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[cubbihue]

Peri's no good terrible bad day just seems to get worse and worse!

Timmy's hoping his baby brother didn't hear the whole conversation. But with that expression on his face, Timmy suspects it may be a bit too late for him. Timmy's companion scurried away as soon as he noticed Poof. A Pixie can sense drama and conflict from miles away.

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[froget-me-nots]

deskpet mikey :)

[asavt]

[ Reflection ] About yourself.

Was listening to Shunkan Sentimental by SCANDAL at like 10 p.m. and stayed up until 4 a.m. to work on this. I didn't finish it right away tho, I still had to sleep.

Two extras below read more!

[c-rowlesdraws]

Adobe Illustrator. Industry standard, huge brand recognition, whatever; the more I use it the more incredibly annoying weird bullshit I discover about it. One day raster/vector technology is going to undergo some sort of revolutionary change and new programs are going to smash Adobe Illustrator into oatmeal and I will not be upset about it at all

[zorbs64]

[Replika Known Issues, Vicsek Project]

- CLASSIFIED INFORMATION  - Commander Eyes Only –

Previous experience with this Replika model has given us insight into irregularities in their behaviour that stem from the original neural pattern used for this unit. Due to the sensitive nature of this information, this document should be destroyed after reading.

MUNR

Muninn units have been chosen for this project due to their skills with patients and their ability to probe in a private setting, granted to them via a prototype bioresonance module. Their main purpose in a facility is to help Gestalt workers in need, maintain Replikas stable and to gather information vital to the facility itself. The original neural pattern used for these units was a therapist and is therefore complex and intricate especially when engaged in sessions with patients.

Persona degradation is common for Muninns and generally it is advised that no more than one is stationed in a facility in case their bioresonance influences the other units. To minimize degradation risks Muninns are never to be given any bracelets or other wearable accessories and they must be given a private room where their work can be done. It is imperative that the sessions are never interrupted or else the unit will risk using mental processes that are not inherent to the task at hand.

To maintain stabilization it is mandatory for Muninns to wear ‘work clothes’ to both interact with Gestalts (and eventual Replikas) and to create a natural shift in attitude when working with patients. Additionally it is highly encouraged to pair these units with another bioresonant unit as a form of control, to help in stabilization and to extract information in case of malfunction.

[d8tl55c]

as much as i crave (ava 11+) answers

there's a part of me that i think will miss this anxious not-knowing state. the itch that's fun to scratch in different ways. an empty stretch of canvas i tried to fill in different ways, but will ultimately be painted over by the truth

we're never gonna not know what happens ever again

[rouge-the-bat]

GUESS WHO FINALLY GOT DIAGNOSED WITH ADHD 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[why-the-heck-not]

19.11.23, sunday

I listened to Succession soundtrack a lot today and had about the most productive day I’ve had in so so long

things done today:

7h of coding

went to my sister’s kid’s birthday party (mario theme 🍄)

[cent-scratchnsniff]

Day 50

[fisheito]

A while back you made a post talking about yakumo and his sensitivity to temperature and I haven't stopped thinking about it. imagine when winter comes around and yakumo becomes progressively sluggish, usually staying in the kitchen and not leaving for hours, always making something near the stove to feel a little warmth from the flames or from a little taste of the things he's making (soup probably), or him picking up the habit of bundling himself up and staying in the library to read and nap. maybe when it starts getting even colder he barely leaves his room because its too uncomfortably cold for him, and if he does he's probably looking for eiden to help him warm up, but if eidens not around he gets antsy and looks for somebody else in the mansion, but he's too shy to ask and looks at whoever with his wet eyes so they know he's cold and wants a cuddle

*inhales deeply* ah yes. you understand. you envision it all so clearly. rightly so. gEt in the wAy, everybody, snake burrito walking the halls very very slowly!!!!!!! (i was about to say get OUT of the way but that would probably make yakumo colder so why not do him a favour and collide with him on your way to another room)

[revenantghost]

Getting super ill to the point that I can't write fic just after I regained the ability to do prose again wasn't on my 2025 bingo card, and yet

[rozecrest]

i have been writing old woman yuri like my ass is lit on fire and gelphie is restwater lake since finishing out of oz

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

I've never thought about it before but it's truly wild the range of professions in my family

[betterbemeta]

'Like they know how intolerable it is right now, that's why they promise their followers slaves to relieve the burden.' i promise this is a genuine question but what does that have to do with hello fresh

It has to do with the 'convenience economy' being built on the back of exploited labor, and meal subscription services are part of that economy.

It's sort of like... "what if instead of improving conditions people find intolerable, we make money or gain political power off of those conditions instead?"

