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I had to say goodbye to my beautiful girl today. She was the best thing to ever happen to me and I just want you guys to see the beautiful lady that saved my life a thousand times and made my life so rich. 💚
Her name is Calcifer 💚
The largest mass shooting in American history was a hate crime against gay people. Don’t ever forget that.
June 12, 2016. Putting a date on this for when it gets reblogged months from now by people who think the post is about something from 30, 40 years ago.
I am a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, having grown up in Orlando and just turned 20 a month prior. If you didn’t know, there were several families who refused to claim the bodies of their relatives due to their sexuality. One family even had their relative’s name removed from the memorial. Murdered by the same hate with which their families reject them in both life and death.
Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:
We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.
The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.
At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:
ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.
Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.
This year was the sixth anniversary. The first couple years I received dozens of messages checking in on me on 6/12. Year 5 got enough news coverage for people to think to reach out to me. This year it was my therapist, the woman I kissed in that photo, and a couple of other gun violence survivor friends. People are forgetting already.
With the 7 year anniversary <2 weeks away, I figured I’d reblog this
952 days left
why do men have this eternal fear of being used for money they don’t have lol
Please stop he is drowning.....
Gone forever
I could be trusted with mind control powers
You could be trusted with mind control powers
Do you want to see the oats I have in my pocket? Let me show you-
(oats blow away in the wind)
Once you start noticing the erasure and exclusion of trans mascs in everything from media to academics you can never stop noticing it
Back when I was in university we were asked to do a brief research exercise on a health condition impacting a community. Can't remember what I wanted to look at now, but it was something to do with the trans community.
Whatever it was, to put it this way, if there were 10 studies on the trans community as a whole, there were 3 on trans women and trans fems and 0 on trans men and trans mascs, and 0 on nonbinary people. All of the mixed studies were also pretty much useless for my purposes as well because they were all so lopsided.
I think I swapped to a bunch of different things - addiction rates, smoking, depression, mental health in general - nothing that was even roughly equal in looking at all of us. Trans men, trans mascs and nonbinary people are so under researched as to be nonexistent.
To keep this brief since I've rambled a bunch - this is a major issue health wise since we have not a lot of literature on what testosterone does to certain bodies. This can lead to major health complications, not because of the testosterone itself, but because there might be an interaction thats missed or a complication that's not noticed (which is the same for any medication that's under researched on certain bodies. This is not me scaring people off of hrt, this is me pointing out its a medication like any other.)
#the therapist who wrote my permission slip for hrt was a trans man#and during that appointment we talked about the erasure of trans men from basically everything#and i talked about an article i had read a week or so earlier about trans people and hiv#it very in depth about risks prevention treatment etc#except that it exclusively referenced trans women with a single sentence at the end basically saying 'oh trans men are at risk too'#less than a year later i saw that same therapist speaking at an hiv organization fundraising event#he talked about how he had just recently been diagnosed with hiv#and had to sit there while this doctor told him all about how the treatment options had never been tested on trans men#none of them#they knew that the treatment would work#but not how effective it would be in comparison to its effectiveness in other demographics#no idea what kind of side effects he might experience#how it would interact with his body and his hormones#what the long term effects would be#nothing#he had to sit there while his doctor told him he would have to be a guinea pig but its not like he has a choice#the only alternative is dying from aids#that whole thing was kind of a wake up call for me#and i started paying more attention getting tested regularly myself and all that sruff you're supposed to do#and over time i befriended the person who did most of my testing#they were also trans masc and we would talk about this kind of stuff#and i told them i wanted to get on prep but every doctor i asked had a wildly different answer on if i even could take it#which verison i could take etc#and they said that only one form of prep has been approved fot trans men but its never actually been tested on trans men#and that one version isnt good for long term use because it has some pretty serious side effects long term#and they said that they regularly go to conferences and meet with representatives from all these drug companies#and they ask 'wheres the data on trans men' 'when are you doing clinical studies on trans men'#and the answer#every single time is: we have not done any studies on trans men and we have no intention to ever do studies on trans men#this is not some passive result of trans masc invisibility it is an active act of erasure that needs to be recognized as an act of violence
And then people say things like that when we point out that we're just.... Actively erased and ignored.
