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there’s some beautiful irony in the fact that this has been my status for months, but no one has been able to see it
discord status for dreary.dev / willow
🖤 I was never as dead as the time
I stopped screaming
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i’m not allowed to quote this one but it’s cute and true
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:355lbopbpckczt672hss2ra4/post/3lhopky5pj22w

poss is by far and a way my favorite thing built on atproto and it's not just because the dev is my girlfriend

it does everything. it is so incredibly useful


FUUUUUUUCK I EVEN HAVE A POST FOR THIS TOO
Gotha posting has caused a shift from people confusing wealth as value to value as wealth lmao
https://x.com/PoliticsWillow/status/1710124310080233593
https://x.com/I_____amakiwi/status/1709991405387399584

this, too, is stolen content that lives in my head rent free (now deleted but i never forget)
screenshot of my twitter archive, containing the post in question

https://x.com/PoliticsWillow/status/1791057179367104532
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Willow @PoliticsWillow May 16, 2024
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my hair dries in fun ways
curls

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raymond geuss, history and illusion in politics, pg. 126

This last point about the distinction between the merely instrumentally good and that which is inherently or categorically or absolutely good in itself marks a watershed in political thought which has not, I think, received the attention it descrves. Kant, Max Weber, and Habermas think that this distinction is sharp, and designates a basic and ineluctable feature of human thought and experience. Hegel, Marx, Dewey, and Adorno, on the other hand, think that the distinction is relative and contextual, and that it is a sure sign of a deliciency in a society if this distinction is given too much prominence or taken too seriously. For Marx and Dewey, the distinction is a remnant of a primitive state of society in which slaves did the instrumentally necessary work, and parasitic aristocrats pursued the good for its own sake. The distinction between means and ends, things good in themselves and good for something else, intrinsically good and good for its consequences, or inherent and instrumental value is a distinction one can perfectly well make within and relative to a certain established context of thought or action, but it is neither a fundamental nor an absolute distinction. What is a means in one context, may be an end in another, and in many spheres, especially those in which human activity is freest, the distinction will have only whimsical application. The members of a non-demoralised orchestra may make their living by playing so that to some extent they play for the sake of the money they earn, but the music they make may also have inherent value for them. In a fully developed and free human socicty most human action would be performed both because of the good effects or consequences it would have and because it was experienced as good 'in itself' by the agent.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education, pg. 266

Chapter Nineteen: Labor and Leisure, The Origin of the Opposition.

The isolation of aims and values which we have been considering leads to opposition between them. Probably the most deep-seated antithesis which has shown itself in educational history is that between education in preparation for useful labor and education for a life of leisure. The bare terms "useful labor" and "leisure" confirm the statement already made that the segregation and conflict of values are not self-inclosed, but reflect a division within social life. Were the two functions of gaining a livelihood by work and enjoying in a cultivated way the opportunities of leisure, distributed equally among the different members of a community, it would not occur to any one that there was any conflict of educational agencies and aims involved. It would be self-evident that the question was how education could contribute most effectively to both. And while it might be found that some materials of instruction chiefly accomplished one result and other subject matter the other, it would be evident that care must be taken to secure as much overlapping as conditions permit; that is, the education which had leisure more directly in view should indirectly reinforce as much as possible the efficiency and the enjoyment of work, while that aiming at the latter should produce habits of emotion and intellect which would procure a worthy cultivation of leisure. These general considerations are amply borne out by the historical development of educational philosophy. The separation of liberal education from professional and industrial education goes back to the time of the Greeks, and was formulated expressly on the basis of a division of classes into those who had to labor for a living and those who were relieved from this necessity.
adorno, minima moralia § 84

