I came here to ask this.
Maybe it's a twitter in-joke? I don't use that site so 🤷♂️
Edit: it's a tiktok that ends with "fuck John Steinbeck, read Percy Jackson" that made the rounds on twitter in August
no I won't link the tweet I'm too lazy
I was going to say The VVitch but like 4 people already did, so I'm going to drop in the OG 1975 version of The Wicker Man, which I just saw the other night.
I only do it at my small local food co-op where they rotate through local organizations. In that case since I'm a member it's basically like "I'm" doing it anyway.
Damn I wish biology was anywhere near as easy as physics.
I just finished The Windup Girl and it's a great sci-fi biopunk climate-dystopia book set in future Bangkok.
Seconded! BWF changed my life and I have visible and useful muscles for the first time ever. The progressions let you start from scratch and the fact that it's all compound exercises means you build full body strength and awareness. Can't recommend enough.
I kept getting emails from National Guard recruiters. After repeatedly asking to be removed from the list, I started sending pictures from the Kent State Massacre.
Still ignored me and kept sending occasional messages so I blocked, but I hope someone got a taste of my contempt.
I've lived/worked in housing cooperatives for the past 8 years so I can speak to that.
What other people are saying here is dead on. In this instance it's better than a private landlord, but we are still subject to pressures from our capitalistic system and therefore can't afford do do things like offer free housing.
The org is dedicated to democratic ownership/management of housing and has tried to expand several times, but for the past 20 years hasn't succeeded in permanent expansion beyond its original properties.
Part of that is the dominance of private landlords and large developers building large apartment buildings. Part of it is high turnover inhibiting long-term planning at the organizational level. Part of it is that we don't accumulate much surplus money to fund such things; most gets out back into maintaining the ancient houses, or into granting temporary rent relief for residents that fall on hard times.
Finally, our org is fairly small (<50 people and < 20 per house), so at times individual personality clashes and petty conflicts can make things difficult, especially since everything is tied into people's day-to-day living conditions at home.
Ultimately I've coming out of it with the following views: In my utopia we have decommodified housing, of course. In the current capitalistic world, cooperative ownership/management of apartment buildings and/or collections of individual dwellings is better than private landlord/company status quo in that it allows sharing of funds and resources (like tools) and allows everyone a voice in decision making. Orgs larger than ours allow for more flexibility in labor/time/financial commitments from the members: 1/50 people unable to pay or do chores or not be an asshole is less disruptive than 1/10, etc.
Severe frontal lobe damage, but I strongly caution against that because it's hard to do without dying or having a massive personality change, and we love you and don't want those things for you.
I'm in season 2 now and it's getting good, definitely better than the first.