The mess that is me

20- London/Edinbrugh- Certified Delight- I will reblog whatever takes my fancy, like stuff and things. . So yeah... Ask me anything, unless you are cameron then sush your face ^_^ ORDER   OF   THE   PHOENIX { Member } GRYFFINPUFF { wear }

[picocoon]

Old walls and Boston Ivy

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

Obessed with whatever was going on at Delphi

“Our prophetess is out today, best I can do is BEANS”

[strawhatsufi]

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

[strawhatsufi]

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

[strawhatsufi]

You! You get it. In my view, if someone is saying "racialised" or "racially marked" without acknowledgement of context, they are doing it in a way that is gramatically incorrect.

[krakenartificer]

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ohhh fuck that's a really good way of looking at it #it forces the relative nature of it all to the forefront #it *makes* the listener pay attention to the fact that their context isn't THE context #and removes the assumption of Default

[biracy]

Basically I think a lot of White ppl think the antithesis to racism is "Black people are inherently Cool, White people are inherently Lame" and it's just very hard to convince them that this is also extremely racist lmfao

[biracy]

It's the combination of "seeing a racialized group as Fundamentally Inherently Good is still dehumanizing and you aren't seeing them as people" and "your self-flagellating White guilt is extremely annoying for the people of color around you to deal with"

[newsandstuffisee]

[the-gayest-dovah]

[wolfhoundwitch]

I think we need to bring local shrines back. Not in the sense of like, a church, but somewhere in a local community where offerings to the spirits, fae, deceased loved ones, can be left. not too dissimilar to community shrines to local spirits in Japan.

[pnw-forest-side]

It takes me three hours to go one mile on this trail...

[genderoutlaws]

"no ethical consumption under capitalism" is really an argument for communism but has evolved into a thought terminating cliche for the populace of the global north who wish to mindlessly consume without having to consider the morality of our choices and behaviors and the inevitable need to change them alongside the deconstruction of capital and colony

[genderoutlaws]

sorry this is my first thought upon waking but between ai and factory farming and fucking monthly shein hauls and new phones every year mined by exploited people in drc and refusals to boycott along BDS guidelines by people with more than enough options and every aspect of the culture of convenience and whos labor must be invisiblized to maintain that comfort and convenience and then you see people online like well don't ruin my fun by trying to make me think critically at all ever . i am going to become the joker

[padawan-historian]

Centering Black environmental thought and indigenous medicine ways is to recognize that food deserts are not naturally occurring but designed to displace people from resources for profit. Food deserts are in fact food apartheids.

[chase-solidago]

i hate that concerns about urban gardening/foraging safety is often met with "What are you, a cop?" scorn. I believe it's a suspicion of anything that hinders the punk/anti-system urgency to jump in immediately and do whatever feels right.

Safety, ethics, and sustainability are all a part of urban gardening and foraging. I'm sorry that means you need to do homework before you can do anything, I know that sounds lame. But life is complicated.

I know anti-intellectualism is viewed as activist these days, but like, surely you don't want to literally eat lead, right?

[chase-solidago]

Let’s check in and see how those rascally solarpunk kids are doing, surely they’ve learned by now that…..

Daily reminder: Leafy greens like kales uptake all those delicious heavy metals in urban soils like lead and cadmium.

Don’t eat sidewalk-crack kale.

Here's some cool references from the EPA on safe urban gardening:

REUSING POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED LANDSCAPES: Growing Gardens in Urban Soils

Steps to Creating a Community Garden or Expand Urban Agriculture at a Brownfields Site

[carpecake]

👆This

Heavy metal poisoning ain't fun, kids.

[depsidase]

[isuggestlandback]

[depsidase]

[silas-lehnsherr]

While this is correct, it is very important for white people to remember that things like racism are used as tactics to keep us divided. We all are fighting a class war, but conversations about discrimination of minority groups are still very much relevant and important and don’t take from the larger struggle we are all fighting. We must stand in solidarity together rather than allowing the enemy to divide us.

[onlytiktoks]

[twitblr]

Not much focus on rehabilitation

[obi-wann-cannoli]

This seems like a good time to mention the Prisoners Literature Project and Inside Books Project. Both of these organizations send free books to incarcerated people, and are always looking for donations - both books and money -and volunteers! (Prisoners literature project sends books everywhere but Texas - Inside Books project is just Texas).

[rhythmic-idealist]

[ID: Joseph Hill (@ jaceyhill) tweeted: “Reading costs 5 cents a minute and the prisoners earn 30 cents an hour. Reading a 330 page book costs them about $20. Prisons are designed to destroy people’s humanity.”

Hill’s comments are a quote-retweet of Book Patrol (@ bookpatrol), who said: “The Cost of Reading in Prison: In West Virginia it’s 5 cents a minute bookpatrol.net/the-cost-of-re…” Attached is a photo of an incarcerated person sitting on the end of a bed leaning over an e-reader, with their head resting in their hand. In the background, one person sits on another of the many beds in the room, and another sleeps.

315 comments, 26.3K retweets, 74.9K likes.]

[serdunkthelunk]

This week is Prison Banned Books week! And two orgs local to me are having their donations matched until Oct. 11th by the Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville, NC.

Asheville Prison Books, servicing the Carolinas

The Tranzmission Prison Project, servicing queer incarcerated people nation-wide

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

Or water fountains, public washrooms, outdoors tables, etc, etc

[infectedwithnyanites]

Notice how removing seating doesnt actually prevent people from sitting it just makes them uncomfortable and makes public spaces more hostile it doesnt actually work at controlling their behavior not till a pig comes along anyways and they'll harass a homeless person/teen whatever they're sitting on.

[petzah394-deactivated20250503]

Btw keep in mind how this also more dramatically affects disabled people, not everyone can stand for hours at a time or feasibly sit on the floor

[prof-grace-aspen]

That’s a major train station in NYC btw. A place where people, are, y’know, WAITING. For extended periods of time. That’s why everyone is sitting. They’re tired.

[queen-mihai]

A revolution of seating is needed

Thousands of people building chairs and seats and putting them all over every city ever

We'll see just how dedicated our cities are to being hostile to us

This will serve as a glaring challenge to every federal, state, and local government to either allow the seating to stay, put city-funded seating in place, or blatantly out themselves as being as hostile to literally everyone

[ondarianmaximus]

London hasn’t changed, it’s still appalling. I can’t stand for long periods anymore, so I always need to know where I can sit down and feel safe. Governments keep doing the same thing they always have: attacking and scapegoating minorities so that bigots and the complacent can feel superior. They manufacture conflicts where none exist just to stay relevant, because without constant strife, there would be no government to justify itself.

[preserving-tiktok]

[themummersfolly]

Petition to put this guy in charge of traffic enforcement in my state.

[ekingston]

sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it

[np-444]

The real horseshoe theory.