Notices by Pixel is the smallest dragon (pixouls@post.lurk.org), page 2

Good news: it's not my car's frame
Bad news: I still need to buy a full new tire, it's not patchable

More bad news for me! Yay!

Turns out I have yet another tire that needs to be replaced, plus two sensors that need to be replaced. The reason for damage is still unknown to me.

I'm looking at $600 (2 tires, 2 sensors). I already spent $450 on the last two flats I got 4 and 6 months ago (all unrelated places and causes). I drive an old fiat model with a specific tire size that is just as costly as buying it elsewhere and shaving it down, so I don't have other options.

Mutual aid seriously appreciated... PayPal, Librapay, and Venmo also under pixouls

Even threads within disability communities are like "here's how I engage in hand to hand combat with my disability every morning so I can go to work" and it's just upsetting that we must fight this fight instead of having a world that accommodates for our needs

Reading threads about morning routine advice on Reddit and just like... if work or school or whatever wasn't a thing... what would our lives actually look like in the mornings? What if we didn't have to push ourselves the moment we wake up with silly little tricks to make our brains ready to be productive and not filled with dread?

I don't want to be more productive I want to feel less guilty for being unproductive

a friend told me about two sweet rituals i thought i'd share w u all:
- every day, go out or open the window where u live, and hang out there for a bit until you hear/see a bird. maybe some days u only hear them, or u end up seeing a squirrel or smth. the idea is that if you bring yourself to be present in a place u think u know well, unexpected things will happen!
- take more things spontaneously and sometimes arbitrarily to be good omens (see a cool cloud = good omen, leaf fell near u = good omen). this is a practice to both resist the tendency to fixate on things being bad omens (tripping, messin up at work over small things) and shift the idea that the environment is working against u, rather for u

Camp Lost Boys is a sleep away camp for trans men, 18+.
Applications close very quickly... the ones for pennsylvania were open last week and are already gone. Oregon's applications are still up. it was started by two men of color, continues to have BIMOC leadership, designates BIMOC space, and usually has 35-45% men of color in attendance.

https://www.camplostboys.org/scholarship

You can subscribe to the mailing list to hear of future camps and waitlist. this year they're taking place in colorado, penn, and oregon. they move to different locations each year for more options if those don't work. scholarships generally cannot cover the cost of transportation itself.

Mountain Song Expeditions Transmasc Camp & (separately) Trans/Non-Binary Camp
Transmasc one happens summer and fall. Trans/Non-binary one happens in the summer. Both in vermont. BIPOC Reparations rate is $10. Sliding scale available. Registration opens April 6th.

https://www.mountainsongexpeditions.com/vermont-transmasc-camp

Black & Wild: BIPOC wilderness and skill building trips, primarily in petersburg ny, but also some events in other locations including vermont or the Adirondack mountains. scholarships and sliding scale are available.

https://www.blackandwild.org/

@liztai @rakyat this may be what you're looking for, in asian american studies, we refer to this as the "forever foreigner" sterotype. no matter what we do, no longer how long we've been here, we're not considered people who might actually be from here (and sometimes in trying to assert that, there's a perpetuation of Amerikkka).

another term is "third culture kid", neither the culture of residence or the culture of origin, but a third culture as a result of diaspora

@liztai @rakyat what an awful thing to say

Oh today I wake up with felis navidad stuck in my head

@jonny I WANNA WISH U

@jonny is your cat named?? Rumbly tumbly?

First time finding enoki, and a whole lot of it too!
#mushrooms #fungi #fungiverse #sporespondence #mushtodon

Fresh from the #meme oven

Maybe hire an archivist to organize your company's shared drive of folders that have been yeeted in randomly, and help tackle the backlog of knowledge that prevents people from being able to go on vacation or retire because no one else knows what they know. It may be low level work in your eyes, but that's also why your problem never gets better when you assign it as a three month project to an intern... once every few years.

I wish all AI to stop

Yo there's this non profit where people volunteer to make you a lasagna and send it to you?? available in United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Australia. its supposed to encourage ppl to pay it forward. founders look exactly like you'd think they would. idk if any of y'all need a lasanga?!!!

https://lasagnalove.org/

Certain communities in Philly are critical of tree projects because in the past, the city planted them recklessly, causing damages to people's homes. Then the city refused to pay for it.

Trees need to be selected for their environment and their locations planned at the community level. More efforts these days try to swing that way, but many of those who have been hurt by the city in the past will maintain an anti-tree stance, even if some are built on myths.

https://whyy.org/articles/not-in-my-sidewalk-debunking-philly-tree-myths/

You can learn more about the Philly tree plan and its neighborhood level efforts here https://www.phila.gov/programs/philly-tree-plan/