tae glas [siad/iad]

fair enough, it’s just a suggestion or jumping off point, what works in one area won’t necessarily work everywhere.

best of luck organising some way to make sure people in your community stay fed etc in emergencies, however you do so!

oh absolutely! it’s vital research & the article seems well-written but still accessible to a lay-person like me.

my only issue was with the editor or whomever wrote the misleading headline (i was expecting to read about a human father), not the article itself & certainly not the researchers.

then i’m sorry that you’ve had that experience.

maybe try to organise a directory of local businesses/services/shared resources etc without discussing politics at all, if it’s something that gets people in your locality upset.

if your area has to deal with some extreme weather & gets flooded, for example, ensuring that everyone can stay fed & have access to medical care will be a lot easier if the groundwork has already been done in advance.

then you have misidentified them, those aren’t leftists.

try the same tactics anyway. you don’t have to be best friends with your neighbours & agree with them on everything in order to set up a mutually beneficial system, but that system will never get made if everyone just dismisses the possibility before ever making an attempt.

we can do both, imo! working class parties are great at organising folks on a larger scale, and on a smaller scale, sharing skills & resources in our local communities will still be useful under socialism, or even just in the case of bad storms & businesses being temporarily shut down

*mice fathers’ microplastic exposure tied to their mice children’s metabolic problems

i know it’s mentioned in the article, but it feels like a pretty misleading title to omit that this study wasn’t done on humans

now’s the time to get really active in your immediate local community, figuring out a barter system & pooling resources so everyone will be okay during a collapse.

if you live near fairly conservative people, try starting it off with making a local directory of small businesses & trades, so people can support them. that’s a great starting point for getting to know who has what skills in your local area.

then after a while, you can try expanding that to making a local directory of resources and/or tools, and frame it as a way of sticking it to bigger businesses. “why should everyone buy their own separate lawnmower when people can borrow mine & the few others already in people’s garages? we win, walmart loses!”

and in turn, the us & israel both learned it from britain & other european countries. european colonisers have been teaching each other how to maximise their cruelty, murder & land theft since at least the greek empire & the concept of western “civilisation” 😮‍💨

idk, i’m vegan and i think it’d be perfectly ethical to eat centi-billionaires 🤷

for myself, if i can recover passwords etc, i delete the account to lower the possibility of that data being used to train ai, and to lower the numbers of registered accounts they have.

i think stakeholders are more likely to see accounts being deleted as worse than an inactive account, because people can always come back to an inactive account.

so many websites are eager to keep users by making it difficult to delete accounts, or by adding a 14 day wait before they’ll delete an account, etc., so that alone makes me think they want even inactive accounts for usage statistics or to steal data from.

optimism & hope are skills to practice, and they do get easier over time!

on a bad day, i’m optimistic out of sheer spite because i know being pessimistic only helps my enemies & not me, but it’s also a lot easier to practice optimism when regularly meeting with groups of like-minded people.

if you don’t have any groups nearby you (or online) like zine makers / queer sheds / leftist book clubs / privacy activists / maker spaces / community supported agriculture / whatever it is that floats your boat, you might be surprised by how many people are willing to sign up if you get the ball rolling! 💪

the majority of videos that i see are just people talking about their hobbies & current events, but content with tags like #brainrot etc is certainly there for folks to find too

Oh it could be! I’ve no idea about the origin of his name.

His name just coincidentally happens to be spelled the same way as two different Irish words like beach or fear, etc., so I jokingly pronounce his name as though they’re the Irish words :P

Shan ban.

His name’s made up of the words “old” (sean) and “woman” (bean) in Irish.

(Seán with the fada is what elongates the vowel, so it becomes a person’s name & gets pronounced more like “Shawn” for English speakers.)

it’s not the only thing that’ll need to be done by any means, but it’d be a great starting point! 🤞

it’s like the thing people say about planting trees / reforestation: “the best time for it would’ve been 40 years ago, the next best time is today”

quetzalcoatlus northropi!

or sky giraffes, either/or.