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Need a little less talk... and a lot more touch. Toronto 2010 / Boston 2016

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there is not a single day i don't think about this quote in relation to tragedies
Aeschylus, The Oresteia
Richard Siken, Planet of Love
The Lumineers, Cleopatra
the novelisation of The Revenge of the Sith (via @nonbinarydin)
This what not what i was expected from the comments-
Ok now do NYT columnists
already this has tags in the notes like ā#anti aiā but... this is just real life with almost everything. this is like grifter 101 please donāt exceptionalize needing to be critical of chatgpt.
As someone who has personally had to take those calls, they do matter. It just doesnāt matter what you say in the call: the only way your calls actually reach the politician is a tally sheet of each call received on different topics. End of the day/week, the politician gets told āyou had X many calls about people wanting you to do this, Y many calls about people wanting you to do this, etc.ā
Individual calls matter little, but if they get tons of calls on one topic then they take it seriously. The example above was probably during a time where the office was flooded with so many calls at once that they took the phones off the hook, which actually means that calls are working especially well. When the phones are blowing up, everyone in the office notices.
The best call to your representative does not involve you making an impassioned and well-argued case, because youāre probably talking to an intern. The most effective call you can make takes 15 seconds: āI am from [place in your district] and I am very pissed about [topic].ā
OI. PEOPLE IN THE THREAD. CAN WE REBLOG THIS VERSION PLEASE. DON'T STOP MAKING CALLS.
But also as another person further up says, don't let your activism start and stop with phone calls either.
DON'T TRUST ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU NOT TO PARTICIPATE

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rough sketch of my fav goobers! This episode was a favorite of mine so I just NEEDED to draw them being silly and cute.. <3 <3
One bill would define trans people as āobscene matterā and make them keep their distance from schools, while another would force mental heal
We warned you this is where this is going.
I cannot stress enough that this is NOT exaggeration they are calling for the complete abolition of trans people. And you may go "haha well. Thats just West Virginia" which first of all, fuck you for downplaying the struggle of trans people in a place just because you dont live there, and second of all its not just west virginia. This is the goal of all republican regimes across the country.
If you are not fighting against republicans with every fiber of your being at this point you are not a trans ally. If you tolerate the republicans in your family without challenging their ideas about trans people you are not a trans ally. Fight for us goddamnit or we will be culled and our blood will be on your fucking hands.
ok so hear me out
this week in I Am Very Smart: having enough money to go to the opera, museums and concerts correlates with having enough money for food, shelter and basic health needs
They controlled for socioeconomic factors though! The people who conducted this study knew that people with lots of money to attend the opera were also more likely to be able to afford basic necessities, so they controlled for it in their analysis. The fun thing about statistics is that you can control for different confounding factors so you can look at the effects of one independent variable (opera or whatever) on the dependent variable (mortality). Part of being critical of potential biases is actually reading the article and knowing what to look for.
In addition to that very good point about controlling for socioeconomic factors, the article says a single museum or concert per year makes a difference. Most cities have free community concerts (some even have free opera performances!) and museums that are either free, pay-what-you-want, or at least have specific days/times during which they are free or at a significantly reduced cost. Many libraries (which are free) provide free museum passes to card holders. In fact, the article quotes a museum worker who works at a free art museum in Baltimore.
If you actually read the article you would also read that educators are excited about this study because it provides evidence that the arts should be made more accessible financially - by restoring arts programs in the public schools, for example.
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Important detail nobody is mentioning: This study only measured people aged 50 and up. Here is a link: https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6377

