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Yeah, theyâre gonna lift the working class right into a company town.
Only rich people would think this was a good idea.
Learn your history, people!
We DID this shit- for DECADES. It was fucking awful. Companies paid people in âscripâ which was only good for use at the Company Store. So effectively, the company got your money coming and going, and they didnât pay you at all. And the longer it went on, the less likely you were to have savings that could have helped you move away or get a different job.
Iâve already seen one ad trying very sneakily to promote the idea of âAmazonBucksâ, including giving them to workers as rewards, or instead of things like healthcare, sick days, and PTO.
Hereâs your reminder that scrip is fucking illegal, that company towns are always a shit idea that should stay dead and buried, and that if unions didnât work? Every big company out there wouldnât be fighting tooth and nail to destroy them.
#UnionStrong #SolidarityForever
We even have old songs about how this is a bad idea
You know how shitty it is that your health care insurance is directly tied to your job? Imagine if your housing worked the same way. Your husband or wife dies in a warehouse accident and you have 30 days to find a new place to live.
I live in the North of England, which, because Londoners are inherently bigots, is the middle of England. We had Mill towns: Some mill owner with Notions would build a Model town or a set of terraces and lure people in from the smallholdings to work in the mill.
And then they'd own you: You'd buy your bread at the company store at their price, you'd pay them rent, be fined for being late, for dropping your work, for missing quota... If you were super unlucky you'd have to use the company coin, which couldn't be spent anywhere else. Very EA. You'd get a half day off on Sunday to got to church but you'd work 7 days a week. Your kids would get a few hours school, because some interfering politician had made a law saying children had to have an education, then they'd be expected to show for work.
They'd have to crawl under the looms, while they were in operation and scavenge thread and chaff. Meaning the foreman would occasionally haul you off the machine you were working on and tell you your kid just got scalped because the machine caught her hair and ate the top of her head. So sad, back to work, PS you're being fined a penny for not being at your station.
The soot would get everywhere: We were still power washing it off inb teh 90s. Stuff that didn't get it is still stained black. The dust from the fabric would give you Black Lung, and you'd retire at 50, having been deaf for 30 years, hacking up chunks of lung, and be dead by 55. Then the company would charge your family to bury you. And yes: they'd throw them out of the tiny house that shared a toilet with 20 other families.
Oh yes: The shop floor was so loud it'd deafen the workers, and they'd all be lip reading and using ad-hoc local sign language to talk. You know that running joke about OSHA being written in blood? Yeah. It was.
So here's the interesting part. You know who dug us out of this corporate hell?
Quakers.
They took offense at all of this and started showing up, running Co-Op shops. They did the same as the Corporations: Everyting you had to buy, or wanted, was at the Co-Op. Houses (One of the biggest mortgage lenders was a Co-operative bank until Capitalism happened to it), food, clothes, funerals, furniture and banking. You put your wages in to the Co-Op and they'd let you buy everything on lay-away.
And that helped break the Mill's monopoly.
And they also made... chocolate.
The Quakers came to the conclusion that Chocolate was morally correct: It cheered you up, was nourishing, and had no real drawbacks (Hey! Look, white people thinking - They never looked too hard into where cocao was coming from or what the conditions were like. If you're feeling too happy and cheerful go look up the Belgian Congo some time.)
Anyway, you still find these weird little Yorkshire towns with these huge Mill factory buildings, sitting right next to a chocolate factory: Rowntrees (Bought by NestlĂŠ), Mackintoshs, and Cadburys were all Quaker owned co-operative factories with on-site showers, and profit sharing.
Then Capitalism noticed and ate them, yum yum.
Anyway, point being is that there's a working model for how to wreck a Corporation Town: You clone thier operation with a non-profit or Co-Op. They provide the same products and services that Corporations provide, but they put the money back into the pockets of the people, they circulate money instead of accumulating it.
I'm salty about this topic because I live here. I've worked in the Industrial Museum, met the survivors of the Mills (Old age takes no prisoners) and watched the literal colour of my home change from soot black to creamy brown stone, lived in the Mill terraces, watched NestlĂŠ wipe out an entire company and squat in it's corpse while slowly degrading the products to pump up the profits at the consumer's expense and of course run slavery plantations.
