#mine capitalism

[the-rainbow-of-doom]

(This post was sponsored by a 1+ hour commute)

[seancefemme]

why the long face, my pretty baby

[expressingexperience]

[rassicas]

splatoon fandom: please. someone please translate the marina acht story. please me: now hold on. wouldn't you guys rather read a boring newspaper article about the development of crableg capital. because i would

[deancasforcutie]

"Now you live in a secret bunker with an angel and Lucifer’s kid", AKA queering domesticity par excellence

[lilpomelito]

Steve and Robin go out to a gay club in Indy one night and Robin ends up pissed off because even if she did make a couple of friends and connections with the local scene she didn't have as much luck as Steve who made out with like 5 dudes in a row. How come they're going to the gay places and her straight friend still has more game than her?! Turns out maybe not so much, since Steve spends the monday shift at family video talking how much he enjoyed kissing guys and how hot it got him and how it didn't feel like a performance—which Robin can relate to that part—so maybe it's time to keep experimenting? Robin thinks he might be going a little fast but Steve is determined so he asks if he should ask Eddie if he's down to hooking up so he can try having sex with a guy which sends Robin into another spiral because whoa, since when are you aware that Eddie's gay? (And shit, if she said it out loud to Steve does that count as outing Eddie?!) Steve says he just knows, the same way he knows that Vicky is into boobies (ugh, not this again!) and anyway there's no harm in asking. Robin's mind is blown when Steve literally picks up the phone and calls Eddie if he's down to fuck that night at his place. She's not surprised Eddie agrees. He might be even more of a masochist than Robin herself, really. Which leads to a very interesting night where Robin spends hours trying to concentrate on her stupid homework and not think about how her best friend, her soulmate, the light of her life, is right now having gay sex literally days after finding out "kissing guys is cool actually," when it took her years to admit to herself that she was into girls. And it's even more mortifying when a little after midnight Steve calls her—of course he does—and informs her that sex with men is actually so much better than sex with girls, for him at least, he just had the best orgasm of his life (good for him) and inform her that he now has a boyfriend. Honestly, what did Robin expect. Good for Steve and his simple, honest heart.

[truth4ourfreedom]

SLAVES: 40,000 child slaves in Congo are forced to work in cobalt mines so we can drive electric cars.

In Alberta, Canada, there are tens of thousands of men who couldn't afford a post secondary education but were able to lift themselves and their families out of certain poverty through back breaking work in oil fields. They were able to buy homes and cars and college educations for their children.

The climate alarmists want that to end. They want the uneducated to stay at the bottom where they belong.

They're comfortable with cobalt mines in the Congo where women and children work as slaves in order to produce the minerals required for electric vehicles because this is the natural order of things in their minds.

It isn't about saving the planet. It's about power and control. They want the bottom to stay at the bottom because truly free markets and uneducated peasants who find success within them are a threat to the power and control they need.

[that-vampire-loser]

Andrew minyards closet is FULL. he’s the complete opposite of Neil, loves shopping, loves buying clothes (and buying neil clothes).

And what does neil do? Instead of wearing the clothes Andrew buys him, he just wears Andrew’s clothes

[thoughtportal]

a choir calling out major tech corporations and brands for their involvement in the Congo genocide.

there are ethical ways to collect the resources we need.

[bbbbbbbbatman]

JJ Jameson is so impressed with Peter's photos of Spiderman that now he's sending Peter on a new assignment: photos of the elusive Batman. Not a single newspaper has been able to get a photo that isn't shitty cryptid level of blurry, and Jameson has decided that the Daily Bugle will get the prestige of having the first clear photo of the bat menace, and will be able to hold it over the heads of the incompetent Gotham papers.

So he sends Peter to Gotham for a week with instructions not to come back until he's got that photo. Peter, unfortunately, can't come up with a good excuse as to why he can't get Batman photos the same way he gets Spiderman photos, so he sets off to Gotham, confident that he can probably get at least one decent photo, less confident about what the bats will do to him if he does.

[thefrsers]

im unwell😭she really said Nash with her whole being😭

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

isolating this very important note. homelessness and prostitution are linked in more than one way.

first of all, homeless women and youth are seen by many men as unprotected game. not only are homeless women and youth at an insanely high risk of sexual abuse and assault, they also get „offered“ regularly by random men that they will pay them for sexual „favors“. a homeless woman i know said this happened to her almost daily when she was living on the streets, men even asking her to go to the nearest backalley for a blowjob. she always declined, she said thats the last bit of humanity she has left. but it says a lot about the mind of the male sex buyer. for example, both homeless youth (male or female) and homeless women get offered to stay with men if they have sex with them.

both homelessness and prostitution are linked to a high risk of rape and either already having substance issues when entering or developing them because of it, and having faced abuse prior to losing/escaping housing or entering the sex industry.

both are notoriously difficult to exit, and the longer youre in it, the more difficult it gets. and the more numb you become to the hardship, mistreatment, abuse and assault you face.

men enforce a constant stream of new prostitutes by abusing girls and women as their partners, family or caretakers which makes them leave home. living on the street, theres not many options to ensure your survival: stealing, begging, or… prostitution. and since youre unwashed and got nowhere to go, men will use your desperation to save money; to abuse you for as much as they pay for a meal and a drink.

both homelessness and prostitution have a high prevalence of mental illness. mental illness can make it difficult to hold down a regular job, which makes women land on the streets and/or enter prostitution because sex buyers dont give a shit about your mental state as long as youre sexually available.

you cant be anti-capitalist and pro-prostitution.

prostitution advocates would put homeless women in a brothel before judging male sex buyers who exploit them because „the issue is the unsafe work environment and lack of regulations, not prostitution itself“. i can see (and im sure this has happened before) prostitution advocates praising brothel owners for taking in homeless women, giving them housing and a job, and after all, the homeless woman consented, and who are we to judge how she deals with her situation, right?

