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sometimes I wanna reply “bitch me too” to my mutuals posts but I’ve never talked 2 them so they might not see it as friendly joking so i just dont
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Vlaho Bukovac, Andromeda (Detail)
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house of the dragon (2022–) | succession (2018–2023)
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hacked-wtsdz · 13 hours
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I get my media recommendations the old fashioned way: by watching someone I follow on here go on an unhinged reblog spree of media related content until I eventually decide to go "alright, what's all this then"
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“When I was 26, I went to Indonesia and the Philippines to do research for my first book, No Logo. I had a simple goal: to meet the workers making the clothes and electronics that my friends and I purchased. And I did. I spent evenings on concrete floors in squalid dorm rooms where teenage girls—sweet and giggly—spent their scarce nonworking hours. Eight or even 10 to a room. They told me stories about not being able to leave their machines to pee. About bosses who hit. About not having enough money to buy dried fish to go with their rice.
They knew they were being badly exploited—that the garments they were making were being sold for more than they would make in a month. One 17-year-old said to me: “We make computers, but we don’t know how to use them.”
So one thing I found slightly jarring was that some of these same workers wore clothing festooned with knockoff trademarks of the very multinationals that were responsible for these conditions: Disney characters or Nike check marks. At one point, I asked a local labor organizer about this. Wasn’t it strange—a contradiction?
It took a very long time for him to understand the question. When he finally did, he looked at me like I was nuts. You see, for him and his colleagues, individual consumption wasn’t considered to be in the realm of politics at all. Power rested not in what you did as one person, but what you did as many people, as one part of a large, organized, and focused movement. For him, this meant organizing workers to go on strike for better conditions, and eventually it meant winning the right to unionize. What you ate for lunch or happened to be wearing was of absolutely no concern whatsoever.
This was striking to me, because it was the mirror opposite of my culture back home in Canada. Where I came from, you expressed your political beliefs—firstly and very often lastly—through personal lifestyle choices. By loudly proclaiming your vegetarianism. By shopping fair trade and local and boycotting big, evil brands.
These very different understandings of social change came up again and again a couple of years later, once my book came out. I would give talks about the need for international protections for the right to unionize. About the need to change our global trading system so it didn’t encourage a race to the bottom. And yet at the end of those talks, the first question from the audience was: “What kind of sneakers are OK to buy?” “What brands are ethical?” “Where do you buy your clothes?” “What can I do, as an individual, to change the world?”
Fifteen years after I published No Logo, I still find myself facing very similar questions. These days, I give talks about how the same economic model that superpowered multinationals to seek out cheap labor in Indonesia and China also supercharged global greenhouse-gas emissions. And, invariably, the hand goes up: “Tell me what I can do as an individual.” Or maybe “as a business owner.”
The hard truth is that the answer to the question “What can I, as an individual, do to stop climate change?” is: nothing. You can’t do anything. In fact, the very idea that we—as atomized individuals, even lots of atomized individuals—could play a significant part in stabilizing the planet’s climate system, or changing the global economy, is objectively nuts. We can only meet this tremendous challenge together. As part of a massive and organized global movement.
The irony is that people with relatively little power tend to understand this far better than those with a great deal more power. The workers I met in Indonesia and the Philippines knew all too well that governments and corporations did not value their voice or even their lives as individuals. And because of this, they were driven to act not only together, but to act on a rather large political canvas. To try to change the policies in factories that employ thousands of workers, or in export zones that employ tens of thousands. Or the labor laws in an entire country of millions. Their sense of individual powerlessness pushed them to be politically ambitious, to demand structural changes.
In contrast, here in wealthy countries, we are told how powerful we are as individuals all the time. As consumers. Even individual activists. And the result is that, despite our power and privilege, we often end up acting on canvases that are unnecessarily small—the canvas of our own lifestyle, or maybe our neighborhood or town. Meanwhile, we abandon the structural changes—the policy and legal work— to others.”
- Naomi Klein
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hacked-wtsdz · 2 days
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my role in the friend group is "the sphinx" (i talk in riddles and stand in doorways blocking the exit)
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star wars would have been better with a bit more cannibalism in them
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favorite character from any media BUT it has to be a woman. in the tags now go (pls talk to me about your favorite fictional women pls pls pls pls)
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u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me
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anakin breaking both his legs in a podracing accident as a child haunts me. whose idea was this, like i've never seen a dude so thoroughly and constantly dunked upon. he's the chosen one for sure, just chosen to wear the dunce cap, like that is truly such a ludicrous fact and such a ludicrous thing to live, the only emotion i can have about it is a hysterical keysmash. dbdjdnrtsbksvsnhjfbs as such. if anakin says that out loud, ever, in any circumstance, obi-wan 1000% does not believe it ever happened because it sounds THAT fake. he accidentally gaslights anakin into believing he never broke both legs because obi-wan so thoroughly believes his padawan is having him on for a fucking gaff, having the raw nerve to craft a joshua like that. anakin goes, "when i was six i broke both my legs," and obi-wan EXPLODES into laughter and anakin's like haha are we.... joking? ha ha is this the comedy? hahaha are we experiencing the joy? ha ha master obi-wan so funny. the worst part is that obi-wan later cuts both of his legs off so he LITERALLY gaslights that guy unintentionally and LITERALLY burns the evidence. kenobi & skywalker is all one word and that word is "UNFORTUNATE"
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i feel like the boeing whistleblower case should radicalize more people. a major airline company is producing planes with less and less regard for safety and it's starting to get noticeable. man takes them to court, which would reduce profit at the cost of public safety. he fucking dies the night that boeings legal team asks him to stay an extra day. if nothing happens about this, i hope it gets through to people that america would literally kill you for a few extra cents
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You know, one thing I learned is that you can’t give old people much. Unless they are in poverty and need things like food, clothes, their bills payed like anyone in their situation, there isn’t much that you can pay them back with for what they do for you, for example. They rarely need random stuff. They sell it. They rarely need pretty clothes or tickets to the theatre or to the sea. Unless they do need it, they probably won’t take your money. But one thing you can give them is an ear. Old people have a thirst for conversation. Very often they get lonely, their children and grandchildren leave, and they remember so much from their long lives and have nobody to share it all with: the beauty and the suffering. So when you listen, just listen, to their stories of the trees that used to grow here when they were little or about the daily work in the fields they used to do, and when you ask them more questions, they will talk and talk and talk. They will pour out some of the most fascinating tales you’ve ever heard. It’s fantastic.
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The Night before the Exam by Leonid Pasternak, 1895
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Dan Hays Colorado Snow Effect 4 (with detail) 2007, oil on canvas
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Gazal was wounded on November 10th, when, as her family fled Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, shrapnel pierced her left calf. To stop the bleeding, a doctor, who had no access to antiseptic or anesthesia, heated the blade of a kitchen knife and cauterized the wound. Within days, the gash ran with pus and began to smell. By mid-December, when Gazal’s family arrived at Nasser Medical Center—then Gaza’s largest functioning health-care facility—gangrene had set in, necessitating amputation at the hip. On December 17th, a projectile hit the children’s ward of Nasser. Gazal and her mother watched it enter their room, decapitating Gazal’s twelve-year-old roommate and causing the ceiling to collapse.
UNICEF estimates that a thousand children in Gaza have become amputees since the conflict began in October. “This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a London-based plastic-and-reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma, told me recently.
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The Incoming Mist, Deer in the Highlands by Charles Stuart
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