The thing is to keep repairing and keep moving. Deliberately not caring if this is pretentious. He/Him. I am an adult. I reblog N/S/F/W; scroll or follow of your own responsibility. As a general rule I do not share crowdfunding requests/links.
If I can figure out how to pin this, an attempt at organizing my tags and keeping track of the exact wording
new: art adventures - rambling about process and techniques and stuff that isnt an actual art piece but is related.
People peopling - when humans are just being goofy doing people things.
Faith in humanity - stuff to counteract the feels that people are all awful
Weird art - this is a compliment. It stood out to me in a way that makes me want to save it so I can find it again and have thoughts about it.
Comment - i have reblogged with a proper reply
Tags - i have left a comment in the tags
Recc - something has twinged and i might look this up later
Laugh RULE - stuff that makes me laugh
Cat TAG - cats being cute and funny. Try not to mix these up.
Nona save - this is saving nona the ninth spoiler material for someone who hasnt read it yet.
Ambition - this is super cool and i maybe want to learn how to do this sometime
Decorate - like moodboard of cool shit basically?
Worldbuilding - this is a fun vibe, keeping it for creative works moodboard. This does not mean im gonna steal your fic or art or whatever, its just saved for maybe later going into the percolation process.
Mine - original post.
I think thats the main ones.
New one: soapbox. For when I realise Im suddenly standing on a soapbox and have been for some time.
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I love being an adult who always puts my hand out to shake when I meet a kid! every single time their face is like "no one does The Adult Greeting Ritual with me, is this a sign of respect or is this man simply unhinged" and then of course as we talk they realise it's both
the thing about Tangled is that this is a story geared towards little girls (even if it's "fun for the whole family," it's a disney princess movie, it's geared towards little girls), and it says, "here is a girl who is naive and doesn't know anything about the 'Real World' or how to navigate it safely and correctly. now pay close attention: the good guys are the ones who help her grow and explore new things while still respecting her own perspective and feelings, not making her feel stupid. the bad guys are the ones who tell her that she is too weak/immature/naive to do the things she wants to do, because she is fragile and needs protecting." and I watched this when I was nine years old and it resonated deep in a part of me that I couldn't articulate with words yet.
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[images: series of tweets from @realavocadofact. tweets read, “they’re not elite they’re rich”, “they’re not better they’re better supplied”, “they’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”, “there is nothing wrong with you; you’re doing your best in a game rigged against you, probably not enough people and fruit tell you that”]
I see this reaction a lot, and I gotta say, it always makes me a little sad. Whenever the conversation of exploitation of labor comes up, inevitably someone finds themselves struggling with the guilt of “It is so important to me not to contribute to exploitation but I cannot do this thing myself and need someone else to do it for me, so how do I even approach that?”
Exploitation isn’t in the hiring of a service worker. Exploitation is in the respect you show them for their ability to perform the service you need from them.
I have been on a cleaning service staff before, and also been someone who hired a cleaning service, and I can tell you for sure that a lot of cleaning crews (especially worker owned ones) absolutely LOVE their clients and are genuinely happy to be able to make their lives better. The clients they don’t like? Those are the ones who disrespect the workers.
When I was involved with a cleaning service, we had everything from little old ladies living alone to McMasions with five cars as clients, and I can assure you that whenever there was someone who clearly hired us because they were overwhelmed or unable to keep their space clean, those were the households where you put a little more elbow grease in and did a deep clean even when it wasn’t paid for, because you could see how much these people were trying and struggling, and they were always so kind and generous and often embarrassed when talking to you about the job.
I only hired a service a couple if times in my life, but whenever I did, I worked with the same people as often as I could, tipped as well as I could afford, and tried to be the kind of client I would want to have, and that’s how I often ended up with my baseboards cleaned too, or my fridge scrubbed and organized or a restorative clean done in a high use room even when that wasn’t what I had scheduled or paid for.
I’ve heard the same thing from all manner of service workers over the years. Many of us like our jobs! We enjoy the work. It’s the customers that can do a number on you.
I think a lot of people are afraid that by needing a service they are inherently exploiting or harming the people who perform that service, and they really aren’t. But it does benefit a capitalist system for us to all be burnt out and overwhelmed because we’re too afraid to hire the help we need. Be upfront and honest with service workers about what you need and why you need it, and treat them with dognity and kindness while they perform your service, and I promise you they will always be happy to answer your call.
Being disabled and using a cleaning service isn’t “buying some else’s labor to increase your ease”. It’s “using limited resources to best balance your needs.”
They can do it faster and more efficiently than you can, because they have the tools and the skills. And the lack of disability. You are giving yourself space to take care of other things, not being lazy.
You are putting money in their pocket. That is not a bad thing.
Listen, let me tell you, okay?
