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dandelions deserve more respect than they get

you say “weeds” I say “widespread non-native edible plant and early-blooming pollinator resource that is not considered invasive because it behaves politely and does not cause deleterious ecological consequences”

mettic

The dandelions aren’t gonna fuck you bro

glumshoe

they have and they will

bambicest

allyourfearsarecomingtrue

Note how she states that it was more difficult to get permits to do this shit than actually coordinate the drones.

Companies will want to do more of this, but environmental/wildlife laws make it difficult. So, they'll lobby to weaken them. Be vigilant. This woman accidentally said the quiet part loud. They won't let that happen again - this is our only warning

acekoral

Also tire iron is effective

trickstertime

A tire iron is ineffective.

Look, if someone was very irresponsible they'd look up drone parts and buy a set of 2.4GHz and 5GHz directional antennas (yagi or, not patch) and then get a set of 2.4GHz and 5Ghz noise generators (illigal almost everywhere) or look up how to make them (weirdly easy to do apparently) and then they would wait for the display to start and turn on their contraption with the antennas point towards the display. Because the drones would be communicated to from the main computer on either 2.4GHz or 5Ghz, a contraption like this would cause anything from a section, to all, of the drones losing communication and automatically landing. The fact that they waited until the display was in progress means that all that set up time would have been waisted so the rest of the show can't go ahead and they'll have to spend a few days checking everyone over.

Don't do this. it's very illigal to make a jamming device. Even though you'd be using a long range antenna so youd be safely far away and almost totally undetectable even to people beside you, especially if you hid it in a bag or small box. It's very illigal. Don't.

So like. I dont know if anyone remembers this blog, but I started this when I was 16. I'm almost 23 now.

I want to make this blog active again

bumblebeeappletree

So. You want to garden.

For whatever reason. Right now as of uhhhh Friday March 27, of 2020, within the quarantine of COVID-19 you are most likely want to garden in order to feed your family as you want to save money from the grocery store. And to ya know. feed your family.

SO. Here’s some YouTube videos. Mainly from this one YouTuber since she runs her own farm. She talks about what to grow and how to grow as well as saving seeds. (Trust me, saving seeds is better in the long run.) You can also regrow kitchen scraps too if you feel like you’re unable to get any proper seeds. And for fun have a post apocalyptic type garden.

What to plant in a small garden:

Fast-food growing options:

The importance of Seed saving:

How to build an arched trellis for $30:

A complete guide to virtual gardening:

How to PLANT & GROW with cattle panel arched trellises:

14 store bought vegetables & herbs you can regrow:

Save your kitchen scraps, these 7 plants can be grown out of them:

9 survival gardening crops to grow in a post apocalyptic world:

anarchodykee

i’m sure many of you have noticed but so many blogs in the solarpunk and ancom community are inactive.

so if you or if you know of any blogs that primarily post resources and information relating to

gardening (radical, guerrilla, or just gardening tips and whatnot)

direct action

anarchism and anarcho-communism

solarpunk

slow fashion

mending

pro-union

anti-capitalism

anti-racism

anti-consumption

[anarcho] punk culture

queer politics & activism

graffiti, lifting, etc (vague on purpose, i hope you get what i mean lol)

internet security

permaculture

baking

dumpster diving

food (in)security

environmentalism

protests and resistance

community activism

or anything else related to anarchism and solarpunk, please rb, interact, send me an ask or message, leave a comment, etc.,

i really want my blog to be another collection of resources but they’re so hard for me to find on tumblr and it takes a while for me to gather my own master lists (but i’m hoping to come out with one for gardening soon!!)

#i dont post as much anymore but im still alive and kicking i promise

debmerriam

Solarpunk fashion isn’t frivolous

I’d like to remind those who feel that caring about clothes and aesthetics is ‘too frivolous’ and ‘not solarpunk enough’ that they’re rehashing a conversation feminists have already had. “Don’t you have more important things to worry about than fashion?”

(1) Clothing is wrapped up with culture and identity. It’s shaped by local climate and social mores. If you’re writing speculative fiction, how people dress is going to be part of your world-building process.

(2) The same goes for art and architecture.

(3) We can care about more than one thing at a time. Being interested in fashion and design does not make a person less interested in creating a world that’s more just, renewably powered, and moving past net-zero to drawdown.

(4) Clothing is read differently on different bodies, with heteropatriarchal sexism, ageism, racism and colonialism all playing roles in how what a person is wearing changes how they are perceived. Want an anti-racist, decolonized future? Want to challenge gender norms? You’ll have to think about clothes.

We can critique the solarpunk fashion posts that are out there for a variety of legitimate reasons: too many flower crowns, too much green, too much colour, too many impractical outfits with lots of excess fabric, too much cultural appropriation, not enough size diversity or representation of people with disabilities, and so on. (Personally, I predict re-localization of fashion design and manufacture, combined with bioregional dyeing of natural fibres, cradle-to-cradle design for synthetic fibres, and zero-waste pattern cutting.)

