#falc

[probablyasocialecologist]

Contemporary utopians only consider the efficiency and the abundance of goods and services without sufficiently taking into account the qualitative and material side of production, that is, the autonomy and independence of workers and the sustainability of the natural environment. Their vision of an economy of abundance based on market-driven innovations ends up reinforcing the real subsumption under capital and easily turns into the means of further expropriation from nature and surveillance over workers. Since alienation of work cannot be overcome in this way, fully automated post-capitalism propagates an alternative hope that everyone keeps driving electronic SUVs, changing smartphones every two years and eating cultured meat hamburgers. Such a vision of the luxury future obviously sounds attractive to many people in the Global North because ecological modernization assures them that they do not need to change anything about their extravagant lifestyle. This kind of abundant future appeals to the satisfaction of people’s immediate desires without challenging the current imperial mode of living in the Global North. The problem is, however, that such a vision accepts too uncritically existing value-standards and consumerist ideals. It ends up reproducing the social relations marked by oppression, inequality and exploitation that are inherent to capitalism.

Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

RPGs get a reputation for being all about fighting. How does that work if the RPG is solarpunk? Or utopian even? What is an RPG, in the first place? What is the usefulness of a solarpunk RPG? Join us as we discuss these questions and more.

Art from the Fully Automated website used in episode cover is by Sean Bodley as well as a few other artists and this will get updated to credit them when we track them down :)

Links:

You can find Fully Automated at https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/ The Sogorea Te Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/ Solarpunk 2050: http://solarpunk2050.de/ Solarpunk Pioneers Fund: http://solarpunk-pioneers.org/ Coyote & Crow: https://coyoteandcrow.net/ Lunar Echos: https://affinity-games.itch.io/ Neon Black: https://notwriting.itch.io/ Legacy: Life Among the Ruins: https://ufopress.co.uk/legacy-life-among-the-ruins/ Fighting for the Future: https://www.android-press.com/product-page/fighting-for-the-future-ebook “Murder in the Tool Library” by AE Marling: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/murder-in-the-tool-library-a-e-marling/1144354144 “Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto” by Aaron Bastani: https://www.versobooks.com/products/476-fully-automated-luxury-communism “Four Futures: Life After Capitalism” by Peter Fraise: https://www.versobooks.com/products/59-four-futures

[screwcharms]

READ YOUR THEORY! NOW!

[all-socialism-is-democratic]

Me: I want to contribute to society, but I want to determine how I do it and how much I do it.

You: If everyone gets to decide that, no one will collect the garbage.

Me: So you want to force people to collect garbage. Interesting.

The other day, me and a few others were talking to a teenage cousin of ours who had just entered the work force full-time. Incidentally, he had also just come back from his week of vacation. He was incredibly upset and near tears, saying that it is terrible how he has to spend every day working and his only "life" gets to happen in his designated 1-2 weeks off per year, and, in his words, "then you die."

A lot of the people listening in started laughing at him and saying that he needs to "grow up and get used to it." How brainwashed do you have to be to say these things, especially to a kid in distress? And especially when the kid is right? He is absolutely, 100% right.

We have so much evidence that this set up is not healthy physically or psychologically. We could absolutely find better ways to ensure things get done without making people feel like overused machines. Everything we do as humans should be about making our lives happier and easier so that we can enjoy this precious little time we have. Everything we do now is instead about making the select few happier while everyone else suffers.

Don't "grow up and get used to it." Keep that youthful feeling of injustice when you realize how unfair it all is. This is not natural. People made society this way and we can unmake it.

[enyementv]

Yemen participates in the ICAO FALC 2025 conference in Qatar, focusing on aviation facilitation and international cooperation.

