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I follow some non-consumer and pro-recycling facebook pages and like. I'm not sure how to explain this exactly, but some of them have a frankly unhealthy relationship with preservation and recycling. People will photograph an ancient threadbare shirt that's full of massive holes and 30% mould by volume and say "this was in my mum's basement and she wanted to throw it out! How do I save it?" People will show a stack of thirty empty margarine containers and say "what use can I find for these? I don't want to throw them out." Someone detailed their strategies for making sure that they only walk around their house barefoot or with slippers, never walking int heir socks, in order to make sure the socks wear out as slowly as possible.
Responsible reuse and care of your belongings is one thing, but for some of these groups, if they monitored food and exercise the way they monitored general consumption it would be an eating disorder.
This isn't a healthy relationship with possessions.
Right after this post was somebody bragging about how they're freeing themselves from consumerism by giving up manicures and pedicures so it's. A very mixed bag of standards.
Mood.
I walk a very thin line between recycling/anti-consumerism and my hoarding tendencies (don't think it's ever reached the point of full blown disorder but I'm very aware it's a constant lowkey battle to keep it that way) and my perfectionism paralysing me into keeping stuff until I can dispose of it in the Absolute Most Optimal Least Polluting way.
Any obsession can become disordered (I don't necessarily mean pathologically, but extreme to the point where it does you more harm than good or more harm than is safe/justifiable), and I think we forget that.
Unless it's made of easily recyclable or compostable materials like metals, glass or organics (NOT recyclable plastic, that doesn't count), it's basically all landfill. Dispose of chemicals and electronics in the appropriate way, put the glass and metal in the bins appropriate for whatever your local area's recycling system is, and everything else is landfill. "Oh, I can save this boot" it's still landfill, just a bit later than it would otherwise be. "Oh, I can recycle this old shirt into a bag" still landfill, just in your cupboard for a bit first.
For products for which a large-scale, practical and economic recycling system does not exist (recyclable plastic doesn't have such a system, it's a grift; recyclable metals and glass very often do have such a system but it depends on the material and product and where you live), there is no such thing as optimal disposal. There is only optimal production. Your environmental impact is measured in the effect you have on new things being produced and shipped. Once it is made in a factory, it is already landfill, it's just staying in your house for a bit first.
Trying to repair old boots at home doesn't save them from landfill -- the question is, did your repairing the boots stop you from having to buy new ones, and if so, did that stop new ones from being produced and shipped to your country? Does buying a new pair instead help because you don't have to buy the materials you'd use to repair them, and if so, did that have any effect on whether those materials were produced and sent to your country? In a modern economy, your effect re: repair vs. new is likely to have absolutely no environmental effect at all for most goods, though it does depend on specifically where you live and what the good is and how it's made. Either your old boots go to landfill and you buy a new pair, or you fix your old ones and the new pair goes straight from the warehouse to landfill because the company bought one too many pairs to sell. (It'll probably go on sale and mope around warehouses for a few years first, same as it otherwise would in your closet; this is a completely irrelevant temporary stop).
Depending on the industry, your individual shopping choices can have an impact, especially if it's part of a larger organised movement like a proper boycott (or even just an unorganised drop in sales as lots of people simply decide to stop buying so much). Your individual shopping choices can also have a big effect on your own budget; repairing old shoes is usually much cheaper than buying new ones. But if you're focusing on the optimal way to dispose of something (again, unless it's something dangerous that requires specific disposal methods or something that's part of an existing large-scale recycling network), you're focusing on something way too late in the game to be environmentally relevant. What matters is the impact on production and shipping; once it's produced, it is already landfill.
Important side note, because this is the piss on the poor website: there's nothing wrong with having a recycling or upcycling hobby. It's not bad to repair the boots, even if you can afford new ones. It's just not practical environmentalism. If environmentalism is the goal then a focus on reducing the wastage of things you already own is a waste of time and energy and often counterproductive; if your goal is environmentalism, then focusing on limiting the impacts of production and transportation of goods is far more useful. But lots of people just prefer to make, repair or upcycle stuff.
Sometimes those old torn sheets would make a nice rug, not because that would have any practical impact, but because you feel like making a rug and have a cool idea for a pattern. Sometimes mending that shirt is better than replacing it because you like the aesthetic of visible mending. Sometimes collecting coffee jars to store your pasta in doesn't have any effect on throwing out the packaging the pasta came in or save the jars in the long term, but you think it looks nicer in the pantry. It's not bad to do these things (indeed the skills you can develop and the general mindfulness towards waste might have positive effects on other things you do), it's just not a moral obligation for environmental reasons. And like anything, if you get anywhere near as obsessive over it as laundry basket person in the picture, that's probably not great for your own wellbeing.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
painfully agree on how "zero waste" type stuff can spiral out of control in a mentally unhealthy way. I have hoarding tendencies and struggle to throw anything away to begin with, and if I encouraged that I would quickly live in a garbage pile.
