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Hello! they/he/it/xe 💜 aroace 💚 White

[el-shab-hussein]

Mutual Aid initiatives to donate to:

Ghazzah:

Revive Gaza Farmlands (top priority)

Dahnoun Aid

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MECA

Sudan:

Sudan Solidarity Collective

Khartoum Aid Kitchen

Period Care in Sudan

Al Abbasiya community kitchen (Al-Abbasiya / Umdurman based)

Basmat Wasl (Khartoum-based)

[race-bait]

Most Black folks in the US have a deeply painful racial story having to do with interactions with white "friends," including me.

I had a unique experience of going to very diverse schools my entire life, but my family moved out to a mostly white suburb when I was around 11 or 12 years old. So I had friends of all kinds of different backgrounds at school, but my neighborhood friends were almost entirely white. Which was mostly fine as a kid. I even had two of these friends as groomsmen in my wedding.

Things changed shortly after the murder of Trayvon Martin. This is when I started getting more vocal online about racism, anti-Blackness, and the injustices I was observing and grieving throughout the country. It didn't take long at all for the friends from this group to go from uncomfortable, to combative, and then to all blocking me on social media. Once I started talking about race too much, they abandoned me by walking out of my life, which was incredibly painful. These were all very nice, generous, and kind people in every other context of their lives. But something about their racial identity development caused them to turn on me immediately once my voice around race became uncomfortable for them.

Those experiences, along with countless others I've had in my life from white peers, white educators, white store employees, and more, have taught me to be very careful about trusting white folks. Because I have been burned in so many ways in my life.

The key to not unintentionally becoming like this, so wrapped up in your subconscious programming of whiteness and white supremacy that you actively hurt people of color, is to do your inner identity work.

[theminotaursmanual]

by Laerte Coutinho

[las-lus]

btw this is laerte. She is 73 now! Making art and being happy! It's never too late to transition

[cutecipher]

Trans Disabled Woman Suffering Through Mysterious Illness

Hi, over about the past half year I contracted a stomach illness which doctors were unable to diagnose or treat. As a result I have to take a significant amount of pain meds every couple of hours to even be able to eat, sleep or move, especially given I already have a lifelong chronic pain condition. I'm making this post to circulate as long as I need for pain meds specifically given I try to close donation posts when they hit their goal. Any help is very appreciated. If it helps I'm one of the moms of @rickybabyboy and the one that largely runs the blog/shares donation posts to it.

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[cutecipher]

The pain med I've been taking has apparently been fucking with my stomach too I need to switch to something else at least temporarily please help me if you can

[cutecipher]

Setting a goal of $65

$25/$65 raised

[rambrandt-the-painter]

Please get more trans feminist for the love of god

[rambrandt-the-painter]

I'm really sick of being around people who talk as if feminism isn't for me and I'm sick of being too scared to speak up on it

[rambrandt-the-painter]

Like I *really* do not want to put a target on my back but if you're in a group with only like one or two trans women you need to understand that they are not going to feel safe expressing discomfort with anything you do or feel safe expressing their experiences with trans misogyny unless you go out of your way to make her feel safe

[el-shab-hussein]

Mutual Aid initiatives to donate to:

Ghazzah:

Revive Gaza Farmlands (top priority)

Dahnoun Aid

Sameer Project

Mona's mutual aid project (X)

MECA

Sudan:

Sudan Solidarity Collective

Khartoum Aid Kitchen

Period Care in Sudan

Al Abbasiya community kitchen (Al-Abbasiya / Umdurman based)

Basmat Wasl (Khartoum-based)

[cascadianights]

I think white people in particular have a hard time recognizing that becoming a member of a marginalized or oppressed class does not

1) Grant you the experiences to speak on of everyone in that class

2) Unlearn the toxic rhetoric you were raised with

3) Keep you from enacting lateral violence or continuing to oppress others

When being inundated with attacks, restrictions on rights, and loss of opportunities it becomes harder than ever to acknowledge what things DID go right for you, what aspects of your life were and still are easier or benefitted from a specific privilege, areas where you are not the most at risk. It feels counter to the very real risk and loss you Are facing! Especially if you've always had aspects of it affecting your experiences and opportunities before you ever came out (ie being bullied for not acting your gender Correctly long before realizing you're not cis). It brings out the angry, scared child screaming "how can you say I had these chances, when I've been through-" - something made worse by the flattening of oppression and minority status to that of solely Attacker or Victim, either one who has everything against them or who's never experienced a real problem in their life.

It provokes a knee-jerk response to point out and generalize other minorities who've fallen for the very same trap - that it is easier to choose someone else to hate and blame, and hide behind your own shit experiences in defense of doing so, rather than do the work of unlearning the hate and the blame to move towards solidarity and a solution. Then there's the pull to compare, to say who has it better or worse, even within your own community. And if only the true victim can be believed, can be relieved of consequence for their actions and words due to what they've been through, you must be one of the ones who's had it WORST - and those who are even a little bit different than you must have an opposite experience.

But that is not reality. The reality is, that no matter how valid your pain and rage and fear, it does not excuse your actions or words from consequence. It does not do the work of unlearning what you were raised with, or listening and learning the experiences of those being affected by oppression in similar and different ways. It does not remove you from rehearsing the very same attacks and disbelief and marginalization that were inflicted on you.

You have to listen, and you have to do the work. You have to accept your capacity for harm, and realize that not doing so makes you dangerous. You have to step outside of the binary of victimhood, and using it to justify and wash away your mistakes and damage you cause. It is the only way. The alternative is to live by and for the very oppression you suffer from, and we see it destroy and weaken our communities again and again and again in those who will not learn and do the work.

