Finding and Building "Enough"

Personal blog. White bi cis woman; interested in social, political and environmental justice. Not funny, just embarrassingly earnest.

[shutyourmoustache]

When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

[party-gilmore]

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

[thatladyingreen]

EVERY YEAR ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🩵🩶🖤🤎🤍

NEVER FAILS TO MAKE ME LAUGH 😂😂😂

[babyjanedough]

Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1

[thatladyingreen]

IT'S PRIDE, BITCH!!!!

[scramratz]

Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet

[ladytabletop]

the slogan is in that order for a reason! It is listed in order of effectiveness and impact; if you can't reduce, reuse. If you can't reuse, recycle.

[cwicseolfor]

Refuse what you don’t need

Reduce what you can

Reuse everything still in working order

Recirculate what you don’t need by sharing or selling onward

Refurbish what’s fallen out of good condition so it lasts longer

Repair what’s broken altogether

Repurpose what can’t serve its original function

Recycle what is unsuitable for repurposing

What goes unsaid here is why they’re all “re-“ prefixed: it’s about circularity. Keeping the resources in use means that we don’t have to keep incurring the environmental costs of production over and over on infinite one-way trips of new stuff starting in the earth, through human society, and right back into the earth in landfill.

[craftgremlin]

Tbh this kinda thinking is big in some of my favorite crafting groups online. Like I love shit like visible mending and looking at aesthetic repairs on furniture and junk journaling and using trash for art projects, crafting supplies exchanges.....the artistic and crafty communities I've seen really embrace this mentality and I'm so delighted when these groups/movements gain popularity and traction

[inbabylontheywept]

i am banned from eating my herring inside. they make me eat it on the smoking area by the loading dock, under the theory that it already smells bad there. but it was raining today which was preventing my breakfast, so i was feeling sad and hungry and then i realized that there was a large cardboard box in the dumpster from a previous delivery. like a fridge sized box. so i fished it out of the dumpster, then tipped it on its side and had a nice little cardboard cave to watch the rain and eat my fish in. which was a great experience. very soothing. very zen. at least until the security guard from the day before stepped outside to smoke. then i tried hiding from him by crawling deeper in the box, which unfortunately did not work. instead he saw a sort of damp sniveling pale hairless creature eating fish in a box, and delivered the verbal killshot of "good morning, mr. smeagol." which is how my day was ruined before 8 am.

[altruistic-meme]

a collection of my favorite tweets regarding the Ever Given in the Suez Canal

[coolbeanscoolbeans]

happy 1st bday to... this.

[modmad]

I personally am declaring this to be a new International Holiday 

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

Happy 2nd anniversary to the Suez Canal blockage!

[blondejaneblonde]

Ever Given Week, 22 March to 29 March (observed)

22 March - Ever Given Eve. Many celebrate by completing some small task they’ve been putting off, symbolically clearing blockages in their own lives.

23 March - Blockage Day! The main celebration. The exchanging of memes.

24 to 28 March - Hilarity ensues. Memes continue to circulate. The best are saved for next year’s observances.

29 March - Clearance Day. Festivities wind down. A more solemn occasion.

[thatladyingreen]

Oh damn! Just remembered in time!

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Not superstitious and not not superstitious but a third secret thing (read a lot of fairytales as a child and doesn't believe them but also would never be rude to a mountain while still on it just in case)

[lasrina]

I've said it before but this is both the Icelandic and the Irish approach:

Of course we're modern educated people who don't believe in fairies

But we're also not gonna fuck with 'em, we're not idiots

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I understand WHY, ethically and practically, you can't just keep whatever animal you want as a pet, but I also think that I, personally, should be allowed to adopt a colossal squid

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I'm glad you asked! it is easier to relocate a human than to relocate a colossal squid, so the plan is for me to walk into the ocean and never be seen again

[nudityandnerdery]

[vaspider]

Look. The way you ask for a refill?

Sometimes, what you need to do is literally ask for a refill. I know that can be scary and upsetting and requires you to be willing to be vulnerable, but please consider two things:

One: if what you want to do is be able to fill other people's cups, you can't fill from an empty cup. You literally can't do the work if you're emptied out. You need to do this so you can help.

Two: for the people that love you, the people that really matter, you aren't imposing on them by asking for a refill. This is one of the things I really internalized from coming home to Judaism: when someone asks me to help them, they're giving me the opportunity to perform a mitzvah. No matter your belief system or outlook, I think we can probably all agree that being given an opportunity to be more awesome is pretty great.

So ask. Here are a few scripts you can try.

"Hey, I am...

... having a bad day.

... really struggling.

... really hurting because of the state of the world.

... having a hard time focusing on positive things.

