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bus is my friend. shes no train but shes trying her hardest in a world that hates her
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As a trans woman I can confirm that they indeed found an ancient forest inside a 630ft deep sinkhole in China
cis people can reblog this but keep it on subject, please
Happy pride month everyone always remember that the sinkhole has an ecosystem large enough to house not only insects but likely several species of small birds or mammals
Indigenous Action looks at basic ways that people can get āback to basicsā as the Trump era comes to a close. We are ungovernable on stolen land. Fuck Biden.
Build an affinity group. An affinity group is a small group of 5 to 20 people who work together autonomously on direct actions or other projects. Affinity groups generally consist of like minded people who come together to get something done. If you already have an affinity group, link and cluster those groups!
Skill up. Delinking from capitalism and colonial apparatuses requires us to learn how to do things for ourselves and each other beyond buying, selling, working, or asking the state to help us. From self and collective defense, to gardening, building bikes, unschooling, and caring for each other- we can learn a skill and share a skill. We can change how we value skills and dismantle hierarchies of class and ableism.
Establish and practice good security culture. Security culture is necessary to survive state repression. We can stop a lot of infiltration and disinformation in its tracks by improving our ways of communicating and navigating conflict. We can still be horizontal and transparent without sacrificing security and safety.
Practice transformative and restorative justice. Strong communities make police and prisons obsolete. We can change our culture to prevent violence and abuse. We can build up our capacities to confront and resolve conflicts. We can strengthen our ties and detoxify our relationships so harm has no space to grow in our communities.
Mutual Aid. Start a mutual aid group and provide necessary support to those who are in need. Mutual aid organizing can ensure our communities are not dependent on corporations and the state. Shift your use of resources to things you can grow and make or procure from others in resistance. Build networks of aid and resources beyond capitalism.
Mutual defense. From arms training to street tactics to bystander interventions and safety teams, we need to have the skills and resources to defend our communities from fascist attacks on our people, non-human beings, and lands.
Build and sustain conflict infrastructure. Conflict Infrastructure is any structure we organize helps us be more effective in our fights. This is infrastructure that goes beyond solely providing awareness and services and instead builds our capacity to wage actual resistance. From community gardens and collectively coordinated farms to infoshops and independent media/communications.
Open squats for unsheltered folx. Rent is theft. Private property is colonial violence upon the land. Abolish rent and private property. Rematriate lands to original caretakers. Create spaces to live beyond landlords.
Defend and reclaim ancestral lands. Because #landback means ending colonial occupation and restoring Indigenous stewardship of our ancestral lands. Regenerate our sacred relations, and all that entails spiritually and materially, with our original homelands. Liberate the sacred.
Reparations. Seize what has been stolen from Black and Indigenous Peoples and liberate it back. Ā Radical redistribution is necessary.
Shut shit down. Intervene in critical infrastructure at the points where capitalism and colonialism are at their most vulnerable. Seize the streets, factories, ports, fracking pads, pipelines, power stations, smash the borders, be smart and be creative! Itās also an effective way to target those industries perpetuating climate change.
Be fiercely intersectional. āCause weāre not taking those old shitty behaviors with us. Fuck anti-blackness, fuck orientalism, fuck islamaphobia, fuck anti-semitism, fuck transphobia, fuck heteropatriarchy, fuck white supremacy, fuck imperialism, fuck ableism, fuck hierarchy, fuck racism, fuck citizenship, fuck privilege, fuck everything fucked up!
Practice Radical Self & Collective Care. To remain dangerous to power we must care for ourselves and each other. Learn common triggers and how to communicate without being fucked up. Learn to communicate your needs, boundaries, and wants effectively and nontoxicly ā remember that folks in the struggle and resistance have the hardest time accessing resources for mental and spiritual care. Movement work can be unsustainable to those with many experiences of settler policing and violence triggers ā find ways to communicate and negotiate group norms and boundaries that accommodate peoplesā needs if reasonable. Identify toxic communication patterns and learn / create ways to dismantle them and communicate in more healthy and less harmful ways.Be honest about your limitations and care for yourself and each other. The christianized, capitalized colonial state has taught us to never rest or heal. Reject any attempts at coercing people to go beyond their limits. Radical self-care keeps us safe and invulnerable when consistently engaging in agitating governability by the state.
Make everything accessible for everyone. Reject ableism and objectification of our bodies and lives, establish community care networks with people equipped to provide first aid and care support to a full spectrum of needs. Challenge ableism in our language, how we organize, and how we value each other. We are all enough.
