I once spent an entire evening removing nazi homophobic posters from my uni campus, wheat paste fucking sucks to get off even with water. I had a spray bottle with me and for most of them I had to just scratch off the worst parts and leave them up.
I'm realising now that my journey to becoming a radical leftist did in fact start with me getting a speedrun world record.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. I've been trying to learn to write lyrics for the last year or so, and the one thing I know for sure about creativity is that it's not a switch.
Ideas come to me walking down the street and I have to jot them down for later. If I want to come up with something new on the spot, I just start singing without thinking about it and usually something good eventually falls out of my mouth.
Zack Freedman has a great video on training yourself to be creative: https://youtu.be/6r8-o2WpoCA
Very unhappy with the change, I probably won't go to the .world community and expect/hope that someone will just recreate 196 on Blåhaj.
Every interaction I've had with .world mods has rubbed me the wrong way, they don't take criticism well and are way to keen to appeal to centrist bullshit and shitty lib takes. Blåhaj is my favourite space on the internet at the moment because of the way Ada manages things, I feel safe here. That the 196 mods have a problem with that sends a pretty concerning message imo.
For the love of god, leave this community here and just create a new mod team instead. This community being on Blåhaj specifically is a big plus for a lot of us
1: I've taken the metro to get groceries loads of times
2: Trams
I'm an ordinary person, who less than a year ago sat around on a couch and cried about how powerless I was about all of this. Never forget that we give up our power by thinking we don't have any.
There is so much you can do, and you don't have to go anywhere close to the extremes I'm willing to.
Yep, I got arrested trying to block a coal ship in the world's largest coal port and I'm proud as fuck, give all your love to the protest organisers. I've talked about it a ton over in this thread (and a few others in similar communities). I was joined by a handful of other people, including a student doctor who is in this photo but hard to see, she's on my right in the shade. She's so damn brave and a huge inspiration.
This took place at the People's Blockade, an annual "protestival" organised by a group called Rising Tide.
I'm the (misgendered 😡) 27 year old in this article.
170 people then set a new record for the largest civil disobedience action in Australian history the following day, they're all incredibly brave people who have had enough.
We fought the government in court and won the right to protest against the fossil fuel corporations who are burning our children's futures. We also fight to secure the future jobs of the workers in these industries, demanding a 78% tax on current fossil fuel projects to help them in the transition to a renewable future.
It's been a long few days, I've just arrived home about half an hour ago. Goodnight.
Bought a mandolin today and I can't put it down, I can't wait to write tons of pretty songs :3
Power move
I'd totally do this on purpose
From the Narrm invasion day rally, we had an enormous turnout
How many more years of these news stories do I have to read before we actually do something about this?
I'm so fucking sick of this happening constantly.
I used to love customising the notification colour on my old phones, so good.
I miss my headphone jack so damn much, I'm over Bluetooth earbuds breaking constantly and being so damn expensive and low quality.
That's a great salary even if divided between 10,000 people.
Fuck billionaires, leeches
If I ever have a week that isn't all over the fucking place, I think I'll either have died or been institutionalised.
Been organising a local rally for trans rights, it's been good meeting other queer activists and being able to put my connections to use. I'm pretty excited to see it all come together and hopefully we can announce it soon.
Still finding my dosage of ADHD meds, but noticing small improvements which has been nice. First few weeks made me feel like I was going completely insane, I completely lost control over anything I was doing and spent almost every hour of the day playing guitar, despite the pain, hunger and people who needed me. Thankfully I'm past that.
Got court in a couple of weeks, they're forcing us to go in person for literally no reason. I'll have to spend several hundred dollars on travel and accommodation just to be there while our amazing legal team asks for another adjournment. Stressing me out a lot and I hate feeling like a burden for the overworked lawyers.