There are legit critiques of solarpunk architecture posts too, depending on whether your solarpunk is urban or rural, flooded or desertified, techno-optimistic or permaculture-low-tech, post-scarcity or scavenged from the ruins.

But, please, quit it with the gatekeeping and faux-intellectual snobbery. People who got interested in solarpunk for aesthetic reasons instead of political reasons have just as much to offer in imagining the future as you do; they just have a different area of expertise than yours.

sunkeepersolarpunkmusic

SOLARPUNK LECTURE:

Here author/environmentalist Vandana Shiva gives a talk about a new take on “development”—exploring anti-colonialist thinking, environmental ethics, ecological symbiosis and other elements of how sustainable futures which solarpunks are imagining can actually, truly be developed without the snags of colonialism, capitalism and other exploitation paradigms that have held sway for far too long on planet Earth.

Share to solarpunks who could use some critical thinking about how we can rethink the concept of development for a solarpunk, sustainable future!

anarchopuppy

When is “solarpunk” finally gonna start meaning tree sits, pipeline blockades, Indigenous land defense, valve turners, coal mine occupations, bike-locking gas pumps, and putting superglue in the locks of oil company offices?

twitblr

Protesting is a FELONY in Tennessee now…Facism at it’s finest (x)

sonic-wildfire

I’m sorry, but people need to know this. This is LITERALLY the most blatant telltale sign of totalitarianism and this needs to be spread like wildfire. DO NOT LOOK AWAY.

seraphic-sapphic-safehaven

Y'all, I live here, and this is not a fucking joke.

Peaceful protesters had been at the People’s Plaza/Ida B. Wells Plaza for 61 days. The state and the police repeatedly tried to silence them, strip them of their resources, create and enact laws against them, and demonize them. I’ve stood face to face with the cops at this plaza for hours, and the entire time, everyone was peaceful. I’ve been surrounded by cops in riot gear on all four sides with these protesters, and still, everyone was peaceful. No matter what, they remain peaceful. Yet I’ve seen and read so many stories about how these protesters have been arrested on bullshit, made-up charges and have witnessed them be brutalized over and over again. I’ve seen so many people with chipped teeth, lung problems, scars, gashes, head trauma, bruises, sprains and fractures, concussions, and more all because of these pigs. I’ve read stories from protesters about how their experiences at the Plaza have triggered panic attacks, PTSD, psychosis, dissociation, and more and how some had been forcibly medicated/tranquilized by police without their consent. I’ve seen people get robbed of their personal items by these pigs, one cop going so far as to rob a man of his medications that he needed to live. I’ve seen and read about cops ripping masks off protesters and sexually harassing them. I’ve seen the cops speed down the road and almost hit protesters multiple times. I’ve read stories from protesters about how they’d been detained for hours and hours with several other people and without masks or how they, especially Black female protesters, had been detained in solitary for hours. And most of those people required medical attention, which they didn’t receive. A GIRL WITH ASTHMA ALMOST DIED BECAUSE THE COPS RELEASED A GAS SIMILAR TO TEAR GAS NEXT TO HER CELL AND IGNORED HER CRIES FOR HELP AND RESPONDED BY PUTTING HER IN SOLITARY AND TAUNTING HER INSTEAD OF PROVIDING MEDICAL ATTENTION, FFS!!

Over 200 arrests had been made during this 61-day occupation. The state tried to get a judge to allow 24/7 GPS-monitoring of a lead activist of the movement. Officers have kicked, punched, sexually harassed, dragged, hospitalized, tear-gassed, zip-tied, arrested, taunted, and brutalized protesters during this occupation. Protesters have held countless vigils and peaceful marches and have literally put their blood, sweat, and tears into this cause. All we wanted was for the governor to meet with the people to discuss removing Confederate monuments and addressing police violence, and this is what protesters were met with instead. And now they’ve made it illegal for us to even fight against their brutality and for our rights to freely exist while Black and brown.

