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(if you are seeing this and do not know what octet by dave malloy is it is an a capella chamber choir commentary on our relationship with technology and the internet and its GOOD !!!! very inchresting please watch )

synopsis : a meeting of the internet addicts support group 'Friend of Saul ' held in a church basement . All the characters represent a caricature of an issue for example gambling , pornography , gaming , etc . Every character / song also represents a card from the major arcana tarot deck !

But then there's that method of crop planting, no till farming, where growing things in the remains of the previous plants is better for the soil, the microbial balance, and makes it better suited to withstand extremes.

Even if the years you've spent have left you with things to undo, to weed out, that doesn't make them pointless.

ill do u one better. pride tuckymojis <3

I have never seen another allergy that has been so viscerally hated and mocked by people working in education like nut allergies. I've seen fellow teachers cringe that their classroom was the "nut free" classroom that year. Support staff that are trained and willfully don't follow cross contamination protocol in the lunchroom because it's too "tedious" or "time-consuming". Full preschools + childcare centers that refuse to accommodate nut allergies. Schools where the only free lunch is a PB&J. Before/after school programs and summer programs whose food curriculum has nuts and doesn't provide an alternative activity.

Allergy discrimination is so so insidious and prevalent. It's happening behind their back and it is everything from the exposure joke to possibly causing someone to go into anaphylaxis from willful ignorance.

I was not downplaying this. The stigma is real, and people are 100% willing to let people with allergies die.

Watch out for ALL allergies too, especially with the rise of Alpha-gal.* My aunt has it, and is not only allergic to nuts, but mammal meat (pork, beef, goat, etc...), mammal milk (cheese, yoghurt, etc.), several cleaners, certain artificial sweeteners, gelatine based products like capsules and Jell-o, cement glue, and much more. Animal byproducts are everywhere and can be just as harmful as directly touching milk. If she is in the vicinity of cooking meat, she will go into anaphylactic shock. She is so sensitive that she does not have to touch it for her throat to swell shut. Likewise, several other people in my family and my village that have deadly allergies related and not related to Alpha-gal (there is about 700 people in my town and I can name at least 10 off the top of my head alone out of just the circle of people that I have some kind of relationship to who have an allergy). If someone requests for a certain ingredient to be left out, do NOT think you're doing something by ignoring that request.** You could start a deadly reaction.

Consider instead adding epipen training the next time you get first aid or cpr/aed certified, and actively engage in risk reduction. You do not need to know someone's medical history to respect a request. I promise that there are very few people with a condition who want to make your life harder, and even fewer people have the audacity to fake a condition.

*Alpha-gal is not a genetic allergy. It is caused by a tick bite from a Lone Star tick. Which means that anybody can be at risk for developing this disease, and this is why it is one of the fastest growing allergies in North America. There is currently no cure, but there are injections available to reduce the risk of severe reaction. Reduce, not mitigate entirely. Please take caution if you know you will be spending time outside during warmer seasons, take the time to learn how to prevent tick bites.

I am currently on vacation and didn't have water with me for the flight- or afterwards. Because I had issues with the security and am autistic, I cried which dehydrated me further. And I was sleep deprived because of when we had to leave. By the time we made it to the resort, I had to almost push my way off the bus so that one of my siblings could help me stumble into a chair and bring me as much water as they could. I only recovered after draining all of the water my family had with them, being given a cold towel by staff for the back of my neck (helping to constrict blood vessels) and drinking a strawberry banana smoothie. Up until that point- I could not stand up without someone to keep me from falling over.

My brother has a shellfish allergy. We've all been making sure that the food he gets is shellfish free because we don't want him to die. I have never seen anyone take his allergy lightly.

My mom is allergic to Kiwi. When I had the aforementioned smoothie, the first thing I did was report to her that there was no kiwi in it after tasting it. I have seen several waiters say that they have no idea whether there's kiwi in something, couldn't she just pick it off, eat around it, etc.

I'm allergic to rosin as a contact allergy. But not in a small way. In a my eyes will swell shut and it can be hard for me to breathe because my face has swollen so much. Rosin is present in a lot of makeup and skin products because it's adhesive. My classmates HATED that there was a rule that they were not allowed to use spray perfumes in the gym change room. And it was all because of me. Because aerosols are not that contained, and even the slightest mist on my face could make it so I couldn't open my eyes. My second grade teacher knew about my allergy because we disclosed it to every teacher I had- and she decided that on the last day before winter break, she'd put glitter glue on our cheeks so we'd go home as little angels to our parents. I went home as the kid who had to spend Christmas knocked out on benadryl because my face was so swollen. And I'm a LUCKY person, with how my allergy works. Because it takes hours for it to progress, so if I start itching after exposure to something, I can wash my skin off thoroughly before the reaction sets in fully. Even my mother will thoughtlessly reach out to put a sticker on me sometimes because it just doesn't occur to her that she can't. (Usually she remembers at the last minute and apologizes, but it's a good example of the mindless ways that people who don't have allergies will react around those who do.)