Anyway: TL:DR Company towns are slavery and always have been.
Quaker-style co-ops (and the highly specific rewilding project) are part of the plan for if we won lottery money!
Actually life is beautiful because the sound I make while trying to breathe around hot food sounds like my dog trying to eat an apple. When I yawn my cat tries to put his face in my mouth like a little dentist man and when he yawns I put my finger in his obligate-carnivore trapzone and we both know he will not hurt me. When I do not fold my clothes, they do not hold it against me.
I am demonstrably sad, and lonely, and full of fear. But there are other people who will hold my hand, who will point out the hawk overhead, who will give you That Look in a public place. The other day at a coffee shop a child said "look! It's snowing!" so all of us strangers went to go look out the windows. It wasn't the first snow and it won't be the last but wasn't it lovely like that?
How wonderful to live in a world where birds and frogs both say beep! How wonderful to have an ocean of beautiful sharks with their dinosaur teeth! How wonderful the moon and her changing face, how wonderful the bees and their dancing to communicate, how wonderful shrimp and their forbidden layers of vision! How wonderful, you, and what you will give the world! The way we love things enough to spend entire blogs devoted to them? How people will let me explain my Pokemon team to them? How we will both jump at the scare in the movie, how we laugh so loudly, how it feels to give someone your baking? How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.
This is the process of getting better. With wonderful people and wonderful strangers and wonderful friends: I am getting better, slowly. Thank you, whoever you are. In some way, you've been wonderful, and left a wonderful place in the world to ripple out to me. In some small way - isn't it beautiful - I promise, you've been helping.
I donât think youâre ready to have an adult conversation about politics until youâre able to admit that there are things you love and enjoy that would not and should not exist in a just world. $8 billion dollar budget movies every other month donât exist in a just world. New 900 GB AAA video games every year donât exist in a just world. Next day delivery doesnât exist in a just world. 80 different soda brands donât exist in a just world.Â
All of those things come from exploitation on some level, and if you wouldnât trade those for a world where everyone can eat and have a home no matter who they are or what they do, I donât know what to tell you.Â
i think about this a lot from an environmentalist perspective because the reality of fixing the climate - correctly, justly, sustainably - is that life is going to have to change substantially. And i mean specifically for folk in âwealthyâ countries which take up a disproportionate amount of the joint global carbon budget, who have got used to a standard of living that (environment aside!) has always been built on the exploitation of countries you donât think about and (environment aside!) needs well-thought-out restitution and rebalancing.
& the goal of that isnât exactly to make folk feel guilty, but like
mentally preparing oneself; starting to build consensus for it; starting to imagine ways it could be cool and good and beautiful, equal-or-better; starting to work on savoring experiences which are âthis is worse but itâs morally betterâ as a form of beauty; building practical changes into everyday life, where one is available - or building up to them - or working politically for them.
That meme about âactually itâs only ten companies that do all the pollutingâ isnât incorrect, but it can also function as a form of soft progressive climate denial. A way to reassure people that they can carry on as usual - a desire which is equally seductive across the political spectrum. iâve had these conversations with so many people now, and they always boil down to âI just donât want to lose a part of my life which i likeâ, with varying degrees of political ideology and rhetorical sophistication as trimmings. Thatâs not wrong or bad, but - small things are going to have to give throughout our way of life. Probably big things as well.
Imagining a future in which i donât eat an orange again, is that bad or good? It could be good. If the trade off is between my pleasure in food and someone elseâs suffering, it could be very good. And itâs a cliche of the war generation that they have this anecdote about ânever having seen an orange beforeâ and i think about, did those people not have full, happy lives with their families and friends and passions despite their lack of consumer choice around rare international fruits and the answer was yes. humans have survived for centuries without this much choice. Perhaps a lower-luxury life can be liberationary, freeing us from the other ways that corporate logic seeps into our daily lives, freeing us from some of the demands consumer capitalism traps us with.
& shaming yourself or others isnât the goal here; nor is putting yourself to a disadvantage if you have no other options; nor is opting for personal austerity over political participation. This post doesnât really demand any of that, because itâs not helpful.
