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"Despair is a black leather jacket that everyone looks good in. Hope is a frilly, pink dress that exposes the knees." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

#hope #hopepunk #solarpunk #fascism

papayajuan2019 
cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

aimnothyng 
“I just think goodness is more interesting,” Morrison said. “Evil is constant. You can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. But you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good - and that’s complicated.”

chilewithcarnage 
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain." Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

wizardnuke
"Evil is boring. Right? | kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, | get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." Brennan Lee Mulligan
papayajuan2019 cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it aimnothyng “I just think goodness is more interesting,” Morrison said. “Evil is constant. You can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. But you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good - and that’s complicated.” chilewithcarnage "The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain." Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas wizardnuke "Evil is boring. Right? | kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, | get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." Brennan Lee Mulligan
#UnilkelyWish for next year: may the word "ecosystem" never, ever be used to refer to consumer goods or technology ever again. "Marketing operational domain" or "slang to confuse the buyer" both work fine. Ecosystems have earth, nematodes, wet sticky fluids full of nutrients, parasites, and decomposition. You don't want those in your wearable AI enabled fashion-leading quick get-away impotence remedies, and I'm fine not buying your ostentatious tat. Agreed?

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@yetiinabox 👍 😂 ... writes a #Scifi: Parasites infiltrate an impotence remedy for AI sex and use it to keep humanity subservient. Ants harness homo sapiens as exo-brains, bringing themselves to the brink of extinction.
Suddenly, a small, unknown tribe of springtails forms an alliance with nematodes: they achieve world domination. What will happen to the last humans whose brains are no longer capable of marketing? What happens to the forgotten CEO in a leafcutter ants nest?

#hopepunk #solarpunk