Fountain Sprite After 12 a.m. Easy Ice

June 23 | studying something still, I guess I'll be done soon? | trans woman she/her | bi | sleepy

[illbeartheburdenofyourhatred]

[ceruleanwake]

sometimes you just gotta draw your favorite mom

[midnite-spright]

Climate change and the feeling of not being able to do much about it got me nervous on this day

[fatehbaz]

Remember when Michigan governor Rick Snyder, a venture capitalist and businessmen, started disbanding and dismissing public and elected city councils and mayors, and instead installed authoritarian “Emergency Managers” with incredible power and without public oversight, and which ruled cities like fiefdoms? Remember how Governor Snyder is married to the chief spokesperson for Nestle Michigan, a corporation which was granted unprecedented rights to extracting water, while tainted water supplies poisoned thousands of people, causing thousands of home foreclosures and death? Remember how over 100 towns and cities across Michigan are home to thousands of “reserve officers” who are “volunteers” for police departments, and they carry guns, wear badges and uniforms, have little or no training, have no formal regulation, patrol streets, and are allowed to confront random citizens? Remember when the Detroit Free Press, in 2018, found that white supremacists work as largely unsupervised reserve officers? I wonder why a state famous for “race riots” and racially segregated city design would allow armed, unregulated, off-the-books police forces? Notice how Michigan hosts regional cultures both rural (farming/crops in southern Michigan; forestry/shipping in northern Michigan) and urban (Detroit; Grand Rapids; Lansing), which is sort of like a representative microcosm of the wider US population as a whole? Is it peculiar that a state once home to so many strong industrial labor unions and large non-white communities somehow succumbed to this?

Am I saying that corporate interests observed the impending industrial and automotive decline of the late 1960s and early 1970s; anticipated that Rust Belt cities were on the verge of becoming much more vulnerable and malleable; worked in tandem with Nixon-esque and Reagan-esque politicians; and saw this as an opportunity to turn Michigan into a laboratory to experiment with whether or not corporations could use diverse tactics to wrest control of a highly populated and relatively progressive state full of black communities and timber and automotive labor unions, setting a precedent for how they could eventually apply of this kind of corporate-aligned authoritarianism across the rest of the US once economic decline inevitably spread to other states? Maybe. Who knows?

[afloweroutofstone]

Detroit’s “emergency manager” government is probably one of the most underdiscussed and terrifying political developments of this decade, right next to Puerto Rico’s situation with the “Fiscal Control Board” established by PROMESA in terms of showing what a future corporate dictatorship may look like

[ampervadasz]

[420broscope-deactivated20200728]

Hahaha jesus fuck

[literallyaflame]

[uglythug5000bce-deactivated2021]

*spanks your ass hard* can you help me with this math problem

[up-north-23]

[quantumfeat72]

[roboco-san]

hrt

pro: biohacking, feel cyberpunk, grow a tiddy

con: always feel like u have to pee a little

[midnite-spright]

I kinda want to change my name again? I love my name now but there’s another one I really like except that it’s really really common and I have so many friends with it. When I chose June I had a list of qualifications for it and kinda was like “ok, this one fulfills these boxes best”, but the one I’m thinking about feels really right... idk!

[colormush]

[k-eke]

When they begin to trash your favorite anime.

[gothic-little-caesars]

[midnite-spright]

@beewulf and I came up with great new plural pronouns to add to your everyday language:

-Th’all: Plural they. They is just singular now

-We’nt: Exclusive we, “we but not you”

-We’m: Inclusive we, “we and you”

[cyelatm]

[midnite-spright]

I’ve been reading about kin-terms for my anthropologic linguistics class and I came upon the idea of how we refer to fellow Americans often with familial terms (I.e. “founding fathers” “sending our sons to war”) and I think that may compare a lot to the phenomenon I’ve been seeing a lot where companies insist on seeing themselves as “families”. The point is to create an atmosphere where a person is obliged to serve, or do their duty to the higher “family”, in this case a country or an organization, thereby making aspects of citizenship or emploment not opt-in features. I’m just curious how much of this is purposeful, almost weaponizing kin-terms to create a false sense of obligation.