#the current catastrophe

[bookgeekgrrl]

Some things we do with books: Read them, obviously. Engage with them. Think about them, and all the different words for that: ponder, contemplate, consider. Tell people about them. Shelve them. Give them away. Check them out from the library. Buy them at a bookstore. Buy them online. Get into impassioned arguments about them.

What we don’t do? Consume them.

It is past time to push back on using this language of capitalism to talk about the experience of art. Words, as a colleague used to say with increasing frustration, mean things. And we have words that mean all kinds of things—words that have been replaced by and smashed into “consumer.”

#loved this essay #capitalism ruins everything #the current catastrophe

[politijohn]

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#politics #us politics #government #current events #climate change #environmental justice #Barbie #barbenheimer #news #climate catastrophe #climate crisis #mass news media

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i do think creators should engage more in whatever the opposite of ship-baiting is. less "will they, won't they" more "these characters are so fucking toxic can you imagine how repulsive it would be if they got together in canon? bc we the writers have that power. to make you, our audience, suffer. this is an hostage situationship :("

#i just think it's a fun egomaniacal treat creatives should indulge in more #the outcomes would be catastrophic for audiences everywhere but they've earned it. #and if this JUST SO HAPPENED to be a talking point in current theoretical Union Talks... #so much the better

[gentlyepigrams]

The problem, they said, isn’t the flexibility itself. It was how that flexibility has facilitated their transformation into one-woman safety nets. In one conversation, a woman who works in the field of human rights detailed all the specific and actionable ways that her employer could improve its policies around flexibility and productivity. But when I asked her if most of the problems in her life were the result of work policy or societal norms, her response was unequivocal: Her employer was doing a lot and could do more, but there’s only so much any organization can do to counteract the currents of a society becoming more and more hostile to women in general and mothers in particular. Women have long been socialized to serve, to do more with and for less. Over the past century, there have been efforts to better compensate and open paths for women in their work outside the home—everything from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which protects against discrimination in the workplace based on gender identity or sexual orientation, to the modest improvements in breast pump technology. At the same time, some public institutions and nonprofits have been working to fund and expand affordable child care outside the home and a normalization of more equitable labor distribution inside the home. But at this point, the infrastructure of care has been crumbling for decades, and, in many places, has been completely wiped out by the pandemic. Most corners of society are still stubbornly organized as if every family includes a person who attends to the needs of the family full time. For as much as we ostensibly venerate equitable partnership, working mothers, and parents in general, society is incredibly hostile to the cultivation of all of the above.

Work-From-Home Jobs Haven’t Made Things Easier for Women - Bloomberg

#why we need feminism #i blame the patriarchy #the current catastrophe

[vampiremotif]

oh he's down so bad

#🦇 #down catastrophic #currently watching #dw lb #doctor who #twelveclara #whouffaldi

[getoapologist]

obsessed with the fact wolfwood will follow vash to the ends of the earth

#🐇 #help he's down catastrophic #currently watching #trigun lb #trigun #trigun 98 #vashwood

[marvelousartcatastrophe]

I really liked TGCF (obviously… obsessing over Qi Rong still) and I want to try MDZS but I’m put off by sex scenes. Like I want to read it because I know it’s probably really good but I don’t want the smut to ruin it for me.

#art catastrophe #I’m asexual by the way #sex scenes are just not it #kinda gross tbh #I knew the donghua was pretty censored so I have watched a few episodes of that and I sorta like it #I’m currently reading a ballad of songbirds and snakes so I actually can’t jump into it rn anyway #I have a rule of only reading one thing at a time and I’ve been so busy I keep forgetting to read it #an iron widow and fourth wing are also on my reading list #so it’s not like I have nothing to read I just see the Mxtx fandom appears to like mdzs more than TGCF and I wanna see that for myself #svsss idek if I’m contemplating on cause nothing has drawn me to it #svsss #mdzs #tgcf #mo dao zu shi #tian guan ci fu #scum villian self saving system #mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu

[pissenchanted]

help is anyone there to join me in baring witness to this unforgivable frank iero update

#current mood: that spongebob guy who screams my leg #my everything hurts #this is catastrophic #frank

[sweatermuppet]

from fool by zach savich, published in full catastrophe living

[Text ID: how much loss until the first loss looks like love? /End ID]

#currently reading #zach savich #full catastrophe living #poetry #ID included #iowa poetry prize

[crimeronan]

i like living in the city. the ice storm has fucked up the whole metro area but we've got a friend staying in our living room bc we have power and he doesn't and the inside of his place was nearing the freezing point of water. back in rural NH we were always the ones crashing on the floors of our suburban friends when our power was out for days. paying it forward I Guess....

