I didn't realize just how paranoid your average USAmerican is until I started canvassing neighborhoods. There are so many ring doorbells, so many cameras, so many "no trespassing" signs. I can't help but wonder how many of the people who willingly install spy cameras on their front porches go on about how scary the world of 1984 is, or about how China is a terrible surveillance state. Suburbanites happily created the surveillance state they're so afraid of.
with soap2day gone, it's important to remember that talking about piracy online is inherently dangerous for the hosting site. if you have a site you like, DO NOT POST ABOUT IT. especially not on tiktok / twitter / instagram. do not turn it into a meme. if someone wants to know where to watch something, dm it to them and explain why you shouldn't share info willy nilly. honestly if you have the resources, get into torrenting.
loose lips sink ships. some things aren't widely talked about for a reaon.
if you want me to consume a new media you MUST catch me at the exact moment when the stars are aligned and the air pressure is equal to the current degree of the sun’s peak against the horizon and all the cosmic energies are perfectly unified (aka my old interest is fading out) or i will nod and say “im adding that to my list!” Knowing theres no chance i will check it out
“unless its a book!” “unless you tell me it has gay people in it!” “this but only for live action shows” “theres a good chance i’ll get to it eventually” no wrong this post is not for you this post is ONLY for bitches who could have a treasured friend recommend them something that sounds grown in a lab to be your personal catnip and, with no choice in the matter, immediately know it will never be the right time to watch/read/listen to it
Anonymous asked:
How do you live as a communist without being constantly angry at the fact that like 80%+ of the population in most countries is made up of all kinds of centrists, liberals, fascists, et al
i just don't find it all that useful or productive to be angry at individuals or indeed to think about individuals as political actors at all. the whole point of class analysis is to realize that all these people are fundamentally your allies, that you share a common interest with them. you can't hope to organize and agitate the proletariat if you're mad at them for not already being organized and agitated--if you're part of a communist movement, that's your job!
the way many queer people (especially us white ones) talk about "finding" community is not that far off from how cishets discuss their search for a (somehow already perfect) "soul mate".
both communities and romantic partnerships are dynamic, unique relationships that you cultivate and adapt yourself to. they are not already-perfect end states that somehow already exist without you, which you then find and claim for yourself. the bonds that a true friendship requires, the networks of support, the fond memories, the sense of trust, the shared history -- none of those things can just pop up from thin air. they take years to build. and it is the impact of all that effort that makes them worth building.
A community is a series of relationships, & like any relationship, you build it. you create it, and recreate it, with every effort you place into it. when the effort is not made, it does not exist.
i literally cannot stop thinking about this post so
online is real
everything online is real. there have been decades of cultural mythologizing about the internet that place it in contrast to reality--the internet is framed as immaterial, as ephemeral. the internet is 'just data', it's weightless and abstract. things taking place on the internet are 'just online', they're not 'really' happening. this isn't true.
of course, there's the elementary fact that many things that are immaterial with no physical form are still real. monetary value is real, even if you cannot find me an atom of it. the german border is real even where it is not physically demarcated. they are real and physical in that they shape real and physical human interactions. but the internet is in fact far more real than that: every single piece of data on the internet exists physically on a disk somewhere as a pattern of magnetic charges. 'the cloud' sounds like it's a weightless and fluffy thing, but 'the cloud' is this:
this is the cloud--a google data center, to be exact. amazon web services is not an immaterial or abstract thing; it is over 26 million square feet of data centers, of physical computers inside physical buildings where data is physically recorded. access to the internet is provided by cables, including the thousands of miles of undersea infrastructure which make the global internet possible. 4G, 5G, wifi, these are all made possible by physical apparatuses sending out radio waves.
all computer infrastructure everywhere is made possible by cobalt and lithium and gallium and so on--mined out of the ground, by an extractive mining industry which exploits the people and resources of the global south. estimates for how much electricity 'the internet' uses vary wildly, but it's at minimum measured in gigawatts--and so coal and nuclear power plants and wind farms and hydroelectric dams and the coal and uranium and bauxite mining which builds them are inseparable from 'the internet'. google programmers do not live in the astral plane, they work from buildings (and outsource work to india) which need to be cleaned and maintained and worked in and driven back and forth from.
youtube videos are 'online' but of course if you film something happening and upload it that thing still really happened. if a physical action, whether that be a terrorist attack or a protest or a sexual hookup or an act of ethic violence, is mediated and planned online, that thing really happens in the real world. the idea of 'just online', this platonic real divorced from a cleanly delineated 'outside' or 'real world' is just wrong. it is wrong in more or less every single way. every program or function your computer has or video or picture or word you see on the computer is the result of people doing actual physical things. you are seeing it by grace of miles of cable and tons and tons of machinery and power plants and the guy who sweeps the floors at the indian IT firm facebook outsources. online is real.
Just a quick not friendly reminder: someone who has apologized for past mistakes, made amends for past actions, and clearly no longer holds past beliefs, is a far better person than one who digs up old dirt and uses a person's past that no longer exists against them.
I cannot BELIEVE you guys actually signing up to netflix just because account sharing was banned. You need to learn about cool websites with many beautiful women who would love you message you and send you downloadable files.
how to signal to goths in public that i am an ally friend and lover despite dressing like a camp counselor
i think the aesthetic echo chamber created by tumblr is more dangerous than the political one bcs im self aware enough to kno my politics r radical but then me and the girlies are on here reblogging body horror and very weird erotic poetry and i get offline and interact w a real person and jokingly say something like fungus is tangibly divine in the way it facilitates the eternal dance of creation and destruction which is really creation as or by destruction and theyre like what the hell are you talking about freak. the aesthetic barrier between me and a girl in a vineyard vines tee is literally insurmountable. i find the trout to be a very nietzschean fish
person w adhd experiencing symptoms of adhd: why the fuck can’t I do this thing . I wish there was some explanation for this