#breaking things at work

[probablyasocialecologist]

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, surveying domestic technology from 1860 to 1960, found that rather than relieve beleaguered housewives, domestic technologies tended to ease home activities traditionally performed by men. Innovations such as the gas cooking stove and the automatic flour mill freed men from chopping wood and grinding grain, allowing them more time to work outside the home. Meanwhile, women assumed a greater proportion of domestic labor: “You [the housewife] bore the whole burden of housework. For your husband and your children, the house became a place of leisure.” According to Cowan, one result of the mechanization of housekeeping was a dramatic reduction in the number of paid domestic laborers, with the concomitant extension of housekeeping duties for the woman of the home. The introduction of the washing machine replaced the reliance on professional laundresses— instead, the housewife could do the work for free. The mechanization of the work of social reproduction, in this account, serves to shore up a gendered division of labor, rather than reduce the time spent in toil. “The end result is that housewives, even of the most comfortable classes (in our generally now comfortable society) are doing housework themselves.”

Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work

#Breaking Things at Work #gender #suburbia #technology

[emptyanddark]

"Instead of imagining a world without work that will never come to pass, we should examine the ways historical struggles posited an alternative relationship to work and liberation, where control over the labor process leads to greater control over other social processes, and where the ends of work are human enrichment rather than abstract productivity. furthermore, these struggles point toward the only vehicle for a liberation from capitalism: the composition of a militant struggling class that attacks capital in all its manifold domination, including the technological".

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job by Gavin Mueller

#book quotes #currently reading #capitalism #luddism #political economy #breaking things at work #gavin mueller #history #political history #labor #labor relations #class struggle #marxism #technology #politics #verso books #book rec #nonfiction #r/ #book recommendations #writings

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

By Gavin Mueller.

#Breaking Things at Work #Gavin Mueller

[draconic-absurdism]

The completed POOLROOMS series: THE SYMBOLIC, THE SENSORY, AND THE AUTISTIC

#furry #weirdfur #anthro #clean furry #safe fur work #the backrooms #liminal space #poolrooms #pooltoy #inflatable #actually autistic #shapeshifter #mimic #this is the last thing i am posting before going on break!

[danggerine]

going insane thinking about the harrow and palamedes friendship. harrow, who has never met another necromancer her age forming a bizarro 3D chess rivalry while pal worries about her safety at every possible turn. harrow, who is up to her eyebrows in paranoia and secrecy, trusting the sixth house with gideon unconscious and hurt, letting them into the ninth house quarters unsupervised. if “i cannot conceive of a universe without you in it” is goth for i love you, “death first to vultures and scavengers” has got to be goth for i love you (platonic). pal’s first reaction when harrow comes into his bubble in the river is to scoop her up in a hug, and at this point she doesn’t remember anything about him because cutting out all her memories of gideon is impossible without cutting out memories of the sixth, but she still makes him a skelehand to inhabit anyway. when harrow’s memories are finally whole, she tells dulcinea she couldn’t face pal knowing that his pen pal girlfriend died on her account, but the next time she “faces” him, palamades’s soul is in someone else’s body and harrow’s body is full of nona’s soul. he spends six months protecting and caring for harrow’s body (and nona obv), believing in the possibility of bringing her back to it the same way cam believed in him. “god, do you know i miss harrow terribly.” and by the time harrow comes back to her body at the very end of ntn, pal is gone forever, fully pauled. the last time harrow and palamades see each other as their complete selves is in canaan house, alive and unlyctored. two of the smartest and loneliest people in the solar system meet each other in the worst of circumstances and spend the rest of the story dancing around each other as fragments of themselves, trying to care about each other in the interim but never fully meeting like they did the first time. a friendship made almost entirely of missing the other person. “do you know i miss harrow terribly.” god. i need to lie down

#behold: a block of text i do not feel like putting paragraph breaks in #i am so fucking crushed that they try so hard to take care of each other in different ways but never see each other ever again #he gave her a lift you off the floor hug in the bubble and she didnt even know why. #the thing that made him miss harrow was ‘look at me like you’ve worked out how to kill me’ bc he knows scowling is her display of affection #she couldn’t even REMEMBER him in htn but she helped camilla find his soul and put him back together anyway #is this anything. am i sounding as insane as i feel #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #palamedes sextus #katie don’t look #ntn spoilers #htn spoilers #gtn spoilers

[robert-deniro]

VIGGO MORTENSEN

as Aragorn, in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

#filmedit #tolkienedit #lotredit #aragornedit #tolkiensource #lotrgifs #userconstance #userlenny #usersugar #filmgifs #moviegifs #fyeahmovies #adaptationsdaily #viggo mortensen #lotr #aragorn son of arathorn #[REDACTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!] is all i have to say #anyway not him going through a breakup in this and then walking up to eowyn Like That after helm's deep. like. estel explain yourself. #edit: making this pre-breaking my arm is kinda mad ngl. like not me having the toe breaking moment on kicking a ball at a work thing #if only in my case it was the toes as well. anyway.....We Move.......