Reusing single-use plastic containers is...I can't go down that road.
I don't really agree on mending items being pointless as a sustainability practice, because it isn't and doesn't have to be a completely isolated and individual behavior.
this is why specifically Visible mending is a cool thing: it is a way to repair clothes but it's also a visible, public display, which shifts the balance of what's acceptable in society. If people see you wearing clothes that have obviously been mended, that plants the idea in their mind that this is a thing you can do with clothes, and instead of just imagining what it might be like, they can see it.
Doing and talking about these things makes overconsumption more of a thing people think about and notice and less of an everyday, unnoticed norm.
And then, you can teach other people to mend, you can even fix their stuff for them if you're crazy. If you've got a community of people practicing these skills, it's not an individual thing anymore. It's the exact same as any other sustainability practice, you have to do it as a team with other people. It's not about the individual act, it's about the cultural change.
Also. Even if my choice not to buy a thing doesn't impact whether the thing got manufactured, Corporation still didn't get my money if I didn't buy it. On a scale of 1,000 or 10,000 people, that's definitely not nothing.
In contrast, if you are reusing plastic containers, you still bought the plastic container.
If you reuse them in a way that replaces your need to buy something else, that's fine, but the trouble with plastic containers is that you accrue them at a much higher rate than you can reuse them because the use they were manufactured for is so short-lived.
however this does not address the main reason I mend my stuff: because the quality of stuff has gotten so much worse that if I buy a new thing it will almost definitely be much shittier than if I just fix the old thing
Mending is great. Hoarding garbage is not.
the ashtrays in airplane bathrooms are a fascinating harm reduction metaphor. yes it's illegal as hell to smoke in there. yes there's a smoke detector that will snitch on you the second you light up. so why is there an ashtray? because if there weren't, your single momentary dumbass crime could kill 300 people. it is fucking vital that if someone does have a lit cigarette on a plane, they have a place to safely put it out.
As someone who has overcome substance abuse, I find this decadeâs framing of addiction incredibly insulting.
Somewhere along the line, we decided that any repeated behavior, any source of pleasure, any coping mechanism, any habit that isnât monk-like and productivity-optimized must be labeled an addiction. You like scrolling art before you create? Addiction. You watch comfort shows after work? Addiction. You check your phone in line at the grocery store? Addiction. You drink coffee with breakfast? Addiction. The word has been stretched so thin it barely means anything anymore, except âa behavior I personally disapprove of.â
Addiction is not âI enjoy stimulation.â It is not âI have habits.â It is not âI seek input before I produce output.â Addiction is a specific, devastating pattern of compulsion, harm, loss of control, and often self-destruction. It dismantles relationships. It corrodes trust. It hijacks the reward system so thoroughly that survival itself becomes secondary. It is not equivalent to liking Pinterest boards or needing music to focus.
When everything becomes addiction, nothing is. The language gets diluted, and with it, the gravity of what actual addiction is. People who have clawed their way out of substance abuse know the difference between compulsion and preference, between destructive dependence and deliberate engagement. Collapsing those distinctions into a trendy moral panic about âdopamineâ is not enlightened. Itâs sloppy. Unserious, even.
Thereâs also something deeply puritanical about it. The 2020s seem obsessed with pathologizing pleasure. If something feels good, it must be suspect. If it captures your attention, it must be hijacking your brain. If it isnât explicitly productive, it must be rot. Weâve replaced older moral frameworks with neuroscience-flavored shame, but the tone is the same: you are wrong for enjoying things.
What bothers me most is how casually the word is thrown around in creative spaces. If you gather inspiration through music, images, movement, conversation, suddenly youâre âstimulus addicted.â If you canât brute-force a novel in a silent white room with no input, you lack discipline. Never mind that many artists throughout history have relied on immersion, community, environment, and cross-media inspiration. Now itâs framed as weakness, as though the only legitimate art is produced under self-imposed sensory austerity.
This framing flattens nuance. There is a difference between avoidance and incubation. There is a difference between doomscrolling to numb out and deliberately engaging with material that fuels your imagination. There is a difference between compulsively chasing a hit and consciously choosing input that enriches your work. But nuance doesnât trend. Alarmism does.
