Charmy Reblogs And Rambles

[Charmy Reblogs And Rambles]

Okay, my previous post seems to be shadowbanned, and it looks like I severely overestimated the time still remaining until this goal has to be made so I’m making a new post spreading this far and wide!! PLEASE PLEASE donate what you can!

Original Post:

Ori is an indigenous two-spirit trans beader and podcaster who was diagnosed with AFIB after heart failure and 2 repeated strokes. This is done as an act of DIRECT MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE by a transphobic nurse. He is unable to work because of this, though he is able to make some really nice jewellery where you can buy here:

https://oriaguila.com/shop

He has until August 21 to raise $6000 for their heart surgery recovery, which includes a flat to access easily as he cannot get up the stairs, and a paid caretaker that will provide him with sufficient medical care.

This surgery is MANDATORY for him to continue to be alive, to live and thrive. If they are unable to get these funds, they may not be able to get the surgery at all.

@neil-gaiman @quiddie @decolonize-the-left @hopepunk-humanity

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[charmycharmcharms]

Okay, my previous post seems to be shadowbanned, and it looks like I severely overestimated the time still remaining until this goal has to be made so I’m making a new post spreading this far and wide!! PLEASE PLEASE donate what you can!

Original Post:

Ori is an indigenous two-spirit trans beader and podcaster who was diagnosed with AFIB after heart failure and 2 repeated strokes. This is done as an act of DIRECT MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE by a transphobic nurse. He is unable to work because of this, though he is able to make some really nice jewellery where you can buy here:

https://oriaguila.com/shop

He has until August 21 to raise $6000 for their heart surgery recovery, which includes a flat to access easily as he cannot get up the stairs, and a paid caretaker that will provide him with sufficient medical care.

This surgery is MANDATORY for him to continue to be alive, to live and thrive. If they are unable to get these funds, they may not be able to get the surgery at all.

@neil-gaiman @quiddie @decolonize-the-left @hopepunk-humanity

[charmycharmcharms]

Thanks for all the reblogs!! They’re now 3700 ~/6000 to the goal! Keep sending funds esp if you have disposable income you were about to spend pulling on a character or something!

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[liberalsarecool]

Genius move, Elon.

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[hopepunk-humanity]

Maggie the poet

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[animentality]

[headspace-hotel]

It was gut-wrenching when I realized that many people alive today have never seen a truly mature tree up close.

In the Eastern USA, only tiny remnants of old-growth forest remain; all the rest, over 99%, was clear-cut within the last 100-150 years.

Most tree species here have a lifespan of 300-500 years—likely longer, since extant examples of truly old trees are so rare, there is limited ability to study them. In a suburban environment, almost all of the trees you see around you are mere saplings. A 50 year old oak tree is a youth only beginning its life.

The forest where I work is 100 years old; it was clear cut around 1920. It is still so young.

When I dig into the ground there, there is a layer about an inch thick of rich, plush, moist, fragrant topsoil, packed with mycelium and light and soft as a foam mattress. Underneath that the ground becomes hard and chalky in color, with a mineral odor.

It takes 100 years to build an inch of topsoil.

That topsoil, that marvelous, rich, living substance, took 100 years to build.

I am sorry your textbooks lied to you. Do you remember pictures in diagrams of soil layers, with a six-inch topsoil layer and a few feet of subsoil above bedrock?

That's not true anymore. If you are not an "outdoorsy" person that hikes off trail in forests regularly, it is likely that you have never touched true topsoil. The soil underlying lawns is depleted, compacted garbage with hardly any life in it. It seems more similar to rocks than soil to me now.

You see, tilling the soil and repeatedly disturbing it for agriculture destroys the topsoil layer, and there is no healthy plant community to regenerate it.

The North American prairies used to hold layers of topsoil more than eight or nine feet deep. That was a huge carbon sink, taking carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it underground.

Then European colonists settled the prairie and tried to drive the bison to extinction as part of the plan to drive Native Americans to extinction, and plowed up that topsoil...and the results were devastating. You might recall being taught about the Dust Bowl. Disrupting that incredible topsoil layer held in place by 12-foot-tall prairie grasses and over 100 different wildflower species caused the nation to be engulfed in horrific dirt storms that turned the sky black and had people hundreds of miles away coughing up clods of mud and sweeping thick drifts of dirt out of their homes.

But plowing is fundamental to agricultural civilizations at their very origins! you might say.

Where did those early civilizations live? River valleys.

Why river valleys? They're fertile because of seasonal flooding that deposits rich silt that can then be planted in.

And where does that silt come from?

Well, a huge river is created by smaller rivers coming together, which is created by smaller creeks coming together, which have their origins in the mountains and uplands, which are no good for farming but often covered in rich, dense forests.

The forests create the rich soil that makes agriculture possible. An ancient forest is so powerful, it brings life to civilizations and communities hundreds of miles away.

You may have heard that cattle farming is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. A huge chunk of that is just the conversion of an existing forest or grassland to pasture land. Robust plant communities like forests, wetlands, and grasslands are carbon sinks, storing carbon and removing it from the atmosphere. The destruction of these environments is a direct source of carbon emissions.

