#internalized capitalism

[marshemillow]

I actually cannot BELIEVE that people want a "goodreads for fanfiction" unironically. Like??? Can you IMAGINE if people made a "yelp for home kitchens" and everyone put their friend's kitchens in it so they could bitch in PUBLIC REVIEWS about how bad their friends' cooking was as if they were restaraunts that charged money???

The only logical end to that kind of circle jerk is that people stop cooking for social events and nobody gets any food, but these idiots can't consider that obvious line of reasoning because they don't want to consider the idea that their fandom dying is their own damn fault. 😑

[nando161mando]

how to know you've internalized capitalism

[articlesofnote]

i feel terrible about taking sick days

took the day off work today because i woke up feeling crummy - headache and sore-ish throat. honestly not too unusual, and most of the time i would just "power through it" and do a day's work anyway; easier to make that decision these days, what with working from home and all.

but today, as i sometimes do, i decided to just take a sick day and sleep instead of "powering through." and EVERY TIME i do this i go through the same internal struggle of "oh i'm not really that sick, i need to go to work, i have metrics i need to hit, people are relying on me, it'll look bad if i take time off this soon after i was on vacation, i don't want people to think i'm flaking" etc. etc. of course, as i mentioned, i ended up taking the day anyway, but it feels more like something i'm doing in spite of myself rather than something that's actually the right thing to do in a self-care sense.

where the hell does this struggle come from? or struggles? what insecurities are coming up when i start saying to myself "actually i need to not go to work today"?

which reminds me of a time when i had made plans with a friend that required me to take the afternoon off work. could easily have done it, just needed to make the request a few weeks out, in all likelihood no problems would have resulted.

instead i... didn't make the request. put it off and put it off, for weeks, then lied to my friend that they had turned me down and i didn't get the afternoon off. ended up fucking up the plan we had made. reflecting on this event was what made me realize i needed to start seeing a therapist, and did so, which helped. but boy oh boy is that unhealthy relationship with work still lurking in my mind-brain, and boy oh boy does it come up at times like this.

[definite-human]

because capitalism has convinced you that life and relaxation exist to increase your productivity, rather than productivity existing so you can have what you need to enjoy life and relaxation

why does it feel morally wrong to spend all day in bed or at home. like i do it often but the whole time im wracked with guilt. it's literally not hurting anybody

[amaliazeichnerin]

Internalized Capitalism is also insidious when it takes over your leisure time. I was reminded of this today when I thought about that I should read more books in my leisure time. But I already read a lot, for my own book projects, editing jobs and sometimes also beta-reading for other writers. So away with hustle culture. After all, reading books in your leisure time should be a hobby, not drudgery.

[prokopetz]

About twenty years back, there was this weird transitional period after companies had figured out that harvesting their users' demographic information was a potential gold mine but before we lived in a hellish panopticon where any website operator could look up your IP address and know what you had for breakfast where some sites would try to get you to fill out, like, detailed demographic surveys before they'd let you access their stuff. Not just age, gender and geographic location, either – some of them would fish for employment status, marital status, brand preferences, even religious affiliation. A lot of folks I knew would just pick the first option in every dropdown, but my move was always to fill in the demographic information of the current Pope, at least as far as I was able to determine it (brand preference was always a tricky one). I like to think that, thanks to my efforts, their data sets are haunted to this day by a phantom pontiff.

[healingwgabs]

this includes government and your work place

Make peace with needing attention, validation, love, encouragement, support and care from other people because it's not actually the character flaw which this hyper-individualist society is trying to make it out to be. Needing other people isn't the same as failing to be your own person, it's a part of the process

[uncanny-tranny]

The leftism/anticapitalism leaving people's bodies the zeptosecond you imply that disabled people who aren't "productive" still matter in society and need to be treated like intrinsic equals who have a place in this world:

[softer-ua]

So I’ve been joking for a while about how Inko manages to afford all of Izuku’s AM merch

But I decided to nerd out and look closer, and I’m pretty sure the only expensive piece Izuku owns is the poster he got from Sir

You might think his dorm looks absolutely stacked

but that’s only because it’s a very small room and he brought every piece he owns

If you look in his old room it’s all the same posters

so he’s owned it all for at least a few years, he’s been working up to this for god knows how many years, just to be the proud owner of 5 posters so basic even he would put tape on them