[Image ID: Bluesky post from meadow! (@/ meadowDetector.bsky....) reading: fair use kink; you can fuck me whenever you want without a license as long as I am being used for criticism, commentary, satire or research purposes /End ID]
who else is up permanently feeling like they did something Wrong
he had to ask the audience
sorry to be brave on the internet but I think food labels should list every single ingredient and that there should be harsher penalties for mislabeling and deceptive labeling
Seconded.
How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.
Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).
And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!
The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet.
We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk.
Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:
Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.
Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!
Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden
Support your local farmers / local economy (US only link)
Support or create a local Food Not Bombs chapter
Support or create a local Food Not Lawns chapter
Grow food in 5 gallon buckets
Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity (as a bonus you can learn extremely practical skills)
Volunteer via 350.org to help the environment / the planet / the place we live and depend on
Excellent-and-still-growing wiki from reddit’s awesome r/zerowaste community - great resource to learn how to live more lightly on the earth
Spread the word about solarpunk, especially to engineering students. Show them projects like Open Source Ecology - Global Village Construction Set and Bridges for Prosperity
Learn how to Patch a Hole, Mend a Seam, and Fix a Hem
Learn how to repair a hole in the sole of a shoe
Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.
Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.
Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries
Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas
joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!
Adding a few!
Replant scraps from your produce
Graft fruit-bearing branches onto ornamental trees in your area
Turn plastic waste into pretty much any plastic thing you need, in your garage, with machines built out of cheap and accessible parts
Make your own paper out of recycled paper or cardboard
Build a composter or a wormery
Harvest rainwater
Mod your toilet to flush gray water (used sink/shower water, or even that rainwater you’re harvesting)
Build a solar collector on the cheap
Build a wind turbine on the cheap
Build a hydroelectric water wheel on the cheap
Get internet access without going through cable companies using cheap, low-tech equipment
Make your own beer, cheese, soap, wine… really anything you can make rather than buy is a success!
And HELP YOUR NEIGHBORS! Don’t just build/grow/mod/repair your own stuff, help them do it too! Share it! Depend on each other! Work together and grow closer with your community!
Building microhouses isn’t going to build you a solarpunk future. For that you need density, which means building up. You are going to have to get more comfortable with apartment buildings, less invested in personal gardens for detached houses, more emphatic about building community and rooftop gardens, more interested in waste management and the costs associated with roads and road maintenance, more interested in zoning and solar permitting.
If you currently live in a detached single family home then sure, figuring out grey water in your garden is great, but showing up to your city council meetings when the NIMBYs come out to protest new apartment buildings or bike lanes in your neighborhood is much more important. So many of you seem to want to live “semi-rurally” but the places where rural life is more environmentally sustainable than city life are poor. They’re the kind of poor you probably aren’t interested in. People living sustainably in rural areas are by and large living without good roads, without consistent municipal access to electricity and running water, without access to good medical care, often without municipal sewers. They are not living in the rural or suburban US of A, where services are subsidized by urban taxpayers and come with real costs to the environment, especially re car dependence and poor governance around dumping. If you want the nice shit you are accustomed to AND you want solarpunk you need to get much more invested in cities and in governance and spend less time fantasizing about living out some version of Monk and Robot or Stardew Valley (both worlds I love to spend time in, ok, but neither is a workable path forward).
By all means get interested in native plants and gardening. But help your city build dense housing. Get interested in biking and bike advocacy. Advocate for faster and cheaper solar permitting in your city or state. If you live in a dense urban environment already, then get passionate about making your city greener and more permeable and less friendly to cars. Get passionate about making your city a place where pedestrians and folks with wheelchairs can get around without being in constant danger. Learn to love trains and buses. Plants are beautiful and plants are great and biodiversity is super important to me but the things most endangering your biodiverse solarpunk future are a lack of density, cattle and dairy farming, inadequate regulation + enforcement around plastics and other pollutants, and cars. Yes, even electric cars. Building a city around cars rather than walkability is inherently less sustainable for simple geometric reasons (you have to sprawl more, which is more expensive, harder to maintain, worse for the environment), and worse for building community. Tiny houses are cute. They’re not a good long-term environmental strategy. A bigger (intelligently designed) box full of tiny homes (an apartment building) does actually get us closer to a future that doesn’t end in despair. And it’s not incompatible with trees and gardens and community.
