[doomhope]

hello world ☘️

clover, he/him. butch 🦆

amateur craftsman, archivist, scientist, editor, analyst, and schizophrenic hermit. ChemE student and library worker. abolitionist, something of an anarchist...friend to communists and freedom fighters and lover of the crumbling world.

i mostly reblog art, photography, and writing - including articles about news and social issues. occasionally i post my own.

i keep my blog as accessible as i can. posts without descriptions are tagged "undescribed". sometimes i write my own descriptions - feel free to use those anywhere, no credit needed. also, for images with alt text, I normally don't copy the text into its own box - I just tag the post "alt text". this may change at some point in the future.

note: this blog is not friendly to transmisogynists, zionists, racists, anti-semites, or proponents of other cruel & bigoted ideologies. i block on sight. if i reblog from someone who sucks please tell me, i'm not on here a lot so sometimes i miss things.

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[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[salmon-n-hazel]

Dandelions

[cripinpain]

hello physically disabled person reading this. it is not your fault that your medical supplies are made from a lot of single use plastic and you can continue using them guilt free. your health comes first. thank you for existing.

[crippled-peeper]

if your insulin pump has lithium batteries and the tubing is plastic,

if your ostomy bags, incontinence supplies, and sanitary wipes are single-use,

if your joint replacement, bone plate, pins & screws, or spinal hardware is cobalt & chrome,

if your meds come in a plastic container you can’t recycle or reuse for sterility,

you are still innocent. you didn’t choose this particular life. we all must do what we can to survive and that includes using technology and consuming resources. it is only human and we all do it.

some people out there own several yachts and don’t ever consider the impact it has on the world. there’s nothing to be gained by beating yourself up for doing the bare minimum for a comfortable, livable, safe & long life.

[weirdstrangeandawful]

Just want to add, don’t cut corners. Don’t risk your life when there are people who could do a lot more without risking theirs.

Don’t reuse the syringe. Don’t use cloths over alcohol swabs. Choose the battery powered device over the rechargeable if it means you can carry spares. Don’t use the reusable container if you can’t get it open. Don’t choose the reusable option if you can’t keep it clean. Don’t overfill the sharps container. Don’t improvise the tourniquet. Don’t eat the expired food if you can’t afford to be sick. Don’t choose the sustainable option if it doesn’t meet your needs.

Your life is not others’ priority so it has to be yours.

[stantler]

Many lgbt teenagers and young adults growing up on the internet today have socially conservative beliefs that they voice at all times that they got from their conservative parents which they’ve never challenged because they think the life experience of being gay or trans makes them politically progressive

[stantler]

This is why I hate it when people say something homophobic and then go “so you’re really accusing me, a whole ass lesbian, of being homophobic 🙄” like yeah

[crownofstardustandbone]

Just because you’re part of an oppressed party does not mean you cannot hold bias against other groups or members of your own group. Bias is learned and ingrained through society and family and it takes real work to unlearn it. No one is perfect, no one is without bias and you are in fact going to fuck up now and again—what matters is if you learn from it and grow.

[otatma]

this is what people are talking about when they say "do the work"

[ouroborosmoons]

[closet-keys]

[ID: tweet by richimedhurst reading,

"Something very disturbing how the US names its weapons after Native Americans it genocided, like trophies, and then uses them to further colonize and subjugate other peoples around the world.

Tomahawk cruise missile Apache helicopter Black Hawk Chinook Lakota, etc"

End ID]

[ooppo]

I don't think it's a radical ideal for the want of Hawai'i to become their own independent country. It should have never been taken over by the US in the first place. For a country whose entire foundation is based upon "separation from a colonial country" it's laughable that they made an entire population that was self governed into a state. It's insulting. It's already blatantly obvious that this whole country was based on lies and blood, and it only continues to perpetuate that. I'm shocked that the Hawai'ian sovereignty movement isn't mainstream even though they have been fighting for it since 1997. Fuck the American government.

[ooppo]

How Native Hawaiians Have Fought for Sovereignty | HISTORY

Ever since the US overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy in an illegal coup, Native islanders responded with protest, activism and expressions of c

[retroscifiart]

Tim White - Prelude to Foundation (Isaac Asimov, 1988)

[chiiri-h]

i know yall love sharing items from small shops and supporting small businesses and small creators is great, but yall really need to stop sharing items from resin shops that make resin dishware and cutlery until you do further research.

there is a food safe resin, HOWEVER, the vast majority of shops will not be using it. its extremely fucking expensive, and to remain food safe, any dyes or additives used must also be food safe, and the piece will have to have been mixed and cured correctly. anything wrong in that process, and it's no longer food safe.

the vast majority of resins, especially those cheap enough for artists and small creators to regularly use, is poisonous. its a carcinogen. it will leech chemicals, even if given a clear coat or varnish, and you can get very sick very fucking quickly from eating or drinking anything that came into contact with it, and long term exposure could very well kill you- this isn't taking into account any additives to the resin, dyes, or colorants either, the vast majority of those are not regulated for food use.

an absolute boom in resin crafters from over quarantine hasn't helped this situation either. many simply do not know or do not care and will sell items that are suspect at best. partially cured pieces, bad molds, just plain inappropriate items used in resin crafting have gotten very common over the past few years, and still are.

TL;DR: Most resins are NOT food safe, and are incredibly toxic. Do not buy or share anything made of it for food use. Shops selling appropriate food safe resin items will be flat out about it, and are going to be extremely expensive.

[enby-butch-dyke]

@timpsingleton on insta

[doomhope]

[ID: A poster that says, "Just let trans folks live their lives". The text and decorative curved lines behind it are in the trans pride colors, and the background is dark purple with colorful star- or sparkle-shaped decorations. End ID]

[geologyin-blog]

Natural double-terminated Peridot crystal from Mansehra, Pakistan.

Photo: Star_minerals_collection

[doomhope]

[ID: A bright green crystal on a dark background. End ID]

[redlipstickresurrected]

Olof Thunman aka Jacob Olof Magnus Thunman (Swedish, 1879-1944, b. Västra Ågatan, Uppsala, Sweden, d. Knivsta, Sweden) - Solnedgång vid Kusten (Sunset on the Coast), 1926, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[doomhope]

[ID: Painting of a wave breaking near a rocky shore beneath a luminous sky lit in bright, opalescent colors. End ID]

[weedstoner]

I think that learning how to deescalate conflicts between children is a really useful skill to have, even if you don't have and don't plan on having children, because you will inevitably have to use those skills to deescalate conflicts between grown adults as well. generally you should kind of expect that, as a calm rational adult, you'll have to parent other strangers from time to time. this is part of living in society.

[ahotknife]

oh emily wilson translation of the iliad we’re really in it now

[all-seeing-eyer]

Text ID:

You already know the story. You will die. Everyone you love will also die. You will lose them forever. You will be sad and angry. You will weep. You will bargain. You will make demands. You will beg. You will pray. It will make no difference. Nothing you can do will bring them back. You know this, Your knowing changes nothing. This poem will make you understand this unfathomable truth again and again, as if for the very first time.

End ID

[t4t4t]

[onepieceof-stardust]

ID: sticker that says “the world needs trans women more than it needs another unhappy good man. Be soft, be a girl, we’re waiting for you.” End ID

[sevaria]

The world is better with transsexuals in it

[astralgardens]

[ID: "The world is better with transsexuals in it." The text is overlayed on an image of a grassy field with yellow flowers. End ID.]

[geryone]

Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America, Matthew Olzmann