Social Red Youth Dynasty Brigade Distortion

not even “a musician of the future”

[lookoutsea]

lev 23 white silverjew. unironically anti-irony. ruthless cosmopolitan & rootless critic of all that exists. nyc

[lookoutsea]

the one single thing that will make me close a minutecryptic clue without solving it is "prime" as an indicator for the first letter and not the prime-numbered letters

[lookoutsea]

"maybe the revolution starts with helping your neighbors" you are literally pre-Narodnik

[lookoutsea]

n the people saying this r always the ones who then pretend to be Dengist-Third-Worldists when it's a handy position to take up to attack Black and Indigenous people on here

[lookoutsea]

"maybe the revolution starts with helping your neighbors" you are literally pre-Narodnik

[lookoutsea]

Anti-Duhring Duhring Club

[lookoutsea]

None of you even fuck w me anymore

[weirdplutoprince]

Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of someone else's actions that I am directly impacted and severely affected by

[cazyhazemave]

[perfunctory-idols]

Beck and Lou Barlow (Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh) in Boston, Massachusetts in October 1994

Photos by Stephen Sweet

[lookoutsea]

Anti-Duhring Duhring Club

[kristina100000]

incredible picture found on the interwebs i had to share with everypony

[fuckyeahnirvannatheband]

[inkfleck]

look at my grim reaper dawg im going to hell

[sivavakkiyar]

[yt]

[allonsybadwolf]

"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)

Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".

Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH

[enerdsout]

[lookoutsea]

and not to sound conspiratorial but it’s unsurprising that the amerikan consumer-aristocracy focuses so hard on crochet because hobbyist / artistic endeavors are the sole connection most of them (/us) have to productive labor. instead of intellectual and political curiosity about who makes the things that we consume, from clothes to toys to food, and how they’re renumerated for that labor by and large, which would implicate essentially every facet of amerikan life, crochet and knitting get exceptionalized

instead of “why do the people making the things we buy, whatever those things are, whether they’re making them by hand or with machines, get paid a vanishingly small amount compared both to us in the Global North and to the profits of the company employing them” it becomes the definitionally petit-bourgeois “can you believe that people are putting the same amount of time and effort into crocheting hats that we do, but don’t get to sell them at artisanal markets for fifteen bucks per hour they spent on them?!”

[sillysymbol]

[lookoutsea]

Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

not to be a joyless hag but I've started seeing genderbent "yuri" shipping Markiplier and Ryan Gosling and I can't help but think of someone I recently I unfollowed for posting that they have an easier time caring about genderbent versions of boy characters than regular fictional women

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and I'm also building some connections to that post I made about reading books by Black women (you know the one) and the people who would respond by saying something akin to "joke's on you, I only read fanfic 😜" as if that were some kind of clever loophole and not a demonstration of the exact thing I was talking about

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

like yes fandom is about fun or whatever but idk man at what point has your desire for no thoughts head empty uncritical consumption left you splashing around in something that's been blended down to an indistinguishable goo for the sake of avoiding anything remotely challenging. with the thing that's "challenging" here being. you know. giving a shit about women and Black people and like frankly anyone but your shippable white men (and honorary Markiplier).

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

don't make me tap the five year old teen vogue article, etc

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