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RadenWA is honestly a hero for these

they’re got even more than these, too!

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jumping-jackalope:

almost cried when looking at paintings of grasses

American Grasslands: Prairie, Pasture, Crop, and Lawn, series by Karen Kitchel

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kidzbopdeathgrips:

this may be an Unpopular Opinion (even on tumblr) but like the 8-hour workday is just Too Gotdamn Long

like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isn’t particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when we’re talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal

doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when we’re talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY

i might just be a lazy weak-willed bitch but honestly i think i’m not entirely wrong

this was being worked towards by leftist labor unions way back in the day after the time of FDRs new deal. people in the 40s and 50s were already starting to realize that we no longer actually needed an 8 hour work day or even a 5 day work week.

even with the comparatively primitive factory tech of the time we were already creating a huge amount of excess production back then and companies were making massive amounts of profit. So it already stood to reason that companies should either let their employees work less and thus each employee could work a shorter shift without lowering the yearly compensation of each employee, or in cases where businesses provide an active service they would shorten the shift but hire more people to cover the necessary operating time. but of course that would mean less money for people at the top so companies fought back hard and we ended up with nixon’s bullshit and so on and now its considered the norm for us to spend the vast majority of our lives doing work that really just amounts to waste. 

The IWW realised this and were fighting for it all the way back in the 1930s. This is a take with a lot of historical and theoretical grounding, OP, so you’re standing in good stead.

I’d also like to add it’s also been studied and scientifically proven that after 6 hours, we have an extremely noticeable drop in productivity. Sweden saw nothing but benefits from a 6-hour work day, including worker productivity, happiness, and half the amount of sick-leave used when applied to nurses.

https://onlinemasters.ohio.edu/the-six-hour-workday/

Just gonna add that the IWW is still kicking and basically anyone who is not an employer can join.

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I cannot believe there’s absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.

Exactly! It’s freaking annoying when I want to watch movies but I would have to subscribe to like 24 different services . Just to watch the shows that I like.

Oh and wouldn’t it be nice for cartoons? Just anything animated. I just wanna stream things without getting conned. Must I be cartoonless forever?

i like using streaming apps but there are waaaay too many and they’re all stealing my data .i wish there was a secure and organized way to have millions of shows and movies available one one app. but alas. we’ve truly gone full circle back to cable + now it spies on you. its a real shame. i dont want to fill my device storage with tons of boring and stupid cash grabs.

These kink posts just keep getting more and more esoteric

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ja-khajay:

that one extremely homoerotic painting of a babylonian man listening to a babylonian twink playing babylonian harp. that one

yeah

this is my favorite painting full stop

that “babylonian twink” is King David

The baffled twink composing Hallelujah

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by Richard Nadler

Richard Nadler (b.1987 in Penzberg, Germany), ArchiTextures, Digital illustration

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technofeudalism:

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i’m talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there’s no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it’s just sad that it’s a dying art form.

anyway, here’s some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you’re into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

• A Better World - create an alternate history timeline
• Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game
• Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet
• Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games
• Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones
• Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy
• ZenGM - simulate sports
• Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi
• IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)
• Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface
• The Cafe & Diner - mystery game
• The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game
• Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions
• Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game
• Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game
• Miniconomy - player driven economy game
• Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes
• BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators
• Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil
• Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you’re ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i’ve been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

since this post blew up, i’ve been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there’s a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.

anyway, here’s all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it’s a great mixture of styles. also don’t forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.

Games

• A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.
• corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.
• Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.
• Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.
• Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.
• sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.
• Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.
• Façade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.
• The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.
• Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.
• The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.
• Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.
• Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42’s favorite thing he’s ever made.
• The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)
• Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.
• Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.
• EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.
• You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos’ fortune.
• The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)
• Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.
• Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.
• ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.
• PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.
• Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.
• Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.
• Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.
• FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.
• Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.
• PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike

Tools

• Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)
• Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.
• Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)
• Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.
• PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.

Non-Games

• Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.
• Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.
• 17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.
• Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.
• The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)
• Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)
• Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)
• If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.
• r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.
• r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.

thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.

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