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I saw your post about getting active and I decided that the best time to get active was years ago, but the second best time was now. As it is though, I have no connections to activist communities — I’m kind of insular where I am, and I don’t know where to start. How do I find communities and groups to work with and do hands on activism?
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I’ll put together a list but I want to do it right so it’s gonna take me a min, I probably won’t get it to you for a couple of days, I’m sorry.

I’m really proud of you for deciding to get involved in the work. We need you, like for real, we really need you.

For the moment, practice deliberate and disciplined self-care; protect your resources (your body and heart and mind). Look for opportunities of practical empathy in your home, in your neighborhood, in your town. Look for abused women’s shelters and find out what they need right now. Look at your library community bulletin boards, see if there are any groups posting meetings or requests. Ask people in your friend or family circles to donate to abortion funds. Find out how the disenfranchised people in your community get their information and work to make sure they’re looped in and alerted and educated about resources and opportunities. Does anyone need their cell phone bill paid? Does someone need a smartphone and a data plan? Does someone need a laptop and/or wifi? Do they need help setting up encrypted messaging apps and email accounts? Do they need basic transportation? Do they need prepaid bus cards? Are there programs and resources that are already in place to help them but they need help navigating the application process? Are there any administrative burdens you could take on or assist them with? Do they need help setting up a Venmo or some other financial apps?

Follow Robert Evans and Margaret Killjoy on Twitter and listen to their podcasts about movement building and mutual aid support. Read and listen to everything Amy Westervelt and Mary Annaise Heglar have ever said, about anything, ever (esp climate justice stuff). Follow and read Sarah Kendizor so you understand why this happened and what’s going to happen next.

Remember that solidarity is the only way forward. If people around you seem to be more into gatekeeping and bitching, look for more functional people elsewhere.

I’ll put together a list for you asap, a more formal, thought-out one. I’m grateful for you, hang in there xoxoxo

Posted May 3, 2022 at 12:18 pm 63 notes

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heywetotheotherworld:

writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
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writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
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writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
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run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
Hey y'all why are writers always cold?
…why?
They’re always surrounded by drafts!
How many mystery writers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Oh god.
How many?
Two! One to change the bulb, and the other to give it an unexpected twist at the end!
What do writers have for breakfast?
Coffee?
Synonym buns!
Where do all the struggling writers live?
How are you coming up with all these?
Where?
Writer’s Block!
What do writers suffer from each spring?
(I’ve heard a lot of them over the years.)
Allergies. Next question.
you were close; A case of allegories
Why are writers always in great shape?
Circular prose
Nope! It’s because we’re always running out of ideas!
Did you hear about the famous writer who turned out to be a fraud?
I did not
His life had it’s prose and cons…
Why is editing a better job than writing?
It’s more rewording?
Correct! I am out of jokes. :(
@dianeduane

Posted August 22, 2023 at 6:23 pm 105096 notes

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elodieunderglass:

bread-tab:
madnessofmen:
This is like poetry to me
@elodieunderglass you’ve been poetry.com’d
😲

Posted August 22, 2023 at 6:20 pm 24117 notes

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Have this.
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jame7t:

cryptotheism:
usabieria:
cryptotheism:
usabieria:
cryptotheism:
Food taxonomy is an illusion created by the demiurge. I am enlightened beyond petty distinctions between food types. I am able to perceive the whole of cuisine as a solid, unchanging, perfect, whole.
Yeah but have u considered that mashed potatoes are just opposite ice cream?
Have you considered that everything is exactly the same forever?
I used to! But now I know I’m not the same person I was 5 minutes ago :)
Well that is simply Incorrect. As you see, change is metaphysically impossible. Everything is the same forever.
ohhh I get it it’s all the same forever 👍

Posted August 22, 2023 at 6:20 pm 3098 notes

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socialmaya:

