Unoriginal

She/He/They. Disabled. Queer.

[crafting-and-tea]

The thing that is most striking to me about all the things I have read about what Minnesotans are doing to resist, is that to help, you don't have to do something dangerous, you don't have to learn a ton of new skills, you just have to do SOMETHING.

You can wash someone's laundry? That helps. You can put together care packages for kids cooped up at home? That helps. You can chip in to a fund to help people who can't safely leave their homes pay rent? That helps. You can stand and patrol outside a school or day care or mosque or church? That helps. You can start a signal group and dispatch observers to where there are reported ICE sightings? That helps. You can go out and patrol an immigrant neighborhood? That helps. You can order takeout or shop at immigrant restaurants and businesses? That helps.

No one has to do it all. In fact, they're asking that people NOT do many different things. Pick a way to help and stick to it. But EVERYONE has to do SOMETHING.

[tacos4president]

this post has really struck me today, and i appreciate @crafting-and-tea for posting it.

it is easy, especially right now, to get stuck into this mindset of helping the "right" way. of doing the "best" good thing. and we intellectualize SO MUCH that we never end up actually doing anything.

but it is far more important to just pick ONE thing that you CAN do and do it consistently.

[scramratz]

Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet

[ladytabletop]

the slogan is in that order for a reason! It is listed in order of effectiveness and impact; if you can't reduce, reuse. If you can't reuse, recycle.

[cwicseolfor]

Refuse what you don’t need

Reduce what you can

Reuse everything still in working order

Recirculate what you don’t need by sharing or selling onward

Refurbish what’s fallen out of good condition so it lasts longer

Repair what’s broken altogether

Repurpose what can’t serve its original function

Recycle what is unsuitable for repurposing

What goes unsaid here is why they’re all “re-“ prefixed: it’s about circularity. Keeping the resources in use means that we don’t have to keep incurring the environmental costs of production over and over on infinite one-way trips of new stuff starting in the earth, through human society, and right back into the earth in landfill.

[organicclownfarm]

mark my words

redbubble / trans flag version

[sillywormz]

i went to "mad at me" island expecting to find people i knew, something i understood. but when my boat landed, standing upon the shore were a million empty husks wearing my own face. every foot of the island was occupied, and everywhere i went, they watched me with contempt. they never spoke, never breathed. they simply watched. no matter how i grovelled and begged, snarled and cursed, tried to hide or kicked and hit, they simply stared. the hatred in their gaze was inescapable, but i could hardly return it, knowing that their doomed existence was of my own creation. knowing that the hatred was nobody's but my own. in the end i just wept, unable to stand the relentless gaze of my own infinite glare.

the guy who i accidentally cut off in traffic last week was there also

[dustsculptures]

“no one’s ever mad at me unless they tell me so” is the best assumption i’ve ever made

[dustsculptures]

sorry for tagwatching but you still have to act like they aren’t mad at you imo! bc it’s the mad person’s duty to make it known if they want anything changed. it is never anyone’s duty to be a mind reader.

[nooblord9001]

If I am mad at someone and am remaining Quiet about it, it is because I Do Not Want them to know that I’m mad.

Please respect my boundaries and assume that I am Not mad.

If you’re worried that I am mad, consider the possibility that I am mad for reasons I know are stupid and do not want to make it your problem.

[blazing-butterfly-inactive]

Ohhh that last addition opens my eyes in a big way, thank you.

[arahir]

i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

[victusinveritas]

Art by Madeleine Jubilee Saito

[adurot]

I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

[adurot]

I have never heard of this band. I AM in fact referring to the animal.

[adurot]

But wait, there’s more!

[adurot]

[gobstoppr]

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[imawitchywitch]

We are in a very mentally unwell period of history, so PLEASE schedule in time to make art and music, bake and cook, read and write, take walks, and things that take prolonged mental and physical effort. We must stay connected to our humanity and the activities that we enjoy that also help our mind and body. Please take breaks from dissociating to your screens.

[fox-bright]

So I am currently knitting the Magical Flying Husband a tube scarf. I like tube scarves, they are thick and warm and soft and flexible. And this one's coming out fairly prettily, too! But I have never made one before, and I am thinking, well, I made this one pretty wide--a solid eight inches across, because I want him to be able to wrap it across his head if necessary and those four-inch-wide trendy tube scarves can't even cover your ears right. So I think, I will Ask the Internet what their opinion is on the perfect length for a tube scarf, and I will make any necessary adjustments from there in light of the width.

