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Tonight’s dinner entertainment was an episode of The Twilight Zone from 1964, “The Brain Center at Whipple’s.”
Sadly, 60 years later, it still hits home on so many levels: capricious mass firings by the capitalist class in the name of “efficiency” (as a code word for “exorbitant profits with no concern for the costs”), an unreasonable and unhealthy fascination with “progress” and technology, hostility towards workers and towards anyone who doesn’t share their dystopian “vision” of the future, and more.
I can only hope the day is soon when the likes of Melon Husk, Sam Altman, and their ilk meet the same fate as the younger Mr Whipple.
#random thoughts#The Brain Center at Whipple’s#The Twilight Zone#AI#capitalism#exploitation of workers
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The only way in which selling sex is exceptional as a form of work is that it involves having sex.
Sex work is not more emotionally intimate than all other forms of work. Emotional intimacy can be involved in therapy, care work, and writing about deeply personal topics.
Sex work is not the only form of work which can involve genital contact. This happens in medical environments, care work and when giving genital piercings.
Sex work is not uniquely dangerous. Fishing, construction and underwater welding all have high fatality and injury rates.
Sex work is not more prone to trafficking than all other forms of work. People are trafficked in huge numbers in the agricultural industry and for the manufacture of textiles.
Sex work is not the only form of work which involves frequent sexual harassment. People are often sexually harassed whilst doing bar work, waiting tables and providing health care and social assistance.
Sex work is not the only type of work that is criminalized. Other types of work like busking without a license, drug dealing, con artistry and any kind of job which requires authorisation form a third party where that isn't obtained.
Stop it with the sex work exceptionalism! Treat it like other work.
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FUCK IT!!!! I MISS WHEN MY MINECRAFT SERVERS HAD CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THEM!!!! I MISS WHEN MY MINECRAFT SERVERS HAD LANGUAGE BARRIERS IN THEM!!!!! I MISS WHEN WE WERE ALL CRAMMED IN A PIT TOGETHER SCREAMING AND SHAKING AND SOBBING AND CONFUSED AS ALL HELL SITTING IN THE TUMBLR LIVEBLOGS HOLDING HANDS AS WE ALL EXPLAINED WHAT THINGS MEANT, WHAT THE REAL WORLD CULTURAL CONTEXT WAS, WHAT WAS GOING ON IN BITS THE TRANSLATOR COULDN'T GET!!!!! FUCK IT!!!!!!! I'LL TAKE ANOTHER GODDAMN PURGATORY!!!!! GIVE ME A BUNCH OF PEOPLE FORMING SIX PERSON FAMILIES OVER THE SPAN OF THREE TO FIVE DAYS!!!!!!!! GIVE ME THE EVIL SHADOW GOVERNMENT THAT NEVER MADE ANY GODDAMN SENSE, GIVE ME THE STUPID FUCKING EYE WORKERS THAT WERE AGGRAVATINGLY UNBEATABLE, GIVE ME THE CONFUSING ASS BLACK CONCRETE STRUCTURES THAT WENT BASICALLY FUCKING NOWHERE!!!!!! I'LL TAKE IT ALL IF IT MEANS I GET A FRENCH MAN AND A GUY FROM LUXEMBOURG AND A WOMAN FROM SOUTH KOREA SHOOTING THE SHIT IN A MINECRAFT PIT STARTER HOUSE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! I'LL TAKE IT IF I GET BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE AND FRENCH AND ENGLISH AND SPANISH SITTING AT A FUCKING TABLE IN A SECRET UNDERGROUND MEETING ROOM THEORIZING ABOUT A MINECRAFT CHARACTER WITH AN APPEARANCE BASED ON A JOKE ABOUT A GUY'S DOG BEING AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!! GIVE IT BACK!!!!!!!!! GIVE IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
#NOT THE ADMIN EXPLOITATION THO THAT CAN STAY GONE#block game brainrot#shut up vic#qsmp#im in my feels idk the qsmp really struck a chord in me#that nothing has really been able to refill i'm ngl#i really miss the brain workout i got trying to keep up with the cross cultural multilingual stuff#and it's not the same if i just watch the streamers in languages i don't understand#bc on qsmp it was like. i can watch the pov of a streamer coming from the same language background as me#and then i know that if i'm lost so are they and then i don't feel like i'm floundering alone#but like i don't have that anymore :( i miss it a lot#it was so funny and it was so earnest and i really FELT IT#it was a whirlwind and it was so exhausting and there's bits that ethically probably should never be repeated (eggs)#but i wouldn't want it to be different (except the workers rights violations; again those can go)#idk all these fucking duos that sound like absolute pipe dream crossover nonsense and are fully viable#it's nuts and it's beautiful and i miss how fucking WILD that was#i'll never not be upset that the koreans and hugo barely even got a MOMENT#i was so excited to see how they would interact with and respond to the overall island lore like the federation and the codes#ughhhhh anyway it's 4am i'm in my feels nothing has really engaged me the way qsmp did#i really enjoyed the challenge of the culture and language barrier bc i really had to ENGAGE with the streams#in a way i don't normally and in a way i haven't since#i miss it :( also slimeriana. that too. fucking hilarious. can we get them in the outlast trials.#add cellbit and roier call it a double date what who said that#(that's a joke to be clear but not the part about the outlast trials they should do that those streams were peak)#anyway uhhhhh if you read these good fortune is coming to you soon#long tags
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My big brother who finally figured out what I do for a living while he scrolls through tumblr and recognizes me wearing the sweater he got me for Christmas. Of course I don’t show my face but he knows it’s me. He knows he needs to scroll but he doesn’t. He watches me tease my nipples through it and watches as the sweater rides up my stomach. He watches me take the sweater off and cup my tits. He watches as I lean back and take off my panties. And he certainly watches when I begin to stretch myself out with a dildo that’s coincidentally the same length and girth as his cock. He messages me and starts sending me gifts and money. All this leading up to when he finally asks to do a facetime with me. He says he deserves it after all that’s he’s done for me.