Posted August 22, 2023 at 6:02 pm 46052 notes

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roach-works:

tododeku-or-bust:
metalheadsforblacklivesmatter:
How to draw Black characters. Because it’s way too obvious when you drew a white person and gave them Black skin.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRg6YsKN/
-fae
If you’re an artist please listen to her. PLEASE. 🙏🏾 I cannot stress these tips enough.
it’s so important to actually spend a second to think about the hairstyle you give a black character, especially one with tight curls! these styles take time, they take attention, most of them take specific technologies–from combs to chemicals–and all of them are going to be an ongoing process to maintain.
a butch lesbian automechanic is going to be making some different decisions than a homeless anarchist punk who is going to be making some different decisions than a middle class male accountant who is going to be making some different decisions than a sword-slinging mercenary.
on tv these guys have clueless writers and professional stylists– on your page, they have a history, and how they do their hair is a significant part of that history.

Posted August 22, 2023 at 6:01 pm 35755 notes

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a-dinosaur-a-day:

huggableotter:
it-is-bugs:
agelfeygelach:
roachpatrol:
i enjoy that every single human’s reaction to penguin is unrestrained delight
And penguins lack large terrestrial predators, so their reaction to humans tends to be, “HELLO STRANGE GIANT PENGUINS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? DO YOU HAVE ANY FISH?”
I will reblog this on my deathbed.
Please let him science 🐧
I dream of searching for fossils in Antarctica for this exact reason

Posted August 22, 2023 at 6:01 pm 1115604 notes

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heedra:

fuck “girl lunch” fuck “girl math” a woman is a hairy animal who sweats and grunts and excretes and hungers and gets wrinkly and dies eventually. you have to love that.

Posted August 22, 2023 at 6:00 pm 84968 notes

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serratedpens:

Ada Limón, “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa”
The poem will be engraved on the Clipper, along with participants’ names that will be etched onto microchips mounted on the spacecraft. Together, the poem and participant’s names will travel 1.8 billion miles on Europa Clipper’s voyage to the Jupiter system.
If you would like to have your name engraved on the Clipper, you can sign up at NASA.

Posted August 22, 2023 at 5:49 pm 1028 notes

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heywetotheotherworld:

writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
run-remi-run:
writing-in-the-grave:
Hey y'all why are writers always cold?
…why?
They’re always surrounded by drafts!
How many mystery writers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Oh god.
How many?
Two! One to change the bulb, and the other to give it an unexpected twist at the end!
What do writers have for breakfast?
Coffee?
Synonym buns!
Where do all the struggling writers live?
How are you coming up with all these?
Where?
Writer’s Block!
What do writers suffer from each spring?
(I’ve heard a lot of them over the years.)
Allergies. Next question.
you were close; A case of allegories
Why are writers always in great shape?
Circular prose
Nope! It’s because we’re always running out of ideas!
Did you hear about the famous writer who turned out to be a fraud?
I did not
His life had it’s prose and cons…
Why is editing a better job than writing?
It’s more rewording?
Correct! I am out of jokes. :(
@dianeduane

Posted August 22, 2023 at 5:49 pm 105096 notes

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elodieunderglass:

bread-tab:
madnessofmen:
This is like poetry to me
@elodieunderglass you’ve been poetry.com’d
😲

Posted August 22, 2023 at 5:48 pm 24117 notes

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findingfeather:

terminusverge:
yebisu:
onlywayin:
I work cybersecurity, this is like half my job.
Yeah, this is just cybersecurity in a nutshell.
Oh, it’s not JUST cybersecurity!
It is also most forms of normal disaster planning, epidemiology, vaccine protection, preventative health… .

Posted August 22, 2023 at 5:42 pm 78415 notes

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justalittlesolarpunk:

It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.
It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.
It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.
It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.
It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.
It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.
It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.
It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.
It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.
It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.
It’s labour rights and less work.
It’s science and arts.
It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.
It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.
It’s sailboats and zeppelins.
It’s the speculative and the possible.
It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.
It’s global and local.
It’s me and you.
Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.