Oyster Knife

chthonicillness:

its hard to find the energy to keep working toward the future when youre already expending so much on devoutly pretending to believe it exists

dirtypuzzle:

kill the rhetoric that americans are so lazy that they won’t take farm jobs. americans take labor intensive jobs all the time. the reason no americans will take farm jobs is because agricultural work is exempt from the vast majority of labor laws and labor protections, including the use of child labor. so only immigrants - people who have little to no protection from the law or other options for work - take most of these jobs. we have created a permanent underclass of labor and then say that americans are just lazy for not volunteering to be part of the underclass.

there are actually good discussions to be had about how alienated many americans are from food production (hi hello that’s what my only popular post is about), but the real solution to this problem is to protect agricultural workers, citizens or not. ban child labor in its entirety. punish corporations and farm owners that abuse and poison their workers. reform the immigration process so that these people aren’t barred from legal protection and recourse.

agricultural workers have been exploited since the dawn of civilization, but the US in specific has been doing this since slavery, and it evolved in the 30s when FDR’s labor laws excluded them specifically because most agricultural workers at the time were black. now it’s mostly latino immigrants.

food doesn’t fucking pick or slaughter itself. but citizens aren’t going to take these jobs when the entire industry is rife with abuse - both legal and illegal - and horrific wages and working conditions.

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moki-dokie:

furiousfinnstan:

@stvksn on ig

i hope your god has asked you for mercy and i hope you’ve refused to forgive him

is so insanely powerful. that’s gonna be seared in my brain for a long time. fuck.

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akindplace:

I feel like this shouldn’t be a hot take but maybe if you take into consideration what happened in the last three years it makes sense people are exhausted and grieving. Let’s not be so hard on ourselves for going through a pandemic, for going through loss, for going through economic recession and political instability, while being forced to go on as if nothing is happening. Let’s not fall into the mindset that we are weak because we are suffering, or that we deserve that suffering, because when you think about it, too much has been going on, and it’s normal to feel overwhelmed by this.

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thatevakid:

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moontiare:

“I am trying to wander more. I am trying to breathe more, to love my lostness,”

— Noor Hindi, from “On Language and Mourning,” The American Poetry Review (vol. 48, no. 4, July/August 2019)

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queeranarchism:

marxicyclist:

queeranarchism:

effectiveresistance:

Atlas Technical Project Manager:

“Atlas is no longer involved [in Cop City]…because you guys are fucking nightmares and you broke all of our fucking windows”

Ahahahah, I thought this was paraphrased but that is a direct quote.

Direct action works.

The ‘Stop Cop City’ Movement Is Vandalizing Pro-Police Companies Across the US

Eco-anarchists associated with the “Stop Cop City” movement in Atlanta have claimed credit for at least 60 acts of vandalism or sabotage aro

vice.com

:3

inspirational

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manywinged:

manywinged:

okay but “the symbolism is Real and Trying to Kill You” is my favorite kind of symbolism

like yeah the monster is a representation of your unresolved trauma and guilt and a manifestation of the sins of your past but it’s also a real creature and it’s going to fucking Get you

saywhat-politics:

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