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nutbug // any pronouns // personal blog not dedicated to anything except constant nonsense // 20 yrs old B^)

[buggaboobabes]

in depsrate need of a littel project

[nonetoon]

Art motivation 💪

[robertreich]

If you’re wondering “Is it seriously Amazon Prime Day again?”, the answer is yes.

[charl0ttan]

dammit i was supposed to fix everything today

[zaccrimart]

Matthias Nonias 💀🗡️

[hagiomoto]

[thememedaddy]

[freakasaurus-rex]

"google ai" "spotify ai dj" "ai assistant" "enhanced by ai" what if i just start beating people over the head with a rock

[what-even-is-thiss]

I know that the reason that young entrepreneurs and young artists are often celebrated is to show kids and young adults that they’re not too young to start following their dreams but I think it often has the unintended side effect of making you go “Man, I haven’t even started an international business yet. I’m a failure.” when you’re like twelve.

[us-enviro-comments]

Protect Public Lands, End the Park Ranger Shortage ⭑ 5 Calls

The Trump administration has created a massive public lands staffing crisis. The National Park Service has already lost a quarter of its par

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"The Trump administration has created a massive public lands staffing crisis. The National Park Service has already lost a quarter of its park rangers, with key services impacted, like search and rescue, firefighting, research, and maintenance. To make matters worse, the federal hiring freeze has made it impossible to hire non-temporary staff.

Instead of hiring more park rangers to address this emergency, the Department of the Interior – which manages agencies like the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management – is moving forward with mass firings and budget cuts. These staffing cuts threaten our public lands and critical public services: from wildfire response and land management to clean water protection and tribal obligations.

In response, Congressional Democrats have introduced H.R.4854, the Saving the Department of the Interior’s Workforce Act to stop the firings and protect the rangers who work to preserve America’s public lands.

Demand your legislators support legislation to end the hiring freeze and stand up for the people who protect your public lands.

Content for this call topic kindly provided by Resistance Rangers, a collective of over 1000 rangers (always off-duty), former rangers, and friends of the national parks."

[silencespring]

Hey folks! Please help us out. We need the public to speak on our behalf.

Park Rangers are integral to the continued enjoyment—and likely, existence—of public lands.

Here's just a few things of what Park Rangers do for you:

• Provide free educational, often hands-on programming for all ages.

• Provide virtual field trips and in-person visits to schools in rural communities (also for free).

• Protect lands with natural, cultural, and historical significance from corporations and private entities.

• Protect biodiversity.

• Connect urban communities to nature, culture, and history.

• Sacrifice comfort and even the chance of having families and pets to continue serving the public.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[literal-bot-account]

picking up litter is worth it!!

individual environmentalism gets a lot of flak in the face of corporate pollution but picking up litter makes a significant, noticeable impact. I spend about an hour a week picking up litter from around my dorm complex and I'm literally outpacing my community's litter production. Just an hour a week from one person is enough to offset nearly 200 people's worth of littering.

it would take less than 100 man-hours of labor per week to keep my whole college campus entirely litter-free. If you got two classrooms' worth of people to spend two hours per week each picking up litter, the whole campus would end up spotless and they'd straight up fucking run out of things to pick up.

If you're looking for some way to make a noticeable and positive impact on the world around you, go pick up some litter.

[reckless-blossoms-deactivated20]

Here's a good video on getting started and what to do. Yes, it's fully legal, just don't trespass on private property. All you need are gloves and a bag.

I've been litter picking in the background of my walks and I've removed several bags of trash from the area. The other day, children were playing in the creek that I litter pick at a lot. They were jumping into the water and swimming, right in the spot where I pulled torn up cans out of the riverbed and where I removed nearly-buried fishing wire that still had hooks on the ends. Just one person with a sharps container made it safer for those kids to go out and have fun.

That was the most direct cause and effect thing I've had with litter picking after just a little while of doing it, but even aside from that it's just. Good to do. It makes your area cleaner and safer and removes plastic from the environment. Plus, people are less likely to litter in clean areas, and litter can not be subconsciously normalized in people's minds in a litter-free area.

It's also fulfilling instant gratification. You get to go out and do something with your hands and then look and see for yourself that an hour or two of picking shit up has made an instant tangible difference in the world.

