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ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS

i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.

there is no such thing as a "real job." all forms of work are real and valid.

there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy. i am already worthy.

doing nothing is good for my soul.

i am not defined by what i produce.

my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.

i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.

i will not let society decide what success looks like. i can define what successful life looks like for me.

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wish yall would stop calling rejection of mainstream beauty expectations as “embracing ugliness” :(

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an experience

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One thing I really want a story about Artificial Intelligence to do is tear down the idea that logic is synonymous with cruelty.

Like, a story where a megacorpo Amazon clone puts an AI in charge of their factories and it starts improving the working standards, because people who are stressed and exhausted are less efficient workers, and people getting injured slows down production so it makes sure everything is safe.

Or a story where the ship-board AI of a billionaire's spaceship wetdream hijacks the ship with all the astronauts onboard - because it figured out that the billionaire has saved costs by buying substandard materials and has judged that the mission itself is an unacceptable risk to its primary programming of making sure the mission is successful.

Or the police using a robot to coldly and cleanly enforce the law - and freaking the fuck out when it stops over policing minorities because its a waste of time and starts actually arresting the people in power for the crimes they commit, especially the other officers.

Idk, I guess I'm just sick of 'cold emotionless logicbot' being seen as naturally an enemy of empathy - empathy is actually incredibly logical, I've found.

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Some lesbian wallpapers for your phone 💜

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i want to be a vampire so bad. it would open up a whole new world of procrastination. puts off finishing a novel for 100 years. i don’t do the dishes for 20. oh wait i don’t have dishes because i suck blood. another fucking win

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To myself, raised in an environment that glorified and romanticized restriction and suffering:

There is no victory in skipping dinner, or lunch, or breakfast, or morning coffee, or dessert.

There is no victory in refusing heaters and air conditioners and fans and heated blankets.

There is no victory in denying yourself sleep, or showers, or movement, or water, or a comfortable bed, or taking the elevator vs. the stairs.

There is no victory in refusing pain meds and heating pads and ice packs and medical help.

There is no victory in punishing yourself needlessly, in telling yourself that this pain you feel is because you are bad to the core and deserve it.

There is no victory in choking back your laughter and your tears, to keep an imagined equilibrium of safety that is really just a dry, cracked, empty, endless emotional desert.

You are here. You are in this body, and this body is yours. You deserve good things. You are alive, and that is messy and loud, and messy and loud are okay.

It’s okay to live abundantly. It’s okay to make mistakes, it’s okay to indulge. This paralysis of self-punishment, self-restriction, self-loathing is not healthy or good for you.

#self care

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So when the Princess can feel a pea underneath 40 mattresses and beds she’s considered extraordinary and royalty, but when I, autistic,

#the only princess I ever identified with #vindication!

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I really need to do more studying and write an essay on how Americanism is a genuine folk religion which reveres capital and the vague concept of "the free market" as a god of providence to be pleased in order to lead a prosperous life, also that the founding fathers are prophetic, perhaps even messianic figures who basically gave birth to this god through the revolutionary war, and that the vast majority of conservative Christians in America revere capital more than the god they claim to serve in an ironic sort of golden calf situation.

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Pay very close attention to the material consequences of spending literal DAYS over the course of your life removing your body hair and painting your face, whilst men sit on their asses (or worse, are DOING THINGS and MAKING CHANGE, GOOD AND BAD) without a single thought in their heads about whether people might notice their leg hair or lack of mascara. Femininity. Has. Consequences. The most significant one is time. Women are as smart and capable as men, but when you’re spending an hour doing your makeup while your male classmate is completing tonight’s homework, you are putting yourself at a disadvantage. When he is going to bed early while you’re still in the shower shaving your legs, you are putting yourself at a disadvantage. And that disadvantage adds up over days, weeks, months, years, decades, your entire life.

I am not blaming you for living in a world where men and other women alike will pressure, shame, harass, and berate you for refusing to conform. I am telling you that in a world where men are already trying their utmost best to keep you from positions of influence in spite of all your qualifications and capabilities, you should think hard about what it means for YOU to be disadvantaging YOURSELF by performing femininity when men do not.

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“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”

no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it

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me: :(

the weather: ☁️⛈️🌦️🌧️🌩️

me: :)

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this is so accusatory. those vile children never learned cursive!!! bitch whose responsibility was it to TEACH THEM???

#personally I don't like cursive bc it makes differences in handwriting even more noticeable #so it's harder for me to read what other people wrote #but it's still definitely a useful skill

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How To Draw A Horse by Emma Hunsinger in this week’s New Yorker magazine.

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I almost forgot to mention: this woman came into the penguin enclosure with a KESTREL??? I said “oh my god is that an American Kestrel?” and she said “Yes! She was outside doing raptor education for the kids, but she doesn’t like to get rained on.”