Resisting to live better days

Your favorite recloseted trans guy! A blog about fan arts, random things, nature and my experience of be taked off the closet from my conservative family (I will vent here) 18, BR he/him

[shamebats]

The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone

[unfuckablebogtroll]

☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

It’s not the heat. It very literally is the sun.

[plantnerderyallday]

Annual deer post:

If you see a fawn laying down on the ground all alone, leave it alone. It is not lost, it does not need your help, do not pick it up, do not move it.

This behavior evolved to keep deer young safe. The baby is very small, very quiet, and hard for most predators to see. A young fawn cannot keep up with a fleeing mother deer, which is their primary problem-solving strategy. So while the mother goes elsewhere to graze, the fawn stays safe and hidden. The mom will be back.

Leave the fawn alone.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

This is always good to pass around this time of year, but I would like to add something for the few of us who might be encountering the moose kind of deer.

Moose are deer, but moose have the opposite strategy. They stay close to their babies, and their primary response for anything getting close to their babies is immediate violent murder. If you do see a baby moose by itself, leave. Leave the baby alone and leave the area, preferably quickly. Momma is at most 30 yards away and has already kicked on the kill bill sirens.

[sailatina3]

[solarpunkwitchcraft]

Hey solarpunk community! In light of several posts that have been going around, I was thinking it would be worthwhile to talk about the real, physical things we can do to make this world a more solarpunk place. Because speculation and aesthetics and thinkpieces are awesome, but a movement isn’t a movement without real action behind it. So what are things we can all do to make the present closer to our solarpunk future?

[nibblesthegardener]

¤ Persuade your local gov’t and city mayor to support the Paris agreement! Call your state reps too!

¤ Be involved in local community and charity!

¤ Barter where you can, and buy local & thrift where you can’t! Make! Make! MAKE!

¤ Get some solar panels! Small ones, big ones, whatever you can afford.

¤ If you can get away, go forest bathing! Appreciate nature, and teach your children to do the same. Remember–leave only footprints.

¤ If you got a patch of land, garden it! Can’t grow it yourself? Volunteer it to someone who will!

¤ Collect your rainwater!

¤ Got kids or going to have them? Have two. Then stop. The third kid is SO much more expensive in terms of… Well literally everything. Bigger house. Bigger car. More resources.

¤ Cloth diapers, reusable wipes. Homemade laundry soap. Clothesline. (I realize this is house spouse territory, but do what you can.)

¤ Encourage your local school district to open an outdoor classroom, or a class garden! Or volunteer to help with one of those “circle of life” lessons that involve baby chicks or silk worms. (Tada! Now you have chickens!)

¤ Collect local deadwood (my area has loads), and either turn it into works of Art–or of it’s not good for anything else–Biochar. By removing dead wood from urban areas you reduce the ever increasing risk of fire.

¤ Time to end the rent rat race? Buy a tiny piece of land and build your dream house YOUR way. Natural building. Tiny. Reclaimed materials. Solar. High tech. All good.

¤ Eat less meat. I get it. We all have different dietary needs, and not all of is can go vegan. I know I can’t. I’m not here to shame anybody, but cows especially are particularly bad. It would be nice of they were all grass fed dwarf cattle (mini-moos) though.

[solarpunkcast]

American activism and resistance:

Find your Representatives Contacting Elected Officials Activism events near you United Resistance

[zinjanthropusboisei]

If you live in NY State, you can lobby your town/city/county government to become a Climate Smart Community by adopting the pledges here: http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/50845.html

I’m assuming other states might have something similar (hopefully).

[foxteethandflora]

-Bee boxes, bird houses, bee gardens, bat boxes - make your neighborhood more friendly for flora and fauna.

-try composting. If your city has a compost program, opt in. If not, make your own!

-track your water usage. Then try to limit it in small ways. Do the same with your electricity!

-plant a tree. Or five. Seriously - they’re such a great investment.

- go to a co-op and buy…well…anything. Often they have eco friendly soap, shampoo and cleaning products!

-or you can try making your own!