Abolish Rape Culture. Study rape and rape culture and how it relates to the desecration of sacred lands. Transform our culture and practices around dating, humor, relationships, sexuality, consent, parties, sex labor, and play to abolish rape culture. Hold mactivists, rapists, abusers, opportunists, and creeps accountable. Center consent and healthy relationships in everything we do everywhere.
Spread radical and militant joy. We can fuck shit up while we dance, sing, party, laugh, play, wonder, have deep conversations, tell stories, make art, make love, make magic, make brilliance, make awesomeness, and have fun.
KICK THE CAN!
Letās play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.
To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.
the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now
And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!
>First, weāve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, thatās about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.
>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.
>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey weāve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.
>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so Iām happy enough with that.
>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.
>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.
>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.
>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!
>Lemmings problem now solved.
>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTĆ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.
>Some queries along the lines of āAre you not stealing the internet?ā Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.
>Iām afraid I passed the You Wouldnāt Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.
>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad companyās wish to profile them.
>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.
>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Havenāt tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesnāt have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.
fastest reblog in the west
Yeppers. :)
reblogging for study later AND to spread the info.
Seriously, get and run PiHole if you can. It changes your internet experience so much for the better. I get shocked when I visit a website when I'm someone else's network, by just how many ads the internet is flooded with now. Take back control.
Leverage textposts part 27/?
lol i just licked that angel girl's ear wing once and it fell in like half a second. halo shattered, horns fully formed, wings stained darker than night just like that. zero fighting back at all, kinda cute.
the thief herself
A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. āDo I look like a fool?ā said the frog.Ā āYouād sting me if I let you on my back!ā
āBe logical,ā said the scorpion.Ā āIf I stung you Iād certainly drown myself.ā
āThatās true,ā the frog acknowledged.Ā āClimb aboard, then!ā But no sooner than they were halfway across the river, the scorpion stung the frog, and they both began to thrash and drown. āWhy on earth did you do that?ā the frog said morosely. āNow weāre both going to die.āĀ
āI canāt help it,ā said the scorpion. āItās my nature.ā
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ā¦But no sooner than they were halfway across the river, the frog felt a subtle motion on its back, and in a panic dived deep beneath the rushing waters, leaving the scorpion to drown.
āIt was going to sting me anyway,ā muttered the frog, emerging on the other side of the river. āIt was inevitable. You all knew it. Everyone knows what those scorpions are like. It was self-defense.ā
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ā¦But no sooner had they cast off from the bank, the frog felt the tip of a stinger pressed lightly against the back of its neck. āWhat do you think youāre doing?ā said the frog.
āJust a precaution,ā said the scorpion. āI cannot sting you without drowning. And now, you cannot drown me without being stung. Fairās fair, isnāt it?ā
They swam in silence to the other end of the river, where the scorpion climbed off, leaving the frog fuming.
āAfter the kindness I showed you!ā said the frog. āAnd you threatened to kill me in return?ā
āKindness?ā said the scorpion. āTo only invite me on your back after you knew I was defenseless, unable to use my tail without killing myself? My dear frog, I only treated you as I was treated. Your kindness was as poisoned as a scorpionās sting.ā
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ā¦āJust a precaution,ā said the scorpion. āI cannot sting you without drowning. And now, you cannot drown me without being stung. Fairās fair, isnāt it?ā
āYou have a point,ā the frog acknowledged. āBut once we get to dry land, couldnāt you sting me then without repercussion?ā
āAll I want is to cross the river safely,ā said the scorpion. āOnce Iām on the other side I would gladly let you be.ā
āBut I would have to trust you on that,ā said the frog.Ā āWhile youāre pressing a stinger to my neck. By ferrying you to land Iād be be giving up the one deterrent I hold over you.ā
āBut by the same logic, I canāt possibly withdraw my stinger while weāre still over water,ā the scorpion protested.
The frog paused in the middle of the river, treading water. āSo, I suppose weāre at an impasse.ā
The river rushed around them. The scorpionās stinger twitched against the frogās unbroken skin. āI suppose so,ā the scorpion said.
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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. āAbsolutely not!ā said the frog, and dived beneath the waters, and so none of them learned anything.
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A scorpion, being unable to swim, asked a turtle (as in the original Persian version of the fable) to carry it across the river. The turtle readily agreed, and allowed the scorpion aboard its shell. Halfway across, the scorpion gave in to its nature and stung, but failed to penetrate the turtleās thick shell. The turtle, swimming placidly, failed to notice.
They reached the other side of the river, and parted ways as friends.
