Ecologically Incoherent

Hey there, I'm a trying to understand the world through an ecological lens and from here it seems all messed up. I post about social justice, environmental justice, veganism, abuse, anarcho communism, life as a third culture kid and how fragile and ridiculous masculinity is.

[ecologicallyincoherent]

My worker controlled cafe is hiring a vegan chef in the UK, please share widely

[photo from day 2019] Here’s the facebook post: Hey guys! Just a reminder we're still looking for vegan chefs to apply to The Warehouse Cafe. We've had lots of lovely foh applications but not as many chefs. Obviously, the cafe is closed atm due to the lockdown, however, we're planning to reopen it in April. The job will be full-time. 

The Warehouse Cafe is a cooperative and a collective. There are no bosses nor managers. All decisions are taken collectively by consensus. Working with us you're not only going to be just a chef but also a co-worker and co-owner of the business (the 6-month probation period applies before becoming a member). Whilst we've done well to survive the pandemic thus far we can only offer minimum wage at the moment.

Our main goal is not money but serving the community by organising talks, discussions, concerts, poetry slams and just being a safe space for whoever visits.We're a crew of left-wing and mostly queer people and so are all our ethos, events and food also! we're still taking applications for foh positions until next Tuesday so get em in whilst ya can! please send your cv and cover letter to [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/thewarehousecafe/posts/3937184969645707

[ecologicallyincoherent]

There’s a sign post by the car park near where I work It reads: “Digbeth and proud Remove all your valuables from your car” Sometimes this faceless branded bullshit I think it leaves a scar Whos pride? This isn’t a down and out neighbourhood or a cultured community resisting gentrifiers It’s a post industrial wasteland an economic house built on the sand There’s sometimes pride worth having and jokes worth making but also somethings are just shit that’s it and there can be pride in that too Knowing your stuck down deep and the climb up and out is steep But the pride in that sign was one of a marketing agency scraping the bottom of the barrel With two worlds to straddle Need to make profit tell the consumer a story that I guess is meant to draw me? But I wonder Surely they don’t believe in it themselves like geologists who work for Shell It’s just a job Nothing left to rob All valuable authenticity Is history So please Resist affective domination Don’t be alienated from your own emotion They already own your labour so at the very least please savour That burning rage You’ve locked in a cage That need to cry as you watch the world fry We’re some ways off from righteous vengeance And at best we’ve only got a slim chance So be honest and connect with one-another create spaces for strong feelings to gather build communities of care we can do it if we dare because irony is the past and sincerity the future Once we have bonds of love and hope firmly dug into the ground There will true strength be found And power of which We can be proud.

This is a poem inspired by some signposts in digbeth, the mindnumbing life of working in the service industry, the realisation that I prefer to be strongly sad than just fine and an email from a social enterprise support charity that asked us for a snappy quote saying why we are here in digbeth.

[polyversity]

Dunno if anyone outside the UK has noticed, but Britain in the last week has decided that tipping milkshakes over fascists is what we do now.

To the point that McDonalds were asked by the police to stop selling them, and it didn’t help at all.

Someone with a gourmet giant shake today just drenched Farage and he looks like a sad milky weasel. Blessed day.

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“Do you wonder why there are anarchists in this country, in this great land of liberty, as you love to call it? Go to New York. Go through the byways and alleys of that great city. Count the myriads starving; count the multiplied thousands who are homeless; number those who work harder than slaves and live on less and have fewer comforts than the meanest slaves. You will be dumbfounded by your discoveries, you who have paid no attention to these poor, save as objects of charity and commiseration. They are not objects of charity, they are the victims of the rank injustice that permeates the system of government, and of political economy that holds sway from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Its oppression, the misery it causes, the wretchedness it gives birth to, are found to a greater extent in New York than elsewhere. In New York, where not many days ago two governments united in unveiling a statue of liberty, where a hundred bands played that hymn of liberty, ‘The Marseillaise.’ But almost its equal is found among the miners of the West, who dwell in squalor and wear rags, that the capitalists, who control the earth that should be free to all, may add still further to their millions! Oh, there are plenty of reasons for the existence of anarchists.”

