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[vladtheunfollower]

Pillow Fight by Richard Scarry

[huariqueje]

Heathland landscape near Appelscha     -   Sierd Geertsma.

Dutch , 1896-1985

Oil on canvas,

[unclefather]

[queeranarchism]

For 2 decades now, at least once a year, I am visited by what I call ‘The Pull’: a strong urge to abandon everything & throw myself into The Struggle.

The Pull knows that now is an emergency and that the injustices are as great as any of the stories of my youth & it tells me I am not rising to the occasion. I am not doing enough. But it offers a simplistic self-centered solution: complete martyrdom. Quit your job, stop worrying about the rent, abandon fear and do whatever it takes, or just do anything available.

This martyrdom will not actually undo the great injustices, but it presents itself as a solution because that is what the heroes in the storybooks did. I have known ‘The Pull’ as long as I have known stories about defeating great evil and have been inspired by them.

And growing up, I did not read enough stories about the heroics of keeping a community together for decades, the heroes that care, build, grow things. Maybe I need to find more stories like that. Or maybe it is mostly about reminding myself that I am enough. Or maybe The Pull will always occasionally haunt me. Does it sound familiar to you? If so, how to you respond when it calls?

[queeranarchism]

I should note that ‘The Pull’ was an almost constant feeling when I did not like myself. ‘I am not doing enough’ has always been linked to ‘I am not enough’ for me. When I started feeling like I was worth something, I valued my own well-being more and as a result it became less of a constant pull.

So it’s not just what stories I’ve been exposed to. Martyrdom is also more attractive when you have low self-esteem or would prefer to not exist, or both.

[futureevilscientist]

Thinking about how the Russian word for “comrade” isn’t actually nearly as stilted and formal-sounding in the language itself and would be more accurately translated as companion/fellow/pal/partner (the whole point of it is that it’s a gender-neutral informal form of address that makes no distinction by gender or social class or profession), and how much that simple mistranslation turned viral has done to shape the perception of people living in Soviet times as these fanatical overly stilted communist caricatures

anyway, language and propaganda and all that

[futureevilscientist]

americans think it means soldier when it actually means friend 

Whoop. There it is in one line.

[i-am-fert]

Tube 2: Hypertube

[modmad]

5th dimensional object

[graham-folger]

[fuks]

[girlrry]

[feraligatr]

meant to be together

[lisaminnci]

Over the Garden Wall (2014)

[beeefy]

[mango-season]

Edith Sitwell / Ryan O'Connell / André Gide / Virginia Woolf / H.G. Wells

[graceofgosh]

Soda was an effervescent corn-based drink that was popular during the height of the American Empire. Regionally known as pop or coke in some provinces, it was prepared by extracting corn sugars into a thick syrup to be mixed with water

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Often dispensed from a many spouted font and served with small, rectangular blocks of ice. Some varieties of soda were thought to have energy enhancing properties.

[anonymouscomrade]

the CDC's like "how could covid cases be RISING?! all we did was tell the dumbest, most selfish population in the history of the world that they didn't need masks if they got vaccinated, entirely on the honor system"

[antifainternational]

Kinda weird how you say you’re against fascism yet you shut down anyone just because they share a different opinion than you. You guys are exactly what you say you hate... FASCIST! How come I have never seen any member of antifa actually sit down with someone and have a civil debate? I’ve only ever seen them yell and throw tantrums. Doesn’t look good for you guys, yikes.

[pleasedotheneedful]

fascism in italy was not defeated by discourse.

[rosslynpaladin]

Something I heard recently: if you insist on sheltering both lambs and wolves, you will get in the end only wolves. If you insist your safe space is safe for bigots as well as minorities you will have a space full of bigots- minorities will be driven out.

[wilwheaton]

Fuck Fascists. Punch all the Nazis. Punch them until they're all dead.

[academic-goblin]

if you break a nazi's arm, they will temporarily have 50% less arms to do nazi shit with

if you kill a nazi, they will permanently have 100% less arms to do nazi shit with

[hiqueenmabs-deactivated20220819]

[averagefairy]

working full time is terrible why do we just accept that having 8 days off a month is normal and okay........ being alive could be cool but we waste it at our JOBS.... sorry i’m just heated about capitalism again i’ll be fine

[fbdbsgdg]

8 days....never thought about it like that 😓

[revere-irreverence]

This seems really whiny to me. Like, I agree with you, work sucks, but our ancestors didn’t get to browse tumblr at their desks or have the option to gleefully spend their ENTIRE WEEKENDS horizontal on the couch stuffing their faces/watching tv/playing video games/wacking off.  They didn’t have weekends. They just slaved away as fucking peasants from dawn to dusk until they died in childbirth or got the consumption.

I am perfectly happy working 8 hrs a day because I don’t have to:

grow my own food

find my own clean water

heat my house

shit in the woods

[nubiana-americana-deactivated20]

[aggressivelycalm]

Hi, I study social and cultural anthropology. Humans working 40+ hours a week is 100% an industrial revolution thing and was not normal in the early stages of our existence. In fact, hunter and gatherer societies that still exist to this day spend about 15-20 hours a week TOPS working. The rest is dedicated to sitting around and telling stories and jokes, dancing, singing, eating, sleeping, fucking and so forth. Read a damn book.

[ekelarsons]

The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant

Medieval peasants lived grueling, terrible lives. But their vacation days beat out the policies now common even in progressive societies.

[bookwyrmth1rt33n]

🤔😬😡

[patentlyabsurdrpgideas]

When the medieval peasant - the iconic, screwed over, worst off person of pop culture - had more days and time off than you, something’s gone wrong. And apparently something has been wrong for a while now...

[xakudama-deactivated20220405]

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