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Blair Mountain Redneck 🔻☭
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This is how you know end times are near, the price of the most stable commodity known to man, the Shure SM57 has finally increased by 10ish percent #musicians #livesound
A screenshot of the listing for a Shure SM57 microphone from a online retailer showing a price of $109 dollars. The Shure SM57 has been $99 dollars for a very long time despite significant market inflation of other goods.
May 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I think this is probably the most important paragraph of Capital
Screenshot of Chapter six of Capital, it reads: "The change of value that occurs in the case of money intended to be converted into capital, cannot take place in the money itself, since in its function of means of purchase and of payment, it does no more than realise the price of the commodity it buys or pays for; and, as hard cash, it is value petrified, never varying. [1] Just as little can it originate in the second act of circulation, the re-sale of the commodity, which does no more than transform the article from its bodily form back again into its money-form. The change must, therefore, take place in the commodity bought by the first act, M-C, but not in its value, for equivalents are exchanged, and the commodity is paid for at its full value. We are, therefore, forced to the conclusion that the change originates in the use-value, as such, of the commodity, i.e., in its consumption. In order to be able to extract value from the consumption of a commodity, our friend, Moneybags, must be so lucky as to find, within the sphere of circulation, in the market, a commodity, whose use-value possesses the peculiar property of being a source of value, whose actual consumption, therefore, is itself an embodiment of labour, and, consequently, a creation of value. The possessor of money does find on the market such a special commodity in capacity for labour or labour-power."
April 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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A 'butterfly guy' meme (A man pointing at a butterfly as if asking a question or maybe teaching something). In this version the man is labeled "Democrats", the butterfly is labeled "people burning teslas" and the entire image is captioned at the bottom with the question "This the bad guys, not the nazis right?". The meme suggests that Democrats are very willing to spend their energy condemning people for destroying property instead of turning their attention to fighting the fascist coup happening right now.
March 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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omg this is hilariously apt
Theory: “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” was written by a right-wing conservative think tank to indoctrinate children into opposing the welfare state. Actually, it was written by developers (tech, not real estate) as baby's first example of scope creep.
March 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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1969 Propaganda poster featuring Lenin pointing to the left with a Russian worker holding a torch behind him, in the background is a stylized map of the Soviet Union emblazoned with a start with rays coming out of it. The poster says "The victory of Communism is Inevitable" in Russian in the bottom left.
February 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Must be all that DEI causing them to work 60 hour weeks
Screenshot of a @moreperfectunion short video on YouTube with the caption "Air traffic controllers told us they're working 10-hour shifts, 6 days a week, with mandatory overtime". There is an image of the top of a control tower with another caption that reads "I was too busy to keep watching it"
February 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Love it, Deepseek-r1 running via ollama slips into Chinese in the middle of it's thinking:
January 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I thought the libs warned us that Chinese apps would suppress lgbt content…🤔
Screenshot of red notebook app showing what appears to be two women kissing
January 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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This promptline tho, bringing back the Rebel Starbird in my promptline
A ZShell prompt line, which is a rainbow cascade of colors, with a Rebel Starbird icon as the first part of the terminal prompt, along with the username, folder, git branch, and time.
January 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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I am fairly sure these are screenshots of Karl's IDE while he was working out the dynamics of the commodity
Screenshot of a php class declaration: <?php namespace Dustinleblanc\Capitalism\Commodity; class AbstractCommodity implements CommodityInterface { public function __construct(public string $name, public float $labor = 0.0, public string $useValue = '') {} public function getRelativeValue(CommodityInterface $commodity, int $quantity = 1): float { if ($commodity->name === $this->name) { throw new \InvalidArgumentException('Relative values may only be expressed in a commodity that is different from the commodity being compared'); } return $commodity->labor / ($this->labor * $quantity); } public function getMoneyValue(): float { return $this->labor * \LABOR_RATE; } }
January 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Capital, chapter 1, a PHP program story
A screenshot of a code editor that displays the following PHP program: <?php use Dustinleblanc\Capitalism\Commodity\AbstractCommodity; require "vendor/autoload.php"; define("LABOR_RATE", getenv('LABOR_RATE') ?? 1); $linen = new AbstractCommodity(2); $coat = new AbstractCommodity(10); echo "20 yards of linen is worth " . $linen->getRelativeValue(10, $coat) . " coats"; The output of the program is shown as "20 yards of linen is worth 0.5 coats" This is an attempt to model the concepts in Chapter 1 of Karl Marx's critique of capitalism in a simple PHP program. It uses the often joked-about example that Marx harps on over and over about the relative value between two commodities, linen and coats.
January 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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I thought that would share the 2024 summary it’s attached here as an image, 16 books this year
A chart of books I read by month, the total for 2024 is 16 books
January 4, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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One of the best movies
A scene from office space on the tv. Two bobs sitting in a conference room
December 29, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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Talking with a good friend today, I made this perhaps blasphemous statement, and perhas if I sing it, I may will it to be true. Also, while I do technically own property RN, I am not able to use it at the moment and I understand the problem with landlording comrades don't come at me 🤣
Screenshot of text message exchange: I say "Looks like we just need to rent our properties up here and live in Central Park" they respond "LOL" I say "New wave of occupy, all of the remote work labor aristocracy shares some portable wifi and perma-camps in NYC" and then "We would make real demand and get actual shit done, we've all been through enough scrum/standup meetings, project planning meetings, and SDLC documentation to have zero fucks for talking without shipping" They respond "hahahahahahaha true"
December 11, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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In the words of Dustin Kensrue:

And we will burn the fleet, we can never go home
It's on to victory or underground
Burn the fleet, we'll be heroes or ghosts
But we won't be turned around
Blocking the democrats
December 5, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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Ah you mean the British Intelligence officer and noted anti-soviet propagandist Robert Conquest?
Screenshot of the following text: "George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was an anti-communist historian and former British intelligence officer. Even many anti-communists have rejected his claims of genocide against Ukrainians during the 1931–1933 Soviet famine. He has also severely exaggerated repression during the Soviet purges.[1] Many of his writings rely on writings from obscure émigrés or secondhand stories. He claimed that 3.5 million kulaks died after being deported to Siberia, more than twice the total number of deportees.[2]"
November 19, 2024 at 3:19 PM