[kueraleido]

Tags:

#k says words - original posts or thoughts

#k is saving this - posts i want to come back to

#k gets political - opinions/serious topics

#k gets artsy - art and artistic inspiration

#k has feelings - relatable stuff, mental health

#k's identity hoard - my flavor of queerness

#k likes stuff - other interests

[augustdementhe]

IT'S GLASS.

This is "Arras", by Mark Lewanski, and the medium is G L A S S.

Just incredible.

[goblinknits]

Had a wild hair to redecorate my walls with more functional stuff and I saw someone on YouTube with something similar. Sure enough I found something large enough to fit cakes of yarn 🧶

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

to me the thing about deification is that something fundamental is lost in the process

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

people can’t be immortal. so in order to be immortal you can’t be a person anymore. you have to be distilled. stripped of everything. till you come out the other side as an abstract concept.

[theconcealedweapon]

Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

[cupidsquilll]

[in-a-mellow-tone]

adding these two examples, as well

[existennialmemes]

Two seemingly contradictory beliefs that we actually must strive to hold simultaneously:

You don't owe anyone anything

Meaning: you do not have to make yourself suffer for the convenience of others

We owe each other everything

Meaning: we could not survive without each other and everything we do to help another is crucial to ensuring our own continued survival

You don't need to be a doormat, but also don't get comfortable slamming the door when you have the resources to extend a hand instead.

[existennialmemes]

It is and thank you for noticing.

I always love it so much when one of my posts is based on my very Jewish ideals, but does not say so in any way, but other Jews see it and are still immediately just like "🫵Jewish!!" 💜💜

[pansyfemme]

i keep seeing tiktoks being like “what it’s like to be the only lesbian who isn’t poly” “it feels like im the only monogamous queer person left” “i don’t want to be poly guyssss’ like its crazy how little i care. please stop inventing a universe where every queer person is forced to live under big polycule and monogamous people must live in secret. no one cares that one person you wanted to date didn’t want to be monogamous. you will survive

[junko-enoshima-in-deep-space]

"isn't it crazy trans women all share the same hobbies" yeah cause the ones that don't are desperate to have things to share with their friends and so join the hobby that contains other trans women even if they don't super care. whatever. and the problem gets worse every time you joke about it. ugh sorry I'm so bitter about this let's stop being a party pooper

[junko-enoshima-in-deep-space]

all that to say: Please Please Please get excited about your tgirl friend's niche interest that nobody but her cares about today

[paxamericana]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

the internet policies "to protect kids" that involve collecting more data from users are being pushed by companies that profit from access to said data. people are talking about the puritan aspect or whatever but the reality is a restructuring of our society--massive increase in surveillance--to benefit specific tech companies, and more attention should be on that...politicians bankrolled by these companies just need some sort of moral outrage to sell this to the public successfully

[rythyme]

i was seeing all these little blue flowers everywhere and kept thinking "dang what are these bitches, i can't remember..." well guess what. they were fuckin forget-me-nots. can't believe i failed step fucking 1, the hot girls on iNaturalist are going to laugh at me and i'm gonna flunk out of hobby botany school.

[rythyme]

!!! Learn From My Humiliation!!! THESE ARE THE BITCHES!!!! DO NOT FORGET THEM !!!!

[deramin2]

[miscellaneous-reblog-blog]

ID: same image with the text "I forgor." End ID

[fred-the-dinosaur]

[notwiselybuttoowell]

West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide

Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory.

All are products that contain palm oil and are made, say the campaigners, by companies that source the ingredient directly from West Papua, which has been under Indonesian control since 1963 and where thousands of acres of rainforest are being cleared for agriculture.

More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott, which they say should continue until the people of West Papua are given the right to self-determination.

Raki Ap, a spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, which is overseeing the call, said: “These products are linked to human rights violations, in the first place, because West Papuans are being forced, with violence, to get off the land where they’ve lived for thousands of years, which has now resulted in ecocide.

“This is a signal to the countries who are dealing with Indonesia, especially those in the Pacific region, to take notice of who they’re dealing with and how they are basically allowing Indonesia to continue the colonial project in West Papua, the human rights violations, and also ecocide.”

West Papuans say more than 500,000 of their people have been killed by the occupation in the past six decades, while millions of acres of their ancestral lands have been destroyed for corporate profit. Indonesia, already the world’s largest palm oil exporter, is now breaking ground in West Papua on the world’s biggest single palm oil plantation, as well as a sugar cane and biofuel plantation that will be the largest deforestation project ever launched.

“West Papuans’, especially the ULMWP, position is very clear: we are a modern-day colony,” said Ap, speaking from the Netherlands.

“Indonesia hijacked the right to self-determination in 1962 when the Netherlands and Indonesia signed an agreement without any consultation in West Papua … After that, in 1969, there was a so-called referendum, which wasn’t fair, which wasn’t under international law, one man, one vote: just 1,025 men were handpicked at gunpoint to vote for integration to Indonesia.

“So this is the foundation of the Indonesia’s colonial project. When we became part of Indonesia against our will, basically the genocide unfolded.”

[notyonatto]

hi! let me share a wonderful resource with everyone

obviously, palm oil is a huge and massive issue causing immense damage to rich flourishing ecosystems. the process of planting palm means removing basically everything that was there before it, most often with burning techniques. yes, as in burning entire swaths of jungle/forest and all of its inhabitants in order to have land for a shitty monoculture for capital gain that never ever benefits the indigenous communities. the palm oil industry is an example of why #landback matters for all indigenous people across the globe and a perfect example pf how capitalism and colonialism directly harms all life forms. humans, animals, and plants.

if you want to do your best to avoid palm oils and giving money to bastard companies, i heavily recommend the app named PalmOil Scan made by the WAZA (World Association of Zoos and Aquariums). it’s an app that helps you learn more about the palm oil prevalence in the foods you eat. take an evening with the app, and scan things in your pantry closet/food storage areas. it may be a sobering experience, but you will be much better informed in the end.

information on the PalmOil Scan app can be found here and is downloadable from the Apple store and Google Play store. i hope some of you find it to be useful and help you make more ethical shopping choices

and one final note: fuck nestle

[dinobot]

we've been doing this thing called "hitting the nosferatu" where you hunch your shoulders and walk towards things while pointing with a long creepy finger

[deep-space-netwerk]

[Link]

Under the "has cleared its orbital neighborhood" and "fuses hydrogen into helium" definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.

[subaru-copilot]

looks inside procrastination -> it's anxiety -> looks inside anxiety -> it's fear -> looks inside fear -> it's shame

[teaboot]

Surely these circumstances will improve with additional shame

[vamptits]

the way feminism just died in recent years is crazy. a whole like 20 steps back!!!

[barren-blossom]

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