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firm believer you can't be a ''good person''. too much niuance to life.
you can be good (adjective) but you cannot be good (identity)
if you think you are good (identity) you are more likely to cause harm as you don't consider yourself to be capable of it
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A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I'm running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of "i didn't join up to pick trash." Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we're returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.
Like... if your socialism doesn't include picking uo trash, I'm guessing it also doesn't include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You'll pick up trash and you'll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn't anyone's job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.
The first thing the new york chapter of The Young Lords (Puerto Rican American communist civil rights group(Worked alongside the black panthers))did upon forming their group was reach out to their community in east harlem, they asked their community what problems needed to be addressed and consistently the number 1 problem brought up was the trash.
In their chairman Felipe Luciano's words, “So we’re on 110th Street and we actually asked the people, ‘What do you think you need? Is it housing? Is it police brutality?’" Luciano says. "And they said, ‘Muchacho, déjate de todo eso—LA BASURA!” [Listen kid, fuggedaboutit! It’s THE GARBAGE!] And I thought, my God, all this romance, all this ideology, to pick up the garbage?”
And so the young lords responded to their communities needs and they picked up the trash. This was at a time (1969) when there were literal tons of garbage lining the streets, trash collectors would pick up some garbage every now and then but would leave most of it behind, they also refused to sweep the streets, and only allotted 6 big dumpsters in that entire 40 block area. This was due to racist/classist stances held by the almost exclusively italian american trash collector union.
The young lords stepped up in this situation, they go and ask for brooms and bags from the trash collectors union and get refused and insulted. They go back later and steal the brooms and bags, and get started cleaning their neighborhoods. This is a band aid and it doesn't fix things but it does show their community these people care, these people will listen and put in the work, these people are our people, it was the basis of community organizing, building trust and responding to people's actual needs.
While this did help and build trust the problem persisted and so the young lords came up with a program they called the garbage offensive (or maybe the trash offensive i forgot). They started sweeping all of the trash onto the side of the street and waited for the trash collectors to come by, when they refused to pick it up, the young lord would pile that all into trucks and haul it off to 3rd avenue in Manhattan(a much richer whiter area that gets high traffic). They dumped the trash into the middle of the street (not just bags of trash, we are also talking furniture, broken sinks, etc.) and then hauled off and they did this almost daily. They forced people to pay attention. The whole community started to get involved in this, kids, young men and women, and older community members too. They all started to join in on dumping the trash in the richer parts of the city to make people care and pay attention.
These protests got larger and bolder, they would sometimes pile up the trash high and then light it on fire, over turn cars and make a party out of it sometimes too. Police were called and showed up and attacked as they do but the protests persisted.
The Young lords published their demands and sent them out in a press release and their demands were listened too. In that years mayoral race every single candidate had to address the trash problem and promise solutions.
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This is an important lesson that direct action often pushes reforms, if we want reforms the best way to get them is to act and make the state react to us and catch up with our demands.
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Their demands included increased sanitation workers, hiring black and puerto rican sanitation workers, increased dumpsters, increase in pay to sanitation workers, end having to pay off your sanitation workers to ensure your trash gets picked up etc. Many of these demands were met and in the coming years the trash does end up getting picked up regularly and the problem does get dealt with.
The Young Lords end up going on to do so much more. They occupy hospitals, steal supplies from the government, and try to build towards a revolution in america. But it starts here, it starts with the trash it starts with all the small menial hardships. We can talk about revolution all we want but if our neighborhoods are unsanitary, our neighbors hungry, our needs uncared for nothing will come of it. The revolution you want to build however radical you are must start rooted in your community, their wants and needs. And part of that is picking up the trash, starting a community run daycare, and all the little unglamorous day to day struggles that weigh people down.
Thank you for this addition! I'm going to read it to the volunteers who come out to trash pick with us today 🤘
No one should be above picking up trash…
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Tithenai Chronicles - Incorrect Quotes Part 1/?
Caethari: Why are you following me?
Velasin: Because we’re married now.
Carthari: Okay…what about Markel?
Velasin: We’re a package deal.
Asrien: Everyone is addicted to my fun and flirty personality.