... feeling emptied out.

Could you please help me? I could really use...

... some company.

... to hear about something beautiful you saw today.

... to hear some good news.

... to see a picture of your pet.

... to be told something you like about me.

... to be reminded of something I do that you like.

... your silliest new meme.

... to go for a walk with you.

... to hear about your favorite show.

... a hug."

I have genuinely never asked my friends to love me a little bit louder and gotten anything but an outpouring of support.

People love you and want to take care of you. All you have to do is give them an opportunity and maybe tell them the best way to love you right now.

[cincoflex]

I need to share this.

I need to remind people they too can ask me for a refill.

We are stronger together.

[sermna]

I like to say "my mises! They're not en place!" sometimes when I forget something while cooking but no one ever thinks it's funny

[bogleech]

The same kind of algorithms that let "AI" bots respond so convincingly and simulate another person can still run off a set of data that would fit in one single computer, rather than constantly communicating in the background with a giant baby-eating water-poisoning monstrosity. It would just limit that single bot's pool of knowledge and memory, you know, like how a brain actually works anyway. If you just want a simulation of one fictional character, it does not need access to the entire internet's sum of knowledge every 15 seconds. It doesn't need to also know everything ever written about geopolitics or space engineering. It would in fact be super fun to suddenly be surrounded by machines that can simulate chit-chat like the fun sci-fi space computers can, if they weren't forced to operate as global spyware hiveminds. I would not mind a little robot that just contains the basics of conversation and 10 terabytes of knowledge on one singular topic. That's what we should be making. That's how you avert Terminator 2 Judgment Day. Lots of little hyperfocus robots instead of one big hitlerfocus robot.

[hangingfromchandeliers]

ladies if youre a kpoppie, please occasionally take the time to remind yourself that you are a fan of just some guy

[hiveswap]

ladies if youre into mcyt, please occasionally take the time to remind yourself that you are a fan of just some guy

[hangingfromchandeliers]

ladies?

[hangingfromchandeliers]

minecraft youtubers.

[rabidvampdude]

No one ever expects the spanish ministry of science and technology

[ryanpanos]

The Bus | Paul Kirchner | Via

[weaver-z]

It's really funny to take Spanish with people from different Spanish-speaking countries, because the ones from South American countries are like "Yeah no one uses vosotros, we don't know what it's doing here" and the ones from Europe are like "If you don't give our beloved second-person plural its due respect, the Hounds will find you"

[breadcunt]

Why would they speak spanish in europe

[weaver-z]

Spain.......

[princeofnerds]

[queer-cosette]

I love how tumblr is full of people who aren’t afraid to hang around on the bottom rung of the moron ladder. You make me feel better about every stupid thing I’ve ever done in my life including the time I glued fake moustaches to my eyebrows.

[bloodstained-butterfly]

are we gonna skip past port o' rico

[ms-demeanor]

After attacking Iran, Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, shutting off humanitarian aid and escalating the dire humanitarian crisis facing Palestinians.

Gaza is under siege, and the price of staples has climbed tremendously. Community kitchens have been forced to close due to lack of supplies, and have been unable to afford to replenish their stocks.

Gaza Soup Kitchen is a grassroots organization that uses money from global donors to feed thousands of people every day. Their most recent campaign was to provide food parcels for Ramadan, and they are going to struggle to keep people fed in the midst of this new, horrifying war.

If you are able to, consider donating money to Gaza Soup Kitchen through their GoFundMe or GiveButter accounts to help stave off hunger in the midst of this chaos.

[fireairshadow]

DERRY GIRLS | S1E3

[important-animal-images]

[niceferatu]

this happened to my friends Jonathan and Thomas actually

[drchucktingle]

cultivating an ICE FREE culture

in times of turmoil it is very easy to feel like theres nothing you can do to help, especially if you are far away, but i promise buckaroo EVERYTHING helps. there is direct action like donating money or protesting, and there is cultural action like creating art and cultivating atmosphere of change

i DO think it is important to push yourself towards a direct approach, but BOTH matter and sometimes the second one is all that we are personally equipped for at a moment. so do not be frozen by indecision: CREATE SOMETHING THAT IS A SCREAM OF LOVE. make an atmosphere that says hate is not welcome

while it is obvious what i think about the current state to anyone who has ever paid attention, i will still LOUDLY say ICE is not welcome here. do not buy my books if you support them. every ICE member should be prosecuted, and we should find and support leaders who will promise to do this

EVEN I FEEL ODD just stating this because thats all it is, a statement, but again its important to remember were creating a cultural atmosphere. words cultivate culture. so my words are this: prove love. dismantle ice. tromp is an authoritarian fascist and if you support him what does that make you?