All of this to say, if someone says that they can't have something, then worse comes to worst, you have spent a little bit of energy for someone who might not appreciate it. But they know their body better than you do. So it's more likely to be that they are telling you what they need.

Please assume ignorance instead of malevolence when possible. It's not your job to fix that, and you shouldn't have to, but the world sucks sometimes and someone should fix it. If you can, please try.

What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?

What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?

What if the rainforest ADVANCES?

What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?

What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?

What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?

What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?

What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?

What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?

What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?

What if we win?

The condors are back. The whales are saved. The sea turtles are no longer endangered. The cranes are back. The bees are recovering. The air in LA and Tokyo and London is clean again. The aquifers in the LA Basin are refilling.

Children are kinder than previous generations. Parents are stopping the abuse cycle. Being trans and queer is more acceptable than ever on a ground level.

It's hard to see if you're young, if you don't know how to step back from social media and the news. But remember--bad news sells, and the algorithm knows despair keeps you scrolling. It's a skewed lens.

We are fighting and we are winning against this adminstration's bullying. We are coming together against the bullies and they are running away scared because they don't understand that we will do that.

People are working hard every day to find ways to make sure fewer animals get hit by cars and planes and rockets.

Maker spaces are more common than ever. Solar and wind are more common than ever. Coal plants are shutting down every day.

Unprecedented numbers of acres are being bought back or given back to their rightful stewards, and the world heals because of it. People are working hard every day to learn how to help a forest recover faster.

We are not at zero. We are at decades of effort to heal the world. We've come SO far.

In 1982 there were only 22 California Condors left in the world. In 1992, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), with its public and private partners, began reintroducing captive-bred condors to the wild. In 2001 the first wild nesting occurred in Grand Canyon National Park since re-introduction. In 2002 there were only 8 pairs of wild nesting birds population-wide. In 2008, for the first time since the program began, more California condors were flying free in the wild than in captivity. Today there are nearly 500 – more than half of them flying free in Arizona, Utah, California, and Baja Mexico.

When I was born, there were no condors in the wild. I'm 37 now, and there are over 250 condors flying free.

When my mom was born in 1955, there were days when she wasn't allowed to go outside to play, because of the air pollution. When I was born, that never happened anymore.

When I was born, humpback whales were critically endangered, and people thought they were going to go extinct. Today, they've recovered to exceed their recorded numbers. Other whales too!

We fixed it.

It's still far from our reach.

In addition to all that was mentioned above:

The likelihood of dying in infancy or childhood--or losing a child--has plummeted just in my lifetime. The likelihood of dying in a natural disaster is the lowest in recorded human history. Yes, even with the uptick in natural disaster intensity from climate change!

Humans alive right now are more likely to have access to healthcare, electricity, education, birth control, clean water, and nutritious food than at any other point in human history. There are so many diseases we can treat now that were a death sentence for 90% of human history.

This is not by accident. This is because generations of humans put in work to make life better for their communities.

Some of our solutions had the side effect of creating other problems--better access to electricity that ultimately made people's lives easier and safer led to pollution and climate change, for example--but we are tackling those knock on problems too. Our generation's solutions to our current problems will probably create their own less-bad side effects for the humans after us to deal with.

We find something new to fight for. To aim for. Because we are a society built on the prevailing need to find a place for ourselves.

We keep learning, keep researching, keep growing. Some people stay that all science is based on standing on the shoulders of giants, that it's all some cheerleader pyramid of intelligence, but I'd posit that advancement is more like a tree. It's not going to fall if one root is cut off or turns out to be rotten. It's going to snake new roots using the path left behind by the previous ones. It's going to sprout new branches and reach endlessly higher towards the sun.

If we win, then we learn ways to make solar panels something that doesn't take up such space. We advance the hydro electric and wind turbines and find a way to sustain ourselves that doesn't cut into the room for nature and for humanity. We rebuild cities made of materials that will better handle natural disasters. We reach past the limits of our solar system. We develop new ways of preventing illnesses. We design cars with such safeties that they can be used without getting in the way of the other wonderful things.

Just like we have every single time we've moved forwards in the past. Cars used to be things that there was no surviving an accident in. Now, the chance of doing so is higher and higher with every new generation of safety measures.

What happens if we win? We don't.