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I feel like there's a difference between "I don't dream of labor" and "I shouldn't have to do labor." One can understand the necessity of labor without enjoying or desiring it for its own sake.

When employers say "you should be grateful to have a job," when people justify paying disabled people below-minimum wage because "otherwise they wouldn't be working," when work requirements are attached to benefits, when billionaires flatter themselves as "hard workers" when their work benefits no one, labor is treated as a benefit in and of itself. But it's not; it's a sacrifice. How can we assure that people are properly compensated for this sacrifice if we won't even recognize that that's what it is?

This slogan, by de-centering labor, also has a utility for disabled people who cannot perform labor. Ideologies, both capitalist and communist, which treat labor as the most important thing in any person's life cannot provide anything to disabled people who can't work. At best, this logic ignores us; at worst, it is genocidal.

"I don't dream of labor" is truly the most unbearable and infuriating thing that the online pop leftism sphere has ever produced

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I saw this reddit comment and instantly thought it would do numbers on Tumblr.

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I saw this reddit comment and instantly thought it would do numbers on Tumblr.

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Trilobite Mermaid

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happy 5/9 my fellow Mr. Robot enjoyers!

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Pacific velvet ant, Dasymutilla aureola, Mutillidae

Velvet ants are a type of wasp; females are wingless and can deliver a powerful sting.

Photographed in California by brianjdykstranativebeesociety

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Peter Morwood

I am so sorry to have to tell you all about this. None of you, I suspect, will ever have any idea how sorry.

I am in utter shock and terrible pain to have to inform everyone that our friend, my dear husband and creative partner of nearly forty years, Peter Morwood, passed away suddenly early this morning after a brief illness that as late as yesterday (when his doctor saw him) had seemed to be on the mend.

I'm not in any position to say much more about this situation now, as you'll understand my current mental state is not up to the task. (I keep expecting to wake up from a bad dream, but it shows no sign of breaking.) I will let people know more about this in coming days.

There will be a postmortem shortly to determine the exact cause of his death. I'll share what details of this are appropriate as they become clear.

Meanwhile in the short term I'm very much going to need assistance with the expenses that in the days that follow will inevitably surround what's happened. For those people who want to assist, please feel free to use the Ko-Fi account here, and simply tag the associated messages, etc, "P expenses". ETA: Please choose the Stripe payment option at Ko-Fi rather than PayPal, as PP seems to be having some kind of obscure difficulties at the moment. I have disconnected PayPal until this is resolved.

My love will wait for me, I know, however long it takes. He's never minded waiting. (the saddest smile) My job now is to make sure he's not forgotten while I go on.

Meanwhile, can I just say to all of of you: I thank you all ahead of time for all the support and fondness for Peter that I know so many of you will express. He'd blush over it, I know. (He always did.) Please forgive me for being unable to do much in the way of answering messages, just now, in the wake of having to get to grips with this sudden and awful change in my world.

But also let me say, so urgently: Hug your loved ones now, while you can. Eventually a day will come when, expected or not, your opportunities end.

Thanks, friends.

--DD

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Let's ride mama like a bus . . .

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Hot take about hot takes (a hot metatake, if you will)

If your "AI art isn't real art" take would also rule out

-photography -collage -surrealism -dadaism -readymades -generative art

you are not making some Inspired Point about Art™, you are simply being reactionary.

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I mean . . . he could've been Polish.

I think this has been posted on here before but this one always makes me laugh

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Right, fuck this. In the spirit of ‘be the change you want to see’, I think we should celebrate Assad Zaman, because fuck knows AMC won’t, so someone has to step up to the plate.

Here’s a Ten Things I Love About Assad’s Performance As Armand list:

The way his voice cracks ever so slightly on the word donated in the Louvre monologue. Also, the entire Louvre monologue.

The hand acting. Thanks to @platoapproved for this gif set which illustrates what I mean.

“Do you find me boring?” Like, obviously, all of 2x05, but that line reading, terrifying and obsessive and heartbreaking and childlike all at once.

The stillness. The way he can be completely still and nevertheless absolutely mesmerising.

Contrasted with gremlin mode in San Francisco when he is anything but still. This post from @hypermania is a great analysis of his physicality and acting choices in this scene.

The micro expressions. The sixteen layers of emotions including three I’ve never even heard of before in some of the reaction shots. The way the directors clearly understand this and hold the camera on his face so that we can watch Assad showing us Armand’s brain at work without a word being said.

His French accent.

The way he sits down on the couch next to Madeleine.

Just how fucking cool he looks on the motorbike in the hunting scene.

Sauntering back into the Dubai apartment in his cunty sunglasses and tragically misplaced confidence.

Feel free to add your own thoughts in notes or reblogs. Let’s appreciate the hell out of him.

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