Branta Rufficollis @brantaruficollis - Tumblr Blog

I need to sleep but I can't stop thinking of the version of me in star trek style socialism world where every day from dawn to dusk I work doing soil remediation and rewilding and wild grass planting and I can hear the birds and feel the sheer wind. In the winter I take my frozen samples and begin the process of extraction, cataloguing, statistics in the dull warmth of a small and impermanent home. On the weekends I eat normal food with friends and maybe something sweet. I have enough, I read often, the only war in the world is between nesting shearwaters, dunnocks fighting over a mate, snarling yipping foxes. it's complete fantasy but I want to imagine land with no owner, working entirely for the land, a worker for the land, putting all the value and the wealth I create, all the energy I consume into the land- the beginning of a new history.

#until one day I keel over and die the end

nyantara

things that would exist if intellectual property wasn't a thing

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing

a world without ip lawyers. im getting chills just imagining it.

yoshidinosaur

Today, I had eggs for breakfast. They weren't the kind of eggs I lay. The eggs I had for breakfast were white. The eggs were white all over and did not have spots. The eggs were yummy!

bunkey

captain ive just smoked the most frightening herbs

small-delta

some character explorations! also, thank you so much for the kindness on my previous post. i really appreciate all of it!

letseyx

Revolutionary Rom

leviathan-supersystem

it's crazy that after years of fearmongering about overpopulation, that when birth rates start to decline, rather than saying "oh thank god, birth-rates are self-regulating and we don't need to worry about overpopulation" people are instead saying "oh no! now we need to worry about UNDERpopulation!"

leviathan-supersystem

like literally chill out, birth rates will go back up once population density thins out a bit and then will continue to fluctuate within the sustainable range for the size of the environment, it's literally fine.