Will Be Full Of Wood, Roots And The Like

Ze/hir + librarian

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

This is the old city of Tyre, which israel is currently destroying without any opposition from the Lebanese government

[hamjensgar]

Tehran suspends talks with U.S. over Israeli attacks in Lebanon, Iranian media reports

Trump later posted that after discussions with Israel and representatives from Hezbollah about easing tensions, talks between the U.S. and I

[akuasucc]

happy pride month to all gay and trans africans especially gay and trans ghanaians in ghana

[tricksters-lollipop]

Check out the full song here!

[ymutate]

Vie Dunn-Harr (American Artist, born 1953)

"Beneath the Terracotta Moon", 2022.

Acrylic on Canvas, 48 × 24 inches

[calebwittebane]

person typing into google search bar: obfuscate meaning

google ai overview: Understood! From now on, all meaning will be hidden from you, and you'll be forced to wade through the dreary vastness. Whether it's things you've always held dear, or new ideas you've yet to discover, nothing will make sense or appear to have any real value. This could be the beginning of a fascinating journey!

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

the problem with genetically modified crops is not so much the genetic modification but the patenting of genetic codes (and crops in general) as a tool of maintaining agricultural imperialism, and for this reason I can't talk to most people about GMOs

[scorpionlafemme]

[boobookittenartblog]

Pterosauria poster by Mario Lanzas.

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

nobody:

half full water bottle left behind on the floor of a public bus: *rolls around*

[thejoanglebook-deactivated20210]

OP is an optimist

[bovid-beauty]

Major 'DIY' hormone hub shuts down as the anti-trans brigade targets more sites

One of the biggest DIY HRT hubs in the UK appears to have permanently shut down just days after being targeted by right-wing outlets.

HRT Cafe, a grassroots database of tutorials, resources, and information on hormone replacement therapy (HRT), closed its doors earlier this week.

The website, which was maintained by a small, anonymous group of developers, was considered one of the biggest resources for ‘DIY’ HRT in the UK.

It is not illegal to possess non-controlled hormones for personal use without a prescription in the UK.

Developers shuttered the site unexpectedly earlier this week. No official statement has been published, only that its developers were no longer accepting donations.

Its closure came just days after a number of right-wing news outlets, including The Daily Signal, published articles on ‘DIY’ vendors citing HRT Cafe and other resource sites.

[trans4trans]

HRTCafe.net, formerly DIYHRT.Cafe, is a website created to provide information for how to safely obtain DIY HRT for trans people who cannot

GitHub - addidotlol/hrtcafe-mirror: mirror for hrt.cafe

mirror for hrt.cafe. Contribute to addidotlol/hrtcafe-mirror development by creating an account on GitHub.

web archive of hrt cafe and a github mirror for those who need it. the link below is an archive of various diy sites including hrt cafe as well.

GitHub - soapingtime/diyhrt: Automatically archiving DIYHRT resources

Automatically archiving DIYHRT resources. Contribute to soapingtime/diyhrt development by creating an account on GitHub.

[smallestbunnyever-deactivated20]

The DIY HRT Directory 2.0

The DIY HRT Directory offers transgender individuals comprehensive guidance on safely performing DIY hormone replacement therapy, including

[kosmogrl]

how life starts to feel when you fail and for the first time in your life you think ‘whatever, I’ll try again’

[ysalamir]

artists on the internet will make the most half assed image that says "fuck ice" in a font that someone else made and then be like "stickers and prints on my etsy that will be five dollars please."

[sailatina3]

Amount of fuck ice stickers sold: many

Amount of money donated to victimized latinos: Nothing

[thebleeding-heart]

in case anyone would like to help:

SupportOurFamilies | Linktree

Please support immigrant families by donating to the GoFundMe's below and purchasing supplies via Amazon Wishlist to support detainee visito

[balaclava-trismegistus]

There is an evident fascistic impulse to self-infantilization as a tentpole of one's entire personality. Cut from the same cloth as those people who buy their peace of mind at Disney land. Strikes me as something that can only be built on the insular luxury of the angloid world. Walling-out reality in favor of something more palatable. Something simpler. If everyone is just a big kid, then nothing really matters. It's all just a practice run. This seems to be something generated by a lot of American therapy culture, too. This kind of eternal adolescence.

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

i agree, and some theorists have identified a “right to comfort” as a cornerstone of contemporary white supremacist culture.

