wander through the woods

pack up your bags, it’s time to take on the world // haunt, they/them. adventurecore with a dash of solarpunk and world stuff

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Don't laugh at this because "Oh those silly monster f*ckers." This is a giant freaking RED FLAG just like with Only Fans.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

[toskarin]

the sheer amount of control ad agencies and payment providers hold over culture is actually horrifying. if a site gets blacklisted by both, it's just fucking gone unless it's willing to take the risk of using crypto for payments (actually one of the only practical uses for crypto)

if someone so much as sends you a note in something like cashapp or paypal with something remotely sexual in it, you can get your account frozen with the money still inside. it doesn't matter if it was perfectly legal and above-board stuff like hentai or erotica, because the corporations don't like those and that's all that matters

similarly this is why sites are extremely touchy about wording and tags when it comes to anything remotely adjacent to sex. if you use the wrong word and don't change it, years of work or even your entire livelihood can effectively be deleted in seconds

nobody ever talks about this because it's career poison to do it, but porn is basically already "illegal" in the vast majority of cases because if your money touches it, you're operating outside of terms of service and risking some corporate asshole deciding your smut is wretched enough to necessitate the destruction of your finances, and by proxy, your life

[lesbianrey]

being a marxist is so boring like there’s no mystery left. you’ll investigate a concerning issue affecting our society and you’re like ‘well it’s probably because the capitalists are underpaying and overworking their workers’ and then 9 times out of 10 the answer is the capitalists are underpaying and overworking their workers

[krushkreates]

i am a mortuary student. in a year or so, i will be a fully licensed, fully practicing mortician. i will be the one wiping the blood off of their legs. i will be the one brushing their hair and prepping them for their burial. i will be the one filing their death certificate.

i may have their blood on my gloves, but you will have their blood on your soul.

[ceevee5]

[guerrillatech]

[bixy]

Totally ruined my morning reading about tea bags and microplastics but at least I know now and I’m gonna switch to loose leaf. Posting this incase others didn’t know! Cause I know I didn’t

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

[clockwork-hobbit]

It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...

[neon-classical]

There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao

Not to mention the way the money was made

An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers

[beemovieerotica]

people really need to remember this image

[garadinervi]

«At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way—one page at a time. We use the Scribe, a book scanner our engineers invented, along with the software that it runs. Our scanning centers are located in universities and libraries around the world, from Boston Public Library to the University of Toronto to the Wellcome Library and beyond. Eliza is one of our fastest and most accurate scanners. Next she will execute quality control checks and fix any errors. Then she ships the book back to our Physical Archive for long-term preservation. Now imagine this: scanners like Eliza have done this 2,000,000 times. That’s what it takes to provide you with a free digital library.» – Plus Internet Archive’s Modern Book Collection Now Tops 2 Million Volumes, by Chris Freeland, February 3, 2021

♥

[rudescience]

Since you read that, the internet archive does so much more than just preserving knowledge, it’s one of those places that has helped me a lot. If you think what they’re doing is neat and are passionate about preserving all human information please donate to the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/donate/?origin=iawww-TopNavDonateButton

They are hosting 70 petabytes of data and counting. All accessible to the public at no cost. Help keep it that way! 

[anarchistcommunism]

do you know of any diy recipes for protective gear someone might need to make if they hypothetically were in a situation where they needed to fight back against a mass oppressive force?

CrimethInc has a few

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Body Armor

How to mitigate the effects of batons, knives, rubber bullets, bean bag rounds, handgun bullets, rifle fire, and more.

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Gas Masks and Goggles

Everything you need to know to choose the right gas mask or goggles to protect your eyes and lungs from chemical agents and projectiles.

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Understanding Police Batons

Three kinds of batons that police use, how they employ them, what kind of damage they can do, and some ways of defending against them.

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Understanding Riot Munitions

An extensive guide to less-lethal police weaponry—including chemical weapons and impact munitions—and how to defend against and treat their

[hymnsofheresy]

I think one of the most damaging ideologies towards children is the conviction that having children isn’t a calling but a moral obligation.

[hymnsofheresy]

Not to be a crazy radical or anything, but children deserve to be deeply wanted by their parents.

[hymnsofheresy]

Children shouldn’t be a “stage” in life that everyone is obligated to fulfill; childrearing is not for everyone. More importantly, children shouldn’t be state-enforced punishments for “irresponsible” sexual behavior.

Children are people with thoughts and feelings just like the rest of us. They are conscious of the way people treat them. And they can certainly tell when they are unwanted and/or resented.

[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.

[livesunderawaterfall-deactivate]

i hope marvel studios blows up i hope their movies get $0 at the box office i hope disney+ stops working forever i hope people stop paying to watch these repetitive, unimaginitive, shitty franchises that churn 6+ movies a year out for no other reason than to make money so they can make more movies and sell merch and make money so they can make more movies and sell merch and make money so they can

[abrahamlincoln-official]

This may seem like a meme, but it is real. It's formatted like this to get people's attention and be memorable, in the hopes that maybe it saves some lives.

