biotope teapot ✶ 4/12 of a special set 🌿💫🫖
I adore this. A biome in a teapot.
It’s so hard for me to make it to protests these days as they tend to be super-inaccessible, but this pic of my and my OH protesting with mates came across my dash today.
Happy TDOV!
I drew a series of four portraits for the occasion – four iconic French trans people from different time periods. Trans history is too often restricted to USAnian history, especially on here, and as a French person who has had most of my LGBT education from Tumblr, I found myself very disconnected from my own country’s history.
Doing these portraits was an opportunity for me to learn more about French trans history, and hopefully you can learn some stuff from it as well – I put some short biographies in each portrait’s caption!
I managed to do a bit of nonbinary flag motif decorative mending on one of my ankle supports.
It wasn’t the easiest to do as this is of course very tough elasticated fabric and it didn’t really fit in any of my embroidery frames so I had to mend as is, but I’m actually quite pleased with how it came out!
Proving a point to my boyfriend.
PLEASE REBLOG if you (male or female) believe it is perfectly okay and natural for a guy of any age to cry
I’ve never hit reblog faster or harder.
gender is beneath me but yes
Its ok but on occasion for a reason and not to much. Prefrebly never
preferably often, you can happy cry too ! and there shouldn’t be a limit to how much you can cry, there’re only points in which you should talk to someone about it and in which you should get your tear ducts checked
Men, masc folks, literally everyone should cry whenever they need to.
the great nicobar serpent-eagle is (believed to be) the world’s smallest eagle species; their name comes from being endemic to the indian island of great nicobar. as their name implies, snakes are a large part of their diet; they primarily feed on reptiles such as snakes and lizards. due to their small range, they are threatened by habitat loss. typically, only one egg is laid per clutch; if two eggs are laid, then only one will be successfully raised.
hi! i'm not sure if this is the right place to do this, but i made a coelacanth art piece for ap art last year and figured i'd share it :)
That's a beautiful coelacanth!
I need people to stop telling trans binary and nonbinary people who vent about their family forgetting or not using their pronouns or chosen names to “just cut them out of their lives if they can’t respect who you are”.
*Lots* of us are disabled. I really depend on help from my folks to manage my life when things are bad.
But, frankly, even if I didn’t - I’m not going to cut my folks, or the rest of my family, out of my life, because things they do hurt me. Because they do, sometimes right to the heart for things I don’t think they realise mean a lot to me, but that *doesn’t* stop me loving them. Nor them loving me. My folks are also right at the limit of their capacity caring for three people to different extents, and that doesn’t give them a lot of capacity to spare for learning or processing stuff they don’t necessarily see as all that important.
Trans folk, and disabled folk, which have a big crossover in the middle of the Venn Diagram there, are socially marginalised and isolated. Lots of trans and disabled people are literally cut out by their families for being who they are, and that is a big, big cause of marginalisation and isolation.
The idea that the rest of us should just do that to ourselves when people we love hurt us by not understanding who we are - and this stuff *isn’t* actually that easy to learn for people outside the queer, disabled or queer disabled communities if they’re not incredibly motivated to do so - is incredibly fucking damaging and, to be absolutely honest, a complete cop-out by people who are not willing to put up with the emotional labour of understanding that most lives are not simple, and marginalised people have to constantly deal with trade-offs in most areas.
I don’t remotely mean that people should put up with abuse if they have the capacity to leave that situation. But people need to expand their understanding to a) behaviour that hurts us is not necessarily the same as abuse, and b) marginalised people *are* frequently stuck in abusive situations, and this sort of absolute “leave or shut up” attitude people are so keen to put out online further traps and isolates marginalised people who are stuck, instead of giving them emotional support and, hopefully, physical and informational support too.
The idea that we can simply and easily withdraw from parts of our social network without it costing us something vital is incredibly privileged, and incredibly dangerous.
We talk so much in environmental and social movements about building community. We always talk about it in this purely positive light. I need people to start engaging with the fact that real, as opposed to idealised, community, is a multifaceted thing, and all the more so for people who are intersectionally marginalised - anywhere at the crossover point of queer, disabled, BIPOC, trans, neurodivergent, migrant, and other things. We are communal creatures by nature, but, frankly, capitalism has done a *lot* to break that up, and to prevent us from learning the skills of negotiation and existing in community as equitably as possible. And that includes in small communities like families.
Part of that, frankly, *is* letting people have vent spaces. Without necessarily jumping in to problem solve unless people *ask* for that. Venting is literally one of the ways that people move towards problem solving themselves - it not only lets them express emotion they may not have the space to express properly in the situation that’s causing it, but it starts letting them lay a situation out and put it in perspective. And online venting is great, tbh. It stops individual people from becoming sole venting spaces, the emotional labour of which falls disproportionately on women and femme-read people. And it means that, if you don’t have the spoons to hold that space for people, you can scroll by.
I absolutely do *not* find this stuff easy. At all. I am *way* too autistic for that. That’s why I work *hard* at this stuff.
We *need* communities. We are communal primates. It’s what we are and what we do. And, frankly, we need to get better at being in community with each other to build the future we need to survive. Capitalism and oligarchy has been far too fucking effective at pushing a narrative of individualism which ignores our responsibilities as humans - to each other and to the planet we live on. We need to learn to see the costs of isolation and being isolated, and learn the skills of supporting each other and negotiating with each other.
And, absolutely honestly, if someone *is* in a situation where they do need to walk away from a relationship (of any kind), they will be *so* much better able to do so if they have a community of genuine support from others around them.
New headphones and lipstick 😜
I’ll be able to listen to stuff while walking Cynthia much better now and listen to stuff late on bad pain nights without disturbing my OH.