#hard to complain when we have heat and it's not catastrophically cold outside like it is in some places #but WOW this storm has wrecked everyone's shit. It's Bad.... #current events

[breathedreamscream]

#palestine #queen rania #cease fire #ceasefire #i stand with palestine #free palestine #signal boost #current even #human catastrophe #human rights #international law

[bookgeekgrrl]

two of my fave tweets about this

#i mean seriously #current events #the current catastrophe #also jen's tweet is literally the dream #i wish i could do that now #in fact i come very close to it #the queen is dead #uk politics

[politijohn]

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#climate justice #Nigeria #farmers #politics #current events #important #environment #environmental justice #environmentalism #climate catastrophe #world affairs

[4ft10tvlandfangirl]

Update to the petition 3/Feb/2024:

*نحث الأمم المتحدة ووكالاتها الإنسانية على إعلان حالة المجاعة من المستوى الخامس على المستوى الوطني في السودان ومعالجة الوضع وفقًا لذلك.*

*We urge the United Nations & its humanitarian agencies to declare a phase-5 famine state in Sudan at a national level & address the situation accordingly.*

A previous update on the petition added 29/Jan/2024 with some important info:

Since the outbreak of the civil war in Sudan on 15 April 2023, a deadly combination of displacement, direct fighting, scarcity of agricultural inputs and destruction of the country’s food industry infrastructure has placed more than 24 million Sudanese (nearly 60% of the total population) in direct need of humanitarian assistance, and about 19.9 million Sudanese (around 49.75% of the total population) in dire need of food aid, with 17.7 million of them in acute need of food aid.

The state of famine has affected the whole country in various proportions. In West Darfur, 60% of the total population are affected by acute food shortage. In the capital Khartoum, the percentage of population in acute food shortage is 55%.  In South Kordofan state the percentage is 48%. Even areas not affected by war, such as Kassala state in Eastern Sudan, have seen 43% of the population affected by acute food shortage. Furthermore, agricultural areas such as Gezira state reported 31% of the population in acute food shortage. It should be noted that the threshold for declaring famine is 20% of the population.

#sudan #keep eyes on sudan #petitions #stop the war #famine #humanitarian crisis #free sudan #signal boost #current events #please share #important #human rights #united nations #sudan war #sudan genocide #humanitarian catastrophe #sudanese resources

[lesbianjonimitchell]

wow it looks like the leader of my former political party is finally calling for ceasefire! that only took two months and 17.000+ dead civilians. im glad i left them.

#wondering if this has something to do with the satisfaction survey pseudo-dad told me they sent out. he criticised their silence on #palestine in it and said it was a shame i left before getting to fill it out. yeah. i did send all of the MPs emails though. am glad they're #finally breaking free from the PM's unconditional support of israel. current government actually makes me wanna hurl #and my former party are obviously priming to. be part of the government or cabinet or whatever. as if that wasnt a catastrophe last time #and has taken almost a decade to recover from. lol. lmao even

[searchingforakeythatdoesntexist]

Hey, Good Omens fam!

Here a sneak peek and a story i cannot NOT babbling about.

I wanted to send a message to a dear friend on Whatsapp, and to brag about me starting a new horny-smutty-classy Good Omens fanart today.

Sent it to my sister-in-law. Who is NOT a Good Omens fan. And definitively NOT a SMUT fan.

Deleted the message. Sweated a lot. But it's okay, everything is fiiiiine.

Until I got a innocent "Hello! What is a SMUT? :-)" (she is French just like me)

Well. Oopsie.

PS: Don't forget to vote here! Time to choose Tuesday Challenge!

#Elen is babbling #Well it could have been worse #usually when I wanna brag about my WIP I send a screenshot soooooo #catastrophe avoided? #I need to find a decent acronym for SMUT #QUICKLY #current wip #wip #good omens #or not #ElenthyaSmutArt