[dogsonline-blog]

[suncalf]

iron man! transformers! king kong, star trek, the silence of the lambs! dozens of shameless war propaganda films barely disguising themselves as sci-fi or horror that were obvious enough even without this list! there aren’t any real surprises here but its worth a read

[ginkgo-bilobas]

David L. Robb wrote a book called Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors Movies. This Film is Not Yet Rated featured a little bit of an interview with him:

“The military and the film studios have colluded for more than 50 years. Anytime filmmakers want military assets - ships or tanks or planes - they have to give the Pentagon five copies of their script. And, if there’s anything in the script that’s negative, the Pentagon wants them to take it out. And so they negotiate, and take out any war crimes or foul language, or drinking. Anything that would make the military look bad. And than, after the agreement is made, the military sends a minder onto the set, when the film is being shot, to make sure it’s shot just the way they agreed. And then, once the film is completed, it has to be shown to the Pentagon, admirals and generals, before it’s shown to the public. Dozens of films have not been made because they couldn’t get military assistance. So, people have no idea what they’re not seeing.” 

[spale-vosver]

[probablyasocialecologist]

Before we revolutionise agriculture, we must first learn the lessons from its past.

In many parts of the world today, agroecologists are working to change the basis of food production by addressing the harms caused by human exploitation of the planet – whether flooding, drought, soil degradation or biodiversity collapse – viewing these harms as intrinsically connected to human problems such as malnutrition, obesity and disease. By making the relationships between plants, animals, people and their environments the basis of a sustainable food system, agroecologists demonstrate that livestock can play a crucial role in regenerating the soil. Animal manure, for example, is rich in nutrients and organic matter, which are both key to the physical, chemical and biological properties of healthy soils. The climate crisis cannot be addressed simply by changing consumer habits: choosing between animal or lab-grown meat, vegan or dairy. Nor is abolishing agriculture going to save us, not in our lifetimes anyway. It’s true that we desperately need a revolution, but it must be one that demands a reparative relationship to the land, not its abandonment.

[biglawbear]

How can I be a lawyer when the highest authority on law in this country, the Supreme Court, is nothing but a political body for which the actual law is meaningless?

How can I justify telling my clients to follow the law or suing to enforce the law when "the law" doesn't matter?

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I just feel like Charlie Brown and the football, but it's my legal rights and the hope that maybe things are going to get better. Genuinely haven't felt like this since my 2L year (which was 2016-17).

[takiki16]

Not to be a bitter fucking public defender, but “the law” isn’t deserving of any goddamn respect as a concept in and of itself. Laws don’t have to enforce ethics, morality, or the fucking well-being and safety of the people under it. “The law” and the political institutions the United States has currently put into place to make and enforce those laws aren’t worthy of fucking respect simply because they ARE institutions. They are accorded “respect” because an officer with a club and a gun will come after you for breaking the law. That, or the DOJ and an army of well-funded attorneys.

If SOME laws happen to fulfill the function which political and governing concepts should fill, which is safeguarding the wellbeing/rights/freedoms etc of the people which enact them, then good for those laws. We should have more of those. All laws should be like that- respected not because a cop will shoot me if I break it, but because it would be wrong and hurtful to other human beings. And some laws do! But there is nothing fucking holy about the goddamn Supreme Court other than the money and boots and guns and staff and resources of the federal government enforcing (or REFUSING to enforce) things that affect our most basic human rights.

People don’t need lawyers because the law will always Do What’s Right, or because the law has any inherent meaning in a vacuum as “a law.” If the law were that Holy and Meaningful and Effective, far fewer people would need lawyers. People get lawyers because they Want To Do Things, or because they NEED HELP, and the law is at BEST a complicated tangled mess that tries but fails to deliver goodness to all. It is at WORST (and MUCH more commonly) an actively suppressive and malicious tool of the ruling class. A lawyer’s job is to help their client navigate that mess to try and get the result they want without incurring the penalties the law imposes for breach and without stepping afoul of the law THEMSELVES and incurring penalties.

We don’t work within a good or holy system, and we are not an inherently good or holy profession ourselves. If some of us can find a way to do good WITHIN the law by helping parties who need us to navigate this fucked-up system or to change even a little bit of it for the better, then may it be counted unto them as righteousness, etc etc. And I GET it - we spend our lives on this work! It is vitally necessary, just for purposes of our own survival, to think that there is SOMETHING getting done. And there is! And we can! In a system as fucked-up as ours, people who can’t afford to wait for the glorious Revolution to get help will need a lawyer more than ever.

There is nothing fucking holy about “the law,” or the Supreme Court. They have “shown their true colors,” insofar as they were ever even hidden in the first place (Plessy, Dredd Scott, Citizens United). Tying our professional pride and rationale to the moral/ethical legitimacy of this system is a one-way anchor to the bottom. Relying on this system to be consistent or have any kind of goddamn integrity is a losing battle. The law is a TOOL that is currently being used against us by the worst political elements active in our country. It is a tool that we are SUPPOSED to be trained to use. It is a tool we work with every day, no matter how far the actual depraved reality of the system is from the little they taught us in law school. It may be a malicious, contradictory system that doesn’t even respect its own highest institutions, but right now it owns all the boots and guns, and those of us who know the most about how to work within it have to do the best we can to help those who DON’T have that knowledge until that isn’t the case.

[biglawbear]

Thank you. This was genuinely helpful to read. This reminded me of... A lot. That those of us that know the system can help those that don't navigate it. I feel maybe a little better. Thank you. Thank you.

[mango-nectars]

Yeah, it’s time for them to go

[mango-nectars]

This is a blatant act of violent colonialism that undos decades of legal precedent that protected the civil rights of Native Americans. This is an unspeakable and deeply violent tragedy.

[miami-shell]

[image ID: a headline reads, “U.S. Supreme Court expands state power over Native American tribes.” Underneath it reads: “‘To be clear, the court today holds that Indian country within a state’s territory is part of a state, not separate from a state,“ Kavanaugh wrote in a decision that scholars of Native American law said is a major departure from longstanding precedent. end ID.]