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gabe Jan 16

finally finished the venture bros. no better ending than what we got. #goteamventure ✌️

jack the nonabrasive Oct 20

Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.

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💀 𝓕airchild 💀Oct 18

Where the Hanks go. #GoteamVenture

Viss Jul 1, 2025

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y🍉mpsuit Feb 25, 2025

@WorkWithKirk @paco Louisiana plague history is goddamn fascinating. Fedi link for a phenomenal book: https://neodb.social/book/4rYmbpLET9B5m8145IQZPz

The audiobook is available via Hoopla for many libraries.

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Necropolis
Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
Kathryn Olivarius

Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immunity from the scourge of yellow fever magnified the brutal inequities of slave-powered capitalism.

Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America’s slave and cotton kingdoms. It was also where yellow fever epidemics killed as many as 150,000 people during the nineteenth century. With little understanding of mosquito-borne viruses—and meager public health infrastructure—a person’s only protection against the scourge was to “get acclimated” by surviving the disease. About half of those who contracted yellow fever died.
Repeated epidemics bolstered New Orleans’s strict racial hierarchy by introducing another hierarchy, what Kathryn Olivarius terms “immunocapital.”

As this highly original analysis shows, white survivors could leverage their immunity as evidence that they had paid their biological dues and could then pursue economic and political advancement. For enslaved Blacks, the story was different. Immunity protected them from yellow fever, but as embodied capital, they saw the social and monetary value of their acclimation accrue to their white owners. Whereas immunity conferred opportunity and privilege on whites, it relegated enslaved people to the most grueling labor.

The question of good health—who has it, who doesn’t, and why—is always in part political. Necropolis shows how powerful nineteenth-century white Orleanians—all allegedly immune—pushed this politics to the extreme. They constructed a society that capitalized mortal risk and equated perceived immunity with creditworthiness and reliability. Instead of trying to curb yellow fever through sanitation or quarantines, immune white Orleanians took advantage of the chaos disease caused. Immunological discrimination therefore became one more form of bias in a society premised on inequality, one more channel by which capital disciplined and divided the population.

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Necropolis

Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immunity from the scourge of yellow fever magnified the bruta

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💀 𝓕airchild 💀Oct 26, 2024

Forgot I had bought this filament already for just this project, so here's the final print in a pretty accurate color. Still just dry-fitted, not glued up. Waiting on some armature wire to arrive to finish the legs.
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