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[uhlersgiantwaterbug]

You can do this yourself. You can have this. You can make your world a more beautiful place. You can have a space full of native wildlife. All you need to do is find some native wildflowers and wait for their seeds to mature. Find or organize a seed swap and prioritize native plants. Liberate some seeds or plants if you happen to find some at a store. It doesn't have to be a yard either. It can be in a nearby park or along a sidewalk next to your apartment or in an empty abandoned lot down the street. You don't need permission, you just have to make sure you aren't caught. Wearing a hi-vis vest and looking confident and professional can carry you very far.

A suburban residential landscape featuring Texas native plants.

GETTING NATIVE PLANT LISTS FOR YOUR REGION ON BPLANT.ORG — Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

Visit bplant.org and follow the link below. After arriving on the main page, click on “REGIONS”. You will arrive at a page with a map on it.

[uhlersgiantwaterbug]

[uhlersgiantwaterbug]

[uhlersgiantwaterbug]

Deleting this app again. I just spent 2 hours doomscrolling through the dumbest shit I've ever seen. The thirst traps aren't worth it. I need someone to make it so that this is the only image I see whenever I open this website

[acelessthan3]

Posting faggot and queer like 2am gunshots to keep property values on my blog low and scare away assimilationist LGBTs who want to replace my empty lot full of native wildflowers with a 5-over-1 because they're too traumatized by their upbringing to accept the reality of our diverse marginalized community

[acelessthan3]

The dykes and trannies in the notes have informed me they would like to be included in this commentary on the homogenizing forces of gentrification within the queer community as represented by language discourse around "slur" reclamation

[lagonegirl]

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.html

OMG 

[pinehutch]

Things that I knew about: that the mass incarceration of people in the USA , particularly black men, has direct ties to/is an extension of slavery. Things I did not know: this specific shit about Louisiana HOLY FUCK this is evil.

[i-hate-you3000]

OH MY GOSH????

'Modern-Day Slavery': Many Southern States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governor's Mansions and Capitol Buildings - Human Trafficking Sear

When activist Sam Sinyangwe was awaiting a meeting with the governor’s office at the Louisiana state capitol building in Baton Rouge, he not

At Least Seven States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governors' Mansions and Capitol Buildings

The 13th Amendment provides a loophole that allows for the legality of unpaid prison labor, which is sometimes called "modern-day slavery."

[joy-haver]

Grew up next to Angola. It’s much worse than you think

[sisterreisaid]

I wonder how many people are imprisoned for weed

[kaccvcate]

I’m from Mississippi and it’s like this in my home town. Enslaved prisoners clean roadways, pick cotton, everything they’ve done since before slavery was supposedly ended. What they teach in schools is nothing but propaganda.

[mabelsguidetolife]

apparently shaq was using his sponsorship with sora to make pictures and videos of his imagined romantic life with marilyn monroe and the children they would have together……. and then posting it where the entire world, including his real actual children, can see it 🫠🫠🫠

[mabelsguidetolife]

no bc how else are you supposed to react when your dad is proudly presenting a clip of himself and a dead celebrity, frozen in time, creating an ostensibly perfect nuclear family on valentine’s day…… and tagging papa john’s in it……..

[kmftm]

I think I’d be a lot more open to TMA/TME language if it were actually used to define and highlight oppression instead of just forming an oppressed in-group that needs to constantly fear the outgroup.

and I know I’ve made that post before but the conversation around what we get to call anti-transmasculine oppression and discrimination got me thinking about who is allowed to define their oppression.

I do think transfems and trans women should make their own words and language to define their oppression, discrimination and struggles. I think any minority group should have their right to be heard on their own struggles defended. I think a majority of transfeminist theory (actual transfeminist theory, not just discourse on tumblr (because timely reminder that’s genuinely where we are right now)) has a lot of merit, and a lot of points worth listening to and incorporating into broader feminist theory. Similarly, I think transmisogyny has a lot of mileage as a term, and is a good way to speak up about the injustices faced by transfems and trans women.

but when does language used to define and speak on oppression become a tool against other oppressed groups? Is it when tma/tme language is used to alienate non-transfems from discussions around common experiences of transphobia? Is it when tma/tme language is used to really just mean afab trans folks? Is it when that language is then used in sentences like “kill all tmes” “bomb that explodes all tmes” and “tmes aren’t actually part of the trans community”? The framing of transmascs as exempt from the specific type of transphobia being highlighted by this language then makes it very easy to see taking a swing at us punching up instead of across.

and moreover, my dislike of the use of tma/tme also means I don’t like “transandrophobia-affected” and “transandrophobia-exempt”. The terms have actual criticism beyond just not including transmascs and trans men. The main uses I’ve seen of taa/tae are jokingly, but if they were to become actual terms I’d oppose them too. Black and white binaries of oppressed/oppression exempt are not useful, especially in discussion around communities that will always have exceptions, outliers and fringe cases by the very nature of those communities.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Colonial agriculture never appears as simple extraction. It arrives with a blueprint and rewrites entire ecologies in its image. Across Latin America, Indigenous polycultural systems that integrated maize, beans, squash, herbs, insects, and forests were dismantled and replaced with monocultures such as sugarcane, coffee, and cocoa. These were not crops built to feed communities, they were engines for European markets, a transformation described by Eduardo Galeano as the conversion of whole continents into reservoirs for imperial hunger. Hunger became a method of governance long before it was named a “crisis”.