And the first result is a useful forum post, and the second result is a useful-ish Reddit post, and the third response is a little spreadsheet, and the fourth response...

the fourth response is this

I would argue that this is not a scarf

Also I am concerned by the possibility that the smiling human head is there to entice actual mammals closer to the Tube

[gwydionmisha]

Tube scarf very fun and safety place! bring friends of all sorts have gethering in tube scarf. Make Extra Fun be a theme partyy of Pot Luck by have with bringing food to share also in tube scarf. Big Space!! party so much fun in above picture that roof is literal being raise. you want party happiness yes?? trust in tube scarf

[anneofgreengaybles]

every time you see a headline like this

I want you to remember these ones

[anneofgreengaybles]

And these ones

[leebrontide]

Don’t let anybody tell you that nobody is doing anything. Don’t let anybody tell you that we are helpless and hopeless.

[theworstofallpossibleworlds]

INTERVIEW: @nyancrimew on online privacy and operational security

Our interview series about practical tactics to keep yourself and your community safe from the rising tide of fascism continues this week as Josh talks with maia arson crimew (it/she), a hacktivist and past guest on the show. Topics include:

The mechanics of how corporations and governments identify and track you across virtual and real-world spaces

Common ways that your devices give away information without your knowledge and how to disable those features

What encryption is and why it matters, especially when it comes to law enforcement

Tools that you can use to anonymize your usage online

[nyancrimew]

go check this episode out! i had a great time talking to josh earlier today (god damn he edited this quickly)

[porterdavis]

Yep

[kitty-pelosi]

Now that Donald Trump is president again we should remember that the point of the government’s propaganda isn’t always to convince you that it is true. The point is to pollute your information ecosystem to the degree that your cynicism makes you disengage entirely. To envelop yourself in your own person and isolate you from what actually helps you stay alive.

You cannot counter this with any kind of noble quest to guard/find the truth. All of your trusted media organizations will wither in this environment. Your cynicism isn’t cleverness, the structure of these information systems will just turn your suspicion into gullibility and naïveté. You are not immune. You will either fall into frame with the top-down messaging, or you will be severed from the top. Any pursuit of structural truth here will not connect you to what you need. This is not a choice on what information you consume, we are far beyond that point.

The thing to do here is engage with your community, get involved, and develop the relationships you need to have influence and to help others. You need to know your neighbors. You must identify the pillars of collective support in your area and get to know community leaders. Who runs a clothing drive in your area? Who is supporting and participating at the food bank? Who is engaged in community development initiatives? What organizations/institutions have a ground presence? You need to look at how to accrue and exercise power within your immediate city/neighborhood.

The government will find it easier to control 330 million individuals directly engaged with the top. It is harder for them to control 10 thousand community networks engaged with eachother. It is your unfortunate responsibility to construct oppositional structures in your area. Get to work, or die.

[nudityandnerdery]

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

[nudityandnerdery]

Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they'd never allow it.

[library-graffiti]

Let's do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.

[faithfromanewperspective]

feeling like maybe the americans need to hear this for once (and let me know if i'm saying it nicely) america isn't the whole world.

thailand legalised same sex marriage. most of the world is doing an excellent job of acting on climate change, and we're projected to warm no more than 2.5 degrees now. the EU has been working hard to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, and is doing a great job. bhutan continues to absorb more carbon dioxide than it emits, and so does tasmania. here in brisbane, queer people of faith have been coming together in queer worship nights, meeting similar people, and accepting themselves, ready to reconcile it with their faith and question the crumbs of christian nationalism that permeate from the US. they're planning to build high speed rail between sydney and newcastle too, and a new inland link between brisbane and melbourne. kakapo have been saved from extinction over in aotearoa (new zealand). solar and wind energy generation are at an all time high. vegan meat alternatives taste the best they ever have. autism speaks shut down in canada, and awareness is rising very quickly about adhd in women, the pda profile, and neurodiversity and disability in general. they've invented a blood test for endometriosis. it's not all bad news