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jan Amina. 30s. im a renaissance dilletante who travels around the world solving mysteries and has a machine to do my laundry. historian, theologian, conlang speaker. in europe, but not of it. homegrown tumblrina since 2009. http://hollysummit.medium.com https://ko-fi.com/sadstoned/
Every post I make on here ends on, and there have been several which have focused on, discussion of my dire economic circumstances. It’s been over half a decade now since I’ve had citizenship or work rights in my country of residence. The legal restrictions I’ve lived under have sometimes been so restrictive that it’s been technically illegal for me to have this blog. But this is a problem that could be easily solved if I were pulling in, like $1k a month reliably. This would allow me to resolve all of my immigration problems entirely. Practically overnight. The gates of immigration would open themselves before me and they would welcome me to stay forever.
They would. I have done a lot of research on this.
Inside me there are two wolves. The first wants to contribute something of value to society. The second wants to improve my life circumstances by getting me to that $12k a year mark, which is still lower than the seriously outdated poverty line in America. Horrifically, these wolves are at irreconcilable conflict. My desire to — not even escape, but merely lessen, my poverty, is currently at total odds with every artistic goal I have.
I do not think the second wolf is a monster. But I also don’t think that she’s as good a writer.
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My hands are constrained here to a very similar extent to those of a fortune teller. See, a “good fortune teller”, that is, by capitalist standards, one who is good at extracting money from her profession, is going to tell you that you’re the best person in the world, good things are on the way, and you have every reason in the world to be in a good mood as you decide how much tip to leave. Cards be damned. I know it looks scary, Mr. Bush, but The Tower is actually a card of opportunity. It’s even better when it comes up twice!
That is what I would need to be to you in order to reach my tragic second wolf’s goal. The people who read me now would probably hate me, but I’d find another audience of vapid validation-seekers to scam.
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The conditions of this industry are extremely intolerable. When I was a kid the guys who wrote columns for the local newspapers were people I respected a lot. I wanted to be like ’em. And I am, but the industry sucks now, and I’m miserable. It used to be like, you’d write, and your publicist would call you and be like, look, we need to make a change to the book for market reasons, and you’d say something like “over my dead body”, and they’d just have to cope. Now I have to hand-craft everything I say in knowledge that the lecture will always end in me doing a gay little dance and holding out my butler cap for your spare change.
But if you want to know what The Tower actually means, if you want me to be able to comment on that with my years of training in this, I’m gonna need to fuckin’ get paid somehow.

money needed for major dental surgery

hi everyone. in 2014, i had a surgery to remove 17 teeth from the back of my mouth. since then, i haven't been able to do things like eat potato chips, and also my jawbone is now shrinking.

the dentist said i should get implants put in within 5 years. i was broke, so i gave myself 10.

it's been 9. i'm an asylum seeker on the grounds of transphobic legislation in my passport country in a shitty eastern european country and i probably won't get an answer on it until as early as next year or as late as 2026. until then, i am not legally allowed to work

can haz teeth?

11/4000$

money needed for major dental surgery

hi everyone. in 2014, i had a surgery to remove 17 teeth from the back of my mouth. since then, i haven't been able to do things like eat potato chips, and also my jawbone is now shrinking.

the dentist said i should get implants put in within 5 years. i was broke, so i gave myself 10.

it's been 9. i'm an asylum seeker on the grounds of transphobic legislation in my passport country in a shitty eastern european country and i probably won't get an answer on it until as early as next year or as late as 2026. until then, i am not legally allowed to work

can haz teeth?

11/4000$

actually the best rhode island thing is new york system wieners which have nothing to do with new york but were meant to emulate coney island hot dogs while being completely different

i 100% believe confirm and understand that the best thing about rhode island is wieners

i’m so family guy coded i literally live in rhode island

i thought they made rhode island up for the show

you literally live in a country that’s like 50% made up and not real. nothing and no one lives there but i’m supposed to believe big canada is real. okkkkkkkk

dude nothing in my country is real but rhode island is still made up

how else would hp lovecraft or coffee milk or the most recent vampire hysteria in american history exist

good news about literally all of that stuff

money needed for major dental surgery

hi everyone. in 2014, i had a surgery to remove 17 teeth from the back of my mouth. since then, i haven't been able to do things like eat potato chips, and also my jawbone is now shrinking.

the dentist said i should get implants put in within 5 years. i was broke, so i gave myself 10.

it's been 9. i'm an asylum seeker on the grounds of transphobic legislation in my passport country in a shitty eastern european country and i probably won't get an answer on it until as early as next year or as late as 2026. until then, i am not legally allowed to work

can haz teeth?