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So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.
world heritage post: avatar femslash fans on livejournal discussing the possibility of a lesbian or bi lead in the legend of korra in 2010, 2 years before the series first aired. four years later, korra and asami walked into the spirit world together holding hands.
happy korrasami day!
This is the diametric opposite of "we popping the biggest bottles when Makorra happens"
gulls are proof that a) there is a god and b) that god enjoys the pain and suffering of birders
those are all different species. there are many places where you could potentially see any (or at least most) of them at a given time!
and thatās just the adults
They are doing this because Biden and the democrats PASSED A LAW capping insulin at $35. This isn't voluntary out of the goodness of their hearts. Democrats need to start being loud about their accomplishments on behalf of the American people.
The problem with Evil is that it is very LOUD and SCARY...so it gets all the attention.
The problem with Good is that it tends to be very quiet and soothing...so it often passes unnoticed.
We need to be LOUDER about our GOOD ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
We see it regularly over here from mobile phone providers.
Whenever the EU regulations about controls on roaming charges, data prices etc., change in the users' (our!) favour, every associated phone company announcement invariably read as though they thought of it independently, and are introducing the reduced charge / data price cap / whatever as a generous gift to their customers.
Whoopee.
But the (whatever) is now in place, and that's what counts. :->
Can I watch a great film knowing the actresses in it were terrorized and mistreated the entire time? Can I watch a football game knowing that the players are getting brain injuries right before my eyes? Can I listen to my favorite albums anymore knowing that the singers were all beating their wives in between studio sessions? Can I eat at the new fancy taco place knowing when the building that used to be there got bulldozed eight families got kicked out of their homes so they could be replaced with condos and a chain restaurant? Can I wear the affordable clothes I bought downtown that were probably assembled in a sweatshop with child labor? Can I eat quinoa? Can I eat this burger? Can I drink this bottled water? Can I buy a car and drive to work because Iām sick of taking an hour each way on the subway? Whose bones do I stand on? Whose bones am I standing on right now?Ā
On one hand, itās a privilege to be able to choose to acknowledge these horrors or notāweāre going to acknowledge that privilege. On the other hand, I once attended a lecture by the explorerer-conservationist Jacques-Yves Cousteauās daughter and son and they had a lot of opinions about what we could do to help the environment and the ocean and I talked about how in my country, we have to drink bottled water, because itās a desert and thereās only salt water all around, but weāre contributing to pollution and all of these thingsā¦
And she looked at me and told me not to fall into the trap of āactivist guilt.ā I couldnāt remember the exact words, but, it was the first time Iād heard the term and it took a weight off my shoulders.
We do what we can. Itās so much better than giving up entirely or not doing anything at all because we canāt do it perfectly. It doesnāt benefit anyone in the end if we just sit around feeling guilty about every little thing in life. Iād just joined tumblr back then (haha, so like, eight or nine years ago at this point?), I was being exposed to way more than Iād ever been before (I was previously just into feminism and animal rights/wildlife conservation/environmentalism since I was a kid), and it was weighing on me.
As long as humans are humans and living flawed lives, many consumed by greed, there will not be anything in this world untouched by evil.
I usually avoid stuff that says it was made in China or other cheap looking knockoffs, out of fear of them being made in sweatshops (now, I know even a lot of big brands use thoseā¦), itās exhausting. Then, I read something about how people who actually lived and worked in those would still buy this cheap stuff and how this shocked the foreigner reporting on it, but they just looked confused like, itās what they can afford and them avoiding consuming it isnāt going to change the whole system from the ground-up.
⦠it went on about how āmoney talksā and choosing where to put your money still feeds the whole capitalist system and is nearly a way of comforting yourself, but you not buying doesnāt mean everyone else isnāt. What needs to be tackled is at a much higher level than any of us can reach.
Of course, Iād still, given the choice, give my money to companies I agree with and Iāll boycott what I know to support awful stuff, but I also feel no superiority over this and know now itās not as black and white or easy as I thought it was.
This is the same reason that moral purityĀ āyou canāt enjoy [x] because itās Problematic ā¢ā is such nonsense, because nothing is pure. Thereās something bad about everything if you dig deep enough. As long as we lived in flawed human societies weāve got to make the best of what they offer us. If you have the choice and means, please, do support those who do good, but also, donāt beat yourself up over not living up to an unattainable ideal.
No one can. Youāll just make yourself so miserable, you either burn up and stop fighting entirely or youāll make yourself a non-productive, depressed heap just out of a bleeding heart left unchecked. You canāt make a change to this world if you refuse to engage in it.
Have a related article with self-care tips for activists.
Purity is one of the worst, most harmful myths humans ever invented.
Rebloging for this amazing reply telling us how to actually handle this, because yeah, sometimes Iāll simply shut down trying to find something that doesnāt cause harm to anyone
Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.

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