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So. Storytime for guerilla gardeners and solarpunk enthusiasts. This story comes to me 3rd hand but I believe the basic shape of it is true, even if details may be off.

So there’s this guy who lives in my parents’ town. Wanted to have a pocket farm but lives on an urban lot in a small city instead because y’know jobs and stuff. He could definitely get a few raised beds in the backyard but nothing all that impressive and the front yard is on a very busy road with the expectation that it’ll look reasonably traditional (plus planting food by busy roads isn’t always a good idea).

However

After he’s lived there for a while, he realizes his neighbors are all older people who maybe have more challenges taking care of their yards than they used to. So he goes to his next door neighbor and offers a deal: I’ll mow and maintain your front yard for free if you let me knock down the fences between our backyards and plant them both with food. And you’ll get a cut of the produce.

Presumably the neighbor already knew and trusted this guy because he said yes. So he starts mowing and maintaining his and his neighbor’s front yards and planting food in their now-shared backyards. After a season or two this goes well enough that the next neighbor down the street asks if he can be in on this too.

So now there’s 3 front yards to mow and three backyards full of produce. And it keeps going from there. Dude gets a rider lawnmower and does everyone’s front yards, and meanwhile he’s maintaining an entire block’s worth of produce in the back. His yields got so high that he was able to start offering boxes of produce outside of the block’s residents too. This is how I heard of him: my parents’ next door neighbors were picking up a regular box of produce from him.

I love a couple of things about this story:

Offering to maintain people’s front yards for them allows baby boomers to feed their thirst for keeping up appearances while still getting food production into the neighborhood

As homeowners age offering services like this is legitimately good community building

BLOCK-LONG POCKET FARM

These exact circumstances might not be replicable everywhere, but I love thinking about how these principles could be applied.

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was watching Murderbot when i noticed a detail on Gurathin's sweater:

you see that???? THAT'S VISIBLE MENDING!!!!! the attention to detail in this show is so delightful, so in line with their characters backgrounds. OF COURSE Preservation Alliance citizens mend their clothes! now i'm wondering why they used contrasting colors, is it to show that not even thread goes to waste? is it to be whimsical? maybe even to show off the care they put in their clothes by mending patching darning etc?

i was already piqued when the crew appeared in their non-research clothes, many of them seem to be loose, comfortable garments, knit, natural fibers, earth tones that one could get from natural dyes. this is just the cherry on top.

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Donate!!!!!! Boost!!!!!

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starting a collection. please add on

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transition is like putting on the oxygen mask thingy in the airplane. first you trans your own gender for safety and then you help with everyone else's.

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“we can’t be together, my love. for i am cursed to be a basketball dracula forever” said basketball dracula as he leapt into a solemn slam dunk from half court. his lover cried immediately

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SHIT.

Please reblog!

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I just HAVE to be the most fuckable person in the cool but ominous mist of the redwood forest

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Alberta's police watchdog recommended laying charges against three Lethbridge officers who used police databases to improperly access the personal information of two people, including NDP MLA Shannon Phillips, but the Crown's office has declined to prosecute, CBC News has learned.

[...] Despite calling the Crown's refusal to pursue charges "quite regrettable," Phillips says she is feeling vindicated after years of pursuing police accountability. 

"I think it sends a message to the public that in order to get even a sliver of accountability, even a tiny little ray of light on transparency and accountability in a police service, you have to fight, you have to pay a personal cost, you have to wait years, and even then it will be partial," said Phillips in a phone interview. 

"The system overall is quite broken." [...]

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland, @abpoli

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Staff have done their best to hide this post, OP's blog has been deleted to hide it. Spread this post as much as you can (ideally through screenshots to avoid it being nuked)

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cleaning my room and found an old sketch of my tits hahaha

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Remember kids, Nazis don't deserve their kneecaps.

Also if any of these are incorrect pls lemme know

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Watterson pulled no punches