11/4000$

money needed for major dental surgery

hi everyone. in 2014, i had a surgery to remove 17 teeth from the back of my mouth. since then, i haven't been able to do things like eat potato chips, and also my jawbone is now shrinking.

the dentist said i should get implants put in within 5 years. i was broke, so i gave myself 10.

it's been 9. i'm an asylum seeker on the grounds of transphobic legislation in my passport country in a shitty eastern european country and i probably won't get an answer on it until as early as next year or as late as 2026. until then, i am not legally allowed to work

can haz teeth?

11/4000$

sometimes i think about the golden record and i want to cry

there is a disk. it is 12 inches in diameter, it is made of copper, plated with gold. there is an inscription— "To the makers of music – all worlds, all times" on its surface. it lies on the space probe, Voyager 1, launched in 1977, to explore interstellar space beyond our solar system.

it contains human existence.

116 images— the sun, the location of our solar system, mathematical and physical unit definitions, and our planets, including a blue and swirling white sphere simply labelled "Home." it contains images of human dna, of our atoms, their structure, the way they divide, our anatomy, our conception, our birth.

it does not contain an image of war. nor of disease, nor poverty, nor crime, religion, or ideology.

it does contain a father looking lovingly at his daughter. it does contain the picture of a tree toad in a gentle hand, of a woman eating a grape at a supermarket.

the remainder of the disk is audio. a 90-minute selection of music from all over the world, sounds, and greetings. there are greetings in 55 different languages, one akkadian, spoken in sumer about six thousand years ago, and one wu, a modern chinese dialect. the greetings call out to a friend. it wishes them well. it asks them if they have eaten yet.

but it contains other sounds too. it holds the sound of rain, of thunder, of a volcano and an earthquake. it holds the sound of mud pots and trains. it holds the sound of a mother kissing her child.

with little to erode it in space, the golden record would probably outlast all human creation. it will be 40,000 years before it approaches another planetary system. if it does, it cannot find intelligent life. intelligent life will have to find it, retrieve it from where it floats silent and small through space. we still don't know if they would understand it.

in 7.5 billion years, the evolution of the sun would burn the earth up, and we would not exist any longer, but the voyager would fly on, bearing a memory.

bearing a disk with a little inscription etched by hand on its surface.

Capitalism shows its own ass with stuff like this constantly. Might as well have included a U2 album while you were at it.

Like, if this were to be discovered in 40,000 years by some alien civilisation, why would you want to go out of your way to avoid it containing any information of scientific or philosophical merit? Why would you put so much human labour into a nothing project like this?

I would be so pissed to discover this wasted opportunity left by the most trite species of all time, with no idea what the fuck it was looking at and definitely hiding something.

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Tell me where in your bio you've included "any information of scientific or philosophical merit." Did you 'go out of your way' to avoid adding them?? No! You've included two pieces of information: who you are and where. That's what's on the golden record. Is your bio a product of capitalism showing it's own ass? Is it 'trite' to use the most information-dense storage medium possible at the time period (with instructions on how to use it!!) To transmit who we are and where?? What the fuck. Delete your reblog and go think about why you think art has no place in your imagined leftist utopia.

me when the so-called "tolerant left" wants to launch my tumblr bio into space

this person accidentally raises an excellent point though which is that the social media bio as a genre is absolutely an indictment on capitalism and in particular of the individualist ideological currents, in vogue since the reagan years (but largely through the efforts of the clintons), which have made it so the most effective communications technology ever created is only usable through networking the bios of individuals to each other. the absolutely insane forms of "self-expression" this has given rise to are basically known to everyone and don't really need to be elaborated on here. that means yes my bio and your bio and everyone's bio is trite and banal compared to what we could achieve if we lived in a cultural gestalt of like actual educational, philosophical, artistic, and scientific merit. we're all idiots shouting at each other over the personal information we put in the only accessible space we have and it fucking sucks eggs

i would much rather be hanging out on more communal internet spaces like even the forums of yore. or even like. outside, if i really dare to dream?

