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New pinned post, because my other one is way too long!

Hi, I'm Penny! I've gone by a bunch of usernames in the past, but you don't really need to know them. My interests include shitposting, audio synthesis, history, philosophy, the environment, biology, mycology, ecology, some gaming, uhhhhh....

look, i have ADHD and i'm working on my undergrad. ya girl's a little all over. i love, well, a little of everything. sometimes i sew or embroider, sometimes i make what might be generously called electronic music, sometimes i share my tits with beloved mutuals.

This is not a SFW blog. I'm not saying it's explicitly NSFW, but I'm also just not interested in treading the line of self-censorship. I'm no longer going to bother with tagging anything horny or sexual, so rely on your other tag blocks I guess. Ye be warned. Minors DNI, I guess I'll put that one specifically even though I can't stop you from lying about your age on the Internet.

I'm madly in love with my girlfriend @morelike-agayna, and you should absolutely follow her for her amazing taste in reblogs.

#screaming electrons #circuitry stuff

socialmaya

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

tayefeth

That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

downtroddendeity

I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.

Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.

implicatures

I scrolled past this and like two posts later saw this absolutely perfect example of the way people use “capitalism” completely divorced from its meaning.

People have been dangerously adulterating their products to make a bigger profit for THOUSANDS of YEARS. Rome famously had problems with people selling counterfeit bread and doctored wine.

Capitalism might make these problems worse by concentrating power in the hands of fewer and larger corporations, but ultimately the problem vastly predates actual capitalism. Unscrupulous sellers have been endangering and ripping off their customers since there was such a thing as a marketplace, and governments have been regulating the market for almost as long.

tuulikki

Time to deploy my favourite history meme:

oysters-aint-for-me

there’s a used bookstore in rural western massachusetts (the montague book mill) whose motto is “books you don’t need in a place you can’t find” and i just feel like that summarizes tumblr too

oysters-aint-for-me

posts you don’t need on a site you can’t search

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sexycraisinthanos

this is my favorite comic ever i never don’t want to see it on my dash

felysha

Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who was murdered on the first day of Pride month as well as Indigenous History Month. He died protecting his trans husband. Homophobia and racism aren’t marks of the past, and this is a heart breaking reminder of that.

Praying for a safe journey back to the spirit world, Uncle ❤️‍🩹🦅

felysha

Today is the anniversary of the death of Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks and Rec). Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who died protecting his transgender husband, on the first day of Pride month. Today we remember him and how he protected his family.

aflo

I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing

aflo

#pokemon but worse

i-merani

superbnature

Cedar Waxwings by jocelynefeizo1 http://ift.tt/1RM3Kk0

manyblinkinglights

#do cedar waxwings ever eat anything besides photogenic red berries#do cedar waxwings ever do anything besides eating photogenic red berries#is there any way this child can get its parent to stop feeding it photogenic red berries

speciesofleastconcern

watch how many berries I can cram into this other bird

k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl

some days i feel overwhelming grief for the fact that i never got to be a teenaged girl

k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl

i should have been an awkward tomboy slowly figuring out she's a lesbain and crushing on my best friend but instead i was crushed into nothing by feelings i couldn't even point to

#there are days when i look back at my teenage years and distinctly feel as though my entire body has just been smashed by a large piston #it happened at breakneck speed; nigh-instantaneous. absolutely pulped.#i'm stuck in that moment; the moment of impact; acutely aware that every essence of what i am has been irreparably fractured.#a thousand agonies writhe through my mind; the potential of a million moments never-to-be on the air with my aerosolized viscera #i look back on my teenage years like one might look at the cadaver of a loved one and know that this used to be someone.#there's a distinctly person-shaped space in my past where nobody is #defined by all that i wasn't and everything i denied myself and avoided

what-even-is-thiss

My computer just randomly stopped running Bluetooth and even digging into the internal files and forcing it to run the software isn’t working for some reason.

amorphousmassofflesh

My child just randomly stopped eating, and even hitting them and yelling at them to eat isn't working for some reason.

what-even-is-thiss

You know I’ve cycled through like ten different snarky comments I could make in reply to this but frankly this comment (even if it’s some kind of joke) is so out of the ballpark from what I’m talking about that I fear your fundamental understanding of what im referring to isn’t even in the same zip code as the reality of the actual situation and I don’t know how to properly be funny in response to this because I’m so genuinely baffled.