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Luddites have never been anti tech.

But they've always been anti corporate owners using tech to disadvantage workers

This distinction matters, I think

Because who benefits from pushing anti luddite propaganda?

A great piece, imo

theconversation.com/im-a-luddite...

Luddites weren't anti-tech.

They were against technology being used by the capitalist class to capture wealth at the expense of the worker.

I am a Luddite, and a tech enthusiast. They're not in opposition. I want technology that makes MY life better, not that sells my life piecemeal to corps.

Periodic reminder:Substack profits off Nazi pages bc they don't want to be "in the censorship business,"but they also won't host adult content,so they ARE in the "censorship business." They just think Nazis are better than pornographers.

This is why I will never give Substack a single shiny nickel.

If your thing cant exist without theft of others work, without plagiarism, maybe just maybe it shouldnt exist. Maybe theres a reason even Sam Altman has admitted this. Even in a world without copyright it would still be completely unethical on this level.

Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace

let's do this friends!

postal 3 dude smirking while holding my sona by the scruff like a cat

my sona going to eat a cheezeburger

chibi sona in the arms of wesker, its drawn over a screenshot

drawn over image of wesker shouting at my sona whos thinking “oh hell naw.”

my latest totally real and serious artworks #myart
i literally just wanted to draw me as the kitty can has cheeseburger and it derailed from there

Meow meow omg these are so cute!!!

PCRF The Palestine Children's Relief Fund was established in 1992 by concerned humanitarians in the USA to bring injured and sick children for free medical care they could not get locally

Take your fifty Oblivion dollars and give it to the PCRF. You've got so many games in your backlog that you haven't played. Wait til you can get a second hand copy of Doom, it'll be on Cex within the week

www.pcrf.net

If you don’t know how to insult a woman without relying on misogyny to form your insult you need to up your game

Having allergies is not a valid excuse to create bespoke animals to suffer for your pleasure. That kind of human hubris and selfishness is absolutely wild to me. 🧵

I have like TWO chapters left to edit then all I have to do is write the ending (god help me) and then!! And then. I do another round of edits but AFTER that--

Reminder that defending porn is an absolute requirement for the right to free speech. you will lose all autonomy trying to scrub uncomfortable content.

Fact of the matter is "hey, I have uncertain feelings about my gender identity I want to discuss with a therapist who can help me make sense of them" and "I would like to change my sex characteristics" are two separate healthcare issues that can and should be provided independent of each other

Photo featuring a young Black woman,head and shoulders, facing forwards, looking right, with hair tied up with white flowers and wearing a yellow lace top against a vibrant green background

'Afro Art' is a series of portraits celebrating the beauty and versatility of black hair inspired by Baroque period artworks, by Kahran Bethencourt (and partner Regis) aka Creative Soul #womensart

OOOOH AUSUHDHDHJFJD I LOVE THIS THOUGHHHH

Panel 1: character reclines on a bed while holding a switch 1 console saying, “ah time to sit and play one of my childhood faves! Let’s relax and forget our worries for a little bit~” Panel 2: a ps1 Cloud sprite faces away with a large sword on his back saying, “corporations are destroying our planet, valuing profit over lives and morals. Every day is a struggle to hope and fight back.” Panel 3: the character from panel 1 stares down at the screen with a tear falling down their cheek with a blank smile saying, “oh dear”

Journal comics- escapism failed aka an excuse to draw ps1 graphics

This post remains ever-green.

ive been enjoying doodling with this brush, if anyone has any simple humanoid character requests in this style comment it below and ill draw it :3 #myart #artrequest #art (characters dont belong to me except pink pearl)

you should draw akari and killian 👁️👁️

😔😔 he LOOKS thoughtful, he isn't actually..

Grey cat sitting like a human, with legs spread and a front paw resting in between them. He's looking thoughtfully off into the distance.

did you say coco !!!

Do journalists not realize the degree to which "supportive" messaging nowadays tacitly accepts transphobic framing, transphobic dogwhistles, transphobic dogwhistles?

Or do they simply not care?

I fear I know the answer to that.

At a certain point, you just need to assume people ARE the thing they're financially supporting and shun them appropriately.

If you seriously can't give something up when supporting it actively harms marginalized people, then IMO, you're just making excuses.

From the Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom fb page: Textile artist Eboni Hogan created this stitch work that depicts a black woman seated in chair with torch in hand, calmly watching what appears to be the White House burn in flames. Ironically, it could also easily be a plantation. The image is rendered all the more subversive in needle work. Hogan has reclaimed and radicalized a hobby long associated with white bourgeois domesticity. gentility, and leisure. This is an example of craft as activism and the potential of embroidery to be a tool of protest. 🔥 instagram.com/the_wreckshop/

nearly identical photo of the slave mansion burning down as the textile from the previous photo which was apparently on FB two years ago

Saw this image of textile art on another thread that's nearly identical to an image in the news article. Life imitating art!

none of my friends peer pressure me into drugs, they do worse. they get me into new fandoms.

At the end of the day, the surgery and makeup are not the problem, and we have to be clear about that.

When we mock privileged people for gender-affirming surgery and gendered self-presentation, vulnerable people who most need those things catch our strays.

AND.