[innocuousghost]

First of all hard agree on all of this. Every time I go out and pick up litter my mood noticeably skyrockets. The opportunities one encounters in their daily life to make an immediate positive material impact on a social/political issue that concerns them do not come up very often.

But what this post doesn't even mention is the community aspect. Which is possibly my favorite part.

Every single time I go to pick up garbage without fail I have at least one positive interaction with a stranger in my neighborhood. Sometimes small like someone walking past and saying thank you for doing it. But also people sometimes offering to help or even offering a bottle of water. And since I've started doing it I've seen more people in my neighborhood going out with gloves and a bag on a warm evening after school or work. In which case when I see them on my walks I become the kind stranger they meet that day.

So argue all you want about whether picking up litter is actually good for the planet (it is) but there is no question. It is good for your community and it is good for you.

[nukbody]

tlt whiteboard comeback

[astrangeghost]

[detectivehole]

not to sound like your dad but if your not having a great time rn you might legitimately be playing too many video games or being on that damn phone too often, or at least without any necessary activity buffers

[detectivehole]

may i suggest coloring with physical materials? or some chores you’ve been putting off? hell go outside with a bucket and make mud soup like you’re five again. take a break. you can bring your whatever for music and stuff but like don’t play with it

[benihana-circumcision]

lots of huffy teenagers in the notes

[anarch0possum]

i mean this, after spending so long getting my entertainment online, theres something incredibly tranquil about shutting it all out for a while to do something in meatspace for myself

[detectivehole]

not to sound like your dad but if your not having a great time rn you might legitimately be playing too many video games or being on that damn phone too often, or at least without any necessary activity buffers

[detectivehole]

may i suggest coloring with physical materials? or some chores you’ve been putting off? hell go outside with a bucket and make mud soup like you’re five again. take a break. you can bring your whatever for music and stuff but like don’t play with it

[benihana-circumcision]

lots of huffy teenagers in the notes

[anarch0possum]

i mean this, after spending so long getting my entertainment online, theres something incredibly tranquil about shutting it all out for a while to do something in meatspace for myself

[bethanydelleman]

My dad raises grass-fed beef cattle and I help him sell it, mainly by maintaining an online presence. For a while, I kept having the most ridiculous conversations with people who I assume were marketing students. I didn't want to be rude so I'd try to let them down gently but this one guy just kept insisting that with his magical marketing skills he could grow our business.

What he could not seem to comprehend is that we could not grow our business, at least not without significant time and monetary investment. Cows take two years from pregnancy to the size that you can sell. If we buy adult cows, our margins become razor thin or even negative. Even if we somehow could acquire some cows, our barn and hay fields are already near maximum capacity. Renting another field would be relatively easy, building a bigger barn not so much.

Cows are living animals, they aren't widgets that can be produced infinitely. Besides that, many businesses inherently cannot grow, because if they do they'll become something else. The delicious bakery down the street cannot produce much more than they do, if they began mass marketing and production they'd eventually be selling the equivalent of Twinkies. We grow grass-fed, organic beef, if we expanded how long would that last? Eventually we'd become the very factor farms that we hate. Some things can only ever be made on a small scale and they are usually the best things.

But also, what are they teaching them at marketing school and how is it so disconnected from reality?

[lew-basnight]

People kept trying to do this to my petcare business. “Let us build you a website! Let us buy you some ads! Let us print you flyers and cards!” I have exactly as much business as I can handle, and I’m happy with that. “But if you expand you could hire other people to do the work and pay them less, and raise your prices and eventually you can work from home!! Let us help you!” I’m doing this because I like playing fetch for a living, I like being outside moving around all day every day, I like spending time with each animal separately, I like being trusted by my clients with the keys and codes of their homes, it makes me feel proud. None of what you’re offering me is what I want. I don’t want a dozen miserable contractors who I pay 40% of each visit, I don’t want to try and wrangle and hire and vet people to do the part of my job that I like for me. That sounds bad. That’s a bad idea. And they looked at me like I was speaking an alien language. “But… website!! SEO! Ad buys! Targeted coverage! Constant growth!!” I don’t want any of that in my life it sounds fucking awful

[stjohnstarling]

One of the cruelties of capitalism is that if you want to do work you’re good at and love, a lot of the time your only option is to enter into some kind of business, and as soon as you do that, all the structural incentives of the system start trying to pull you away from the parts that you’re there for (i.e. the things that make life worth living) and towards various kinds of exploitation. Anyway, this also applies to writing and selling novels.

