#enclosures

[adam-trademark]

The Francois' langurs sure are fascinating.

Kool Kidz Reunited

(3/11)

(March 16, 2024)

[probablyasocialecologist]

While the agricultural revolution based on the Norfolk four-course system significantly increased the production of wheat, peasants lost access to common lands and forests, where they used to raise pigs with acorns, collect mushrooms, woods and fruits, and catch birds. Living in the countryside, they also had access to the river to catch fish and for fresh water. Now driven into the city, they almost completely lost access to such natural wealth and could consume much less meat. Even if they remained in the countryside, their previous daily activities in the commons were now criminalized as acts of trespass and theft. Furthermore, enclosure concentrated lands in the hands of fewer capitalist farmers. As they hired peasants only during the busy season and fired them thereafter, the farming villages disappeared, and the small vegetable gardens maintained by the villagers ceased to provide fresh vegetables for their dinner tables. As it was no longer clear by whom and how the vegetables sold in the market were grown – they might, for example, be smeared with excreta of cattle and poultry – they became inedible without cooking, and fresh salads disappeared from the menu.

In addition, all family members had to work in the factories to make a living in the city. The loss of access to the commons significantly increased the financial burden on households because now they had to buy their means of subsistence from the market. They began working in factories from an early age, so children were not able to attend school. They could not acquire basic cooking skills at home or during the festivals and ceremonies of the farming villages, where they were served free and luxurious meals. Even if they acquired and maintained some cooking skills, working-class families in the city were no longer able to buy expensive meat and other ingredients but only the cheap potatoes that were sold on the street. Consequently, the traditional English recipes based on ingredients available to the rural villages became useless for working-class families living in the large cities.

Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

[ultra-phthalo]

Reverse First Contact AU

[Technology Introduction] The technology of the Transformers themselves has been fully assimilated and harmonised with human life. The moment the Transformers landed on Earth they essentially disappeared. Their foot print hidden. Falling in place of the sudden shroud of tech and buildings that humans learned to create from the experimentations that immediately arose from them. Experimentations some may have not survived. All components pulled apart and recycled like the rest of humanity's machinery. Until it eventually one day it stopped. Leading to the research and preservation of this rare exotic line of specimens. Due to the world wide abundance of the energon tech. Some wrongly believe that the Transformers were built by humans and that even the little known history of the alien species is actually entirely made up for emersion of these new 'attractions'. The wildly varied enclosures provide accessibility to a myriad of security risk potentials everyday. And the walls are the only thing separating the fascinating bots from the public.

[fuzzkaizer]

Roland - AD-50 Double Beat

"1970s Japanese-made fuzz-wah with switchable gain stages and rocker-style wah"

cred: reverb.com/BATFUK

[thesilicontribesman]

South Stack Prehistoric Hut Circles, South Stack, Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

Biscoff got an enclosure upgrade today! He is not impressed yet.

[id: 3 pictures of a newly set up bioactive crested gecko enclosure with lots of green plants and sticks, two blue pods and a hanging cork bark, and the last picture is Biscoff curled up in his sleeping pod]

[scoriarose]

The chia plant experiment is going well so far! Now that it is too cold to go outside I planted some ponytail palm shoots and sprinkled some chia seeds.

Only thing I'm worried about is how big they'll get. I suppose I can always trim them. Scoria had fun digging in them before we planted them!

[morbidsmenagerie]

Picture of my set up! Heat lamp is a CHE, and I try to organize them based on climate and temp.

red - desert (78-80F)

green - tropical (78-80F)

orange - american southwest (76-78F)

blue - smaller tropical and temperate (75-77)

purple - 2i babies (75-77F)

yellow - isopods, jerusalem cricket, beetles - (74-76F)

Obviously the temps fluctuate, I have one of those thermometers that gives you the max and min it senses as well as an infrared thermometer to double check different spots.

[reptilerehoming]

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[justlymine]

ok lid is finally done, wire topper attached, i've tested it for escapability and rough edges and it should be good!

need to secure the half floor i am adding to the topper, add a ladder to get there, mix in some timothy hay to the bedding, bake my play sand and add it to their bath/toilet, and then look the whole thing over and make sure everything is fun and accessible.

gerbils scheduled for next week!!!

no pics of the progress because i am exhausted from recaulking my baseboards and hunting drafts all week. gotta get it done before the gerbils because i dont want them to be chilled and i cant use caulk around them because of fumes. only one wall left to do. i'll finish tomorrow.

[zenosanalytic]

I'm reading The Origin of Capitalism; A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood, and something very obvious occurred to me:

In Part I Section I she discusses the works of Karl Polanyi and his objection to Smith's characterization of humanity as naturally "economic": to wit, that not all societies with markets are market-societies and that most non-capitalist societies's markets operated by non-capitalist logic and were subordinated to other economic concerns than profit and need, and it occurred to me:

Capitalism is a system where people require markets to provide their needs, but for that to happen people can't be able to provide for themselves some other way. Shortages HAVE to be created for capitalism to come to exist, and they have to be maintained for producers to compete because, if costumers can provision themselves without the market, they don't have to use it. Famine is a NECESSITY of capitalism.