— Lucy Parsons

[kropotkhristian-deactivated2019]

Sometimes I am just amazed that communists and anarchists even exist when the entire moneyed class and media apparatus tries to snuff us out at every opportunity, and have tried for the last 250 years. Like we exist in a world where like 6 white men can decide at any given moment to just go to war with whoever they want, for whatever reason, and the entire capitalist class - who control 99% of pretty much everything - lines up behind them completely. We are literally watching state and capitalist propaganda all around us, all of the time, and yet - there is always that group of people that decide to try and make the world better.

I’m just so happy to be in a world with other comrades despite all possible odds. You are all amazing. 

[thetearsofunfathomablesadness]

Why are so many ferguson protestors dying?

Rest in peace, Bassem.

[kropotkindersurprise]

October 18 2018 - A proud boy “state president” thought he’d be welcome at a black metal show in salt lake city. After getting his ass kicked, getting thrown out and being relieved of his little “gang” symbols maybe he got the message that fascists aren’t welcome anywhere! [video]

[brainstatic]

“Don’t call Trump supporters nazis, it hurts their feelings.”

[jewish-privilege]

Yes, this is real (link to tweet). Yes, Tucker Carlson is literally repeating Nazi propaganda that aided the genocide of the Romani during the Holocaust. Yes, I am furious. 

(Also, although there is a large population of Romani in Romania, they aren’t indigenous to Romania. They’re a diasporic group originally from northern India.)

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Romani and Jewish have been screaming at the top of their lungs for years about neo-fascism in Europe, and Americans were totally aloof.

Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”

Now Tucker Carlson is on live TV using slurs and Nazi propaganda about Romani people, and I’m 90% most people on the left are just going to ignore it.

[volaee]

It’s fucking starting y'all. It’s happening again.

If you’re not Jewish or Roma PLEASE BOOST THIS.

[ecologicallyincoherent]

Get organised. Learn (community) self defence, build resilience, fight fascism. Spreading the word is necessary, but building autonomous power WHERE YOU ARE is what is necessary.

[onion-souls]

YouTube’s down, time to rise up and overthrow the ruling class, I guess

[thetygre]

Oh hey it’s back

[mrbulian]

[trans-mouse]

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks. Literally, I’ve never been this funny in my entire goddamn life

[cmyknoise]

a gem, this is a god damn gem

[shishkababoo-deactivated2018121]

This is the only magician I want for my child’s birthday party

[ukulelekatie]

Me trying to figure out what my mutuals are vaguing about when they write entire sentences made of asterisks

[wern]

yall: i cant wait for him to **** * ***** *** ******* **** ** ** *****

me: can i buy a vowel

[heathens-and-kings]

So Minnesotans showed the fuck up tonight (like we do) - thousands in the street protesting tr*mp’s latest executive disorders. And guess what happened? The old proverb “What if an emergency vehicle needs to get where it’s going” came to life, and the sea went silent and parted to allow it through (swiftly…literally the truck was going about as fast as, if not faster than, it would have been if there had been cars it needed to go around).

Please share this. This was a rare occurrence where an emergency vehicle needed to go through the route of a protest, when usually they have predetermined alternative routes, and it went completely fine. Also for the love of god, have more respect for firefighters/EMTs…they know how to do their jobs. They’re ready for anything, including working around protests.

So folks can stop using that tired old argument now (not that it was ever backed up by sources anyway).

[captain-snark]

It’s almost as though these protesters who are protesting for human rights are decent human people.

