Something that I think should be an important part of solarpunk aesthetics is screws.
Look at your smartphone. No screws. You’ve got to have specialized tools to get inside your phone to repair something. There are certain pieces of tech that are glued in place and glue can’t be undone without permanently breaking the bond.
But screws!
You can take apart a broken old radio, repair what’s broken, and, if you were careful in taking it apart, you can put it back together and have a fully functioning radio and all you need is a common screwdriver!
It’s hard to build screws and other mechanical fasteners because it requires more planning than clamps and glues, but isn’t that what solarpunk is all about‽ It’s about care and sustainability and and a radio or a computer built carefully with repair in mind is a sustainable computer that stays out of landfills and in use.
Screws are proof that God loves us and wants us to fix shit
Screws are proof that god loves us and wants us to fix shit
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Time Sensitive- Apply before August 25th, 2023 (8/25/23)!
Filing a claim takes less than ten minutes, and can be done HERE
Excerpt from article:
Anyone in the U.S. who used Facebook in the last 16 years can now collect a piece of a $725 million settlement by parent company Meta tied to privacy violations — as long as they fill out a claim on a website set up to pay out money to the social network’s users.
The settlement stems from multiple lawsuits that were brought against Facebook by users who claimed that the company improperly shared their data with third-party sources such as advertisers and data brokers. The litigation began after Facebook was embroiled in a privacy scandal in 2018 with Cambridge Analytica, which scraped user data from the site as part of an effort to profile voters.
Meta denied any liability or wrongdoing under the settlement, according to the recently created class-action website. However, the agreement means that U.S. residents who used Facebook between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, can file a monetary claim as long as they do so before August 25, 2023.
Please reblog to signal boost this! As many people as possible should know about this to make their claim, if you don’t do anything you don’t get anything. It takes less than ten minutes to file and pick your payment option including pay/pal and ven/mo .
Yes this is real. And there’s less than 300 million American facebook accounts, over half of which probably aren’t even active and not all of which are gonna do this. You could maybe get enough out of this for one alright meal! That’s free food! Get your free food money!!!
having cash is like having secret money. like whos gonna find out i’m buying tacos with this crisp $20 bill??? not my bank account, that’s for sure
That’s literally why the government wants to stop it
Defend cash. The existence of a cash economy is so so necessary for the survival of every population that the government wants to kill. Homeless people, sex workers, undocumented people, addicts. They all need cash to survive.
I will say I get the vibe that a lot of peoples interest and support for strikers is a bit too much for a vicarious ‘burn it down’ thrill, rather than for the actual goals of a strike.
Like UPS has agreed to come back to the table and it is very possible they will concede to Union demands and avert a strike. And if that happens (so long as the union does not make concessions on its key demands) it’s a good thing. It’s a victory for the laborers. It is the same ultimate conclusion that a strike would intend to produce except without the workers having to go on (not so great) strike pay for a week or two.
This is SO SO SO important!! The goal of a strike is to end up with a good contract. This is the goal of any action to support a group of workers engaged in collective bargaining, many of whom will never go on strike because they don’t have to. Strikes make the news, but they are a last resort when negotiations aren’t going anywhere. I want a world where we have fewer strikes and more employers being reasonable at the bargaining table.
It’s always interesting how trans people see their transition. Some people are like “I was a boy now I’m a girl” and some are like “I was always a girl” and every once in a while you get a fun one like “I used to be a boy but the girl won”
This vessel used to belong to a young man but he had a weak will and gave in to my dark influence
Burnout is honestly such a mild word for what people use it to mean. I’m not experiencing “burnout”, which sounds so casual and routine that some face masks and a little rest is going to fix it.
My body and mind and even nervous system are stretched to the point that it’s going to take a lot more than just a “break” or a few self care tips to recover, and even then, my recovery is just so that I can reenter the spaces that contributed to me being this way in the first place. I’m a little bit more than just burnt out by this.
Workplaces and educational institutions aggressively overwork us, expose us to all kinds of discrimination, which they overlook and gaslight us out of acknowledging, and then constantly ask us to ignore our mental, emotional, and physical needs so that we don’t inconvenience them.
We’re not burnt out. We’re borderline traumatized. Burnout is always talked about like something transient and mild that a little rest and relaxation will fix.
But we’re exhausted. We need deep rest and healing. We need new systems. We need new ways of being. The language around burnout just seems like a way of upholding these current violent systems and downplaying their impacts.
Fraser • 23 • he/him • writer and artist • queer, trans • I post whatever I want: fandom (a lot of fantasy, I’m a simple man), leftism, cool stuff, ya know. Got an aesthetic blog @hxneybee-muse. So yeah.
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