As long as there are stars up above

Marie | 25 | She/her | tma | White | The dream is still alive

[krookiecookie]

ngl i kinda hate the woke 2.0 and friend that's too woke "jokes" because any bigotry that is normalized enough will have you get dismissed as "the friend that's too woke" for calling it out. like i've seen people called wokescolds and shit for saying it's bad to use mental disorders as an insult. it's basically a way to tell you that it's ruining the optics to point out bigotry or to justify being bigoted since it's to the "right targets"

[krookiecookie]

also it's so unfortunately ironic how racism is downplayed in these ways when the term woke is literally AAVE that got bastardized

[krookiecookie]

being woke is just an aesthetic for so many people and you can really see it in their worldview

[weepingwidar]

Daniel Santangelo (Ethiopian-Eritrean-Italian, 2004) - Beher & Ashtar (2023)

[lucydacusgirl]

I think about the disco elysium ‘are women bourgeois’ screenshot all the time (despite never playing the game) because it’s such a succinct way of demonstrating the fact that I think honestly the majority of people see feminism and ‘womens issues’ as frivolous inventions of upper class white women which is how you end up with people handwringing about working class men and never once considering the existence of working class women.

[euchreiade]

This doesn't have a moral or a wider message or anything but I tend to forget I'm not of an oppressed sexual orientation anymore. I went through all the letters of the alphabet in my life, starting fairly young and up to until a year and a half ago, when I landed without any doubt into straight.

[euchreiade]

Working with younger people that were fucked over by disenfranchised from traditional education has really shown me how all-encompasing their reliance on AI has become. Some do use it to do what they don't want or feel motivated to do, that does happen and make sense, but some earnestly do try without it and end up using it as a second resort to nearly every task. Yet. Even then. The dread remains. So I wonder in that case if it's a truly helpful tool or a pocket size Torment Nexus.

[kaelio]

Recipes from Portland's famous but long-closed Rheinlander restaurant. This cookbook was produced in a limited window before Chef Mager's death. All of these fucking slap.

[ladyvean]

For my fellow vegan/vegetarians, these sound scrumptious and look pretty simple to make substitutions!

[kaelio]

just to be clear

[certifiedsoupposts]

certified soup post

[kaelio]

It's sooo good

The lentil soup post is yeah beyond amazing. I know lentil soup doesn't seem like it could be that good. You simply don't Know how beloved the rheinlander lentil soup was. This was a famous soup here.

[havingapoemwithyou]

Hunger by Ruth Awad

[aggot]

businesses love calling themselves "third spaces" now and then don't let you use the bathroom if you don't spend money

[filthburger]

people debate about whether wojaks carry fascism within them inherently or not, and yknow, maybe there's something to be said about how symbols work etc, and then you see a communist make a meme that features the one that's drooling with a dent in his head to represent someone who is incorrect, and you just kind of take a pause and ask yourself what the fuck is wrong with everybody

[varanusniloticus]

Pet dragon 🐲 [by Ryoko Kui]

[resemblingthegrave]

oh i also wanted to mention that i've been volunteering with the prison library support network and really enjoying it! i thought i would post about it in case anyone else is interested bc i know there are a lot of library/library-adjacent people and abolitionists #onhere.

plsn is an abolitionist volunteer org whose primary service is reference, so answering questions and providing resource access to people inside, and you can volunteer to either be a part of processing their incoming/outgoing mail or otherwise to actually help answer the reference questions, which is what i've been doing. you don't have to be a librarian to volunteer; they will teach you how to do reference and there are templates and faqs to help you every step of the way. plsn is based in new york but they answer mail from facilities all over the country, and you can participate remotely + asynchronously even if you live elsewhere or outside the u.s. it's also a low time commitment - they ask you to answer at least 4 letters per year, though of course you can do as many as you want - the only time-sensitive part is that once you claim a letter, they ask you to answer it within 5 days.

it's an opt-in system where you to choose the letters you'd like to answer and you're never required to answer a letter that you don't want to; i would say based on my experience so far that there is a particular need for volunteers who are interested in helping letter writers access erotica; people frequently write in requesting written erotica, photos of celebrities, pornstars, and cartoon characters, etc. and volunteers' job is to provide that while keeping within whatever specific facility guidelines apply so that the resources can actually make it back into prison without being rejected by censors. there are also so many letters about different games and gaming systems, especially magic the gathering; i had no idea how many people inside are playing magic the gathering! plus tons of requests for different books and articles either in part or in whole, so it is also a lot of straight resource acquisition.

there's information about how to get involved here, how to get trained for reference here, and/or you can check out their instagram -- i'm also happy to chat about my experience if it would be helpful to anyone!

[squeakst]

sharing from my Facebook

[squeakst]

True North Aid provides practical humanitarian support to northern and remote Indigenous communities in Canada through community-led project

If you care as much as i do, please donate or at least spread the word about true north aid.

[euchreiade]

Knowing your enemy is essential yet draining.

[euchreiade]

10,000 Swords Against Heaven stands before me, through the mirror house lens of my iris, as a testament to my lack of reading of Marxist theory. However, I find it a helpful tool to swallow drops of the ocean behind me.

[a-book-of-creatures]

The best movie adaptation of The Odyssey continues to be O Brother, Where Art Thou?

[obedientlyviolentshepherd]

did yall see the report that al jazeera palestine fully abandoned most of their journalists in Gaza and cut their contracts when the 'ceasefire' went into effect in 2025?

[boobieteriat]

🔥 Canada

USA with better PR. Fuck them