Reblogs for Hope+Resistance

I remembered tonight, but I'll forget again. (I always do.)

There are the recurring, day-to-day forks that never truly go away. There will always be more dirty dishes, more laundry. The bathrooms are always going to need to be cleaned again.

There are the forks that come with those lemons that Life is so fond of handing out, like when the only grandparents you have left AND your parents' (ie, the family's) dog are all in varying stages of Not Doing Well.

There the ones that are Not My Forks, But Are My Problem - all of the ADHD forks, the Childhood Abuse fork, all of the forks from the associated trauma, and the fork/bitter pill combo that is realizing that even though your abuser made the mess, you still have to clean it up.

There are the Difficult Life Things forks. My budget is tighter than I'd like it to be and my dog is due for (and will get) a rabies shot. I still haven't filed my taxes. There are three appointments that I need to make trapped behind a Dopamine paywall in my brain that I can't seem to unlock, potential skin cancer be damned. My job exists RIGHT in the ADHD-hell sweet spot where it doesn't require enough of my attention to keep it, but it requires JUST too much for me to be able to listen to a podcast or audiobook.

Then, there are the Long Depression Fallout Forks, which somehow feel both like fresh wounds constantly and also they feel ageless and eternal now. Adderall makes me lose my appetite. Depression makes me lose my appetite. And it turns out that these days, being sleep deprived, calorie deprived, or both makes me depressed. I need to get enough sleep AND enough calories for several days in a row to have one 'good' day, and once upon a time, it would have been a normal day.

It's been a year and a half of Mondays all the way down. I'm so used to brain fog that thinking clearly at all feels like a rare treat. Fork. I am constantly fighting at least one symptom of ADHD, and working on my mental health, and working on self-improvement. Fork. Fork. Fork. I feel like one good hyperfixation would fix me, but I can't hyperfixate. Fork. I'm bored, but nothing holds my interest. Fork. I want desperately to connect with some of my passions and hobbies, but my brain has created convoluted, ever-changing goalposts to jump through for every single one of them, and it won't tell me what they are, and sometimes they're full of surprise minefields.

Fork.

I know that things are looking up. I know that a few months ago, I had no good days, and that on the whole, I've had more good days lately than bad ones. I know that today was more good than bad, all things told.

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

You all will do anything to not give us our land back huh

This (and things like it) are a muuucchhh better meme

March 13, 2025 - Hundreds of activists, led by Jewish antifascists with Jewish Voice for Peace, occupied Trump Tower in New York City, USA, to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil.

before you say "4% isn't that big of a difference between the US and China"

🏳️‍⚧️Check out local pride center events, drag events, marches, etc. There might be one near you! 🏳️‍⚧️

Too Good to Go: app that connects you to grocery stores and restaurants that will sell you surplus food at cheaper prices.

Signal: Messaging app that erases messages after an amount of time, and allows images to be viewable once.

Taimi: an ĻGBṬ dating app that doesn't allow screenshots of messages and profiles to be taken.

Bandcamp: a great website for music artists, podcasters, and audiobook creators. They pay artists more of the profits than Spotify, and have Fridays dedicated to giving artists all of the profits from sales.

Proton: app that offers privacy and encryption for emails, VPNs, and a lot more.

Community Garden: an app that helps make community garden development easier.

Vero: an Instagram alternative that doesn't use algorithms, data mining, or advertisements. An alternative to go to when Instagram worsens in the upcoming years.

Hygiene Locator: a database for low-income people to find distribution sites giving away hygiene products.

Triller: a TikTok alternative to go to if TT outright bans certain topics.

Little Free Library: an app that locates little free libraries for you.

Evidation: it's a "health app" in which you collect points for activities like walking, but you can just complete their weekly and daily surveys. Basically, it's a beer-monęy app because you can only get $10 for 10,000 points, but if you have time to kill and need to earn extra cash in the upcoming eçonomic crash, evidation is an option.

Farmish: an app to help you locate your local farmer's market.

Boycat: an app that helps customers determine which brand is participating in unethical human rights violations and which isn't . It has recently partnered with the BDS movement!

Bluesky: You've already heard of it, right? It's an alternative to Twịtter, except it gives you the option to mass block MÅGÅ, genocide supporters, and the like. (My profile is itisiives, if you want to hang.)

"A Scottish field once home to mono-crop barley has become a pollinator’s paradise after intervention from a local trust saw bumblebee numbers increase 100-fold.

Entitled Rewilding Denmarkfield, and run by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, the project has also seen a sharp increase in the number of species passing through the rolling meadows after they were reclaimed by dozens of wildflower species.

The area north of Perth is about 90 acres in size, and surveys of bumblebees before the project began rarely recorded more than 50. But by 2023, just two years of letting “nature take the lead” that number has topped 4,000, with the number of different bee species doubling.

“This superb variety of plants attracts thousands of pollinators. Many of these plants, such as spear thistle and smooth hawk’s beard, are sometimes branded as ‘weeds’. But they are all native species that are benefiting native wildlife in different ways,” Ecologist Ellie Corsie, who has been managing the project since it began in 2021, said.

“Due to intensive arable farming, with decades of plowing, herbicide, and pesticide use, biodiversity was incredibly low when we started. Wildlife had largely been sanitized from the fields. Rewilding the site has had a remarkable benefit.”

Similar increases have been recorded in the populations of butterflies, with a tripling in the number of these insects seen on average during a ramble through the field.

The numbers of both insects are now so high that Rewilding Denmarkfield offers bee and butterfly safaris to visitors.

Local residents told the Scotsman that on spring and summer days, the field is awash with color, and hums with the sounds of bees and birds. Even as multiple housing developments expand around the Denmarkfield area, the field is a haven for wildlife."

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Here are my favorite firefox plugins for security/anti-tracking/anti-ad that I recommend you get

The ability to get away from any and all ads/tracking helped me get my anxiety to a manageable point so I could start focusing on other things that further improved my quality of life.

ibuprofen was first discovered in 1961; phalloplasty and HRT are less experimental

Here’s a real boycott list

P.S: obviously everyone can’t boycott everything but one also doesn’t need that Tito’s Vodka or Wendy’s 😉