Voices of The Distant Sea

This is an Anti-Cap blog belonging to Senaru, otherwise known as ShoresOfTheShadowlands here on tumblr. I am also working on a novel that mainly focuses on Orcas in captivity.

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[ventraman]

This could save your life.

[instructor144]

BOOST.

[aqueous2]

Absolutely vital information to have if you live where the waters freeze over.

I especially appreciate this guy's commitment to actually showing the steps himself. That cold-shock response is a bitch and willingly subjecting himself to it couldn't have been fun.

[marlynnofmany]

I don’t live anywhere near water like this, but I am still memorizing this knowledge because:

* I might use it in a story someday.

* Any knowledge that staves off the dying is good knowledge.

[anneofgreengaybles]

every time you see a headline like this

I want you to remember these ones

[anneofgreengaybles]

And these ones

[leebrontide]

Don’t let anybody tell you that nobody is doing anything. Don’t let anybody tell you that we are helpless and hopeless.

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

(25m, more like 12ish if you double time it like I do)

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

More resistance! (14m, 7 doubletime)

[socialistexan]

[whilomm]

hey as someone who worked at a grocery store (albeit not in cart return, just get to see the cart return people a lot): at least at my store, theyre still getting paid whether theyre doing carts or not. but now, theyre just getting paid to do something harder and more annoying when they could be getting paid to stay inside in the AC/heating

"oh but then theyll have to schedule extra people to do the car-" no they arent fucking scheduling extra people because you and a few other people give cart returners a collective extra 30 minutes of work a day, theyre just telling them to work faster when theyre not on cart return because theyre behind. theyll get paid the same whether theyre on bagging duty or cart duty, because the managers yell at you if you get any overtime

in the most literal sense no you are NOT costing the company/"""creating jobs""", youre just making someones day that theyre ALREADY GETTING PAID THE SAME AMOUNT FOR BY THE COMPANY slightly worse and increasing the stress. corporate does not give a single solitary shit. unless yall somehow did enough shit with cart return to add an extra 12 hours a day of work out there, they probably aint even gonna consider adding extra hours for cart return. Theyll schedule extra baggers on expected generally busy days of course, like weekends/holidays, but they wont just say "oof a lot of people leaving carts in weird places!! better add some more hours exclusively for carts!!"

you know the ACTUAL leftist thing to do? making their job easier (or at least not purposefully making it HARDER) so they can chill tf out and not work themselves ragged as much. give them time to just pretend to look busy or chit chat. or just slow down a bit when theyre grabbing the carts instead of trying to hurry because "god theres so many carts on the grass today what is WRONG with people".

(also """fresh air""" yeah these people are having to do a fucking workout out there and sometimes when its 90°, fuck 100° out. does that sound like fucking fresh air to you???)

[moostapus]

Also people gotta internalize that, for massive corporations, there is no amount of damage you can do that they will notice. Even if leaving the carts did somehow increase labor hours by a large amount it wouldn't prevent them from making a profit.

Walmart (as an example) makes money on an absurd scale. You could burn down one of there stores and it wouldnt register as a blip on their financial radar. They are functionally untouchable, you are ONLY hurting the underpaid worker who now has to fetch the cart. No one else anywhere in the chain of command will notice.

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

[the-prophesied-disco-gay]

Literally sobbing. A judge, a US judge defended us. A judge brought up intersex people, uaing the term intersex, to *defend* us by not allowing our erasure. I'm having a lot of feelings right now

[gidguard]

this is the judge btw, Ana C. Reyes

[voicesofthedistantsea]

I recommend calling, emailing, or sending a postcard to Judge Reyes's offices and telling her you support her stance! If you like hearing your representatives and judges fight for you, let them know it!

Phone: [phone], access code 787605272

Email: [email protected]

Address: The Honorable Ana C. Reyes U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse 333 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20001

[naamahdarling]

Yes, people are "doing something".

NINETEEN STATES have joined the suit so far. In a climate this divided, that's not nothing. That's SOMETHING.

Many of the people in power know this is wrong. Others are realizing that people aren't going to stand for this forever. Keep the pressure up. Don't give up, don't give them your despair.

And don't fall victim to the illusion that nobody is resisting. The fact that you haven't seen it means it is being concealed from you, not that it does not exist. Much is being done and will be done without your knowledge. Do not let the assumption that nobody ELSE is fighting cause you to abandon the fight. That is precisely what they want to achieve.

This can be turned around. Even if you don't believe that, it doesn't hurt to act as though you do.

Keep pressing.

