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friendly remember that i, a certified published poetTM (!!), got a patreon!!! its a pay what you can system and youll get a free pdf of my works (2 completed books plus one in french if you can read it). 

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I’m using a mermay drawing for now, because it’s the most recent thing I’ve done involving a person of colour, but I will make more 

Are western Europe's food supplies worth more than east European workers' health? | Costi Rogozanu and Daniela Gabor

The health threat facing fruit and vegetable pickers flown in from quarantined Romania underlines Europe’s inequalities.

In many ways the asparagus cutters, salad pickers and care workers represent the most efficient form of labour in Europe: cheap, highly productive, untaxed even if humiliated and a potential public health hazard. Europe’s political economy has created the post-communist universal soldier, capable of converting from farm labourer to caregiver to construction worker as the the season changes. Freedom of movement has morphed into migration for survival and even that privilege is reserved for the physically fit.

At the end of the day the huddled masses from the planes heading to the fields of Germany or Italy can rely on neither their own country nor the European Union. This begs tough questions about what east Europeans have a right to expect after years of EU membership: is this it?

Why can we not demand  a different Europe and renegotiate the social contract with it? Why is it so hard to guarantee the safety and the dignity of cross-border workers rather than reducing them to a dehumanised “labour supply” accessible with an app? Why does even the western left withdraw into fantasies about protected labour regimes while millions of east European workers toil under their noses? Why is the movement of millions of people in and out of quarantines, doing essential but undervalued work, not a European issue?

EU enlargement to the east gave millions of workers an opportunity to survive. But it is not a generous gift. Western Europe’s supply chains and essential social services rely on it.

i haven’t seen this being talked about on woke tumblr denouncing the evils of capitalism, so here’s a summary: westerners are too ~fragile to work in the fields picking non-essential crops, so let’s import a couple hundred thousand eastern europeans and make them work in conditions of modern slavery, in the middle of a pandemic, with no healthcare provisions. some of them may die, but it’s a sacrifice the west is willing to make because asparagus.

in the tags put your pets name vs what you actually call your pet

How do they rise up?

A sudden, terrifying thought

When you see an animal with its eyes set to the front, like wolves, or humans, that’s usually a predator animal.

If you see an animal with its eyes set farther back, though—to the side—that animal is prey.

Now look at this dragon.

See those eyes?

They’re to the SIDE.

This raises an interesting—and terrifying—question.

What in the name of Lovecraft led evolution to consider DRAGONS…

As PREY?