Malexus Xerso

Hey, there. I love anime and video games and other things. Still playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

[obsolete-borger]

[countably-infinite-rats]

[sandmandaddy69]

[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

[copperbadge]

On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."

As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.

As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.

May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.

[vergess]

hey bestie i think ur post might be charmed 'cause you aren't gonna fuckin believe what happened today

[cpericardium]

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

[cpericardium]

[cpericardium]

[ahotknife]

she kills me

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Let’s do a Wild Hunt larp where we kidnap Jeff Bezos and release him in the forest and then give all the larpers (who are amazon employees) weird masks and motorbikes painted to look like fucked up horses and wolves.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Somewhat disturbed at how fast this post started picking up notes.

[bisexualshakespeare]

don’t set out food if you don’t want us to eat

[wonderwomemes]

i love that i can’t write the word fuck on facebook without risking getting zucced and here I’m greeted everyday by posts like this

[cgaratenby-deactivated20220830]

my only problem with this is that this sounds less like a larp and more like the actual Wild Hunt

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Quality larps are as realistic as is practical.

[not100bees]

People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

I rlly like the emphasis that live action one piece is putting on the fact that literally nobody else think about piracy the way luffy does. "Being a pirate is about being free and having friends :3" while every other pirate is doing legitimate career criminal shit around him.

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

Luffy the Piracy Understander when his crew suggests stealing a ship:

[el-jarado]

A lot of people who hadn't seen One Piece seemed to think it was full of pirates that don't actually do any pirating. This is in fact inaccurate. Most pirates in One Piece do lots of piracy. Hero Luffy, who does zero piracy while speedrunning becoming one of the most wanted criminals on the planet because he keeps beating up the immensely powerful men, women, and government agencies that interrupt his fun globe-trotting treasure hunt with his friends, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

[kirbyvolt]

Luffy should still be counted. The crime of Piracy in the One Piece world is simply flying a jolly roger and not complying with the WG. It's precisely why his speedrun of becoming the most wanted man is to an onlooker who is not in a suffering country makes Luffy seem like a legitimate threat. He's "stolen" many things, they're just not tangible.

The system of making privateers work for the government and thus give them an edge to stamp out piracy? He beat 3 of them within 2 years. The one he beat first is what left a vacuum in the first place to bring about another horrifying pirate who also had a quickly escalating career within the last 2 years (in-world). He "stole" the idea that this system worked.

Those 3 pillars of impregnable justice fortresses that serve as the base of the navy, the highest-level prison and the judicial island? He invaded all 3--all within weeks of each other--and "stole" that they were impregnable.

See these already kind of notorious pirates that had high bounties and were threats? He stole them and they work for him now.

"But that's not what actually happened!" you might say.

But Luffy is the protagonist of the story, we see things mainly from his perspective. To most onlookers, that is not what it looks like. He is a true threatening pirate.

...but also that world government is full of shit and is a great representation of how victors write the history, but that's another story and Luffy don't care about that shit one bit. He just doesn't like that they're assholes.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

…huh.

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[atwotonedbird]

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

[devincastro]

[tguzz]

I will always reblog this

[bradspace3000]

still remember how revolutionary this ad felt 10 years ago

[annesophiewashere]

excuse me but it still feels revolutionary

[stevviefox]

Keep reblogging until it feels normal everywhere.

[hellenhighwater]

Well those are allllmost done

[codebreakerblue]

question. why do you have 7 featureless grey monoliths in your driveway

[hellenhighwater]

There's eight actually but the last one is still in the garage

[jackfromthefairytale]

question. why do you have eight featureless grey monoliths

[hellenhighwater]

They're actually a really dark purple

[fishofthewoods]

question. why do you have seven featureless really dark purple monoliths in your driveway and an eighth in the garage

[hellenhighwater]

Some of them do have features though. There's holes and hinges and stuff, so I can put secrets in em

[nobodywasneverhere]

question. why do you have 8 really dark purple occasionally featureful monoliths

[hellenhighwater]

The heart wants what the heart wants

[fred-the-dinosaur]

this reads like a muppet sketch

[fred-the-dinosaur]

see? See!??!

[hellenhighwater]

You're not wrong

[hellenhighwater]

This post is less than six months old.

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[hellenhighwater]

...ah.

[mollybeenoel]

Tiny friends

Photographed by Miles Herbert

[welcomingdisaster]

what level of skin care do you perform regularly*?

none

just sunscreen

just lotion/chapstick

sunscreen + lotion/chapstick

sunscreen + lotion + exfolliant

sunscreen + lotion + exfoliant + serum/toner/primer

several different kinds of the above/more than the option above

Voting ended onMay 28

*by this I mean genuinely a part of your routine, not just once in a blue moon -- things you're doing at least half the time.

[angelbabyspice]

Almost 30% of you have absolutely no skincare routine? Not a drop of moisture outside of water touches your body? I need you to know that isn’t normal actually 💔

[reading-writing-revolution]

[why-yes-i-am-an-adult]

This monument in Kazakhstan makes me so emotional.

5 people linked hands to save the dog, but there are only 4 in the statue...

so you can be the fifth

[jessalynny]

I made a shepard’s pie last night, and it led to an interesting debate with my husband now that we’re eating leftovers: if you remove the stereotypes we’ve established from westerns and cultural expectations, could you say a shepard is the equivalent of a cowboy, but for sheep?

At the heart of the matters is a shepard the same as a cowboy?

Yes, a shepard is a cowboy of sheep

No, a shepard is not the same as a cowboy

Voting ended onMay 31

Genuinely amused and interested in your reasoning.