All is not lost. Nature knows how to regenerate herself after devastating events; she's done so countless times before, and forests are not static places anyway. They are in a constant state of regrowth and change. Human caretakers have been able to manage ancient forests for thousands of years. It is colonialism and the ideology of profit and greed that is so destructive, not human presence.

Preserve the old growth forests of the present, yes, but it is even more vital to protect the old growth forests of the future.

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[lych33dragon]

Saw a post that made me upset soo. Everyone post ur positive thoughts Abt the TBD <3

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[chasekip]

this is Bad Post Hau

if you see a bad post, post Bad Post Hau to warn everyone else

[rilethunder]

[chasekip]

now you’ve fucking done it……..

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

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[starblaster]

"but if you're pro-union, why are you anti-cop-union?" because cops are not laborers. what cops do is not labor. they are enforcers of the laws that oppress laborers and exist solely to protect capital. don't bother me with stupid questions.

[catgirlanarchist]

who keeps killing striking workers???

the cops

how come it's virtually impossible to hold killer cops accountable for their murder???

the cop unions

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[trans-axolotl]

this disability pride month, remember our loved ones who are locked up, institutionalized, and incarcerated. Remember our loved ones who are in carceral group homes that wouldn't pass the burrito test. Remember our loved ones who are cut off from disability community and forcibly isolated through the violent ableism of these institutions. Disability solidarity means that we must create these community connections that transgress these barriers and lets our loved ones know that they are valued, important, and that we are fighting for their freedom.

This disability pride month, send a care package to your local psych ward or residential treatment facility.

Find a program to write letters to people incarcerated in your local prisons and jails.

Support patient organizing, prison protests, and advocacy for independent living.

This disability pride month, commit to fighting for abolition of all forms of incarceration, from psych wards to residential treatment to prisons.

[trans-axolotl]

Reblogging again because I've seen some people lately saying that institutionalization is a unique example of discrimination that only neurodivergent people face, and I really would like to push back on that idea. It's true that Mad/ND/MI people are incredibly impacted by institutionalization, and that there is a lot of forms of institutionalization directly targeting us, such as psych wards, residential treatment facilities, rehab, state psych hospitals. etc. It is important to be able to organize around these issues, which is why I spend so much time talking specifically about psych abolition and mad liberation. This needs to be a priority in our activism and psych hospitalization needs to be understood as a form of institutionalization. In modern times, this is probably the most frequent type of institutionalization, but is absolutely not the only type.

Institutionalization is an umbrella term for a lot of types of confinement, and is an important cross disability issue to build solidarity around. This affects all of us in different and similar ways. For example, we need to understand how intellectual and developmentally disabled communities are affected by institutionalization in group homes, guardianships, and other forms of communal living situations. For people who need access to 24/7 care, or support to live independently, people are often forced into group homes that do not support their choices, give them freedom, access places and friends in outside community, participate in hobbies, work jobs, or treat them with dignity and respect. Intellectually disabled people deserve to live the way that they want to live, with the people that they choose, and spend their time the way they want, and institutionalization really makes a lot of that impossible.

Physically disabled and chronically ill people who need access to 24/7 care often can not realistically access that due to cost, time constraints, accessibility, lack of logistical support that would enable their loved ones to do that care, etc. Physically disabled and chronically ill people are often forced into nursing homes that are their only options for providing that care. This is a form of institutionalization that places really strong restrictions on your ability to do the activities you choose when you want to, participate in community, and have your autonomy respected.

Prison is a form of confinement that affects people from all types of disability, and also is a disabling situation--many people become disabled because of their incarceration. Deaf people who are incarcerated are oftentimes denied access to any form of video communication despite their peers having access to phone conversations. Prison is a form of confinement that must be included in conversations about institutionalization.

If you look into the history of institutionalization in America, you will see the many settings where we were all confined together, without any specificity of diagnosis. Explore the history of epilepsy and psychiatric hospitals, and you can see the ways our communities become tied together. Although today the medical system places a much higher value on differentiating confinement through diagnosis, that wasn't always the case, and we need to be able to track the ways institutionalization shifts locations.

I just really want to encourage us to have a broad view of the many ways we as disabled people are confined, locked up, cut off from community and unable to make our own choices, and create the type of cross disability solidarity necessary to dismantle all of these types of harm.

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[notchainedtotrauma]

I haven’t been talking about it for a while, but I’m clean out of financial resources in a constantly abusive and unseeing household. Severe OCD and other needs such as completing missing toiletry and clothing, getting storage items, transportation, food, the cost of setting personal digital structures mean just having money because of the freedom it offers . 

My Pp is ccd4t@virginia.edu. 

K0fi

Again, if you feel like prioritizing somebody in your digital/analog community you feel needs swifter help, please feel free to turn to them first.

And again, people are burned out and forcefully bled out of their money. So if you’ve got it, please give it and break the cycle of the 1$ doing the round.

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[t4t4t]

hi two homeless trans women still struggling thru unemployment, found a nail in a tire of the van we live in recently and replaced it and that was like 300, and uh we have a gym membership we're late making payments to that's like 100. uh. and electrolysis still isnt free, hopefully it is soon lol. and so on. anything helps

paypal.me/NoraEstherRose

venmo: nora-esther-rose

[t4t4t]

hi we've only gotten 35 from this.