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yeah, its all fine and cool to say “fuck columbus” or whatever, but like. dude’s been dead for hundreds of years now. do things that actively help native lives in the present. learn about native lands and cultures. learn to appreciate but not appropriate. help us maintain what little we actually have when the government inevitably tries to take it from us.
John Kacere Assorted paintings, 1969–1990s
“Use your gifts and your talents to greatest possible effect while you can. Spread joy wherever possible. Laugh at jokes. Tell jokes. Make puns and bugger the embuggerances. Read books. Read my books. You might like them. You might find something else you like even more than them. Look for these things in life.
Question authority. Champion good causes. Speak out against injustice. Do not tolerate bullies or bigots or racists or anti-intellectuals or the narrow-minded. Use your education to challenge them. Broaden their perspectives. Make the world you interface with a happier place.
These are your choices. Choices you have been fortunate to have been given, so don’t waste them while you have them. Don’t look back in years to come and wish you had grasped a fleeting opportunity. Grasp it now with both hands, Live. Strive. Love.”
from A Little Advice for Life taken from ‘Terry Pratchett: from birth to death, a writer.’
—Sir Terry Pratchett; April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015
One of the greatest compliments I've ever received is that I resemble Sam Vimes.
Mind how you go.
Follow Mariam Barghouti on all the things for reporting from the West Bank. Keep amplifying the voices of Palestinians.
I made stew. It was awesome. I love potatoes.
i luv u too
wait what was in the stew
we are in a media literacy crisis
friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.
IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:
Adult literacy is low.
Child literacy is low.
Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.
We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.
It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.
So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.
You're correct:
Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.
“I realized then that I didn’t understand anything. I read all the books I could.” —The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
A chronicle of the Iranian Revolution, a feminist manifesto, and a coming-of-age story in one, Persepolis has simultaneously become a classroom staple and a hot-button banned book, both lauded and challenged for its unflinching look at Iran’s history and the universal trials of growing up.
thank god copyright law is there to protect artists or big corporations could do stuff like nuke a critically beloved horror game off the face of the earth or chuck a fully finished feature film directly into the garbage. i guess at least if they did that someone couldk find a way to let people play the game or watch the movie [konami and warner bros copyright lawyers come up to me and one of them whispers in each of my ears] uh oh
You tell your cowgirl gf you want to bring toys into the bedroom and she brings out a handsaw, a vaguely rake-like implement, and two semispheroidal objects with handles
The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“
Just as courage is not the absence of fear but doing the brave thing in spite of it, patience is not the absence of irritation but doing the kind thing in spite of it.
This is absolutely catastrophic.
Internet Archive Responds to Appellate Opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs
Let Readers Read: An Open Letter to the Publishers in Hachette v. Internet Archive:
Internet Archive has created a petition/letter to publishers asking to restore access to everything (500,00 items) removed from the library. Please sign it.
A small comic about Palestine I created to appeal to more passive family and friends
Anyways if you have the money I urge you to donate to Ibraheem Hadi, a Palestinian who contacted me and whom I promised to highlight in relation to this comic:
Title: "Urgent Relief: Support Ibrahim's Family in Gaza Amidst Devastation" … Devlin Downs needs your support for Help me and my family to
Otherwise there is always a need for eSims to keep Gazans connected
Homemaking, gardening, and self-sufficiency resources that won't radicalize you into a hate group
It seems like self-sufficiency and homemaking skills are blowing up right now. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the current economic crisis, a lot of folks, especially young people, are looking to develop skills that will help them be a little bit less dependent on our consumerist economy. And I think that's generally a good thing. I think more of us should know how to cook a meal from scratch, grow our own vegetables, and mend our own clothes. Those are good skills to have.
Unfortunately, these "self-sufficiency" skills are often used as a recruiting tactic by white supremacists, TERFs, and other hate groups. They become a way to reconnect to or relive the "good old days," a romanticized (false) past before modern society and civil rights. And for a lot of people, these skills are inseparably connected to their politics and may even be used as a tool to indoctrinate new people.
In the spirit of building safe communities, here's a complete list of the safe resources I've found for learning homemaking, gardening, and related skills. Safe for me means queer- and trans-friendly, inclusive of different races and cultures, does not contain Christian preaching, and does not contain white supremacist or TERF dog whistles.
Homemaking/Housekeeping/Caring for your home:
Making It by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen [book] (The big crunchy household DIY book; includes every level of self-sufficiency from making your own toothpaste and laundry soap to setting up raised beds to butchering a chicken. Authors are explicitly left-leaning.)
Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust [book] (A guide to simple home repair tasks, written with rentals in mind; very compassionate and accessible language.)
How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis [book] (The book about cleaning and housework for people who get overwhelmed by cleaning and housework, based on the premise that messiness is not a moral failing; disability and neurodivergence friendly; genuinely changed how I approach cleaning tasks.)