Asrien: Lives have been destroyed.
Carthari the moment politics are involved: If anyone has experience with anything or knows anything about something please let me know 🙏
Markel: Look, the only person who can fix this mess is-
Velasin, whispering: Please don’t say me, please don’t say me
Markel: -you
Velasin: [sighs]
Markel: I left instructions for everyone while I’m gone.
Velasin: Mine just says “Vel no.”
Markel: You should apply it to every possible situation.
Velasin: You have thirty seconds to run, and I’ve already started counting.
Asrien: What-
Velasin: [lunges]
Asrien: [screaming]
Carthari: I can’t believe you assassinated our father!
Laecia: “Assassinated” implies it was politically motivated. I killed him because he was a dick, so it was murder.
Riya: That doesn’t make it any better!
Tiern Halithar: If you got arrested, what would it be for?
Riya: Theft
Velasin: Disturbing the peace.
Carthari: Aggravated assault.
Markel: Arson.
Laecia: All of the above, it that order, and more.
Caethari: It’s not my fault my love language is acts of service and all I know how to do is fight.
don’t ever get initimdated by messaging people on tumblr behind that blog is someone with a bad posture and crumbs all over their lap laughing at a picture of a horse in pyjamas
Where is this picture of a horse in pyjamas and how did I miss it?
you know I figured it was just a random example but then I googled it
Oh shit
Hi! I’m in the US right now and I’m not feeling so good. The Tithenai Chronicles are my favorite books. Can you share some happy fun facts about the characters to cheer me up?
Once they settle at Ravethae, Cae and Vel soon find themselves custodians to a litter of kittens sired by Son of Spoons. One kitten in particular becomes so enamoured of Cae that she starts using his braid as a ladder to climb up and sit on his head, clinging on contentedly for as long as he'll allow it or until she gets bored. For this feat, Vel names the kitten Chamois, after the silk chamois that scale cliffs in the mountains, and so it becomes a not-uncommon sight at Ravethae for Cae to be seen walking around with Chamois riding him like the tiny, furry captain of an ambulatory ship. Cae, in turn, makes a game of pretending the kitten isn't there, to the bafflement of adult guests and the particular delight of various children.
When Yasa Kithadi comes to visit them and asks, somewhat exasperatedly, why there's a kitten on Caethari's head, the whole estate holds its breath to see if the heir apparent will commit to the bit, or break character in the face of his grandmother's judgement.
"What kitten," Cae says blandly.
Outwardly, Yasa Kithadi appears unmoved. Inwardly, she's endeared. And if Chamois just so happens to acquire a fetching collar during the course of the yasa's visit courtesy of some anonymous donor - well. That's neither here nor there.
Hey, question: who’s the best character you’ve ever written and why is it Qiqa?
I'm glad you like thim! Thei were very fun to write :D
Qiqa was a joy to experience 🧡 Thei are deliciously witty, dripped sarcasm in the most likable manner, and I get the sense that thei are a baddie and totally know it 😂
Hey, question: who’s the best character you’ve ever written and why is it Qiqa?
I'm glad you like thim! Thei were very fun to write :D
Cae & Vel - Commission
When I tell you I was so so so excited to get this commission from @poemsingreenink I am not exaggerating; A Strange and Stubborn Endurance is one of my favorite books, and it was a genuine joy to revisit my designs for these characters (and in a rare moment of peace too)
Commissions & Tip Jar
i like the phrases "it's not for me," "it's not my thing," and "i'm not the target audience" because they're the most concise way to express "this thing that you enjoy has merits but idgaf about it" without being aggressive
A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.
your life should not be a museum
in case you needed to hear it today:
it’s okay to use your turn signal when you’re changing lanes
it’s okay to use your turn signal when you’re taking an exit
it’s okay to use your turn signal when you plan on turning (can even be done sooner than 2 seconds before you’re about to turn)
you have a turn signal. in your vehicle. two of them in fact.
you are so brave and beautiful and smart and can do it. using your turn signal
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Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”
And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”
And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.
this is so important to know; just enjoying things for the sake of trying new expressions and activities, no matter the level of capability or prowess.
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sketch I guess!
🫠 huh wha *gay panic
