Just as a general statement, I love it when people take a thought of mine and elaborate on it. Whether it's an observation, a theory, a head canon, a plot bunny, or even a short fic.
Because while anything tagged short ficlet may get expanded, or get a part two, it most likely won't. And even if it does the odds we'd take it the same direction are pretty slim.
I would ask that if you do it in a separate post, rather than reblogging with additions, you tag me or send me a link. Because I would be very curious to see what my weird little thoughts inspire.
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Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ign
Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore their boss’s calls, messages, and emails after their shift ends, in the most significant overhaul of Mexican labor law in a generation.
Mexico has rewritten its constitution to guarantee every worker in the country a shorter working week, a legal right to switch off from work after hours, and a guarantee that no employer can cut their pay in response, enacting in a single legislative package a set of labor rights that workers in wealthier countries have spent decades campaigning for without success.
The Epithet Epidemic is really dire in many fandoms but the one that really kills me is when a Heated Rivalry fic refers to Shane as “the older man”. he is one month older 😭
hi!! over the past year or so, i’ve been radicalizing leftwards (does that make sense?), and while i do like to say that i have a pretty good understanding of things like socialism and communism and such, one thing i haven’t really been able to figure out is what anarchism is and how it works. like, i get the basic idea, but what with google being google and most people on breadtube not being anarchist, it’s definitely not as easy to research as socialism.
anyways, tl;dr: what defines anarchism and how does it work?
thanks in advance! have a cookie 🍪
"Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence,—the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will establish well-being for all."
leftward ho! thanks for writing. these questions are always difficult to answer because i don’t know where you’re coming from on your personal journey. but i’ll try to answer some of the basics and recommend some good resources to start with.
first of all, there are many anarchisms and if you ask three anarchists you’ll get five opinions. but probably the most prevalent form of anarchism is anarcho-communism, so while i’ll try to talk broadly from a general anarchist position, much of it be from an anarchocommunist perspective for simplicity’s sake.
at it’s most basic, anarchism is an opposition to hierarchy, to one person having control over another. it is a radical commitment to compassion and absolute freedom. like communists, anarchists want a moneyless, stateless, and classless society. unlike leninists, who falsely claim to be communists, we know that there has never been a good state, and never can be. they are by their very nature oppressive, and cannot be used as a means to an end to achieve communism. no group or individual can wield that much power over others and not become corrupted by it. absolute power corrupts absolutely, etc. so while we are committed to the fight against capitalism, we are also committed to the fight against the state. they are intertwined and must be defeated simultaneously. so we believe in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion, and the abolition of money and private property, as the best way to ensure the basic and higher needs of everyone are met.
if you haven’t read it yet, the wikipedia article for anarchism is actually a pretty good place to start:
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions they claim maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessarily limited to, the state[1] and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies or other forms of free associations. As a historically left-wing movement, usually placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum, it is usually described alongside communalism and libertarian Marxism as the libertarian wing (libertarian socialism) of the socialist movement.
Humans lived in societies without formal hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires. With the rise of organised hierarchical bodies, scepticism toward authority also rose. Although traces of anarchist thought are found throughout history, modern anarchism emerged from the Enlightenment. During the latter half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century, the anarchist movement flourished in most parts of the world and had a significant role in workers' struggles for emancipation. Various anarchist schools of thought formed during this period. Anarchists have taken part in several revolutions, most notably in the Paris Commune, the Russian Civil War and the Spanish Civil War, whose end marked the end of the classical era of anarchism. In the last decades of the 20th and into the 21st century, the anarchist movement has been resurgent once more.
Anarchism employs a diversity of tactics in order to meet its ideal ends which can be broadly separated into revolutionary and evolutionary tactics; there is significant overlap between the two, which are merely descriptive. Revolutionary tactics aim to bring down authority and state, having taken a violent turn in the past, while evolutionary tactics aim to prefigure what an anarchist society would be like. Anarchist thought, criticism, and praxis have played a part in diverse areas of human society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
Anarchism - Wikipedia
i don’t know how much original theory you’ve read before, but i’ll give some reading recs. personally i’m a big fan of peter kropotkin, and found the conquest of bread to be a breath of fresh air after studying marx for years. others have recommended starting with errico malatesta’s anarchy or peter gelderloos’ anarchy works. and zoe baker (anarchopac) is excellent if videos or tweets are more your speed.
Pëtr Kropotkin The Conquest of Bread 1906
Pëtr Kropotkin Mutual Aid A Factor of Evolution 1902
Errico Malatesta Anarchy 1891 Freedom Press 1974, 1994. ISBN 0 900384 74 3. L’Anarchia was written in 1891, appeared in English translation
Peter Gelderloos Anarchy Works 2010 Anarchy Works was originally published by Little Black Cart and can be found in book form here.
I'm a trans woman (she/her), who talks about the theory and history of anarchism, feminism and marxism. I have a PhD in the history of anarc
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hopefully that’s enough to get you started but please feel free to ask questions, and there are many more knowledgable people here who can help as well.
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Comedians in the '70s and cartoons in the '90s: weird how your kids can watch violence and murder on TV but the FCC wants us dead if we say the word nipple.
Internet users in 2025: you didn't warn me that there would be erotic themes in the game you just mentioned which is fucked up because I thought it was going to be a normal "morally struggle with killing people" game but now it's gone too far :-/
We need to call people posers again. We gotta. We just gotta. No you aren't a countercultural weirdo because you made a battle jacket, you get tangibly viscerally uncomfortable if someone is breast feeding in public and that is incredibly square of you.
if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills
where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*
this is exactly why I love talking about historical passive heating and cooling techniques
oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?
and we're still building them?
while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?
uh. okay then
(also public transit. the history of public transit in the US is infuriating, because we had it! and then we destroyed it!)
