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25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

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Please Help a Homeless Transgender Woman Afford Her $30 Phone Bill

February 6th 2025

Hey I'm Thistle Ishtar Daggers-Drawn and I'm a homeless trans woman living in a squatter community in Southern California called Slab City.

I need help to pay my $30 phone bill so I can use the internet and keep in touch with my family.

Please donate so I can have my phone work.

CASH APP: $ThistleDD

VENMO: @ThistleDD

PAYPAL: Paypal.me/ThistleDD

Thank you for all your support! Please Like, Reblog, and Share!

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Haven't had a real meal in a week

Okay, I haven't had a real meal since I got discharged from the hospital over a week ago. I don't have any money right now and have been living off of random snacks or things I can find. I desperately need a few bucks to help me buy a few items to make some sort of meal with. If you can help I'd appreciate it.

P*ypal: paypal.me/ItsMeAce3

C*sh App: $acefluid03

V*nmo: @CallMeAce32

Please anyone?

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Hello I'm Trop

I'm a mentally ill trans woman thats Been Going Through It™ lately

My hours are still reduced at work and I still really need help affording rent, hrt and general day-to-day expenses until things improve.

My monthly goal is about $1400 a month and ill need all the help i can get

please anything & everything helps

veno: redloop

cashap: $TropScream

PP: tropscream

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The cruelty of racist white men.

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A dancer raised a Palestine and Sudan Flag at SuperBowl Halftime show.

FREE PALESTINE and SUDAN

🇸🇩 🇵🇸

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i see posts all the time about how services explicitly offered by u.s. libraries are harmful for u.s. libraries and then people comment like “no i think that’s good and you should use it actually” & everyone starts weighing in and disagreeing so here’s my suggestion:

while i’m someone who generally assumes that using a service offered by my local library is good or at least neutral for my local library,

if you’re unsure how to best support & exploit your local library, you could always ask a librarian at your local library. you could go right up to the counter to talk about it or use the email form on the library’s contact page.

now you may think, “uh oh. this post is encouraging people to go and pester their local librarians. that may be a bad use of the library’s time & resources…”

and the is snake swallowing its tail

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Help a Family Rebuild 💔

Mohamad has lost so much and now he’s drowning in debt trying to keep his sister and her five kids safe. He needs our help to bring them to safety and start anew.

We’re 14% of the way there (€2,864/€20,000). Every euro counts. Every share matters. Regardless of his name, skin color, or religion—this is about humanity.

Donate & share: Donation Link

✅ Vetted by Association:

@bilal-salah0 Here

Please, let’s make this happen. 🙏

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Help a Disabled Homeless Trans Person Afford Supplies

December 26th, 2024 I am a trans woman in a precarious situation. I've gone through a lot the latter half of this year and lost a lot of my independence. I've had my life plans uprooted out from under me and kicked to the streets and been left with very little to go off of. I asking for help to regain my independence and be able to have supplies to camp out so I no longer have be wholly reliant on others for my basic needs. Please help me raise a few hundred dollars pay my phone bill, get a good pair of shoes, and camping supplies, to regain my footing.

Cashapp: $CashCoy0te

Paypal: @CashCoy0te

Deeply appreciate people's help in donating.

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I like to think not everyone in my country is irredeemable. I like to delude myselt that my case is the same as everyone's. That they grew up in propaganda, but theres a chance to see the light.

Once in a while ill be reminded that its not true. Some people are alt right pigs with no critical thinking. Some people truely take joy in the death of so, so many innocent people.

But one thing about me is that i do NOT let that shit fly. If we werent in an educational setting fucking TRUST me i would knock her teeth out for talking how she did.

Remember guys, its ok to punch nazis

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i’ll die on the hill that says “sapphic love isn’t inherently more wholesome and pure and saying it does will only hurt lesbian and bi women”

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cfdgdgdv????

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BLACK TRANS WOMAN SEEKING MUTAL AID

Thank you for everyone who donated so far I’m still crowdfunding for dental surgery and I’m not working right now which is now being delayed even further since not all of my documents match up so I need help with rent and taking care of my mother who’s disabled and my account is over-drafted so please donate if you can

(or If you want to support me pls buy something from my Depop I also source vintage so if you need anything fashion related I got you <3) like if anyone just bought like two things I would be able to really get through the rest of the month and February since I won’t be able to do anything after surgery.

I still have to pay $250 out of pocket for a Ct scan so pls donate if you can

VENMO

CASHAPP

PAYPAL

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It is with the deepest frustrations that I must report Microsoft has pushed out Copilot onto Microsoft Word no matter what your previous settings were. If you have Office because you paid for it/are on a family plan/have a work/school account, you can disable it by going to Options -> click on Copilot -> uncheck 'Enable Copilot'.

(Note, you may not see this option if you haven't updated lately, but Copilot will still pop up. Updating should give you this option. I will kill Microsoft with my bare hands.)

In addition, Google has forced a roll-out of it's Gemini AI on all American accounts of users over 18 (these settings are turned off by default for EU, Japan, Switzerland, and UK, but it doesn't hurt to check).

To remove this garbage, you must go to Manage Workspace smart feature settings for all your Gmail/Drive/Chat and turn them off. Go to Settings -> See all settings -> find under "Genera" the "Google Workspace smart features" -> turn smart feature setting off for both Google Workspace and all other Google products and hit save. (If you turned off the smart settings in your Gmail, it never hurts to open Drive and double-check that they're set to off there too.)

Quick Edit: I found the easiest way to get to the Smart Feature settings following the instructions above was to do it through Drive. Try that route first.

Now is the time to consider switching to Libre Office if you haven't already.

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I don't know how to make these posts, but I can personally vouch for Layth, the organizer of this campaign. He's a good friend of mine in real life whom I met at the IU Indianapolis pro-Palestine encampment; in fact, he was the one who placed the first tent at Democracy Plaza (aka Intifada Plaza). He has family in Gaza that he needs help evacuating.

Please share, and donate if you can.

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FYI iPhone users!

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Hey guys, we're short again before payday and for the usual fuel and food, could we get like $100 or even $50 to get through the next two days? At least for fuel for Chris to get to work and to get my enby some dinner

Kofi: /FakeJuly

PayPal: ace8ball@gmail.com

Cat who likes to eat ^