Itâs more about the terrain of the argument. When the conversations happen, are you able to acknowledge - with regret, perhaps, but with honesty - that life will need to change, and it is an essential part of the process; or are you jumping to a short term defense of the status quo because thinking about that change is still too uncomfortable.
As a way of thinking about this, consider replacing âEnvironmentalist demand X is problematic as fuck because itâll impact group Yâ with âEnvironmentalist demand X is probably necessary as part of a profound reorientation of how we distribute resources internationally, but itâll impact group Y: what are the options we can start working on now to minimise or prevent that impactâ
I think thereâs a tendency to focus on particular small consumer luxuries and to panic about losing them, because those are the only luxuries most of us have, and so when we imagine losing them we donât imagine anything replacing them.
And I feel that framing âyou must give up cheap, ubiquitous orangesâ as a lower-luxury life is itself kind of buying into the idea that that kind of small consumer luxury is what luxury is, and obscures the ways that a more sustainable way of living incorporatesâmust incorporateâthings that a lot of people see as not just luxurious, but unattainably so.
I own one bespoke garment, a wool greatcoat. I saved up for months to afford it. Itâs beautiful, and its materials and construction mean that I can continue to pay a tailor to mend and remake it until the fabric wears out. (Wears out at places that arenât stress points, that is; I have already had silk facings added to the edges of the pockets, where it was starting to wear through, and had the cuffs turned; when the cuffs start to wear out again I will have decorative ones added in a contrasting fabric, and probably epaulets or another accent on the shoulders where my purse strap bites into the fabric. I have already squirreled away a vintage Persian lamb muff with the lining rotted away for possible use as cuff and collar facings. But I digress.)
Most people who donât sew themselves, though, have never had even a single garment made to their measure and their specifications; when most people hear that we need to shrink our wardrobes, they donât think about going back to a landscape of tailoring and bespoke clothing. Theyâre not imagining the three perfect dresses theyâd commission from a dressmaker, and how comfortable and beautiful they would be; theyâre not imagining having the stability to save up for a bespoke dress, without student loans or usurious housing prices sucking up everything they earnâtheyâre imagining Thanos snapping his fingers and leaving them with the same shitty clothes, just fewer of them, and not being able to replace them because they still have the same drains on their income, with no end in sight.
When you tell Americans that we need a future without passenger air travel, what we hear is you will never be able to go more than a dayâs travel from home again; you will never again see your family 900 miles awayâbecause itâs almost impossible to imagine having the leisure time to travel by a slower method.Â
So. I entirely agree with
consider replacing âEnvironmentalist demand X is problematic as fuck because itâll impact group Yâ with âEnvironmentalist demand X is probably necessary as part of a profound reorientation of how we distribute resources internationally, but itâll impact group Y: what are the options we can start working on now to minimise or prevent that impact.â
But I think we need to start, not even with Environmentalist demand X would trade A for B (fast fashion for small bespoke wardrobes; fast air travel for slow sailing ships, fewer oranges but more rewilded blight-resistant chestnuts) but with Why are group Yâs lives so constrained and miserable that cutting down on some consumer goods feels like the apocalypse, and how do we fix that?
letâs make soup! just toss whatever you got in the pot and reblog to share it at the end :)
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to be clear I want you to reblog it when you see it. we share the SOUP at the end folks. the soup.

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Well met, traveller! Tell me, what is it that you need most?
A little change of scenery.
A glimpse into the future.
Knowledge from the universe.
Inner peace. Possibly a nap.
A home-cooked meal.
Something to pass the time.
A grand adventure to a far-off place.
Ah, I see. Thank you for your honesty. Please, take as much as you need. There will be enough for everyone.
A change of scenery. Simple, but marvelous.
A glimpse into your future, for you brave souls! (Divination is tricky business, tread carefully my dear!)
Knowledge from the universe, eh? Perhaps this will be of interest to you.
Rest for the weary, right this way. It's a personal favourite of mine.
A home-cooked meal you say? I like how you think! A labour of love worth savoring (and sharing with friends!)
