one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism

feyosha:

rumplefuckingstiltzkin:

cafffine:

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

Ebeneezer in 1742 wakes with a start as for some reason he has put out his guttering candle by slapping atop it ith the palm of his hand. His hand is burned and his nightgown and cap are spattered with hot wax.

Fascinated by the perceived necessity of an Equivalent Exchange

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baddywronglegs:

keepcalmandcarriefischer:

crabussy:

crabussy:

man come on. it’s colours

THIS IS OUR RADIUM. you’re absolutely right

How it feels to use any tool, app, or website right now

Worse, it’s our asbestos. It’s being put into things we’re going to have to keep using long after everyone has to finally accept it was a bad idea, in such a way it will be almost impossible to remove.

Radium suppositories and asbestos might both be in museums but the radium’s in the exhibits, the asbestos is in the walls.

vetchtibbles:

the clothes chair is a natural environmental phenomenon tending to occur in the average bedroom after three weeks of trying to stay tidy and organized. the clothes chair may start its lifecycle as a simple jacket over the back, growing to a few humbly folded articles stacked on the seat, but it will rapidly increase in size if left unattended. one can absolutely count on it being left unattended. this is the nature of the clothes chair

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im-not-shouting-im-projecting:

wild-aspen:

“Republicans don’t have consistent morals”

Yes they do. It’s just that their morals are rooted in “protect the people and things closest to me at all costs”. Their values are extreme tribalism. They also believe those outside the group are constantly threatening the safety and prosperity of the in-group.

This is why so much of what they do seems contradictory and hypocritical. Yes, they want prosperity for those they consider “like them”, but they are also willing to do things that harm themselves if it harms the “enemy” more. And, they blame the enemy for that harm, not themselves.

It’s literally “this is why we can’t have nice things”. It’s your fault.

A conservative may think, “welfare might be nice, and it’s true all my neighbors depend on it, but those welfare queens are stealing it, so we can’t have it. Public pools might be nice, and they provide a safe place for my children to play, but people I consider unclean might use them, so we can’t have them.”

This is how a conservative woman can justify an abortion for herself, but not for others, even though anti-abortion laws make it harder for her to get that abortion in the first place.

What needs to be done will morph and change, external influences will change what they think are important values for the inside group to have to some degree, but at the core it’s always about protecting their own.

When I was in highschool, I had a conversation that truly made me understand how conservatives think on a fundamental level. I was discussing with a conservative family friend an essay I was writing that was arguing for the decriminalization of sex work and I spent a while laying out my various arguments and why this issue was important and at the end she said to me “okay, but I don’t want my daughter to think that is an acceptable thing to do”.

I (being a teenager) was confused by this because this issue is so much larger than just her daughter. So I tried again to explain how many people are harmed by sex work criminalization and how decriminalization would decrease sex trafficking and she repeated again, with a smile on her face: “I don’t want my daughter to do that and decriminalization would signal that that is an acceptable thing for her to do”.

I was struck with a moment of realization that the way I see the world is the exact opposite of this woman. She fundamentally saw the world as centered on her and her loved ones as individuals, and was completely unconcerned with how it would affect society on a larger level. To her, the material harm that was caused to thousands of people is completely inconsequential when compared to the imagined possibility of it signaling something to her family that she personally disagrees with. That is, at it’s core the conservative mindset.

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roamngreenwoods:

unexpected wisdom from a 1950s Oresteia translation

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markantonys:

happy 2,102nd birthday to mark antony! the only reason we know his exact birth date two thousand years later is because after his death the senate officially cursed the day of his birth and we have calendar fragments saying january 14th is a Bad Day due to being antony’s birthday. and i think that’s beautiful

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sometiktoksarevalid:

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rohirric-hunter:

“You could get up early and do it before work” I could also wait for a magic beanstalk to start growing in my living room LMAO. Let’s focus on things that happen in the real world

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somethingusefulfromflorida:

sroloc–elbisivni:

i’m reading a book about seventh century northumbria and you’ve heard of the tiffany problem but let me tell you there is nothing quite like reading through 350 pages calibrating for names like Oswiu and Æthelfrith and Paeda and Ecgfrith and Eanflæd and then getting smacked in the face with the fucking Bishop Chad

Chad and Tiffany, just as big a deal in the 1980s as they were in the 980s

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