Stuffy Stuff Stuff

Stuffy stuff stuff I find. I like them. I post some things. Métis/Queer/20/any pronouns are fine by me. Use whatever is funniest in context

[dagwolf]

“Martin Luther King Jr. made the forbidden connections between Capitalism, Imperialism, Racism, and the Vietnam War. As a result, after he was assassinated even his memory became toxic, a threat to public order. Foundations and corporations worked hard to remodel his legacy to fit a market-friendly format. The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, with an operational grant of $2 million, was set up by, among others, the Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Mobil, Western Electric, Proctor and Gamble, US Steel, and Monsanto. The center maintains the King Library and Archives of the Civil Rights Movement. Among the many programs the King Center runs have been projects that “work closely with the United States Department of Defense, the Armed Forces Chaplains Board and others.” It cosponsored the Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Series called “The Free Enterprise System: An Agent for Nonviolent Social Change.”

— Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy (via rikodeine)

[redmapache]

“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”

— The State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

[wilwheaton]

this is america

Never forget and never forgive the people who did this to us. When this is all over, when he is dead and gone, we must hold every one of these terrorist thugs accountable.

[krasnoarmeyets]

anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

[krasnoarmeyets]

let's use this post for something good. if you are considering being annoying in my notes, please instead consider donating to gaza soup kitchen. thanks!

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

I have been thinking a lot about what a cancer diagnosis used to mean. How in the ‘80s and ‘90s, when someone was diagnosed, my parents would gently prepare me for their death. That chemo and radiation and surgery just bought time, and over the age of fifty people would sometimes just. Skip it. For cost reasons, and for quality of life reasons. My grandmother was diagnosed in her early seventies and went directly into hospice for just under a year — palliative care only. And often, after diagnosis people and their families would go away — they’d cash out retirement or sell the house and go live on a beach for six months. Or they’d pay a charlatan all their savings to buy hope. People would get diagnosed, get very sick, leave, and then we’d hear that they died.

And then, at some point, the people who left started coming back.

It was the children first. The March of Dimes and Saint Jude set up programs and my town would do spaghetti fundraisers and raffles and meal trains to support the family and send the child and one parent to a hospital in the city — and the children came home. Their hair grew back. They went back to school. We were all trained to think of them as the angelic lost and they were turning into asshole teens right in front of our eyes. What a miracle, what a gift, how lucky we are that the odds for several children are in our favor!

Adults started leaving for a specific program to treat their specific cancer at a specific hospital or a specific research group. They’d stay in that city for 6-12 months and then they’d come home. We fully expected that they were still dying — or they’d gotten one of the good cancers. What a gift this year is for them, we’d think. How lucky they are to be strong enough to ski and swim and run. And then they didn’t stop — two decades later they haven’t stopped. Not all of them, but most of them.

We bought those extra hours and months and years. We paid for time with our taxes. Scientists found ways for treatment to be less terrible, less poisonous, and a thousand times more effective.

And now, when a friend was diagnosed, the five year survival odds were 95%. My friend is alive, nearly five years later. Those kids who miraculously survived are alive. The adults who beat the odds are still alive. I grew up in a place small enough that you can see the losses. And now, the hospital in my tiny hometown can effectively treat many cancers. Most people don’t have to go away for treatment. They said we could never cure cancer, as it were, but we can cure a lot of cancers. We can diagnose a lot of cancers early enough to treat them with minor interventions. We can prevent a lot of cancers.

We could keep doing that. We could continue to fund research into other heartbreaks — into Long Covid and MCAS and psych meds with fewer side effects and dementia treatments. We could buy months and years, alleviate the suffering of our neighbors. That is what funding health research buys: time and ease.

Anyway, I’m preaching to the choir here. But it is a quiet miracle what’s happened in my lifetime.

[loki-zen]

Cystic fibrosis used to be a "disease of childhood" because people who had it rarely lived to be adults. Now it's considered a chronic illness.

[catboybiologist]

I know I'm saying this as someone who's career largely depends on this, but: please, this is why we need basic science research. If you ever see a headline or snippet about something "ridiculous" that scientists are doing, you are being propagandized. You are being lied to. And it's in a way that aims to stop this progress.

[shamebats]

If you see the quote "I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't defend it politically" or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it's gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don't know it's from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.

[shamebats]

Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn't said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles

[what-even-is-thiss]

The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.

[what-even-is-thiss]

The new plants also help even more water soak into the ground which reduces flooding even more.

These places also give people places to grow food and graze animals like people are turning completely dry compact desert into a refuge for wildlife and plants and solving regional food insecurity just by digging holes.

[untitledgoosegay]

Yacouba Sawadogo - Wikipedia

The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.

He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.

Immensely cool dude. He's been a personal hero since I learned about him.

