Notices by wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)

empathy is cool because it allows you to care about things that haven't happened to you, but have happened to other people. the pathway to the kind of empathy that changes your behavior is listening, the deep and real kind of listening. that kind of listening is #socialTech for movement building

people who aren’t at the top of social hierarchies often have strong empathy skills because they need to read other humans to survive. but what if all people had highly developed powers of listening and empathy? what if we taught one another that all humans deserve our deep listening & empathy?

in his 2013 lecture, the revolt of the caring classes, #DavidGraeber noted “in fact there has never been a time most workers worked in factories.” given this, he suggested organizing labor around the work of care, which he said is really the work of helping others be free to play or do whatever, to simply exist, as it were, whole and happy

To know @AlaskaWx is to love his total commitment to tracking Alaska weather and keeping Alaskans informed. I absolutely hate the way this admin is hacking up the social and cultural fabric that holds us all together

https://www.ktoo.org/2025/04/29/alaska-could-lose-a-beloved-climate-communicator-if-noaa-cuts-happen/

US Mastodonians, reply if you've called both senators and your rep about Abrego Garcia!

Bring back all the people sent to El Salvador without due process NOW

reminder that ICE, CBP, and DHS were created in the Bush II era (2002-3). they should have been incinerated the day he stepped out of office

so i just protested with 3000 or so loud and fired up people in a redneck town in southern oregon with zero cop presence so yeah that's the power of whiteness

kinda wild how far superior peak google was to ai search.

using search terms to find nodes of carefully curated human built information is a pretty good system actually

#Fensterfreitag from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival campus yesterday

exceptionally pleasing moss covered curving concrete wall I saw recently #mosstodon

dope watercolors from the spring 2025 issue of Watercolor Artist magazine

libraries are full of magazines i don't subscribe to but want to look at

producing multicultural touring performances in a tiny remote town in rural Alaska is an adventure! here's a sweet reflection on our last event from one of my fellow board members

https://www.petersburgarts.com/blog-1/unit-souzou-asks-rural-alaska-who-are-you

China’s planned economy is beating the west on climate, Tianenman square protestors were shot for opposing a wave of reforms forced by US capitalists, and other fine grained Chinese economic history we don’t know but really should

https://pca.st/episode/58ebcb75-867c-48d1-9862-9a13e4fd8040

My own Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan posts fear-mongering press releases about China constantly, but China poses no military threat to the US. It is surrounded by 200+ US military bases but has no bases surrounding us. Hickel argues China threatens the profits of US capitalists, not the American people, thus the saber rattling from maga types like Sullivan, whose family runs a massive Ohio chemical corporation

“Everyone hates me when I say this because we are all little addicts who want to defend our addictions and the livelihoods that are now unfortunately entangled up with them, but: we have yet to reckon both totally and personally with the fact that the smarphone is an anti-social instrument of control, surveillance, and self-annihilation.”

@scott https://carfree.city/@scott/114198409471447631

the sky is falling but we are rising to meet it as a whole vibe

this is rad, also I want to see more leaders in sashes https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/114195667786486124

Good day to call your representative to opppose HB 899 terminating the Dept of Ed

https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/the-dire-consequences-for-a-society-with-no-department-of-education/

Denver mom detained by ICE without a deportation order, during her lunch break at Target, because of her immigration rights work

"John Fabbricatore, the retired field director for ICE in Denver, says the agency tried to deport Vizguerra for years, starting in President Donald Trump's first term.

“She's been against this government, against ICE,” Fabbricatore said. “She's just part of the Abolish ICE movement, and she should have been deported years ago.”

https://denverite.com/2025/03/18/trump-escalates-crackdown-detaining-denver-activist-who-fought-for-immigrant-rights/