The Republic of Yemen actively participated in the ICAO FALC 2025 Conference today. This event, organized by the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority in collaboration with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), carries the theme “Facilitating the Future of Air Transport: Cooperation, Efficiency, and Inclusivity.” The Yemeni delegation is led by Minister of Transport Dr. Abdul Salam…

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Le Facile à lire et à comprendre (FALC) est une méthode et non un langage, qui s’applique aux informations écrites électroniques audio ou audiovisuelles

Elle impose un certain nombre de règles qui doivent être vérifiées pour qu’un document soit considéré comme facile à lire et à comprendre. La première de ces règles est que les personnes en situation de handicap intellectuel participent à la rédaction, la transcription ou/et à la relecture du document. Ainsi la lisibilité de l’information est garantie, et est une démarche inclusive. Le bon sens qui porte aussi bien sur le fond que sur la forme est d'utiliser un vocabulaire simple, sans jargon, une syntaxe compréhensible, des phrases courtes, des polices de caractère lisibles, une mise en page aérée, des illustrations. Pour aller à l'essentiel

[mandareeboo]

Random Shit in Gravity Falls I think about constantly even though most of it was one-off gags

Dipper and Mabel probably have a criminal record (this could be viable for all sorts of shit they've done but I'm quoting specifically the counterfeiting that got them thrown in the county jail. I feel like that counts idk.)

The sheer existence of Sherman Pines. We know next to nothing about this man but the Pines family we know hinges entirely on him having fucked somebody who went on to fuck somebody else. We've only seen him as a baby.

The fact that the party in Double Dipper was just. Casually implied to have been Stan and Ford's birthday.

Dipper and Mabel share so much they unintentionally shared their first kiss with the same fucking guy. He's now presumably married to a manatee.

Stan petitioned the government to have a day removed from calendars so Soos would stop being sad. He's no longer allowed on airplanes because of this.

Ford got a tattoo before Stan did.

Stan probably lost all his teeth because of chewing his way through the trunk of a car.

Alex Hirsch didn't intend to make Pacficia's episode an abuse allegory but he did it so damn well I physically cannot unsee it as such

Stan is simply a better conman than Bill Cipher.

[chocokeyboard]

★ Happy Birthday, Kirby! !

[falce-knight]

☀ Happy Falce Friday No. 48!

Sleep...

[probablyasocialecologist]

Since the development of productive forces under capitalism only increases the alien power of capital by depriving workers of their subjective skills, knowledge and insights, it does not automatically open up the possibility of a clear bright future. Notwithstanding, contemporary utopian socialists focus solely on the Grundrisse, so they tend to marginalize Marx’s critique of productive forces. They too narrowly understand the concept of ‘productive forces’ as if they were equivalent to ‘productivity’ defined as the ratio of input and output. The concept of ‘productive forces of capital’ indicates that Marx’s concept of productive forces is actually broader. It also has to do with what humans can produce and how they do so. In other words, it includes human productive capacities such as skill, knowledge and strength as well as natural conditions. These capacities especially have to do with workers’ autonomy, freedom and independence, which are essential for overcoming alienation of labour. In this sense, the concept of productive forces is both quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative increase in productivity through full automation, for example, can be accompanied by the qualitative degradation of working conditions as well as of the natural environment, hindering the full development of the individual. For Marx, that does not necessarily count as the real development of ‘productive forces’.

Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

[hermitcrabstar]

I've been hyped trying to do the trio justice 🙏

@chocokeyboard I hope Falce came out alright! I still think we should come up with headcanons of these three together, it sounds like fun! "The Knights of Sun, Moon, and Star" >:3 ☀️🌘🌟

[onesnoopyaday]

snoopy blue-eyed person stare

Snoopy #87

27/12/2024

[rubybloodhound]

Anyway doodles I did irl. the pen I was using didn't have an eraser so their bad on purpose

Falce Knight - @chocokeyboard

Sky Knight - @hermitcrabstar

Eclipse Knight - @m0n0morph

wolfbell(?) - @zombiecicada

[gardenofhope]

@falceknight what if our kirby ocs were both engineers that had lost their wing[s], built their own prosthetics as a result of that, and were twins with a knight? falce was very fun to draw :]

just a silly bonus o7

[mitchmotch]

day 3 of 30 minute sketch mondays with @revalito! this time with jack zimmermann ^^ (he's 100% looking at bitty)