esther

@esther@strangeobject.space

:antifa: :Blobhaj_Witch: #queer #goth lady, lots of #tattoos, some custom body parts, #neuroSpicy, #photography, #art, #writing, #witch, former #tech worker, #psychology student, #antiFascism, #antiCapitalism

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esther, to random

If you need a thought against climate doomerism:

It’s always going to be more useful to do something good, rather than giving up.

When we’ve already done irreversible damage, controlling further damage is a good thing, as is protecting people from the harm caused by that.

Even in the worst case scenarios for our lifetimes, and for generations to come, there’s still going to be people (possibly yourself) trying to make it through that, and who will need support. Giving up won’t help them.

I don’t know if that works for you but it’s something that keeps me going.

esther, to random

If you live in Germany, it’s worth looking into the history of your local area during the NS regime.

I only learned in my twenties during a Wikipedia dive that the town I grew up in was host to a concentration camp and that local industry, which a lot of people were quite proud of, made use of the camp’s forced labor. None of this was ever mentioned in my school education there.

Of the five towns and cities I have lived in, four have had confirmed ties to concentration camps. (the other one is simply too small to easily find references)

It’s easy to just point at the well known ones like Auschwitz as if it’s all “over there”, and ignore how the holocaust happened right in your home town and how your local economy has benefited from it.

FakeScrumStats, to random
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esther,

@FakeScrumStats why are these not all Fibonacci numbers?

esther, to random

“While humans produce content sludge, the artist is the algorithm. And while human consume content sludge the audience is also the algorithm. Content sludge is AI generated art that just happens to be made by humans.”

Excellent video essay about a type of media that’s optimized entirely for keeping attention, at the cost of everything else.

https://youtu.be/OuaDbu_VBLY

esther, to random

I’m sorry, if you seriously believe that Germany’s present investments wouldn’t have happened if the country hadn’t shut down its remaining power plants, that’s just incredibly naive.

Conflating the issues of nuclear power and coal and framing things as if these are the only two options benefits only those who benefit from either (or both) of them.

Both need to go. And one being successfully ended now after literally two whole generations of activism is absolutely a success and doesn’t hinder the fight against the other.

Don’t let yourself be played against your fellow comrades.

esther,

@jvluso and how many people suffering from leukemia after living near a waste storage facility (for the next 100000 years) is that worth to you?

esther, to minidisc

In a better world would be the standard swappable media format today and the latest generation of it could probably hold like 1TB each at least. It would be glorious.

Short clip of a hand holding a MiniDisc. Rainbow reflections bouncing off of it as the hand wiggles it around

esther, to random

draws card

Two of Spoons

…

Not much is going to get done today

esther,

Sorry (but not really)

esther, to random

“As soon as you stop communicating you’ve lost” says the white cis guy who never had to face an adversary who intentionally meant serious harm.

You can’t negotiate with someone whose goal it is to hurt you because there’s nothing you can offer them that isn’t your suffering.

esther, to random

“Capitalism, he noted, is not something imposed on us by some outside force. It only exists because every day we wake up and continue to produce it. If we woke up one morning and all collectively decided to produce something else, then we wouldn't have capitalism anymore. This is the ultimate revolutionary question: what are the conditions that would have to exist to enable us to do this – to just wake up and imagine and produce something else?”

(Graeber, The Utopia of Rules)

esther,

This encapsulates one of my main issues with a lot of contemporary leftist discourse where Capitalism is often seen as an external malicious entity (sometimes represented by very tangible proxies like banks, or political institutions) that can be fought and ultimately removed and then things would somehow turn to the better on their own, when actually it is something that is the sum of our collective actions and those actions need to change.

There is no clear boundary between “us” (the people who live and suffer under Capitalism) and Capitalism itself, and fighting Capitalism will necessarily have to include confronting at least a part of ourselves that believes in it, regardless of whether that belief is approving or disapproving.

esther, to random

The sustainable solar punk future will probably not have next-day delivery for most things so everyone please make your peace with that so we can move on towards it, ok?

(This is not a joke. Immediate availability of every consumer item requires massive overproduction and artificial demand to then sell off the resulting oversupply and all that shit needs to stop)

esther,

@drj exactly. A lot of tools and machines probably only really need to exist once for a whole neighborhood or a large building. Like, how many people are going to need things like a power drill, a ladder, a printer, or bike repair tools every day? Organizing a neighborhood for mutual aid would remove the need for so many purchases.

esther, to hiking

I’m going to do a thread on the long mountain hike I did around Marbella and Ojén (in Andalusia, Spain) recently, the one with views like this, and a few surprising obstacles …

esther, to random

You know these annoying touch interfaces on modern electric stove tops? I found the worst one yet.

Video of my hand operating a touch interface for a stove top where you have to scroll sideways to increase or decrease the heat

esther, to random

Does the animal we see on Mastodon server error pages have a name, and can it please be ?

esther, to random

Are you an adult and want to have a plush animal to cuddle but you’ve been taught that you can’t because “that’s for children”?

Screw that! Go get yourself the biggest, squishiest plush of your dreams. Nobody can stop you.

And if anyone tries to give you a hard time for it, that really sounds like it’s their problem.

esther, to evangelion

I wanted to extract a high quality clip of this for a while because sometimes it just captures the mood perfectly, you know? (not now, I'm just trying top be prepared)

So here it is: 6th Angel from Rebuild of Evangelion being a very angry piece of geometry

#evangelion #nge #anime

Clip from Rebuild of Evangelion (1.11) when the 6th Angel (the big blue octahedron) unfolds, screams intensely and melts a mountain with it's beam attack

esther, to StarTrek

For those who know …

esther, to random

It’s depressing that there is probably an entire generation of people who only got to know the internet through venture capital driven apps and companies that only cared about manipulating people for their attention. And don’t fool yourselves, we (the people who grew up on the open web) let that happen as well.

In some sense we’re back to the late 90s with the open web being a thing that a lot of people explore for the first time now.

esther, to writing

for a prompt from @wordswithnima: "shallow"

This summer, the lake had retreated further than ever before. She stood on the muddy shore with a smell of salt and rot in her nose.

In the shallow water she could see the remains of a wall with a door. When she had made it there through the knee-deep mud, she wiped off the dirt and dead plants, to reveal her family name on a rusted iron plate on the door.

esther, to food

Time for a new on the new instance

I'm Esther, a queer, polyamorous, autistic goth lady, into electronic music, synthesizers, movies, tattoos, cooking, photography, video, and writing, among other things.

I quit a 15 year tech career and will go back to university to study psychology after recovering from burnout.

I'm one of the admins of https://strangeobject.space

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