bottomless void

nothing to see here, folks.

[queercanelady]

how it is apparently

[contemptible-scoundrel]

tch... so it's an alliance out of necessity, huh...?

[coelii]

[memeuplift]

[mossspores]

life if comes fucks me

[cocainesocialist]

[manynamedshe]

“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”

“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”

“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”

[thequeerwithoutfear-deactivated]

[images: series of tweets from @realavocadofact. tweets read, “they’re not elite they’re rich”, “they’re not better they’re better supplied”, “they’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”, “there is nothing wrong with you; you’re doing your best in a game rigged against you, probably not enough people and fruit tell you that”]

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I see this reaction a lot, and I gotta say, it always makes me a little sad. Whenever the conversation of exploitation of labor comes up, inevitably someone finds themselves struggling with the guilt of “It is so important to me not to contribute to exploitation but I cannot do this thing myself and need someone else to do it for me, so how do I even approach that?”

Exploitation isn’t in the hiring of a service worker. Exploitation is in the respect you show them for their ability to perform the service you need from them.

I have been on a cleaning service staff before, and also been someone who hired a cleaning service, and I can tell you for sure that a lot of cleaning crews (especially worker owned ones) absolutely LOVE their clients and are genuinely happy to be able to make their lives better. The clients they don’t like? Those are the ones who disrespect the workers.

When I was involved with a cleaning service, we had everything from little old ladies living alone to McMasions with five cars as clients, and I can assure you that whenever there was someone who clearly hired us because they were overwhelmed or unable to keep their space clean, those were the households where you put a little more elbow grease in and did a deep clean even when it wasn’t paid for, because you could see how much these people were trying and struggling, and they were always so kind and generous and often embarrassed when talking to you about the job.

I only hired a service a couple if times in my life, but whenever I did, I worked with the same people as often as I could, tipped as well as I could afford, and tried to be the kind of client I would want to have, and that’s how I often ended up with my baseboards cleaned too, or my fridge scrubbed and organized or a restorative clean done in a high use room even when that wasn’t what I had scheduled or paid for.

I’ve heard the same thing from all manner of service workers over the years. Many of us like our jobs! We enjoy the work. It’s the customers that can do a number on you.

I think a lot of people are afraid that by needing a service they are inherently exploiting or harming the people who perform that service, and they really aren’t. But it does benefit a capitalist system for us to all be burnt out and overwhelmed because we’re too afraid to hire the help we need. Be upfront and honest with service workers about what you need and why you need it, and treat them with dognity and kindness while they perform your service, and I promise you they will always be happy to answer your call.

[headspace-hotel]

HIRING A PROFESSIONAL TO CLEAN YOUR HOUSE ISN’T MORE EXPLOITATIVE THAN GOING TO A DENTIST OR ORDERING A PIZZA

We all fucking depend on each other, it’s about respect and treating one another as fellow humans instead of seeing them as below us

[crazy-pages]

There is a huge difference between specialists helping make people’s lives easier, or even livable at all, and the way the rich purchase people’s lives for convenience.

When you pay a cleaner decently for helping clean your house, a little less labor gets spent on cleaning because somebody who’s really good at it is doing it. And that kind of labor specialization is what enables us to have enough available resources and labor to do things like care for disabled people. Which is basically the core of what makes any society a worthwhile project, the ability to make people’s lives better in ways we otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

When a rich person buys a mansion that takes 50 people a year to build, that requires a full-time cleaner and two full-time gardeners to keep maintained, and they pay a dedicated nanny to do nothing but take care of their and a dedicated chef to do nothing but prepare their fancy meals or be available on call all day, that’s not what’s happening. Because that rich person is not reducing the amount of work other people need to do by multiple lifetimes. They are leveraging an economically unbalanced system to drain people’s lives for convenience.

The world doesn’t have to be a perfect quid pro quo, in fact it shouldn’t be. It is a good and worthwhile thing when people dedicate their lives to caring for people who wouldn’t be able to care for themselves, including when it takes multiple people’s lifelong labors to keep somebody else alive and well cared for. The whole damn point of having a more efficient labor system is freeing up labor for that. It makes the world a better place. But that’s exactly why what rich people do is so heinous. They could live perfectly happy lives on a tiny fraction of the labor they extract from others. But they deliberately make choices which spend our societies’ labor less efficiently, for very petty amounts of convenience, in ways that prevent other people from getting the labor they need to be happy.

[dear-ao3]

[vendal-construct]

We Do Not Like The Concrete Tomb.

[vendal-construct]

This is our most popular post and we've seen more than one person tag it as "unreality." We understand why one might think that but we assure you: it was not.

These facilities chew you up. They suck the life from you and grind your body to dust to extract every ounce of profit they can.

These places destroy the body, the mind, and the soul.

[passionpeachy]

the nurses when i was born

[vriskarune]

"there's no way toby can wrap all this up in just 2 chapters!"

toby, preparing to drop chapter 6 chapter 1:

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

deltarune fans in 2031 sitting through chapter 6 chapter 5 intermission 25 when they thought the whole thing would be done three years ago:

[forgottenscarves]

Happy Moon Day Monday!

It forever amazes me that it was a mere 66 years between the first piloted, heavier than air airplane flight and a man walking on the moon

[stay-the-knight]

[goldensunset]

>‘this thing is too generic and tropey’

>look inside

>forefather of that genre

[firestorm09890]

[frankbelloriley]

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Forcing myself to believe this is a bit on 916 days left

[prokopetz]

I know this is due to my particular constellation of interests, but for me the funniest thing about the "everything in a given century happened simultaneously" view of history being applied to the 1900s is bumping into increasing numbers of people who are genuinely unclear on whether Dungeons & Dragons pre-dates or post-dates The Lord of the Rings.

[appendingfic]

tolkien had to call them hobbits to avoid running afoul of Hasbro's trademark of the word 'halfling'

[luarien]

It was TSR's trademark of the word 'halfling', Hasbro didn't get control of D&D until after the end of WW2.

[tabloidsores]

Two dudes in my group chat have been playing league & slowly but surely have shifted from saying "wanna play league of legends" to "wanna play some geego legends". At this point their average post is just @ing the other and going "geegogagand?" and I feel insane

[tabloidsores]

What is going on

[adurot]

I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

[adurot]

I have never heard of this band. I AM in fact referring to the animal.

[adurot]

But wait, there’s more!

[adurot]

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

it is always narratively correct to make your characters sleep together before they sort through the hundreds of lies and misdirections between them. make things worse make things worse make things worse #i love betrayal #i love lying #i love people feeling bad about themselves

[fox-teeth]

Today's my birthday and I'd like to share a new comic with you, it's called Marginalia. It's a love letter to all the weirdness of medieval manuscripts, and you can read it by unfolding a single sheet of paper!

Risograph print editions are also available in my shop.

[pnchen]

Cerberus...?

[shadowerrata]

Cerbirdrus

[nico-the-overlord]

@goldenduckie