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ā¦Halfway across, the scorpion gave in to its nature and stung, but failed to penetrate the turtleās thick shell.
The turtle, hearing the tap of the scorpionās sting, was offended at the scorpionās ungratefulness. Thankfully, having been granted the powers to both defend itself and to punish evil, the turtle sank beneath the waters and drowned the scorpion out of principle.
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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. āDo I look like a fool?ā sneered the frog. āYouād sting me if I let you on my back.ā
The scorpion pleaded earnestly. āDo you think so little of me? Please, I must cross the river. What would I gain from stinging you? I would only end up drowning myself!ā
āThatās true,ā the frog acknowledged. āEven a scorpion knows to look out for its own skin. Climb aboard, then!ā
But as they forged through the rushing waters, the scorpion grew worried. This frog thinks me a ruthless killer, it thought. Would it not be justified in throwing me off now and ridding the world of me? Why else would it agree to this? Every jostle made the scorpion more and more anxious, until the frog surged forward with a particularly large splash, and in panic the scorpion lashed out with its stinger.
āI knew it,ā snarled the frog, as they both thrashed and drowned. āA scorpion cannot change its nature.ā
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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. The frog agreed, but no sooner than they were halfway across the scorpion stung the frog, and they both began to thrash and drown.
āIāve only myself to blame,ā sighed the frog, as they both sank beneath the waters. āYou, youāre a scorpion, I couldnāt have expected anything better. But I knew better, and yet I went against my judgement! And now Iāve doomed us both!ā
āYou couldnāt help it,ā said the scorpion mildly. āItās your nature.āĀ
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ā¦āWhy on earth did you do that?ā the frog said morosely. āNow weāre both going to die.ā
āAlas, I was of two natures,ā said the scorpion. āOne said to gratefully ride your back across the river, and the other said to sting you where you stood. And so both fought, and neither won.ā It smiled wistfully. āAh, it would be nice to be just one thing, wouldnāt it? Unadulterated in nature. Without the capacity for conflict or regret.ā
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āBy the way,ā said the frog, as they swam, āIāve been meaning to ask: Whatās on the other side of the river?ā
āItās the journey,ā said the scorpion. āNot the destination.ā
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ā¦āWhatās on the other side of anything?ā said the scorpion. āA new beginning.ā
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ā¦āAnother scorpion to mate with,ā said the scorpion. āAnd more prey to kill, and more living bodies to poison, and a forthcoming lineage of cruelties that you will be culpable in.ā
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ā¦āNothing we will live to see, I fear,ā said the scorpion. āAlready the currents are growing stronger, and the river seems like it shall swallow us both. We surge forward, and the shoreline recedes. But does that mean our striving was in vain?ā
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āI love you,ā said the scorpion.
The frog glanced upward. āDo you?ā
āAbsolutely. Can you imagine the fear of drowning? Of course not. Youāre a frog. Might as well be scared of breathing air. And yet here I am, clinging to your back, as the waters rage around us. Isnāt that love? Isnāt that trust? Isnāt that necessity? I could not kill you without killing myself. Are we not inseparable in this?ā
The frog swam on, the both of them silent.
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āIām so tired,ā murmured the frog eventually. āHow much further to the other side? I donāt know how long weāve been swimming. Iāve been treading water. And itās getting so very dark.ā
āShh,ā the scorpion said. āDonāt be afraid.ā
The frogās legs kicked out weakly. āHow long has it been? Weāre lost. Weāre lost! Weāre doomed to be cast about the waters forever. There is no land. Thereās nothing on the other side, donāt you see!ā
āShh, shh,ā said the scorpion. āMy venom is a hallucinogenic. Beneath its surface, the river is endlessly deep, its currents carrying many things.āĀ
āYou - Youāve killed us both,ā said the frog, and began to laugh deliriously.Ā āIs this - is this what itās like to drown?āĀ
āWeāve killed each other,ā said the scorpion soothingly. āMy venom in my glands now pulsing through your veins, the waters of your birthing pool suffusing my lungs. We are engulfing each other now, drowning in each other. I am breathless. Do you feel it? Do you feel my sting pierced through your heart?ā
āWhat a foolish thing to do,ā murmured the frog. āNo logic. No logic to it at all.ā
āWe couldnāt help it,ā whispered the scorpion. āItās our natures. Why else does anything in the world happen? Because we were made for this from birth, darling, every moment inexplicable and inevitable. What a crazy thing it is to fall in love, and yet - Itās all our fault! We are both blameless. Weāre together now, darling. It couldnāt have happened any other way.ā
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āItās funny,ā said the frog. āI canāt say that I trust you, really. Or that I even think very much of you and that nasty little stinger of yours to begin with. But Iām doing this for you regardless. Itās strange, isnāt it? Itās strange. Why would I do this? I want to help you, want to go out of my way to help you. I let you climb right onto my back! Now, whyever would I go and do a foolish thing like that?ā
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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. āDo I look like a fool?ā said the frog. āYouād sting me if I let you on my back!ā
āBe logical,ā said the scorpion. āIf I stung you Iād certainly drown myself.ā Ā
āThatās true,ā the frog acknowledged. āCome aboard, then!ā But no sooner had the scorpion mounted the frogās back than it began to sting, repeatedly, while still safely on the riverās bank.
