Learning to use Tumblr during my ♆□♆ & ♅☍♅, because I discovered the world of fan fic in my crone era. Also 5ellaal5 on AO3 & FL. Secretly a dryad (she). neuroqueer anticapitalist slowly going feral.
Currently I have three special interests and few filters:
queer polyamorous healing sex headcanon-happening in the Horizon game series and Hozier's music (not involving the artist himself) that I write way too many words about, and some people seem to like
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Modern Monetary Theory and how it can empower us to defeat Moneyland and the horrifying corruption inflicted on us by Corporate Capitalist Empire (which needs to end) (see starter pack resource list below). If you’re not into that, you can block the tag “End Empire”
a lens of understanding interpersonal (and systemic) conflict through Empathy and Collaboration, or people (and systems) that are Empathy-Challenged and Non-Collaborative (this one is sort of my day job so I’m not revealing it here but I left pretty big clues I guess)
Modern Monetary Theory starter kit
Planet Money short and easy episode explaining MMT
We rethink everything we know about government spending, taxes, the nature of money... All of it.
Stephanie Kelton (economist) explains a bit about MMT in a TED talk
Stephanie Kelton’s book The Deficit Myth
I felt like it was a pretty quick and understandable read but I would love feedback from others
About The Deficit Myth Vice-president Dick Cheney famously boasted, “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” He was wrong. Deficits do matter,
A four-part podcast unpacking MMT by reviewing The Deficit Myth and adding extra context. (Not great audio quality 😢😣)
Get more from The MMT Podcast on Patreon
a book to understand Money more generally
(although, I think Jacob got the difference between currency and ledgers wrong; ledger economies (e.g. the Inca) are still "Money" because that's effectively what we have now with online banking)
The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a mad
Moneyland and Corporate Capitalist Empire starter kit
Oliver Bullough's investigative works in book form; start with Moneyland
"The most eye-opening book that you'll read all year... A must read for anyone who wants to understand how the real world of wealth works."
and, I'm not joking, this book will teach you five things about astrology and 5,000 things about Western paradigm of corporate/Christian exploitation
Tapping into the political power of magic and astrology for social, community, and personal transformation. In a cross-cultural approach to
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Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facilit
Excerpt below discussing the person whose actions were what spun up this conspiracy charge into something that stuck as opposed to crumble…
Although it also “worked” because it is all taking place in Texas. Texas, USA is simultaneously known for its repressive white supremacist legal/government and business class, and also for the millions of people who live there like these trans activists trying to protect each other.
While the government said protester Benjamin “Champagne” Song fired directly at the officer with the intention to kill, her attorney showed footage from the shooting that suggested Song fired at the ground as a warning shot or an attempt to distract the officer, raising doubt that she intended to shoot him. Defendants’ supporters have hired an investigator to further study the evidence released from the shooting.
During the trial, the judge refused to let the defendants enter a self-defense plea. Song, a former US marine, was the only one convicted of attempted murder of a government employee and discharging a weapon.
In a statement issued after she received 100 years in federal prison, Song wrote that she brought her weapon out of fear that law enforcement would hurt or kill protesters, as in the cases of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, protesters who were shot and killed by immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota earlier this year.
“This is wrong,” she said of the charges against the 21 others. “This is mass punishment. This is collective punishment. This is guilt by association. This is injustice.”
Some of the defendants, including Song, were part of the Socialist Rifle Association and legally owned guns, which the federal government presented as evidence of intended violence. Many marginalized communities, especially trans people, have opted to engage in the second amendment in recent years amid rising hate crimes. Homemade first-aid kits carried by Prairieland demonstrators were also presented as evidence that they planned for violence.
(I learned about this on On The Media. Micah interviews Lex McMenamin, movement building reporter at The Guardian US, about how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison this week.)
The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.
Did you know that soda machines at restaurants and movie theaters spy on you? That most common new cars now record your sexual preferences and send it to the manufacturer (and also data about anyone who also gets in your car, walks by your car, and maybe happens to be within visual range of your car)? That grocery stores are trying to force customers to download an app to scan barcodes on shelves instead of putting up prices, so the app can scan the phone, decide how much that customer should be squeezed for, and adjust the price? That more and more innocent people are being sent to jail for crimes committed hundreds of miles away because an AI facial recognition algorithm spit their faces out and the cops didn't bother to do the most basic of checks?
I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.
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And don’t even get me started on mandatory arrest laws.
No actually I’m gonna start
If police HAVE to arrest the “primary aggressor” in domestic violence situations, the following trends take place:
Police arrest the person with the less visible injuries. Given the prevalence of strangulation in intimate partner violence, especially heterosexual, and the fact that ~80% of strangulations leave no marks, while defensively clawing at your attacker does…
^ Incidentally, if you do have a fight between family or household members that’s not abuse (it does happen!) this tends to punish the winner
Police arrest the more annoying person. The “hysterical” person and yes I’ve seen that word used in police reports. The thing is: after being violently attacked victims generally can’t calmly interact with the police. The perpetrator sometimes can.
Victims who are not ready to leave for WHATEVER REASON, and I will never judge what that reason is, will get frantic because one of the main income contributors is in jail and he’s gonna blame THEM for it when he gets out unless they do all they can to help. Sometimes even if they do all they can.
The perpetrator won’t be in jail forever and may not even be in jail longer than a couple days, so even in scenarios where this would benefit someone, the benefits are under a ticking clock. That’s not enough time to do anything to make themselves safe, because —
Arresting the “primary aggressor” is now the end of the case and of police involvement and no further assistance is offered (in many many places).
Putting the abuser through the court system causes serious financial and emotional stress,
That they take out on their victim.
This system can’t be fixed with patches and add-ons. It does the wrong stuff for abusive situations from minute one, and the only reason it benefits victims is 1) accidentally or 2) because a handful of participants in the system worked especially hard swimming against the prevailing current to make it do that in an individual case.
thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,
oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.
His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs.
This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.
Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.
So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”
“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”
you're not supposed to wander around appalachia at night bc you'll fall off a sheer drop that you couldn't see coming. this is also a major risk during the day. you really have to watch out for the sheer drops that you don't see coming due to the undergrowth. I suspect 100% of spooky missing persons cases in appalachia have the spooky explanation of "sheer drop disguised by undergrowth"
really cannot overstate how many utterly invisible ravines we got here and also how big the woods are. they can't find people because the woods? are big
in seriousness you can learn about the isolated Appalachian communities that were up here until quite recently by checking out the foxfire books. it is true that there were many isolated communities that remained pretty separate from mainstream American life for a longish time but most of the last ones were my grandpa's generation. and they were regular? can't overstate how regular they were. just rural and isolated with their own culture. do check out the foxfire museum if you want to learn more about them and their lives! those books are based on real interviews conducted by local high schoolers and college students of the old folks in their communities and they are very interesting windows into day to day rural life up in the mountains in the early to mid 20th century.
I absolutely 100% do not mean this in a like derogatory city slickers way; I myself grew up mostly in a city and I think that it is morally neutral to not have experience with The Outdoors. having said that, I have noticed that a lot of people who do not have regular interactions with "landscape that can kill you" do seem to have an internalized idea that "landscape that can kill you" is something that only happens to other people, or not very often, or only under extreme circumstances. which I think often leads them to assume that there must be something else out here that can kill you. but I fear I must inform the people who wanna believe scary Appalachian woods monsters are real that it's Landscape. inclusive of the beasts that dwell there such as the cougars and bears. its Landscape! (GRASPING EVERYONE ON THE SPOOKY APPALACHIAN TRAIL SUBREDDITS) IT'S LANDSCAPE THAT KILLS YOU! ITS ALWAYS LANDSCAPE! Old Man Hidden Ravine and his best friend Exposure!
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Commissioning artists really makes you feel like a renaissance noble. Like you’ll get an email that just says “Hey sorry some things came up but I’m working on your piece and here’s a WIP” and suddenly you’re wearing sumptuous velvets and eating grapes on a reclining couch like “Ohoho! Take as long as you need, my Orpheus! My riches and time are a paltry price to pay to bring your beauty to the world! I am a ~Patron of the Arts!~”
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Key Information About Venezuela’s State of Emergency by Caracas Chronicles
VENEZUELA’S EARTHQUAKE STATE OF EMERGENCY: HOW TO HELP
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Aldeas Infantiles SOS: Accepts donations in bolívares (Venezuelan currency) through their Venezuelan branch. Donations in foreign currencies can be sent through Aldeas Infantiles SOS Spain.
Save the Children’s Emergency Fund: Donations will go towards providing urgent, life-saving support to Venezuelan children.
UNICEF Spain: Has launched an Emergency Fund for Venezuelan children.
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The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity
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Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people
