Eric FoltinDec 20
Burnout Made Me Horizontal
https://ericfoltin.com/burnout-made-me-horizontal/
What was the last thing you did for play or fun? The last thing I did for fun was absolutely nothing, and I did it like a professional. People talk about “play” like it requires gear, tickets, coordination, or leaving the house. Hard pass. I work
#boredom #chair #dailyprompt #Dailyprompt2158 #digital_detox #fun #introspection #mindfulness #minimalism #relax #relaxation #self_care #sit #unplugging #unproductivity
Burnout Made Me Horizontal

What was the last thing you did for play or fun? The last thing I did for fun was absolutely nothing, and I did it like a professional. People talk about “play” like it requires gear, tickets, coor…

Eric Foltin
WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 4

A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt

Of all species of silliness the silliest is the assertion sometimes made that the woman whose primary lifework is taking care of her home and children is somehow a “parasite woman.” It is such a ridiculous in version of the truth that it ought not to be necessary even to allude to it.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1916-05), “The Parasite Woman: The Only Indispensable Citizen,” Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. 43, No. 6

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #feminism #homemaker #housekeeping #housework #parasite #parenting #sexism #unproductivity #woman

Essay (1916-05), "The Parasite Woman: The Only Indispensable Citizen," Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. 43, No. 6 - Roosevelt, Theodore | WIST Quotations

Of all species of silliness the silliest is the assertion sometimes made that the woman whose primary lifework is taking care of her home and children is somehow a "parasite woman." It is such a ridiculous in version of the truth that it ought not to be necessary even to…

WIST Quotations
Apocalypse & AvocadosAug 28
A new post from our hosts! They’re talking about how 'unproductivity can lead to something productive' and how 'time is fake'. What's a life lesson you learned from a spiral? #TheSpiral #Unproductivity #TheSpiral #Unproductivity #MastodonToots
BellingenNSWJul 15, 2025

Australian wealth inequality frays the social fabric

"The top 10% of households now control 44% of all wealth in Australia. The collective wealth of the richest 200 Australians has nearly tripled over two decades, mostly from property and resources – economic activities that extract value from existing assets rather than new productive capacities; what economists call “rent-seeking”.

"Rent-seeking concentrates wealth away from productivity-enhancing investments – in business innovation, public infrastructure and worker wages. This leaves ordinary people paying ever-higher proportions of their income for necessities. Ordinary Australians have little to celebrate."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/15/neoliberalism-lite-is-no-solution-to-australias-cost-of-living-and-productivity-crises-its-time-to-curb-wealth-concentration
#inequality #WealthCapture #RentSeeking #housing #rentierism #unproductivity #ActiveProduction #wages #extractivism

‘Neoliberalism lite’ is no solution to Australia’s cost-of-living and productivity crises. We must curb wealth concentration

The upcoming productivity roundtable must accept this as a systemic risk, and confront it directly

The Guardian
Rooney’s old accountSep 17, 2023
What I really need is an #unproductivity webinar. A short course on turning down opportunities. A retreat on drafting a 5 year plan to stay the course. A print out worksheet on just enjoying your life after #tenure. @academicsunite @academicchatter @academia_carnet
AxelPolleres (Q54860587)Mar 13, 2023
Sometimes I feel like spending half of my worktime filling "doodles"...Time for a standard interface/API for doodle-derivates... Who's up for it, is there anything like that in the queue? (and FWIW, if people weekly introduce/use new doodle-derivates, my email-filterrules can't catch up and I *will* overlook them) #doodle #unproductivity #toomanymeetings ;-)
Finder of Impossible ThingsJan 13, 2023

#Journal, Day 1029
Thursday, 12 January 2023

#unproductivity
#raindamage
#gadgets
#network
#rebootreset
#iamnotanitperson
#wedontdeservebirds

Liz SeegertDec 10, 2022
I’ve been procrastinating so long today about the article I’m supposed to write, that I managed to totally clean out and reorganize two closets this afternoon. #journalistlife #productivity #unproductivity