Shortly before I got laid off, I went for a pedicure at my favorite place for the first time in over two years. I’d decided to switch places because it’s a 30-mile-round-trip drive and I wanted something closer to home, but I’d been deeply disappointed by local options, so back to my original spa I went.
Over two years.
I WALKED IN THE DOOR AND THE OWNER GREETED ME BY NAME.
This is a busy place. She sees several hundred people a week.
I didn’t ask, but I’m pretty sure I know why she remembers me, and do you know what I think it is?
1) I’m polite
2) I tip well
3) on the occasions when I’ve seen someone in there decide to get racist over most of the staff being Vietnamese, I give them hell because I know the staff can’t and also I’m white so, sadly, they’re more likely to actually be embarrassed if I do it.
Am I exploiting my pedicure tech? I guess that depends on your definition of exploitation. I have terrible feet (thanks, family) and I appreciate the work of someone trained to deal with the calluses from my weird gait and the toenail that likes to grow into my foot. I make sure they know I appreciate it, both verbally and financially. Is that exploitation?
Or is it “you have a skill I don’t, so please allow me to compensate you for your skill”?
[image 3: Tumblr tags: #Posts that make a disabled woman who was almost ready to finally hire a cleaning service decide to just suffer in silence some more #fuck this honestly lol]
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also like. if you’re paying the cleaning service enough to cover a decent wage for the cleaning staff’s time plus a share of the cleaning supplies and admin staff pay and whatnot (which you probably are) and you’re treating the cleaning staff like people? it is still possible to likely that the cleaning staff are being exploited. by the cleaning service.
that’s not on you. that’s on whoever is pocketing the profits that should’ve been part of the cost of labor, or pocketing the profits that should’ve been part of the cost of health and safety measures, or.
anyway write your legislators about making minimum wage a living wage with annual cost-of-living increases, and about stronger labor protections, with enough higher fines for noncompliance that paying the fines will cost employers more than it’ll cost employers to pay and protect its staff properly
(and remember that is the compromise position! remind your legislators that that is the compromise position! the actual goal is high enough universal basic income that employers have to compete with each other on improving pay, protection, and perks in order to get and keep staff, rather than job-seekers having to compete with each other in order to get and keep a regular paycheck)
Curious now as to if my applications last year were filtered through this system. Some companies (like Adobe, Oracle, etc) should have jumped at my experience in lifecycle management but I either heard nothing at all or a form rejection weeks after applying.
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I spend much of my waking hours looking at photographs of concrete. I do it because I love you, all of you. The concrete is in our roads and our buildings and our power plants.
I love you all in the way the confident gloved hand wielding the vaccine-bearing syringe loves me.
I love you like clean water from my taps.
I love you like the echoes of the distant clatter of the 6am bin truck as I leave for work.
I love you like the reverse beeps and taillights and seatbelts and pedestrian crossing and the emergency lanes.
I love you the way the powerlines love.
The electric current hums in overhead wires through thousands of leagues over open fields, entering the ground, perhaps, and then hums its way to the transformer at the end of the street
And then runs down other cables into the guts of your home, your walls.
(the people who spooled wires, clipped to poles with lanyards and 20kN shock absorbers per AS 1891 - I love you)
(the people who wrote AS 1891 love you too)
And in your home there are marvellous devices that turn a spinning turbine somewhere, or perhaps box containing lithium salts, into a hot cup of tea and warm glowing lamp by which to curl up and read a book.
The same electric current runs up through copper wires (standardised, calibrated, checked by a QAQC process at its factory a long away, for a local current supply which is monitored by a person sitting in a control room 24/7, a person who observes on a screen some diagrams with all the power plants in the grid and all the users and you're in there too, ultimately under some name like "Metro Mains Power")
And the current waits coiled in the belly of your smartphone, turning one lithium salt into a different lithium salt in a polymer shell
(every batch of this polymer pouch, a random one was selected for testing. It is put in a rig and stretched. It is dissected and put through spectroscopic machines. Failure damns the whole batch, because this polymer must contain enormous amounts of energy, safely, reliably, for years on end.... And mostly they do work like that)
Eventually you will tap an icon with your finger, triggering a cascade of commands within the silicon computer chips within the phone - a stream of commands that were written by a person, who thinks in "if varTrue: exec(launch)" and some such because they spend most of their waking moments creating ways for other people to tell computers to do what they want them to do without personally having to think in binary or control logic or data structures or API calls
And the electric current will be sent through a component which awakes into a tiny magnet, vibrating the air-
And you will hear the voice of your loved ones. You will hear them sigh about their day, and laugh at your jokes, and you will hear them say
I love you.
I'm not in this scene, of course. I'm just the concrete inspector. But still,
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Nature Documentary: these deep sea creatures can withstand crushing pressures of thousands of pounds per square inch!
Me: they’re not withstanding a goddamn thing. The pressure is a part of them. Their interiors and exteriors are equalized. Just because your respiratory system is built around a pair of fragile poppable bubbles-