[kuradex]

day 260 Swampert

buy stickers, commission a pokemon, or support me on kofi!

#swampert #pokemon #pkmnart #pokemon fanart #pokemon art #pokemonart #i'll post the compilation post for the prev generation and sticker (pre)orders soon! im just busy this week 🙇‍♂️ #(would people want me to put up sticker preorders for stuff i haven't posted yet here--i've been working on some evo lines together #even if its not part of the current gen) #also my queue does run out monday so i might take another break starting then to focus working on some other things #also sorry for not responding to individual asks but unless they're inquiries related to comms i like hoarding them (thank you everyone 🥺!)

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

#also idk how to tell you this but even if it were true. wealthy children potentially sacrificing their educational careers to protest is #a good thing actually. idk how to tell you that caring about people from other nations is good #personal #“this war has nothing to do with most students cuz nobody's getting drafted” idk how to explain to you that we should be angry #that our tuitions of 10s of thousands of dollars that we pay every year for an education is being used to fund a genocidal campaign #also the implication that if you go to a uni institution you are automatically privileged by participation no matter your bg #i didn't /want/ to go to this school. i was supposed to go to a school with an art/animation program. but i realized my immigrant #parents have been working their whole lives to get me here. and turning the opportunity down would be a disservice to their sacrifice #this is getting into convos of “what 2nd gen kids owe their parents” which is different for everyone but. yeah #i just get pissed off at seeing people misrepresenting student bodies as “wealthy” and “privileged” and “elite” when it's such a blatant li #i remember a year ago a friend told me they can't fly home to hong kong for winter break because the plane tickets are too expensive #so they have to find temporary housing around the area #last quarter for a film doc class my film partner made a doc on a small group of marxist grad students from india discussing praxis #during a rally a few months ago in response to police presence the coalition invited palestinian students to speak about their experiences #and lead songs and read poems they wrote. these are STUDENTS. are they elitist too? #this is not to disregard my own personal privilege either. #this whole narrative's just to rationalize a lack of empathy to me. seeing a 19yo student get shot by a rubber bullet and your first #reaction is “HAW! HAW! bet richy rich didn't see THAT coming when she put on her terrorist hood!” #newsflash. these big uni campuses are HAUNTED by the violence of past protests and revolutions and police brutality. we know. #why do you think these coalitions have been making reinforced barricades at record speed

[nitronine]

Sometimes I wanna send out a psychic beam to every tumblr user that just says "stop reblogging unsourced screenshots of tweets about current events like they're news articles because that is the absolute easiest way to spread misinformation"

reblog things when they are sourced and also LOOK AT THE SOURCES. are they credible? is there any bias? use your BRAIN. Activism is useless at best and dangerous at worst when all you have is incorrect information. And hey, if you go out and look for a source based on a screenshotted tweet and it turns out to be true? Link the fucking article so others can see it too.

#it's so disappointing seeing ppl reblog blindly from nativenews when they don't provide sources. #someone sent them an ask asking for a source once and their entire response was “twitter” #we can do better. we have to do better. #and hey. I'm guilty of this too #I'm working hard to break the habit of reblogging things that support my worldview without thought and research

[hajihiko]

Thunderclouds 🌩

#Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #Hajime hinata #super danganronpa 2 #sdr2 #danganronpa 2 #kuzuhina #an art #I had this song on repeat when I had my first relationship fight bc i was somewhat excited #Not like I enjoy fighting but like 'oh shit ok it's a relationship milestone lets go I'm ready to WORK THINGS OUT HEALTHILY' #Bc the line is 'Dont be afraid of the thunderclouds' lol. Anyway. #Sth abt anger issues & removing yourself from a situation but also some ppl can take the heat bc they know when you actually mean what u sa #A break from the angstsss!

[probablyasocialecologist]

Free software is an example of a Luddite technology: an innovation in the interest of the preservation of practitioners’ autonomy against the imposition of control over the labor process by capitalists. By “breaking” software copyright and challenging closed and proprietary business models connected to it, free and open-source software has helped preserve independent and craft-like working conditions for programmers for decades. In addition to launching important software projects, like the operating system Linux, the free software movement was instrumental in establishing nonproprietary coding languages as standard in the industry, which meant that skill development, rather than being controlled exclusively by large corporations, could be done through open community involvement.

Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work

#Breaking Things at Work #free software #Linux #open source

[emmster]

Little wip 👀

(Actually proud of my lineart here hence I’m showing it off)

#art wip #my art #simon ghost riley mw2 #sergeant soap mactavish #johnny soap mactavish #Johnny and Simon #ghostsoap #soapghost #soap and ghost #ghost x soap #Ghoap #procreate #mw2 2022 #mw2 #cod mw2 ghost soap #work in progress #kinda a bit of a break inbetween working on things #lined like 5 pages of the comic today that was *fun*

[tatck]

hell yeah i'm back on my bullshit

#sonic the hedgehog #stvh #stvh!spoiler #sonic fancomic #Sonic will go up against redfur #eggman the goverment the irs #aliens. don't test him #i am aiming to get one more decently sized part out then i'll break again #clip studio now shows me how long i work on things now and i am now realizing i am not very good with time #it takes me a lot longer to draw than i thought

[m0us34rt]

I have no idea what to draw but this is my healthiest coping mechanism :)

#danganronpa #I still can’t figure out how to draw them but this is what I offer y’all #danganronpa goodbye despair #I’m so tired and needed to draw something xD #I have spring break to work on things and have absolutely no inspiration.. :\ #komahina #nagito komaeda #hajime hinata

[factual-fantasy]

#Okay little bit of a lie I DID finish the thing I was workin on #but I called it quits right after XDD #it HURT #like RILLY BAD #and it burnt my widdol thumb too 😭 #and the skin immediately peeled off and EHGR #I might have just wanted an excuse to stop working and take a break ngl- #but still guys listen hot glue is rilly hot okayyyy is hotttt and my lil burn is a big boy burn I promise- #my leg still burns and it hurts to sit criss cross apple saurce 😃👍 #I am the LARGEST baby ever #but hey look spooky eyes how neato #also dramatic drippy face thats rilly fun to draw

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 181

“Hey. Hey Tuck. Tucker. Tuck look. Look.” 

Tucker looked over the edge of the screen lazily, the half interested words on his tongue dying as he let out a wheeze of laughter. “Oh my Ancient Sands, dude, how did you manage that?” 

Danny had, for the last near year, been trying to mix shapeshifting, thank you Amorpho, with duplication. Something he’d apparently succeeded in today, if the massive fuck-you hydra standing before him was any indication. The very pleased looking, well did it count as a hydra if it had wings too? 

“You need to show Sam. Oh my Sands we need to show Val too. And Wes. You did it dude!” He floated up to look at Danny, who did a little twirl to show off. He shook his head, flecks of gold and sand falling from his hair as he laughed. 

“Do you think,” Danny lost it in laughter as several other heads echoed his words, from whichever the main him was. “Holy ancients that’s great- do, do you think we can make a dragon club? Hydras are totally dragons right? Do you think we could pull a Tiamat?” 

He landed on a head, taking a selfie to add to the groupchat labeled Preparations. “Dude, we should, but let me send this to the others first… But I am so down.” 

They can, in fact apparently, pull a Tiamat- with a little help from Princess Dora, practice in front of Frostbite in case something goes wrong, and some advice from Pandora on controlling extra limbs. Honestly, who is going to want to mess with Amity when there’s a giant dragon? And hey, maybe they can break the barrier now! 

The heads for those wondering who I was thinking of for each lol And perhaps what they might all get ((1) Kwan, Pressurized Water) ((2) Wes, Sonic Blast) ((3) Sam, Poison Gas) ((4) Star, Plasma) ((5) Danny, Ice Breath) ((6) Paulina, Acid) ((7) Tucker, Electricity) ((8) Valerie, Fire Breath) ((9) Dash, Pressurized Wind)

#Prompts #The Class Pulls a Tiamat #They’re all adults and graduated #But can’t exactly go anywhere thanks to the shield/barrier around the town #The whole town is now liminal as hell thx to the ecto having nowhere to disperse #Bounced back from the shield back into the city from the portal #Dcxdp #Dpxdc #Dp x Marvel #Whichever works for u #Amity is under an info blackout thanks to the barrier #They have no idea what’s happening outside #Hey if they can’t break the barrier themselves they’ll just combine their might together #Liminal Amity Park #The group when they succeed in becoming dragon: We are Death Destroyer of Worlds #The GIW panic and call heroes in when a Very Big THING not only approaches the ghost shield #but actually looks like it might get through #The rest of Amity might pull a Become Dragon too but honestly up to yall #Amity: Ghosts are illegal but dragons aren't!