a supposedly fun thing

I need the gravity of laws like this to be understood.

Your discomfort with seeing visibly poor people in public will never be remotely equal to what they face.

As a homelessness survivor (4 times, most recent bout ended in March 2025) I have been in so many rooms where people said awful shit about the unhoused and assumed everyone agreed with them. That some people don't deserve help, that they don't want help, that somehow shelters are safe places to go rather than abusive institutions that separate you from your family.

Tent cities are a way that unhoused people get a kind of autonomy that they do not experience within the shelter system. You can come and go from a tent in a way you cannot in a shelter. You can have a midnight snack. You can have some semblance of privacy.

This is not the only city where people who live outside are being stolen from their communities and then ruthlessly exploited by the prison system. A criminal record is not liberation. It is not help.

The Western imperialist project to destroy the Levantine region has components, the genocide Iraq ('Iraq War'), the zionist project and occupation ('Israel'), the war on Yemen through proxies, the alliances with local dictators (MBS, El-S*si), and now current war on Iran. But they are all part of the same old bipartisan American project in the end.

War criminal and genocide supporter, Matthew Miller:

"On the months and years ahead under Mr Trump, Mr Miller said: "The thing that worries me most is that Donald Trump may squander the position that the United States has built around the world over successive administrations of both parties over a course of decades.

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

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