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"guys we're so cooked" "it's wraps" "the end is near" shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up. i say that with love because you are probably saying it out of distress and hopelessness, but for your own well-being and for everyone else's, please stop saying this shit.

no we are not "cooked." and by saying that, by the way, you are giving more power to the neo-nazi oligarchy in charge.

they want you to abandon all hope of a better life. they want you to believe "oh well, it's over, we might as well stop trying to fight back and just resign ourselves to despair forever."

every time you get on tiktok and comment "guys we're so cooked haha it's over," you are feeding into the mindset of hopeless compliance. you are, unknowingly, spreading this infectious idea that just because we've lost one battle, we've lost the entire war.

your words matter. i am saying this out of love and concern for our future, but please stop choosing words of defeat.

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Hey. Hey.

Capitalism ≠ Commerce

You can perfectly well make something and sell it for money. That's not being a capitalist.

But if you own the things needed to make something (a loom, a factory, land) and use other people's labor to make profits, that's capitalism.

Commerce, the exchange of goods and services, has always existed.

Capitalism is only one way to organize commerce, and it's by allowing corporations to own the means of productions and distribution. The workers can create nothing by themselves, and their labor exists only to make the owners more and more profit.

So, my leftist friend, don't feel bad for selling the things you make for money. You are not contributing to capitalism, you are suffering from it.

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If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

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your daily reminder that this is a microblogging website and not every post you see is a sweeping well thought-out hot take for you to consider and many posts are in fact vent posts that blew up on accident

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joe biden, you stupid fuck. listen to me. Crimes are legal for sitting presidents as long as they’re official actions. Listen: Joe. You have one chance

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male characters having no asses in video games is the most tragic epidemic since smallpox

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smh everyone talks so much about the emotional toll of "fumbling a bad bitch", shut up, think about the emotional toll it takes on us when we get fumbled . . .

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*booking an mri* what if I accidentally have a pacemaker. what if I got secret bone surgery and forgot about the pins

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WELCOME BACK YELLOW-CRESTED HELMETSHRIKE!!!

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🔪 knife stop 🔪

Take a knife or two to complete any tasks you need to finish soon. Reblog to give your mutuals a knife for any group projects you may be working on

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it’s almost that time of the year :)

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The link on her TikTok page which leads you to her business, but here it is for folks who want to check it out: Modest Behaviour

I stumbled upon her content such a long time ago, and they're both so precious and funny as heck. Please support them if you aren't already following her accounts.

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et tu, mblr?

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