For something to pass the time, try looking here, or if that doesn't hit the spot, here.
Seeking adventure to a far-off place? I know a way to get you there.
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I hope you found what you were looking for!
Okay, not to be overdramatic but this is one of those things that makes me feel so in awe and in love with people. OP spent their time making this?? And it's delightful?? And full of compassion and curiosity about strangers on a hellsite. Take what you need, take a breath, enjoy this shared moment of human experience. I did. đ
Ways the average person can raise awareness for World Wetlands Day!
There are several ways the average person can raise awareness for World Wetlands Day:
Share information about wetlands and the importance of their conservation on social media. Use the hashtag #WorldWetlandsDay to join the conversation and share facts, photos, and personal experiences related to wetlands.
Participate in local events and activities to raise awareness about wetlands. Many organizations host events such as educational walks, bird-watching tours, and conservation projects that are open to the public.
Write to your representatives and urge them to support wetland conservation efforts. You can also call on them to protect wetlands from development and pollution, and to support the restoration of degraded wetland habitats.
Educate others about wetlands by sharing information and resources with family, friends, and community members.
Take personal actions to protect wetlands in your own community by participating in clean-up efforts, promoting sustainable use of wetlands, and encouraging others to do the same.
Support organizations that work to protect wetlands and their biodiversity. You can donate money or time to help wetland conservation efforts.
Lastly, you can also make conscious choices that help wetlands, such as using natural fertilizer in your garden, reducing your water consumption and using water-saving devices, and choosing products that are environmentally friendly.
Remember, World Wetlands Day is not only a day to raise awareness but also to take action to protect wetlands and ensure that they are around for generations to come.
Can we also post wet beasts about it?
There is no reforming this.
A cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, was killed by Los Angeles police after he got in a traffic accident and officers who showed up repeatedly Tased and restrained him in the middle of the street, according to body-camera footage and his familyâs account.
Footage from the 3 January encounter released on Wednesday showed that Keenan Anderson, a 31-year-old high school teacher and father, was begging for help as multiple officers held him down, and at one point said, âTheyâre trying to George Floyd me.â One officer had his elbow on Andersonâs neck while he was lying down before another Tased him for roughly 30 seconds straight before pausing and Tasing him again for five more seconds.
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Bioregional Quiz
[Transcription:
Trace the water you drink from precipitation to tap.
How many days til the moon is full? (Slack of 2 days allowed.)
What soil series are you standing on?
What was the total rainfall in your area last year (July-June)? (Slack: 1 inch for every 20 inches.)
When was the last time a fire burned in your area?
What were the primary subsistence techniques of the culture that lived in your area before you?
Name 5 edible plants in your region and their season(s) of availability.
From what direction do winter storms generally come in your region?
Where does your garbage go?
How long is the growing season where you live?
On what day of the year are the shadows the shortest where you live?
When do the deer rut in your region, and when are the young born?
Name five grasses in your area. Are any of them native?
Name five resident and five migratory birds in your area.
What is the land use history of where you live?
What primary ecological event/process influenced the land form where you live? (Bonus special: what's the evidence?)
What species have become extinct in your area?
What are the major plant associations in your region?
From where you're reading this, point north.
What spring wildflower is consistently among the first to bloom where you live?
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Source: "Where You At â A Bioregional Quizâ by Leonard Charles, Jim Dodge, Lynn Milliman and Victoria Stockley, first published in Winter 1981 issue of Coevolution Quarterly. (sourced by OP in the notes)
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Scotland will have an independence referendum on October 19th 2023. If you live in Scotland pls vote to finally be free of the shit ass uk
Wishing y'all luck, y'all deserve to be free.
If you have 10 minutes please take the time to make a comment.
You can add a comment in support of protecting trans kids in school here.Â
[Image ID: Tweet made by user Erin Reed with twitter handle ErinInTheMorn. Text reads Hey everyone! If you have ever asked âwhat can I do to help trans rights,â I have something for you. Bidenâs title IX change protecting trans people in schools is open comment. It is getting FLOODED by TERF comments. GO MAKE A COMMENT IN SUPPORT! followed by a link.]