Like I am sorry to inform you but you are actually going to have to get involved in boring shit like local and state level governance (showing up at interminable meetings, nagging your reps, volunteering consistently with orgs that pressure legislators), not just do a bunch of fun DIY projects to green up your personal property and make you feel good.
Honestly I just can’t with the whole eschatological current here. There’s isn’t going to be a collapse with a clear before and after where you can point yourself out as a solarpunk survivor with a “weirdo house” while everyone else is stuck in some hellscape from which you are somehow magically insulated. The environmental collapse you are trying to stave off will affect you too, even if your detached single family home has a food garden and you’ve been collecting rainwater. Do you think you will just be living in isolated pockets of unchanged climate while the rest of the world burns? This isn’t the fucking rapture. You cannot virtue-garden your way out of this. It takes change on a massive, coordinated societal level, which means you have to stop pretending that planting the right milkweeds or doing urban foraging alone is going to save you. There’s not going to be an after, just a long series of increasingly more difficult nows. What’s going to happen is that things are going to get worse, and you’ll start getting used to how much worse they are, and then they’ll get worse again. Sometimes big leaps. All the time just creeping steadily into worsetown. You will be subject to whatever panicked reaction comes from governments, corporations, voters, social media mobs, whatever, just like everyone else is, just as you currently are, because it’s already happening. You will be subject to the actual environmental changes. Are you allergies worse these last few years? Yeah, that’s because climate change is already affecting you, virtuous soldier of the (vague, nebulous) revolution (that will somehow come about without a working theory of change).
I am not an ecopessimist. While I acknowledge that we can’t prevent some changes that have already been locked in by billions of bad choices, I do still think we can prevent other changes that are not yet set in stone. Apocalyptic thinking is not useful when we still have some chance of preventing some of the worst outcomes if we focus our energies appropriately
This shit is not it:
This is some libertarian-adjacent settler-brain damage. Landscapes are not an aesthetic. There is no garbage land. Every bit of this earth is supporting life and if you think tearing up currently human-unoccupied land to build your “solarpunk” fantasy is an ecologically sound decision you need to spend more time listening, reading, and practicing critical thinking. Yeah, sure, let’s model our solarpunk future on the aesthetics of coal-powered steam, because that era was characterized by so many ecologically sound decisions. These three comments were made in 2019 so I can only hope some of the folks who made them have grown the fuck up in the meantime, but I’m seriously disheartened by the number of people recently reblogging the posts upstream of me seemingly without any critical thought or comment. This is not a fantasy! There are real stakes!
Some actual sense (few and far between) from the comments:
this from 2020, I think. We’ve wasted so much time. I wonder how that commenter is feeling today. Hope they’ve found ways to cope with everyone’s bullshit. Hope they’re acting. Hope some of you will act.
We’re dealing with material changes to our material reality here, with long-term material consequences. You are not going to build your Miyazaki movie background on the smoking ruins of capital or whatever - I think most of you have probably fundamentally misunderstood a lot of Miyazaki’s movies while fully appropriating the aesthetics for your fantasies but I need you all to start living in the real world because there’s fucking work to do. Yes, some of the things linked or listed above are good things to do. Live a lower-waste lifestyle. Volunteer. Compost. Share. But these things are not enough, and they will have a more minimal impact on the future than you would by actually being meaningfully civically engaged and making your communities more dense and walkable.
must feel good as fuck to curse a prince for being rude to you while you were larping as an old woman for no reason
It’s so funny to see people’s reaction to pickles.i posted my favorite photo I’ve ever taken of him.