This is not okay. This is totally and completely unconstitutional. Do not ignore this. Do not let this slip by. Do not let them win. Please help us fight all of this injustice. Our lives matter. Black lives fucking matter.

guiildenstern

unhappy reminder that amphibians are going through a pandemic right now and anything you can do to support conservation efforts would be greatly appreciated by literally everyone in the world

guiildenstern

and for those of you who don’t click links here’s a summary of the scale of the issue as of march 28 2019:

basically a pathogen is affecting and killing off amphibians at an alarming rate globally

it’s been spread through trade of frog meat and pets primarily

its already done more damage to biodiversity than cats and rats

the pathogen can affect at least 695 species to varying degrees

90 species either confirmed extinction or assumed extinct in the wild

124 species undergoing a decline of over 90%

501 species in decline which means about 1 in 16 of every species known to science is affected

it has “has damaged global biodiversity more than any other disease ever recorded.” which is fucking terrifying

efforts to curve the effects include urging governments to crack down on the trade of amphibians, protecting their natural habitats, combatting invasive species, and supporting breeding programs

acavatica

This is a great podcast episode about this horrific problem.

cyndigenous-deactivated20210204

Anti-Indigenous things to quit saying/doing:

- Stop saying “off the reservation”. It’s a reference to the pass system that was in place restricting Native people from leaving without permission.

- Stop making “1/16th”, “great-great grandmother”, etc. jokes. All of these reference blood quantum, a system designed to “breed out the Natives”. Indigeneity isn’t defined by a percentage, fraction, etc. Quit policing Indigenous identities and quit joking about genocidal tactics.

- Stop calling things your “spirit animal”. You don’t have one. Only Indigenous people from specific nations have spirit animals.

- Stop making dreamcatchers. They are sacred Anishinaabe culture and are not cute trinkets, crafts, etc. Buy them from Anishinaabe artists.

- Stop buying those little cloth “teepees” for your kids/pets/whatever. Also stuff with tipi prints

- Quit referring to your “tribe”. Enough with the “bride tribe” nonsense and all the rest. Stop trivializing tribal affiliations.

- Don’t wear “war paint”. Don’t put a feather in your hair. Don’t dress up as Native people or characters.

- Stop referring to your meetings/side discussions/parties as a “pow wow”.

- Stop supporting sports teams that use racist terms and logos and caricatures of Indigenous people.

- Stop using white sage. It is sacred and overharvested. There are lots of types of sage you can use instead.

- Stop “smudging”. Smoke cleansing exists in many forms in many cultures, use that. Non-Natives can’t smudge.

- Stop tokenizing your Native friends, classmates, in-laws, half siblings, etc.

Please add more!

wiisagi-maiingan

- Stop treating Native spirits as generic monsters or cryptids, especially w*ndigoag and sk*nwalkers.

- Stop using imagery of skulls in Plains headdresses, especially as tattoos. This shouldn’t need to be explained.

neechees

Non-native but ESPECIALLY white witches/pagans stop trying to practice native religions/spirituality or trying to contact native spirits, leave our shit alone. They’re closed, period. The only time it’s okay for you to participate is when you’re invited by a native person, and your participation ends when that event is over, case closed.

randomrav3ns

- “You don’t *look* Indian” is wrong on numerous levels, among them the assumption that mainstream media’s stereotypical presentation of us is the way we somehow all must look. Stop saying any version of that. Your nearest midsize powwow will give you a full array of Native people with every phenotype you can imagine, from the ones who fit your narrow, stereotypical boundaries to the very pale, blue-eyed, blond grass dancer to the dark-skinned dancer with locs and her fancy shawl appliqued with African tribal patterns. If we’re Native, we look Native, period.

- “Native Americans believed…” As though 1) there was a monoculture and 2) Natives no longer exist/aren’t relevant in modern times and are relegated to history. We’re still here, and acting like we aren’t just helps perpetuate the genocidal tactic of deliberate invisibility. Also, we are not now, nor ever were, a monoculture, so a present-tense “Native Americans believe…” is also invalid.

- This was somewhat covered, but to be clear: “How much?” is not something for you to ask, especially not to people fighting a war of cultural attrition and erasure while trying to weave together the ragged threads of families and cultures and identities that were targeted and torn apart for centuries in an (ongoing) attempt to eliminate us.

gem-femme

Liberals be like “Biden wouldn’t be doing all of this to protesters!”

Damn y’all forgot about Ferguson and the beginnings of the BLM movement real quick lmaoo.

the-luckiest-guy-thanks-to-you

Biden said he wanted to give an additional $300mil to fund police after the protests started. Biden supported the 1994 crime Bill, Biden is a huge military man with half of whatever isn't about Trump being about support our troops and being a "powerful nation". Biden has been so incredibly quiet recently. He absolutely would not stand by the protesters.

minstrivia

i’ve been seeing this post come up but please know that you can in fact donate as long as it’s to the right places!!! as stated in the full thread

good places to donate;

Ways to help local Lebanese communities survive the crisis.

as well as places linked in this post!!

miraculousbugaboii-deactivated2

Everyone living in Lebanon please stay safe AND CLOSE YOUR WINDOWS. The explosion that happened contains a lot of toxic chemicals that can suffocate you.

And please donate blood if you can.

el-shab-hussein

Stay away from windows for the time being as well. We can't rule out the possibility of another explosion if this is an attack, and the explosion would send shards flying.