They kinda suck, but you have to make sure to place them on a completely flat and horizontal surface, and use it in the same place every time. Keeps the variance down a bit.

I’m no doctor, it’s best to ask whoever gave you the diagnosis. But generally salt should be fine AFAIK, just not excessive amounts of salt.

Not sure, but excessive salt is generally not very easy on the stomach.

I’ll try to do more research on what counts as “processed.” Please no MAGA shit if you recommend me anything, but yeah, I’ll do my own research, of course. You know how labels and buzz words get misused, of course.

Oh yeah, I definitely agree there. The way people rail against “processed” food like it has some sort of malignant metaphysical property pisses me off.

I meant more so in the sense that ready-made foods at the supermarkets like mock-meats and such tend to have a high salt and fat content (because the companies want them to taste good if you eat them as-is). Nothing you can’t quickly check off the back of the package.

What the fuck? I like veganism and always respected the movement since way back, but you think that this could be related?

It was just light-hearted jest (hence the /s), but maybe in poor taste. My bad.

Anti-inflammatory, eh?

Regarding the recipes, I was going off of what you and @Maeve@lemmygrad.ml were mentioning regarding low-fat, easy-on-the-stomach foods which is why I recommended that website since it has quite a few recipes that I think would be suitable.

I’m no doctor and I don’t know about stomach ulcers specifically, I was just recommending food that is pretty easy on the stomach in a general sense.

And these are your recipes?

They’re not my recipes, I just think they’re pretty good and well-labelled. They also have a youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thenarddogcooks

Tbh, I do like plant-based meat, though maybe it’s still disgusting to you…

I don’t mind plant-based mock-meats at all, I eat them occasionally (though if they’re super-realistic, it does put me off a bit).
I think if you have a sensitive stomach right now it’s still probably better to eat whole foods since processed stuff tends to have a lot of salt and fat in it, which might not be helpful, but I’m not sure.

Critical support to stomach ulcers furthering the vegan cause. 🫡 /s

On a serious note, it’s as good an opportunity as any to try out delicious plant-based recipes. I recommend checking out https://makeitdairyfree.com/recipes. They have a lot of anti-inflammatory recipes, all allergens and sensitivities clearly listed, and many fairly easy/quick healthy recipes with a lot of variety.

Hope you feel better soon.

Love the username

They’re not even pretending to be genuine at this point.

Does anyone have a good read on the current situation with Pakistan and Afghanistan?

Can we get some fun stats and stuff from Lemmygrad over the years? I think it would be cool to see things like change in monthly active users, when the spikes were and what drove them, which communities became more/less popular, etc.

I think only instance admins have access to this info.

The only public thing I could find was monthly active users using a random website, but it only showed a few months (and I’m not sure it’s accurate).

I know, I was trying to get in on the insider trading, but @dessalines@lemmy.ml won’t help me out :(

Lemmygrad Continues to Show Resilience in the Face of Extraordinary Challenges

11.02.2026

Starting from the 9th of February 2026, many users have reported that images on Lemmygrad have not been functioning as expected. A large amount of older images in posts, comments, and profile pictures have become unavailable across Lemmygrad communities.

This issue was not caused by any failure of Lemmygrad’s infrastructure, rather due to an unexpected and untimely disruption to one of Lemmygrad’s primary logistical partners.

Since its founding, Lemmygrad has had to overcome many unique challenges not faced by projects less hostile to capital. A lot of diligence went into finding reliable hosting partners, a task made considerably more difficult given the project’s orientation. On Lemmy, it has been the target of strategic defederation campaigns, anti-communist propaganda in liberal and anarchist communities, and has been placed on a hard-coded block-list for Piefed, an explicitly neoliberal and NATO-friendly alternative to Lemmy.
At the time of writing, it is not known whether the disruption and reported decommissioning of Lemmygrad’s multimedia host is another deliberate act of anti-communist hostility.

Regardless of the cause of disruption, Lemmygrad has once again addressed the challenge with the utmost urgency and resolve. Respected comrade @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml has managed to establish relations with another logistical partner, minimise the potential damage from the incident, and is working tirelessly to make the transition as smooth as possible.
Whereas many other communities may have faltered and expressed frustration, the Lemmygrad community rallied around their comrades, showing support and appreciation for their efforts in addressing the issue.

