#alienation of labor

[gynoidgearhead]

moderation wage labor is inhumane and this is one functional reason social media is a fundamentally insolvent concept

#not that other wage labor isn't categorically inhumane (basically all wage labor under capitalism is inhumane) #but moderation labor... look i can both think facebook sucks institutionally *and* think nobody should have to look at the shit there #especially when they're being paid an absolute pittance and aren't being offered therapy. and especially with graphic gore and csam etc #like look. anyone who does meaningful moderation labor should own a share of the platform they help maintain. #and this is basically never going to happen as long as the owner/rentier/capitalist class exists and owns these platforms #moderation #labor #capitalism #social media #alienation of labor

[iisthepopeoffools]

My take on the Soviet Union: by the standards of which a bourgeois revolution might be judged, it was successful. It destroyed the old reactionary autocracy and, on average, improved the standard of living for its people (while also repressing them). However, as a Marxist or a socialist revolution, it was an utter failure, except insofar as it prevented capitalism from being seen as the only option in world politics while it existed. No liberatory system was enacted. Instead, the means of production were given not to the workers but to a class of barely accountable bureaucrats. The USSR established a disciplinary society with Fordist alienation of labor and a prison system and forced institutionalization system that was heavily weaponized against those that couldn't be properly disciplined. And, for all this, the USSR never came close to achieving communism - instead, its bureaucratic state apparatus ossified and stagnated until both internal and external pressure shattered it and ruthless gangster capitalism came to take its place.

#soviet union #libertarian socialism #state socialism #disciplinary society #alienation of labor #fordism #marxism #im not from the former ussr so i dont have firsthand experience obviously #im sure anticommunists would say this take isn't harsh enough and state socialists would say this take is too harsh

[destructive-ilya]

“but babe if i don’t post 100 times a day how will i receive the validation to fill the void ??”

#alienation of labor #the industrial revolution and its consequences

[beeb-oob]

~the deep below~

#creature design #creechures #biology #ocean #creature #eel #original art #deep sea #digital art #alien species #like aliens #to me #green color #or teal? #not sure #color i like #this is the third one i finished #there are two more on my art blog #they take so long to make #labor of love

[pumpkinbirth]

Potion Game

Base- alien

Add-ons- rapid pregnancy, orgasmic birth

Despite how straightforward this "experiment" seemed, it didn't do much to curb your nerves.

While you and the rest of the world were still reeling over the confirmation that humans most certainly were not alone in the universe, the government higher ups (who had apparently been privy to this fact for years) were already well into various negotiations and experiments with the extraterrestrials, such as the one you currently found yourself volunteered for.

You see, the other life that was out there was dwindling, much faster than they would like. So once it was revealed that our genetic makeup had even the possibility of compatibility, talks of crossbreeding soon followed.

Everyone stood to benefit, it seemed; they'd postpone their extinction, and humanity would have the chance to access even greater evolution. As for you, well...you'd just have to find out.

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This brought you to now, sitting in a small observation room. To your relief it wasn't the metallic, brightly lit room you were dreading, but rather was lit by a dim, warm light. The aliens, which were surprisingly similar to the greys of pop culture, had made it clear that harsh lighting would disturb and potentially damage their offspring's eyes.

Your eyes flicked to the two way mirror on the wall facing you, where scientists of both species had already been monitoring you for a couple hours now, starting right when you'd been successfully inseminated. Mentally you ran through how the experiment would go, provided it went smoothly; you were to remain in the observation room for the entirety of your pregnancy, which if the aliens were to be believed would be blissfully short, three days to a week at most. You were also to give birth by yourself, they would only intervene if it seemed like things were going south. The reason for this was apparently so the experiment wouldn't be sullied by invasive methods from either side; simply put, the baby would dictate how it would be born. The last thing, something the translator had relayed with an interesting expression, was that this experience would be "far more pleasant than you would expect".

