Notices by T. Thorn Coyle 🖤 (thorncoyle@wandering.shop)

Whatever happens, we still need community organizing, resource and skills sharing, and mutual aid.

And art.

@mwl thanks for sharing and yeah, the one sheet is a one sheet on purpose. It’s for everyone who woke up yesterday and downloaded Signal for the first time. 😂

If you live in Oregon or Washington State and vote, heads up that ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver were both set on fire this morning. Looks like mail in might be safer this round.

https://www.katu.com/news/local/vancouver-ballot-box-seen-smoking-same-morning-as-portland-ballot-box-arson

#pnw #pdx

@roadriverrail “[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary.”

— James Nicoll

@roadriverrail I do know and appreciate that… except when I find it annoying!

English, why so many homonyms?
Why????

Signed — a Writer

Your difference helps you shine.

#photography #autumn

Recognize whose lands these are on which we stand.
Ask the deer, turtle, and the crane.
Make sure the spirits of these lands are respected and treated with goodwill.
The land is a being who remembers everything.
You will have to answer to your children, and their children, and theirs—
The red shimmer of remembering will compel you up the night to walk the perimeter of truth for understanding...
By listening we will understand who we are in this holy realm of words.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #poetry

“When we commit to love in our daily life, habits are shattered. We are necessarily working to end domination.”

Happy birthday, bell hooks.

#quotes #bellhooks

Mirna el Helbawy’s project desperately needs eSims.

#gaza

US friends, the recent social security # leaks may be causing an uptick in financial fraud (opening bank accounts and credit cards). This just happened to someone I know, hence this PSA.

One way to help allay fraud is to freeze credit reports. It’s easy and takes around 15 min online:

https://www.usa.gov/credit-freeze

Ursula K. LeGuin said:

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

Make. Your. Art.

Friends,

Do what you can, where you can, when you can.

— Thorn

If we show up for each other to the best of our abilities, we co-create a kinder, more just world.

Folks finally ditching Sticker Mule after their latest email, I use Sticky Brand because they attempt to be environmentally conscious:

“The company is committed to minimizing its environmental impact through the use of eco-friendly inks and recyclable packaging, partnerships with environmental organizations, and running a "LEED" certified, green facility with 100% carbon-free and over 78% renewable energy.”

(Don’t know anything about their other political leanings.)

I also just heard about this small, independent sticker shop who come right out and say “we don’t fuck with fascists.”
That’s good enough for me!

https://splitarrowprints.com

#stickers

Indie artists, authors, and other creatives or small businesses who ship things, an FYI:

Packaging manufacturer Uline funds conservative and right wing causes in the US and has a history of racist, antisemitic, anti trans, and anti vax activity. Do with this information as you will.

https://www.propublica.org/article/uline-uihlein-election-denial

If you want access to free books, please get a library card.

In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to.

Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource.

As an author and reader, I support libraries!

#books #bookstodon #libraries

Portland, OR!

There’s a call to head to City Hall with camping gear tonight to protest the camping ban. I hear there may even be a drag show at 9pm!

#HousingIsAHumanRight #pdx #portland

"I am your history. You can never change that no matter what you do to me."
— Felicia Elizondo

Felicia Elizondo was a Mexican-American entertainer, activist, organizer, historian, and Vietnam war veteran and HIV survivor. She took part in the Compton's Cafeteria uprising in San Francisco, 1966, where trans women, gay men, and sex workers fought with police for the right to simply gather and drink coffee together.

She served the LGBTQ community until her death in 2021.

#lgbtq #pride #trans