In addition to this I would suggest adding some kind of personal comment so it doesnât get weeded out for being on a script.Â
[Image ID: Tweet made by twitter user Jojo twitter handle the other jojo. Text reads as follows Can anyone come up with a sample script for something helpful to say? I know âmy own wordsâ would be best, but I have cognitive difficulties that make this kind of thing hard for me. Text ends then is followed by a reply by twitter user Steph twitter handle SSnorkels. Text reads as follows âI am in support of trans youth fully participating in sports like their cis classmates! There is no need to monitor, restrict, or ban their participation in activities. They are kids and deserve to have fun in school.â ]
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Yes, there is a point to boycotting Amazonâs Ring of Power
As calls to boycott Amazonâs Rings of Power gain steam, Iâm seeing more and more comments that amount to âthis is pointlessâ and âboycotting this show isnât going to actually hurt Amazon in any meaningful way.â First of all: not with that attitude!
But boycotting the show is about a lot more than just withholding streaming revenue from Amazon Prime. Bezos wanted his own Game of Thrones not just to make money, but to create a popular product that will become the first thing you think of when you hear âAmazonâ. Amazon wants to use the nostalgia of LOTR not just to bring in new subscribers, but to provide a distraction from all of its bad press. Amazon wants to use the diversity of The Rings of Power not just to attract viewers, but to deflect attention away from its own problems of racism and discrimination against employees.Â
All in all, this TV show isnât just about making money, itâs about sanitizing Amazonâs image, turning it from âthat company that abuses its workersâ into âthat company that makes the TV show I like.â Amazon already does this will other entertainment, but nothing with the sheer popularity, name recognition and nostalgia of LOTR.
âBut,â someone will say, âAmazon canât sanitize its image, because we all know how evil they are.â Do we all know that? You might think you know just how awful Amazon is, but there still might be things on this list that will surprise you. And donât forget that not everyone has the same knowledge base. Maybe you know exactly how evil Amazon is, but I receive comments on my posts all the time saying, âI knew Amazon was bad, but I had no idea it was this bad.â Hell, I spent hours researching that post I linked above, and Iâm sure there are many things missing from it.
Even if youâre fully aware of Amazonâs crimes and abuses, thereâs no getting around the fact that The Rings of Power is grabbing headlines and taking up space that should otherwise be used to discuss Amazonâs horrible labor practices. While lots of people are busy reading about the upcoming Rings of Power premiere and speculating about the plot of the show, Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the recent deaths of multiple Amazon workers. And recently Amazon upgraded its air conditioning system in a warehouse after claiming that an employeeâs death there during a heatwave was not caused by the heat.
These workersâ deaths are horrible, and they are recent, and they deserve news coverage. But try searching for âAmazon newsâ. Iâm writing this post on September 1st. Right now all the top headlines are about The Rings of Power, many of them favorable reviews that Amazon has obviously paid news outlets to write. Clearly, this TV show is already proving to be a useful arm of Amazon propaganda.
So, yes. Letting this show flop, not hyping it up, not watching it, and not buying into it will hurt Amazon. Just remember, while theyâre trying to get you to watch The Rings of Power, thereâs a lot theyâre trying to get you to avert your eyes from.
#RejectRingsOfPower
Mississippi's governor says the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency will start distributing both drinking water and non-potable water in
This is not just flooding or a boil water warning.
The city of Jackson, Mississippi does not have water.
After primary pumps failed last month from damage from a prior flood, temporary pumps and generators for the water supply operator failed, leaving the city with no way to move water through the system.
Thereâs literally no water pressure and no ability to clean the contaminated water. It is as if the public water and plumbing does not exist, until they can fix the pumps.
It will cost about $200 million. It will take weeks if not months. The city had been under a boil water warning since JULY, after the primary system failed. Even before, the water system had been underfunded, understaffed, and generally in need of improvements, given the risk of failure from flooding among other things.
In America, 2022, after Flint, there is no excuse for any city to be without water. This would not happen in a government system that responds to the need of the populace instead of wealthy interests. And it is not likely to be the last crisis as climate change delivers drought and rapid flash flooding through irregular weather patterns.

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