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Ten hours in, the scientists in the next room watched as you repositioned yourself on the bed provided. The thin fabric of your hospital gown, which had been baggy on you that morning, was now stretched tightly over your newly swollen belly. Every now and then someone would come in to measure and photograph you, which you still found yourself being self conscious of every time.

To the untrained eye it looked like you were experiencing a normal pregnancy, except for a couple odd details. Your belly was flushed with a faint purple hue, which they had hypothesized was the fetus' blood mixing with yours in the placenta. The other detail was that you were sweating, but not with exertion or discomfort, far from it. That cryptic little hint from the translator turned out to be alluding to a natural chemical released by their hormones, which apparently induced an aphrodisiac effect in humans.

The scientists encouraged you to respond to any impulses or urges you felt, provided that it wouldn't harm you or the baby. While you were still very aware of being watched, the sensations became gradually impossible to ignore.

Three more hours went by and you'd shed the gown, sitting upright in the bed with your back supported by pillows. With one hand you cradled your belly, now visually comparable to a full term pregnancy, while your other was nestled between your spread legs, slick sounds hanging in the air as you sunk two fingers into yourself. Your thumb pressed and circled your swollen clit as you worked to bring yourself to yet another orgasm, having lost count of which one this was.

This one felt like it was going to be different, although you were too lost in the pleasure to voice this to them. Instead your fingers worked faster, your hips lifting as much as they could, and with a cry you finally felt the pressure come to a head as you came hard. An unfamiliar sensation washed over you, and your cheeks flushed as you felt a torrent of fluid gush out of you.

Panting softly you reached down to inspect it, finding your fingers coated with a slightly viscous violet liquid, what you assumed was your 'water'. It had definitely caught your off guard, considering you hadn't been experiencing conventional contractions. Gradually you realized that it was the intensifying pleasure that was leading up to your advancing labor, not pain.

Your heart raced as both you and the scientists realized that this was progressing much faster than they'd estimated; if things continued at this rate then you'd have experienced a full pregnancy and birth in under 24 hours. Before you could think about it any more you felt the odd pressure of your belly shifting, dropping as your alien baby began its descent.

Leaning back against your pillows you spread your legs wider, giving a clear view of the flushed lips of your cunt as you moaned through another pleasureful contraction. All shyness was fully out the window now, and you could think of nothing but just how wonderful it felt to give birth, the hormones doing their job perfectly. It wasn't long before you felt the urge to push, and you gave in without hesitation, the resulting orgasm making you squirt even more of the syrupy amniotic fluid.

In the adjacent room both groups of scientists were dutifully noting everything, some of them doing their best to ignore how much the sight and sound of your birthing was arousing them. This became more difficult as they watched you beginning to crown, the swollen lips of your cunt gradually stretching to accommodate a much larger head than it would with a human baby. Surely the aphrodisiac hormones was the aliens evolving an incentive for reproducing; one is more likely to want to give birth if it feels good, after all.

Back in the observation room you were panting heavily, voice hoarse from cumming so many times over the course of the day. You obeyed your body's urges and bore down hard, fluid leaking steadily out of you as you successfully pushed out the head. The overstimulation had you mewling desperately, and as good as this felt you were ready for it to come to an end. The hardest part was done, though, and a few more good pushes had the rest of the experiment slipping free from you.

A pair of scientists in protective gear swiftly entered, retrieving the baby before you could even ask about it. A twinge of sadness tugged at your heart, but you soon let it go. After all, now that the experiment was more or less successful, you suspected you'd have the chance to do this many more times.

#pumpkin answers #pumpkin writes #pregnancy kink #labor kink #birth kink #rapid pregnancy #alien birth #alien pregnancy #orgasmic birth

[aurosoulart]

I actually always hated selling/advertising merch so much. 😭

telling people to buy a shitty overpriced $30 + shipping phone case so I could make like $4.39 off an artwork inspired by the fragile beauty of nature just felt so bad. >_< I’m really glad I don’t feel pressured to sell on those kinds of sites anymore.