On the scale of the home: slashing wages and understaffing positions and the scarcity of jobs that pay a living wage means that people have fewer resources and less time to support themselves. The right wing in my country drives this: destroying unions, opposing labor rights, and by other means. The right wing in my country also is very strongly affiliated with the idea of the 'traditional family' where a male parent is a breadwinner and a female parent is a homemaker. They sell this white middle class fantasy for a lot of reasons but one of them is to maintain a special division of labor between men and women... where women function mainly to automate the household that belongs to the man, and more privileged women can defer this to less privileged women. While this is not directly 'related' to Hello Fresh or similar services in specific, these services exist to profiteer off of the worsening of conditions that make right-wing hierarchical promises more 'appealing' to some. If independent life is too 'hard' and there are no safety nets remaining, then the options are to get a wife or be someone else's wife and that's what our right wing wants for its core base. While everyone else becomes a second tier servant automating the lives of the most wealthy households in some way in addition to having to live their own lives.

On the scale of supply and distribution: food subscription services do not actually have as big of supply chains as major grocery stores, and supply chains are actually where most of the money in food production goes: for example, in 2020 the median price paid to broiler chicken growers was around 6.79 cents per live-weight pound. But nobody pays that in the store for chicken because the labor, materials, and fuel to slaughter it, package it, inspect it, transport it, is expensive even before we get into profit at every step. So when services like hello fresh say they can charge less than grocery stores but also do not own any of the steps in between you and the food, and aren't eliminating that many steps other than the grocery store itself... if you aren't eating the cost of that once the one-time discounted rate expires, the economy of low-wage workers, or even unpaid workers, likely is at a point in the process. Eventually the only way to get cheaper labor is to use prisoners (read: slaves) which already happens everywhere in the USA's food industry. Our right wing is really REALLY opposed to prison reform because of this economic exploitation and worsens conditions such that people can only rely on cheaper and cheaper products... and meal subscription services exploit this same desperation. It's in the interest of both for desperation to get worse.

and I'm not gonna get into how 'logistics workers' or 'last leg delivery' has its own human rights discussions involved.

TL;DR-- there won't be a simple causal answer like "hello fresh uses slaves" because I don't know that. But the intolerable conditions that services like hello Fresh Style themselves as a 'relief to,' ARE linked to slavery in the domestic and industrial spheres. They are both 'relief options' for what would otherwise be completely unsustainable. This isn't new; fast food, fast fashion, etc. are also considered conveniences like this that ultimately promote the conditions where slavery thrives... but the situation is escalating as economic inequality gets worse over time and the demands of infinite growth get steeper every year.

Our right wing makes things so awful that it feels impossible to get through life without paying a massive convenience fee (being wealthy) or without a servant to do things for you (being wealthy, x2).

If something says its cheaper than the grocery store it has to be lying because you can't be cheaper than owning the factory and having slaves operate the factory. Either it isn't less expensive, or it's taking advantage of all of that exploitation too.

and if you can sell one way to be 'faster than the grocery store' so widely, way way beyond only exploiting disabled people or isolated people without personal transportation... somebody else can probably sell another way to be faster than the grocery store. which is to have a tradwife to take care of all of that for you instead of hello fresh.

[crossdressingdeath]

Morrigan: I carry only [Mythal's] memories. Not her strength, nor her capacity for strategy.

Well what good are you then, you glorified taxi service. Go get Quiz instead of talking to me. Seriously, unless you go for the redemption ending (where her involvement massively weakens the themes of the game by making it so that Solas totally refuses to listen to Rook or Quiz encouraging him to do the right thing until he gets blandly forgiven by Mythal and only Mythal and "released from her service" like that makes it all okay instead of him having to accept how badly he fucked up and move forward knowing he can never be forgiven by the people he hurt and can only try to do the right thing in the future, not that I'm bitter about fucking Morrigan being forced into the plot at the expense of other characters again or anything) her only involvement in the endgame (everything from Tearstone on, to be clear) is catching a fucking rock. Maybe blasting a couple guys. Which... I mean my Rook is also a mage. He could also deal with a rock, he's good at blasting things. Also Rook has dodged stuff moving equally quickly before. And everyone can kill people. She's there just so that we don't forget Epler thinks she's totally awesome, not because she actually serves a meaningful purpose. Why do I have to talk to her again before I can go up against the gods anyway, she's not going to provide any assistance that couldn't be given just as well by literally anyone else. Hey Epler I know you said she's super important and all but since I don't intend to do the redemption path in the future (because it sucks as previously stated, at most I'll go back to get screenshots but honestly probably not) all I'm seeing is a fantasy Uber.

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all, I am blanking on a word so hard I am even blanking on the words to describe that word What's the term for like...groups of colors? color palettes but more specific? I'm looking for the generic term, but the specific words that are versions of that generic I can think of are things like earth tones, jewel tones, pastels, and maybe brights/neons I'm trying to figure out other categories like those but I cannot figure out what the word is to search