[bicokun]

In light of the executive order declaring only the president and AG the sole interpreter of law in the Executive Branch, the Supreme Court decision that found the president cannot be prosecuted for official acts, and the fact that they are currently in defiance of multiple court orders, one may wonder what can be done if they just ignore the court. There’s a decent analysis of the court’s enforcement power here.

What Courts Can Do If the Trump Administration Defies Court Orders

Judges have a range of tools for enforcing their orders in the face of noncompliance.

Now, one major issue is that the aforementioned problems make it impossible to hold Trump in contempt at a Federal level. They can do so for those following his orders, but he can just pardon anyone held in contempt. Issuing stricter orders is probably not going to help because, again, they can just continue to ignore. They can probably sanction his attorneys, but that may not be an option or effective if they just refuse to engage. The U.S. Marshals are part of the Executive Branch, so it would likely require them all to defy the president to take him in should it come to that (which, to be clear, they should because their oath is ultimately to the U.S. Constitution). A lot of this will probably rely on somebody in the right position deciding to take action that technically defies orders but is in line with the constitution and law.

[anneofgreengaybles]

every time you see a headline like this

I want you to remember these ones

[anneofgreengaybles]

And these ones

[leebrontide]

Don’t let anybody tell you that nobody is doing anything. Don’t let anybody tell you that we are helpless and hopeless.

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

(25m, more like 12ish if you double time it like I do)

[some-sort-of-humanoid-lifeform]

My mother is all into homesteading and off-grid living videos right now. Every time I check up on her, this is what she wants to talk about.

It gives her a sense of peace and purpose I guess. Which is good, she’s been struggling to find that with her injuries and condition. She’s learning skills, and feeling prepared for “the worst”. Like I can’t get her to stop watching conspiracy theory bullshit on YouTube so at least this kind of content alleviates some of the anxiety the other content amplifies, because she feels like she can do something now to secure her safety later.

But to get through these conversations, I have to tell myself— hey, if natural disaster comes our way, some of this might be useful. But I know she’s not just thinking a big storm or natural disaster. She’s preparing for the collapse of society. And I don’t know how to break it to her that we wouldn’t survive that. You can make long lasting candles with crisco? Cool. Where you going to by crisco when society collapses? You’ll stock up now? Ok cool. What will you do when it runs out? Honestly, before it runs out, what will you do when people with guns come to take your various stockpiled supplies?

If we hit a point where society collapses, we’re done for. Food, medicine, etc. we can’t survive without society, without a world where people are working together trying to help each other out.

So, I’ll go through with this shit in the name of natural disaster preparedness, and because it helps her. But that’s as far as I’m willing to put energy into it. I refuse to prepare for, bet on, or hope for the collapse of society. I’d rather spend my energy trying to prevent society collapsing, what little part I can play in that. I’d rather spend my energy supporting people in my community. I’d rather work and build towards a better future, not prepare for the worst.

[prismatic-bell]

OP, if your mother is physically able to do the following, I strongly suggest it:

Get her into a fibercraft. Sewing, knit, crochet. Because here’s the thing:

At first, you can pitch it as “we’re all still gonna need clothes and these idiots with their doomsday bunkers can’t even thread a needle.” But after awhile—let this take a bit of time, not so long that she gets bored but long enough that she’s like “I’ve DONE this already”—introduce her to a slightly more advanced concept. She was practicing on circle skirts? Check out how to make darts. Crochet blankets? There are SO MANY cool stitches.

And then when the craft has a decent grip as a hobby….THEN you introduce her to a crafting social group.

One of the best ways to stop people falling down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole is to make sure they have active and diverse community, and being able to make tangible things has been shown to have a positive influence on mental health. If cost is a concern, I literally have spare crochet hooks I could send you to get her started and all I’d ask for them is cost of postage, which is like. Maybe three bucks. You can even find halfway decent yarn at the dollar store now. It’s not amazingly high quality, but it’s good enough for practice and learning.

[scruffydogcreative]

I cannot recommend the above enough. My dad is a prepper and was falling in with a militia. Like the white supremacy militias.

So I started casually mentioning i wanted to do Search and Rescue- knowing my father is incredibly competitive and will try and out do me.

I was all "but we can't rely on the government to find people!"

Now he has been on 6 different tours in the US. He is a field commander and the most successful in state history.

He independently made a partnership with a Black and Missing coalition and partners with them on searches for Black Ohio and.

He called me the other day so proud he has " a Trans and a nonbinary whatever that is" on his search team. So is he perfect? No. But now he isn't toting a gun around and threatening people.

