Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

i say this with complete seriousness.

"from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" is a great idea. it would be far better than the way things are now.

but

we can build an even better world

from each according to what they feel like doing, to each according to whatever they want.

honestly, if your thought is that in a post-revolution world, no one would work, youve been misled and abused. youre living a life where youre barely functioning. you work because you have to (if you are "lucky" enough to be employed), for a company you dont approve of, under an intensity of performance demands that you cannot maintain, and are just exhausted and burnt out and breaking down. youre not happy. it doesnt have to be this way.

youre right, a lot of "jobs" would go away. no more corporate middle managers. no more fast food servants. no more construction workers. but instead they are free to do whatever they want! they could use those same skills, even. community organizers who make sure needs are being met and supplies flowing where they need to. neighborhood chefs that cook delicious meals all day for the joy of feeding those around them. carpenters and architects who come together to repair damaged homes and provide new community spaces. anything.

or... absolutely nothing! thats okay!! it's okay to just survive, and in the kind of supportive and caring communities that should never have been taken from us, theres no harm in doing what brings you fulfillment, or allows you to heal, or just what you vibe with doing that day. rest all you need. isolate or socialize as you desire. build that giant icosahedron youve been dreaming of building for sixteen years. eat forty cakes you stole from jeff bezos. or fuck around and sleep all day. or sleep around and fuck all day. it's all good.

we have each other's backs and people will largely be motivated to take care of their communities, like we have through all history except for the last century and a half where capitalism has stretched us so thin that caring for each other the way we all deserve and wish we could do means endangering yourself from lack of money. things that need to be done will have enthusiastic volunteers because we want to support each other but are told all our lives that we have no motive for that. theres no profit in it. but the motivation, the "profit", is the joy of helping everyone around you, the continuation of your community, and the personal fulfillment that brings.

do whatever you want, use whatever resources you want, rest all you want. you dont need a capitalist boot to care about others.

or for others to care about you.

#anarchy #anarchism

In 2011, David Graeber wrote: Revolutions in Reverse

This is an extract!

🥽I want to say this publicly, in full view of everyone, fully aware of the risks of doing so.

I believe that all of us have a duty of conscience not to co-operate with or implement unjust laws and systems.

Living in a just society is a pro-active choice all of us make. When we choose to eschew what is right for what is expedient, we not only create injustice for others but eventually suffer it for ourselves.

I will not co-operate with a fascist regime. I refuse to recognize such a regime as legitimate, either in action or in conceit.

These people are not an authority. Political power does not flow from the barrel of a gun, but from the fear of it firing.

Without that fear a gun has no power to rule, only to destroy.

This regime deserves neither my loyalty nor my fear. What it deserves is to become irrelevant. In refusing to co-operate, I actualize its irrelevance.

ADHD is just speculative execution for humans

https://flipping.rocks/@sunguramy/113976594279505007

The #fcc has announced it will be investigating KCBS, a #sanfrancisco based radio station for reporting on the movements of #ice units within the city.

This is clearly an attempt to suppress speech about ice, and a very solid indication that the Know Your Rights campaign is working.

https://truthout.org/articles/fcc-investigates-ca-news-station-over-reporting-on-immigration-enforcement/

#immigrantdefense #news #california #stopice #lamigra #resistance

Just wondering: is there a law that prescribes that the year of construction needs to visible in an elevator, or is this just something all manufacturers decided: well, that's a good idea!

This is weird. I apparently have the NFSU2 soundtrack in FLAC format, and it has an EAC ripping log, describing how it was ripped from a 2CD release.

There's just one problem: to my knowledge, there has never existed a CD release of the NFSU2 soundtrack!

This mug is hideous and I want it

i find "computers should just be good which means you dont need to know anything to use them" to just be a really individualistic standpoint.

not that computers couldn't or shouldn't be better but wishing for liberation from the material reality that all data lives on a computer somewhere sucks.

you either get a computer that's constantly trying to get into your wallet or a computer that requires you to deal with the real people making it work. those are your only two options.

Endermen aren't evil, they just have ADHD! They pick up random blocks near them because they find them interesting, wander around aimlessly while fidgeting and then drop them again when they find a new shiny block somewhere else.

(They're also autistic and don't like being wet for sensory reasons, and they don't like eye contact)