All of his figures are less than 50$

One of which he’s had since he was a child

And it doesn’t look like the other unidentified figures are anything special either(except maybe AM in his yellow suit)

Izuku only has generic fanboy shit, like maybe one of the posters is a custom but I honestly I don’t think he owns a single special anything

The dead guy poster is 100% the coolest thing he has, no wonder he’s so reverent about it 💀

As for fits this is all we’ve really seen is

So yeah Inko isn’t dropping stacks on merch, I’m pretty sure those sweaters were a 2 for 1 deal because they’re almost identical 💀

[sick-sad-world-revolution-now]

I knew about top "nullification" surgery where even the nipples are erased from your body, but today I learned about bottom "nullification" surgery. When you think you've seen all the ways in which patriarchy exerts its power, you find another one. Of course it was someone who's female and identifying as non-binary who did it. I saw the pictures. She's in her early 20s, had the option to get the nerves out (so not being able to feel anything down there) but at the last moment was convinced by her mom to keep them. Still, that surgery consists of sewing everything shut except a small hole to urinate. This is the "modern" FGM, the "everything is a choice" option and they (surgeons and people who support this) will try to draw you as the villain for pointing out the issues before ever questioning the ethic of such surgeries. If you're asexual then your sexual organs won't force you to have sex, you can live without using your vagina for sex or delivering babies for that matter. Your body is not a customisable machine from which you leave out the parts that you don't like at some point in your life. The hegemony of capitalism (which dehumanises humans and try to make robots out of us) coupled with patriarchy is what made this horror possible.

You can have a been a young girl raped by a man and getting deeply traumatised for it to the point you want nothing to do with your body anymore, and greedy surgeons will take advantage of this distress and clear ptsd. I am full of rage. I won't ever stop fighting for women's liberation and having this as my priority when the situation for girls and women regardless of how they identify and everywhere around the world is this terrible.

[politijohn]

Source

[danoree]

art dump of sketches and stuff that felt too shitposty or simple for their own post 🔥🙏

[guerrillatech]

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clark addresses a crowd on the steps of Paremata

[maxdibert]

Do you think there are homophobic elements in Grindeldore?

Ooooh yeah, i mean here are several homophobic elements in how Grindeldore is written (or more accurately: not written). From both a political and literary standpoint, it’s clear that the relationship is handled with cowardice and erasure.

First, there’s the issue of J.K. Rowling’s retroactive “reveal” that Dumbledore was gay, which was never explicitly shown in the original books and was later confirmed only in interviews. That’s already a red flag, it centers queerness as subtext, not text, as something acceptable only if you know how to “read between the lines.” It’s a very neoliberal move: using diversity claims for progressive clout while refusing to represent that diversity meaningfully in the actual narrative.

Then, when we finally get a story where Grindelwald and Dumbledore’s relationship could be explored — the Fantastic Beasts films — their romantic and emotional connection is again minimized to vague dialogue and zero intimacy. These are supposed to be two men who were passionately in love and driven apart by ideological conflict, and yet the story keeps them physically and emotionally distant. Their bond is never given the same narrative weight as a straight romance would be. That’s not accidental, that’s institutional homophobia, even when it’s wrapped in rainbow capitalism.

Worse still, Grindelwald becomes the archetype of the dangerous, manipulative queer man, the one who “led Dumbledore astray.” That plays into long-standing tropes about queerness being corrupting, irrational, or inherently tied to deviance and destruction. If we’re looking at this from a gender studies perspective, it’s a textbook example of queer-coded villainy and the sanitization of queerness in “good” characters like Dumbledore.

So yes, Grindeldore is not just queerbaiting, it’s structurally homophobic. It punishes queerness narratively, sidelines it politically, and reduces it to tragedy without ever letting it live fully or visibly.

[nokingsnocrowns]

Fuck Trump

San Francisco, CA

[historybizarre]

May Day, celebrated by workers across the globe as International Labor Day, falls on May 1. But you'd be forgiven if that's news to you. While the day traces its origins to an American laborers' fight for a shorter work day, the U.S. does not officially recognize International Labor Day. .... Decades before the 8-hour work-day became the country's norm, the organization now known as the American Federation of Labor set May 1, 1886, as the date that workers nationwide should go on strike to demand the 8-hour workday.