Now my blog is all about couple posting. Posting sex tapes where I’m calling him my brother. But of course theirs no way that’s true, right?
#cnc free use#dumb slvt#r4p3 m3#1cky family#1cky br0ther#sex worker#bro x sis#exploitation#cnc k!nk#free use slvt#daddy k!nk#ince$t#sluttoy#cnc slvt#good slvt#big brother kink#big bro lil sis#blackmail kink
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watching the Muppet Christmas Carol and I have reached the conclusion that we should start having large groups of people followpowerful people around and sing about their crimes in public
#the muppets#deny defend depose#fuck jeff bezos#his greed and exploitation are continuing full throttle#he flies a missile into space while workers piss in bottles#based caroling
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Quilter's Dilemma
A phenomenon I made up where you have a talent that takes so much time to produce something, that you can't sell it anymore. There's a market for handmade quilts, obviously, they're beautiful and warm and wonderful, but no one would be willing to pay the amount of money that is required to properly compensate the artist.
I don't quilt, but the raw materials to make a couple of pairs of mittens is $70 for some nice wool. But the hours required to make them is roughly two seasons of Criminal Minds, and some Doctor Who episodes with my family. Those are 45 minute episodes. Minimum wage in my state is around $11.
No one is willing to pay several hundred dollars for a couple of pairs of mittens, no matter how warm and detailed they are. Especially if I'm not a master knitter, which I'm not, and they're bound to have mistakes in them.
So we loop back around to giving them as gifts, and instead ask nothing in return.
If someone gives you something they handmade this Christmas, cherish it.
#someone told me i should sell my mittens and i almost lost it#then i also heard someone call their grandmother's homemade quilts a 'fun little tradition'#sir do you know what you are recieving#do i know what i am giving#i am giving you love#pure unadulterated love#knitting#knitblr#crochet#quilting#quiltblr#fiber crafts#this also means that everything crocheted in stores is made exploiting workers#not everything is about selling#sometimes my hobbies are about what i enjoy and the love i have for others
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Okay. Since we're going over all the takes on Mr. X at this point.. What if his powers really don't have a backside. What if (the state of) his normal life is the backside.
What if his normal life is akin to that of heroes where he has to pretend to be something he's not and follow rules that the people who control his life came up with to further their own goals. What if he can only be free of other people's beliefs and expectations when he's a hero.
What if in reality he truly is like everyone else. The other heroes. The ordinary people. All those who work themselves to the bone, who are tired and overworked and sick of all the exploitation...
What if when he's in the form of the number one hero.. when he becomes the most sought after product on the hero market..
Is when he gains the freedom to truly be himself
#to be hero x#tbhx#hero x#considering one of the first things they revealed to us in the trailers was that he's a white-collar worker...#we definitely need to think about that if we wanna try to predict / guess what he's actually like#this thing feels very lin ling coded but lin ling is tbhx coded (introduction to the main themes of the show)#so I feel like my best prediction rn is that he's actually the other side of the same damn coin#(cue the coin flip clip from the opening *coughs*)#I think from a writing perspective the whole downside thing is based on a characters perception#so if the writers make us think that X is an omnipresent all powerful god#then it just makes sense to reverse it by revealing that the opposite is equally as true#and then he'd have an even stronger incentive to want to break the system cuz both of his lives would've been defined by exploitation#maybe not the bright side of X (at least not after he became No. 1) but I don't think being the best product makes him no longer a product#ACTUALLY#“bright side” was supposed to refer to his hero identity bc of the black & white switch he has going on but#yeah calling his normal self the “dark side of X” would definitely reinforce the idea that it's the not so good parts he hides#and we've not much of normal X yet (other than his sugar stealing. you go boy exploit the company back for sugar. I believe in you) but!#we all know there's darker times coming. right.#I don't think they're gonna reveal his normal life to have a sad backstory or Idk (there's gonna be enough of that elsewhere anyways haha)#but we've definitely only seen the top of the iceberg for now#btw yes I do think capitalism & the CEOs are gonna be the real villains#and X is probably playing their game to win#yes all along you were reading my “X is actually anti-capitalist” propaganda#we're gonna go free heroes (at a cost) :))#ice demon talks#tbhx theories#tbhx analysis
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Exploitation of workers...
