#Factory Used Machine

[handweavers]

i'm a weaver my time is spent sitting at looms and spinning wheels and sewing machines and dye pots, and my ability to make any money at all comes from the fact that my work can't be truly reproduced by machine and speaks to my own and others' desire to reconnect with acts of making and living that are slower and emphasize the physicality of our lives, that we are present in our bodies in a physical world and we are sensorial creatures who relate to each other and the world through tactile means. it serves as a reminder that there is a lot we can do away from screens, that there is joy and meaning to be found in creating something with your hands, and that through this we can find channels to address and learn to live with grief and loss without running from the fact that we are living animals with meatbodies and a finite amount of time.

i think it would be very easy for me to fall into a trap where all modern technology is bad and we need to escape it at all costs and to take a luddite approach to technology - literally a luddite approach, because the phrase "luddite" comes from workers in england during the industrial revolution who destroyed machinery in cotton and wool mills to protest the introduction of that machinery as cost saving measures by the capitalists. but the problem in that situation wasn't inherently the machinery that processed cotton and wool more efficiently, it was that the people who owned the factories used that technology as an excuse to pay fewer workers and maximize profit while creating more unsafe working conditions for the workers that remained. in a situation where the workers owned the factory and the machinery, the introduction of this machinery wouldn't have necessarily been harmful but rather potentially helpful to the workers, for whom more free time wouldn't be a death sentence and proper precautions in the use of the machinery to protect human life could be prioritized

i don't want to make the mistake of confusing technology or some other boogeyman as my enemy. the enemy is capitalism, and i choose to prioritize class consciousness over my private existential worries about new technological developments. all the tech we use is made by humans, just like this economic system we live in. we have the capacity to dismantle economic systems and build new ones, just as we have the capacity to use the tech we make in ways that benefit rather than harm us and the world we live in. my gut tendency is to be distrustful of new tech but i have to remind myself that it isn't helpful and it obfuscates what's actually going on.

[clown-femme]

I kind of resent when other adhd people talk about hyperfocus only because I'm jealous that I don't do that. I WISH I could zero in and stay focused on one task at a time. Can you imagine. I can't even do that with things I like.

That said I am also annoyed when people misuse the term hyperfocus to just mean 'the thing I'm into right now' but that is Beside the point

[hasturmcfuckface]

i bring an “all labor is skilled labor” vibe to the history class that the capitalists here dont really like

[marsivian]

I don't understand the appeal and the need that people, usually rich people, gays, or sometimes straight people due to sterility or whatever the reason is (for the vast majority that I see) have to have a surrogate. What's wrong with adopting a child? There are many children in the world who need a family and deserve to be loved and cared for. It's a long process, it is, obviously, but it's worth it If you want a child so badly, and what's wrong with waiting? Besides, surrogacy isn't quick either. And it's extremely inhumane for women who will carry the baby and it's a disgusting practice that shouldn't even be considered a possibility and shouldn't exist at all. The whole argument of 'but we want a child of our own' or whatever is ridiculous. A child, your hypothetically adopted son or daughter, for example, isn't and wouldn't be your child in the same way that a biological one would be? It makes it sound like families with adopted children aren't a real family or something because they don't have the same blood, when blood doesn't define a family. Blood doesn't make a family and never did or will

[blooscreen]

wwomen . girls . 🥺💖 . starting to think i may be . more than just a faggot . at times

[mycroftrh]

The more I sew the more I understand why modern factory-made fabric things have such a short shelf life

My sheets were made with such screwy thread tension that if the thread in the seam breaks anywhere the whole thing will come instantly undone

My shorts have never heard of a backstitch

This shirt’s using a nonflexible stitch on extremely stretchy fabric

The cape that was the first clothing I made was hand-sewed with barely any idea what I was doing and will last longer than the fifty dollar cape I just bought. The very first thing I machine-sewed was alterations in a shirt and my alterations could last years longer than the shirt itself. Commercial fabric stuff is made without the basic things you learn on sewing day one

No wonder pre-industrial clothes could get passed down through generations with five kids per generation! They were made with actual skill and time and care!

I wear clothes until they literally fall apart, which they do, because fast fashion really isn’t on consumers, it really is on “clothes made this cheaply are made really hecking badly” (even when they’re sold expensively)

I don’t really have a point here it’s just interesting to see how very poorly the average modern fabric product is made and to get now why fabric products from earlier periods are so insanely much more durable ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[tealfruit]

I'm just constantly on my bullshit these days. brain said fuck you feel everything and think about everything

[rainbowangel110]

So this just happened:

My dad: "Rainbow (not my real name), what do you know about AI?"

Me, already thinking about that fucking ChatGPT thing and AI art mess: "Uhhh not much really...."

Cut to us having a (polite) argument as to what AI's role is going to be in the next couple of generations.

[malxshrine-a]

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[chesthighwater]

man. you know a project REALLY has me captivated when im out here researching 19th century cigarette paper.

by the way. for the purposes of this fic we're gonna pretend that 1830s gristol already had cigarettes with filters. ok? ok thank you. no really that's super nice of you

[stijlw]

maybe i have been self-sabotaging my quest for gainful employment by exclusively applying to places that seem somewhat unusual or funny. sex shop, pest control business, spring factory

[shirogane-oushirou]

not ready to post him properly yet, bc i want to give him some pants first JHABSJHDBJHB but. i finished the ren plushie earlier today, and i've just been petting him and smoothing him down all evening. i just picked him up to keep doing it, and i unconsciously starting kissing his little forehead. i'm definitely not feeling soft for him. anyway.......... [sick to my stomach bc i love him and he's so cute]

ghost sighting of the boy:

[handleerz]

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