Reading someone from India and someone from the US complain about this, while being from Spain and also facing this problem makes me realise that what op meant with "increase our heating or cooling bills" is way more widespread than I expected.
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I've seen Death depicted as a card dealer or other sort of gambler, a guy in a suit, a farmer, a robed apparition, and any other number of things, but this? This has to be the best Death I've seen yet. An old seductress saying "hey kid, don't you wanna die in a trench for a government that doesn't give a fuck about you, just like your dear old dad?" This goes hard as fuck.
April, 1923 Brooklyn Murder, Inc. boss in the making, Albert Anastasia, only 21 but already had beaten a death sentence at Sing Sing and had three bodies to his name. Anastasia is on the left in this photo from him in court for the murder of Vincenzo Busardo. Brooklyn didn't know it yet, but Murder, Inc. had just found it's future boss. From Friends of Ours, FB.
Visiting another city, we entered an African shop that sold fabrics and some homemade stuff (out of fabrics). When I was paying, I noticed that they had a poster saying
"It's not cultural appropriation, it's cultural colaboration. When you buy African fabrics from African sellers, we are sharing our culture with you and you are contributing to African artisans who make this in their native countries. Share cultures with respect" (more or less, it was a bit longer)
For context: this came out in 2011 in Australia. Same-sex marriage would not be legalized until December 2017.
It was only legalized in 8 US states (the 8th only a few months before), and wouldn’t be legalized nation-wide until 2015.
It was only legal in TEN COUNTRIES in 2011. We wouldn’t hit 20 countries until 2017. (Australia was 23rd)
As of today (April 14, 2026), I believe only 38 countries have fully legalized same-sex marriage. Out of somewhere around 200 countries in the world. That’s only ~19% of countries.
autism tests are so funny. I'm extremely literal most of the time, but people don't tell me that generally, so I'm inclined to answer disagree. because I'm taking the statement too literally
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maybe it's because I'm still thinking about mermay but when I saw this cute squirrel video I thought how wonderful it is that there are so many ways to communicate nonverbally and ask for affection, and well, the two ideas melded in my brain to say:
imagine a Steddie fic, where Steve is stranded on an island and sure he's going to die until he meets mer!Eddie who helps catch fish for him and shows him a spot on the island where a freshwater stream is feeding into the ocean, so Steve doesn't starve
and Eddie can't talk because he made a deal with a seawitch that cost him his voice, because the man he thought he loved didn't love him back 🥺 so he got turned back into a merman except with no voice. which is a shame because he loved singing so much!
Eddie still has ways of communicating, with his expressive face and splashing his tail when Steve teases him. and he still has two perfectly good hands. hands that Steve can touch and hold as they sit in the shallow water by the shore. hands that can brush Steve’s hair back as they share a kiss - one Eddie hopes is True Love this time so he can be human with a voice again and really tell Steve how he feels ❤️
I wrote a little something, hope you don't mind I played in your yard (or inlet, as the case may be). warning for a little fish gore:
- - -
The mermaid dude is back.
"Hey!" Steve says, not bothering to keep the relief out of his voice. Every time the guy leaves, Steve starts to convince himself the whole thing has been a sunstroke-induced hallucination. "What have you got for me this time?"
So far Steve's new friend has brought him a scrap of fishing net, some driftwood, and a shimmering palm-sized shell to scoop up drinking water from the little spring just inland. No sun block, and no bucket of fried chicken, but Steve supposes beggars can't be choosers.
The mer-dude grins, quick and sharp, propelling himself out of the surf to sit on a flat rock. The thing he's holding gleams in the sun. Treasure, Steve thinks, wading closer.
The treasure wriggles.
"Oh, whoa," Steve says, empty stomach clenching as he stares at the fish. Because that's what it is. "You brought me food?"
Mer-guy nods proudly, holding the fish up for inspection. Steve has no idea what kind it is. His dad never took him fishing, and all the fish he's ever eaten has been either breaded or covered in cheese and cream. This one is big and fat, which must mean it's a good one.
It looks kind of slimy, too. Steve doesn't really want to touch it. "This is great," he says, putting his hands on his hips instead. "Now we just gotta figure out a way to, uh, cook it somehow. You got any matches?"
The mermaid-man — Steve has got to figure out what to call him — shakes his head, sending droplets of seawater flying. Eat, he mouths, still not making a sound.
"I can't eat it like that," Steve says, wrinkling his nose. "It's not even dead!"
The eye-roll he gets in return is expansive. Mer-dude shifts his grip on the fish and jabs a clawed thumb into its back before slicing its belly open and yanking the guts out in one quick swipe.
Steve recoils. "Dude! What the hell!"
What? the mer-guy's eyebrows say, as if Steve's the one who's being a big freak. Steve watches as he carves off a glistening slice of raw orange fish-flesh and stuffs it in his mouth with every sign of enjoyment.
It's gross. Completely and utterly. Steve's going to barf if he tries it, and get like ten different diseases on top of that.
His stomach gurgles.
"Ugh, fine," he says, holding out a hand. "Fine, give me some of that."
Mermaid-guy clicks his tongue and beckons Steve closer with a blood-stained finger, and when Steve crouches down he carves off another slice and holds it up to Steve's face.
"Wha—" Steve says, and gets a mouthful of raw fish for his trouble.
The texture is kind of like jello shots, squishy-firm. The taste—
"Oh," Steve says, chewing. "Oh, that's actually good."
Duh, the mer-dude's expression says, eyes creasing at the corners. The end of his long tail flicks out of the water, curling closer to Steve's legs.
