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Total offense but many people dont respect October 7th as the true militant uprising it is and refuse to learn from it. Palestinians brought a military and technological superpower that is backed by the US imperial government to heel with a lot less manpower. It was obvious that it took years to plan. I blame this all on the humanitarian lens in which people have been looking through at Gaza. Direct action is one thing but militant action is another

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Pete Wentz 2007

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men are so privileged they dont even realized how oppressed they really are

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The closest experience I've ever had to discovering "the vitamin" was buying a 100% wool outfit and wearing it in the winter.

Not only was I not freezing anymore, I was not sweating and overheating either. The horrible sensory nightmare of winter clothes disappeared.

In particular, I bought a pair of wool pants. They were a thrifted pair of fancy dress pants like you would wear at an important office job, and they were easily the most comfortable pair of winter-appropriate pants i'd ever worn. I wore them Every Single Day.

From that point on I realized a lot of my clothes were making me feel bad, and the common thread was polyester. Especially polyester blends.

It's a trap because the polyester clothes are the ones that always feel sooooo silky soft when they are in the store, whereas cotton, linen and wool can feel comparatively rough and scratchy. But when actually wearing them for hours throughout the day, it's the natural fibers that feel more comfortable.

Maybe the secret to sensory comfort is not about the presence of softness, but the absence of overloading sensations. Or maybe the sensory stress and agony is not triggered by texture of the fabric, but by how it breathes and regulates temperature.

Then there's the problem of clothing life span: polyester blends, no matter how soft they seem at first, become rough and scratchy and covered in hard, itchy pills after wearing them 10 or 20 times, whether or not they have been tumble-dried or even washed at all. (I tested it!) Linen and cotton become softer and more comfy the more you wear them, polyester but ESPECIALLY polyester blends become a constant stressor. Polyester blend t-shirts I used to love for their softness now feel bristly and irritating.

So now I'm trying to change my wardrobe to as many natural fibers as possible, and the more natural fiber clothes i have the more I realize that the plastic fibers stress me out. It's so easy to overheat or freeze in them and they're always degrading and becoming less comfortable and it sucks.

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Jacek Yerka (Polish, b. 1952)

Gardener’s Garden

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yearning to be a bird hours 😭

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me whenm i am. Prougraming on my Computer

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catalunya is the true lgbt community

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government’s new policy forcing many Albertans to pay out of pocket for a COVID-19 vaccination is about focusing on those who need it the most.

It could set a precedent across the country after the federal government put provinces in charge of buying COVID shots earlier this year.

Speaking Saturday on her call-in radio show, the morning after her government announced the move, Smith said $135 million got “flushed down the drain” last year with doses wasted in part because Albertans are increasingly choosing not to take them.

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How to protect your identity at protests 101

aka how to do black bloc.

1. Read these 3 zines

Blocing up

Blocs, Black and Otherwise

Cover your forehead

these 3 zines cover a lot of basics that you need to know. some of this information will be repeated, some of it won't be.

2. Get your gear

You need:

Some shoes that are comfortable for walking and that you're able to run in

Some baggy¹ pants

A baggy² t-shirt or light hoodie (remember it is June! don't wear something that will give you heatstroke)

A balaclava that covers your forehead or a neck gaiter + a hat. wear these over a KN95 mask. just the mask works too but more of your body is visible.

Polarized sunglasses (that go over your existing glasses, if relevant. No contacts!)

Gloves (particularly if you plan on touching anything incriminating)

A bag that you can fit all of this in

¹ Cops can do gait analysis to track you. baggy pants make this harder

² The more your form is visible the easier it is to create a description and the harder it is to blend in. hide it through baggy clothes

Optional but strongly suggested:

Goggles (for pepper spray and tear gas) make sure they seal (vented goggles are better than nothing but will allow tear gas in)

A respirator - a KN95 with a good seal does a lot of filtering, so does a wet bandana, but a respirator is best

A helmet - helps if you get knocked down by a pig/you get hit by a rubber bullet or debris

Things that are expensive but are also strongly suggested

An IFAK. even if you don't know how to use it in the event of a mass shooting street medics will run out of supplies

Bulletproof armor - anything is better than nothing but ideally you want IIIa or better

All of this needs to be

Solid black

Labelless

Without patterns/designs or other distinctive features

All of this preferably is

Purchased in cash

Not part of your everyday wardrobe

Blocing up 🥷

I cannot emphasize this enough, change after leaving your car/house. Wear a different, not black outfit to a second location where you change

It's a good idea to have a different bag covering your bloc bag too

Good places to change:

Are tucked away

Are hidden from roads (or that have an object hiding you from roads such as a dumpster)

Have a different entrance and exit

And don't have security cameras (watch for ring doorbells in residential areas!)

Walk in one direction and out the other after changing. Do not reuse the same spot to "De-bloc" (change out of your bloc)

When leaving the protest leave in a pair (one of the most likely spots to be arrested after a protest is walking away from it!) and de-bloc before getting back to your car/house.

might add more to this tomorrow because I'm sure I'm forgetting things but this is the gist of it

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it’s crazy how different you get treated in a mask but what really gets me is that when people ask why I’m masking, I’ve stopped saying I’m immunodeficient and started saying I have an immunodeficient family member at home. I am not exaggerating when I tell you this has 100% improved every single encounter I’ve had with anti-maskers. i’m not exaggerating in the slightest.

i used to tell people i’m immunodeficient and they’d ask invasive questions about my diagnosis, whether my parents kept my childhood overly sterile, whether I was vaccinated as a child (with the implication that it would have been bad if I were).

Now that I say I have an immunodeficient family member at home, people smile knowingly and say, “oh, well you do what you have to do,” and “my mom went through chemo. I remember how hard it was to do all the precautions” and “that’s so kind of you.”

if i tell someone i mask because i’m disabled, i’m assumed to be the weak link in our society, a burden to my family.

if i tell someone i mask to protect a disabled family member, i become the burdened, compassionate caretaker deserving of sympathy. how sad that i must limit myself to protect someone i love. how heroic that i choose to do so.

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This is how my fiancee announces that she found furbies for sale at my store:

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NO ONE SHOWS YOU THIS PART.

The aid points have become a nightmare. Not just hunger — but theft, violence, and death. The strong take from the weak. The warlords sell what should be free. And above it all, gunfire rains down.

Last night, I stood there again, risking my life in the dark, desperate to bring something home. I came back empty — but alive. I don’t know if I’ll be that lucky next time.

Please… help me stay with my family. Your support keeps me alive — and out of that graveyard.

Share or donate if you can. Don’t let this be the end of our story.🖤