[feltelures]

Sewing 101

Articles on container gardening

Free cloth diaper patterns

Recipe for laundry soap

How to make biochar

The homesteading movement

24 meatless recipes

Make a: - Bee box - Bird house - Bee-friendly garden - Bat box

Track your daily water usage

Make eco-friendly: - Soap - Shampoo - Cleaning products

[bloomsnake]

So, I’d like to add in some more environmentally focused options:

1) Familiarize yourself with your state and where you live.

o   What types of ecosystems are near you (Chaparral, Tropical Hardwood Hammock, Longleaf Pine Forest, etc)? What is so special about them?

o   What rare species live in your state? What state-threatened and state endangered species live near you? What federally threatened and endangered species live near you? Pay EXTRA close attention to non-charismatic species, such as reptiles, amphibians, insects (hello NATIVE BEES AND POLLINATORS) and arthropods, PLANTS, crustaceans (there are TONS of threatened crawfish), mollusks (Florida has at least one threatened snail and a few rare clams!), fungi, etc. What threats do these organisms face, and what can you do to help them?

o   What environmental issues are prevalent in your state, and why? What is one local environmental issue that is very close to you?

For example, in Florida, a major environmental problem is the ongoing fight to restore water flow to the Everglades, an ecosystem that NEEDS a continuous flow of water through it. However, the sugar industry would rather use that to grow MORE sugar and divert its nasty ass fertilizer water full of toxic algae to canals and rivers that dump into the ocean. I’ve seen several articles detailing major losses for local economies that depend on tourism, as well as more discussing how toxic algae is actually REALLY BAD for people (who knew, amirite?) More info here.

[that-edgy-gal]

As much as I love all of this. What about people who are living in apartments in cities? What can we do? (Other than contacting representatives and such)

[bumblebeeappletree]

I’d think, if you have a balcony, try to grow some plants and have a little water source (like a bowl full of rocks or marbles and water) for insects to still have an oasis. Try to see if there’s a spot you can turn into a community garden. Guerrilla Gardening can be great for native plants, but in some spaces with a soil test and you know won’t get polluted, you can also plant edible ones. There’s also something called Guerrilla Grafting where you can graft different tree branches onto other trees. They have to be similar enough though. For example, you can graft many different types of stone fruit, peaches plums apricots and so on, together. You can’t, however, graft an apple tree branch onto a pear tree.

There’s also sharing zines around, be it at little libraries or just random spots. Here’s a great website from an art collective named Gliese! They aim to help teach people a bit of art history outside of the white centric ones often taught in schools. (They even have a zine about Solarpunk!) You can put up some informational posters. Graffiti is also something you can do if you feel you’re up to it.

If you think you’re particularly knowledgeable about something, see if you can host a class at your local library. (Psst, also go and recommend some Solarpunk books for your library to get. Then remember to go check them out so they know that people want it. Also go ask them if they can get large print and braille versions of said books.) Even if you don’t, want to host a class, go see what events they’re doing and join in on the fun! Bring your friends and family! These events are made for the people so enjoy if and when you can!

Get a tenants/renters union if you’re not already in one!

Go and meet your neighbors. Interact with them. You might not like all of them but it’s important to know who you live by.

See if you can get some sort of potluck event together. Ideally a Foods Not Bombs chapter should be near you. You if not you could probably start one! But anyways, try to get different types of food there. Maybe have fun with it and have people share the recipe they used to make the meal. (Also let people eat only what they bring. If someone’s highly allergic or have some other strict dietary restrictions then they don’t want to risk any cross contamination. In that note if someone can’t be in the same space as like roasted peanuts due to the air maybe add some restrictions to what could be made or have a specific warning that this event includes such and such meals, and that the next event won’t.)

Donate to your food bank/pantry! Ideally they want money, but see if you can give them a call and see what they’re low on and you can go find those items and donate them. If there’s some little free pantries or free fridges, what you can do is make a bag full of pantry foods and put in a recipe of what these foods can make together. This YouTube channel Dollar Tree Dinners has some good ideas if you want a look.

This is what I can think off of the top of my head. If anyone else has any ideas please share!

