Nire Brycethe age of Move Fast and Break Things is over, and we now enter an age of Move Slow Within Broken Things
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Irenes (many)@susankayequinn @NireBryce where can we get one of those
@ireneista I've gotten stickers *and* tshirts from them :)
tunda@susankayequinn @ireneista @NireBryce
"Resist trends and useless upgrades! The fuel of our throwaway society."
don't buy usless stickers.
@tunda maybe don't hector people on the internet and just live your life the way you'd like?
@tunda @susankayequinn @NireBryce we agree with every principle on that list. we know how to stencil a slogan onto the back of our laptop with enamel paint if we choose to do that. we prefer to use vinyl stickers because they let us change our mind later.
Dave Carlson@tunda @susankayequinn @ireneista @NireBryce
make. copy. share.
@tunda
I'm not sure how that matches your point, can you explain better?
personalizing ones tools is deep in the DIY tradition
are you also going to tell pretty much all the punks with back patches on denim vests that they should hand weave their back patches instead of getting them as patches from someone with embroidery machines?
@NireBryce @ireneista Hi,
I didn't want to polemicize against the personalization of personal tools. But I did want to argue against plastic stickers that you have to make and can then buy. It is embedded in the capitalist logic of exploitation and commercialization. A kind of unnecessary consumption if you have too much money. That's my point from above. Do you need a sticker that says “I'm not a sticker”? My recommendation is to leave it alone, even if you would like to have it. best regards
@tunda @NireBryce it is embedded in that, sure. that's certainly true.
@tunda
using stickers or not isn't going to make a difference in plastic when the major companies are spilling plastic into rivers, dumping bottles in the ocean, using plastic instead of more expensive shipping materials, etc.
do you fight against zines because they encourage deforestation and paper production?
Environmentalism of abstinence at the individual level isn't going to do anything in the fight, even if we all stopped.
The sticker that's 0.01% of my plastic waste is not going to fix it when buying a vegetable is 8 times as much plastic if not more, they just take the shipping material off it before it's put out in the store display. Unavoidable for most.
bottling companies flood rivers with plastic pellets. it's a problem but yelling at individuals isn't gonna do much against that
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