#progress principle

[celestialstreamline]

The Art of Celebrating Small Wins

“Small wins can lead to big victories. Celebrate every step forward, no matter how small, for they are the building blocks of success.” – Unknown “Small wins can lead to big victories. Celebrate every step forward, no matter how small, for they are the building blocks of success.” – Unknown Introduction What are small wins? The ones that make you feel like you’re on top of the world, even if…

[akkivee]

LIKE ITS JUST NEAT LOL

[a-couple-of-notes]

my respect and appreciation of the narrative and its characters who all serve important functions vs. my desire never to talk about this stupid man again

[philosophybits]

Society was saved by the negation of its own principles, by a revolution in its religion, and by violation of its most sacred rights. In this revolution, the idea of justice spread to an extent that had not before been dreamed of, never to return to its original limits. Heretofore justice had existed only for the masters; it then commenced to exist for the slaves.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property?

[moltengoldveins]

having. Thoughts.

[vivitalks]

It's more than just the worn sofa cushions and matching silverware sets. Any asshole can paint their clapboard baby blue and retrofit a gas cooktop into the kitchen, just like any asshole can stash a go bag beneath hardwood floors — having stuff doesn't make a home. Not that Bucky has any way to know that, having always had fewer personal belongings than fingers on both hands. But he suspects that if the Wilson family found themselves transplanted into Bucky's Brooklyn shithole, that dump would become a home quicker than blinking.

post-tfatws family feels with bucky & the wilsons

[sussex-newswire]

"Meghan became the first royal to guest-edit an issue of the fashion bible for its September 2019 edition, which she collaborated on with then-editor Edward Enninful.

"The duchess chose to spotlight 15 high-profile women who she considered to be Forces for Change and included them on the cover shot by favorite fashion photographer, Peter Lindbergh, along with a mirrored square intended to represent the reflection of the reader.

"The issue also included a personal interview conducted by Meghan with former first lady, Michelle Obama, and an interview with conservationist Jane Goodall conducted by Prince Harry.

"It became British Vogue's fastest selling edition in history and was the biggest-selling issue of the past decade.

"Now, five years later, the legacy of Meghan's issue lives on. The publication has marked...the anniversary of the Forces for Change concept by asking the initial 15 trailblazing women selected by Meghan to nominate their own candidates for the honor."

[palms-upturned]

Outside of the United States, some unions and indigenous groups have come together as allies in combating the harms of capitalism and settler colonialism, recognizing the shared mission of unions and indigenous communities as power-building institutions. Solidarity is the core value of the labor movement; a motivating sentiment of organized labor is the conviction that “[a]n injury to one is an injury to all.”

This value is not always reflected in American unions’ relationships to Native nations. Using language that echoes countless employer reactions to union campaigns, the AFL-CIO has stated that it supports “the principle of sovereignty” for Native nations while advocating for the United States government to assert control over tribal-labor relations. Twenty-first-century American unions have positioned themselves as tools for combating racist power structures. Yet even as Native income per capita is less than half of the national average, unions have exploited fears of “rich Indians” to garner support from non-Native workers. And unions, through litigation, have encouraged and benefited from courts’ racist preconceptions of “Indianness” in setting the boundaries of acceptable exercises of sovereign power.

It does not serve the mission of the labor movement to benefit from these wrongs. As union leaders and labor activists fight for a world in which power is redistributed away from the hands of the few, solidarity requires that those efforts be situated within the broader context of genocide, systematic dispossession, and the destruction of Native sovereignty. When unions approach organizing in the tribal context as a fight over NLRB jurisdiction, they seek to build worker power at the expense of Native self-determination. But power-building is not a zero-sum game. By centering tribal organizing on disputes over Board jurisdiction rather than turning to tribal labor law as a first choice, unions miss the opportunity to engage collaboratively with Native nations to build institutions that better serve both.

Harvard Law Review, “Tribal Power, Worker Power: Organizing Unions in the Context of Native Sovereignty”

[waxwork-daughter]

still not over that time about a year ago one of my fave pr0ship meta blogs posted about wanting to understand why the pr0ship fandom mastodon circuit they were in was being accused of antisemitism and propaganda spreading and not understanding why ao3 was being accused of '""zion*sm"" with extra calls to boycott, so I explained some basic outlines of the conflict and oct 7 and the war as simply as i could while trying to be unbiased but accurate, and then what i knew about the ao3 volunteer debacle. They posted about realizing it's more complicated than they thought. Then about a week later, after i guess going back to their fandom mastodon circles to 'hear their side' ie absorb more propaganda, they posted about how they got fed some bad information trying to manipulate them into trying to sympathize with 'genociders' and something about 'learning' that the reports of atrocities on oct 7 were exaggerated, and that 'zion*sts' were liars and they had a 0 tolerance policy and dissenters would be blocked.

basically they heard a jewish perspective about not supporting the right wing racism and extreme stances and hoping for a palest*nian future free from hamas but also not supporting the destruction of the only jewish state or the denial of indigenousness or that Jews are expected to be willing to sit down and die to be considered righteous... and then they decided that their cool gentile friends with misinfo graphics and outrage sounded more true, and that the jew was definitely trying to play on their emotions with made up tragedies and threats.

this was someone who was previously able to write a lot about how nuance is important and disgust is not a metric of truth and that feeling uncomfortable or unsettled isn't harming you and doesn't give you the automatic right to 'win' the interaction... but I guess that only applied within the context of dark fan fiction and relationship trauma survivors, not when learning that they personally had fallen prey to disinformation campaigns.

i haven't really trusted pr0ship spaces since, despite having the same beliefs that fiction, like video games, can't brainwash you into changing or losing your moral compass, and that it's far more likely to reflect norms than change them.... But 'nuance and education matter, you feeling "uncomfortable" doesn't' only apply conditionally for most of them, i guess.

[5bi5]

The NHL are still a bunch of spineless worms but this is good news

[themyscirah]

Reading shit comics kind of sucks but at least I get the satisfaction of proving my own point w this

[whentherewerebicycles]

a bunch of people have already registered for my mentoring workshop! unfortunately this means i have to plan and host a workshop aaaaaa

[philosophybitmaps]

[cosmik-homo]

Just saw a post that made a cool point about like, fantasy where Ancient Technologies are the most high tech of the setting, and things from the 70s have better longevity than new stuff made to be replaced, and it was very smart and coreect but it made me think of like, The Opposite Direction.

By which i mean Oh. The Sartan were the equivalent to that generation of technology where they built everything w Asbestos and went this is great. This is so resilient it will outlive us. Surely this has nothing nothing to do with our rapidly decreasing population-

[raffaellopalandri]

A populist mantra: Democracy is a luxury when you cannot pay your bills

The idea that democracy is a luxury when you cannot pay your bills reveals the depth of disconnection between the state of financial struggle and the foundation of democratic values, highlighting the ignorance about the mechanisms that allow societies to grow and improve. Photo by Matheus Viana on Pexels.com This idea implies that economic security must precede meaningful participation in…

[vamos-chilli]

Hey I'm new can u please explain me the whole situation about Benito and why is he so important!?

im assuming u mean binotto??? he’s ferraris guenther steiner with 2% the personality and stupid glasses .