[fibrespace]

People often look at the tags on my handmade goods and declare that my prices are outrageous. I did the math and THIS is what that handmade beanie you want for $10 ACTUALLY cost to make.

So if you see that $30 on the label, be courteous. Know that I am paying myself far, far less than minimum wage in labor ($2.22 per hour, to be exact) to even come to such a supposedly ghastly price. I can't take that $10 for a hat because no one can live on $0.37 an hour, much less sustain a business.

Handmade goods aren't overpriced, people just undervalue the hard work and years of skill artists put into them.

[torque-witch]

Honestly. This is exactly right. And if you’re fighting for 15 imagine what this would cost. Small businesses are not exempt

[headspace-hotel]

manufactured goods mass produced by horrendously exploited and underpaid workers have conditioned us to wildly undervalue handmade crafts

[dragon-in-a-fez]

consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about

[antigothesis]

Teen: *gets a job*

“I GOT THE JOB!”

Parents: Well, when I was your age, I already had 5 jobs and was supporting my family

[discowitchparty]

Teen: *gets all A’s*

“I worked really hard!”

Parents: Well, of course you did, this is the expectation, not a celebration.

[silver-tongues-blog]

probably why so many teens take to social media where they can enthusiastically share their interests and achievements and get positive feedback that their parents never gave

[moonlighteduniverse]

A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

[bisexual-boredom-deactivated202]

This hit hard

[rowark]

I remember once, when I was in my early 20s, I was an afternoon supervisor at my job, and I worked with mostly teenagers, and the one day this one kid, who was like 15, was bored so I suggested he could clean out the fridge. He did and when he was done I said he did a good job.

After that, this kid was cleaning out the fridge at least once a week, and I was like, “why are you always cleaning the fridge?” Like, I didn’t mind, but it seemed odd. And he said, “one time I cleaned the fridge and you said I did a good job. I wanted to make you proud of me again.”

Literally, I changed the entire way I interacted with teenagers after that. I actually got a package of glitter stars and I would stick them on their nametags when they did a good job, and they loved it.

My manager had commented on how hard these kids work and I said, “they’re starved for positive feedback. They go to school all day then come to work all evening and no one appreciates it because it’s expected of them, but they’re still kids. They need positive feedback from adults in their lives.”

Like, everyone likes feeling appreciated. Everyone likes being complimented and having their efforts be noticed. Another coworker (who was a mother of teenage children), hated that I did this, and said they were too old to be rewarded with stickers, but like… it wasn’t about the stickers. The stickers were just a symbol that their effort was noticed and appreciated. I was just lucky that I learned this at a time when I was still young enough to remember what it was like to be a teenager. I was only 2 years out of highschool at that point and highschool is fucking hard. People forget this as they get older, but ask anyone and almost no one would ever want to go back and do it again, but they expect kids to suck it up because they’re young so they should be able to do school full time, plus homework, and work, and maintain a healthy social life, and sleep, and spend time with family, and do chores and help out at home, and worry about college and relationships and everything else, and then just get shit on all the time and treated like they’re lazy and entitled. And then they wonder why teenagers are apathetic.

[zediina]

For a german exam I had to argue against an article that was essentially „kids these days, they don’t care about anything and are constantly on their phones“ and really it was the easiest essay I‘ve ever written.

Teens don’t talk to adults bc adults only ask „so, how‘s school“ to then interrupt them two sentences in. And because they can’t engage in a conversation about buying houses and working in a bank. I would’ve loved to talk about philosophy and politics and history with family the way I did with friends and in class but because I was young no one took what I had to say seriously.

And no, teens aren’t always on their phone. They’re on their phone when they’re bored. You think I‘m on social media when I‘m with my friends? When I‘m talking about something I‘m interested in?

Maybe the reason kids are so distant and always on their phone during family parties and the like is because you‘re failing to engage and include them.

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

Whoop there it is

[midwesternlikeope]

When you respect kids, they really respond and learn from you. But if you treat kids like “theyre just a kid, what do they know??” then you’ll never find out.

[randomishnickname]

Remember when you were a kid and you effortlessly made art and built stuff and decorated your room, without ever thinking that a professional could do that better, that you ought to leave it to someone more competent, that maybe you should buy a finished product instead, that the end result might look shitty so you’d better not even get started? I think i’m slowly but surely re-awakening that kid in me. Repair. Reuse. Create.

