Strength, Trust, Pixie Dust

Road to Rendition

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[arielsojourner]

USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

[kasplode]

Organised by People’s Union, read more here:

Nationwide economic blackout on February 28: What to know about boycott

When Donald Trump reentered office, one of his first calls to action was to end several DEI initiatives in the federal government.

[dvasva]

'This won't work, this isn't widespread, nobody knows, we're in a bubble, blah blah blah' my mom, a 64 year old lady with no social media whose first language is spanish, told me about this before tumblr did, and said we are going to participate.

[librarychair]

I've seen flyers for this in real life. Do it.

[animentality]

[welcometoyouredoom]

[manbartlett]

Four: flame out!

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[brianelstak]

[thelovergirljasmine]

[elektrakute]

art by @elektrakute on IG 🎀

[petalstofish-deactivated2022041]

[crimsontentacles]

May I please add: PLANETARIUMS.

[cmdthenerd]

ART MUSEUMS also

[twitblr]

Feelin like you’re a new character on season 5 of a show (x)

[homunculus-argument]

You ever think about how old people have no idea what “survivor bias” is, and take full credit for being excellent out of things where they lucked out?

“Back in my day we didn’t have any of these childhood protective things, we were smart enough not to do stupid shit on our own!” Except your little neighbour, who got the funniest idea at the age of seven, and got his skull pierced when he slipped?

“Back in my day nobody got divorced, we stuck together and fixed our problems!” What about your cousin, who was slowly killed by her husband because she had nowhere to escape him?

“Back in my day nobody had ‘mental problems’, we didn’t whine, we just toughed it out and endured life!” Hey remember that guy you used to work with, who seemed really friendly and normal, and then suddenly hanged himself ‘for no reason’?

“Back in my day we didn’t have any of this ‘gay’ or ‘transgender’ thing.” You did, but your family cut all ties with her before you were born.

 You kinda start seeing it in everything they think, if you start looking for it.

[thegrimzuera]

“When we were kids nobody whined about car seats or bike helmets. We didn’t use them, and we all survived!”

Yeah, except for the ones who didn’t.

[quarra]

I have had this exact fucking argument with my mom.

[mastreworld]

“Back then we didn’t have all these medications and vaccines…”

No, and my grandmother had lost both her parents to disease at the age of eight.

[dragonflybeach]

I got blocked by most of my mothers cousins because one of them posted the whole “my generation didn’t have video games and electronic gadgets and all that crap. We played outside unsupervised until dark and we liked it!” thing. I replied “Your generation invented all that stuff so how much did you really enjoy playing outside?” And followed it up by reminding them of the 2 little girls who went to their church who were kidnapped outside their house in like 1970 who have never been found.

[thefisherqueen]

I’m an avid long distance hiker and often see the same survivor bias used to argue against newer technology in the hiking community. Just one example: “People got around fine without GPS!” Of course traditional methods of navigation (there are many more than maps and compass btw) are great to study and practise, but no, a lot of people weren’t fine. So many died - and still die - because they got lost. Stars and sun are great indicators of direction and position until it’s cloudy for days. It’s near impossible to hold a compass course in featureless, rugged landscapes and bad visibility. So many ships wrecked on rocks because they were closer to the coast than they thought they were. Rejecting technology that literally saves lives is a weird kind of misplaced nostalgia.      

[zizeloni]

Women in science

[piavalesca]

sagrada familia. gaudi’s magnificent, over the top, biomimetic fantasy spaceship