Stuffs and Things

Just a 'lil grab bag of some of the things that make up "my own little world". : .Sherlock Holmes: In particular the Granada series, and (sometimes) BBC's Sherlock. .Various art, illustration, photography. .Animals. Aminals, Amminmallsss! .Eye candy of all kinds. .Music related stuffs and things (everything from David Bowie to Devo, 60s psychedelic rock to The Pixies... I love it all). .Random 'wtf things'. ...Ya know, whatever floats my boat.

[unbotheredmuse]

[reanimateobjects]

[everythingfox]

Worth a try

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[thatsbelievable]

[nine-twentyfive]

Help Jasper receive PU Surgery, URGENT!, organized by Kevin Shaughnessy

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[tetraghost]

i wish birds brought ME presents

[baelgrave]

No, but think about this.

The crows she feeds obviously have their own little lives. They go about their business, and they spot *pretty thing* or /unique thing/ in question. What gets me is that the *first* thing on their minds as recipient of this thing is the little girl that feeds them.

They spot a thing, and immediately must think, “that nice girl with delicious foodstuffs must have this to show my gratitude.”

[kedreeva]

It’s actually more than that, though, if you read the articles or watch the videos. This has taken place over YEARS- it started with these birds following this little girl around because she was a messy eater and it has turned into a ritual for the family. They have a water station and food stations where they daily set out things for these birds and sometimes (but not always), these birds leave ‘payment’ behind for the food.

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE

These birds are not just taking food and leaving shinies. These birds are watching over this family now. Their lives have become involved. These crows are keeping track of this girl and her mother even when they are out of the yard. How do we know?

One of them is a photographer, and one day while she was photographing some stuff on a bridge, she dropped her camera’s lenscap over the edge. There was no way she could get it back, so she left it. When she got home, the lenscap was sitting on the edge of one of the feeding stations, waiting for her.

Not only were the birds following and watching over her, they were smart enough to realize she dropped an Important Thing and cared enough to bring it back to her.

[baelgrave]

I could not have asked for more

[tomasorban]

[fuzzypetal]

Shoutout to giant trees!!!!

[shisasan]

Aykut Aydogdu, Sunset (2018)

[emanuelacauphoto]

© Emanuela Cau

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[newtonpermetersquare]

It’s evolving backwards

[generalsolo]

What about the Greek Legation? I have tried.  They know nothing.

[halloweenmuffuckas]

[profeminist]

“Harriet Tubman graces the Lee monument this evening, beneath a quote: “Slavery is the next thing to hell,” and “BLM.”

-  Zach Joachim 

[katchwreck]

The United States claims to be the world's best human rights defender with a record like this:

[left-reminders]

Down the drain: Wisconsin dairy farmers told to dump milk because of an oversupply in the market

A West Bend farm says it was told to start dumping tens of thousands of gallons of milk per day because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

'It's discouraging for dairy farmers:' Coronavirus' economic impact on Wisconsin

With the first case of coronavirus confirmed in Wisconsin, the impacts could extend further than just health.

This is capitalism's vast irrationality and inhumanity in action. Markets and The Economy™ matter more to capitalism than the concrete distribution of resources according to tangible human need.

Resources exist in abundance -- give them to people. Housing sits empty -- give it to people. The rules of the feast table should apply to our economic system -- no one gets seconds until everyone has gotten a plate.

We stand at a crossroads in these chaotic times: socialism or barbarism! The ruling class repeatedly chooses the latter. We need to organize and choose the former!

[left-reminders]

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

[left-reminders]

People have been reblogging this with some points that seem fair to call attention to -- milk expires quickly, farmers are locked into a situation where they have to throw stuff out, etc. But the larger point we were trying to illustrate in the original post was that this system compels people to do irrational things in the name of market laws. We have a surplus of goods around us and yet we arbitrarily build up social constructs (property laws and exchangability) to prevent people from comfortably living off of these goods. Goods are produced and given away only if profit can be extracted from the process. These aren't immutable laws of nature, though, and most of human history hasn't operated this way. Not to suggest that things were just peachy keen in slave empires or feudalism -- class stratification in general is a big part of this, not just the particular market laws of capitalism. But it's still important to realize that these irrational all-pervasive market forces are a comparatively recent invention and that these historical moments of crisis demonstrate how truly anti-human production-for-profit and class inequality truly are. We believe that the economy should be more broadly democratized and managed on a for-need/for-use basis by the people actually impacted by the outcomes; that would entail workplace/community democracy, as well as a new emphasis on direct distribution of goods (rather than having those goods wait around to be bought).

Goods sit unused -- give them to people. Make sure everyone has the means to live a comfortable life. These seemingly obvious goals are perpetually blocked by billionaires and profit-sharks, who'd rather see people sleeping on the streets in the middle of a pandemic than have their bottom lines suffer any hit. Things are fundamentally top-down; we believe it is a reasonable proposal to start moving things into a bottom-up direction. That requires choosing socialism at this crossroads of human history.

[left-reminders]

Another reminder: capitalism artificially imposes scarcity.

[scottandhiskind]

Just a reminder that these protesters are fully aware of what reopening the US would mean

[closet-keys]

these people were already eugenicists. eugenicists just become more blatant and aggressive when they experience stress, so we’re seeing their genocidal ideologies bubbling up into visible discourse with increasing ferocity

[cashmerebabey-deactivated202112]

She should take her fucking mask off since she’s so goddamn strong then

[powerfulwizard]

[vespertineflora]

[ID: three tweets from Existential Comics/@existentialcomics:

1: Bill Gates made his money by extinguishing free software and forcing us to pay him a tax just to turn our computers on. This was only possible because the State was ready to violently enforce his "intellectual property".

He didn't create a computer revolution, he destroyed one.

2: Zuckerberg made his money in the exact same way, of course - by destroying a free social network. A social network was bound to emerge, what Zuckerberg did was prevent it from following open protocols, like email, so just anyone couldn't set up a server to socialize with anyone.

3: To say these people added value to the world and therefore "deserve" their billions is absurd. They subtracted value, an enormous amount of value, and stymied progress to seize control and extract wealth. Computers and the internet would be more advance if they had never existed.]