Timetable . - Few things separate more profoundly the mode of life befitting an intellectual from that of the bourgeois than the fact that the former acknowledges no alternative between work and recreation. Work that need not, to satisfy reality, first inflict on the subject all the evil that it is afterwards to inflict on others, is pleasure even in its despairing effort. Its freedom is the same as that which bourgeois society reserves exclusively for relaxation and, by this regimentation, at once revokes. Conversely, anyone who knows freedom finds all the amusements tolerated by this society unbearable, and apart from his work, which admittedly includes what the bourgeois relegate to non-working hours as 'culture', has no taste for substitute pleasures. Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. The parents for whom it was a matter of prestige that their children should bring home good reports, were the least disposed to let them read too long in the evening, or make what they took to be any kind of intellectual over-exertion. Through their folly spoke the genius of their class. The doctrine inculcated since Aristotle that moderation is the virtue appropriate to reasonable people, is among other things an attempt to found so securely the socially necessary division of man into functions independent of each other, that it occurs to none of these functions to cross over to the others and remind each other of man. But one could no more imagine Nietzsche in an office, with a secretary minding the telephone in an anteroom, at his desk until five o'clock, than playing golf after the day's work was done. Only a cunning intertwining of pleasure and work leaves real experience still open, under the pressure of society. Such experience is less and less tolerated. Even the so-called intellectual professions are being deprived, through their growing resemblance to business, of all joy.
Atomization is advancing not only between men, but within each individual, between the spheres of his life. No fulfilment may be attached to work, which would otherwise lose its functional modesty in the totality of purposes, no spark of reflection is allowed to fall into leisure time, since it might otherwise leap across to the workaday world and set it on fire. While in their structure work and amusement are becoming increasingly alike, they are at the same time being divided ever more rigorously by invisible demarcation lines. Joy and mind have been expelled equally from both. In each, blank-faced seriousness and pseudo-activity hold sway.

The conception that liberal education, adapted to men in the latter class, is intrinsically higher than the servile training given to the latter class reflected the fact that one class was free and the other servile in its social status. The latter class labored not only for its own subsistence, but also for the means


the masculine urge to rain walk
willow in the rain
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the pics don’t do it justice but i assure you it is very wet



lives rent free in my head
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erin. @proleterin
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wait a minute blackface pinktan goes kinda hard
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hue-rotate my beloved
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i joined the discord linked in patreon and it’s a ghost town except for this guy grinding dailies for years
from:weebduded
bot-commands
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you deleted the hierarchy skeet so i’m replying here
https://x.com/allnaz1s/status/1735780853324882096

original jonas skeet from yesterday, replying to my vent vid about equality:
usage of the word “hierarchy” in theory seems to me like a bad idea. to bring it up in the context of discourse, deceptive or misguided, the chance of conflation being either weaponized or ignored

originally sent to kasey on 2023-12-19 with caption “it’s so stupid”

Smasher @SmashingUrFort
Its actually capitalism
All Nazis Are Nonces @AllNaz1s
it is NOT just capitalism

december 2023 was a good time
discord dms with muen

willow
i am an adept and capable man (none of these words are true)
[gorf quoting me]
@willow im just an innocent little girl in love
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gorf Today at 1:50 PM
hows work
willow Today at 1:50 PM
i haven't done any work for two weeks
if i was checking my email im sure id see it piling up around me but
instead i'm just talking to kasey :3
gorf Today at 1:51 PM
GURLLLLLLLLULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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OOSSLSLLSLSL
PKSSSLSSSSSSSSSSS?
HAVE OSME
u know wht based
im doing nothing with my life so i cant say shit okay gonna shoot some white people on red dead now



fwiw i had a different sense of experience in mind here
polysecure, jessica fern, pg 137
The takeaway message here is not to abolish all relationship hierarchies or shared bank accounts, but instead for people to procure secure attachment from their relational experiences instead of their relationship structures. Allow your direct experience with a partner to be the vehicle to secure attachment instead of having certain relationship concepts, narratives or structures be the vehicle. When our experience with a partner is the route to secure attachment, we might still want certain relationship structures, benchmarks and milestone experiences, but the urgency at which we define, solidify or need to nail things down can relax and occur more organically.


posts that never hit main
boot stomping a cracked clock on fire, encircled, with two anarchist circle-a symbols
artist: Tom Abdulhadi-Turner aka TAT
original caption: "burn the clocks" and "abolish productivity"
...performative (not to mention co-opting and commodifying). at best they throw a tantrum in an attempt to appear imposing, but the weakness shines through so apparently

willow 5/18/25 11:27 AM
still can't speak
i want to say that i'm disliking my relation to time right now
preferably in ways other than words
but the best i can find is some revolting "agit-prop" poster made for sale
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here are those follow-up posts btw
i don't really feel anger politically nowadays, mostly fragility and pain and powerlessness
expressions like the above feel trite, pathetic, performative (not to mention co-opting and commodifying). at best they throw a tantrum in an attempt to appear imposing, but the weakness shines through so apparently

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time, labor, and social domination, moishe postone