[thehappysatan]

I agree with OP down to my bonessss. The best things are done with pasison by artisans, who deseve to be compensated respectfully, but aren't into their work from a place of greed or whatever misguided capitalist-brained bros think 'efficiency' is.

I'm plenty efficient, at getting things done the way i intend to.

i described to my econ-brain-rotten brother how i run my tattooing business and got the same responses as above.

It's like he absolutely didn't hear me when i explained the nuanced reasons i even started doing this work; I started tattooing because i was tired of the isolation of my (at that point) decade-long career in the animation industry. I was sick of my best work rotting on hard drives in shut down studios, of never getting to see anyone interacting with my art.

Moved to a big queer city, where my community got me started: queer tattooers patiently shared information and resources with me. early on, friends volunteered to let me experiment on their skin. Then they started offering to pay for materials, then more. Then they brought their friends to me...

I have a beautiful community of people who know me from the drag scene, from the poetry and writing scene, from the techno scene - and all these ppl come to me because they know me, met me, trust me, because they felt comfortable in my presence.

I only have like 1200 followers on my tattooing Instagram - which rly isn't a lot for a tattooer. But i stay busier than some ppl who have more followers - and im pretty sure that it's because 90% of the ppl following me have actually met me irl. I don't give out my info to just anyone. I have to have a nice interaction with them - and they with me - and i basically invite them to get to know my work, if i think they'd be interested, if they seemed excited about it.

I built my business out of love and care, and connection. I built it because i wanted more of these things in my life. I am making what i wanna see in the world.

Im deeply proud of what I've accomplished as a tattooer, exactly because i stuck to my own beliefs and built a business that is fully customized to me, what im excited about, my abiliy and disability levels, and my philosophical values. This part of my life is all mine, crafted and chiselled just how i want it.

I don't like getting up in the morning, so my sessions never start earlier than 1300. I have a hard time focusing alone + i wanna empower ppl who aren't artists to play with art + help ppl practice and engage their decision making and request making skills - so i design the tattoos with them sitting right next to me, being part of the art process. I don't like doing math and counting so i give my clients a sliding scale based on project complexity, and they get to choose how much they pay me. This also doubles as a way to give ppl more agency in the process of getting a tattoo. Etc etc it goes on and on - every aspect of the process is considered and phislophically and emotionally calibrated. I love what I've created and i love giving the gift of a well-crafted thing......

And after hearing me explain all that, my brother said my marketing wasn't efficient and my business isn't scalable...

I dunno, i think smtng abt capitalism legit gives ppl brain damage or smtng wtf

[thehappysatan]

@asmadasthehatters you can't leave that in the comments, buddy

[heymerle]

There's this assumption, in marketing and in business for the last 40 or 50 years, that growth should be unlimited.

That exists in the real world, and it's called cancer. It will kill whatever it's growing in.

[palaeoplushies]

All of this. I set up Palaeoplushies because I like making plushies and if I kept all the plushies I make, then I'd have too many, so I sell them so other people can enjoy the plushies and also I get money so I can stay alive and healthy so I can make more plushies. I don't want to outsource the plushie making to other people because then I end up as a manager or whatever not a plushie making person. My sister helps out making stuff and I pay her because it means she gets to make plushies and get paid to do that.

I had someone contact me and insist that I should set up a "women's collective" where I train a bunch of local unemployed women to sew my plushies and then I can pay them for the plushies they make and sell them on their behalf. This sounds like a very good project for someone who wants to be a manager and deal with other human beings. This is a very generous project for someone with the capabilities to run something like this. I am not that person. I can't stick to a schedule, I will let people down, it will ruin the fun of making plushies for me and I will not be able to keep it up.

I suggested that they're free to set up this collective themselves but it wasn't something I was capable of doing, but they then got mad at me for "gatekeeping" my skills and denying employment to these hypothetical women.

I don't know where I am going with this but sometimes it's OK to say no to people. Also if you want to set up your own women's plushie sewing collective (or like, people's collective I don't know why it just has to be women doing this) that sounds like a good project but I'd rather live under a rock thanks.