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Pops’s Great Big Mutual Aid Masterpost

So, this isn’t the first post ever made like this, but I’m trying to do something a little different than just posting a bunch of links. I’m only gonna include resources that are international, common, displayed either as a map or as a geographically-sorted list, and easy to participate in, to make this masterpost as accessible as I possibly can. If you’re reading this post you’re probably an English-speaker with an internet connection, and so with that in mind my goal here is that any given link you click will have a decent chance of having something near you, and there will almost certainly be at least one link on this list with something you can plug into

Groups

Mutual Aid Wiki - A map of mutual aid groups of all kinds, largely (but not exclusively) ones started in response to the pandemic

Food Not Bombs - A map of free public meals from rescued food waste. Can be a little outdated

Buy Nothing Project - A list of hyper-local gift economy groups

Trash Nothing - A list of local groups where people give and request things that would otherwise be thrown away

Transition Network - A map of local groups seeking to build sustainable circular economies from the ground up, for people, not profits

Industrial Workers of the World - One big labor union for everybody, with local chapters across much of the world

Locations

Slingshot Collective’s Radical Contact List - An international catch-all list of projects

Intentional Community Directory - A map of communes, housing coops, land trusts, eco-villages, and similar communal living projects

Repair Cafés - A map of spaces where you can show up and have your broken items repaired for free (or volunteer to do so for others)

Sharing Spaces

Little Free Library’s Sharing Box Map - A map of little free libraries that have been converted into sharing spaces for food, personal care, or hygiene items

Freedges - A map of community refrigerators for sharing food

Little Free Pantries - A map of sharing boxes for non-perishable food

Can’t Find Anything?

None of these lists are comprehensive, and these aren’t the only resources available either. Try using a search engine or looking on social media with keywords like “[your location] mutual aid”

If you’ve looked everywhere you can think of but are still coming up short, you can DM me (not on anon) with the rough area where you live and I’ll try to find some stuff for you

Maybe you could start something yourself! Here are some resources: How to Form an Affinity Group, Small Town Organizing for Anarchists, resources for mutual aid groups from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, seven steps to starting a Food Not Bombs group

If you don’t have even a single accomplice to start an affinity group with, there are still actions you can take on your own! Check out my #practical tag for ideas

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Horse update

Just started leasing a horse. He's up for sale, and has been listed for months, with no buyers so the owners were open to an on-site lease. I'm a sucker for a hard case, so this was perfect. But good lord, does he need work. 8 year old TB who is in just...real rough shape. He has prior sale pictures where he looks better, but...currently? So mostly, I'm just paying to feed him and do a tiny bit of groundwork to work on relaxation, stretching, finding some balance in ways that aren't strenuous. They say he is able to be ridden but is "flighty and sensitive"-- I would not ride a horse in this condition. Yes, he is flighty and sensitive. He needs way better turnout, probably dewormed, his feet done, and someone familiar with a weight gain re-feeding program. They bought him for cheap from a racehorse dispersal as a six year old right off the track. He's been worked with a little, apparently, but now they want...3 or 4k for him? Pretty torn on this. I'm a bleeding heart, but this horse needs a rescue to step in.

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does anyone have that quote that goes something like 'white germans under the nazis lived just fine as long as they were loyal to the state, gave their children to the army, and paid their taxes, and in this sense many americans would be comfortable living under fascism' trying to find who said it but google is giving me jack shit

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Reverse experience. I walked through some soft sand by the road today, and thought "feels like walking by Lake Michigan" and suddenly I could smell the lake, the beach, the cold water and the algae- it was very intense, very brief. But really cool. One little thought, and an entire sense-memory was triggered.

your scent processing being so close to memory in your brain is insane sometimes you step outside and take a whiff and go "ah, it smells like playing pokemon emerald in my third grade afterschool program in the crisp september of 2006"

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Nice people make the best Nazis. Be mean, be tough, have a fascist tooth/skull collection.

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I didn't play a ton of games, but uh, sure.

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whats a stereotype for your country that you absolutely do. mine is that i unironically go "eh" and apologize a lot and i often drink maple syrup straight

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happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

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Andor Appreciation Day 2 - Everyone Has Their Own Rebellion

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Please do not let debt collectors play in your face.

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Someday

Someday being bored will not feel like dying, and screaming, and screaming and then going through the motions to pass the time

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Wheel of Time

the reason I don't watch new shows anymore just get started watching them and.... Cancelled