#auropost #something something alienation of labor under capitalism #even the arts will be repackaged and sold back to you as shitty plastics #because under capitalism the only worth is that which can be generated for corporate profit…. like these companies that rely on artists #to upload their designs for a pittance of sales price in order to function #sorry for the rant it’s just 7am on a saturday morning and i just hate capitalism 🔥

[fleshkink]

It's spooky season, how come I don't see any monster preg stories?? Like someone massively pregnant with a litter of werewolf pups and their breasts huge and engorged with milk to feed their little pups??? Or someone taken in a UFO to be part of a breeding program to save an alien race?? Or a vampire giving birth to the child of a victim they got a little too frisky with before killing them??? Tis the season!

#pregnant kink #br33d1ng #breeding k1nk #birth kink #labor kink #hyper pregnancy #huge udders #monster breeding #alien pregnancy

[whetstonefires]

oh hang on so Oliver Twist as a book is largely about child labor, right.

like the commonality between the workhouse, the abusive apprenticeship, and the pickpocket gang is that Oliver is being exploited. for his labor. and Fagin's gang while crossing the line into illegality and therefore in some ways the most dangerous is also the most pleasant of the three.

and ofc which i have underconsidered until now, child labor was fully legal at the time and a major political issue--the 1833 Factory Act had only just recently outlawed employing under-nines on the factory floor, or working 9-13 year olds more than 9 hours a day, and 13-18 year olds more than 12.

it was a struggle to enforce and it was controversial.

so. Fagin's gang replicates that factory owner-child laborer relationship on a tiny, illicit scale, where the kids are taking all the risks and doing all the work and he's getting most of the profit, and it's not fair, but oh he's giving them food and a place to sleep and wouldn't they be worse off without him? (they would is the thing. but does that make it okay?)

with the goal of this being that next time Dickens' milquetoast middle-class readers encountered an argument for the benevolence of a guy employing child labor to maximize his profits they might go, hey! that's not true, he's just like that crook Fagin!

but of course this kind of political messaging works best when it can't be too readily clocked as such--if Fagin was obviously a stand-in for a respectable capitalist, a lot more of the readers would be comfortable excusing him.

which is why he's Jewish, and why the text belabors that point so obsessively--antisemitism is being used as a lever to discourage the public from identifying with Child Labor Exploiting Guy and to characterize his desire to accumulate wealth at the expense of others as greedy, selfish, and illegitimate.

i could never quite figure what the point of using that stock character in that context and so emphatically was. especially after learning that, having had it extensively explained that it was harmful to actual Jewish people to go so hard on this in such a popular novel, Dickens was like 'oh my bad' and walked it back a bit.

because in that case the antisemitism obviously wasn't an end in itself? but if it was incidental flavor, why so much?

but as a screen for his political agenda, it makes sense. using judaism to code an antagonist's profit motive as illegitimate had a long literary history already, but in this case Fagin was already manifestly a criminal so it was like. why.

anyway this isn't about justifying charles dickens' artistic choices that even he somewhat regretted. it's a bit about how easy it can be to fail to put together context even when you have all the pieces, especially at a remove from our own lived experience.

and a bit more about how the tools we use for political ends should be carefully inspected. no matter how ordinary and unremarkable they seem when we pick them up. because we might be missing different historical context due to being embedded in it.

#hoc est meum #antisemitism #writing #charles dickens #oliver twist #child labor #factory act of 1833 a watershed event in labor history #i did not really consider how much in 1837 Normal People #did not necessarily think that child labor was bad #so i failed to recognize propaganda to that end lol #seinfeld is unfunny etc #fagin #the alienated minority #literature

[preggers-vamp]

M-preg

#alien pregnancy #mpreg #huge pregnant belly #mpreg belly #barefoot and pregnant #pregnancy #pregnant #pregnancy fantasy #belly expansion #mpreg labor

[leona-florianova]

Absolutely fascinated by how that director/cinematographer guy in Nope! was apparently obsessed with making documentaries or art films (from what we have seen) where animals hunted, killed and consumed each other. Where the action and the act of kill itself couldnt be enough, but it had to be artfully made. He filmed it himself with a camera of his own making and edited it all by himself too.. From what I understood, he was even quite renowned for it in certain circles.. But to make a living he had to direct cheap artless commercials..Like the one we have seen... filmed on a greenscreen backgrounds starring some gone era stars...Something nice that would appeal to the consumers. 

