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I posted this on my old .social account but I am still "relating strongly to brian wilson's powerful depressed thot/lifestyle gemini/milkshake goth looks"

maybe this is selfish but I feel like I should have a better portfolio given how many people have taken advice from me lol

idk what's in the water lately but over the past few weeks I've gotten a lot of requests to "talk" about something over email... usually insisting on some type of voice/video call. The first few were students so I tried to be accommodating... anyways even then that's still annoying because I feel like as an autistic person who needs like an hour of buffer on each side of a call and doesn't really get anything in particular out of conveying my ideas verbally rather than writing them down (besides feeling more tired), it's a big ask for me that may be very casual for them. I feel like I need a better way to limit or deflect these requests.

And now there's one from someone who is organizing an actual exhibition at a gallery whose name I recognize (lol), which I presume has a budget... this is a situation where you charge for consulting, correct?

How do I do this and what is reasonable? I get paid £150-£200 for my writing pieces so I assume around there, right?

Curly Wurly is still Diet Chomp

Today is a nice day so far!! I received my pre-settled status officially (finally) and got some very cool goodies for supporting The Pink Peacock's gofundme

"...And you begin to think that if you make a bargain with the state to sustain and subsidize your reproductive order, and the natural hierarchy of inequalities that exist within it, then you can live with it. You start to believe that if you could just stabilize the family or protect your culture or community from predatory outside forces then you would be resisting capitalism. What I am trying to argue in the book is that these bargains are part of the system we call “capitalist,” they are not outside, and that we need to understand the reassertion and relegitimation of reproductive order as one of the ways in which specific divisions of labor and specific regimes of accumulation are stabilized." God this is just... so incredibly clear and obvious!

"I think these sentiments are popular because they feel good. What I’m suggesting is that there is no false consciousness here. Perhaps the easiest way to critique some kind of dominant reproductive order is to latch onto an alternative one. It’s the easiest way out, psychologically and politically, and it facilitates political bargains with people who might otherwise find you suspect. The easiest way for any one class of workers to “resist capitalism” is to do something less ambitious – to assert a claim to special protections vis-a-vis other classes of workers by appealing to some imagined prior order of social reproduction, sometimes the nation or the race, sometimes, at a more intimate level, the family. Once you have made that move, you begin to think that what is wrong with capitalism is not the fact that it generates and feeds off all kinds of inequalities, but the fact that it threatens your favorite reproductive order. So capitalism is bad because it destroys the family, or nation or community..."

Crazy interesting to come across this interview from 2018 that seems to be speaking directly to every type of rose emoji guy I have blocked.

"...This is a recurrent position on the left, although it can reshuffle itself in all kinds of ways. I think this is what people are getting at sometimes when they critique “identity politics” on the left and I’m sure I’ve used the term in this way, to refer to a kind of reproductive communitarianism. But the term “identity politics” is misleading and seems to suggest that only minorities can be afflicted whereas reproductive communitarianism very obviously takes majoritarian and minoritarian forms." - https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/03/19/family-matters/

"I think a lot of organized left wing politics entails some kind of attachment to reproductive order. It might be the working class family or left nationalism or some kind of ethnic/cultural/racial nationalism or minority fundamentalism. It might be a kind of queer nationalism that makes all kinds of trade offs with white militarism and imperialism. The investment might be upfront and personal or it might express itself by proxy – someone who can spin a radical critique of white nationalism or homonationalism might have no problems romanticizing third world nationalism or religious fundamentalism if it can be rationalized as anti-imperialist. It might be a kind of reproductive maternalism that presents itself as anti-patriarchal but positions women as the guardians of nature or the earth or something called social reproduction..."

Wrote about MOON finally and how it really made me think about how, ostensibly, we see videogames as an art form but the way that we talk about them doesn't show confidence in that notion. Moon is very confident. https://emreed.net/moonrpg.html

Opening it with the handbrake de-encryption seemed to make the iso copyable with daemon tools but when I mount the iso it doesn't autoplay like a DVD would and when I open it with handbrake the preview images look glitchy... bad transfer, restart and try again or is this further DRM stuff...

I've been asked to make an .iso of a DVD I have that is rare and long out of print, but it's tripping up my usual iso tool because it's copy protected, I think. What's the standard tool for getting around this? It's a DVD from circa 2008

Didn't know until yesterday that I can actually give Osamu Sato money now https://osamusato.bandcamp.com/album/lsd-revamped

Thinking of shifting the low tech webring to this if I can get it working, so I don't have to do a bunch of HTML codes by hand every update. Thoughts? https://garlic.garden/onionring/

I'm obsessed with this now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL4E_SlsoxA