Posts by beadsland@disabled.social
(DIR) Post #AivRRfz4mX0LvosMTI by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-04-08T03:20:46Z
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Economy's booming because of all the sickness those of oligarch #classposture get to harvest #RentBounty from!Huzzah!Thank Vibe'n that restaurants & entertainment industries also happen to be hiring, or else how would we distract from fact that over one in four new jobs in past year were in healthcare, and another estimated 50 thousand new jobs nationally, at minimum, were newly hired local police?(~13% of local gov't jobs are police, local gov't jobs increased by 376K in past 12 months.)
(DIR) Post #AivRRghO7mRy9FbkXY by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-04-08T03:49:27Z
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If the two premier sources of wage-labor job growth in your vaunted economy are too embarrassing not to skip right over and talk about something else, maybe line goes up ain't the way to organize a society.#RentierSociety #KayfabePanto #RentBounty #lumpentheory
(DIR) Post #AivRRhRpL7b4THKpvM by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-04-08T03:50:00Z
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The painfully pointed irony of a sickwork—not even legitimately "sickcare", as multiple folk tried to characterize the problem in the decade before our pandemic era—jobs program being called a "healthcare" industry.Might as well call lumberjacks "climate care workers". (Sorry, was that my cynicism showing?)Sickworker, here, operates as does farmworker—one who works on the sickness of society, as field to be sown & reaped.Where diseases are crops.#RentierSociety #conveyancée #classposture
(DIR) Post #AivRRi0ZFxO0D1aa4e by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-04-08T03:57:29Z
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When #lumpentheory speaks of #conveyancée #classposture under #RentierSociety, this includes all material relations where the individual is rendered as a conduit for extraction of #RentBounty harvest.Not simply one's landlord—where the rent-bounty relation is made explicit, nor even one's creditors—but also every industry whose existence is predicated on the mere existence of one's body as source of exchange-value, however that exchange-value may originate.Thus we have the sickwork industry.
(DIR) Post #AivRRiecr1QeDGKZVo by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-04-12T00:51:28Z
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On further consideration, have taken notes from etymology to dub such sickwork industry, discussed at length above, with a new term:⚚ aglithaculture ⚚Literally, cultivation of affliction.Here, by way of etymology, also capturing the senses of ableist shame and medical gaslighting.To differentiate aglithaculture from any claim to medicine, note above use of stylized caduceus—carried by heralds as a ward against profanation or trespass into their domain; yet later associated with alchemy.
(DIR) Post #AivRRjs8KHpNzResCm by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-04-12T01:17:10Z
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Note that symbol used above is unicode alchemical symbol "Staff of Hermes", as distinct from the unicode glyph of the two serpent "Caduceus of Hermes" still often misused by medical establishments in place of the Rod of Asclepius.One might think hospitals and other facilities are telling on themselves for so regularly using a symbol for commerce where one would expect a symbol for medicine.Yet the alchemical symbol better speaks to sickworking as a mercurial drawing of wealth from impurity.
(DIR) Post #AivRRlIP26R2PCxMn2 by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-04-12T01:43:46Z
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Unlike a "healthcare industry", even a "sickcare" industry, ⚚aglithacultural industry is inherently a colonial relation.To celebrate that job growth is line goes up, when that job growth is lead by sickworking jobs, is akin to celebrating the expansion of agricultural jobs following a homesteading rush.As Liboiron tells us, pollution is colonialism. Goes back as far as public health laws about how far from the colonial fort to dump human waste. Aglithaculture thrives on colonial sanitation.
(DIR) Post #Aivrop5lgMz9eEhhKq by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-06-14T21:32:49Z
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@cy You just had to remind me NPR has a comedy quiz show, didn't you?Roommate was still listening to such on kitchen radio in 2022, until this canned opening was read with as much defensive sneering as could be mustered:"The following program was taped before an audience of real live people."Just imagine the purposeful emphasis on those last three words.But yeah, had to ask roommate not to pollute our common space with their toxicity after that.But yeah, Iraq Wars were ad campaigns.
(DIR) Post #Aivtcr2knjlY8KiMz2 by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-06-14T22:39:19Z
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@cy This is me laughing, darkly.
(DIR) Post #AivvobBbmdUMKvaHDc by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-06-14T23:05:19Z
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@cy No, mine is the laugh of one who knows they won't survive to see the so-called friend's head on the block, but can nonetheless contemplate such a future from the vantage of those they came for before those for whom first they came.
(DIR) Post #AixJAEdMnygKrmoW2q by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-06-15T07:39:18Z
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@dredmorbius @cy Oh, I know.And they knew their audience knew. Hence the very pointed tone of the delivery of that line.The emphasis was placed just so—to communicate that they were judging anyone who might be worried by those words.And likewise, that emphasis communicated, to those in the audience who would likewise disdain anyone still taking precautions, that they and the speaker were of same mind.The delivery of that line was a very enunciated choice.Performatively sour intent.