But conceptually I see a lot of other connections too.

it kind of reminds me of how the nazis conceived of “degenerate art.” to the nazis, their vision of “good” art was art that promoted the most conventional, the most nostalgic, the most kitsch, the most neoclassical, the most conservative, the most comfortable. Thus, they despised modernist art from movements such as the impressionists and the expressionists, particularly work that depicted the horrors of war (rather than an uncomplicated view of war as an honorable enterprise) such as the work of Otto Dix. Obviously there was also a blunt, vulgar motive to simply discriminate against Jewish artists and anyone who was “influenced by Jewish or non-Aryan ideals” but there was also a formal artistic basis as well.

one could even say that the nazi party censored and burned avant-garde art as a grotesque act of “self-care.” I think there are conceptual echoes of that in every “why i left the left” thonkpiece. Or in the contemporary appropriation by reactionary white people of the term “Black Fatigue,” wherein racist white people complain they are “tired” of seeing and/or interacting with Black people.

Even though Walt Disney died decades ago, I think it’s still worth analyzing his idea of a completely curated amusement park that utterly immersed the guests in a cohesive pampered experience. That was, essentially, the idea that Walt was attempting to achieve when he opened Disney Land in 1955, and there has not, in my opinion, really been a coherent break from that goal after he died and after the construction of subsequent Disney theme parks. Workers have described disney parks as, essentially, high-control environments for them, with extremely strict standards for their behavior, language, and appearance, and Walt Disney World in Florida has a history of relying heavily on workers from economically oppressed backgrounds such as Haitian immigrants (especially for the worst jobs like custodial positions!), and the pay and benefits were always pretty bad.

But all of those very real issues with the working conditions are concealed to park visitors, so as not to break the illusion, the “disney magic.”

An aside about Walt: While Walt Disney was “technically” not a fascist, he was in fact still a political reactionary (especially later in his life) who, in 1941, took out a magazine ad deriding his employees at his animation studio as communists (or at the very least part of a “communist plot”) when they went on strike. In 1947 he went on to give names of animators and labor organizers to HUAC, a clear antagonistic act against ‘uppity’ workers. (Funnily enough, Salvador Dali, whose own work was derided by the Nazis and who fled to america until after the war, became friends with Walt Disney, collaborating on an animated film that remained unfinished until long after both of them were dead. Both of them tilted rightward politically over time and Dali ended up a supporter of fucking Franco and had even been expelled from his own art movement for his right wing politics in the 1930s.)

[psalm22-6]

If there is a bigger bore in Christendom that George Francis Train, it is Victor Hugo, who has won a large notoriety by a shrewd charlatanism in a sort of pop-eyed literature. Periodically there are paragraphs in all the newspapers about Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo patted a ragged urchin on the head. Victor Hugo has visited an old woman in a fisherman's hut. Victor Hugo has contributed a copy of Les Miserables to a circulating library. Victor Hugo has written an impudent letter to Louis Napoleon, from his safe retreat. Writing letters seems to be his strong point. Let Victor Emmanuel, or Garibaldi, or Blondin, or Patti [perhaps referring to the opera singer?], or the Siamese Twins, or Andrew Johnson or Thom Thumb, or any other of the notorieties, bring himself or herself prominently before the public in his or her own peculiar manner, and presently we have a letter from Victor Hugo, attaching himself to the notoriety of the hour, and securing a share of the gossip. In every rupture of government, in every social revolution, every volcanic eruption or other upheaval in the physical universe, in every discovery of a new planet or a new patent soap, pop flies open the letter-box of Victor Hugo, and we have a hysterical note, half exclamation, one-third interjection, and all flatulence — "Behold me! Victor Hugo ! ! the illustrious exile ! ! ! I attach myself to you, brother ! You are famous ! I am famous! We are famous ! There was a lyre in the tent of Achilles ! a harp in that of Judas Maccabaeus ! Orlando sent a copy of verses to Charlemagne, Frederick II, addressed odes to Voltaire ! Heros are poets ! You, too, prove it ! You, my Blondin, have hung suspended over the cataractic Niagara ! The same breath of justice and liberty which inspires you with great deeds, inspires me with great words. Farewell, illustrious friend! Victor Hugo."

The Columbus Ohio Journal, reprinted in the The free homestead, March 4 1868