Self-Managed Gulags

Professional Armchair Revolutionary

[mysimpsonsblogisgreaterthanyours]

[pseudomantis]

in medieval times there were a lot of reanimated skeletons with swords but you dont really see any more these days

[2201]

[andremichaux]

We’re going on a two-day trip. What are you, Diana Ross?

SEINFELD (1989 - 1998) ⏤ 4.01, The Trip: Part 1

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

[edwad]

oh hell yes

[genderkoolaid]

honestly i don't trust any argument that hinges on "this surgery is GROSS and HORRIFIC and MUTILATING!" because that is every fucking surgery. surgery is gross. it involves cutting people open and doing stuff to parts of the body that was never meant to have stuff done to it. and surgery recovery is frequently an ordeal and can involve nasty stuff that sucks to look at. thats just how surgery works. if someone's body being cut open and messed around with and sewn up, and recovering bruised and bloody and having to drain pus is grounds for something being horrific mutilation, then pretty much every surgery is mutilation. there is a reason why doctors generally don't judge the merits of a surgery on how gross it looks and instead focus on silly little things like "how safe is it to perform" and "how much does it improve the patient's life". do not trust anyone who wants you to think a surgery is bad just because its upsetting to hear the gory details about how its performed (especially if they are Not A Doctor)

[02613]

[probablyasocialecologist]

“The concept of growth as a surrogate for redistribution appears, in retrospect, as the great conservative idea of the last generation. By conservative I do not mean militantly right-wing, for indeed wide circles of social democracy and the left have implicitly embraced the covenant it implies. Nonetheless, in the confrontation with Marxism and socialism, conservatives had only three choices: an outworn insistence on the value of traditional elites and privileges, which had little prospect for success under conditions of universal suffrage; or a fascism requiring that all class rivalry must be submerged in the search to aggrandize national authority and territory (which emerged discredited by the war); or the non-zero-sum pursuit of economic growth in the hope that this might make the older doctrines of class conflict irrelevant. Inflation has played an important role in preserving a broad consensus around the third concept; for when growth could not keep up with expectations, inflation helped disguise the lag. But beyond a certain rate, inflation cannot play this role as social lubricant and instead aggravates the very distributional conflicts it helped assuage.”

— Charles S. Maier, In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy

[snowylynxx]

already got a blazed marvel post. the adpocalypse is closer than we think so heres your daily PSA

don't interact with corporate tumblr accounts

yes even to dunk on them. i don't care if you have the sickest burn of the century lined up, don't even give them the time of day

the eventual and inevitable fall of twitter marks a change in the advertising industry, and tumblr is unclaimed territory. if we want tumblr to remain the social media bastion it has become, it needs to remain as unappealing to corporations as possible. do not engage. in a marketing strategist's eyes, any kind of attention is good attention. don't "silence, brand" them. don't kungpowpenis them. don't send them hate anons. don't hate-follow them. corporate tumblrs are not a single entity and they will not be harassed off this site. we only have a shot at repelling them because of tumblr's lack of an algorithm. so turn off recommended posts on your dashboard, put it chronological order, and install an adblocker. if you don't seek out these blazed posts and actively ignore them when they happen upon you, the corporations will starve. in this case, the best kind of protest is a silent one

[st-just]

“Cops and judges arrested and jailed people who had not stolen a car to help out Hertz. They humiliated people who had not stolen stuff to help out Walmart. They jailed cancer patients for being unable to afford the made-up price a hospital charged them to stay alive, to help out the hospital. (I didn’t even mention the judges who sign off on landlords’ arrest warrants for unpaid rent.) The reverse of this—for ordinary people to use the legal system to obtain justice from large corporations—is absurdly difficult, thanks to neat things like arbitration clauses and ‘needing money to get a lawyer.’ The truth of American inequality is not just that some people have a lot of money and a lot more have very little, in some sad natural accident. The rich are rich because other people are poor. The wealthy elite extracts their riches from the poor through schemes like this, or underpaying workers, or pure wage theft. It’s a transfer, and the logic of capitalism and ever-increasing profits dictates that they must always use every possible avenue to expand this transfer. And sitting right there is the criminal justice system, already primed to oppress the powerless and vulnerable, with the legal authority to take people’s money. It’s a loaded gun, literally.”

— Libby Watson, When the Courts Do Hospitals Dirty Work

[catchymemes]

[runcibility]

Halloween is over. Put away your bog witch and get your bog himbos out.

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

“Bimbo (bog himbo)”

[tyrograph]

Why is this so funny, I’m dying

[furtho]

Collective farmers, USSR, 1929 (via here)

[virghoe-x]

we reaching the limit lmao

[kaijuno]

Wait this is funny

[sexhaver]

Iconic ASCII sim 'Dwarf Fortress' will hit Steam and Itch on December 6th with major upgrades | Engadget

The new version of the 16-year-old game has pixel art, a new sound track, a tutorial for new players and a revamped UI..

[sexhaver]

this doesn't mean Dwarf Fortress is anywhere near finished - v1.0 is still a decade or so away. the main reason this Steam release is happening is because the creators' medical expenses are getting unmanageable with their current donation-only model.

[smoothestjazz]

buy it when it comes out on steam! it's the most in depth simulation/ game of its type ever!

like rimworld? dwarf fortress did it first.

[goldtoothedworm]

dwarf fortress is an incredible work of art

[sexhaver]

Tarn Adams, Zach Adams. Dwarf Fortress. 2006 | MoMA

Tarn Adams, Zach Adams. Dwarf Fortress. 2006. Video game software. Gift of the designers. 1748.2012. © 2022 Tarn Adams. Architecture and Des

very literally so

[scanzen]

Gas station – Milan Mihelič / 1968 (Tivolska cesta 44, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

photo: me

[probablyasocialecologist]

Darling of the “detransition” movement comes out again as transgender

She tried to "do everything to make these feelings go away," but the only thing that worked "was accepting them."

“Trans people deserve access to support, and it makes no sense to shut down people’s access to medical transition just because some people end up detransitioning,” she told Slate.

The number of people reporting detransition is small. According to a study this year from UCLA’s Williams Institute, 1.3 million adults in the U.S. identify as transgender, or 0.05 % of the population. Another 300,000 youth, ages 13-17, do so, as well.

Of those who transition, about eight percent report detransitioning, according to a 2015 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality, and most – 62 percent – of that eight percent said detransition was temporary. A 50-year survey in Sweden revealed about two percent of the trans population regretted undergoing gender-affirming surgery.

Schevers said the detransition movement she helped spark became overtly transphobic and repressive and left no room for doubt or questioning individuals.