[jaylynx1412]

I don't think the "performative male" thing is funny because now they're just showing a guy who knows how to dress and likes nice things and calling him a "performative male"

I get this was supposed to poke fun of men who aren't actually like this and do it to attract girls, but at this point, this trend is now just used to bully men who are allies. Mark my words this will be used to push toxic masculinity.

It was kinda funny when we made of the "can we find another way to make babies..? I don't want to do that 🥀" guy because his ass was clearly lying, but you're just bullying people now.

Men are seeing these guys who are nice looking and act sensitive and everyone is laughing at them, so they're going to think, "oh okay, so to be a good man and so nobody makes fun of me I have to be super masculine and insensitive and drop any feminine hobby I have."

I genuinely don't get why we're making fun of guys for believing in feminism and reading novels and drinking matcha or whatever, I mean- you guys cannot be serious. Some people are just like this and don't do it to attract girls. sometimes not everything is about you.

The CIA celebrating while watching us bring back toxic masculinity and bully each other into conservatism instead of focusing on lifting our communities and taking down the oppressors:

[byjove]

lollllllll

[byjove]

PITTSBURGH TOO

[byjove]

AHAHAHAHAHA

[byjove]

YEAHHHHHHHHHH

[byjove]

YESSSSSSSSS

[gallusrostromegalus]

[gallusrostromegalus]

[theinfernaldesiremachine]

California voters OK new congressional lines, boosting Democrats ahead of midterms

California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest vic

[ahsokastarwars]

Virginia governor election results | CNN Politics

View the latest election results in the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial race between Republican Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat Abigail Spanber

Democrats winning all three governor, attorney general, and lt governor (I’m not American, I just saw someone else say it and wanted as many good in one chain)

[nepofledgling]

I’m gonna keep this short so people read it but the activist camp at Riehpovuotna (norwegian: repparfjorden) have been protesting for over four months against the building of a copper mine that plans to dump 30 million tons of toxic mining waste into the fjord. This will have devastating consequences for the local ecosystem, the salmon fjord and the indigenous reindeer herders in the area. The camp is run by sámi and environmental activists, and they need support to keep it going. They are planning to stay the winter and this is in the far north, so temperatures are dropping fast, last I was there it reached -6 degrees in october, and it might get down to -25 or lower later in the winter. The money will go to supplies, food and legal funds for the activists who are getting unreasonably high fines for civil disobedience and need lawyers. I don’t know if you can donate outside of the country, but please share this so people can donate and sign the petition

DONATE HERE

sign this petition to demand that Hartree (a U.S. investment firm) pulls out of the Nussir mining project at Riehpovuotna

[greenheart-anon]

[gffa]

TARKIN SEEING VISIONS OF ALL THE PEOPLE HE MURDERED WITH THE DEATH STAR RIGHT AS HE'S ABOUT TO DIE ON IT INCLUDING THE ROTTING CORPSES OF KRENNIC AND BAIL AND BREHA AND CASSIAN AND JYN AND SAW AND ALL THOSE OTHERS???? OH SHIT THAT'S THE NIGHTMARE FUEL I'M HERE FOR WITH THAT ASSHOLE

[finalfantasyvii]

[feytouched]

2025

BE A STUDENT OF WHAT YOU ADMIRE

DO IT BADLY RATHER THAN NOT AT ALL

TO DESPAIR IS TO CEDE VICTORY TO THOSE WHO DO NOT DESERVE IT

BROADEN YOUR CULTURAL HORIZONS

REVEL IN THE ANALOGUE

ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

GRIEF IS PRODUCTIVE; GUILT IS NOT

[persepinesascent]

What fuckin timeline are we living in

How to Make Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets

As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart — and what

(gift link)

[akamuffintop]

My city is teaming with ICE. I don’t want to write too much about it online so I’m asking you to trust me.

In my city, the ICE agents are always in plainclothes-sunglasses and hoodies up. They arrive in unmarked cars and always as a surprise attack. It’s eerie and unsettling. Here is an example of the cars used by ICE agents on Friday. These cars were verified by community advocates.

If you are in Massachusetts and think you see ICE in your neighborhood, contact LUCE. They will send out US Citizens out into the community to verify reports. We all have to help each other because shit is dark.

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

[softieskywalker]

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

[david-talks-sw]

I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.

[muffinlance]

Reading Star Wars fics during the Trump presidency sure is an experience. Still thinking to myself “wow all those senators that kept letting Palatine amass power were fucking morons who never cared for democracy a day in their lives” but like. No longer as a critique on the original trilogy’s writing.

[henstomper]

renovating your palace while the government has no money and the economy is fucked is a very classic late empire move. good to see its still in the meta

[henstomper]

we're playing all the hits