Solarpunk Anarchist

It's Solarpunk Action Week Day 1!

Today I am learning to use my pressure canner because:

I can preserve healthy and homegrown meals outside of season

My backyard garden often produces more than my family can eat in the season BUT we also cannot really afford to give away food, which means I was needing to consider planting less

Heat and eat meals that are not fast food! Now, I love fast food but: it creates emissions getting to the food in addition to grocery trips; it uses unethically farmed foods; it creates a fuckton of packaging and food waste; it's expensive and I'd rather spend the money on plants.

I have never canned before! It's really intimidating.

Some points:

You cannot can soups, meals, vegetables, meat, or broth in a water bath canner. You MUST use a pressure canner to avoid botulism.

When you're starting off, use tested recipes. Ball and Bernardin have lots on their websites. Or have someone experienced with pressure canning help you out.

This is critical because if the food is too dense or too large, it will NOT heat properly. Then you're canning botulism instead of soup.

Be clean! Your jars should be scrupulously clean, and your hands, and the pot you use to cook the food you want to can.

If you have a glass top stove: be careful to make sure your pressure stays where it needs to stay. Glass-tops will often run their burners on a heat-cool cycle. Don't let your pressure dial drop below what it needs to be during the cooling cycle.

Also for glass-tops: make sure your stove can hold the weight of your recipe, the mason jars you've packed it in, the water used in the canner, AND the canner itself. Not all glass-tops can.

I set a timer on my phone to remind me to check the pressure every 3 minutes. Maybe I'll be less paranoid with my next canning project.

There are 5.5 litres of soup in the canner, and about 30 more minutes before I let it start depressurizing.

I made this recipe (with the celery substitution) which is one of the very few safe and tested recipes for a blended soup. I had a small bowl that didn't quite fit into my 750mL jars. It's delicious.

1) they take a bunch of DNA samples that are already identified as coming from people of particular regions or ethnic groups 2) they sequence these samples and group them in clusters according to genetic similarity 3) they then go through this dataset and PULL OUT any DNA samples that don’t match closely enough with the other samples from the region or ethnic group with which they are identified. 

So for example if they have a DNA sample of someone from Germany, but after testing they find that this sample is more genetically similar to samples from Eastern Europe, then they remove that sample from the German cluster—despite the fact that it may have come from someone who self-identifies as German, or has non-biological records of German ancestry, or whatever. This means that AncestryDNA not only places genetic data as the primary end-all be-all arbiter of What You Are (which is dubious to begin with) but also they manually reduce the preexisting diversity within their own database in order to create more genetically coherent ethnic groups. 

artist needed money for college, people from tumblr/dA told them their prices were too expensive and that no one would commission them.

artist was desperate and logged on to their old Furaffinity account to take commissions

artist got a shitton of commissions and everyone was supportive and encouraging

people ended up tipping the artist 10-20$ per commission because they thought the artist was undercharging

https://iww.org 

What a coward.

1. Many latinos are far-right as fuck! not everybody who comes to america comes here for the same reasons. some people have left their country specifically because they feared losing power/wealth/status or faced persecution in a government changeover. besides that, there’s often a hella conservative leaning when it comes to LGBTQ issues and abortion. 

2. Not all latinos are POC! there are white latinos, Black latinos, indigenous folks marked as “latino,” etc. not all their voting interests are the same!!

3. Documented latinos often hold similar disgusting attitudes towards the undocumented community as your average xenophobic american. and, in my experience, even having undocumented family doesn’t seem to sway that attitude for some. 

4. Democrats are ABSOLUTELY DOGSHIT at latino outreach. Biden’s latino camp includes Ana fucking Navarro - the Contra-loving shitbag. + they basically DGAF about our communities to the point where we’re outright ignored. dems 100% need more spanish speaking canvassers and multilingual outreach in general. these communities are not being properly reached in meaningful ways by dems. especially if they want to give more confidence to get mixed-documented households registered & fight the hella misinformation the right throws at our community. 

5. Latinos are not immune to propaganda either!! Latinos often own their own businesses and a lot of them believe/fall for the messaging that “Trump will open up the economy.” A lot of them think Trump “fixed” the economy or that it’s doing better under him. Many fall for the hilariously misinformed “Biden is a socialist” line. ect. ect. basically whatever your clown ass Facebook uncle thinks, we got a bunch of those too. 

6. A lot of latino families were broken up BY the Obama/Biden administration. It’s not like Trump is likely getting their vote either, but if y’all can’t understand why latinos like that would sit out this election then idk what to tell you. asking them to choose between 2 demons who’ve wrecked their lives is not the winning strategy libs think it is. 

A not-so-gentle reminder that revisionist China is a social-imperialist nation. Amerikkka is an all-out imperialist nation, but we are well aware of that. Anyways:

1. https://tjen-folket.no/index.php/en/2019/08/15/china-a-social-imperialist-great-power/

2. https://anti-imperialism.org/2018/09/21/china-a-modern-social-imperialist-power-cpimaoist/amp/