He's getting better. Sure he built a secret bunker in the basement. But he's recovered multiple bodies and reunited people with loved ones.

Sure we still can't have a conversation without him divulging into some bigoted speak here and there.

But he's been lead in recovering teens trafficked from our state and successfully recovered them in Georgia in 10 hours.

Sure he isn't perfect. But he didn't fall completely and maybe he will become even better on his own.

The secret is: is they aren't going to become themselves again but you can help them not crumble completely. You can still have your parent even if they are a bit.. ahhhh.... hurtful. But they aren't hurting anyone and that's the important part.

[kyraneko]

We are what we become. So help people become in a good direction.

[naryrising]

Some of you are going to have to realize really fast that posting on social media about your acts of resistance, or the acts of resistance of your workplace/student group, or things you're planning, or even about charitable actions like volunteering, is a stupid idea in the kind of climate where such acts are increasingly incredibly necessary. And that therefore you cannot and should not assume that someone is apathetic or not doing anything important based on their social media activity. And that some acts require secrecy to be effective and people might only be able to safely talk about them years later, if ever.

And then get off your high fucking horse about how people aren't doing anything, how no one is currently firebombing a Walmart, how "white women who say things like 'joy is an act of resistance' take no other acts of resistance" etc. I promise that right now many ordinary people you will never know about are taking actions that seem small on their own but will lessen harm in significant and tangible ways, and that those people are doing more good than anyone whose main revolutionary actions are snarkily complaining online. This is not the time to be tallying social media points and using them to judge each other.

[morwentrouble]

the revolution will not, mostly, be televised. Mostly, it's a thousand little candles that flare in the dark.

[saywhat-politics]

Chocolate Recall Now Classified As Potentially Deadly, According To The FDA

Here's everything you need to know.

Anyone with a milk allergy needs to be on high alert. In the midst of a flurry of ongoing food recalls, the FDA has updated its initial recall of a handful of Cal Yee Farms' chocolate products to the highest risk level. Originally, the FDA announced a recall of numerous Cal Yee Farm products because they may have contained undeclared milk, soy, wheat, sesame, FD&C #6, and/or almonds. The recall has now been elevated by the FDA to the most serious level of recall, Class 1, for only a few of the affected products: the company's dark chocolate almonds, dark chocolate apricots, and dark chocolate walnuts because the chocolates contained undeclared milk.

[shockrageous]

What the...

[bogleech]

We need to not stop talking about how Trump cut back food safety regulations during his first term and it had exactly the effect that logically would.

Every right leaning imbecile wants to pretend those rules were just arbitrarily hurting business owners, and that recalls were always this bad but are just reported more all the sudden.

No. It is really as simple as the fact that we had rules to reduce this sort of thing, a greedy idiot changed some of those rules, and now this sort of thing is astronomically worse.

We also need to talk about the fact that the threat of fines really was the only reason these brands bothered to practice even the most obvious quality checking or sanitation.

I'd say "they would just shit into your food if it would save them a dollar" but the unprecedented number of overlapping E. Coli outbreaks already indicate fecal contamination.

[kayliebeanie]

PSA

This is The Adjuster (Robin Hoodie, Guy That Shot the CEO, etc.):

And this is Luigi Mangione:

And yes, they are both super cool and hot as fuck but remember, they are two different people. The Adjuster has not been found and Luigi was never involved in the shooting.

Do not talk about them as if they are the same person and do not further spread the idea that Luigi is guilty.

[seananmcguire]

These two babies are Bebop and Donnie (Bebop is on top, with the black spot next to her nose). They are nine-month-old Cornish Rex. I met them when they were six weeks old, and just figuring out what they were. Now they're learning how to be cats. Or at least...they're supposed to be.

Because you see, a raw pet food company decided not to notify the public as soon as some of their batches of food tested positive for HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza). They didn't want to start a panic, or taint their company name. If Wild Coast Raw had informed owners as soon as they knew, several kitties would still be alive, and Bebop would not now be at risk.

Bebop was hospitalized last night by her owner, @kikidoodle, when she began to display signs of pneumonia. The progression of bird flu in cats seems to be "fever, elevated breathing, pneumonia, death," and so Kiki is desperately trying to get ahead of things in Bebop while she still has her best chance.

Kiki has already lost two cats, and a third remains in ICU for oxygen supplementation and constant monitoring.

It costs between $2,000 and $4000 a day to keep a cat in full veterinary ICU. I can absolutely attest to the validity of this GoFundMe: I know Kiki, and I know her cats. This is terrible. This is every pet-owner's nightmare, playing out in real time slow-motion.

Please help, if you can.

