It's my birthday. I am 40. Feels basically normal.
This is the first year in a while where I'd love a party with friends but I guess there's a "pandemic" happening and most of my "friends" live "elsewhere"
Thank you for the well wishes, folks.
It's an odd birthday. There isn't much of a nailed-down vibe for 40. "Welcome To More Of Life Volume IV: Time To Mind Your Health A Bit Better"
Celebrating this birthday in the traditional fashion
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Today is the 100th anniversary of the The Battle Of Blair Mountain, a huge moment in US history and one most people have never heard of, a shooting fight involving thousands of workers vs the forces of capital in the mountains of West Virginia. #Blair100
If you've followed me for awhile you know how core this kind of thing is to our politics over here, the struggle against capital by organized people who have just had enough of it. And there is a huge history of that which we in the US have been denied, completely by design.
In our worker co-op if I suddenly do some fucked up shit the other folks can get together and figure out what to do about it, and we have procedures in place for that, including booting me out. They still own the project, they still have access to the bank account, etc
One of the big reasons we wanted to do this is because we'd all experienced how standard workplace structures or even looser teams lend themselves to abuse and exploitation and cultures of silence and excuses etc. Like straight up that was and is a huge motivator.
When we talk a lot about increasing the amount of power workers have in the workplace, I cannot underline this enough, it is directly related to past experiences in the workplace including the things that regularly are exposed in the game industry. We didn't just have some whim.
we lived like 2 blocks from there for 5 years. we ate there a couple times and got sick both times. it was noticeably not a regular burger king, had weird cups and wrappers and stuff and the bathroom was perpetually closed. and that drive through death tunnel.
I haven't posted music in a while, been too busy with work and other projects. I need to get back to the music stuff. I even opened up a SOUNDCLOUD and then got exactly one tiny track on it soundcloud.com/scott-benson-3…
For awhile I was doing these one-minute-or-so jams with little animations. They were cool. This has some flashing stuff so heads up if that's a thing for you.
These little fluff things especially when they pop up when cops are under scrutiny are always kinda silly, as if the primary complaints about cops are that they give out an insufficient amount of toy gifts for the village children like really low quality elves.
I mean it would be great if the role of cops was just to give out toys, sponsor little league teams, buy ice cream for people, and do TikTok meme dances but instead theres just a lot of murder and violence and sexual assault.
Embattled Police Department Faces Community Demands For Better Flash Mobs, More Current Songs And Dances