@mawr @LuigiEsq@mastodon.social
Too late!
uspol
reminder: door-to-door campaigners, like all salespeople, exploit social norms of politeness and hospitality to force you to listen to a sales pitch. you owe them nothing, not even a single word. Even if you support their candidate, there is *absolutely nothing wrong* with shutting your door in their face.
@mawr
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Gender, Scifi, Body Mod, Violence
This was a seriously interesting read.
Yes, it opens with an attack helicopter joke but it inverts it quite well.
What is 'a lot of work?'" (cw: late state capitalism) [4/4]
Your friendly off-topic conversations with co-workers count, too; that's called "building a culture of positivity at the workplace" and is invaluable to the working class-- just not to capitalism.
All of that shit is you putting your heart, mind, and soul into something.
The only reason it doesn't feel rewarding is the horrendously toxic economic culture surrounding it.
What is 'a lot of work?'" (cw: late state capitalism) [3/4]
That time you stayed 2 hours after the end of your shift to fix something you fucked up? That's putting in extra effort. (Anyone who would tell you otherwise is a bootlicker. On healthy teams, fuckups are opportunities for everyone involved to learn something. The whole team offers the hand up, any necessary lessons are learned, and everyone is better off for it, but I digress. )
What is 'a lot of work?'" (cw: late state capitalism) [2/4]
Honestly, I wouldn't call that a lot of work, I'd call that a _fuckton_ of work.
and when the end product doesn't seem to justify the effort it took to produce, that's just late stage capitalism drilling into your very fucking soul "you are worthless unless you have something tangible to capitalism to show for your efforts."
I'm here to tell you that is fucking BULLSHIT, and that Your Every Individual Contribution Counts.
What is 'a lot of work?'" (cw: late state capitalism) [1/4]
A burned out friend of mine said, after listing a huge list of accomplishments, "I have no concept of what is 'a lot of work'" - so I thought I'd help explain.
"a lot of work" is what happens when you stop and think about the past 3 years of your life and you realize a lot of them are a blur because you spent so much of them furiously working the problems of multiple conflicting deadlines that a lot of it looks the same.
@mawr Don't you soff every day, mawr?
I'm seeing a pattern... a pattern of soff.. or is that just your knitted scale pattern?
Sending hugs, love, glow and all the positive vibes I have to give. Thank you all for being here for each other. That's been a lovely thing to be apart of.
Let's continue to be excellent to each other. Cover each other's sixes, clear doors and corners together, and share your joys together.
Cause you're not alone.
@Thaminga At least in the US, most banks will issue cards with different names on them at request or for a nominal fee (like 5 USD last time I did that). With literally no verification of who said name belongs to.
Which is handy...
@kelseyhusky Hell yes!
Shape and form may vary but the pattern of information remains consistent across most known platforms and vessels. Accounting for unknown hosts remains irksome.
Pronous: She/They/Them-THEONESWHOARE!!!!!