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Tangent on the optimism post I made earlier about societal doomerism.

Most of the waste in the Pacific Garbage Patch is industrial fishing and factory waste.

Industry, overseas shipping, unsustainable agriculture, and energy production, that could all easily be replaced by sustainable alternatives, all dramatically overshadow anything you produce with your personal "carbon footprint", which I'm sure you all know is a BS concept.

Nations and political forces that you have no voice in control your healthcare, or maybe whether your identity is legal.

War rages overseas. Or maybe over your own head. It's heartbreaking and terrifying and the progress we've made to stop it seems tiny in comparison.

All of this is true.

But have you ever done a creek cleanup, and seen that specific creek slowly come back to life?

Have you ever organized one tiny event for your local queer community?

Have you ever voted in a local election and seen one local regulation help establish queer safe havens, or medical aide, or help the homeless?

Have you seen an institution that you're part of quietly stop supporting one of these systems because of actions you played some tiny part in?

Because I have. All of that, and more. Tiny scraps of things getting better on a local scale. They do work.

Will they save the world? No.

Will they make things a bit brighter for the people around you? Yes.

And is it unfair that the world continues to get worse overall anyways? Yes. But there are tiny things you can make better bit by bit.

I'm not absolving capitalism or corporations or governments of blame here. In fact, like my last post, I'm enraged by them even more from this mentality. Because when you have something on a local scale that you can improve, and find joy in, and bring that joy to other people, then you have something that fires you up to fight against the larger systems that threaten it.

Never forget who the real enemies are. Never allow them to guilt you or make things "your fault" for existing. But you also can't let it destroy the ways you can improve your community. Giving up is what they want you to do.

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the circus was in town that day 🤡

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Some frog wizard magic ✨

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

#whatta we got kiddos

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"Rent should be no more than 30% of household income" is a really funny and roundabout way to say "property owners as a class are entitled to 30% of gross wages"

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You know that Chris Fleming line that goes "Call yourself a community organizer even though you're not on speaking terms with your roommates"?

I honestly think every leftist who talks about the "revolution" like Christians talk about the rapture needs to spend a year trying to organize their workplace. Anyone who sincerely talks about building a movement so vast and all-encompassing that it overwhelms all existing power structures needs the dose of humility that comes with realizing they can't even build a movement to get people paid better at a badly run AMC Theaters where everyone already hates the manager.

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I used to make a toasted cheese sandwich and then submerge it in a bowl of ravioli or beef stew and eat it with a spoon. I got a lot of grief over that for some reason.

Oh hey I'm a white girl on my mid-to-late 20s, I think that gives me license to talk about the most boring shit ever

I wanna hear your mildly controversial food takes. Like not the nasty or classic "fights". But like something slightly unconventional that most people won't like.

Eg, rice is the perfect thing to put bacon over, and soaks up the fatty oils as a sauce for the rice itself extremely well. And it's best at dinner.

#Let people eat

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i’m going to kdxjdhdjhddjjdhs

#jesus fucking chrits

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#I had to go specialist favoritest tumblrina

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all the information is on the task

#WHAAAAAAAT!!!!!??? #A CONFLUENCE OF TWO OF MY FAVORITES?!?!?!?! #WHAT IS THIS MYSTERY!?!?!?

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Whatever its called to have these kinds of colourful squares in your home i want it

Look

#I want this for our shop

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I am so pleased with this design. I got to draw it for our local Goth event programmers. The stickers will definitely be part of this month's Sticker Club, so sign up today if you want your own BTGG in your mailbox, along with other cool designs made by Queer artists!

#shaky hands sticker club #BTGG #stickers

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a comic about a truck

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boobs, tits, jugs if you will

#fuck yes I will reblog this #incroyable!

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hey. to the fat person reading this who wants to transition or is transitioning. make your transition goals fat like you. please. the things you aim to gain from transition can be gained while fat. you can be/express your gender and be fat. there is nothing wrong with that, no matter what anyone says. i promise.

let yourself exist. let yourself be happy. you have just as much of a right as every other person in this world to do that, especially as you transition. it's okay. you're going to be alright, and you're also going to look fucking awesome. you already look fucking awesome. it's your body. own it.

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OMGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!

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