The climb was closed permanently at 4pm ACST and any remaining visitors on the rock are allowed to stay until sunset. They’re the last people allowed on the rock. From this point on it’s now illegal and anyone who tries can be fined up to $10,000 for disrespecting the culturally significant site of the Anangu people.
Finally. In recent months the news that the site will be closed out of respect to the Aboriginal people a bunch of tourists thought “oh good, a last minute opportunity to disrespect that” and have inundated the area with illegal camping, trash, and property damage. Over the years many people have taken chunks off Uluru as souvenirs.
Now tourists can focus on immersing themselves in the cultural activities in the park and learning about the people of the area. Plus: from a distance you can get the iconic image of Uluru that has been seen the world over.
imagine thinking eboys and egirls are comparable to grunge/punk/emo in any way. the alt scene is dead, soulless pop music and $200 clothes is revolutionary counterculture now.
if this post gets me braindead locals in my notes again defending the product of capitalism making alternative culture friendly and consumable to the mainstream I'm going to murder someone I'm not joking
This way explains why I have such a hard time finding movies online. Fucking copyright takedowns. I should have thought of using a different search engine
Hey y’all film crew member here. For those of you asking, they’re running like that to stay out of the shot. For us crew we TRY OUR HARDEST TO NOT GET FILMED. IT’S IMPORTANT. It’s like playing the floor is lava but with a side of “you’re fired” if you lose too many times. We’ll do anythING to not be seen. Duck around corners, dive under tables, jump in the bushes, assume fetal position on the floor, climb trees, get in the robot, hide in the trojan horse, become a vampire, you fuckin name it. My fav game while watching a movie is “guess where the crew is hiding in this shot” it’s great fun you should try it. The only problem in this particular shot is there is nowhere to hide except behind the camera which IS MOVING REALLY FAST. Why they didn’t just leave the room I have no idea. it could be any number of reasons. Time, lack of proper equipment, need to supervise/direct, etc. The real question is how the hell did Gaga not fucking lose it seeing a herd of film nerds scamper desperately in circles behind the camera
terezi was like: LOL 1 ROL3PL4Y COURTROOM DR4M4S W1TH DR4GON STUFF3D 4N1M4LS *proceeds to be one of the best-written female characters on the internet*
bro im sick of this shit im sick of the fact that we all gotta sit here making online jokes to cope with the fact that the most inhumane and horrible things are happening on/to the planet all cause some freak ass demons will stop at nothing to get some shitty oil like this is hell im living in what hell is
How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.
Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).
The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet.
We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk.
Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:
Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.
Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!
Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden
Support your local farmers / local economy (US only link)
Support or create a local Food Not Bombs chapter
Support or create a local Food Not Lawns chapter
Grow food in 5 gallon buckets
Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity (as a bonus you can learn extremely practical skills)
Volunteer via 350.org to help the environment / the planet / the place we live and depend on
Excellent-and-still-growing wiki from reddit’s awesome r/zerowaste community - great resource to learn how to live more lightly on the earth
Spread the word about solarpunk, especially to engineering students. Show them projects like Open Source Ecology - Global Village Construction Set and Bridges for Prosperity
Learn how to Patch a Hole, Mend a Seam, and Fix a Hem
Learn how to repair a hole in the sole of a shoe
Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.
Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.
Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries
Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas
joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!
"I’m going to jail cuz I’m broke, disabled, and can’t fix my home.”
Tamara Adrine-Davis posted two signs on the front lawn of her Cleveland Heights, Ohio, home late Friday night. One warned passersby: “I’m going to jail cuz I’m broke, disabled, and can’t fix my home.” The other read: “PLEASE HELP” with a link to her GoFundMe page.
The 57-year-old freelance journalist is currently on probation due to a handful of housing code issues, like chipped and decaying paint, a loose gutter, and a broken front porch stoop. The city first notified Adrine-Davis of the problems back in 2014, but she’s severely disabled, uses a wheelchair, and hasn’t been able to come up with the money to make the more than $8,000 worth of repairs to her home. Now, she could face the city’s maximum penalty for a housing violation case: $1,000 in fines, six months in jail for each offense, or both.
Her next court hearing — and the deadline for ensuring her home is in compliance — is Tuesday.
“I have been trying to get ready to go to jail, to be honest with you, and trying to figure out where I can get the money, as if I hadn’t looked all over before,” Adrine-Davis told VICE News. She’s already made arrangements to place her two dogs in someone else’s care.
In some states, Ohio included, facing thousands of dollars in fines over minor property violations — and even going to jail — isn’t that unusual. The property codes, instituted and enforced on the municipal level, can help regulate residences that are genuinely dangerous to their inhabitants and neighbors. But they can also unduly punish people living in poverty, and people of color, as Adrine-Davis feels is happening to her.
“There’s this kind of bias in a lot of these rules and codes that city’s have against lower-income residents, maybe because they don’t pay enough in tax revenue, or maybe, frankly, because their houses aren’t as nice,” said Joshua House, an attorney at the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit, public interest law firm based in the D.C. area.
In 2016, for example, a black woman living in Cahokia, Illinois, was arrested over an unmowed lawn. A local official watched over her five children while she was carted off to jail. And this year, an elderly white man’s home in Dunedin, Florida, was threatened with foreclosure after he failed to pay nearly $30,000 in city fines related to his overgrown yard.
“Assuming I survive”
Adrine-Davis said she’s been repeatedly told she could face jail time for failing to fix her home. The city escalated her violation to a criminal offense and took it to Cleveland Heights’ municipal court in January 2018. Almost a year later, she pleaded guilty to the charges and was placed on probation and given time to make repairs.
That extra time wasn’t enough, especially since her disability and chronic pain make it difficult for her to earn extra cash through side jobs. While Adrine-Davis paid to fix the gutter, she can’t afford anything else.
She hasn’t been able to secure a loan to help since her home is in foreclosure after her mom, who had dementia, failed to pay property taxes. And the backpay she owes bars her from the city’s numerous repair aid programs. Her GoFundMe page, which she posted in September, has only raised $80.
she is no longer going to jail, but money is still needed! she and her daughters are being forced to move by the city and she has accrued a lot of costs from the whole ordeal
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