[gayingmantis]

every day i love him more than the day before

[hopemushrooms]

I love that he is simultaneously this guy and the guy who can barely get out the word “lovemaking” when describing what Take Me To Church is about during a radio interview

[ecologicallyincoherent]

Cages can’t hold us

I've always felt trapped in relationships

But like a fish in water

I could not see the cage

Trapped by my fear

That I couldn't express my own desires

My fear was always that if I expressed myself

I'd be abandoned

Now I see

That loneliness in a busy world

Is not about geographic proximity

but living where no-one knows your fears

You don't love what you don't know

And sometimes I don't really know you

But when I do I love you

and when I don't I want to know you better

So when I speak without listening

Tell me to put my ear to the walls of my cage

Hear the voice trying to vibrate through

A shaking plea to get out of my head

And feel those fears of yours

That your cage locks in

That my cage blocks out

Because our fears are our cages

Silent they are solid walls

but when we shake them

They become only bars

With ever wider gaps

Gaps the size of me and you

That we can slip through together

And fear without a prisoner inside is laughable

And laughter has always been a great cure for violence

So let us use our lives

our humour and honesty

To vibrate the walls of others' cages

Turn fearful walls into open cages

That anyone can laugh their way out of

Because you are funny

You make me laugh

And every time we chuckle together

I realise I never want to be afraid, be alone, again.

And even when you are far away, I won't be alone

because we can always slip between these bars

By listening and speaking with honesty

Visit each other's fear-cages

Look around and laugh

To prove

That these cages can't hold us

As long as we hold each other.

[ecologicallyincoherent]

The Suffolk Commune Sings

Amongst the nettles Both human and flora Thrives an ecology of Communality Books and chicks Plain to C It's true I've never felt so free It makes me brave Curious Generous Resist the worst of what i crave embrace the trust Remove the rust The tendencies Programmed Subsumed Breathing fumes Come up for air Admire the hares in this A place youll find this chosen and choosing family these burning fires Even in this the heart of empires And in this Darkest winter before the storms It simply brings to- gether and gather and harvest And play and party and muddle Sunday And train karate fight stress- decompress Tell stories and make soap Its fuckin dope! And when we leave this place again To make and find Yet more great friends We'll think of where That rabbit trap ends that partridge race track among the hay stacks Short on chairs Rich in stares From snooty neighbours Jealous of our boogie Which we spin To unravel from these grim Skeletons of autonomy The smoke is filling the carriage But these Muppets Still sit enthralled In front of me Like some kind of marriage Between lemmings and bonded dinosaur ancestry Except that Even pat Knows when she's stolen from She went on strike a misdirected colaca spree So perhaps while we wait on Proletarian activity We'll share warm raves And laugh at suisocial democracy surrounded by combabes And never fear being afraid

[larueourien]

[stunningpicture]

So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.

[jettestblack-deactivated2017080]

Stay woke

[pual1010-deactivated20150723]

Is this true?

[mallninjacode-deactivated201812]

Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”

You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.

[redbloodedamerica]

[spacemohawks]

Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORST

[beanmom]

Some links…

http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/

http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/for-the-cure/

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/132728/susan_g_komen_foundation_has

(reblogged in honor of my mother, who died of breast cancer, 11/13/97)

[hello-missvixy-deactivated20160]

Reblog every time I see it. Roughly once a month.

[blockmind]

Also please never forget the pink fracking drill bit

that’s right fracking you know, a process using chemicals known to cause cancer that leech into the water supply

http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/10/baker-hughes-fights-breast-cancer-pink-fracking-drill-bits/

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pink-drill-bits-bring-complaints-komen-tie-fracking-n223166

[alexithymia42]

It’s that time of year again, please remember Komen is the actual worst

[sofia-ciel]

Komen For The Cure is pretty much awful.

[imaginarycircus]

My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:

Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Cancer Research Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

63 four star rated cancer charities on charity navigator

[spacey-sandwich]

Signal boosting this

[emmalily]

Reblogging from myself because it’s October now

[ecologicallyincoherent]

NGO INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX