ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help

Operation Olive Branch has a spreadsheet dedicated to mutual aid, local distro, community kitchens, etc. in Gaza.

This is a good place to start if seeking to donate to a community resilience action. Just contact the group(s) directly to make sure they are still active. Life in Gaza and Palestine is full of uncertainty.

me when i cant comprehend that different continents have different animals

the rest of the paragraph that was cut out in that screenshot literally explains the reasons behind the easter bilby and bluntly theyre minimising the impact that wild rabbits have had as an introduced species in our ecosystem.

the easter bibly was an ingenious campaign that builds in social awareness and change to an ongoing annual tradition without detracting from what that tradition represents. the choice behind it was intentional

saying Australians "don't like bunnies" because of ecological damage is like saying Americans "don't like rabies" because of the health risks. They're a major problem and the Easter Bilby rules.

I wish i could have smoked my dog out just once before i backed him over

I need to know where this was, so I can hold it against that city

this was in LA

I should not have had to ask. Of course this was in Los Angeles.

a boy who likes to look

GIRLIES WHATTTTTTTTTTTT!

LMAO DEVASTATING

in the club freakin it in a sensitive style

29.10.23

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I need to know where this was, so I can hold it against that city

actually as long as we're talking about realistic expectations of ageing, the nature of social media decontextualising people's personal posts has absolutely given some of you guys a false and potentially dangerous view of how your body is expected to change over time. I semi frequently see people sharing or repackaging commentary on experiences with disability as if it's an inevitable part of getting older. and like, yes, as you get older you are likely to develop new conditions, injuries or disabilities, but you need to understand your body's baseline well enough to identify those changes and interrogate them.

e.g. if you are seriously having such bad joint or back pain in your 30s that it hampers your day to day activities, you need to take that seriously. that is not 'just ageing', that's potentially an indicator of an underlying condition, unaddressed injury (which is quite common but will get worse if you don't notice and take care of it) or daily habits (poor posture, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle) causing cumulative damage to your body.

I know plenty of 30+ and 40+ year olds who are not especially athletic but who can still climb up and down stairs with ease, sit on the floor and get up again without discomfort, have floor or shower sex, ride a bike, wrestle a dog or a kid, climb a tree, maybe even do a handstand. there is no shame at all in developing pain or mobility issues which limit the kinds of things you can do comfortably, but it doesn't serve anyone to pretend that those changes are bound up with reaching a certain age. even in your 60s and 70s and beyond you should notice if you start feeling a new kind of pain or physical limitation. don't dismiss this shit just because someone told you "yeah that happens when you pass 30"

i agree with this as someone who was invisibly disabled REALLY young, like in grade school, and grew up with parents who also have a bunch of chronic conditions they refused to acknowledge and instead just normalized in the household. likle every other week my mother would just have to disappear for 48 hours because she had a migraine so bad not even her overachievement OCD could get her through it. my father definitely has some sort of collagen/chromosomal disorder that causes chronic pain and joint laxity. and the parents of my friends who were the same age roughly, and are now the same age that i am currently, were not disabled to the extent that i and most of my age cohort are currently. i remember everyone's parents being 30 and 40 years old and they did not start getting weird cancers and injuries as a group until much later. it is not in fact normal for a 30 or even 40 year old to suddenly have arthritis, chronic lower back pain, have limbs regularly falling asleep from nerve injury, or not be able to jog up the stairs. covid has contributed to this significantly but it was happening before covid too. it's making the millennial and zoomer aging process extremely muddled because it is abnormal for the standards of recent history, and we all LOOK a lot younger because everyone is inside a lot more, not smoking, and wearing sunscreen.

it's normal for public health to fluctuate over long periods of time in response to socioeconomic conditions (and we are having a lot of different socioeconomic conditions rn, and no im not going to provide citations today ibut it's certainly Around in the literature), but doctors and researchers have been noticing for a while now that something weird is happening on a population level. dont lower your standards of health or function for yourself just because you know so many people who are also having problems, because most of them statistically aren't supposed to either

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

shout out to the people in the notes saying "this is so true except actually middle age starts in your 30s and ends at 50". you are completely wrong and you're the target of this post, get help.

funniest response so far is that middle age is actually 35-50 but that you're not 'old' until you're over 60. great news for that decade in between. category error, you're young again.

okay well. moving out of the realm of vibes and implications and into the realm of what words actually mean in society, middle age is the 'middle' period of the typical adult aging process

tip: you can look things up in a 'dictionary', 'encyclopedia' or even 'textbook' to learn their standard range of definitions. many find this preferable to moving through life on a cloud of arbitrary supposition.

yes so 40-60 would in fact be the middle of your adult life per my tags. the middle of your whole life would be about 35-50.

making a post about not being afraid of aging and then pretending people 5 years from the average end are still in the middle and using "well the society which is famously scared of aging says that's what it is" to back that up is weird and contradictory

god damn, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink. I still need to read “pedagogy of the oppressed”, but is there a sequel, “pedagogy of the really fucking annoying?”

"Everyone will be hearing from me tonight" + picture of a glass of water

?????? rich people are losing it

to be clear, yes i would also do some of this if i had the money. im experiencing blinding envy over the dr pepper mirror dimension.

just found this picture from an assignment i did last year

I keep seeing the leather/pleather vs denim jacket poll over and over again with all different sorts of discourse about how there is no plastic-free pleather and like, that's TRUE, there isn't, but honestly I DO think people who don't want to use animal products* also deserve to look cool

and so my suggestion is that y'all google "waxed cotton jacket" or "waxed canvas jacket" plus like, "motorcycle" or whatever style you think is cool, because there's a plastic free leather-look material that is strong and durable and waterproof and doesn't use animal products** AND is plastic free already out there and some of the clothes that you can get made out of it look sick as hell.

*ignoring the fact that most leather is meat by-product that would be going to waste anyway

**except beeswax but if you're going to object to that then honestly there's no helping you

waxed cotton looks so good and wears-in to a gorgeous patina and when it loses its finish you can re-wax it and that just makes it look even better and more patinaed instead of flaking off in horrible bits of microplastic leaving you with a ruined piece of clothing

Textiles are amazing! Make the most of them!

this comic by raven lyn clemens.... Yeah