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A lot of times i feel guilty and despair that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, and im not doing enough on my part. But, part of hopepunk/solarpunk philosophy is that perfection is not the goal. So, i wanted to list out some actions ive taken to help the environment, as a way to remind myself everything im doing to help!!

- learning to sew, cook healthy foods, and mend

- trying not to buy plastic; looking for wood/metal/paper alternatives; looking for 100% cotton clothes

- planting native/desert plants

- advocating for (including spreading joy for) the sonoran desert and its wildlife

- being kind to strangers, even across the political aisle

- working at the library

- using only bar soap in the shower for body and hair; getting rid of skincare products

- doing the konmari method, to help me gain the knowledge and skills to live with only what brings me joy and to consume less.

- planning to go to grad school for a career that serves others

- buying things for others when i can

- making zines

- checking in with friends; supporting family + the household

- learning ways to take care of myself

allthecanadianpolitics

Students across the province are protesting recent changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program — the post-secondary financial aid syst

Students across the province are protesting recent changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) — the post-secondary financial aid system will go from a majority grant structure to a majority loan structure in the new school year. Hundreds of students rallied outside Queen's Park in Toronto, while hundreds more walked out of class in Waterloo and Ottawa in protest. Earlier this week, high school students in Oshawa also led a walkout. More than 200 people, including high school and university students, protested in St. Catharines, Ont., outside Brock University and in front of local NDP MPP Jennie Stevens' office, who was there to support them.

politijohn

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wild-e-eep

Mystery Webs!

I come across these webbed-up fungi occasionally. They look quite like the tent-webs of some moth and sawfly larvae, but differ in occurring later in the year; enclosing a fungus instead of a food-plant; not being full of specks of caterpillar dung; you also rarely see any living (or dead) creatures, eggs or pupae in them.

The cleanness of the webs and the way they are restricted to a particular fungus might make you think you are looking at a grey, fuzzy mould.

To find out what was making these, I took a piece home and kept it in a vivarium. Checking on the vivarium in the middle of the night I spotted a small mealworm-like creature moving through the web, leaving a slime trail behind it. I caught it and put it in an empty enclosure where it soon started fervently weaving by bobbing its head back and forth at an impressive rate, extruding silk from spinnerets on its snout. In the morning, the new enclosure was full of webs, and the larva resting in the middle.

I believe these larvae are fungus gnats of the family Mycetophilidae - a large family of small, rather plain flies with thousands of described species, most of which lay their eggs on fungi. I haven't found much witten about the function of the webs: maintaining a humid atmosphere; excluding other small creatures; catching spores for consumption have all been mooted. The larvae also seem to be able to move smoothly and rapidly through their silk network.

westformiles

@onenicebugperday

silvaurum

"i would kill a pedophile to protect my child" ok but would you teach your child how to say no? even to adults? even to adults you like? would you teach your child the words "penis" and "vulva" and then use them? would you let them ask questions about their body? would you answer them honestly? would you learn how to cope with your feelings when you talk about human bodies, so they don't feel ashamed? would you set a positive example for how you talk about your body? would you tell your child they don't have to hug or kiss anyone? would you tell your family the same? would you stand by them when they refuse to hug someone? even someone you know has never done anything to hurt them? would you let your child avoid food they don't like? would you let you child avoid people they don't like? would you believe them? would you sit in the discomfort of not knowing all the answers and not take it out on them? would you love your child the same if someone did hurt them? would you make them feel valued just as they are? would you let them talk to doctors or nurses in private? would you let them express their feelings? would you show interest in their life? would you let your child say no to you? would you help your child feel safe coming to you when they make a mistake? would you apologize to your child? would you believe them? would you put aside your anger to focus on what would make your child feel safe and loved? would you put your ego aside for your child? would you take your child's concerns seriously? would you listen to your child? would you believe them?

snake-eggs

“There aren’t enough hours in a day.” There are actually. The problem is that we think 40 hour work weeks are an unavoidable fact of life.

The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, “8 hours” is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.

No wonder Americans are reliant on DoorDash and fast food, there’s no time or energy to cook. No one wonder mental and physical health are in shambles, many just spent all day sitting in fluorescent lights with little to no stimulation. “Just wake up earlier” “Just meal prep”… these are ok short-term, individual solutions, but the broader, systemic issue is obvious. We aren’t built for this. There’s no work-life balance. Genuinely, I think if our culture could normalize a shorter work week, many individuals’ biggest problems would simply evaporate.

broken-horn-of-equius

angelicdewdrop

transgang-deactivated20201105

you know even if a homeless person or a starving person is in that position because of their own "bad decisions" i don't care. it doesn't matter. no supposed financial misstep is enough to condemn someone to homelessness or poverty.

sapphoandvanzetti

Search and rescue teams do not ask if a hiker was properly equipped and prepared before they go out to look for them. EMTs do not ask if a driver checked their mirrors before they take them to the hospital. Lifeguards do not ask if a swimmer made a mistake by going into a riptide before they dive in after them. Judgement doesn't help anyone, including you, the person doing the judging. Just help people. Just shut the fuck up and help people.

literallymechanical

Lots of writing advice on tumblr. It's been years since I've written fiction in a serious way, but I did write a couple of (bad) novels in my early 20's, a bunch of short stories, and also a few hundred thousand words of LARP writing, and I do have a bacherlor's of science in creative writing (lol).

