. there were months were i had something like 10€ for food. shit times. i got a lot of my food from the dumpsters behind supermarkets. that worked well, even in the worst stages of my social anxiety, because i didn't have to interact with people. also, if you're vegan, that's a good way to get some variety - even when i had some money, i usually couldn't afford the "nice" vegetables. (1/x)

updated this instances /about and /about/more. i guess i wasn't really in a great mood when i wrote the original, parts of it were a bit...uh...aggressive. 😶 also put everything on our gitlab, pull requests welcome: https://gitlab.bau-ha.us/maschinenraum/social.bau-ha.us
(or just let me know directly)
#mastoadmin

Plenum zu zweit ist auch toll. Einstimmig beschlossen das Jahresbudget für Laser rauszuhauen. Ha, das habt ihr jetzt davon. 🙃

the record is "parocktikum - die anderen bands" which is a weird piece of gdr-history. it's a compilation of 80s punk and experimental bands from east germany...published on the state-owned label with approval of the party. they...uh...didn't really like punk rock. like, at all. but at some point they realized that they could use punk rock against the capitalist system, get the counter-culture to align with communism, because we have the same enemies. that didn't really work out. 🙃

doing the last finishing touches on the geracord. one rail of the tape-eject-mechanism was broken, the missing part was nowhere to be found, so i "fixed" it. there's a reason i failed my engineering studies, i'm too much of a hacker. works just fine. ;) also fixed the potentiometer for right channel playback level (disassembled, cleaned, and bent back into the right shape). for the final test i'm going to record some contemporary material on a contemporary medium. 🤓 number 8084 is alive!

bands anschreiben zur #YurisNight - vielleicht klappt es ja dieses Jahr mit pornophonique 🚀 🎵 :)
http://jamen.do/t/81741

Hey Fedi, wir machen dieses Jahr wieder was zur #YurisNight (12.04), Party und etwas Vortragsprogramm. Wir überlegen da vielleicht 2 Tage draus zu machen, weil dieses Jahr auch 20 Jahre #maschinenraum ist und es schön wäre zu feiern. Die letzten größeren Chaos-Events in #Weimar haben unsere Vorgängerinnen 2001 und 2005 veranstaltet, wäre eigtl. schön da anzuknüpfen. Offene Frage ist, ob überhaupt Interesse besteht. Gibt's hier Wesen, die Lust hätten Inhalte beizusteueren oder einfach da zu sein?

found some tapes on the street. nice stuff - 7", long-play, professional quality, in plastic cases. they look as if they haven't been played often, i think at least 2 are new. picked one at random, and the first minutes are a recording of an austrian radio station. there are ads for "try our new app!" and the music is terrible pop from 2017, so this is pretty recent. weird. why bring them here just to throw them away? 🤔 anyway, if somebody wants some tape, let me know 😁

the tape deck from the trash lives again! the wiring was fine, i had messed up the adjustment of the auto-stop solenoid and because of this the on-switch for the motor didn't engage properly. i still have to use the hammer on some parts of the chassis, the lid for the tape doesn't open properly. but playback & record are fine.