new homes building ramble
//Content warning: rambling leftist housing politics// This blog is going to be an effort to get away from big platform social media for me. There are several reasons for this: I like to be able to write a few pages at a time and expand on thoughts when I'm sharing and insta is not at all conducive to this, fb is worthless on all fronts, generally insta also just makes me and plenty of people I know just feel bad about themselves half the time. Constantly comparing yourself to the cherry picked, idealized versions of other people's experiences is never going to end well and it just deepens the hold that Capitalism has on us by encouraging everyone to consider each experience they have as a commodity to be sold. And finally, every image shared on any of these platforms immediately leaves your hands and becomes property of the corporation operating the service. These images are used to gather data about you and your life, to sell information about you and people like you to adv