And then he got THE OFFER OF A LIFETIME.. And when he found out it really did fit his niche, he took it..and he shot it. But because  just capturing it wasnt enough, he continued. He had to have the perfect shot, with the perfect lighting, and perfect point of view. He had to be right there. It had to be his. He had to make THE IMPOSSIBLE SHOT.. And he did it..But it consumed him in the process...

#NOPE! #antlers holst #NOPE movie #thats passion and perfectionism baby it can destroy ya #or its the industry or the consumers that destroy ya... when faced with the fruit of your labor #or giant alien jelly fish #either way this movie slaps hard #text post #thoughts #oooh the spectacle #jordan peele you damn genius #nope spoilers #im frothing at the mouth i need to watch this movie at least 5 more times #nope 2022 #it was so filled with all sorts of different allegories that work in tandem and 1 theme #it makes me mad #and then its possible nobody will ever see that shot.. but he did it

[elektramouthed]

 In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. What spark of humanity, of a possible creativity, can remain alive in a being dragged out of sleep at six every morning, jolted about in suburban trains, deafened by the racket of machinery, bleached and steamed by meaningless sounds and gestures, spun dry by statistical controls, and tossed out at the end of the day into the entrance halls of railway stations, those cathedrals of departure for the hell of weekdays and the nugatory paradise of weekends, where the crowd communes in weariness and boredom? From adolescence to retirement each 24-hour cycle repeats the same shattering bombardment, like bullets hitting a window: mechanical repetition, time-which-is-money, submission to bosses, boredom, exhaustion. From the butchering of youth's energy to the gaping wound of old age, life cracks in every direction under the blows of forced labour.

Raoul Vaneigem, from Revolution of Everyday Life (tr. John Fullerton, Paul Sieveking)

#raoul vaneigem #john fullerton #paul sieveking #revolution of everyday life #translations #nonfiction #essays #on labor #on alienation #on grind culture #2022 reads

[kittycondo1]

i thought all i wanted was a comfy job that afforded my family a modest & secure lifestyle but the further i advanced and the higher paying my jobs became the more made up/fake they became and the less my work had any meaningful impact in the world and the more disconnected i felt from my community like its fucking wild to me how much money and time and resources are POURED into shit products that the world does NOT need - things that prop up systems within other systems that only exist to generate profit and do nothing to feed house or care for people yet this is what millions of workers are stuck doing and world changing amounts of money is wrapped up in these industries. so many people are working on different flavors of the same bullshit and insane amounts of money are spent to develop more redundant yet disperse apps/tech/products

and worse, the government is the biggest spender in the country (including things above) but specifically for things that make fewer people fed housed or cared for and actively cause harm

[junipershouse]

qoosai doodles and loredump :)

qoosai are a species of small, delicate sophants native to a planet called foowi. they have very fragile bodies, with their endoskeletons consisting of a thin, slightly salty hollow latticework which breaks under moderate force. however, this endoskeleton gives them light, flexible bodies which allow them to contort into incredibly small spaces and move surprisingly fast. they have six limbs - four four-jointed limbs with ambulatory digits on the end, and two three-jointed limbs terminating in a sharp spiked point. these two spikes, alongside the pointed face of the qoosai, constitute their primary method of defense and offense.

the skin of qoosai is likewise thin and fragile. it's hairless and silky soft, with a slight stickiness in hot weather. qoosai skin tends to vary little in hue, with colors typically falling within a narrow range of pale purples and violets. some qoosai populations have small brown spots on their extremities and near their eyes - these are considered neotenal traits. the only example of skin coverage which qoosai hold are long, featherlike appendages which typically grow from their heads, their butts, and their spiked limbs. these feathers grow in beadlike patterns, with the hairs of the feathers bunching together and gradually increasing and decreasing length. these hairs are very oily and thick, much thicker and stronger than the feather hairs seen on earth. qoosai feathers come in white or brown, and always have a blue stripe emerging from their center. qoosai can move the central base of their feathers which can allow them to emote with them.