I tried borrowing their earphones but I simply cannot do things in the ears. It’s a shame because there’s a lot of times the Loop earplugs would probably improve my life a fair bit, but the sensory NOPE of Things In My Ears just overrides the benefit, sadly.
I get a lot of gender euphoria from “non-traditional” lipsticks - anything off the pinky-red spectrum, so black, grey, blue, green etc etc.
I feel so much more Me now 💛💜🖤
I think maybe my least favorite part of chronic illness is how much time you spend in limbo. Obviously the good days are good days, and the thing is that the worst days are when you can implement your emergency measures - take your pain pills, get in bed and call the whole day a wash. It’s a done deal.
But most days are in between, spent sitting and waiting to see if you’re going to be able to do anything or if you’re going to have to give up. You can’t just give up every day, and you actually get really fucking tired of lying in bed doing nothing, but you can’t just will yourself to have a good enough day to be productive. You can try to advance on a task, see if you’re capable, only to find yourself on the brink of collapse, maybe even hurting your health because you so much as tried to do something.
So then you go back to spending your 10,000th hour in bed or on the couch waiting for something to change. It’s really, really boring.
Okay I have several beefs with the modern Beeb, but the BBC Archive is an absolute cultural treasure:
Robot boats gobble plastic waste from Vietnam to Malaysia
The floating markets of Vietnam's Mekong Delta have a new, high-tech neighbor: a robotic boat that gobbles up plastic bottles, wrappers and other trash that could spill into the Pacific Ocean, taking aim at one of the world's most pressing environmental problems.
The electric vessel joins a flotilla of similar craft making waves from Malaysia to Indonesia that have been built by the Ocean Cleanup nonprofit with cash from sources including British rock band Coldplay, drinks giant Coca-Cola and South Korean automaker Kia. The latter says it will use plastic recovered from the sea in its manufacturing, as well as donating electric vehicles to the organization.
One fucking day I will be able to talk about environments being biodiverse without my fucking brain trying to correct it to “biodivergent” 🤦🏻
just wanted to remind everyone again not only of the 3,000+ resources offered through our Liberation Library but also of the study guides for beginners offered under each of our social justice topics!
resources can be organized by type (article, novel, podcast, video, etc.) as well as filtered and searched through. we’ve tried to make our system much more accessible than our former platform on google docs so this is such an exciting development to share with everyone.
please share to promote equitable access education!
Thank you - this is *incredibly* useful! I’m signal boosting now.
Remember, a solarpunk future without support for the disabled population is just green-washed ableism.
A solarpunk future that doesn't include (or purposely excludes) Indigenous/PoC populations is just green-washed white supremacy/colonialism.
A solarpunk future that doesn't feed the hungry or house the poor is just green-washed capitalism.
Solarpunk is more than just an aesthetic. It's a hope for a better future for everyone.
All of this.
Solarpunk *actively* seeks accessibility; not only physical accessibility, although that is an *essential* part of it, but a world which doesn’t penalise disabled people for contributing what we can, whether that is paid or not, where disabled contributions are recognised and valued despite “inconsistency and unreliability”, where communities actively care for and include elderly and disabled members. Solarpunk makes room for learning disabled people to learn and develop skills *they* value and supports autonomy and self-determination while not fetishising an “independence” very few humans ever achieve nor thrive in. Solarpunk actively values the differing perspectives and strengths neurodivergent people bring to community and culture and allows room for different ways of learning, working and living so different people can thrive.
Solarpunk *actively* and inherently values indigenous people, cultures, values and ways of life. Indigenous peoples actively build sustainable communities and cultures for the landscapes and environments they live in. All of humanity is in desperate need of their knowledge and expertise, and desperately owes them respect, sovereignty and self-determination. Solarpunk recognises and celebrates that indigenous cultures exist in the *present* as well as the past and have valuable, essential futures.
Solarpunk is actively multicultural and inclusive, celebrating different cultural traditions and peoples living in communities together. It celebrates closed cultural practices without appropriating and gives as much weight to the human rights of marginalised groups as to majority groups. It celebrates people actively for their skin colours and shades, weight, health or lack thereoff, genders, sexualities and identities.
Solarpunk *actively* seeks to end wealth inequalities and seeks sustainability over growth. It provides basic needs for everyone before more for some, and sees wealth in people, human happiness, and a stable, biodiverse world, not bank balances.
A better world for *everyone*, including the people, and the world, that comes after us.
There is hope. I promise. Young people just won their case against the state of Montana. Ecuadoreans braved escalating political violence to vote against oil drilling in the Amazon. Brazilian deforestation is down by enormous amounts since Lula took office. They’ve invented hydropanels that synthesise pure water from the air. People are farming in solar parks. A ship just launched for its maiden voyage using rigid sails designed to mimic wind turbine blades. EV sales are taking off, and, more crucially, cities are re-assessing their very relationship with the car. By the 2024 Olympics the river Seine will be safe for people to swim in again. More and more people are replacing their gas boilers with heat pumps. Solarpunks are growing crops in their back garden and distributing them to their neighbours. Great tracts of land are being given back to nature. Young people are channelling their energies into meaningful careers. Pilots are leaving the aviation industry. Yes, the world is dark and terrible and full of awful dangers that keep you up at night, but we are a huge movement that grows every day in numbers and power. Your small actions matter. Our collective triumphs are increasing. Things are going to get harder, extreme weather will be more common, but with ingenuity, resilience and crucially, COMMUNITY, we can build an equitable world on this strange, tired old planet. See you in the future.
“It’s so handy to have this doggo window right where I want to look out!”
Don’t worry, Alfie the cat prefers the glass back door no bloody glazier would put a cat flap in anyway 🤣🤦🏻
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