thats the thing thats missing from america-centric discussion of fascism: this shit is global. every country in “the west” is seeing the same rise of fascism in real time, all of it focused on murdering migrants. like giorgia meloni is campaigning to deport people to “migrant camps” in albania. last year the greek coast guard outright drowned a boat of 500 asylum seekers. and as that last post said im not dismissing the suffering of people within the US, i’m just saying its so supremely frustrating that every conversation is about the minutiae of american domestic policy and not the horrifying ultranationalist global trend scapegoating arabs and africans.

my point is you need to be horrified that “border control” is an accepted talking point. you need to be aware of the fact that climate change is currently driving what will become the largest forced movement of people ever as the “third world” becomes uninhabitable. people—specifically people from africa and west asia—are dying in the name of white supremacist “borders” around the world. and whether your european or american when you see this rhetoric manifest in your country you need to push back.

Campaign tip: if the opponent is going far right in order to court an increasingly far right voter base, try going moderately right to appeal to neither the left nor the right

screaming "we can push them Left!" when all the while they've been pushing you Right.

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”

The whole piece is short and worth a read.

i got spanish anon hate for this one btw

Donation list for relief aid for the victims of the Dana cold-drop

Instead of listing them one by one, I'm putting together existing lists for you to pick.

Valencia relief gofundmes.

Letur (Albacete) relief gofundmes. This town has also been quite harsly hit and it's not getting as much coverage.

#ArtistsForValencia masterpost. With a minimum of 5€ donations to any organization, you can contact the artists on this list to get a sketch of something.

The spanish branch of the Red Cross has set up several donation bank accounts as well

This twitter account has been managing to get trucks full of clean water and food to Valencia. Don't start with their profile picture, I genuinely don't care as long as they're bringing help.

Twitter thread with donation links. There's footage on the top of the thread of some people getting carried away by the water, so be warned. The link contains the first of many donation links.

Hambre cero is focused on bringing food and water to disaster zones.

desaparecidosdana on Instagram is an account to raise awareness and help locate missing people. Use this only if you're a local.

i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.

It takes a village to raise a child and it takes every neighbor to raise a barn and it takes all hands on deck to clean the river. We were built as a communal species. Lend what you can, and accept what you're offered.

How wonderful then...

If you ever see me write the words "how wonderful then..."

This is to what I'm referring

15?? More like 5.

if you've been in one but not sure if you should count it (stopping in an airport, for instance) count it

21

Fascist groups are using the catastrophe in the Valencian Country to promote themselves taking advantage of people's grief. Please, be careful of what you spread. They are posting many fake news, for example they said that they have found over 1,000 dead people in a parking lot where there was actually 0 dead people, only damaged cars, and many people have retweeted it, even people outside the right-wing sphere. The same goes with a demonstration against the government's incompetence that is really a fascist and neonazi rally, but some people have been spreading hiding that part of the information. I have even been sent a fake video of my town being flooded saying that it is today, my friend who now lives in another city sent it being worried for us, but the video is from years ago!

Be careful with what information you spread. Ask yourself: who is saying this? How do they have this data? What is their source? Could the person/organization posting this have another motive for spreading this idea?

Forgot to post my costume: cybertruck driver

if you ask me, the guy who put the sword INTO the stone should be king, not the chucklefuck who got it out.

I assume the guy who put the "sword that makes you the king" into the stone, doesn't really want the position

i think the stone should be king since it held the sword the longest

I have a lot of creative energy, yet I sit mindlessly scrolling through lobotomizing Instagram reels and TikToks. I've thought countless times about what to do about my restlessness, but I stay stagnant. I want to make something personal and honest with all of my favorite things. I worry if what I make will be enough for me, I doubt myself a lot but my contentment is getting harder to come by and I think I just need to do it

hate to relate, but I do

justine skye

this website lets you listen to the sounds of all different forests around the world