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meeresbande · 4 years
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The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk. Pass it on.
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meeresbande · 4 years
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A lot of heavier people with eating disorders have trouble seeing that they’re restricting bc they’re holding onto a tenuous weight suppression, or the hope of it, and they think that they can’t possibly eat freely bc their natural body size, or weight set point, is too big. It’s not!! It simply occupies a place on the human body size spectrum that has been culturally stigmatized. I say “simply” but in reality this is an extremely difficult obstacle to overcome. It CAN be overcome tho, and people of all sizes can learn to be intuitive eaters. The key is clarifying in which direction the pursuit of health lies, and that is toward accepting one’s natural size, even (especially!) if it’s way over on the right end of the bullshit BMI curve
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meeresbande · 4 years
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“While we recognize that there are a lot of crowdfunding campaigns for Indigenous relief funds, we thought it necessary to establish this emergency fund specifically for radical Indigenous Mutual Aid projects and individuals.
We don’t want to see endless fundraisers and non-profit industrial cooptation get in the way of necessary work on the ground. We want to ensure critical resources get directly into the hands of anti-capitalist and anti-colonial organizers that either may not have access to those sources or don’t want to engage with them. No strings or branding attached here.”
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meeresbande · 4 years
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Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities
Hi everyone. Native communities are particularly vulnerable in this time of crisis and if you’re able to, please consider making and sending masks or donating money.
Mask Donations: 
Zuni Pueblo Covid 19 Relief: Send PPE, food, and hygiene products to this address.
Zuni Relief House #81, Silt Road Zuni, 87327 
Mask Drive through Seeding Sovereignty
Rosebud Sioux Disaster Relief Fund (taking both money and physical donations)
Monetary Donations: 
Havasupai Tribe Covid19 Relief Fund
Kinalani/Flagstaff Mutual Aid
Southern AZ Urban Native Relief fund
Protect Native Elders
Northern Cheyenne Covid Relief
Navajo/Hopi Covid Relief
Pueblo Relief Fund
 Indigenous Mutual Aid
Please let me know if there’s any more places to donate, and I will add them to the list! 
Thank you. 
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meeresbande · 4 years
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Ok so there’s these tidal islands in Northern Germany that are connected by little tiny trains that you have to drive yourself, which is already delightfully ghibli-esque.
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But then I found out UNTIL THE 196OS, THE TRAINS HAD LITTLE SAILS AND WERE WIND-POWERED?
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THAT’S THE MOST GHIBLI THING TO EVER EXIST ON THIS PLANET, BRING IT BACK YOU MONSTERS.
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“Calling for “more mental health services” starts to look somewhat questionable when one looks at a number of other facts. In the 1970s, WHO conducted a global five-year study in which they found that those diagnosed with schizophrenia —usually considered the most debilitating of all mental disorders— fared better in developing countries than in the U.S. In three of the developing countries in the study —India, Colombia, and Nigeria— only 16% were on antipsychotics, the first line of treatment for schizophrenia cases in the US and Europe. In a repeat of this study, they found the same results, and concluded that living in a developed country was a “strong predictor” that a person would never fully recover. A number of follow-up studies found that patients who had weaned themselves off the antipsychotics, which were said to “fix their brains by correcting an imbalance” had actually fared better than those who continued to take them. When faced with this second set of facts, the idea of mental health treatments being a human rights issue starts to break down.
How do we examine or compare such facts? Do we examine them in relation to all the studies that have been done on psychotropic medication, on hospitalization, and on therapy and simply choose to fund the means with the highest number of “recovered patients” at the end? A number of questions get lost in such an analysis, questions beyond the scope of these studies, questions which perhaps trouble the foundation and presuppositions of the studies themselves. For example: how does one get diagnosed as schizophrenic or bipolar? This isn’t a question about symptoms, but about power. Who does the diagnosing? With what tools? How are these tools legitimated? Against what standard is mental or emotional pathology measured? How did the person getting diagnosed end up in their position? What does it mean to recover from such conditions? And, most importantly in my eyes, what is the concrete experience of the mad person in these relationships?”
— Sasha Durakov, “Beyond Psychiatry and Self-Care: Approaching New Pathways in Mental Health“
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meeresbande · 4 years
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The left has a huge problem with antisemitism and we won’t be able to do anything about that until we admit it and inspect it. But some of y’all don’t even seem to think antisemitism exists
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meeresbande · 4 years
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People forget that Quechua, Nahuatl and the Mayan Languages aren’t just cool relics of past civilisations but still living languages that millions of people love, worry, talk to their children in. People live their lives through the medium of these languages and that shouldn’t be forgotten!
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Happy Lesbian day of visibility
Here are some of my favorite femme looks!!!
🌸💐🏵🌸💐🏵🌸💐🏵🌸💐🏵🌸💐🏵🌸💐
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Not shaving and not wearing make up are literally nonbehaviors. They’re a complete lack of action. But doing nothing is considered masculine because women are not allowed to just be. this goes double for trans women.
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There are prisons, and borders and camps, but the starts are beautiful tonight The climate is collapsing, but the kittens are playing There is so much death in the world, and the taste of hummus
Am I a bad anarchist because I spend more time finding joy in stars and kittens and hummus than feeling sadness and rage for injustice and suffering? I don’t think so.
I think it is joy that lights up our anarchism into action. Surely we do not fight to survive, but to live? We fight not just for an absence of suffering but for joy? for stars and dancing and roses?
Would we break down prisons walls if there were no stars or other joys outside it? Do we protect our planet just for the sake of it, or to play on it and raise kittens? Don’t we fight for life to taste it?
The moment I started denying myself joy would be the moment my strength to keep fighting would begin to wane.
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meeresbande · 4 years
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I don’t hate the concept of ebooks per se but what bothers me is how our society is shifting from actually owning entertainment in tangible forms like books and CDs and DVDs and game discs, to having to download everything so basically we’ll get to the point where everything is intangible and all of our property can be taken away by a website crash.
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meeresbande · 4 years
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tiktok feels like gentrified vine. ive only ever seen teens on there with like really nice bedrooms covered in led strip lights and tyler the creator posters
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meeresbande · 4 years
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hi just wondering if i were an otter and you were an otter and we were sleeping would you hold my paw so we wouldn't drift away from each other. just wondering
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meeresbande · 4 years
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Sokka is simultaneously a complete idiot and the smartest member of the Gaang and I love him
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