The second you start talking about some mysterious "they" that are controlling society in some fashion, you are engaging in dangerous conspiratorial thinking even if you're being woke about it. "They" did not institute the 40 hour work week specifically so you would be too tired to revolt. "They" did not invent the sleek minimalist aesthetic in order to crush the spirit of art in the common people. "They" are not pushing mediocre media into the mainstream in order to poison people's critical thinking skills.

Your best case scenario after that is you talk to someone who actually knows what the fuck they're talking about and you get embarrassed because you can't answer basic questions about your own ideology because you never learned anything past "the ruling class/capitalists/politicians are making things bad and if we got rid of them the bad things would all go away!"

Your worst case scenario is obviously the woo-to-fascist pipeline and you end up believing Jews are poisoning American food supplies with GMOs in order to turn us all into beta cucks, so like . . . maybe just stop blaming "them" before you fall down that route.

Obligatory round of disclaimers: Yes, sometimes people do bad things. Be specific about exactly who is doing what instead of ascribing it to some vague group of shadowy elites. Yes, sometimes things in society are bad. Learn to identify the root causes of complex social issues instead of assuming that they're actually extremely simple to fix and we're just not doing it because of some vague group of shadowy elites. Yes, minimalism isn't for everyone. Learn that some people don't share your tastes and get the fuck over it for the love of god.

Also, before you blame a vague "they" for a contemporary social norm or law or policy you think is bad, look up what the norm was before it. What did it replace?

"They created the 40-hour workweek to --"
QUERY: What was the average working-class person's weekly workload before the 40-hour workweek was standardized?

"They created credit scores to --"
QUERY: How did banks determine who was and wasn't worthy of a loan before credit scores?

"They promote bad media to --"
QUERY: What was the average working-class person's entertainment before this era of "bad" media?

"They invented schools to crush children's creativity and --"
QUERY: What was the average working-class child's daily life like before universal public schooling?

To be clear. Before someone accuses me of pissing on the poor.

I AM NOT SAYING "Stop opposing current social practices because Things Used To Be Worse, stop complaining about a 40 hour workweek because great-grandpa worked 90 hours a week uphill both ways in the snow --"

We should advocate a shorter workweek, actually! We should advocate abolishing credit scores, actually! We should advocate non-authoritarian schooling, actually!

But we should do it from a place of informed historical perspective that doesn't quickly become romanticizing the past and perpetuating the idea that Things Were Great Until They Took Over.

measure once cut also once, no prablem

no i get you this was perfectly centered when i wrote it

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I have done the cross stitch

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in honor of all the times I've made this mistake irl

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i love the 50/60-something women i work with. they’re the personification of that “suburban mum, successful lawyer, says every Republican alive is an affront to God” meme. like i will be sitting in a Zoom meeting with these ladies and one will be like “so the president’s a crazy old coot, right? get him into the nursing home!” and everyone will laugh and agree. good people.

unrepentant tiktokers who haven't thought critically since 2019 will hear a criticism of tiktok and be like "how are you gonna hate a whole app 😂😂💯🤡" I do hate tiktok. yes all of it. I don't care about whether the content is good or bad, I hate the fundamental function of that app which is to get you addicted to the zero-effort dopamine hit you get from consuming shortform content algorithmically tailored to you, erode your attention span, and promote consumerism. this is true regardless of whether or not you "found your community" on tiktok or use it as an escape or a coping mechanism. this does not add nuance to the discussion the way you think it does. i do not care and i am not obligated to care and I hope that app one day gets class action lawsuited into oblivion

windom “if she breathes she’s a thot” earle and dale “all women are queens” cooper

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social media is okay and i thinkwe sjould have more of it

Updates from Iran

Some major updates from people in Iran and leaks:

  • While the official number of deaths is stated to be between 2,000-3,000, people estimate that the actual number of deaths is estimated to be at least 12,000. Videos show bodies all over the streets and body bags just lying on the ground.
  • Doctors are reporting being overwhelmed by the casualties.
  • The regime is trying to arrest injured protesters in the hospital.
  • The regime is charging money to return the bodies of murdered protesters to their families. (This practice is already disgusting, but imagine charging money at their rates in Iran's current economic status when people can barely afford bread.)
  • People are reporting that people from the regime's affiliates and proxy groups in the region have already been brought in to help with the suppression.
  • Messages being sent from Iran are saying that curfews are being enforced and that the regime's forces, including these proxies, are shooting indiscriminately at will.
  • Executions will really start tomorrow.
  • The regime is doing whatever it can to cut off people from the world. It's very difficult for people to contact family in Iran. There is still an internet blackout.
  • Despite this, there is still some footage coming out that people are still willing to risk it all and fight.

This is a humanitarian crisis. The people of Iran need your support more than ever. Amplify their voices, and don't let the regime get away with its crimes in darkness. Hold your governments and media to account to make sure that they support the people of Iran and not support the regime.

All eyes on Iran.

It should be said: these killings are not the result of unintentional, unplanned clashes between protesters and security forces. These are organized, systemic, deliberate mass killings.

You do not kill 12,000 people in a handful of days unless you do it deliberately.

ancient dog names, courtesy of ovid

  • melampus: blackfoot
  • ichnobates: tracker
  • pamphagos: glutton
  • dorceus: gazelle
  • oribasos: hiker
  • nebrophonos: deercatcher
  • laelape: hurricane
  • theron: hunter
  • pterelas: wingy boy
  • agre: hunter 2
  • hylaeus: woody
  • nape: valley girl
  • poemenis: shep
  • harpyia: snatchy
  • ladon: bitey
  • dromas: speedy
  • canache: loudmouth
  • sticte: spot
  • tigris: tiger
  • alce: strong girl
  • leucon: whitey
  • asbolos: soot
  • lacon: howler
  • aello: stormy
  • thoos: fast boy
  • cyprius: cyprus boy
  • lycisce: wolfdog
  • harpalos: snatchy 2
  • melaneus: blacky
  • lachne: fuzzy girl
  • labros: rowdy boy
  • argiodus: white fang
  • hylactor: barker
  • melanchaetes: black-hair
  • theridamas: killer
  • orestriphos: mountain boy

It should be added that these all occur in one short passage as they eat their master Actaeon.

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