Thereâs also a strange individualizing move happening here. Instead of asking why people are exhausted, overstimulated, underpaid, isolated, or burnt out, we zoom in on their coping mechanisms and label them addictions. Instead of examining structural monotony, economic precarity, and social fragmentation, we scold individuals for having âbad dopamine habits.â Itâs easier to diagnose peopleâs scrolling than to confront the conditions that make endless scrolling appealing.
Calling everything an addiction also erases agency. It suggests that people are perpetually hijacked by their brains, incapable of intentional choice unless they purge all sources of easy stimulation. Thatâs not empowering. Itâs infantilizing. Adults are capable of enjoying things without being enslaved by them. Adults can have rituals, comforts, and creative processes without it being pathology.
When I hear the word âaddictionâ tossed around to describe normal human behavior, it doesnât sound like insight. It sounds like moral grandstanding dressed up in pop psychology. And for those of us who have actually lived through the wreckage of substance abuse and fought to reclaim control, it feels like watching something serious get turned into a meme.
We deserve better language. We deserve distinctions. We deserve a culture that can tell the difference between compulsion and preference, between harm and habit, between numbing out and nourishing ourselves. Not everything that holds our attention is a disorder. Not everything pleasurable is a vice. And not everything repetitive is an addiction.
thought about that quote "homosexuality exists in 1000+ species, homophobia only exists in one" but how awkward would it be if we discovered another species that was homophobic
"homosexuality exists in 1000+ species, homophobia only exists in two. what? oh, humans, and the yellow-patched cuboid pinecone wren that was recently discovered on an island off the coast of canada. they're fucking bigots"

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not all rabies victims will be foaming at the mouth. rabies isn't gonna be super obvious to those who don't know what to look for there is only one documented case of someone recovering from rabies
TELL TALE SYMPTOMS:
cat does not act aggressive but attempts to bite with no warning cat is off balance and falling over often cat is spinning in circles for no reason and /or has no sense of direction increased vocalization paralysis and seizures
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You can pet the cat in Norway; you can pet the cat in Spain;
Austria and Sweden - Northern Europe, in the main,
In the United Kingdom, which as you know entails,
England Scotland and Northern Ireland and Wales,
You can pet the cat, the fox, the rat, and any of the geese -
You can pet anything that you can catch if you go to Greece.
Youâre allowed to pet the Irish cats, and Luxembourg is on,
Anything in Finland, France, Italy and Taiwan!
The world is big and large and strange, and many countries are
Rabies-free and glad of it! Like Germany! Qatar!
Aotearoaâs rabies-free on account of rare mammalia,
But youâre also fine to pet the cat upon entry to Australia.
If in Japan you see a cat you may surely pet away -
You can pat the cat in Belgium, Iceland, and of course Norway.
There are other countries where this virus has no hold,
And if YOU want to rhyme them then youâll win a star of gold.
On this planet there are many places where you can safely pet the cat,
But lyssavirus being widespread, you still shouldnât pet a bat.
Everyone at magic school picks on you for your creepy skeletal minions. One day a trio of bullies has you cornered. "What now, necromancer? There's no corpses or bones around to save you." You sigh, "Actually, I'm an osteomancer. The skeletons don't have to come from corpses."
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giving birth sucks tbh. not only do you and the baby youâre birthing almost die, usually you shit yourself and often you tear your taint. then you have to push an organ out of your body (placenta) and if even a little of that remains in your body, you can hemorrhage to death or develop an infection that essentially rots your body from the inside out. even if you had a relatively âeasy birthâ, you bleed for weeks on end. even after that stops, your body and brain is changed for the rest of your life, the pregnancy leeched minerals from your bones, that can cause osteoporosis later. minor urinary incontinence is not uncommon, brain scans of people who gave birth show permanent changes in their brain, youâre never quite the same.
I say all of this not to say giving birth is disgusting but it is a harrowing and visceral experience. society downplays how fucking awful it is and makes it out to be a ~magical~ experience but it isnât a magical transformative experience for everyone. it can be an extremely traumatic experience for someone who wanted to carry a pregnancy to term, much more so for someone who did not want to be pregnant in the first place or someone who knows their baby wonât survive the birth. anyway, abortion is a right. pregnancy and birth arenât just inconvenient, itâs fucking awful.
How is it that in this entire post you didnât say the word âwomanâ once? Only one sex gives birth. Only women have these experiences, only women are at risk for everything mentioned here, women are the only people this applies to. Erasing the word enables the problem.