Please boost whether you can help or not.

I just want Bebop to get the chance to be a cat.

Donate to Help Kiki Save Her Indoor Kitties From Bird Flu, organized by Christine Knopp

I thought Tuesday morning was the worst day of my life. I was crying a… Christine Knopp needs your support for Help Kiki Save Her Indoor Kit

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

[lifehackable]

This is potentially life saving information everyone should know.

[tarcroach]

No you guys this post helped me find my cat. He was missing for almost a month and I’ve had him for over 12 years. After seeing this I put his favorite blanket he always slept on outside hoping he would smell mine or his scent and he was back the next fucking day asleep on it.

[ittygittydiddynator]

When my cat got out, we called and called for him, and then, later that night, I remembered similar advice to this, and so put his little scratching pad, which he adores, on the front porch. Not even half an hour later, I heard a thump, opened the door, and there was his big butt, meowing at me.

[sparklesmccheesy]

Important and vital

[natasha-romvnoff]

I don’t care that I reblogged this today I’m reblogging it again

[writing-n-ocs]

This is an exception to not being related to writing.

[castielismyhusband2266]

I hope this helps somebody

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Whenever someone in one of my buy swap sell groups reports a missing cat, I remember this post and pass the advice on. So far, ALL of the missing cats have come home.

[splendentgoddess]

FOR PARENTS OF YOUNG KIDS IN THE US!

Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I'd better repost it here. It's the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child's pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

(14m, 7m on double speed, it sounds completely normal sped up)

[vaspider]

Common Cause put together a $115K deal with the Washington Post in partnership with SPLC to have these two huge ads in the WaPo papers that are delivered to Congress, the Pentagon, and the White House.

When they saw the images, they backed out, presumably bc Bezos doesn't want to piss off the Trump administration.

Well. I can't get these images into Congress, but I surely can start them running around the internet.

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

(4mins)

[self-loving-vampire]

EXCLUSIVE: Hackers leak cop manuals for departments nationwide after breaching major provider

Critics accuse the company of wielding outsized private influence on public policing.

Autistic puppygirls always seem to be the heroes in this cyberpunk dystopia we live in.

[mad-maddy]

🫡🐶🐶🐶💕

[vaspider]

Common Cause put together a $115K deal with the Washington Post in partnership with SPLC to have these two huge ads in the WaPo papers that are delivered to Congress, the Pentagon, and the White House.

When they saw the images, they backed out, presumably bc Bezos doesn't want to piss off the Trump administration.

Well. I can't get these images into Congress, but I surely can start them running around the internet.

[dearpercocet]

All k9 dogs are abused hands down if you post any pro k9 stuff on my dash you’re unfollowed I don’t care if we’ve been mutuals for years, you can claim to be anti-cop or a leftist or whatever but if you post k9 dogs with like “a good doggo! A good boy!” fuck off, if I lose followers over this then good riddance

[dearpercocet]

[cappucino-commie]

It’s ALSO worth saying that police dogs serve a significant role in worsening police brutality. A dog trained to attack a human will maim them. A cop looses a police dog on someone, and that person is expected to peacefully cooperate while a dog is trying to tear their limbs off. It is very easy for those massive wounds to get infected. It is an absurd amount of violence. And beyond the initial attack, the fact that a “poor sweet innocent doggo” did this is used to excuse that brutality in court. Especially if the victim, panicking in the moment, lashed out at the dog. As this website has demonstrated many times, majority-white juries have more sympathies for injured dogs than the people of color who are most often victims of police brutality. So they’re not just systemic animal abuse, they’re also a tool for increased police brutality and to excuse

[shofarsogood]

In case you're doubting this, here's evidence that these dogs are abused.

Dogs that fail police training are usually put down. They're trained to be violent but the obedience part didn't take.

Dogs that fail at service dog training are not put down. They're given to families. Dogs that fail at hunting or sheep herding or sledding are given to families. Those dogs are fine even if they weren't trainable to the precise degree the trainer needed them to be.

K9 units¹ aren't like that. They're taught to lunge. They're taught to be aggressive and scary. They fight with other dogs. They are so traumatized that most people don't have the patience or ability to rehabilitate them.

This is abuse. The only way that you make a dog that aggressive is by subjecting it to all sorts of punishments until it becomes violent. It's rewarding bad behavior and punishing normal dog behaviors, pushing dogs to see normal dogs as a threat.

1 I am specifically talking about standard police dogs used to control riots or "dangerous" suspects. I do not know about drug-, bomb- missing person-, and corpse-sniffing dogs, all of which have different training.