Gardening
Rebel Gardening by Alessandro Vitale [book] (Really great introduction to urban gardening; explicitly discusses renter-friendly garden designs in small spaces; lots of DIY solutions using recycled materials; note that the author lives in England, so check if plants are invasive in your area before putting them in the ground.)
Country/Rural Living:
Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler [book] (Memoir of a lesbian who lives and works on a rural farm in Maine with her wife; does a good job of showing what it's like to be queer in a rural space; CW for mentions of domestic violence, infidelity/cheating, and internalized homophobia)
"Debunking the Off-Grid Fantasy" by Maggie Mae Fish [video essay] (Deconstructs the off-grid lifestyle and the myth of self-reliance)
Sewing/Mending:
Annika Victoria [YouTube channel] (No longer active, but their videos are still a great resource for anyone learning to sew; check out the beginner project playlist to start. This is where I learned a lot of what I know about sewing.)
Make, Sew, and Mend by Bernadette Banner [book] (A very thorough written introduction to hand-sewing, written by a clothing historian; lots of fun garment history facts; explicitly inclusive of BIPOC, queer, and trans sewists.)
Sustainability/Land Stewardship
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer [book] (Most of you have probably already read this one or had it recommended to you, but it really is that good; excellent example of how traditional animist beliefs -- in this case, indigenous American beliefs -- can exist in healthy symbiosis with science; more philosophy than how-to, but a great foundational resource.)
Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer [book] (This one is for my fellow witches; one of my favorite witchcraft books, and an excellent example of a place-based practice deeply rooted in the land.)
Avoiding the "Crunchy to Alt Right Pipeline"
Note: the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" is a term used to describe how white supremacists and other far right groups use "crunchy" spaces (i.e., spaces dedicated to farming, homemaking, alternative medicine, simple living/slow living, etc.) to recruit and indoctrinate people into their movements. Knowing how this recruitment works can help you recognize it when you do encounter it and avoid being influenced by it.
"The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline" by Kathleen Belew [magazine article] (Good, short introduction to this issue and its history.)
Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby (I feel like I need to give a content warning: this book contains explicit descriptions of racism, white supremacy, and Neo Nazis, and it's a very difficult read, but it really is a great, in-depth breakdown of the role women play in the alt-right; also explicitly addresses the crunchy to alt-right pipeline.)
These are just the resources I've personally found helpful, so if anyone else has any they want to add, please, please do!
I don't think any of my follows are Florida residents, but just in case:
DeSantis's admin is currently (Aug 13, 2024) pushing to add pickleball courts, golf courses, and huge glamping lodges to some of Florida's state parks. The parks in question are nature and wildlife sites, and as anyone in Florida could tell you, we are not hurting for golf courses.
So! If this passes you off like it does me, you can fill out a survey about the proposal here: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7983173/Great-Outdoors-Initiative
There's also going to be local hearings in the counties of the affected parks, but they're rescheduling them because so many people are mad and intend to show up, so I cannot give dates or locations at this time.
This article has some details and shouldn't be paywalled: https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/floridians-balk-at-desantis-administration-plan-to-build-golf-courses-at-state-parks
done. i need you to understand that Florida has the most pickleball courts in the USA at over 5,600. and most of these suggestions are "there's room for to up to four pickleball courts :)" are the six thousand you already have FULL?
Of course Dracula is hunting Lucy. Why would he want an easy meal, he's a predator who's hundreds of years old. Sure, he's now somewhere full of people who don't know to fear him but he's managed to find a woman who everyone loves and tries their hardest to save and that's intoxicating to him. Instead of just dying and disappearing, Lucy keeps suffering and being afraid and so does everyone around her. This game where Van Helsing keeps giving Lucy more blood so that Dracula can keep coming up with convoluted plans to drink from her again must be the most fun he's had in at least decades. Dracula feeds on Lucy and her loved ones' fear and despair just as much as he does on her blood. (just as happened with him taunting Jonathan for ages before he actually even drank his blood)
#and the inevitability is so awful. jonathan could do nothing thr captain of the demeter could do nothing lucy can do nothing.
But that's not true. These characters can't save themselves - but they do the one thing they can
- Jonathan could do nothing but smile and nod and survive and write in his journal. He knew he was going to die but maybe his story could get out. And it did.
- the Captain of the Demeter could do nothing but deny Dracula the steering of his ship and write everything down in the log - protecting that record to his last breath. He knew he was going to die but maybe his story could get out. And it did.
- Lucy can do nothing but sit vigil with her mother and write her memorandum, hiding it in her breast so that it might be found on her body. She knows she is going to die but maybe her story can get out. And it does.
And with each story, and each desperately preserved piece of information, the ability for someone someday to actually fight back against Dracula grows. It won't be for nothing. Because these characters, faced with inevitability, didn't do nothing - instead, they did what they could.
#it's the 'filming a natural disaster so scientists can study it to prepare for the next one' of the 1890s
Days since I cried about the guy at Mount St Helens who realized he couldn't outrun the pyroclastic flow, so he turned around, used up his film, and then lay down on top of his camera to shield it with his body: zero I guess
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