#Exploitation of workers...#ausgov#politas#australia#class war#extortion#exploitation#exploitative#eat the rich#eat the fucking rich#auspol#tasgov#taspol#fuck neoliberals#neoliberal capitalism#anthony albanese#albanese government
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#current events#news#capitalism#South Africa#end capitalism#workers rights#workers#exploitation#Africa#the left#working class
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I was hired at The Scarlett Letters because I am a sex worker and the shop was intended to serve the sex worker community. Part of the point was to offer sex workers stable employment so we could sell less sex, and my boss hired me knowing I was trying to concieve and wanted to stop seeing clients while pregnant. Instead myself and my coworkers had our hours cut, were denied the fixed hours promised, and dealt with constant hostility in the work environment.
We are now occupying the bookshop and demanding our boss hands over the stock to us, so we can run as a workers co-operative.



A little more info on our demands is available on Instagram! All of us are marginalized workers, whether we're sex workers, racialized, queer, trans, or multiple of these identities. No worker should be exploited via zero hours contracts and extra work without extra pay, but it's especially bad that this has happened to many of us who have no other employment prospects.
We were supposed to be a radical space, platforming marginalized authors and especially sex workers! Our boss deciding to shut down the business and make us all redundant after we unionized wouldn't be okay anywhere but it's wild coming from a bookshop claiming to be radical!

If you can support, please donate to our hardship fund so we can pay our bills during this occupation!
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rereading the azriel bonus chapter for fic writing purposes and i feel like we all need to talk more about the fact her vision of utopia contains brothels and her moral upstanding heroes are the men who frequent them.
#sure you can have a philosophical question of#if people lived in a perfect utopia where poverty was eliminated and all their basic needs were met would people still become sex workers#thereby removing all ethical concerns about buying someone’s body#(i personally think no but anyways)#but miss sarah is absolutely NOT doing a thought experiment. there are no thoughts. just zero critical thoughts about the sex work industry#and the kind of people that support it#despite trying to make a big deal out of how woke she was about exploited swers when writing tog#anti rhysand#anti azriel#because FUCK men who buy sex actually :)#acotar worldbuilding#anti velaris#velaris acotar
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If creators didn't want me to interpret every story to be about how Society Is Bad then they shouldn't have made Society Bad. Think about that
#calli.txt#Posting this on the clock sorry. This is about#Ena#Ena dream bbq#and the expectations placed upon the working class and how your ability to be a Good Worker is equal to whether you have worth as a person.#It is a game about worker exploitation. (.....AND. MANY OTHER THINGS BOTH RELATED AND UNRELATED TO THIS INTERPRETATION.#BUT STILL.)#And anywya you can also blorbo tag this post if you want 5ever
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If the economy NEEDS workers working in degrading, dehumanizing, dangerous jobs where they have very little power, then you need to get a different economy. Any world that relies upon the exploitation and abuse of the workers needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt. We can make a society where no one has to work a job that’s physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, emotionally, or environmentally unhealthy or unsafe for them. We need to create that society.
#original post#left wing#leftism#left#anti consumerism#capitalism#anti capitalist#capitalist hell#capitalist dystopia#capitalist bullshit#consumerism#consumer culture#workers#working class#exploitation#class#class war#classism#class warfare#equality#liberation
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(I'm a tax preparer) Had a man stop by to ask a tax question today, and we start chatting and it was... Concerning.
Him: - but yeah, this is exclusively my work phone, I have another phone for me, and I need to use it for GPS to do my job. My boss takes money out of my check to pay for it, but the plan he has isn't nearly enough and data fees cost me over $2,000 last year.
Me: ... Um.
Him: oh yeah, and there was an incident involving work equipment that caused some damage to a nearby car, and even though his business insurance covered it, he's taking payments out of my check to get the money back.
Me: ... What.
Him: oh! And he also takes $10 a month for a life insurance policy he bought on me, where he's the only beneficiary.
Me: ... Okay, so the first thing we're going to do is navigate to the website for the United States Department of Labor-
#he seemed like an honest hard-working salt of the earth type#and did not understand his workers rights#workers rights#exploitation#please please please know your rights#yes you can discuss your wages no your boss cannot force you to clock out and keep working
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