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“we are such stuff as dreams are made on”

[mortalityplays]

I highly recommend developing a tolerance for polite low level conflict, not just because it will serve you well when employers or whoever try to impose bullshit on you with the expectation you'll fold rather than expend energy arguing, but because it will make you a genuine asset to your friends and allies whenever they're in positions where they're less able to fight for themselves.

the first and most important step is learning to stay calm when someone with authority tries to pressure you. take a breath, think about what you actually believe, and respond in your own time. if they try to brush past or talk over you, you can say "excuse me, can I think about that for a moment. I'd like to give you a proper answer." self esteem. you're both just upright monkeys.

[leebrontide]

Today I learned about bog jackets/bog coats, a nearly 0 waste pattern for making an extremely simple jacket. That's cool all on it's own but then of course I had to know why it was called a bog jacket, and apparently it's because the pattern comes from a jacket preserved in a bog for 4000 years.

I love this. A somebody or a some group of somebodies 2000BC figured out a simple and efficient pattern that jives with desires for low waste and easy home assembly in 2026.

Bring on the bog fashion!

[anarchistmemedistro]

[lettheriverrungently]

Reblog to help Palestine Action

UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for 'terrorism' amid UK media blackout - The Grayzone

Six Palestine Action activists face a retrial after being acquitted in February following over a year in prison. If convicted, the six Pales

Tl, dr: The UK government is trying to get at Palestine Action by getting the Filton Six sentenced for terrorism. They have changed the judge to a regime loyalist and banned the defence from talking about the genocide or that if convicted of anything criminal there will be a terrorism conviction.

This all hinges on the jury not finding out so the UK press is banned from reporting.

But, I don't think UK juries as a rule get sequestered, so social media is a way to get the information out there.

This is a case where posting actually is a form of activism.

Reblog, repost, share on other platforms. Get the word out.

Free Palestine. Free the Filton Six.

[emmaklee]

[pourquoiwhy]

I learned a new concept

Graceful degradation is the ability of a computer, machine, electronic system or network to maintain limited functionality even when a large portion of it has been destroyed or rendered inoperative. The purpose of graceful degradation is to prevent catastrophic failure. (Tech Target, first result on the search engine)

[biglawbear]

Literal opposite of planned obsolescence. I love you graceful degradation.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Oh neat the first time I heard of the concept the guy described it to me as "catastrophic functionality".

He was talking about it in the context of designing robots that would go in and stop nuclear reactor meltdowns, something that would 100% destroy the robot, but they would be designed to keep functioning and fighting the meltdown for as long as possible. He had some designs where over 80% of the robot has died and it was functionally dragging its corpse around by its one working arm because one more minute of functionality might save thousands.

I've been having a few bad years mental health wise, and thinking about those robots a lot .

[maddie-2022]

This is also why NASA missions usually keep going so long after schedule. They are *masters* of graceful degradation, able to keep machines limping along on minimal power and after sustaining heavy damage

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

So we're all gonna let the new Harry Potter show die on the vine, right? No hatewatching. No thinkpieces. No videos about how bad it is. Deprive it of oxygen and let it wither away unremarked-upon and unprofitable; make HBO lose their entire investment and prove to the corporate entertainment sphere that the entire IP is poison. And spend that time doing something that brings you joy instead.

[quasi-normalcy]

Let MAGA-Paramount, having just bought Warner Bros., be locked into a seven-year contract to produce a show that no one watches.

[kosmogrl]

the day is gonna end anyway and your warm bed will be waiting so you might as well do the hard things and not let them ruin your day

[radicalposture]

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Child and the Shadow, 1974

[metamorphesque]

It’s strange to think that long before I had a name or a heartbeat, I existed in some shadowed, elemental way. Women are born with all the eggs they'll ever have, and these begin forming while they're still in the womb. So when my mother was just a fetus, the egg that would become me was already inside her. That means my grandmother carried not just my mother, but the beginning of me as well. For a fleeting moment, the three of use shared one body, and went through life together, layered like nesting dolls.

[hopepunk-humanity]

"But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift. We are deluged by information regarding our destruction of the world and hear almost nothing about how to nurture it. It is no surprise then that environmentalism becomes synonymous with dire predictions and powerless feelings. Our natural inclination to do right by the world is stifled, breeding despair when it should be inspiring action... Despair is paralysis. It robs us of agency. It blinds us to our own power and the power of the earth. Environmental despair is a poison every bit as destructive as the methylated mercury in the bottom of Onondaga Lake."

-- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

(bolding mine)

[inksplattersandearlyhours]

“When I was young, women were raped on the campus of a great university and the authorities responded by telling all the women students not to go out alone after dark or not to be out at all. Get in the house. (For women, confinement is always waiting to envelope you.) Some pranksters put up a poster announcing another remedy, that all men be excluded from campus after dark. It was an equally logical solution, but men were shocked at being asked to disappear, to lose their freedom to move and participate, all because of the violence of one man.”

— Rebecca Solnit, Grandmother Spider in Men Explain Things To Me and Other Essays

[twoblogger]

I usually try not to do the omg why is nobody on tumblr talking about this thing because this website really does not matter at all in the grand scheme of things but it’s also kind of making me feel like I’m losing my mind that nobody here seems to be aware of the hunger strike

[twoblogger]

Largest hunger strike in British prisons since Bobby Sands being undertaken by Palestine activists protesting mistreatment and being held for years without bail rn btw. at least one of the eight people involved is on 45 days without food which is extremely concerning because one of the 1981 men died after 46 days. we will likely see deaths within the next week if the government continues with their refusal to negotiate

[anarchistmemedistro]

Palestine Action: Prison hunger strikes that shaped history

Four Palestine Action members are continuing hunger strikes in the UK, following a protest practice with a long history.

2025 Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike - Wikipedia

[singing-bowl]

thinking about how ursula k leguin said "what goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives" and how everyday i wake up slightly different and i can feel myself shed the skin of who i used to be slowly, slowly, until i look back and can scarcely recognise who i was... but also she is still a part of me, part of the leaf litter and the humus, supporting me as i send new roots down and new leaves stretching up to the sunlight

[joytri]

[hagiomoto]

This should be a bigger news tbh

[minervablau]

When I sew, or paint, or otherwise create I get to determine the colors of my life. This is a great responsibility! These are the colors that surround me, touch me, reflect who I am back onto me.

[anarchistfrogposting]

In the past I’ve argued that humans benefit from community. Now I’d take that argument one step further; we don’t just benefit from community - we tend towards it.

[anarchistfrogposting]

The heirarchy and domination which anarchism rejects doesn’t simply obstruct community building, it’s forced to bend the desire to foster community and communality to its whim.

We see this constantly; innovative and progressive movements emerge from a horizontal and non-hierarchical foundation, then - without a framework for the contrary - adopt hierarchical organisation.

[anarchistfrogposting]

All of this is to say that we do little anarchisms; communal and directly democratic systems of organisation; all the time without even trying. The political and philosophical framework that anarchism provides helps broaden and sustain those little anarchisms.

Through this framework, anarchism offers a wider view of a more equitable society. That’s the fundamental core of what anarchism strives to achieve.