Raya Ziada, Harvesting Freedom: Food Sovereignty and the Struggle against Colonial Hunger in Palestine

[stoptheantisemitism]

Not mincing worlds in the slightest, calling a Latin American country a nazi habitat as a yank with zero clue to where that propaganda originated from is incredibly racist. It's one thing to cheer for a sports team, it’s another deal completely to think you have the right to look down on an imperialized country for imaginary nazi connections that you swallowed wholesale from Operation Paperclip nazi haven itself

I'm sorry but are you okay? What are you talking about?

If this is about Argentina then you should probably know that it's not propaganda. Argentina was a refuge for Nazis. It's well documented. Please do yourself a favor and look it up

[milf-king]

Argentina shouldn't be a Nazi habitat if it doesn't like being called one. It's been their policy since basically the 40s.

Juan Peron was on his knees begging for Nazis to come to Argentina. He literally orchestrated ratlines lol. And today you guys are giving refuge to IDF war criminals on the run.

Also who is forcing a majority of Argentinians to vote for Javier Milei???

[stoptheantisemitism]

OP decided to double down and go on a crazy hate filled rant so I blocked them but I love how they kept saying

"you can't blame Argentina for its crimes because we're occupied and people are trying to resist this" while also saying "Yes Javier Milei was democratically elected but it was a majority of the far right that voted for him"

They seem very confused. Telling my mutuals to kill themselves because they pointed out your country has a history of harboring Nazis will get you banned and it definitely doesn't help your claim.

[uhlersgiantwaterbug]

This felt relevant in some way

[cock-holliday]

We have got to stop framing our oppression in ways that promote the idea that other people cannot relate to our struggles. Not only does it isolate comrades in the struggle, it actively diminishes recognition of other struggles--often including those even more horrific than what we are at risk of. And this happens especially between Gay and Black struggles.

"when have straight people ever had to check what states were safe for them?" Sundown towns are still a thing. Starlight tours. What states have abortion access? What states have open carry? What states have stand your ground? What states have 3-strike rules? Women, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and more have had to be abundantly cautious where they travel to. Straight trans people have much more travel risk right now than gay cis people.

It's a new iteration of the same tired question: "imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry" interracial marriage in the US is younger than my parents. We disgrace people of color by forgetting their history and contemporary struggles, and we abandon queer people of color, Black queer people, by segmenting their overlapping fights.

As lovelyshananigans says, "intersectionality, babes"

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[midnightinjapan]

This tag deserves a spotlight

[captain-price-returns]

MAGA Republicans are one of the best examples of a demographic who are born to live in servitude.

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[kropotkindersurprise]

New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy

Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars

[kropotkindersurprise]

just noticed the statue is wearing jeans lmao

100k cursed charlie kirk jatue

[cosmicfandomvegan]

The world wastes 766 million tonnes of grain every year by feeding it to farmed animals. Then we’re told beans are unrealistic, veganism is extreme, and animal agriculture feeds the world. It doesn’t. The omnivore diet manufactures scarcity.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

are people talking about the labor conditions at Taylor Farms yet? like the fact they use enslaved prisoners in their facilities?

are we drawing the connection between worker safety and consumer safety & public health yet?

are people demanding to see the conditions in this place that keeps making us sick? why are the enslaved workers not having the time to use the bathroom or to rest when ill? very few people would shit in front of their coworkers given any choice at all.

[cutecipher]

On the prisoners point:

Prisoners in the U.S. are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from F

More on the health point:

"US Department of Labor proposes more than $1M fine following worker fatality at New Jersey vegetable processing facility"

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osha/osha20251124

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[captain-price-returns]

Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador

New evidence has emerged of U.S. Coast Guard activity in the aftermath of two strikes, further corroborating survivor testimony.

The prosecutor investigating US boat strikes and torture allegations in Ecuador was assassinated.

We uncovered NASA images and videos of the US Coast Guard that corroborates the victims’ testimonies. Then, the prosecutor working the case was shot and killed in broad daylight.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

this is fucking killing me bro. computah, show me more hot hockey firefighters whaling on cops

[knightanddaybae]

Ah Paretta. Never change. This dude starts fights and wins every year that he plays in the charity game. And better yet, he doesn't just pick a random cop that's playing. He specifically spends all year researching which ones have beat their spouses or are being investigated for corruption, then mocks them and eggs them on social media for like 6 months straight just to make sure they know ahead of time they're getting their ass beat.

[depsidase]