The frog groaned, thrashing weakly as the venom coursed through its veins, beginning to liquefy its flesh. āAh,ā it muttered.Ā āFor some reason I never considered this possibility.ā
āBecause you were never scared of me,ā the scorpion whispered in its ear.Ā āYou were never scared of dying. In a past life you wore a shell and sat in judgement. And then you were reborn: soft-skinned, swift, unburdened, as new and vulnerable as a child, moving anew through a world of children. How could anyone ever be cruel, you thought, seeing the precariousness of it all?ā The scorpion bowed its head and drank. āHow could anyone kill you without killing themselves?ā
https://twitter.com/coff33detective/status/1271463582312673281
āmake yourselves impossible to ignore. 10,000 signatures on twitter is a lot but 10 unique personal emails is enough to derail an entire council session.ā
I was in a city council meeting last week about defunding the police and one of the council members mentioned multiple times that sheād been inundated with calls and emails all that day saying to defund the police.
[ID: Two screenshots of a twitter thread by alex flanigan, anti-fascist @Coff33Detective from June 12, 2020 beginning at 11:25 AM that reads: hi! i work in local government and community management, and iām here to tell you a secret: it is like, really, really easy to overwhelm the people who work in your local government. especially right now. especially on things they can actionably do or impact.
you may not know this, but i bet your city or town or municipality has a website. i bet that website has some contact forms or email addresses on it. i bet you can use them to put together a message in about 5 minutes! i bet itās almost as easy as signing a national petition.
which is to say: iām noticing, like most other people, that the national level discussion on really important and long overdue issues is flagging. but the internet and news cycle is not the only battleground, and you will be pleasantly surprised by how easy it is toā
āfight those battles at home, on your own turf, with much more immediate impact, and they are so, so important.
I am begging you: make my job, and the jobs of people like me, difficult right now. flood us with demands. make yourselves impossible to ignore. 10,000 signatures on twitter is a lot but 10 unique personal emails is enough to derail an entire council session. End ID]
Iāve been a city council observer with the League of Women Voters for nearly a year, and I have witnessed the following:
A few guys voicing their anxiety about speeding on a street where their children play and suggesting a radar speed sign. Despite catching all of two meetings where this was mentioned, I walked back home one day andāyepāthere was a radar speed sign up.
A persistent force of 3-5ish loud residents coming to zoning and council meetings because they did not want a drive through style restaurant moving into a particular area where there were already major issues with traffic congestion and safety. This eventually resulted in a Chik-fil-a having its planning proposal shot down by council such that the lot is now likely to house an Aldi. I am getting low cost groceries instead of bigotry chicken in my neighborhood because of a D&D partyās worth of regular speakers.
A turnout of residents shouting down an attempt to reduce the amount of funding for the community Juneteenth celebration until Council backed down. One meeting. Roughly a dozen people + their kids speaking about the significance of the holiday. The celebration ended up having its full funding restored.
In my experience, it is incredibly easy to bully local politicians and get some sort of results, especially in small municipalities. If you have something that you want to see happen at the local level, seriously try to contact your local officials and see what you can make happen.
I single-handedly got them to double the number of chickens you are allowed to keep in my former town.
EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????
IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN
IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"
AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS
LIKE READ THIS SHIT
WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE
I went to find the article. It's fascinating.
In retrospect, consider the number 1 thing every grade-schooler knows about plants is they take in light, the idea they might be able to see should not wreck my shit as hard as it does
Dumpster Diving Tip: WHEN to Dumpster Dive?
Over the year:
As the year goes on, take into consideration the temperature highs and lows if your dumpster diving for food. If the weather gets too hot during the day, it may be dangerous to pick food from a previous day, as the conditions can encourage bacterial growth. On the flip side, consider that consistently freezing weather practically turns your dumpster into a fridge, if you enjoy the forbidden perishables of dumpster diving like meats.
