I'm simply becoming too powerful (funneling my frustrations into a more useful and enriching direction than bitching about things on bluesky like normal)

I say this as if I wrote it. In reading Marx we become him etc etc

Let it be known that I have COMPLETED Capital chapter 1

There are a lot of problems ascribed to society and human nature that are actually just the behaviors and outcomes incentivized by capitalism

A painting of a female Dalmatian dog wearing glasses on a bed and playing guitar; there's a notepad and pen next to her, and the room is decorated in a very girly way.

Dalmatian composing music while dreaming of becoming a rockstar.

Like a clock or a bowl or something stupid like that. And every time you need use it as a reference you gotta pay some multinational consortium like $30,000 for the privilege

Started reading Capital and I think there should be an ISO standard labor-value embodiment in the form of a meticulously-defined manufactured object made out of palladium and stored under glass somewhere in Switzerland

painting of capybaras on the riverbank watching a ufo fall into the water

new friendship

painting of capybaras, rabbits and a cat listening to an owl on a tree

listening to the owl's advice

It turns out that reading about things you're interested in from viewpoints you're broadly sympathetic to and can critically engage with is better for you than shuffling through a million reminders that your rights are disintegrating and nobody wants to act for fear of harming the system responsible

I checked this website today and was struck by how looking at people's dogshit takes and uncritical sloppy coverage of the eroding political situation made me want to die, something that notably was not the case while I was reading a cut-and-dry Marxist analysis of 1980s political upheaval in China

I read some leftist literature for the first time in ages yesterday, and I was struck by how refreshing it was reading political works not based in a fanatical devotion to liberal capitalism as the proverbial straight and narrow or the idea of making orange juice by squeezing apples hard enough

Liberal politics is a tar pit

painting of the cerrado with maned wolves, capybaras and small animals such as armadillos

Cerrado (brazilian savanna)

True being happy in England has never been tried

eraserheadadult on tumblr: "tbh the current default state of operating systems & internet browsers looks fucking indistinguishable from when i gave the family desktop one billion viruses downloading Free Neopoints Hack in 2005 " eraserheadadult: "not to be a millennial but back in my day getting blasted in the eyeballs by ads on your desktop the instant you turn on your computer used to mean something was extremely wrong"

Seeing a trans American whose entire thing is posting AI-generated comic strips about Trump's disrespect for the "brave" troops has me thinking a lot about the whole "woke troops" garbage and how easy it is to appease minorities by letting them participate in -and benefit from- American imperialism.

painting of a capybara falling into a river full of fish

splash

A black-and-white cat lying on a bed, looking relaxed

Uni is melting

Vintage Story answers the ancient question of "what if Minecraft had an interesting crafting system?", and I swear it's gonna be the end of me. I've been playing for a dozen hours and still haven't even started experimenting with metallurgy. Can easily see myself spending >1000 hours playing it

AIbros are the hot new problem now, but we really should take a moment to appreciate the fact that so much of modern communication happens on broken websites run by people with a preschool level understanding of social dynamics where their ideological framework is "why can't we all just get along"

Kinda thing where you think that black people and white supremacists share equal responsibility for racial conflict and that you can fix it by shadowbanning anyone who uses strong language, and then implement your vision as a website that sometimes loads posts correctly

There's really no overlap of "person who is toxically optimistic about using technology to solve social problems" and "person who doesn't understand technology or social problems and hates you personally for pointing that out" quite like the people who develop and run social media platforms

That's Not What Unc Means You’d never know the meaning of unc or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media.

wrote about unc, and the way that the internet works as an accelerator of cultural appropriation aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...

painting of giant a chicken with dragon wings blasting fire on a castle

dragon chicken

Forbidden!

Vibecoding was a mistake

Bsky what the fuck are you doing

salad (the cat) peeking over a piece of furniture, in hiding (allegedly)

i am hiden ,

dont tell anyoene