Life in the Oblivious Lane

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[anarchopuppy]

Repair Cafés

Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.

Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.

There are over 1.500 Repair Cafés worldwide. Visit one in your area or start one yourself!

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[sadgaywerewolf]

One day I wanna be rich enough that I can just like. Give away hundreds of thousands of dollars every year in like scholarships or grants or whatever. That when I see someone make a post like “hey can I get $50 for groceries” I can just donate $1000. Or tip my server their rent money. Like that’s the dream

[yllibots]

i actually think about this all the time

[randomslasher]

oh man or call the hospital and pay off all the delinquent accounts. Or buy a bunch of contracts from a collections agency and pay them off then call the people and be like, ‘yeah no worries.’ Or go to a used car dealership and pay for five or six cars and just be like, “Yeah the next person who comes in and needs a car, this one’s theirs for free.” Or like spend all day on go-fund-me and fill them up. 

Money is wasted on the rich.

[pbrim]

Not as big and flashy but there are charities such as RIP Medical Debt. They buy up medical debt at discount debt-collector prices but instead of trying to collect, they just forgive it. Donate $10 and you can wipe out $1,000 of someone’s medical debt. This is the only one I know of, but I believe there are others.

[queersatanic]

If you’re this sort of person, you would never get rich in the first place.

You would never have the ability to engage in such specific charity because you wouldn’t be the sort of person who robbed workers of their surplus value or gained rental income charging for private property.

Maybe you could win a lottery, or be the sort of person who earns their income from being a skilled artisan highly valued and owning all of your production. Otherwise, you have to become wealthy inheriting from someone who got rich the usual way, and that being so, by what right would you justify yourself as the person responsible for distributing wealth?

Everyone who is rich is rich as a conscious, continuous act, and in a world of tremendous inequality and deprivation they’re well aware of, to remain rich is itself an act of violence.

This isn’t to shit on having the fantasy. It’s just to explain why we don’t see more of it and it will always stay a fantasy under capitalism.

[thirdgenderindividual-deactivat]

Just got a huge cardboard box to play in so im done blogging for the week

[guccixcucci]

Everybody talks about children of divorced parents but let's talk about the true soldiers. Children of "will you pls get a fucking divorce" parents

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

as an autistic kid I got criticized for not making eye contact. so as an adult I trained myself to make very consistent eye contact (easier said than done). this in turn has led to some people telling me it's "kinda weird" that I "stare so much." the moral of this story is there is actually no pleasing neurotypicals

[gnotknormal]

when I was a kid, I kept getting told I talked too much or was too enthusiastic to answer questions in school and I really wasn't sure how much to talk so I went mute for 2 years. It's really jarring looking back at my school reports like "he won't shut up in class and is disturbing the other kids" and the very next one saying "he doesn't participate in class and only talks quietly to a single person in the whole school".

[leninthesixth]

doctors hate her! This woman is experiencing symptoms that might point to a health problem and wants doctors to do something about it

[theglowstickchronicles]

But has she tried losing weight?

[rosecolouredheart]

Maybe my life wouldn’t be better if I had magic powers but I’d at least have different, sexier problems.

[theconcealedweapon]

[spideyyeet]

Please do your research! There is so much misinformation out there and a lot of lies.

Everyone should know the truth so please try to know as much as you can so you can spread awareness and help!

Free Palestine🇵🇸✌️

[powerfulwizard]

[awsomecutecats]

I mean… who could resist…?

[theconcealedweapon]

[commiedervish]

The Zionist occupation is attacking Gazans with phosphorous. [1] [2]

[commiedervish]

In case anyone has to spell it out: this is a chemical attack being committed against civilians by the illegitimate settler-colonial Zionist entity (“Israel”), using a weapon banned by International Law.

[funnytwittertweets]

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

[evermore-fashion]

Georges Hobeika ‘The Ritual of the Spring Moon’ Spring 2021 Haute Couture Collection

[bloodyl1ps]

this post hasn't left my mind since i've first saw it

[sonicrainbooms]

people jest but this is literally how i worked out i was gaslit for like 15 years of my life

[aphony-cree]

People who “want trauma” are recognizing, on some level, that they were traumatized but in a way that’s not “socially recognized” as trauma. What they really want is for people to see that they’ve been traumatized and be on their side

[respected-demon]

Hold up

[portraitoftheoddity]

I think it’s also important to talk about mental illness, and how the pain and trauma of being mentally ill as a kid is often diminished because of the lack of outside actors. If you spent your childhood being suicidally depressed because your wee little kiddo brain decided to be a chemical shitshow, it doesn’t matter how much mom and dad loved you, that kinda thing fucks you up. And having people only look at your external surroundings and argue that “nothing bad happened” ignores all the pain you went through internally. So wishing you could have something external you could point to in order to justify that pain and enduring stress -- just so people could understand -- makes sense. 

[bumblebeerror]

...oh fuck me