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if a building sits empty for some period of time it should lose its listed status. like. if nobody even has a use for the thing it should not take up real estate indefinitely. i guess you don't want to just incentivize someone keeping a property empty so it can be torn down. but coupled with a sensible land value tax you could ensure that a building only ever remained vacant because truly no one has a use for it.

afloweroutofstone

One of the only real downsides to a land value tax is that it would reduce the number of abandoned buildings I can break into

tofupixel

colour "theory" = whatever the H*LL i want

some-kind-of-robot

Sometimes you'll see a character that's not canonically aromantic but when you see them shipped with another character you think "ok this feels like aro erasure"

lhavdil

based on available crops alone where would you have preferred to live before the columbian exchange

americas (tomato, cocoa, potato, corn, squash, beans, vanilla, peanut, avocado)

afroeurasia (wheat, rice, barley, oats, coffee, banana, citrus, grapes, honey)

Remaining time: 5 days 8 hours

obviously a pre-modern peasant wouldn't have had access to everything available on your side of the world but imagine if you did

#i'm going with afroeurasia bc of the bread #i do love so many american staples but i cant eat most of them now

men-iss-vess-ull-deactivated202

"a genus of new world pigs" sounds like something rage against the machine might call the american capitalist class. but in fact it refers to the humble javelina

outofcontextgaki

Haranishi shows off his special skill

frightfullytreeish

dear everyone on tumblr who needs to host images elsewhere (e.g. to embed on ao3 etc), please give squidge a go!! it's free, it's nonprofit and it's geared towards fandom so nsfw images won't get deleted!! and please stop using imgur if you can because they blocked the uk rather than acquiesce to the fucking internet safety laws, which I can't really hold against em but it does mean all imgur pictures just show up as big purple boxes now

blogquantumreality

Squidge! Holy blast from the past, Batman. The last time I remember even looking at that site was... eons ago.

( Oh, what was I reading? The Quartz Key. Yes, it's m/m. )

beatrice-otter

Not only is Squidge still around, it's expanded and grown! It is still run by the same guy, though now it's a nonprofit with a board and everything, and while they maintain all the old squidge sites as static archives, they have a new multifandom archive using the AO3 code at squidgeworld.org. They also host podfics and fanart.

For those younguns in the crowd, back in the day erotic fanworks--especially slash--was not welcome very many places. Walter was willing to host it, and has been a haven for NSFW fanworks since 1994. The various archives and so on hosted at squidge.org were never very large, compared to lots of other archives, but they were a necessary part of the fannish ecosystem, and I'm really glad that there is now a structure in place to keep the whole system running beyond just "Walter's a great guy willing to donate lots of time and money." Walter is a great guy! but like. it's good to have other people to help out and keep things going in the long run.

tanadrin

if a building sits empty for some period of time it should lose its listed status. like. if nobody even has a use for the thing it should not take up real estate indefinitely. i guess you don't want to just incentivize someone keeping a property empty so it can be torn down. but coupled with a sensible land value tax you could ensure that a building only ever remained vacant because truly no one has a use for it.

afloweroutofstone

One of the only real downsides to a land value tax is that it would reduce the number of abandoned buildings I can break into

lickingandsuckingchristmascoins

my landlord’s wife

lickingandsuckingchristmascoins

i suppose

stimman4000

dyslexic-mess

😭sweet dreams Thomas 🤣😭

#bubby

yiddishfisting

great

yiddishfisting

this looks helpful at least

dsudis

Maybe... can have shit in Detroit?

Historic wild rice restoration begins in Detroit River as tribal partners work to bring back sacred grain that disappeared from ancestral wa

tuulikki

Adding some food shopping links, for those who are interested

Red Lake Nation cultivated wild rice from the Tocabe pantry has a naturally nutty flavor & firm texture and provides exceptional nutriti

Eat well with the food that grows on the water. Minnesota Wild Rice grows naturally in the lakes of Northern Minnesota, and is hand harveste

isquirtkerosine

That elderly couple who volunteers at the soup kitchen after church on Sundays and attends every town hall meeting has done more community direct action than 99% of internet leftists 🤷🏽‍♀️

isquirtkerosine

#lol this post is stupid spup kitchens were created by the gov after they literally destroyed black radical organizers lives#and since when does going to a town hall meeting and working within the system help anybody in any significant way

100% agree homeless people should just starve and dumpster dive till le epic revolution happens!

and for sure local politics is so stupid it only handles dumb things like your schoolboard, judges, infrastructure, and rent laws! now tweets? Thats where the real work happens!

what-even-is-thiss

Local activism stopped garbage collection from being privatized in my hometown and local activism is what defunds the police and keeps libraries and community gardens open and gets done most of the things people waiting around for a revolution claim they want. The weird former hippie suburban wine moms donating bags of quinoa chips and money to the food pantry I go to sometimes have done more for me materially then any defeatist political rant on tumblr ever has.

iamnmbr3

#local politics#so many people saying local elections won’t do anything for police brutality#when a lot of places in the US elect their sherrif!#and judges!#and all the other people in charge of the police!#but no I’m just a filthy moderate for suggesting we use EVERY tool at our disposal to improve the state of things (tags via @sofiadragon)

melyzard

My spouse goes to every single school meeting they host, and often is the only person to show up. When the school was debating putting The Ten Commandments in every school room, they held a meeting about it. Guess who was the only parent to be at that meeting? Guess who voted “no”? Guess what the school released as a memo after the meeting? (“Due to popular vote we will not be hanging religious writings in our school rooms.”) And this is just the only time I can prove his vote was the deciding factor in policy change, I know he’s probably swayed more changes (or prevented changes), like taking books from the library or imposing collective punishments on students or letting cops run around inside the building. Because he always shows up.

Go to your local meetings. Vote in the small elections. You will see direct, real change in your world.