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2025 - Indigenous teenagers spent a month kayaking hundreds of kilometers across the newly freed Klamath River in Oregon and California, after winning a decades-long fight to save it. [video]

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My ideal societal treatment of transitioning is that its like, finding a new, better job and/or moving cities

It's a big, positive life event, but it happens to people all the time. It's often celebrated casually. It just happens sometimes, though. Maybe people at your old job change their relationship with you, and maybe you fortify your relationship with people elsewhere. You can mention where you used to work casually without it being a huge deal. You can joke about people quitting their jobs and becoming a goat farmer without it being a huge deal.

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Ocean Springs Mississippi Community Center,

Walter Anderson

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FINALLY got around to dumping Spotify after their CEO continued to prove he's a fresh turd. (As if being a billionaire, not paying musicians, shoving AI garbage at us, and having an atrocious carbon footprint wasn't bad enough, he's now the chair of a AI-based weapons manufacturing company.)

I used TuneMyMusic ($24 annual fee you can cancel immediately, effectively paying only once) to transfer almost every single song from our Spotify account to Tidal. Tidal already has much better sound quality and they pay their artists much better. It migrated over 99% of our music, too, so there wasn't a huge loss.

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Atheists hate me because I love religion too much but religious people hate me bcaxuz I get silly with it. I will never be recognized in my own time

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Please keep work place safety in mind at all times

THESE ARE DRAWINGS. I DREW THESE.

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life hack: if you buy just one nightcrawler, you can make copies of it for only a quarter.

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Your post you just reblogged made me realize I have a sore lack of understanding of what syndicalist theory actually looks like. Not to be this person, but do you have any reading recs off the top of your head?

Most of what I know about syndicalism comes from conversations with old syndicalist trade union organizers and not from reading, tho I have done a good bit of it. I have picked stuff up through reading, but truly, I don’t have recommendations for individual texts. I would go on the anarchist library and skim pieces about syndicalism until you find something interesting. Find the basic ideas, and then spend time thinking about what they would look like in your ideal society.

I have learned a lot by reading and listening about the Spanish civil war, the anarchist opposition in early 1900s France, the syndicalists of the IWW, and syndicalist movements in South America and Australia. I’ve read some syndicalists from Japan and Korea in translation, but I didn’t get much from it cause the translations weren’t great.

Sorry if this isn’t helpful. The fact is that becoming an anarchist never involved reading one good text. It’s a slow process of uncovering. I’m sure many have done it better than me, but can only recommend what I myself have done.

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i miss the days when hozier was still active on twitter

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I really wish that the actual newspapers would adopt this model.

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you know, maybe those little ponies had a point

I love the power of friendship (as a friend-haver myself)

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my beloved friend,

Ask yourself, does throwing your own heart on the pile of death bring you salvation? Does your hurt bring them back from the dead? Does your anger stop the bombs being dropped on them?

Liberation isn’t about how we feel inside. You do not owe it to the dead to cry for them. Grieve, mourn, but do it with purpose. Do it so you can lift back up your head. The dead don’t need it.

But the living do need your action. And you can affect it. All that you touch, you change. All the world is not a closed system. You have loved ones, you have friends, you have hobbies full of acquaintances. As you show them kindness, as you comfort them through the pain of being complicit, you can begin to shape them.

Every teenager you feed and clothe is one less who feels the need to join the military and blow up other children to get those same needs met. Every airline pilot, every dock worker, everyone in television, you can comfort them through the idea of a union. And then, if the time comes, there strike may prevent the delivery of the bombs. Every native food crop that you plant makes us more resilient. The boycotts and the strikes we foster will hold out because of hickory trees and persimmons that we planted and they harvest. Be patient. With yourself and with others. Talk, listen. Do things that you can see grow. We win this by building, slow and steady, but urgent, not alone, part of a larger whole.

All of your love is not wasted. Make space inside of yourself for it. Let the flames die down. Our problems are systemic. Our fight is complicated. But that is all the more reason to focus on the attainable, the little things, the longterm effects.

As le guin says

“We live under capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be ended by human beings”

You have your part in this. It is not insignificant. And so much of it can be done sitting down.

The real work of liberation lies in building the infrastructure from which further liberation can happen.

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More How To Manage ADHD

“I never remember to take out the trash until my trash can is full, at which point the trash bag is really heavy and the stuff at the bottom has been rotting a while, and it’s awful!”

Small brain: “Try to train yourself to take out the trash on certain days at certain times.”

Large brain: “Buy a tiny trash can. Now you HAVE to empty it.”