Notices by tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)

@mayintoronto When I’m on the can in the morning, I do the daily Wordle and other NYT puzzles. Doomscroll with coffee.

@Photo55 @ShredderLivesOn Yes, I was Orisons…as in Hamlet, “Nymph, in thy orisons are all my sins remembered “ Are our prayers overcrowded? Prolly meant prisons. Odd typo tho.

@SnoopJ

man... barnacles will mess you up good. Should have studied ants. They bring joy to the soul every day.

It's impossible to have a bad day if you got to see some new ants.

@Nickiquote No man is an island, but some of us are peninsulas.

@exador23 I want one. I’ll have to get some logs to go with it.

@BruceMirken Perhaps it would be hard to tell the difference at first. Catch, inject, cage.

@BruceMirken I think injecting them with rabies and putting them all in a big cage together would be just.

The Twilight of the Tech Bros. That’s an opera I would pay to see. Coming soon.

Do you need a groovy? I need a groovy.

#evildead #groovy

https://youtu.be/RmI3pJHIT90?si=7qYTUiDSuBGT6iBM

@Mrfunkedude You do not scream into the abyss, you scream into the void. You *stare* into the abyss. Per Nietzsche, the abyss stares back. You don’t want the abyss screaming back at you.

@cstross I fondly remember my first typewriter, a (West) German Adler portable manual. I loved that thing. I write in a Moleskine journal, type on my laptop. No dictation. I am a text based entity.

Or how I would revise it. "Something something AI..."

Rereading this, I feel I got it wrong, around the edges at least. I feel, dreaded term, more optimistic somehow.

“Making” has become a hobby. An accessory to the lifestyle. Cosplay with tools. Very few of us are doing, as Gary Snyder put, the common work of the tribe. In this twilight in which we find ourselves, labor is fetishized, not celebrated, even on Labor Day. Let us remember that on Dead Labor Day. 4/

#laborday #marx #capitalism #union #debtbasedsociety

The rest of us either have no job at all or are ourselves partially vampirized minions like Renfield in Dracula, feeding flies to spiders, spiders to birds, on the grovel for a cat. Confined to the cube farm like inmates in an asylum. We want more life. A bigger cat. 3/

Modern capital, unrestrained free enterprise, has almost sucked us dry, sucking more and more jobs from the economy. Unions have been reviled, weakened, co-opted, destroyed. The dwindling number of people doing real work are generally ill paid and looked down upon. Just ask a teacher. Ask the immigrants who harvest and prepare our food. Ask the people who take of the elderly in the warehouses for dying. Et fucking cetera. 2/

I posted this on Sept. 6, 2022:

I would like to propose that the first Tuesday of September be declared “Dead Labor Day.” I think we all should acknowledge the victory of Capital over Labor in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The victory of corporate personhood over persons. The victory of debt-based fiat finance over everyone else. We built that.

Labor, in the sense of doing real work making real stuff or providing real services for non-corporate real people, is almost dead. 1/

An exchange between Wendell Berry and Tim DeChristopher. I've been in that building Berry mentions.

#WendallBerry #Shakers #ThomasMerton #PleasantHillKentucky

Wendell Barry died yesterday. I heard him speak at rallies, twice. When I see or hear his name, I think of a lover, now dead, who carried his books in her heart like gospel. This is how I feel today:

#wendellberry #lamedvov

The full song

https://youtu.be/Ukf_CuZRL9k?si=MOQ-RXIRtp-0dLMe&t=180