(DIR) Post #AixJAFxFtWBWxl7ugS by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-06-15T07:46:27Z
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@dredmorbius @cy Moreover, and with respect to the rest of your analysis of production quality, that line was canned. A pre-recorded message at beginning of every episode.Honestly, lack or production and dominance of sponsorship are things that would concern me only if their messaging weren't so consistently reinscriptions of consensus reality in deference to liberal sensibilities.If anything, better production would, if done proficiently, allow them to make those commitments less obvious.
(DIR) Post #AjQppErSbzCMx9HpXE by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-01-27T22:36:21Z
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Seeing a lot of "bad politics are due to covid brain damage" discourse today, including from those would want to believe ought know better.Please stop.The seeds for the orchard that is our current moment were planted well before even the SARS outbreak of 2002. Like decades, if not centuries, before.When our politics is fascists saying we have to support fascism to defeat the other fascists, please don't try to make sense of health supremacism by resorting to ableism.It's not a good look.
(DIR) Post #AjQppGplHH1n4SVVAG by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-01-28T00:25:39Z
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K. Am just unfollowing those upholding the "bad politics are due to covid brain damage" discourse.Kvetching to myself that ya'll really ought know better ain't gonna make it so.Better to just trim the timeline of any further such ableism.[Honestly, half expect the list of those followed from this account will be down by like three-quarters or more by the end of this year.]
(DIR) Post #AjQppH5MLHVLqpnxTc by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-01-28T20:03:17Z
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Find myself musing about California countertop workers dying of silicosis. Of folk in industrial settings refusing PPE once commonly used. Of het-passing couples in stores: a woman in an N95, a man maskless.Narrative of pandemic apologism has been: what does not kill you (acute covid) makes you stronger (fable of "hybrid immunity"). Carries over into other domains where consequences of lax protections are cumulative & long-term, esp. among groups that ground identity in notions of "strength".
(DIR) Post #AjQppIxdMyVtfSCoiG by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-01-28T20:06:57Z
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In #RentierSociety, wherein long-term, cumulative consequences are routinely elided to preserve #perquisitive #classposture promises of redemption through choice, one needn't cite to brain damage to understand how we got here.For those determined to live in 2019, the protections against acute death tolls in 2020 violated the social contract, the #FrosteanBargain, that those who made good choices got all the choices. The choices were taken away.And folk felt vulnerable in face of uncertainty.
(DIR) Post #AjQppKPfyCXSAiKj3o by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-01-28T20:16:13Z
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Central promise of #FrosteanBargain is that our choices make us. If you enjoy #RentBounty harvest perks of colonialism—from world offering itself up to be consumed—is because you made good choices. If you are unable to take everything you want, you've made bad choices.Suddenly, all those good choices were for naught. Contract suspended, on threat of imminent death. Everything believed about one's place in the world is null & void. Anyone could die, like that, virtue of choices notwithstanding.
(DIR) Post #AjQppM4pmf3VKeb6qu by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-01-28T20:21:30Z
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Weakness. Nothing anyone could do but cower and hide from existential threat to everything they had been taught—their entire lives. Virus, here, was the catalyst. Monster at the door was bigger than that.But then we're told: Make the choice to get vaccinated, and you'll live. Make the choice to get vaccinated, and you can resume path of redemption under #FrosteanBargain.Then we're told masks are a scarlet letter. We're told only the weak die of this. Only those who were already sick anyway.
(DIR) Post #AjQppNYIIcDNuJO9PU by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-01-28T20:27:35Z
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One need not suppose brain damage to understand why so many of those who used precaution before getting covid stop doing so after acute infection. One need not invoke a cutesy narrative of mouse-and-cat disease.What does not kill you, only makes you stronger. We were told this. After a year of feeling weak and afraid. Make the right choice—unlike those other people—and you can go back to normal. Only weak people die of this. People who make bad choices.You are strong, and make good choices.
(DIR) Post #AjQppP26nFeqV4LTWK by beadsland@disabled.social
2024-01-28T20:39:24Z
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Health supremacism, fallacious aphorism, pseudo-science on every media channel, outright eugenics talking points from public health authorities, toxic masculinity (and its shadow: girlboss feminism), #GriefTaboo against #mourning unfulfilled retrofuture promises and own existential weakness, liberal #KayfabePanto righteousness, and promised redemption of/by #FrosteanBargain… all converged to bring us this moment.No ableist conjecture required.This is what #RentierSociety was always gonna do.