If the past few years have taught us anything, it's that:

1) Poverty is a policy choice.
2) Workers keep America going, not billionaires.
3) Corporate profits don't trickle down.
4) Health care is a human right.

The time to act on these issues is now.

If Ayn Rand's own life wasn't enough to show that libertarianism is a failed idea, we now have further evidence.

https://onlysky.media/alee/why-libertarian-cities-fail/

Another emulsion lift from my exhibition - it's difficult to pick just one but I have to say I think this one is my favourite 💜

The purple colour comes from the 20 years expired Ektachrome I used to create the original photograph.

I could have "corrected" the colours but...well, just look at it!

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You can see it in context with the rest of the exhibition at https://www.galleryafem.com/artists-2023/morag-perkins/deconstruced/

#BelieveInFilm #Polaroid #EmulsionLift #Art #Photography

Your periodic reminder that VC-funded CEOs are in a situation that they have bet both their kidneys on being able to deliver a 100x return to the bone-saw wielding loan sharks who funded them.

Your “community” is worthless to them unless it delivers Kidney Money.

They cannot just “decide” to not enshittify the community you mistakenly believed was yours. No appeal to justice or fairness will work, unless accompanied by a donor kidney or two.

I could write you a whole essay about it man, but the most basic point is that capitalism and a wage labor society doesn't function properly, for rich people and their stated purpose of extracting wealth, if you're not miserable.

It's not you. It's not that you've done something wrong. It's not that you're not working hard enough or striving for that cake, which is a lie, hard enough. It's literally TRYING to make you miserable so you'll work for peanuts. Precarity is enforced SYSTEMICALLY