The First Citizen Of The Moon Was Born On June 9th, 2044, In Apollo Colony (later Apollo City). Her Name

The first citizen of the Moon was born on June 9th, 2044, in Apollo Colony (later Apollo City). Her name was Diana Mavandi-Castellano, born to Jason Mavandi (United States citizen) and Irene Castellano (Ecuadorean citizen), and her birth was a messy affair for the United Nations. Though born into both United States and Ecuadorean citizenship, her birth in Mare Tranquilitatus -literally on the Moon- begged the question: should little Diana be considered, legally, a citizen of the Moon? Or a citizen of the United Nations, broadly? What would that imply?

Ultimately, her birth led the UN to establish its Common Territories Bureau in 2045 to streamline affairs regarding human-inhabited regions that were under international jurisdiction: Antarctica, the seas of Earth, the Moon, and Mars. Ms. Mavandi-Castellano later grew up to head this bureau herself, and later on in her life she would serve as the first UN Ambassador for the Autonomous Territory of Luna (est. 2112).

Why do we say that capitalism must be “dismantled”?

You’ll hear phrases like “Smash the state!” “Eat the rich!” and “Smash capitalism!”

And, yes, of course, but… :)

However relevant those sayings are, our work must be careful, highly organized and above all planned.

Because capitalism and all of its associated systems are not discrete, abstracted entities we can attack independently.

It is a structure, like a complicated machine with many thousands of working parts…

And right now it is connected to absolutely everything.

If we do this… [picks up huge hammer and smashes the machine]

Then a lot of vulnerable people will die.

The machine was built and improved and redesigned and patched over the course of generations. It is very good at its intended purpose, which is ultimately to generate profit.

Every human being alive today relies on the byproducts of the machine to survive, without exception.

The machine’s engineers want it to keep working like it does. In fact, they want to optimise it.

That will kill all remaining life on Earth.

So, we must destroy the machine, quickly and carefully

We must examine its deadly programs and mechanics and replace them with alternatives we built together.

The engineers don’t want us tampering with the machine.

However, we make it run…

So we can make it STOP. Together.

How will YOU help us to safely dismantle the machine?

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p.s. My computer is on its last legs. If you would like me to draw you a little cartoon and help me get a new computer, learn more at this post.

literally this:

Posting the full version of my pfp drawing just bc I was happy with the colors. I swear my new graphics tablet made my art more vibrant with that sweet-ass QLED display

#MAKE THIS BLOW UP

buddy it already has 160k notes and it's barely slowed down in two weeks. that ship has fucking sailed

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

gonna be combing through my archive again and making sure everything is tagged properly, plus reblogging a few old favorites.