Lemmygrad has not only overcome challenges like these every time, but has also never turned down the call to assist its friends and partners when needed. During the notorious Hexbear domain incident, an existential issue for the socialist instance, The Embassy of Hexbear on Lemmygrad was established to provide refuge and an open line of communication and coordination for Hexbear users.
It has also provided a community for feedback, recruitment and support for sister project ProleWiki.

Lemmygrad has shown itself time and time again to be a reliable partner, but increasingly finds itself having to rely on self-sufficiency. It is not yet known what the long-term solutions for such challenges will look like; what is known is that Lemmygrad, with the support of its community, will always overcome them.

i asked for a payraise lmao and instead of them saying no they just fired me like wtf?

I wish I was surprised, but I’m not. A friend of mine got fired from a job for not wanting to work overtime, and another had half their department laid off with 4 days notice. Absolute bullshit.

I hope you could make the best of it, and find something better when the time comes.

I think para-politics can only go so far in explaining things and often leads to conspiracism in ML circles […] but infighting among various factions in the bourgeois class is an explanation that makes sense, is verifiably true, and has happened throughout history.

I’m not implying that there’s some sort of conspiracy or that it’s unexplainable. There was an active decision to release these documents, I’m just trying to understand to whose benefit it is, and why was the decision made to release them.

The released documents implicate a lot of powerful people from across the spectrum in the U.S.

I have been very loosely keeping up with the news these days, and have been skimming through the new Epstein stuff. It’s got me wondering, has anyone here elaborated on why these files are being released to begin with?

If they have to release something, just to keep some sort of legitimacy, what is the benefit of releasing so many files?
I read that some of the files got taken down at some point, but why were they published in the first place?

If someone wrote a comment or post on this before, I’d appreciate a link.

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Thank you for the very in-depth response! This has me even more hyped up :)

I think you have a great read on how to make the list(s) as useful and accessible as possible for different audiences (though I do share your worry on the potential ‘fedbait’ aspect of some sections).

Once you are comfortable with a more-or-less ‘finalised’ version of the list, would you like to see this turn into more of a team or community project?
Less so in terms of changing the content, rather having contributors with different skills and focuses such as localisation, hosting a website or a wiki, collecting and digitising books, ‘marketing’ so-to-say by designing posters, stickers, or even shareable memes, etc.

I wonder if it could become a canonical list for something like Prolewiki as it would already mesh well with things Prolewiki already does such as the library and collecting ebooks, as well as adding editor’s notes to existing works. Maybe @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml could share their thoughts on this.

New edition of the introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list in the works?

Lemmy user Cowbee is well-known for their tireless efforts in educating the wider Lemmy community on Marxist-Leninist positions and theory. They are also the author and maintainer of the renowned “Read Theory, Darn it!” introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list.

The reading list has received much praise from long-time MLs, newcomers, and curious liberals alike, earning the recommendation of prominent users such as Lemmy developer and .ml admin Dessalines. At the time of writing, the reading list has amassed over 320 upvotes on Lemmy.ml.

It was first published on November 12th 2024 and has undergone significant changes since then. It has undergone two major revisions, the latest of which was in August of 2025. For comparison, one of the earliest versions can be found on a crosspost to lemmy.world from November 29th 2024.

We have recently received information from credible sources that a third major revision of the reading list might be just around the corner.

What can we expect from revision 3?

We can only speculate in this section, but Cowbee has previously provided hints as to what changes we might expect. Cowbee has expressed on multiple occasions that they would like to bring the reading time down to 50 hours^[1][2]. The list currently sits around 60 hours total reading time. They have also hinted at possibly splitting the list, creating a separate history-focused list^[3][4]. This idea has however faced some pushback from the community^[5][6].

It is difficult to predict the exact changes that will be made, but in a more general sense, according to Cowbee, the goal of the third revision would be “to make the guide more lean, readable, and remove overlap as much as possible.”^[7]

We have reached out to @Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml for a Lemmygrad exclusive preview of the much-anticipated third revision, and will continue to provide new information as it becomes available.

Happy birthday Oppo!

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I assume the user themselves deleted the post in this case. The way the post itself becomes completely inaccessible after that is very unfortunate, but that’s a software rather than administration issue.

I appreciate the clarification.