#temporary service

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[tododeku-or-bust]

Also, last complaint for today. Imma need some of the Asian (Southeast and East specifically) folks on the Internet to quit being antiblack for white validation. It doesn't make sense to me that I'll see antiblack comments, posts, art or something on here or other social media and it's like... You, too are brown, fam. Stepping on my neck cannot feel that good. It gets you nowhere. They don't value you, only the token hatred they can squeeze from you. They'll still mistreat you when it comes down to white supremacy. Reconsider.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

This evening, racist cat-eating hoax-pusher Donald Trump told NewsNation reporter Ali Bradley in an exclusive interview for the network that he would revoke the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio if he is elected “President” again. The cat-eating hoax was started by Trump’s ticketmate and Ohio Senator JD Vance. Dear Mr. Trump, the folks that are on TPS status are here legally, despite your feverish insinuations otherwise. 

Read the full story at Daily Kos.

[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

and the truth of the matter is, at the end of the day

tamlin is the only high who paid reparations

[booasaur]

From (2022) - 2x03

[whoredmode]

⚜️WHOREDMODE DIRECTORY⚜️

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[yessu]

happy 4th of july i was in Another car accident

not sure where things are going to go from here but i do know that i'm quitting my job. i can't keep driving for work my luck is just! too fucking bad for this! it's only been a matter of time before something else happened!

i'm just not sure if i'm going to be able to find something fast enough to just jump over to it. when insurance payouts happen i can figure out how much money i have to work with irt getting a new car, if i *really* have to i might go back until a new place hires me, but. hhghgh. i'm going into a 16 week class to get certified for a long-term, better paying job and just need something to hold over until i complete that. something that can pay rent. o|-< i'm so scared what this is going to do to our finances.

[dreamaze]

KIM SEJEONG ⟡ Leemujin Service EP.79

"Not only my vocal strength, but the biggest strength of me as a person, I think, is 'sincerity.'"

[beatrice1979a]

Sooooo... Miraculous Paris Special was finally released in Disney + Canada

[yooniesim]

why yall so mad at EA? I thought yall loved paying $3-5 per month for some bullshit 😂

[shadyhouse]

applied to chipotle and i have an interview tomorrow !

[practically-an-x-man]

as is becoming a repeat trend. the dogs are fine but the coworkers are pissing me off

[natandacat]

I have to accept that its been more than a week and I cannot count on homecare to help me out. I need to find a way out of this situation alone. Sigh. I just wanna be able to go out again. I hate being trapped in my home. Why did I have to live in a flat with stairs.

[pois0ncandy]

so like umm what the fuck are we supposed to do with our lives

[doqqy]

girl help i got offered two jobs today at the company i already work at. and i have to email one of them back to reject them even though i already kind of accepted and started to ask them questions about starting training. but then i can call back the other one and accept. it’s higher pay and a permanent position so it’s definitely the better choice.

[popculturelib]

Fanzine Friday #17: Public Phenomena: Informal Modifications of Shared Spaces (2010) by Temporary Services

Temporary Services is a Chicago-based group that takes "an active interest in the vernacular culture found in publicly trafficked space." This particular issue focuses on roadside memorials; parking place savers for shoveled spots; block club signs in the West and South sides of Chicago; and homemade basketball hoops. It also features a photo of a truck in a tree in Beloit, Wisconsin, erected for reasons unknown.

For more information on Temporary Services and their projects, visit their website at https://temporaryservices.org/served/.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.