Iâm an evil trans man with a big fat pussy and itâs my lifeâs purpose to erase women by using inclusive language. Everyone I make a post a random woman disappears off the planet. Clean vanishes. Theyâre renaming all maternity wards labor & delivery wards because of me. The word breastfeeding no longer exists in the dictionary. Itâs all chestfeeding now. Many world powers are trying to stop me. They canât. Theyâre too slow. Iâm always two steps ahead.
guy who doesnt understand how lesbian relationships work: so which one of you died by self-inflicted fencepost impalement and which one of you lobotomized yourself to try and bring her back?

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gideon nav would be the type to say âbone apple teeth to meâ between harrowâs thighs right before eating her out
im confused and slightly scared
the thing i enjoy the most about the locked tomb and discussions around it is there is absolutely zero thirsting for men. there are so few men in that series and so many lesbians that none of them have been blorboified to the point that they dominate the fandom. within the text the point of view characters are in fact so disinterested in men that there is almost nothing in the descriptions of the few men that there are to grasp onto to force them to be the everpresent sexyman figure in fandom, much less to yaoi them. itâs yuri or starve.
If you're someone who struggles with interoception (knowing/understanding what your body is feeling):
if there's a task, especially a recurring one, that you find difficult to do and that you keep avoiding, check whether you're in pain or physical discomfort.
For a long time I would avoid doing tasks like showering because they nebulously made me feel 'bad' or i just instinctively felt like avoiding them. It wasn't until I got a shower chair that I realised standing to shower was causing me pain. My bodymind knew that on some level but didn't tell the conscious me.
Similarly with sensory aversions (things you don't like). Before I got kitchen gloves, I did the dishes but it took me a long time and I never wanted to. Afterward, it got a lot easier to motivate myself.
"But how can you not know you're in pain/uncomfortabke?" Extremely easily if your brain is wired a specific way or if you were taught, intentionally or not, to downplay your own experiences or distance yourself from your body.
There's no shame in struggling with these things. hope y'all are having nice days and you're able to do something today that makes it a little easier.
The numbers clearly show this is a pointless distraction for the climate movement
The numbers clearly show that discouraging individual people from using chatbots is a pointless distraction for the climate movement
Some highlights:
Separating Signal from Noise in AI Discourse
this is a REALLY good consolidation of what is and isnât an AI issue
That's a very well-made page, thanks for sharing!
I find some of the critiques issued problematic. First example on their list: when used correctly, cognition is improved not hindered... But that's not how it's being used!
Additionally, that legal frameworks don't yet account for Ai doesn't make them moral. The underlying idea attribution issues can't be brushed aside by laws that are significantly older than the systems involved.
Overall, lovely site, clear and powerful, but they are missing the forest for the trees in a few places.

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is it a hot take to say that i think you need to understand why something is bad, not just that it simply is?
this is a part of the problem
you need to be able to explain why you shouldnt use ai rather than âoh well its obviously bad and you shouldnt use it or else youre a bad personâ because that isnât logic. âai generates child porn based off of real children and whether or not it does is entirely up to how it is built and if pedophiles are able to find ways around those safeguards, because ai cannot in itself discern right from wrongâ is a genuine criticism. âamazon tried to build a data center the size of tuson outside of tuson just to power their ai that wouldâve increased the inability to stay alive outside in parts of arizonaâ is a genuine criticism. even âusing generative ai teaches you not to learn how to do things yourself even when theyâre difficult, devaluing necessary skills out of practiceâ is a genuine criticism when you look at the amount of people who think they are able of doing a difficult major when they couldnt write their own papers in high school.
but âai is just bad because itâs badâ will convince no one and is a morally lazy position to take. about anything!
you need to know why reading someoneâs diary is wrong if you want to learn about privacy and respect. you need to know why child sexual assault is wrong if you want to be able to help children form healthy age appropriate relationships. you need to know why capitalism is bad if you want to replace it with something else. you need actual concrete ideas and ideologies rather than âyou should agree with me because i have the right vibeâ
The note inside a bullet.
B-17 bomber is riddled with German anti-aircraft fire but miraculously survives. Later they discover the explosive shells were all inert; sabotaged by Nazi slaves working in armament factories.
Inside one empty shell is a written note: it's all we can do for you now.
The most important part of all this is that these small acts of bravery and noncompliance cannot be known as long as the enemy still stands, and might never be known. Just because it doesnât seem like anyone is doing anything doesnât mean itâs true. The best malicious compliance or subtle sabotage is the one thatâs never detected, but makes ravages nonetheless.
A critical part of any resistance is
Do not post your crimes
Do not brag. Do not look for brownie points. Do not publicly recruit. Keep your mouth shut.