#THE SWERVE

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Luddites didn’t hate looms. They smashed looms because their bosses wanted to fire skilled workers, ship kidnapped Napoleonic War orphans north from London, and lock them inside factories for a decade of indenture, to be starved, beaten, maimed and killed. Designing industrial machinery that’s “so easy a child can use it,” isn’t necessarily a prelude to child-slavery, but it’s not not a prelude to child-slavery, either. The Luddites weren’t mad about what the machines did — they were mad at who the machines did it for and whom they did it to. The child-kidnapping millionaires of the Industrial Revolution said, “There is no alternative,” and the Luddites roared, “The hell you say there isn’t!” Today’s tech millionaires are no different. Mark Zuckerberg used to insist that there was no way to talk to your friends without being comprehensively spied upon, so every intimate and compromising fact of your life could be gathered, processed, and mobilised against you. He said this was inevitable, as though some bearded prophet staggered down off a mountain, bearing two stone tablets, intoning, “Zuck, thou shalt stop rotating thine logfiles, and lo, thou shalt mine them for actionable market intelligence.”

-There Is Always An Alternative: Remarks presented to York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Graduating Class of 2023

#Science Fiction #Inevitabalism #Against Prediction #Go Luddites Go #Polycrisis #The Swerve

[yaz-the-spaz]

feels like it's about time i bring this edit of mine back around lmao

#THE SWERVE #edits #my edits #my fragile heart wants to hope this might mean we'll finally get some #ziam #but who knows #idk #what #else #to #even #tag #here #i'm #just #trying #fill #space #at #this #point #so all the butthurt antis that i know are probably gonna come running to ziam's inboxes hopefully won't find me if i tag #zayn #g*gi #z*gi #zayn's unfollow #dave chappelle

[thesobsister]

An interesting, well-argued rebuttal to the premise and thesis of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.

I think the money quote is:

"The proposition that [15th-c. Lucretius manuscript finder Poggio Bracciolini] sparked a Lucretian counterculture, which somehow became the dominant culture, is about as plausible as Dan Brown’s Jesus bloodline theory. In fact, the two bear an uncanny resemblance."

#luke slattery #stephen greenblatt #the swerve #lucretius #epicureanism #he daid

[pandadrake]

Shots fired by the Spider-man sequels.

Was ruminating on how Miles and Miguel are technically both 'Spider-man 2' in their respective universes. Got me thinking about the other Spider-successors in the cast, and also what if they all got matching T-shirts or something.

#Bringing back Peter’s ITSV insecurity from his mid-life spider-crisis to document his hard swerve into “dad & mentor” in real time #Miles is wearing a variation of the Hobie watch because I cant see post-ATSV Miles wearing a watch with Miguel's parental controls on it #Miguel is reading the instructions for assembling a couch from IKEA 2099 #he has to build a new one for the breakroom b/c the last one died to T-rex butt #Basically I had an idea that involved learning how to draw Ben Reilly and jumped on it. His comic inking look is weirdly nostalgic for me. #my art #miles morales #ben reilly #miguel o'hara #mayday parker #scarlet spider #ultimate spider man #spider man 2099 #spider girl #spider man #peter b parker #peter parker #across the spiderverse #atsv #may parker #into the spiderverse #atsv fanart #spider man: across the spider verse #miles morales prowler #prowler miles #miles 42 #the cooler spider man #the cooler miles #that's not a bit he's just legitimately the cooler Miles #spider-man

[peeppq]

Gang, ive finished them.

#transformers #maccadams #sorry im about to spam tags #tf rodimus #tf ultra magnus #tf perceptor #tf rung #tf ratchet #tf drift #tf whirl #tf tailgate #tf cyclonus #tf rewind #tf chromedome #tf brainstorm #tf velocity #tf nautica #tf skids #tf swerve #tf megatron #tf red alert #mtmte #space buddies!!

[scal-po]

Magma sketches 👍

#drawing my friend’s favorite characters to ward off the urge to draw minimeg angst #hi #transformers #mtmte #hi nora #scalp art #idk #maccadam #brainstorm #swerve #minimus ambus

[orange-catsidy]

hades offered persephone the food of the underworld. she ate it, and became forever tied to him

#my art #hangman adam page #swerve strickland #blood #aew #religious themes include greek mythology babes

[keferon]

Don't worry about Blurr's fashion choices. His life goal is to get pneumonia

And yes, he's wearing a helmet, not a hat

Also, Swerve living the dream~

#Tapa I didn't know you designed them ahah sorry #<- okAY OKAY IM NOT SORRY ANYMORE DAMN HAHA #so #I guess we just have two versions now #why not #snow bots au #Blurr #Swindle #Swerve #transformers #maccadam #mtmte #tf

[ihatebrainstorm]

[New Years]

Be firework safe! But also just don't let Whirl set up fireworks

#back at it with the low quality speedrun comics lmao #transformers #mtmte #maccadam #maccadams #tf idw #transformers fanart #more than meets the eye #frootertooter archive #lost light #swerve #mtmte swerve #tailgate #cyclonus #rodimus #whirl

[cyber-rivet]

Hehe he. Local older butch lesbians traumatize younger gays.

#transformers #mtmte #transformers idw #mtmte swerve #mtmte cyclonus #mtmte tailgate #mtmte rewind #mtmte chromedome #suggestive #valveplug #rivet's-art

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Thus: Margaret Thatcher’s dictum, “There is no alternative,” a polite way of saying “Resistance is futile,” or, “Abandon hope all ye who enter here.” This is inevitabilism, the belief that nothing can change. It’s the opposite of science fiction. As a science fiction writer, my job is to imagine alternatives. “There is no alternative” is a demand pretending to be an observation: “stop trying to think of an alternative.” At its best, science fiction demands that we look beyond what a gadget does and interrogate who it does it for and who it does it to. That’s an important exercise, maybe the important exercise. It’s the method by which we seize the means of computation for the betterment of the human race, not the immortal, rapacious colony organisms we call “limited liability companies,” to whom we represent inconvenient gut-flora, and which are rendering the only planet in the universe capable of sustaining human life unfit for human habitation.

-There Is Always An Alternative: Remarks presented to York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Graduating Class of 2023

#Science Fiction #Inevitabalism #Against Prediction #Go Luddites Go #Polycrisis #The Swerve

[ufolliegy]

enjoy this video that i cannot be bothered to finish lol

#transformers #mtmte #swerve #ultra magnus #maccadam #lost light #video

[allelitewrestlings]

UNCONQUERABLE (2018) – by seattle shibari & erek west

#swerve stickland #wrestlingedit #aewedit #pre aew #aew #social media #photoshoots #ours: edits #maker: s #*

[lemonomelette]

I hate that this is my first time drawing Swerve.

Also Photoshop kept freezing on me with this one, clearly sexyswerve.psdc was too much to handle.

#transformers #transformers swerve #my art

[shandsformation]

magma doodles with @sleepyeule

#blurr content on my dash plus watching tfa fully wth the girls got me to see the light sdgjhdsg he's pretty fun to draw actually #also bee stares with big ol eyes #maccadam #transformers #my art #starscream #bumblebee #starbee #blurr #swerve #longarm prime

[bayleymania]

This belongs in a museum.

#aew #hangman page #swerve strickland #full gear #lexie speaks