[anarchblr]

hey! i really want to get more in depth into anarchism and theory, what do you think are the basics people should read to start?

Pyotr Kropotkin:

Anarchism

Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal

Anarchist Communism: Its Basis and Principles

Anarchist Morality

Are Prisons Necessary?

Are We Good Enough? (Audio/Video)

Revolutionary Government

The State: Its Historic Role

Mikhail Bakunin

Man, Society, and Freedom

Rousseau's Theory of the State

Statism and Anarchy

What is Authority?

Errico Malatesta

Anarchism and Organization

The Anarchist Revolution

Anarchists Have Forgotten Their Principles

Democracy and Anarchy

Voltairine De Clayre

Direct Action

The Dominant Idea

The Economic Relations of Sex

The Economic Tendency of Freethought

In Defense of Emma Goldmann and The Right of Expropriation

The Makings of an Anarchist

They Who Marry Do Ill

Why I Am an Anarchist

Others/Various

Anarchy and Organization: The Debate at the 1907 International Anarchist Congress

The Intersection Between Feminism and Stirner Egoism

To Change Everything: An Anarchist Appeal

These are all pamphlets, none too long, so even though it seems like a lot do not feel overwhelmed. Most of it is fairly simple as Anarchists have usually stressed accessibility to theory. I'm displeased to tell you that all the good stuff by Malatesta is not available on the web, and that all the cool stuff on Individualism is in long books, and in the interest of introduction I've linked but a few, again, pamphlets.

If you wish book recommendations let me know. Happy reading.

[beshnav]

[replanting]

from “ask polly: why should i keep going?”

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[loamandthistle-deactivated20210]

Things That Need To Come Back

Silk handkerchiefs to tie your hair back

The clack of typewriter keys

Beekeeping & skeps

Uninterrupted mornings filled with birdsong, the crackle of fire, and hot tea

Herbs hanging to dry

Landry air drying in the breeze

Snail mailed letters to friends

Used bookstores

Local bakeries

Summer & Autumn foraging for berries, nuts, truffles, and mushrooms with friends and family

Maple tapping

Large kitchen gardens

Mutual aid, gift giving, and paying it forward

Camping and bonfires

Bicycle day trips

Basketry, soap making, cheese making, canning, and fermentation days with friends

Book clubs

Old records with all their faults

Public gardens and ponds

Harvest festivals

[powerfulwizard]

I HATE Elon Musk saying shit about how we need to preserve humanity by making other planets inhabitable before Earth isn’t inhabitable… if we can make MARS, a genuine lifeless shithole, or any other barren planet near us, into a habitable planet, why not just do that to post-climate disaster Earth? The planet that specifically suits our species? I’ve talked about this before but like, Earth will ALWAYS be more habitable than any other planet because we specifically evolved to survive here, even if it gets fucked up by climate change, living on here will still be better than living on mars or the fucking moon or whatever.

[powerfulwizard]

EARTH is a unique phenomena and if we lose it we will probably NEVER find anything like it again. This isn’t fucking Star Trek. I doubt we’re gonna find an “M Class Planet” or whatever within close range of travel. This is the world we have. If we can “FIX” some freezing lifeless rock like Mars than we can fix earth.

[tinypixiie]

[blackqueerblog]

The original cowboys were black and latinx people because the ranches were the only place they could get employment in the west

[sw-beforeandafter]

[foundedinmelancholy-deactivated]

Here’s your daily reminder that governments will do everything in their power to keep us from becoming too aware or doing anything regarding the current status of our environment.

People are dying for this cause, yet somehow people are doing so little about it???

Become more aware of climate change and ecological issues if not for yourself or future generations, but for the people being assassinated and persecuted by their home countries.

[prinsomnia]

little forest (country life)

[souppippin]

Yesterday my chicken Lizzy died of sudden illness and old age, today we saw the hatched chick of the long-eared owl in our garden the first time. A life passes, another comes

[florafaunafolk]

what is permaculture? an illustrated introduction // maddieraithby.co.uk

[figdays]

“In The Garden” Print // KimIllustration