Sublime Solidarity

The Revolution will be Beautiful Welcome to Sublime Solidarity, where we explore what it means for the working class to build a beautiful future together, the aesthetic of the oppressed, and the people's entitlement to frivolity and bliss. Cottagecore, Solarpunk, and Afrofuturism abound. Welcome friends. Pour a cup of tea, grab your favorite craft, and stay awhile.

[royalhandmaidens]

y’all know what day it is

[booksaremychoiceweapon]

Specifically queued this for Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you!)

[kuttithevangu]

Someone I know not well enough to voice my opinion on the subject said something like why didn’t God make potatoes a low-calorie food so I am here to say: God made them like that because their nutrition density IS what makes them healthy. By God I mean Andean agricultural technicians. Potato is healthy BECAUSE potato holds calories and vitamins. Do not malign potato

[w1zrad]

For all evolutionary history, life has struggled against calorie deficit… So much energy goes into finding food that there is no time for anything else. Our ancestors selectively bred root vegetables to create the potato, so that we might be the first species whose daily existence doesn’t consist of trying to find the nutrients necessary for survival. One potato can rival the calorie count of many hours of foraging… Eat a potato, and you free up so much time to create and build and connect with your fellow man. Without potato where would you be?? Do not stand on the shoulders of giants and think thyself tall!!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I nearly teared up reading “Andean agricultural technicians” bc fuck yes! these were members of Pre-Inca cultures who lived 7 to 10 thousand years ago, and they were scientists! food scientists and researchers and farmers whose names and language we can never know, who lived an inconceivably long time ago (pre-dating ancient civilizations in Egypt, China, India, Greece, and even some parts of Mesopotamia) and we are separated by millennia of time and history, but still for thousands of years the fruits vegetables of their labor and research have continued to nourish countless human lives, how is that not the most earthly form of a true miracle??? anyway yes potatoes are beautiful, salute their creators.

[cricketcat9]

There are approximately 4000 varieties of potato in Peru. I’ve seen an incredible variety of corn and tomatoes, and root vegetables I’ve never seen before, on the local farmer markets. Yet some expats insist on buying only imported, expensive American brands of canned veggies… 🤷🏼‍♀️ Peruvian potatoes 👇🏼

[i-just-like-commenting]

It is long since time for us to start viewing plant domestication as the bioscience that it is. Because while the Andeans were creating potatoes, the ancient Mesoamericans were turning teosinte into corn:

And then there’s bananas, from Papua New Guinea:

These were not small, random changes, this was real concerted effort over years to turn inedible things into highly edible ones. And I’m convinced the main reason we’re reluctant to call them scientific achievements is, well, a racist one.

[coral-skeleton]

And it’s such a shame too, cause this was probably the most impotrant scientific effort in human history, it bought us the time to do everything else we do, to go from just trying to get enough calories every day to everything we do now, it game people the freedom to do other things with their lives, human society would not have existed as it is today without this

We need to appreciate our ancient food scientists

[roisindubh211]

With the caveat that this is obviously only true before The Famine, the nutrient density of potatoes made Irish peasants substantially healthier than those in other European countries whose staple food was bread! Thank you ancient Andean food scientists, for keeping my ancestors alive through a time of oppression and poverty.

[yourtongzhihazel]

By giving the american democratic party a blank check, e.g. unconditional support in elections, you not only signal that you're ok with any candidate they run, but that so long as the candidate is not exactly the same as the republican one, it'll be ok. The result of this action is not a stoppage or reversal of reactionary legislation, but rather, that it'll be the democrats doing the reaction.

DC voted in one of the harshest crime bills ever. It gives the police near unlimited power to determine who is a criminal and who isn't. According to the law, any two people can be considered hostile. Any face or head covering which is "scary" is criminal. The police, plain clothes or not, can demand to see your papers at any time or you face arrest. This bill was put forth under a democrat. The democrat mayor of philadelphia banned face masks. The democrat mayor in atlanta is trying to build cop city. The democrat currently in the white house put the original crime bill into legislation.

The fascism isn't being voted away or delayed. The fascism is here and has always been here. You just don't want to admit it. Your feel-good candidate serves only to soothe your emotions about being complicit in genocide, fascism,and imperialism. The white moderate has and always will be your enemy.

SN: AZ35

[thebibliosphere]

As much as I mildly despair about the functionality of Tumblr, I’m forever grateful we don’t have the creative interface of other social media platforms. 

I keep seeing youtubers talking about how the new algorithm on their creative dash is so detrimental to their mental health, both in terms of how they feel about themselves as creators and the content they make—dreading to find out their performance rating, regardless of whether they enjoyed it or not. And it’s the same across multiple other platforms, TickTock, Facebook, Instagram. Fuck, I’ve even seen people with business accounts complaining on Twitter.

And then there’s Tumblr. Where sometimes you can’t find your own posts even though you know you tagged it, time stamps are hidden in the ellipses at the top right hand corner of the post, your bread recipe keeps getting flagged as porn, too much punctuation causes asks not to send, and checking your activity feed causes the app to crash. You want to know your trending numbers? You want to know what’s performing well? Fuck you, guess.

[thebibliosphere]

18k notes, and 99.999% of them are people finding out we have time stamps.

[sublimesolidarity]

"Your bread recipe keeps getting flagged as porn" that really is the site.

[renthony]

Leftists who have it in their head that there won't be any religion or spirituality post-capitalism are not my comrades. Leftists who are convinced that religion=oppression are not my comrades. Leftists who think that spiritual occupations (clergy, etc.) aren't "real" labor are not my comrades. Non-religious leftists who deride or harass religious leftists are not my comrades.

If you view all religion/spirituality as universally bad or regressive, you're being unbelievably callous toward every marginalized person whose faith has been used against them.

Religion and spirituality are extremely personal, extremely complicated subjects, and you can't just dismiss them as "religion bad; no more religion for anyone."

[renthony]

Every single day since I posted this, I have had to block someone for starting an argument about how I'm a stupid Jesus freak and need to stop believing in a Sky Fairy.

I'm not a Christian.

Y'all have it in your heads that "religion = oppressive Christian institutions" and you NEED to unpack and process and move past that, because it's causing you to perpetuate bigotry, whether you realize it or not.

You can't be an ally to marginalized people if you constantly degrade important parts of their cultures. You can't claim to be against things like antisemitism and Islamophobia if you're happily perpetuating the idea that religion is "backwards" and "useless."

You NEED to process your spiritual trauma without perpetuating bigotry toward marginalized people. And get out of my notes if all you're going to do is throw pathetic insults that only serve to prove my point.

[sublimesolidarity]

Not to mention how important religion has been to revolutionary movements! What you've said here is incredibly important.

[basil-hallwardx]

*throws random vegetables and rice in a pan with water* Work your magic! Become food!

[sublimesolidarity]

Cooking truly is mostly putting things in a place and heating them until they aren't burnt.

[sublimesolidarity]

Welcome friends!

We are at the beginning stages of developing the Sublime Solidarity Zine, and hoping to grow and add mods soon.

Here we see the beauty in the everyday.

This is a liminal place of both the soft and the solid-arity.

Somewhere that upholds both confrontation and comfort.

A place for supporting the struggle and the sublime.

We fight and we feast.

The people have a right to life, housing, and food, and air, and water, and love, and beauty.

The future will be fulfilling.

We know that this future is not possible until Black Lives Matter, until Indigenous stewardship is restored (give the Land Back), until Queer folks are free to love who they please and Trans folks are free to be who they are. Until Disabled folks will be given access to all that is denied them.

We welcome that which brings people together and liberates the spirit.

We are in Solidarity and it is Sublime.