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the fundamental problem on this website is that if a homeless person tried to talk to most of y’all you’d be scared out of your minds

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Major shout-out to men that craft. Dudes that knit. Fellows that felt. Bros that bind books. Cobbers that cross-stitch. Y'all are wonderful and I appreciate you.

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the last couple of days I've been noticing way more buds than usual on the branches of trees and bushes. I think something big is about to happen

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when the days get warmer and all of a sudden you’re glad you didn’t succeed in killing yourself last year 😭🙏

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It's beautiful how easy it is to learn new skills compared to 10-15 years ago. I like to say I taught myself a ton of stuff in all kinds of creative fields, but in reality, "self-taught" means a hundred different people made free resources that helped me get here.

This is one of the reasons I vouch so much for open-source projects, free resources, good educational youtube videos etc.

I want to dedicate my life to creating cool, fucked up art, and at the same time, nurture the internet as a public and open library for learning how to make cool, fucked up art.

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Guess whos employed now

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group living is beautiful and it’s about having a compost named marty and making dinner together and late night cups of tea on the couch with good books and sharing thrifted CDs or ones from the library and going to the park together in the morning before work and hugs when you get home and a household zine collection/obsession and sharing soaps and journals and making brownies together and dancing in the kitchen and planning a network of gardens between other people we know in the city and scrabble nights and teaching each other how to mend and cook and building each other nightstands and helping sew quilts and sliding books under bedroom doors and sticky notes with jokes and laughing in the sunshine outside of the laundry mat

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Humans are made of love btw. If you even care

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hi trans people i hope you get to live. i hope you get to laugh so fucking loud and revel in how the wind blows through your hair and i hope you get to dress the way you like and i hope you get complimented on it. i hope you get to kiss someone or hug someone or hold hands with someone or be told how wonderful you are. i hope you get to dance to weird music and i hope you go swimming with no concerns other than how much sunscreen to put on and i hope you sing bad karaoke with your friends. i hope a kid spots you from across the road and realizes they don't have to live one way forever. i hope we all live

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Yall the tags you're adding to this are so cute i love checking my phone and seeing a hundred people saying its getting warmer and how excited they are i love yall

Even though you cant see it, the tiny shoots of grass are getting ready to pop out of the soil. The sap is running in the trees. The bees are waking up. Spring is coming even if we cant see it yet. There is hope

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Casual reminder that stuff like this exists and you can go see it

(Colorado National Monument)

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Even though you cant see it, the tiny shoots of grass are getting ready to pop out of the soil. The sap is running in the trees. The bees are waking up. Spring is coming even if we cant see it yet. There is hope

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Reminder to everyone that the mending of clothes, especially visible mending, is an act of rebellion in a consumerist society with a culture of fast fashion.

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artwork by Kate Broughton

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It is so disingenuous when supermarkets have "grown by: Farmer X" on their packaging because it's like, I'll be looking at a pack of strawberries grown by farmer x and he'll actually be the managing director of a fruit farm that employs 2,000 people as pickers!

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today’s vibe is unending compassion and cyclical self-forgiveness

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god i love solarpunk. Shout out to solarpunk.

Sometimes it gets criticism for being just an art aesthetic, and i get that, fair enough, but for me thats the whole point.

I can't always picture a future worth fighting for on my own. It would be so much harder to hope for and work towards a better future without the images others have crafted of what that better world might look like. Sometimes what keeps me going is pretty imaginings of a beautiful, flawed, near-utopia that's mostly just vibes and sunshine and plants growing regardless of whether the conditions are well suited to it, and humans who continue and endure and care for their world and community.