Startling Advances in Twig Technology

[ID: Pen and marker drawing with text in light blue and pink (in the pattern of the trans flag) that reads in all caps "Trans women!!! I love you!!!" followed by a very fluffy pink chicken with two hearts above them. /End description]

{ID - blue and pink pen and marker drawing of a stocky blue rooster surrounded by hearts and shiny lines, with text on a bright pink background that reads, in all caps, "Trans men!!! I love you!!!" END ID}

is that simple task bothering you queen

[ID: image with a speech bubble at the top leading to Little Alex Horne who has a mischievous smirk and is writing on a clipboard. / end ID]

The idea that, historically, every single person has done all the labor needed to make every single thing they own is laughable. I wish people would read about things like gift economies and similar systems before they make ridiculous claims about how a post-capitalist society would work.

The thing to remember is that, in the past, humans. . . were humans. As a species, we haven't really changed a whole lot.

Would you personally be able to do all the work it takes to live entirely on your own? Would you be able to go hunting and fishing and foraging for all your own food? Would you be able to grow every other food you need? Would you be able to raise livestock and collect eggs and shear sheep and milk cows/goats/etc? Would you be able to tan hides and grow and prepare plants and spin wool into yarn and thread to make cloth? Would you be able to make all your own clothes from that cloth, do all the sewing and weaving and knitting?

Would you be able to cut down trees to build your home and cook your food? Would you be able to collect and filter water for drinking? Would you be able to go put and mine for metal? Would you be able to smith your own tools and other metal materials? Would you be able to build all your own furniture?

Would you be able to make your own parchment or paper? Would you be able to make all your own ink and pigments and paints and dyes? Would you be able to make things like shampoo and perfume with only things you've collected yourself? Would you be able to blow glass to make containers? Would you be able to make all your own dishes woth only materials you've gathered yourself?

Would you be able to do all that entirely on your own? For your entire life?

No, obviously not, that's just absurd. Sure, you could do some of those things, but not all of them and certainly not constantly or as well as other people could do them. And that's just the very basics; there's so much more you'd have to do to not only survive but also be happy.

Humans were not more capable in the past, they either had support from each other to thrive. . . or they didn't and often didn't survive at all. This "everyone is on their own" attitude that's become so common in anarchist and anti-capitalist communities is the result of capitalism specifically isolating people to make them more dependent on exploitative systems rather than each other.

Humans have survived as long as we have by living in communities and supporting each other. That's how we lived in the past and that's how we need to live to have a future.

"Calculate your carbon footprint and use your yard to undo the damage you do ^_^" the term carbon footprint was invented by fossil fuel companies to shift the blame of climate change and environmental destruction from them onto people just trying to survive, stop falling for their propaganda

Plant native plants, learn how to turn your yard into a safe haven for animals facing the loss of their habitats, work with other people and organizations to revitalize local ecosystems. All of that is useful, all of it is good. Small steps are still important to someone and to something; the milkweed you plant in your garden isn't going to save your world, but it will save the worlds of the monarchs who pass by and have a safe place to lay their eggs.

But always remember that anything that shifts the blame of climate change onto you, as an individual living your life the best you can, is propaganda spread by companies tearing our planet apart for their own profit. "Carbon footprint" as a term was made by BP, the same company infamous for its devastating oil spills, to distract from their own crimes. Your "footprint" is a literal speck compared to what these companies do every single day.

Hello, remember that instead of putting out sugar water (which is actually very unhealthy for bees and grows bacteria very very quickly), a dish filled with just water and rocks with plenty of dry surface area will benefit all the bugs in your yard and garden :)

And ground baths instead of just free-standing birdbaths benefit other wildlife too, like squirrels, chipmunks, foxes, possums, coyotes, deer, etc.

The autistic moment when you have to smile at someone and instead of just..you know... smiling, you have to question everything you're doing?

Like..."wait...is that the correct type of smile for this situation? Did I crinkle my eyes enough? Fuck... Maybe I did it too much and now they think I was being smug? Think... What's a smug face... Think of a scene in a movie where they were smug.... What does smug look like? Oh god, I smiled for too long."

Today was for messing around with colour. What do you think?

(Ofc the colours look different on every screen I have to check with. How does one standardize that?)

Image description: A fairly simple, square, digital painting centred on a multi-shade green elephant with its trunk raised. Its highlights and shadows are approximately correct, just in green. The elephant is standing among bright blue rocks on a less saturated blue ground. The sky is medium pink with lighter pink at the horizon line. There are two trees with hot pink trunks, darker red leaves towards the ground and light pink leaves towards the sky. In the pink sky there are clouds the same blue as the rocks. Both clouds and trees are reflecting the same bright green as the elephant's highlights, to different degrees.]

[id: a mass of black cats, drawn so that they are only lineless black shapes with white eyes. In the center are the words, ‘Industrial Workers of the World.’ /end id]

okay do yoh guys ever think about the fact that “high quality” is an actual descriptor like theres high quality tea leaves high quality fabrics high quality espresso beans etc but because of advertising everything that is said to be “high quality” on the package is just because it supposedly sells better. but not everything is high quality so it is a lie. a descriptor becomes meaningless because it sounds good. what if we were just honest. why cant you say this coffee beans arent the best but they will do the job. i would be happy with okay if it didnt lie

my autism diagnosis has nothing to do with this

the classic trope of "what if you went to a town and it was weird" never fails

IM SCREAMING THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY

[ID: A tweet by ✨Omar Najam✨ $8 💵@OmarNajam that says, “Before this website collapses I just wanna say that during #acofaf a bunch of peeps were like “is your character autistic?” and I was like “nah I don’t think so, that’s just me being me!” anyway I got an assessment last winter and y’all nailed it”. End ID]

Plain text of the caption: I'm screaming this is so fucking funny

3 core beliefs of be kind be weird eat berries

I'm always seeing this sentiment of "I have got to make my art weirder" or people begging for weirder art but here's the thing, Weird is not a brand. You cannot rack your brains trying to figure out the "Weird" formula. You don't get weird art by artificially forcing whatever you think is "weird." You get weird art (and I think "weird" is sometimes people groping for a way of saying non-corporatized) by figuring out what you like, deep down, even (especially) if you think it's embarrassing and wallowing in it like a pig

Thinking about the time I tried out a fiction podcast and got bored immediately but left it on for the whole first episode because my cat was visibly invested.

She likes the sound of measured human voices. One time I was talking and she got so enthusuastic she body slammed her side into my face, cutting off the sound and breaking the spell, which frightened her into the next room.

OP's cat will love NileRed

This is the first time anyone's ever entrusted me with a media recommendation meant to be forwarded to my cat.