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#when this was new the only people who would ever see it were the people who walked past #for most of human history this has been true: you can only see great art if you go to where it lives #if you are lucky there will be great art where YOU live#and beauty will be your neighbor

#but even if so - that's only one kind #one small collection of one single branch in the endless waving rhizomatic tree of artistic development

#you will see the kind of art that is made in your region#and perhaps sometimes a traveler will bring in something wild and strange#with unexpected colors and lines and such an alien composition#and it will take your breath away not merely with its beauty but with its unassailable foreignness

#but now - now we live in an age of marvels

#I have seen these curling byzantine vines. #I have seen the upturned roofs of chinese pagodas. #I have seen the searing brilliant color of andean weaving. #I have seen so much more of the world than I could ever walk to on my own two feet

#beauty is everywhere. everywhere. and I am everywhere too #transported there by that beauty #it's enough to make a man weep

Something I notice is, when men discuss the manosphere, they either centre the reason boys fall down that pipeline on some inner weakness or defectiveness of the boy, ie. "they're just autistic weirdos who want rules for women because they can't get their dick wet," or they centre the reason on women, "feminism had made women too woke, mean and impossible to socialise with."

What I noticed while working is that every single little Tate goblin I had to work with had conservative parents, and I have never once seen that aspect of all this discussed. Boys will reflect the social norms they are raised in within their household. The biggest preventative for manosphere bullshit I saw in the boys I worked with was a dad who isn't a fuckwit and a household that isn't LARPing the 1960s.

push in your chairs when you get up from tables.

when people don't push in their chairs, people with bulky aids like wheelchairs and rollators can't get through. also a lot of people who use canes have wider gaits than able bodied people, and having a chair in the middle of their walking path is a real obstruction. while some of us are able to push chairs out of our way, a lot of us are not, and wind up boxed in/out because somebody didn't push in their chair.

You’ve heard of employee unions using collective bargaining to force the bosses to provide better pay and better working condiditions. But did you know if you rent an apartment in an apartment complex, you can do something similar?

It’s called a Tenant Association, and it’s basically a union for renters.

Here’s an overview of the why and how of forming a tenant association

Here’s a more thorough organizing manual

Patron saints of one way trips or something like that...

There are too many feral pigeons and not enough domestic demand to get them off the streets. They're wonderful birds, but right now it's a bad situation for both us and the pigeons.

Why, given that pigeons are edible, have we decided the best way to handle large pigeon populations is poison and anti-bird spikes, instead of trap/euthanize/provide to food banks? Like yes, many pigeons have diseases from living on the street, but there's antibiotics for that. The money spent on basic antibiotics and deworming would be more than offset by savings in the infrastructure budget from, you know, not having to fix as much pigeon damage. Pigeons that are simply too sick to rehabilitate would, at least, be quickly euthanized and out of their misery instead of dragging themselves around starving for weeks. And both trapping and preparing them for distribution (plucking, cleaning, etc.) could be a source of income and job training for folks who are struggling.

(Also crafters would 100% buy the feathers. Pigeons are feral, not wild. They're not covered by the wildlife act I can't think of the name of right now. That's more money to offset the costs of the program.)