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@chocolattefeverdreams
Hello! I'm an Indian teenager who posts or reblogs about little things I'm interested in.
My studyblr: @latte-studies-sometimes
Shoutout to all the people who...
Are always talked over in group settings
Rehearse what they are going to say loads of times in their head and still end-up with their words coming out jumbled
Take longer to process jokes/people's speech
Just get brushed-off when they ask people to repeat their jokes
Always feel like they are seen as an acquaintance rather than a best friend by others
Find parties overwhelming and feel boring for preferring nights in
Feel lonely but also don't know how to go about making friends as an adult
Feel embarrassed/ashamed for not having friends
I've been rethinking how autistic I was, and I decided, maybe I'm not autistic. I definitely showed more signs of it when I was a child, but now the only sign I have is feeling so otherly from other people and loneliness creeping up around me. That and some other weird stuff or habits I have, and scoring consistently on screening tests for autism, but yeah.
I'm just angry, and I feel so bad for my high school self. She was made to feel like something was different with her because of her classmates and all the snide comments and weird looks and other things. My school was so fake I thought there was something wrong with me. (I don't think being autistic or any other form of nd is wrong, I felt like this is what others thought of me).
Most signs of my autism (if I'm even autistic) were only present in my childhood and maybe I started only doing my favourite things in the privacy of my room, where people wouldn't judge. Maybe I was masking autism. Maybe I'm just a neurotypical late bloomer. Maybe I just have speech issues or auditory processing issues.
Whatever it is, maybe the reason I'm so eager to find out what exactly is it is because I don't want to feel like the only person in the world who feels this way. I just want to stop feeling lonely and left out in a group.
(The reason I thought of that was because I asked my sister if I looked autistic or anything and kept talking about it, and then she told me I was looking for a disorder. It made me angry because she doesn't know what it feels like to be lonely your whole life. She's never had trouble with friends or social rules or anything, and a lot of times I wished I was her.)
Anyway, I don't really call myself autistic anymore, just neurodivergent, and I don't know exactly what kind. My dad still wants me to go to therapy because he's convinced there's something wrong with me, and the only serious trait is how undersocialised I am. I scared to bring it up with the therapist tomorrow and I just typed out a note for them to read instead. If I spoke it might come out wrong.
I resent the inevitable consequences the second law of thermodynamics has on my tea and the entropy of the universe. It always happens too damn soon.
The hell do you mean “use a tea light” you’re telling me those things can be used to heat tea???
Fam I’ve been lied to and deceived
Wait please what are you being told, this has raised many questions about tea lights for me.
Apparently the way you’re supposed to use tea lights is like this
Which no one ever told me is possible or exists and might now become my villain origin story after suffering years of cold tea
I'm sorry they're what
They heat tea. They heat tea because they’re tea lights. They’re named that way because they’re literally devices to keep your tea warm and somehow no one has ever told me this and they’re tea lights to heat tea and I might just—[CENSORED]
I’m glad we’re all having a normal one today folks
This is the current boycott list my family is using
If anyone wants to add some more things to their boycott list but aren't sure what. I got this list from a video of Palestinian children holding up the brand logos asking us to boycott these brands. If anyone has that video feel free to attach it.
Here's the list:
Coca cola
Sprite
Lilt
Fanta
Pepsi
7up
Tango
Pringles
Walkers (Lays)
Starbucks
Dominos
Mcdonalds
KFC
Dairy Milk
Snickers
Doritoes
Pizza Hut
Solarpunk and the Internet Or: How to Unfuck the Internet?
Okay, I just gotta talk about this. Because it is actually quite a headache.
How do we unfuck the internet?
Because let's face it, right now the internet is a fucking shitshow for so many different reasons. For the most part because it is so centralized on just a few platforms - and those are very much controlled by advertizers and in many cases also some algorithms that are basically a blackbox for the users.
I first got access to the internet in 1999, though I only started using it for real in 2001, because only in 2001 I got access to somewhat higher speed internet. (The kind where you could at least show a jpg without waiting 10 minutes for it to load). Hence: I do remember the time when everyone was mostly communicating through forums, while a lot of people had their own pages and where there were tons of different fansites out there to a variety of topics.
And sure, there are still some fansites out there, but a lot of that these days is actually channeled through all sorts of Wikis, rather than classical fansites. While a lot of the other stuff is somewhat centralized.
And don't get me wrong. Technically speaking that centralization is not a bad thing. It allows you to see a lot more fanworks, for example, than otherwise. And as a creative it allows you in turn to get more eyes on your stuff. But we do have to reckon with both the thing about algorithms and the fact how much it controls what we can post.
Basically there are right now not many platforms on which you can post explicit fanwork, or generally anything explicit in forms of creation.
And outside of the creative sphere there is always a good chance that a lot of information can be suppressed on those centralized platforms. We have seen the stuff of people posting about Palestine being banned from a variety of platforms for all sorts of vague reasons.
Sure, a lot would probably be unfucked, when the platforms would be handed to the people. That is rather than being controlled by some CEOs and boards of directors be controlled by the community itself.
But there is also the two-sided issue of the centralization. Because on one hand it is good. Because information can travel a lot further and a lot faster with it. Still, it also does bring a variety of issues with it, that are... less easy to solve.
For example the quick proliferation of information can also lead to a lot of misinformation spreading. Something that has definitely been increased through social media being a thing.
And exactly that is the point that gives me a headache.
The internet is amazing. Especially from a solarpunk point of view. You can share information online for free. You can also use it to help with organizing of stuff. You can connect with people all over the world so easily.
