Notices by 🍄Inoculating the Odd in AuDHD (pixouls@post.lurk.org), page 2

Yesterday I helped volunteer at a local disabilities org to help clear out "weeds", primarily Canadian thistle, burdock, smartweed, and mock strawberry. The land wasn't used last season and became very dry. Instead they prioritized raised beds. They plan to weed wack, till, then add a cover crop for the winter. I ask them about their practices: they said right now they don't have that much permaculture implementation because they are focusing on access needs before rushing into adopting regenerative practices randomly. It reminds me of Aimi Hamraie's work. I had a nice time sharing with the other volunteers some of my knowledge of the plants we were encountering, their uses, and considerations to make when removing them.

It's the time of the year to replace the A/C unit with just having windows open

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I just got my third flat tire in the past six months. Am I cursed?

I don't know if it can be patched or not. I won't be able to check in until Thursday

A friend helped me change the tire but god I'm a mess

Mutual aid appreciated rn

I literally didn't even drive anywhere special, just to my local library which I drive to plenty of times

Ok I drive an old car and it's possible that the rim could be fucked up. I mean it could be a lot of things fucked up but I REALLY dont want to have to worry about major car repair beyond a flat replacement right now.

I just cleared my calendar for tomorrow including the tree planting event and four different people I was going to see while in town because I don't feel secure right now driving around too much on the spare

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?