also: yes the social media bio as a medium is absolutely an indictment on capitalism

The Tolerant Left Wants To Launch Your Tumblr Bio Into Space

Im Launching My Tumblr Bio Into Space Exactly As-Is And There's Nothing You Can Do To Stop Me

sometimes i think about the golden record and i want to cry

there is a disk. it is 12 inches in diameter, it is made of copper, plated with gold. there is an inscription— "To the makers of music – all worlds, all times" on its surface. it lies on the space probe, Voyager 1, launched in 1977, to explore interstellar space beyond our solar system.

it contains human existence.

116 images— the sun, the location of our solar system, mathematical and physical unit definitions, and our planets, including a blue and swirling white sphere simply labelled "Home." it contains images of human dna, of our atoms, their structure, the way they divide, our anatomy, our conception, our birth.

it does not contain an image of war. nor of disease, nor poverty, nor crime, religion, or ideology.

it does contain a father looking lovingly at his daughter. it does contain the picture of a tree toad in a gentle hand, of a woman eating a grape at a supermarket.

the remainder of the disk is audio. a 90-minute selection of music from all over the world, sounds, and greetings. there are greetings in 55 different languages, one akkadian, spoken in sumer about six thousand years ago, and one wu, a modern chinese dialect. the greetings call out to a friend. it wishes them well. it asks them if they have eaten yet.

but it contains other sounds too. it holds the sound of rain, of thunder, of a volcano and an earthquake. it holds the sound of mud pots and trains. it holds the sound of a mother kissing her child.

with little to erode it in space, the golden record would probably outlast all human creation. it will be 40,000 years before it approaches another planetary system. if it does, it cannot find intelligent life. intelligent life will have to find it, retrieve it from where it floats silent and small through space. we still don't know if they would understand it.

in 7.5 billion years, the evolution of the sun would burn the earth up, and we would not exist any longer, but the voyager would fly on, bearing a memory.

bearing a disk with a little inscription etched by hand on its surface.

Capitalism shows its own ass with stuff like this constantly. Might as well have included a U2 album while you were at it.

Like, if this were to be discovered in 40,000 years by some alien civilisation, why would you want to go out of your way to avoid it containing any information of scientific or philosophical merit? Why would you put so much human labour into a nothing project like this?

I would be so pissed to discover this wasted opportunity left by the most trite species of all time, with no idea what the fuck it was looking at and definitely hiding something.

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Tell me where in your bio you've included "any information of scientific or philosophical merit." Did you 'go out of your way' to avoid adding them?? No! You've included two pieces of information: who you are and where. That's what's on the golden record. Is your bio a product of capitalism showing it's own ass? Is it 'trite' to use the most information-dense storage medium possible at the time period (with instructions on how to use it!!) To transmit who we are and where?? What the fuck. Delete your reblog and go think about why you think art has no place in your imagined leftist utopia.

me when the so-called "tolerant left" wants to launch my tumblr bio into space

money needed for major dental surgery

hi everyone. in 2014, i had a surgery to remove 17 teeth from the back of my mouth. since then, i haven't been able to do things like eat potato chips, and also my jawbone is now shrinking.

the dentist said i should get implants put in within 5 years. i was broke, so i gave myself 10.

it's been 9. i'm an asylum seeker on the grounds of transphobic legislation in my passport country in a shitty eastern european country and i probably won't get an answer on it until as early as next year or as late as 2026. until then, i am not legally allowed to work

can haz teeth?

11/4000$

money needed for major dental surgery

hi everyone. in 2014, i had a surgery to remove 17 teeth from the back of my mouth. since then, i haven't been able to do things like eat potato chips, and also my jawbone is now shrinking.

the dentist said i should get implants put in within 5 years. i was broke, so i gave myself 10.

it's been 9. i'm an asylum seeker on the grounds of transphobic legislation in my passport country in a shitty eastern european country and i probably won't get an answer on it until as early as next year or as late as 2026. until then, i am not legally allowed to work

can haz teeth?

11/4000$