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Gabrielle Garland (American, b. 1968, New York, NY, USA) - 1-3: Untitled, 2023, Paintings: Acrylic, Oil on Canvas

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This is going to be hard for a lot of people to hear but if you want to make your spaces safer for disabled people, then you need to stop assuming malice from every poorly worded post.

A lot of neurodivergencies and disabilities cause people to ramble, lose their train of thought very easily, go on tangents, have disordered thinking, etc. We can get words and names mixed up very easily, lose words entirely, struggle to put our thoughts into actual words that make sense to people, and lose track of conversations. Whether it's from ADHD, psychosis, brain fog, brain damage, or any other condition, thinking and verbalizing ourselves can be really fucking hard.

This isn't malicious. We aren't doing it on purpose to hurt or upset people, and we aren't ignorant about the topic just because we get mixed up. We deserve to have voices, even if we don't always make sense to other people.

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no animal was harmed during the making of this video. not one. for the few minutes that we were shooting film, the guns of each hunter fell silent. the industrial bolt throwers observed a moment's peace and the jaws of every predator hung softly open. no fish bit any hook and the bait worms held off on drowning only until the cameras stopped. the tails of ruminants ceased to flick just as their attendant flies, in unison, landed on their flanks to catch their tiny breaths. a spider instantly stopped winding silk around a wasp, patiently waiting for the caesura to end. a young veterinarian paused with the syringe in their hand. somewhere, a colicky baby stopped biting its mother's nipple and nursed happily for the very first time. we're sorry. we're sorry it couldn't have been longer. we didn't know this would happen.

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On Sunday night [15 June 2025], the blockade of the Parched timber sale in the Elwha Watershed was dismantled in response to a violent vigilante who pulled a gun on forest defenders, threatening to shoot them and firing shots in the forest. This shocking and disturbing final event came after several days of a slew of different kinds of attacks and repression.

The Parched timber sale is attempting to log 192 acres near two rivers in the Elwha Watershed. The sale targets legacy forest comprising large, mature Douglas Fir, Red Cedar, Western Hemlock and Big Leaf Maple and a diverse understory. For almost a year, local community members have been resisting this project, and more recently, some of those community members decided to put their bodies on the line to stop it. For over a month they have lived in a tree-sit on the side of the road, preventing logging vehicles from entering.

The breakdown began on Monday June 9th when the campaign ProtonMail email account was shut down due to an investigation by the Swiss government. This caused the unfortunate loss of campaign infrastructure, such as lists of supporters and journalists, and disabled communication.

On Friday June 13th, police of unknown affiliation came to raid the support camp underneath the tree-sitter. They seized tents, sleeping bags, mats, pots, cooking gear, water filters, bear spray, communications gear, and more. This seizure forced ground support to continue camping without adequate gear in order to ensure the treesitter’s safety, resulting in a survival situation for the supporters that night.

One person present for the raid said, “We were peacefully camping before the cops swept their camp, a very aggressive move in an open recreation area where dozens of community members had been each day. The police confiscated everything as it was, including carrying out hot bowls of oatmeal instead of pouring them out. The sweep put the safety of the sitter at risk by exposing them to worse violent treatment and threats, which is ironic, given the police earlier said they prioritized the sitter’s safety.”

Local community members quickly rallied to reprovision camp and support the tree sit, donating money and supplies and hiking through the cover of darkness to ensure essentials made it to camp without being intercepted by police.

On Saturday night, a new opposition arrived: a truck and two ATVs attempted to tamper with the anchor line of the tree-sit and damage the tripod, both of which were holding a person’s life. They harrassed and threatened the people on the ground and in the air, appearing to be drunk and throwing around empty bottles. They left late into the night.

On Sunday evening, after another wave of support came from town to repair the tripod and tree-sit, yet another group came up on an ATV with a winch. A supporter recounted, “At dusk, about a half mile from the sit and still hiking, I could hear a woman’s voice screaming, “We’re coming back!” I started to run up the road and as I approached the wrecked tripod, a black late model Jeep turned the headlights on and started to drive towards me. [The driver] got out of the car and I was able to see two children and a woman. He came running over at me threatening to kill me. I ignored him and continued to walk to the tree to see if the sitter was ok.”

The vigilante attached his winch to the anchor line and dragged it off the road. This was immensely dangerous to the tree-sitter, and could have been fatal. The sitter’s platform fell multiple inches. After, the man drove around shooting a gun into the air before pointing the gun at a forest defender, walking at them aggressively, and threatening to shoot.

The danger presented by the family and their dismantling of the blockade caused the forest defenders to choose to safely evacuate. However, forest defenders maintain that the resistance to logging remains strong.

“The most central thing that happened here wasn’t the fact that someone was living in a tree. It was that a group of people came in closer contact with the Earth through joy and grief and interfering with the forces that do Earth harm—in this case, through logging.”

“Our commitment to defend the forests and waters of the Olympic Peninsula remains strong,” stated the forest defenders. “To the vigilantes, the DNR cops, and state-sponsored repression, we say: You did not dig up our roots. We are still here. Stop pillaging our people. Stop pillaging our forests. Stop pillaging our waters. Our movement has not been uprooted. It is just beginning to grow.”

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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

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Ugo Nespolo (Italian, b. 1941), Untitled, 1980. Acrylic on wood, partly cut-out, 159 × 119 cm.

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biggest L i've had to take from morning people is that the hours between 5 - 9 am really do have 7x as much time in them than the ones between 9 pm - 1 am and you can get your whole day's worth of shit done by noon

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the assisted dying debate is so crazy

because i do fundamentally believe everyone should have the right to die when they want.

BUT if they legalise assisted suicide in the UK right now i don't trust our ableist fucking government to not just start coercing disabled people into suicide to save money. they already won't give them enough money to live.

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☀ cross stitch of a cat , which is about 1000 years old !

A textile fragment was found in Peru. It belongs to the Chimu or Chancay culture (pre-Columbian era X - XV centuries)

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the sacred texts have been found....!!!!!!!

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starwalk

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Something people kinda don’t get about the way activism has changed over time is that people can’t really get arrested like they used to. I talk to old activists and they are like “oh yeah, I got arrested like 30 times that year”. Nowadays, you’d be left there to rot after like the third arrest, and that’s if you are really privileged! For a lot of folks, it’s the first arrest. But even just a lot of more “normal” old people got arrested a lot at some point in their youth and let out.

Sentencing and everything has gotten so hard on folks that you just can’t really take the risks you could then. And social services are so weak that there’s nothing to fall back on. Many of the panthers and folks were on welfare, and now you ain’t gonna get a welfare check at all.

So when you look at the movements of the sixties and try to mirror their tactics and their ferver and wonder why folks don’t show up and things don’t go down the same, just consider that these things are really different now. And what you do might got to be pretty different too.

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call me a dirty communist radical but I think everyone should know if they live near toxic waste

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The best advice i can give any creator is do it before you're good at it, do it BEFORE you're happy, do it while you suck, do it while you're doubting yourself and get stuck the fuck in, because waiting around to be "good enough" is a motherfucking trap of the highest degree. You'll get good along the way and better after every project is complete. Remember, this is the greatest thing you've ever created, and then you'll do something else. You're only ever gonna get better, but not if you stand still.

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"all the wrong people are unlearning shame" right yes, and i assume that all the right people are still trying to convince themselves that their own shame is ennobling, and as such their open resentment towards people with insufficient shame is a valuable moral service