Always take rain into account and plan around it when making plans with your dumpster buddies. Rain can ruin loot, especially if dumpsters are left open.
The change of college semesters, or as some call it āhippie Christmasā are golden opportunities for all sorts of goodies that privileged college students leave behind. If there are dorms or fraternities/sororities in your neighborhood, they may be worth checking out around December and May
Time of day:
Can you dumpster dive during the day? Yes, But! you run a high chance of getting caught, since thatās when employees are most likely to be coming and going
I suggest looking up the places you want to dumpster dive at beforehand, taking note of and avoiding going within 2 hours of opening and closing, that way you give employees some time to get out there (and nobody flips their shit and calls the cops)
Hereās what to do if you run into cops anyways
Special occasions:
depending on the company, restaurants and grocery stores are sometimes required to throw out all their refrigerated foods when the power goes out, even if it was only for a moment. So next time thereās a storm or you hear about a power outage, go take a peak at your local hot spots, you may just hit a jackpot.
General dumpster diving safety guide
WHERE to dumpster dive
Feel free to add on anything I missed. Be safe and go dumpster diving! ā»ļø
My tips
Forget flashlights. Get a good headlamp so both hands are free.
A long stick of some sort can be helpful. Often these are in the dumpsters themselves.Ā
Personally, Iām the type that will willingly jump into dumpsters (I even do this when scavenging or dealing with my workās dumpsters) BUT this is dangerous, dirty, and yes dumpsters can tip over. Know your agility and comfort level.Ā
Be up to date on your tetanus shots.
Idiots are loud and slow and attract unwanted attention. Get in, get out. Thereās different philosophies aboutĀ āI belong hereā vsĀ āstealth modeā but whatever you do, lingering is NOT helpful.
If itās locked, thereās a good possibility that there are cameras. Breaking that lock costs time, and it means that if you are caught, management is more likely to be hostile than usual and more likely to press charges. Know your local laws.
Leave the place better than you found it, or youāre likely to end up with locked and monitored dumpsters.Ā Ā
You can learn when dumpsters are picked up, so you can check them right beforehand. The best divers have a regularĀ ārouteā they check. Some nights you donāt get much of anything, some can be total bonanzas.
I like to double check the wishlists of local nonprofits, and keep an eye out for those items when diving/scavenging
Beware of bedbugs!!!!!! They can ruin your living situation. Beware of clothing, upholstery, furniture, etc. You can bag the items up in black garbage bags and leave them in the sun for aĀ few weeks but honestly that shit is not worth it in my book.
Donāt forget curb picking. This can be much safer and faster than actually dealing with dumpsters.Ā
Plastic bags and a change of clothes can be very helpful.
Itās more fun with a friend. But make sure they have a good head on their shoulders. Do they have your back?
Some places have diving communities, in which case, it is poor form to take all the good stuff for yourĀ āteamā. Weāve met other people while diving, and often you find out what the other folks are looking for while you go through stuff together. Working cooperatively means that everyone gets in, and gets out, as quickly as possible.
In case youāre wondering why the heck one would dumpster dive in the first place, itās truly astounding the perfectly good things people will just toss into landfills, or things that just need a little repair. If you are creative or know someone who is, you can find all manner of things. Itās an interesting hobby for punk environmentalists, freegans, etc. and more than a few people have made some money from selling the stuff that theyāve found dumpster diving.
Many stores will destroy or damage things on purpose before throwing them in the dumpster. Many will not. Learn how different places operate, map out your route, and check often! Good luck and stay safe!Ā
If the cops in your area are bored af, dive someplace else, or just check out the curbside options... trust your intuition if something doesnāt feel right.
Happy pride from Crestfall :)
IāM NOT CRYING YOUāRE CRYING ššš
HAPPY PRIDE, YāALL š³ļøāšš³ļøāšš³ļøāš
(2025) ⨠the holy trinity of leverage āØ
Marxism-Leninism doesn't work because taking over the state requires buying into the institutions of the state and perpetuating the harms of the state in order to do so. When a M-L takes over the police service, they don't dismantle it; they use the oppressive institution of policing, perpetuating the harms of police and prison. The state is counter-revolutionary, as some might say, and the revolution fails as soon as it capitulates to the needs of the state and its oppressive institutions.
It's why the abolishment of the state is the only way for revolution to actually succeed. It's why anarchism is the only way to really win. Rejecting all oppressive institutions is the only way to reject the self-perpetuating harm of the state and to dismantle capitalism.