But there are also some inherent dangers - and I am not sure that we have the ability to tackle them right now.
Palestine: A Homeland Denied, Raili Liaho, 1979
A Homeland Denied, Pedro Laperal, 1979
something my mum always taught us was to look for the resources we're entitled to, and use them. public land? know your access rights and responsibilities, go there and exercise them. libraries? go there and talk to librarians and read community notice boards, find out what other people are doing around you, ask questions, use the printers. public records offices? go in there, learn what they hold and what you can access, look at old maps, get your full birth certificate copied, check out the census from your neighbourhood a hundred years ago. are you entitled to social support? find out, take it, use it. does the local art college have facilities open to the public? go in, look around, check out their exhibit on ancient looms or whatever, shop in their campus art supply store. it applies online too, there is so much shit in the world that belongs to the public commons that you can access and use if you just take a minute to wonder what might exist!!!
Yes and!
Those that provide them constantly measure how effective these things are.
If you don't use them, they'll cut funding to it and let it fall into disarray or sell it to private interests who'll change it so it's 'profitable'.
If you DO use it, you'll show the need and desire for it, and possibly expand them!
You know those "take books out of the library shelves/bring them home" posts? That applies all across the board.
You using these services can help keep them alive, and make it so others can use them too.
Israel has killed more children in Gaza since October than in four years of worldwide conflict
Like it's been said before that when Israelis and Zionists cry "why do you single out Israel?!", they should in fact be reminded that Israel singles itself out. I mean, who commits violence at this magnitude and then bemoans being the victim??
Hebden Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire (England)
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Tiny forest for your dash
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wildlife returning to your dash :)
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Look, there's a small river crossing your dash!
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We're coming up on a mountain range
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Meadow!
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Slowly reaching the coast!
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Into the sky
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Made it to space!
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i killed you all.
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and yet, life remains
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the fire died out. we’re recovering
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Tiny forest for your dash
Comrade I picked a bad time to get radicalized when it comes to safe organization. I’ve already linked up with my local DSA chapter but there’s really not much I can do except for attend zoom meetings and kind of just sit around with my dick in my hand. Besides sending money and going to more outdoor protests, do you have any suggestions on what to do about direct action while a meet up with my local groups is pretty much impossible?
First of all, welcome to the insurrection, friend! We’re glad to have you on!
I don’t think you’re alone in this boat. Material conditions are such that lots of people are getting radicalized-- they’re being evicted, they’re fleeing climate apocalypse, they’re seeing their loved ones die from cops and coronavirus and they’re helpless to stop it. They’re getting deported and fired and laid off and atomized and can’t even afford to subscribe to shitty streaming services as a palliative force.
Your first instinct-- to find others-- is fundamentally correct. We can only effect real meaningful change in large numbers. We don’t have the cash, but we have the people and we got the guillotine.
Do you have a job? Do you have a union? If the answers are yes and no, respectively, now is the time when you can organize more easily with your co-workers outside the control of your boss. Test the waters in friendly conversation with people you can trust not to snitch, and consider organizing your workplace. The IWW has a very useful guide on how to do so.
Do you rent? Consider forming a tenants’ union. Organizing one of these is less dangerous than organizing your workplace, as you don’t report to your landlord regularly. If your landlord tries to kick one of you out, all of you can strike.
Many mutual aid efforts are still ongoing in the face of lockdown. Now more than ever, we need to care for each other. Food Not Bombs probably has a chapter near you, and the ones around where I’ve lived continue to operate (albeit with precautions like gloves). Join one of those efforts. I’d focus on housing and food-related mutual aid.
Finally, use this time to learn a useful revolutionary skill. You can grow a tiny garden even if you’re in an apartment, you can learn to brew cider, mead, beer, and wine. You can learn to sew and mend, build structures, forage, survive in the woods, read revolutionary lit, and shoot with/care for a gun. Get comfortable carrying heavy things on your back, and expand your cardio abilities (lots and lots of running). Not everyone can run, of course, but do whatever you can to make it easier to escape or throw a punch (when we get back into contact with each other, take up a self-defense art). Once you know the basics, teach them to someone else.
If anybody else has ideas, please put them here!
And again, welcome, comrade, and good luck.
Get connected to/learn how to start a tenants union here
Get connected to a mutual aid group here, or learn how to start one here
Get connected to Food Not Bombs here, learn how to start a group here
Other popular mutual aid projects include freedges and little free pantries, the latter of which you could build on your own and put on your own property
If you have a couple likeminded friends, especially ones you’re already bubbled with, you can start an affinity group and get a lot more done than you would alone
But there’s still a lot you can get done alone. Shoplifting, graffiti, stickering, wheatpaste, projector bombing, vandalizing security cameras, dumpster diving, printing zines and dropping them in little free libraries, building benches to leave at bus stops and public places, etc. Get creative!
For more resources on direct action, skillbuilding, and more, check out my #practical tag!
I stuck some dried flowers in my journal today. They're very pretty. Personally, I'm not sure what exactly to use dried flowers for other than in spells which doesn't require flowers most of the time.
What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn't have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.
The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.
The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.
The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we're just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.
The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn't being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.
So that's cool. If you want to read more, I suggest "Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America" by Nancy J. Turner
The thing is... Israel admitted to this from the very beginning.
They said the confessions were obtained through 'interrogation' in the Shin Bet aka torture (Shin Bet is where they like to torture Palestinian prisoners for intel) so every country that cut funding to the UNRWA knew from the beginning that Israel was using false forced statements.
The famine in Gaza is partly due to this. Never forget that.