First mushrooms of the season!
#fungi #mushrooms #Alaska

Part of a group in #anchorage #Alaska trying to get a #streetmedic group off the ground. Any folks in other cities/communities with resources or advice based on past/present experiences? Especially interested in how folks deal with some challenges that come up in particularly cold environments or environments that are in proximity to wild spaces (perhaps tree sitting folks have something to add?) Thanks in advance! And boosts welcome! 😘

@inquiline @hakan_geijer as i said in response to the other resource but it remains true, thank youuuu! we've been referencing other manuals but this is a new one and will be a great supplemental resource to pull from ❤️ ✊

In today's episode of #Biden is a hypocrit and a war criminal. "Biden orders US to share Russian war crimes evidence with #ICC

This country is a joke. https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-orders-us-share-russian-war-crimes-evidence-with-world-court-nyt-2023-07-26/

@tillshadeisgone Yessssss! This 100%! I remember reading the headline from CNN piece "Half of US tenants can’t afford to pay their rent. Here’s what’s ahead" that was literally right next to an article about Joseph talking about how fucking great the economy is. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/economy/rent-prices-dropping-2024-apartments/index.html

In defense of university administrators, they are doing an excellent job teaching young people that whether it be a university or a business, institutions don't give a shit about you and have no qualms about throwing you under the bus to protect their interests.

@melissabeartrix thanks for the condolences! hugz back to you. and definitely the giggles. all the despair but the giggles help me keep going

@melissabeartrix i was going to jokingly say "i bet there is a yelp review saying this" and then looked up 1 star reviews and i absolutely fucking hate how right you are 😂 The half dozen one star reviews are mostly variations of this

I think carving a tunnel through a 2400 year old tree and then charging people money to drive a car through it sums up US culture better than anything else

This is the most insane scientific paper I've read in a hot minute "Here, we report on a 62-year-old male hypervaccinated individual from Magdeburg, Germany (HIM), who deliberately and for private reasons received 217 vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 within a period of 29 months" #COVID #vaccines https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1473-3099%2824%2900134-8

The Hard Times could not have more masterfully called out the hypocrisy of western media outlets.

#NYTimes and others are manufacturing consent for the US and Israeli commission of #genocide against Palestinians. #gaza #Palestine

i hate this timeline

Language matters. Image by the Slow Factory #Palestine #Genocide

Not at all a suprise, though as an Instagram user it is suprising to see how blatant and visible the #censorship is. I don’t know if the report details it, but the Threads posts they use to advertise seem also visibly disproportionately anti #Palestine and pro #Israel https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/21/meta-facebook-instagram-pro-palestine-censorship-human-rights-watch-report

Forget Taylor Swift - #Gaza journalists should be Time’s person of the year. This is Wael Al-Dahdouh. His wife, son, daughter, and grandson were killed by Israel and he continued reporting the next day. Here he is reporting after he was injured in an attack by Israel that killed two journalists working alongside him. Their names are Samer Abudaqa and Ramy Budair. #Palestine

One, this story should be getting way more coverage. Two, it would if Brittany was white.

#Miscarriage occurs in approx 20% of pregnancies. Criminalization of miscarriage will be weilded by cops to expand what is already a documented phenomenon of targeting Black and Brown pregnant people. #abortion #uspol
https://apnews.com/article/ohio-miscarriage-prosecution-brittany-watts-b8090abfb5994b8a23457b80cf3f27ce

This could be the beginning of the slow creep of normalizing criminalization of aiding someone in traveling to obtain an #abortion

Caveat - the details of this case are MESSY and the mother/son charged are not necessarily benevolent actors. Which may be intentional on the part of prosecutors to prevent any public dissent

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/02/1210198143/idaho-abortion-kidnapping-charges-oregon-underage-girlfriend-parental-rights

@gnutelephony YES - 100%. Telling specific communities to essentially fuck off has consequences. The mindset I see so frequently on social media of “if Trump is elected it is ____ groups fault for not voting.” I reject this. That is in effect the wealthiest (as you said, disregarded due to lack of money to donate) saying “Fall in line. you and your vote belong to us. Your priorities and your lives don’t matter as much as mine.” It is a devastatingly privileged take.

@gnutelephony Well said. I’m curious to see if any such campaigns like this gain momentum or shift democratic political calculations (before it is too late). A quote from the person organizing the #abandonbiden campaign, “We are not powerless as American Muslims. We are powerful. We don’t only have the money, but we have the actual votes.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/03/muslim-leaders-swing-states-abandon-biden-campaign

@TruthSandwich @gnutelephony 🤷♀️Your take on #abandonbiden doesn’t matter. The votes do. “Biden won Michigan in 2020 by 2.8% of the vote. Arab Americans account for 5% of the vote, according to the Arab American Institute.” If dems don’t want a Trump presidency I advise they take the grievances of key voting blocks to heart. Whether you think it’s tactful is irrelevant - people are over the BS lesser of two evils argument and it will show in 2024 unless something changes