Tumblr says this was posted Tumblr 2 hours ago. The post itself says “The International Astronomical Union just createdabout 50 signs..”
These 47 new signs were created back in 2017. I know it doesn’t sound like it, but that was 6 years ago. Since then, they’ve come even further in their project! In April 2021, the IAU published an additional 86 brand new signs for astronomical terms!
deviantart is the only place where real art happens any more and the 46 year olds who have entire deviantart galleries full of hundreds of pictures they created in MS Paint that they’ve been churning out since the early 90′s of their extremely specific fetish where the side character Clopin from Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame cuts off all his hair and feeds it to Quasimodo…they are the only real artists. Untethered by capitalism, untethered by clout, untethered by the algorithm. A minion of only two drives…complete creative agency and also sexy Quasimodo eat hair.
The pastoralist fantasy of “modern life is too stressful so I should move to a remote area and do hard labor” is so funny
I have a theory about that.
I think that what people want, when they talk about a pastoralist fantasy is actually an anti-capitalistic fantasy: i noticed, even from my experience, that most people don’t mind phisical labour if it gives them results: actual, tangible, results.
Once my boss asked me to copy every article from a website and paste them in the new one. It took me roughly four hours for three days to do and my soul was slowly leaving my body. It was easy work, i mean who wouldnt want to earn money to just click here and click there, rinse and repeat? But it was boring, ripetitive and basically useless.
But when I take some time and clean my house, i sweat, i am tired but… satisfied. I see in front of me the result of my hard labour and I am happy, or at least i don’t think i wasted my time.
So the fantasy of working hard but at least getting something out of it is appealing: why do people work in kitchens? Or bakeries and wake up at dawn to make bread? Or any hard job like that? I knew a guy that had the possibility of having every job he wanted, but he opened a bar and couldnt be happier.
This is my idea, i’m not a student in sociology or anything but I hope i made a point.
I have two degrees, and my previous job was the marketing department head for an international biotech company. I was well-paid, but dreaded work every morning. The endless cycle of low-grade manipulation and feeling like “making money for someone else to pocket, HELPING no one else” felt miserable.
I left and now work at a garden center. I haul around plants and educate people about them, so they can make informed choices. I help people, and seeing the plants grow under my care is wonderful. My soul is flourishing, my heart is at peace. My coworkers are all honest (as far as I can tell), and there’s no push for upselling or pushing people to buy stuff if it’s not very suited for their landscape.
Even if my wallet is a lot lighter these days, so too are my worries!
I worked IT in a city and fuck. People try to controll your every second. Faster! More efficient! You took a second too long to type that. You drove 56 kmh but could have gone 58 without getting caught. I messaged you a minute ago but you didn’t reply so I walked to your cubicle to ask you. Also let’s have an efficiency meeting. You are too slow. That’s your feedback. How long will that task take? Can we somehow shorten that?
And all for what? To manipulate the user to buy product. Not to improve the website mind you. Whenever I suggested: hey, our website is not useable for the visually impaired/people with motor problems. I got back an: we don’t care they’re too small of a market value
So can you really blame me for fantasizing about a life where I can just plant flowers and vegetables and walk everywhere without the need of manipulating people and mikromanage my every second
my current job is managing a plasma cutting machine, so i have to spend a lot of time dragging big chunks of iron on and off conveyor belts and i end up sore and filthy at the end of every shift, and usually a bit scratched up.
but it’s third shift and there’s no supervision whatsoever, so while the machine is running, i can type on my phone. i’ve written most of a novel so far with my thumbs, covered in grease and iron dust. and i also produced a lot of construction materials for bridges, dams, warehouses, and skyscrapers.
When people are removed from the tangible results of their labor, they become distressed and dissatisfied - and this is the result of capitalist profit-focused processes.
moth flight’s character in squirrelflight’s hope literally only makes sense to me through the lense of the sunk cost fallacy. she’s supposed to read as having a tragic and noble cause for vehemently enforcing the law but she instead reads like a person who just can’t stand to admit she was wrong even when she’s presented with evidence, especially when the text mentions how unsettlingly “determined” she is to send squirrelflight and leafpool to hell. she just keeps doubling back on every rebuttal by saying she did it “for the good of the clans” but never elaborates on exactly how her shitty rule has improved clan life and this is portrayed as a totally reasonable argument that the reader should take at face value. moth flight gave away her children even though she didn’t have to in a very hyperspecific situation and she was super sad about it and decided that meant every woman medicine cat would for sure fuck up as badly as she did and made it a law on the basis that none of them can handle motherhood out of the apparent goodness of her heart she’s doing something good and saving people from experiencing the pain of heartbreak by insisting harsh punishment for breaking her super special rule and sending people to hell even when they accomplished what she claimed was impossible don’t you see reader it’s not that acknowledging her rule sucks and has ruined lives would force her to admit that she made a mistake she’s so tragic and just
saw a post the other day that said that psych survivors were overexaggerating and fearmongering for saying that people should be aware that having diagnoses on your record can be a danger + impede your life. and the more i think about it the more annoyed i am. because i think people need to know that there are exceptions to health privacy laws that can make having psych diagnoses and psych hospitalization history on your record risky depending on your circumstances. diagnoses follow you through your health interactions-you do not have to consent to have your information shared between providers. judicial proceedings are also an exception to the HIPAA privacy rule, so for things like custody battles, guardianship, getting orders of protection–the court can petition for medical records. there’s so many other situations where even if they can’t legally access your information without your authorization, people will require you to disclose diagnoses, records, previous hospitalizations and refuse to give you services/hire you/whatever unless you share that information with them. for example in many states anyone (a provider, a cop, friends and family) can disclose that you have certain psych diagnoses like bipolar to the DMV which then might require that you undergo drivers license review as frequently as every 3 months. my university is actively trying to kick me out right now because i had to disclose my medical record, psych diagnoses, and hospitalization history to them as a requirement to stay enrolled.
and i don’t want to scare people or make people think that having a diagnosis on their records is automatically going to mean that it is weaponized against us. because i do know plenty of people who have never faced issues with their records. but i do expect that the community supports the people speaking out about the ways that we have been harmed by diagnoses creating barriers to accessing necessary parts of our life. instead of attacking us or saying that we’re lying about things we are currently experiencing.
Hi Elon: please add a decreasing counter bar in the corner of the screen so I know how many posts left I can view. Because having a health bar on twitter would be the only funny thing you can do right now
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