doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

i always return to this quote from Against the Grain

"I am tempted to see the late Neolithic revolution, for all its contributions to large-scale societies, as something of a deskilling. Adam Smith’s iconic example of the productivity gains achievable through the division of labor was the pin factory, where each minute step of pin making was broken down into a task carried out by a different worker. Alexis de Tocqueville read The Wealth of Nations sympathetically but asked, “What can be expected of a man who has spent twenty years of his life putting heads on pins"

there are so many handicraft skills i wish i knew. i wanna know how to make clothes and glass and metalwork and jewelry make. i wanna learn how to make from the ruins.

According to the Seattle Times a train has derailed north of Seattle on the Swinomish Reservation. 5000 gallons of diesel have spilled.

anytime i hear someone say "marxist economics" i want to scream

after driving on freeways for 14 hours in one day my body isnt entirely sure whether or not im still in a moving vehicle, especially when i close my eyes

so, our friend found out from the neighbors that the bunnies have been left out there for about 3 weeks now. it at least makes me feel good to know that people have been consistently seeing them around. they must be hiding around nearby mostly then.

i really hope we can get them to safety.

went back. could only find one. still dont have the means to catch it. going back tonight.

we're going back in the morning to try to catch them

we just helped a friend move in and it looks like someone in the neighborhood got evicted and theres a bunch of rabbit hutches out front that have been torn open and theres like 7, very obviously pet bunnies running around the neighborhood.

my feelings on twitter summed up

that number was in the 80k range

ive had this account for toooooo long

i am committing to the changes i intend to make

okay, officially wiping away my previous existence on the birdsite

there is one obscurantist and his name is lacan

also if you claim any philosophers as "obscurantist" you have to have more to back that up than "they're difficult" or "esoteric" or anything like that.

marx's critique of political economy seems plenty "esoteric" and unhelpful when you have 0 smith or ricardo under your belt!

have you ever read hobbes? read some leviathan and tell me that it feels straightforward

"For the question is not of promises mutual, where there is no security of performance on either side, as when there is no civil power erected over the parties promising; for such promises are no covenants..."

that sentence from hobbes has like 8 more predicates that i truncated. you tellin me that feels straightforward?

or are you gonna start calling hobbes obscurantist too?

i am "anti-" plenty of ideological camps, parties, orgs, cliques, milieus and more!

when i'm mad at a clique or a milieu i don't blame the theory! why be mad at marx or his writings for what the 2nd international decided?

being anti-tiqqun without making reference to literally any of their actual philosophy is so silly