[claudiawaseverything]

Stobin Appreciation Week 2023 by @dailystobin!!!

Day 4 : songs/lyrics/poems 🤍

spongebob // The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket // A little life, Hanya Yanagihara // Ribs, Lorde // Normal People, Sally Rooney // Frog and Toad, Arnold Lobel // Stuck with me, The Neighborhood // Just Kids, Patti Smith // (pic) Troy and Abed (quo.) Winnie the Pooh by @/catbandits // Ryan O’Connell // Written on the body, Jeanette Winterson // Trista Mateer // Smoke Signals, Phoebe Bridgers // Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Anne Carson

[pemguims]

nicklas backstrom and alexander ovechkin as the empress and the emperor - 3 & 4 out of 22

(insp by @formulanni 's tarot series!)

original cards and reasoning below cut

the empress card represents mother hood, nature and fertility. the emperor card represents authority, structure and control - it can also indicate a father figure. both balance each other out.

nicklas backstrom and alex ovechkin were the backbone of the washington capitals and played 1058 games together. they are very well known for their bond - being called, amongst other things, 'a married couple' and 'mama and papa' ( nicki being mama and ovi being papa, and the main reason i thought of them for these cards!). nicklas has been on LTIR for over a year now and is expected to remain there for the rest of his career, and it is very unlikely they will ever play together again; i at least wanted them to be together for this drawing :)

the most insane quote of theirs is when they won the stanley cup together for the first time in franchise history and ovi said "after me, i give it to you baby, the stanley cup" <- videos that make me want to microwave myself

here is an extremely good post by @thornescratch compiling some vital 'yeah theyre married' lore (thank u thornescratch btw for the very good caps posting!!!!)

they recently hung out together whilst ovi is recovering from a broken leg!!

here are some of my fave pics of them :3

after me i give it to you baby

[margridarnauds]

There is a very, very small chance, if you live in the States and deal with people from, say Oklahoma, Illinois, Texas, etc., you might hear of what are called "Mineral Rights". You might think "Oh, grandma just died, and so I just inherited a bunch of land." Before you, idk, start harassing family friends because you're convinced they're hiding the Truth™ from you, here is a short, convenient guide to mineral rights:

They are not rights to the land, they are rights to the minerals. Hence "Mineral Rights".

You only own what's beneath the surface and any income you get from the oil companies (derogatory). You cannot build a barn on top of it. You cannot sell it to anyone so that THEY can build a barn on top of it. Because you do not own the land. You own the rights to the minerals. The Mineral Rights, if you will.

You do not even always have the right to decide who drills, because, if you don't lease to anyone, they will often decide to pool you in with the neighboring plots, because they are *just that considerate*. (There is no universe where that mineral is not getting drilled.) Or "horizontal drilling" which means that they just take your oil while they're getting your neighbors'. Isn't that fun? Doesn't it make you want to chew glass?

Because the oil companies control the degree of oil drilling, measure the output, AND write the check, if you had any hopes and dreams of becoming a wealthy oil baron, good luck.

Also please make sure that you are actually on the trust that you are trying to get access to so that, idk, you don't harass family friends before you realize that your family member disinherited you a couple of years back, because that would be *really* embarrassing.

[newsfromstolenland]

Atlantic Canada's largest newspaper chain is now officially owned by Toronto-based Postmedia Network Inc.

On Monday, Postmedia confirmed the closing of its $1-million purchase of SaltWire Network Inc. and the Halifax Herald Ltd. in a short statement on its website. The sale was approved by a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge on Aug. 8.

Andrew MacLeod, Postmedia's president and CEO, said his company is "delighted" to welcome the new media properties, saying the sale "preserves their vital role within the community."

Full article

Let's explore why this is a very bad thing.

Postmedia, the company that just bought a chain of over two dozen Atlantic canada newspapers, is known for many things- none of them good.

This is an incomplete list of harmful things that Postmedia and its executives have done/are known for:

Right-wing politics. "The National Post was founded in 1998 by Conrad Black, who has connections to conservative politics and sat as a Conservative Party member of the United Kingdom's House of Lords. The Post has always been aligned with the right side of the political spectrum. ..."Just in the past couple of years, Postmedia has issued an edict stating that they should move even farther to the right, so they're very reliably conservative," said [Media journalist Marc] Edge. "In fact, [they] endorse Conservative candidates often over the objections of their local editors.""

Union busting. "They employed a mix of cajoling (such as with buyouts and raises), entreaties to preserve the paper’s uniquely collegial newsroom culture, office-wide memos decrying the havoc a union would wreak, and, according to CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon, one-on-one meetings between staff and management."

Monopolization of canadian news media. "Postmedia Network’s purchase of Saltwire Network will extend its grip from coast to coast, as it already dominates Western Canada with eight of the nine largest dailies in the three westernmost provinces. This purchase will give Postmedia the largest dailies in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland to go along with the largest in New Brunswick, which it acquired from the Irving Oil family two years ago."

Cuts to pensions and benefits while giving large bonuses to executives. "...several top Postmedia executives had received enormous retention bonuses at a time of aggressive belt-tightening (after which many left regardless), and second, the March 2017 announcement that benefits and pensions would be curtailed significantly."

Already beginning to lay off staff from the Atlantic canada newspapers they now own. "...the long-term future of workers in departments like circulation, advertising, customer service, finance and production remains uncertain. "Staff believe maintaining local jobs in the community is critical to retaining both subscribers and clients," the union said. Last week, the union representing workers at The Telegram confirmed that four of the paper's 13 newsroom positions will be eliminated."

More reading: source 1, source 2

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics