all that stuff

muslim, adult ♀️

[asmrgaret]

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

[asmrgaret]

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

[hagiomoto]

I do have writer friends and they submit their writings everywhere and they do work very, very hard to get even one work published

[hagiomoto]

I do have writer friends and they submit their writings everywhere and they do work very, very hard to get even one work published

[dragongirlsnout]

i desperately want there to be a deltarune using AI scandal

[dragongirlsnout]

it would be Really Really Really funny

[dragongirlsnout]

Actually there have been controversies with deltarune worth addressing, but conveniently none of them are things that the deltarune fandom wants to talk about. Whereas an AI scandal would be like 9/11 for these people

[chiikeiwa]

twitter redraw thingy

[weirdring]

Rereading homestuck. But, it kind smells like the something awful forums here...

[saltyocean]

alexis doyle

[ot3]

independent artists really can so easily be just some of the most selfcentered and defensively hostile people youll ever meet. i'll never forget in one of my early early convention days, when i was tabling, it was i think either before the con had opened or i was just making my rounds and chatting with someone at their booth because i liked their stuff. she had this little prize wheel you could spin after a purchase and it was the first time i'd seen anyone do that kind of thing at a convention, it was to me associated with like corporate booths at summer festivals or whatever. anyway we were chatting and i brought up the wheel and complimented it and then afterwards i said something along the lines of "its a good idea, i might steal that for my next one!" and she got dead fucking serious and just went "well, don't."

as if she had some meaningful ownership over the concept of letting people spin a little wheel at your booth. and i would be infringing upon her business venture by doing so myself three states away the next time around.

anyway theres a ton about selling at conventions and stuff thats a ton of fun and i do miss and a lot of great people in those spaces as well. there are plenty of people who do think of everyone being in it together and are willing to freely share their ideas, techniques, and friendship among their peers. but it's also a breeding ground for people who have the temperament and worldview of instagram influencers but think the fact that they are artsy ~burnt out gifted kids~ makes them the lovable underdog. and it feels like those people are running the show now that everyone with a more humble approach has been priced out of the scene entirely

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Nuke canada now

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Did y'all know that 70% of all mining operations in latin america and the caribbean involve a canadian transnational mining corporation?

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Anyway, when I was in college I was constantly going to marches and protests against canadian and saudi mining projects in the Santurbán páramo, one of the most important ecosystems in Colombia in terms of biodiversity, and the source of drinking water of 30+ municipalities in my state, including the city I live in. Ultimately these mining proposals lost their license due to environmental regulations.

But now that our new far-right president elect is looking to suck up to imperial core powers once again, canadian mining corporation Aris mining is interested in re-starting mining projects in Santurbán. Which, would inevitably give cyanide poisoning not only to my city's drinking water, but 30+ other municipalities and indigenous communities.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

The imperial core will see one of latin america's veins and go "is anyone gonna cut that open?" and not wait for an answer

[darkenedyeastextract]

when i worked for my australian civil/digging engineering megacorp they were working on setting up lithium mines hand in hand with the canadians. they are all complicit.

[weirdring]

I have not read pride and prejudice and i probably never will; the people who like it on tumblr are so obnoxious

[toskarin]

just heard about the new law. it brings me no pleasure to report, but the powers that be say no more cozy farming sims. if you want to make a farming sim you have to include permanent weakness from improperly healed broken bones, crop blight, and unexpectedly short springs now

[allsadnshit]

Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles

[hyumjim]

You actually just have to accept that it is possible for people in your social group to be abusers even if you are not literally Jeffrey Epstein and in fact even if you have no money and all of the odds stacked against you.

It is true that money and power enables abuse on a grand scale, but the converse is not true— having no money and no power does not make abuse less likely. I think many of us know this from experience. There is no special moral quality to being poor or being oppressed. Oppressed people abuse each other all the fucking time, in families and relationships and friendships. People of color abuse each other. Women abuse each other. Gay people and trans people abuse each other.

Cesar Chavez raped the women and girls of the labor rights movement throughout his career, using worker solidarity as a bludgeoning tool to ensure their silence.

If you say “people in my group don’t do this, it’s the powerful men that do it” then you harm yourself in several ways.

1. You signal to your social circle that you do not hold them to any standard of behavior. You have preemptively pledged loyalty, which means that if they behave objectionably, any objection on your part will mean a betrayal of your community.

2. You mark yourself as socially permissive. People in your social group know that you are, at baseline, unwilling to accept or act on allegations against them. To be frank, this makes you very easy to take advantage of, whether in service of abusing someone else or abusing you directly.

And you harm other people by telling a lie. What about all of the people who have been abused by a person within this oppressed group? They have it reiterated that their abuse cannot be spoken about, for the sake of solidarity.

Everybody on this earth has the potential to do immeasurable harm to another person just as they have the potential to do good. You can— and in fact I would say you must— advocate and fight for the rights of your people without making yourself into a useful tool for bad actors within your community.

[darkcomedies]

evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting

[darkcomedies]

idk what to tell you except go look at the fishwives

[nyantara]

things that would exist if intellectual property wasn't a thing

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing

a world without ip lawyers. im getting chills just imagining it.

[nocakeno]

#there cant simply be no more IP we need acrive anti-IP enforcement #or else companies will still enforce various paywalls and implement DRM a bit differently on their own #same w medical formulas and tech we need active anti-patent anti-privatization enforcement or theyll find a way to withhold it for profit #IP laws are one of the tools of capitalism and colonialism #when increasing capital is the way the entire system works and benefits them #they will always find a way even if you get rid of IP #this isnt to say its useless this IS to say be more anti-IP now and then keep aiming higher

tags via foxpunk

[nyantara]

this is true, but right now to break DRM is super mega illegal and setting up shadow libraries sends you to jail, for life. people who hack video games get sent to jail. reverse engineering is illegal as fuck.

if we enforced anti privatisation that would look like forced licensing by nation states, like you discovered a drug? now make the formula and its manufacture public. its much more complicated. simply abolishing the threat of IP litigation protects the people who make the ongoing IP regime bearable and encourage more people to be involved in efforts to liberate intellectual property secrets.

[radiatorchains]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

was reminded of one of my favorite booktok screenshots today