oh wow :O that’s beautiful!! I would love to visit a place like this (or be part of creating one)

God this is terrifying. I’m a little concerned that I might answer automatically especially if I was having a flare or something (ME/CFS, brain fog is a bitch). I’m gonna practice saying “No” “No, I don’t know them” “I don’t know, I keep to myself” “Yeah, no” “Yeah, I don’t know” a few times so hopefully muscle memory kicks in if this ever happens to me.

I’ve been trying to reduce and reuse as much as I can, but I feel like the amount of necessary plastic that comes into my home is… infinite? I buy a carton of milk and a carton of oat milk every week, at the end of the month I have eight cartons. I turn basically all plastic containers into containers for other things (and the cartons are steadily becoming planters for my balcony garden) but I’m reaching the point where I have nothing left to contain. And I can’t stop buying milk… I dunno, just something I’ve been thinking about lately.

Ultimately - as the video concludes - I suspect that we need to pressure corporations to become stewards of the environment but that feels way more overwhelming than making a milk jug planter :c

Basically what the video says :') A lot of us here are aware that it was literally made up but I didn’t know in detail just how bad it is

My local library offers a selection of movies and a projector to watch them on! Honestly I think we should normalize going to the library for a date or hangout and, yeah, something like a regular Friday night library visit for movie night

Here’s a question, then - is it possible for us to start DIYing our own internet and move away from ISPs?

I’m sorry things are so bad over there 🫂 at least here in the US I can name several rapid response groups near me, I wish I could share them with you

This is gorgeous!! The skyline reminds me of my hometown so it feels nostalgic in a way despite being something I haven’t seen before

I mean if nothing else surely you could get together with a friend or something? Or do I misunderstand the culture that badly o-o

Would you be open to sharing what kind of misogynistic content you’ve found in the anarchist library? I’ve been using that as a resource for learning and I’d rather, y’know, avoid the gross stuff that I may not have realized was gross

This felt really meaningful for me to read today. I think I’m going to sit with it and reread it later. Frequently, even though I’m a woman, I choose to focus my learning and understanding on racism and transphobia as (I’m realizing now) those have always felt more important to me than misogyny. But misogyny and transphobia go hand in hand, and I’m thinking also of the times I’ve let men speak over me (a queer disabled woman), telling myself “there’s more important things to focus on.” I don’t know. I might come back and share some more thoughts on my re-reading.

Huh, neat! Good to know. Car’s coming to the end of its lifespan, my partner and I have been wondering about getting an EV next, but they can really be damn expensive

:c most of us don’t want to be here either

Fuck it let’s go all the way. Replace the cars entirely

My hometown actually set up something like this, with small shed-sized houses that had heating and AC, communal bathrooms, and staff on-site in case anyone needed a hand with something (including professionals trained in addiction). Folks who stayed there report that it was absolutely life changing and enabled them to finally get a job and move into a real apartment or buy a house, get married and have kids, the works.

Unfortunately, the apartment buildings next door are all owned by one asshole who, like all landlords, abhors the idea of free housing and has argued against the encampment since it started. A lot of the people who live there are pretty noisy about it, too. They say that homeless people from the encampment are harassing them, breaking their windows, stealing from their cars, etc - essentially, anytime anyone’s an asshole to them, the asshole must have been from the encampment. Never mind that my hometown is known for having a high crime rate regardless…

So that’s discouraging. But the fact of the matter is that your idea is plausible and there’s tons of evidence to back it up!! And yeah, having a permanent, safe place to live is pretty damn life changing

This is a great way of explaining why solarpunk artworks and books are not just wonderful but necessary

This sounds really cool!! I love board games

Hey there! My partner recently went through this whole process. They wanted something really sturdy and low-tech - for reference, they use a flip phone in regular life, so you get the idea. Specifically, the requirements were no touch screen, no Bluetooth, just load music files on there and be able to hit play and pause. They also had a fairly low budget.

We ended up choosing the Snowsky Mini. It’s light, pocket-sized, physical buttons, you can pop a micro SD in there to get up to 256GB of storage space. It sounds fantastic with a decent pair of earbuds.

I cannot speak to how repairable it is at the moment, and I will say that my partner is very careful with devices so I also can’t speak to how durable it is against someone clumsy like me. I’m also not a tech nerd so I can’t speak on altering hardware or software. But I can say that my partner loves it and has no complaints.