Ildsaye [they/them]

Laughs in N95
Years without getting sick
Years without getting anyone else sick

Modern industrial sewing machines are generally still powered by a belt that passes through the table, though now the belt leads instead to a large servo motor slung to the table’s underside. But that does leave the machine heads more-or-less compatible with the old treadle tables

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It takes a capitalist bank to do something as stupid as loaning billions of dollars to some guy

I’m surprised they’re even testing, much less made people mask after a positive. On brand for neoliberals to take half-measures too late but only because it’s an investment on the line

Cult of Mammon going strong

Plastics are a byproduct of fossil fuel production, and it was and is inevitable (under capitalism) that the overproduction of plastic would lead to the manufactured demand for massive amounts of plastic goods. There was a major marketing push in the 1950s to sell consumers on the disposability of plastic, to create further demand by erasing their Great Depression/wartime-era habits of saving and reusing. There are many examples of successful campaigns to put the masses on cheap garbage, like corn syrup, that people would not have been drawn to spontaneously. These things work.

Fossil fuel companies are major centers of political power, with deep military-industrial ties, easily acquiring politicians and regulators, and encircling any stubborn holdouts. Something major would have to displace them to free up the kind of political oxygen needed for any serious effort to end plastic’s invasive presence in our lives.

A decolonial not-for-profit military answerable to a socialist state could dislodge them, and I don’t think anything less could.

Had a childhood crush on Dr. Crusher, but maturity has brought me a middle aged crush on Pulaski. Wish they’d had some guest appearances by her after season 2.

The last pretenses of an alliance with labor have lost their credibility, it’s past time the parties be depicted as the two internal combustion cylinders on a drive shaft that only spins to the right

Sounds like you want a Restraint!

US thought their bombs would somehow work better than the Saudi force’s bombs (which were bought from the US)

Cryoskeleton had accumulated so much calcium from his victims, by the time Pyroskeleton’s suspicions were confirmed, that there was no chance Pyroskeleton could stop the evil scheme… not alone, anyway.

Not this time. Pure fiction. We got you. It never happened.

Brits unloaded their Puritans on the new world, it’s the Yanks’ problem now

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I’m Demetrious Polychron –


– and you just got cyberpunk’d