[glieseart]

Thanks for the mention! We vend at local zine fairs and publish educational materials online, and have a wide range of radical topics covered by our very smart zinemakers and columnists. You can get involved with us at this form and check out our website!

[todaysbird]

Good thing we’ve definitely got people in office who will get on this! (By rapidly making the problems worse)

[todaysbird]

[cootidianoseeder]

There is a really good book that talks about it and how agriculture and pesticides affects our birds. If I ain't wrong the name of the book is "a silent spring" by Rachel Carson. She noticed in the 60's about how birds were disappearing and springs are becoming more quiet

[cloudabserk]

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

[cambriancrew]

[cootidianoseeder]

Go for it Brasil!!!!

[cootidianoseeder]

WE Won

[cootidianoseeder]

Go for it Brasil!!!!

[tearlessrain]

what companies who sell you anti aging stuff don't want you to know is that if you're chill about aging, your perception of attractiveness changes as you get older. there is no "wall" where you suddenly become ugly and unfuckable because in my experience what actually happens is you get into your thirties and suddenly realize that people in their thirties are hot as fuck and the "flaws" that the beauty industry wants you to panic about are a feature not a bug, and based on the std statistics in nursing homes I don't really expect that trajectory to change.

[madmonksandmaenads]

I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.

[cyhyraethofnightmists]

Go hiking. Fake your death. Become one with the forest. Elevate to forest god. The simple things.

[cootidianoseeder]

Brazil feels your pain Curaçao. We love you. We are rooting for you. Brothers in happiness and in the same pain

*TRAUMATIC FLASHBACKS*

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[littleluciddreamer-blog]

Reblog if you're hoping 2011 will be a fresh start.

[iguanodonwildman]

Hey! Just a reminder! AO3 does NOT have an app. This garbage was made by theives who steal fan artist’s work and sell it back to you.

“Oh, but it’s free!” There are ads. They are making money off of this. They are stealing from the creators you love and you are hurting those same creators if you use this app or any similar app.

Don’t use it. Report it at every opportunity.

[halfmouse]

There is no such thing as an Archive of Our Own (AO3) app! If there are ads, that’s a bad sign! Please refrain from using one of these unofficial apps! Just use your browser!

These apps are harmful to AO3 and its users! Part of the whole point of fanfiction is that it’s purely for the entertainment and mental enrichment of authors and readers, not monetized. It’s legal because it’s transformative and non-monetized. It’s fun because it’s driven by passion and not by money.

These apps likely have a lower quality of experience than the official website! I’ve never been on them, but I do know that the volunteers running AO3 put a lot of work into organization (tag-wrangling), customization (allowing the different site skins and such), and generally ensuring a smooth experience for authors and readers alike. They don’t shove ads in your face, and they allow you to access exactly what you want to. I highly doubt that these apps do any of that.

These apps are likely to benefit generative AI! Remember that huge scrape a while ago? I do. *insert thousand-yard stare* Can we please stop feeding the ocean-sucking, art-stealing nonsense machine!?

If those reasons aren’t good enough for you, well, how about the fact that these apps take up space on your phone or tablet for no good reason and might even give your device malware!? I don’t know for sure if there’s malware, but I wouldn’t exactly be surprised if they did. Basic cybersecurity tip: don’t just trust every single application.

[kyra45]

Here’s the what the app looks like in the App Store:

Reviews complain about the lack of the ability to comment on fics and intrusive ads. There’s other apps like this on the App Store (obviously) but this one decided to advertise on tumblr (of all places).

Also this from the infographics:

[kyra45]

Also!

Also the subscriptions. (From the info page)

You make free things. People don’t need to pay to see it offline. It’s text.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[ac1752]

Why aren’t the cities that they are trying to build these facilities in refusing to issue building permits and condemning these buildings and not providing water, electricity and gas to these buildings? No water, no power, no gas = no facility. Stop them from moving forward.

[anarchistmemedistro]

because local and state governments aren’t just complicit they are active collaborators. cities and states bid for these contracts.

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[i-suggest-landback]

me too

[i-suggest-anarchism]

me three