The "progress" of abstract time as a dominant form of time is closely tied to the "progress" of capitalism as a form of life. It became increasingly prevalent as the commodity form slowly became the dominant structuring form of social life in the course of the following centuries. It was only in the seventeenth century that Huygens's invention of the pendulum clock made the mechanical clock into a reliable measuring instrument, and that the notion of abstract mathematical time was formulated explicitly. Nevertheless, the changes in the early fourteenth century that I have outlined did have important ramifications then. The equality and divisibility of constant time units abstracted from the sensuous reality of light, darkness, and the seasons became a feature of everyday urban life (even if it did not affect all town dwellers equally), as did the related equality it divisibility of value, expressed in the money form, which is abstracted from the sensuous reality of various products. These moments in the growing abstraction and quantification of everyday objects — indeed, of various aspects of everyday life itself — probably played an important role in changing social consciousness. This is suggested, for example, by the new significance accorded time, the increased importance of arithmetic in fourteenth-century Europe,

The abstract form of time associated with the new structure of social relations also expressed a new form of domination. The new time proclaimed by the clocktowers—which frequently were erected opposite the church belltowers— was the time associated with a new social order, dominated by the bourgeoisie who not only controlled the cities politically and socially but also had begun to wrest cultural hegemony away from the Church. Unlike the concrete time of the Church, a form of temporality controlled overtly by a social institution, abstract time, like other aspects of domination in capitalist
Just as labor is transformed from an action of individuals to the alienated general principle of the totality under which the individuals are subsumed, time expenditure is

formed from a result of activity into a normative measure for activity. Although, as we shall see, the magnitude of socially necessary labor time is a dependent variable of society as a whole, it is an independent variable with regard to individual activity. This process, whereby a concrete, dependent variable of human activity becomes an abstract, independent variable governing this activity, is real and not illusory. It is intrinsic to the process of alienated social constitution effected by labor. I have suggested that this form of temporal alienation involves a transformation of the nature of time itself. Not only is socially necessary labor time constituted as an "objective" temporal norm, which exerts an external compulsion on the producers, but time itself has been constituted as absolute and abstract. The amount of time that determines a single commodity's magnitude of value is a dependent variable. The time itself, however, has become independent of activity — whether individual, social, or natural. It has become an independent variable, measured in constant, continuous, commensurable, and interchangeable conventional units (hours, minutes, seconds), which serves as an absolute measure of motion and of labor qua expenditure. Events and action in general, labor and production in particular, now take place within and are determined by time — a time that has become abstract, absolute, and homogeneous. The temporal domination constituted by the forms of the commodity and capital is not restricted to the process of production but extends into all areas of life.
society, "objective." It would, however, be mistaken to regard this "objectivity" as no more than a veil that disguises the concrete particularistic interests of the bourgeoisie. As with the other categorial social forms investigated in this work, abstract time is a form that emerged historically with the development of the domination of the bourgeoisie and has served the interests of that class; but it has also helped to constitute those interests historically (indeed, the very category of "interests"), and it expresses a form of domination beyond that of the dominating class. The temporal social forms, as I shall show, have a life of their own, and are compelling for all members of capitalist society — even if in a way that benefits the bourgeois class materially. Although constituted socially, time in Capitalism exerts an abstract form of compulsion. As Aaron Gurevich puts it: "The town had become master of its own time... in the sense that time had been wrestled from the control of the Church. But it is also true that it was precisely in the town that man ceased to be master of time, for time, being now free to pass by independently of man and events, established its tyranny, to which men are constrained to submit." The tyranny of time in capitalist society is a central dimension of the Marxian Categorial analysis. In my consideration of the category of socially necessary labor time thus far, I have shown that it does not simply describe the time expended in the production of a particular commodity; rather, it is a category that, by virtue of a process of general social mediation, determines the amount of time that producers must expend if they are to receive the full value of their labor time. In other words, as a result of general social mediation, labor time expenditure is transformed into a temporal norm that not only is abstracted from, but also stands above and determines, individual action.
Giddens writes: "The commodification of time... holds the key to the deepest transformations of day-to-day social life that are brought about by the emergence of capitalism. These relate both to the central phenomenon of the organization of production processes, and to the "workplace", and also the intimate textures of how daily social life is experienced." I shall not, in the present work, address the effects of this temporal domination on the texture of experience in everyday life.



i like having a discord diary because i can correlate the date and track down connections
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Rather than orienting ourselves in any particular direction, I have tried to write in such a way that the book doesn’t just conceptualize bewilderment, it can also produce it in the reader. Let’s get lost.
Nathan Snaza, Animate Literacies, pg 10
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look what i got :)
Elurai from “The Sanctuary Knocker" in Jewel: Carnelian Artworks
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/928439
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multiple images with links
https://sissysissysissy.bandcamp.com/track/itsoundslikeangels
https://maedasalt.bandcamp.com/album/care
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