You don't have to buy what you already have, so people will only rely on markets for the necessities of life if you ensure they can't gain them some other way. I'd always thought of enclosures as a way for rich assholes to steal land and create a workforce for factories but it's more than that; by kicking all those english peasants off their land and destroying their communities(which provided for them before), those early capitalists created the markets for their "scientifically" farmed agricultural goods, and industrially produced textiles, in the first place. More than that: the Engineered Irish Famine of 1845 wasn't JUST an act of atrocious, racist, colonialism; it was enforcing market-discipline.

Capitalist shortages aren't just a way to control price, they're THE way to create market-necessity, "customers", and competition in the first place. Division of Labor won't do this naturally because non-market exchange, and non-necessary markets, are possible. It's coercion all the way down.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The poor men and women who suffered under the poor laws, excludes from the land by enclosures, understood completely what was happening. This ballad, from the sixteenth century, is called 'The Poore Man Paies for All':

Me thought I saw how wealthy men Did grind the poore men's faces,

And greedily did prey on them, Not pittying their cases

They make them toyle and labour sore For wages too-too small.

Even as the mighty fishes still Doe feed upon the lesse;

So rich men, might they have their will, Would on the poore men cess

It is a proverbe old and true –

That weakest goe to th' wall;

Rich men can drink till th' sky looke blue,

But poore men pay for all.

Many ballads like this, sung all around England, referred to an earlier better world, where the elite cared for their household, and even for their community, as their family.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[probablyasocialecologist]

Lauderdale argued that scarcity does not necessarily arise from the exhaustion of natural resources. It is often intentionally created by constructing gates and by forcefully expelling people from the land. In other words, land, water and food are artificially made scarce so that they can function to augment the ‘private riches’ of their owners expressed in monetary terms (as well as the wealth of nation that comprises the sum total of individual riches). The obvious problem here is, as Lauderdale argued, that the increase in private riches is inevitably accompanied by the augmentation of scarcity in a society, that is, the decrease in the free and abundant common public wealth for the majority of the people. As seen in the primitive accumulation of capital, common lands and forests were gated and became inaccessible and scarce for peasants, which increased the misery of the masses and the devastation of the natural environment, while this process of creating artificial scarcity amplified private riches of the few.

While there obviously exists ‘natural’ scarcity of arable lands and available water independently of humans, scarcity under capitalism is different. It is a ‘social’ one. This social scarcity is also an ‘artificial’ one because the richness of social and natural wealth was originally abundant in the sense that they did not possess value and were accessible to members of the community. Scarcity must be created by thoroughly destroying the commons, even if this brings about a disastrous situation for the many in an economic and ecological sense. Lauderdale provided cases where edible products were intentionally thrown away and arable lands were deliberately wasted, so that market supply could be limited in order to keep commodity prices high. Herein manifests the fundamental tension between wealth and the commodity, and this is the ‘paradox of wealth’ that marks the historical peculiarity of the capitalist system.

Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

[ultra-phthalo]

OOOOH I remember the reverse contact au!!! Love that one how is that doing????

But also curious about polar inquiry 👀

Ah yes the Reverse Contact AU! Glad you like it :D The au is still a WIP. I haven't added much. There are some notes I haven't shared yet. And I've had thought's about writing a full plot. But I've flat out felt so bad for the guys that are being treated like zoo animals. They get electric collars and restrained by pistons and can't communicate. And zoo staff nearly kills one of them from mishandling them and not being educated on their sensitivities to certain chemicals. And I thought of a situation where a member of the public does get into the enclosure of one of the bots. Cus guess what, people feel like they can be friends with the bots. And then BAM the bot gets shot by a lethal weapon for the person's safety. Someone is going to get seriously hurt. And I just can't decide which bot to write about for the life of me aaa. I've got a fun note about different zoo enclosures that are held to different standards. Soundwave is in one of the better enclosures with all of his cassettes. A company decision was made after the realisation that cassettes are good at using staff exits for escape and that escape efforts entirely stopped when around Soundwave. Which is cute. Still, I'm at a loss as to how to write the next part of the AU. ------------------------------------------------------- Then Polar Inquiry. A one shot fic that won't require as much thought as the other WIPs. A G1 story set in Jetfire's first episode appearance. Random polar scientist is dragged into the conflict and is picked up by a fascinated Jetfire. After calming the scientist down he takes them to the Decepticons. Jetfire feels conflicted by the way the Decepticons are acting. The scientist saw what was happening and decided to forgive Jetfire's decision to keep them in the cage. And has a one to one talk. Where the scientist mentions the times they picked up small animals. And the reason for wanting to be in the Arctic. Ends with the scientist witnessing Jetfire getting buried in ice because he just had to save the world.

[fuzzkaizer]

Astro Amp - Astrotone Fuzz

"made by Universal Amplifier Corp. of New York. This is from 1967"

cred: reverb.com/Sean's Funkadelic Gear Parlor

[avalontec]

System Integration

Railway Signaling Systems

Power inverters

Controllers for industrial equipment

Medical devices and equipment

Fuel dispensing systems

Telematics modules

Camera and Vision Systems

Sensing and detection systems