[ndnbutch]

personally I am of the opinion that vegans who are like “the way our food system currently works under capitalism on a large scale is exceptionally cruel to all animals including humans and is not sustainable, so I’m doing what I can to make the most ethical choices available to me about what I eat and encourage others to do the same” are generally very reasonable people who I agree with in spades. but vegans who seem to think human beings are not themselves animals who are ultimately also part of the food chain but instead some kind of other paternalistic higher entity that can never engage in ethical and sustainable hunting practices (and especially the fringe I’ve seen who think other carnivorous animal predators are also evil and need to be eliminated) are people I regard as foolish at best if not actively anti-indigenous and racist

[ndnbutch]

hey can y’all maybe ask yourselves why when people of color say things like “this movement I generally agree with has a racism problem” your gut instinct is to downplay and dismiss and say it’s only a few bad apples and that we’re co-opting the larger conversation by talking about it? can y’all examine this instinct in yourselves for a second?

[probablyasocialecologist]

Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’

“There appears to be an assumption that the country will always have enough water for its economic needs,” the briefing said. “Nothing could be further from the truth.” In May, a House of Lords report said England faced a 5bn litre a day shortfall for public water supplies by 2055. Water UK said datacentres were already being built in water-stressed areas, with more than three-quarters located in the south and east of England. Millions of people in these regions have been placed under a hosepipe ban by water companies after prolonged extreme heat and lack of rainfall.

[...]

The government has designated datacentres as critical national infrastructure, on the basis that their loss or compromise could result in “major detrimental impact on the availability, integrity or delivery of essential services” and “significant impact on national security, national defence, or the functioning of the state”. Oliver Hayes, head of big tech and campaigns at the campaign group Global Action Plan, said it was not clear why datacentres had been given this status, but that water companies may be powerless to restrict their water use as a result. This could risk datacentres being prioritised over households at times of peak water demand. “I think it is highly likely that we’re going to end up seeing datacentres that are actually running chatbots, or enabling people to do benign and very wasteful, pointless things, protected and given favourable treatment when it comes to resources,” Hayes said.

21 July 2026

[strawberryapothecary]

So this is pretty objectively awful and scary, but if you're a UK citizen or living in the UK then you can sign this petition talking about exactly this! And even if you're not from the UK a reblog to spread the news would be really helpful

Petition: Independent environmental impact assessment for data centres & make AI opt-in

Require independent environmental impact assessments before any data centres are approved end the designation of data centres as "critical n

We cannot give up yet do NOT let them win, this only has about 145 signatures right now but we can change that, the deadline isn't until February

[chroniccoolness]

racist white canadians and europeans want you to believe the slave trade worked like this

it did not. it is public knowledge the slave trade worked like this

and in fighting antiblackness within canada and europe it is so so so important to acknowledge these places's participation in and benefit from the transantlantic slave trade. Slavery is not just the US's dirty past, it is a triangular industry lasting centuries that white people in the united states, canada, and europe benefitted from and continue to benefit from to this day. Slavery was good for white canadians and white europeans. They liked it. they encouraged it. they had slaves, they profited from the slave trade, and they used products grown from US slave labour in every day life. The slavery of Black people would not have been possible on the sheer scale at which it happened if it were not for active, consistent participation from europe and canada.

[el-shab-hussein]

Mutual Aid initiatives to donate to:

Ghazzah:

Revive Gaza Farmlands (top priority)

Dahnoun Aid

Sameer Project

Mona's mutual aid project (X)

MECA

Sudan:

Sudan Solidarity Collective

Khartoum Aid Kitchen

Period Care in Sudan

Al Abbasiya community kitchen (Al-Abbasiya / Umdurman based)

Basmat Wasl (Khartoum-based)

[el-shab-hussein]

Mutual Aid initiatives to donate to:

Ghazzah:

Revive Gaza Farmlands (top priority)

Dahnoun Aid

Sameer Project

Mona's mutual aid project (X)

MECA

Sudan:

Sudan Solidarity Collective

Khartoum Aid Kitchen

Period Care in Sudan

Al Abbasiya community kitchen (Al-Abbasiya / Umdurman based)

Basmat Wasl (Khartoum-based)

[el-shab-hussein]

Mutual Aid initiatives to donate to:

Ghazzah:

Revive Gaza Farmlands (top priority)

Dahnoun Aid

Sameer Project

Mona's mutual aid project (X)

MECA

Sudan:

Sudan Solidarity Collective

Khartoum Aid Kitchen

Period Care in Sudan

Al Abbasiya community kitchen (Al-Abbasiya / Umdurman based)

Basmat Wasl (Khartoum-based)

[theempathogen]

[ottermatopoeia]

[shadowen]

This is an anti-despair checkpoint! You must share something you're looking forward to before scrolling on.

[sycamorality]

whitebaby you can literally just say ass. whitebaby just say "this" instead of butchering aave. whitebaby. whitebaby stop

[asexual-amanita]

To my fellow autistics, stop trying to distance yourself from higher support needs folks.

There’s a fine line between not wanting to not intrude or speak over their experiences, and feeling the need to separate yourself, and not be associated at all with those higher on the spectrum.

Language like:

I’m autistic, but I don’t “act like a baby.

I’m not “that” autistic.

I’m autistic, not stupid!

Cross that line.

If you find yourself saying those kinds of things, I’d gently invite you to get curious about why you feel that way. 

What does “acting like a baby” look like? Do some of those associations apply to severely disabled people? Who are “those” autistics? And what does being “stupid” entail? 

Asking yourself these kinds of questions can help you get to the root of those beliefs, and open up more room for self exploration and acceptance.

At the very least it’s just something to think about.