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‘relationships are work’ means ‘you have to put effort into loving each other intentionally & learning how to love each other and communicating properly’ not ‘your relationship makes you feel stressed and sad most of the time & the other person disrespects you and treats you bad but you stay anyway’
You don’t need to react to every piece of news in order to be a good activist or an engaged person. In fact you probably shouldn’t or you’ll burn out in a year. Lots of news even if it does matter, it is not the point. Not every little outrageous thing Trump says is the point.
You can read the news, know what’s going on and then save your reactions, outrage or initiatives for the right moment, with the benefit of the big picture.
It serves those in power for the news to be overwhelming so don’t fight them by overwhelming yourself.
Pick your battles and look for context.
And look after yourself is you’re in it for the long haul.
Jameela is a godsend. “Detox” diets are fucking bad you. Detoxing is nearly always bullshit, nutritionally.
Life isn’t about getting there the fastest. Life is full of beautiful and messy stops, bumps, and detours, and that’s part of what makes it interesting. 🐌✨
I HAVE THIS CONVERSATION WITH FATPHOBES EVERY FUCKING DAY.
This beautifully illustrates the abusive tactic of using the “thats just how I am” tactic, and the abusive lie of “just being honest”.
Thanksgiving is coming up, and I’ve found that Printing out this comic, stapling it into a little book and leaving it in “gift bags” (Be sure to inculde something genuinely nice, like the remaining Zucchini bread) for visiting relatives of dubious social graces made thanksgiving go a whole lot easier.
Friendly reminder that activated charcoal, even when put into food as a black colorant, binds to medication and can make it ineffective. Yes, this includes birth control! I thought I’d put this PSA out there since people are making spooky “black” versions of normal foods.
Important reminder: Everyone on the internet is a real person.
Go read this. It’s really important.
Be kind to one another.
Post selfies.
Like your friends’ selfies. Love that you got to see them wherever they are. Be glad and be grateful they shared a little of themselves with you..
Post selfies.
Like your own selfies. Press the little heart. If you can love your face with that little heart maybe you can love your whole self with your whole heart.
How do you prevent feeling hopeless, and scared, and angry wrt climate change and its irrevocable effects on humanity and earth?
Hi anon! Sorry I took a little bit to get back to you! I was in finals week at college, but now I am out of school and much more free.
In terms of feeling hopeless about the climate, I think that’s what a lot of solarpunk is about. Speaking anecdotally, from my own experience, I had always been interested in the climate and worried about climate change. However, growing up in a middle-class area in New England, much of my concern was hypothetical. I worried about the rainforests and the coral reefs, but i never felt I could do anything about it. Added to these feelings of ineptitude were these two strains of mainstream climate reporting: apocalyptic tales about how bad everything was going to be and weak, consumer-based calls to action, telling you to change your lightbulbs and take shorter showers. The impression that I got was that climate change was a gaping canyon of an issue and that our only solutions were bandaids.
Solarpunk opposes those strains of climate discourse. Yes, climate change is bad. Natural disasters are going to get more common. Animals will go extinct. People will die. We have to confront these realities head on. But the amount of destruction can always be mitigated, and that’s where hope comes in. Hope springs people into action; despair allows them to be complacent. If we want to make change, we have to approach the problem with hope.
Nihilism is the domain of the privileged, who can look at problems with a distant kind of despair, who can feel bad without having to sacrifice anything. Hope helps those whose lives will actually be affected by climate change–who are predominantly poor, Indigenous, and non-White, people who have been ignored by mainstream environmental groups in the US.
And there is hope, not in the changing of lightbulbs or the shortening of showers. There is hope in communal solar that is helping people in storm-battered Puerto Rico survive, there is hope in the actions of Indigenous land protectors in opposing fossil fuels, there is hope in communities learning to create utilities for themselves, lessening their dependence on corporations. Corporations want you to believe that your consumption is the key to solving climate change, but it is not. Alternatively, corporations want you to believe climate change is inevitable, so you will give in and not fight back.
Don’t believe them. Fight back. Destroy extractive capitalist practices.
That’s what gives me hope. i hope it gives you hope too.
It’s World Bee Day and I did a thread about the love of my love and our hilarious romcom love/hate beginnings.
Ursula K. Le Guin ‘The Dispossessed’
ERIN BOW
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
words to live by
Grow through what you go through
(Cecil, Welcome to Night Vale, Episode 75) That is legitimately some of the most helpful advice I’ve ever heard.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