qoosai ambulate by hopping with their lower limbs, alternating between bouncing with the first pair and the second pair. they can reach a pretty fast pace like this. when in danger or crossing water, qoosai will use their upper pair of limbs like a pair of stilts. walking like this takes quite a bit of practice, and some qoosai cultures even dance using these limbs.

to eat, qoosai use their very long, hollow tongue. they stick their tongue into food and suck out the juices. qoosai are omnivorous and opportunistic feeders, with a very varied diet. they're known for scavenging the kills of much larger creatures, and some qoosai cultures even domesticated some of these creatures for the sole purpose of scavenging their hunts. too, their diet is somewhat restricted by the solidity of their foodstuffs. so, qoosai often mush all their food into a fine paste to make it easier for them to eat. related to this - qoosai do not have a jaw mechanism. they don't even really have a skull - everything in their head is supported by a thick layer of jellylike cartilage. you can actually see a small portion of this cartilage in their eyes, their blue "eyelid" is actually a cartilage flap which is opened and closed by adjacent muscles. their super long tongue spirals inside of this head, before connecting with their stomach. above the qoosai's eyes is a small hole. emerging from this hole is a small spiked appendage, which smells very sweet. this appendage releases a sort of "pollen" which attracts tiny flying creatures which collect the "pollen" and exchange it by rubbing their bodies against each other. by visiting many qoosai, the "pollen" is exchanged germinates in the qoosai's body to be born as baby qoosai. baby qoosai are small, with brown skin. the brown pigment is mildly poisonous to large proportions of qoosai's natural predators. however, this pigment also interferes with growth due to its poisonous affect. so when they grow up and become more mobile, they lose this pigment in favor of the light purple pigment most qoosai adults share. all adult qoosai have both the "pollinator" organ and the "womb" organ. qoosai intake air through small holes in their necks.

qoosai are incredibly intelligent, with nearly half of their overall body weight dedicated to their data processing centers in the heart of their bodies. they can process information incredibly fast, with amazing response times and problemsolving skills. their data processing center is also built for both mind-processing and will-processing. their big brain organ is very vulnerable in its placement, however, and requires large amounts of fuel to work at max capacity. to counter this, qoosai are very sociable and live in highly communal cultures, collaborating with each other to find food and protect each other. and since they have no concept of "parenthood" due to their gestative methods, all qoosai kids are raised entirely communally. in fact, qoosai are so socially linked, that their base model of society does not consider the individual as noteworthy or sociologically relevant. qoosai do not have "personal names" either. uoovalz is what other beings call that certain qoosai, but uoovalz is their family name and everyone from their family is called uoovalz.

vv rowny and an uoovalz for size reference vv

#qoosai tag #xenobiology #speculative biology #sci fi #alien biology #alien species #and yet uoovalz is doing manual labor on a spaceship #i wanna go more in detail on the internal organs but i have no energy for that rn orz #and they have toe beans.

[fleshkink]

Do any of y'all own/are in discord servers for pregnancy, eggs, mpreg, or birth that are decent? If so, please let me know. I would REALLY prefer one that mostly has women, enbies, and trans mascs in it please.

#pregnant kink #breeding k1nk #birth kink #labor kink #preg kink #alien pregnancy #monster pregnancy #monster breeding #egg laying #mpreg #rapid pregnancy

[feeling-pushy]

Maybe he was feeling restless or maybe because his grief wasn't making him think clearly. But he decided that he just 𝘩𝘢𝘥 to go on one last supply run before he popped.

So now he find himself in the city with a broken water and now needing to find a place to hide…

#male pregnancy #preg kink #mpreg #labor kink #my ocs #montanha #apocalypse #alien apocalypse #my artwork