From what I can tell, there are only three universally applicable pieces of writing advice:

Read a lot (mandatory)

Show your writing to people (mandatory)

Have something wrong with you in a way that is impossible to articulate except by writing a novel (optional)

mslanna

I think this one is also important:

4. write

gulyas069

hmmm

lovehael

One of their last Tweets before the account got suspended:

With an update since getting it back:

galileosballs

"Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college"

Because if you demonstrate to me that you're willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don't get into medical school.

galileosballs

"oh, but this course is just a distribution requirement, it's not for my major"

Does saying things that are true and that you know are true only matter when someone is giving you a little prize for it?

galileosballs

Tumblr doesn't like to do this kind of ethics, so I have to phrase this carefully, but it's a question of character. And a person's character is clearest when they're being asked to do the right thing even when it doesn't matter to them.

I don't want to live in a world in which doctors and lawyers and politicians just ignore the responsibility to research and verify when it's inconvenient for them. When they're busy. When they have something they'd rather be doing. The world I live in is already too full of those people in positions of power. I'll be damned if I let there be more of them.

galileosballs

Some of the responses to this have been, in essence, "well, it's not our fault for being raised in a bad educational system that prioritizes grades over comprehension". And you're right, it's not your fault.

But you freely admit the system is bad. That it values the wrong things.

So why do you limit yourself to only achieving what it values? Do you not aspire to be better than a system you know is wrong? Don't you want to change the world?

whatbigotspost

“It is troubling to see that attitudes towards gender equality are not more positive," said Julia Gillard of King’s College London.

innerchildabortionclinic

>Particularly among Gen Z, our data shows an interesting duality: they are both the group most likely to agree that women who have a successful career are more attractive to men but are simultaneously most likely to agree that a wife should always obey her husband and that a woman should never appear too self-sufficient or independent.

Incredibly stupid things are happening

cryptiddies

I know these two things seem contradictory, but there’s nothing a conservative man loves more than to tear off an angel’s wings. There are plenty of women that would willingly choose the obedient SAHM lifestyle, but these kinds of men always seem to go for the opposite. Why? Because it’s a power play. There’s no need to break a horse that’s already broken, and that would do nothing to validate that man, his ego, and his place in a world he sees as designed for him.

ifoundmybeatingheartagain

derinthescarletpescatarian

Another factor is that these men avoid dating conservative women who already want the lives they want them to have because those women's standards are too high. Specifically, such women expect to be the obedient stay at home mum, but they also expect their men to be the masculine ideal from the other half of the equation -- they tend to look down on their men if they cry, they expect them to be able to financially provide for the household, they want them to uphold their end of the bargain. You see this again and again in groups of conservative men who go out of their way to date liberal women; there is a power play, to tame someone untamed and bring her into line with his expectations, but there's also her lack of expectations of him. They want a woman who will do all the household and keep the home but ALSO will not reject him for not being able to afford to finance the family alone. They want a woman who'll respect and obey him but ALSO be fun and relaxed and let him show whatever emotions he wants. They want the Perfect Trad Wife who won't expect him to be the Perfect Trad Husband.

You see the same thing in conservatives who complain that all their leftie friends are abandoning them, but who won't just hang out with right wing friends instead. They don't want to hang out with other righties because a group of righties quickly becomes judgy and hateful and socially competitive, and is only fun to hang out with when they want to vent, whereas their leftie friends were more relaxed and fun. They want license to be unpleasant and expect unreasonable things of others, but want the people around them to be pleasant and not expect unreasonable things of them.

theoutcastrogue

In my personal experience (limited by geography etc) Traditional Women believe in gender-based division of labour, and want their men, above all, to be useful and carry their weight.

They want them to work, bring money, not gamble/drink/waste it away, buy groceries (shop list provided by The Traditional Woman, because Real Men can't be expected to understand vegetables or cleaning products), run errands, drive them and the kids around as necessary, be handy around the house, fix stuff that needs fixing, carry stuff that needs carrying, pay the bills (not just earn money for the bills, actually go and pay them), do the taxes, appear and behave appropriately in social functions, and so on.

And in return, they're happy to do all by themselves the 2 full time jobs of housework and child-rearing, plus work. (Some don't work and/or don't want to work, but generally that's not economically feasible any more unless we get to really high incomes.) To be clear, with this patriarchical arrangement the Traditional Women are getting the short end of the stick in the division of labour department, but it's still an unspoken arrangement, an implicit give-and-take*.

So if the guy's only asset is "misogynist prick", and he doesn't give anything, he only takes, well they don't want him! What are they gonna do with him? He's useless! They might get stuck with him if they're unlucky, but they're never gonna freely choose him.

[*] The above specifics are indicative. All gender-based divisions are made up of course, so perhaps elsewhere groceries are the Woman's job, or driving the kids around falls under Child-Rearing or whatever. Doesn't matter. What matters is the give-and-take.

left-reminders

starlightandtears

Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

vodcar

Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal

yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666

you can always tell a major breakthrough is made by a woman, a woc or any poc because it’s either completely ignored or never credited like it just happened by itself

theconcealedweapon

thesummoningdark

The last week has been so ridiculous even the satirists can’t take it any more

the-stray-liger

the fucking timestamp

isa-ghost

headspace-hotel

We haven’t gotten enough mileage out of the phrase “cock-bongos” though.

thepuppyclub

how insidious to make young girls buy hundreds of dollars worth of makeup, to force them to read up on its theory, to make them practice it for hours in order to escape mockery, to make them feel safe only when performing this hyper femininity, and then to even have the audacity to package it in feminist language so that they firmly believe it sets them free.

thisusedtoberum-deactivated2017

who called you out on your sloppy wings

thepuppyclub

I know you probably think you’re really witty, but I just want you to know that you, and all the other people who made that joke, prove my point exactly.

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