“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.”
Hey so if "I hope you get exploded with hammers" or whatever is enough to get not only get just one account permanently deleted but to get every new account you make permanently deleted, wiping an entire person past present and future off of the site, does that mean that all harrassment meeting and surpassing the same comically low level is now retroactively a permabanable offense, and therefore every fucking terf on this god damn site that's ever left even a single hate message should have their entire existence past present and future wiped from tumblr? Just checking if there's a transphobic (and transmisogynistic) double standard or not @photomatt, since you're so convinced that tumblrs transphobia is just misinformation
Okay to explain again, UMG took all of their music off TikTok over licensing disagreements, muting millions and millions of already made videos, and now all the TikTok dancers and fancam editors are just using any sounds they can think of so we’re getting stuff like
If you pass the time at work daydreaming about how you’d rebuild and create community after a civilization collapse, take a little time every once in a while to build up the skills and experience to do that
Learn how to fight or shoot a gun. Read about herbal and DIY medicine, and start growing some of those plants yourself. Get into graffiti, shoplifting, dumpster diving, or sabotaging security cameras so you can build up experience with getting things done in secret and getting away with them. Learn how to lockpick, repair holes in clothing, grow food, start and utilize a fire, build and fix things, etc. Get a couple friends together and start a little mutual aid distro, and let it grow organically over time. Get into ham or CB radio or long-range wifi meshnets. Get to know your local activist scene. Get to know your neighbors and your coworkers, and talk to them about the things that bother or worry you and how you could start fixing them together
Maybe that collapse comes and you’re a little bit more prepared to build a better world. Or maybe it doesn’t, and you can get started making yourself and your community a little better and more independent anyway. Either way, taking a couple hours every week to build some skills and get some stuff done can make you feel so much less helpless