Notices by Valerie Roney (vlrny@disabled.social)

☝️Two follow up thoughts from the conversations on this thread:

Patience.
For a lot of people, this is their first foray into non-compliance. They are going to start with small things within their comfort zone. This isn't a failure to do bigger things, this is training for it.

Self compassion.
If you are finding yourself angry at how little others are doing, you may be burned out. Rest is resistance too, as is pivoting to joy or humour in how you protest.

Gentle reminder, when someone is sharing some small piece of resistance they have done, DO NOT SHIT ON IT. Do not tell them it isn't enough or it's still bad because blah blah other stuff...

Everyone is tired and overwhelmed and trying to find some accessible way they can push back. Cheer that!

Celebrate the small; celebrate the imperfect.

No single action is gonna solve everything, but a whole bunch of small actions start the sea change.

Don't punch down when we all need lifting up.

“At a time when many processes—informational, relational, and even emotional—are being delegated to algorithms, reaffirming the centrality of human empathy becomes an act of cultural awareness and, at the same time, an act of hope,”
- Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/following-pope-leo-vivs-encyclical-the-vatican-announces-a-new-art-triennial-celebrating-human-creativity-and-empathy-in-the-age-of-ai-180989321/

For anybody who wants to discuss tangible actions around telling our gov't they are not doing a good job on climate change (and everything else, really) we're starting a #thisIsNotFine movement.
So far we're developing stickers and postcards.
Drop in to share your ideas, and help with anything other folks are working on.

A landslide is made of many small pebbles moving at once.
💪🇨🇦

(boosts appreciated, I'm on a small server here)
#CNDpoli #CANpoli #climateCrisis #wildfires #smoke

Ok, I toss this out every 6mos or so as fedi grows...

I'm gathering local connections of fedi folk in #Guelph and area. Get some low key meatspace hang outs going on.

Walks, masked movie nights or board games, knitting in a coffee shop, hanging out at the library...

I'm hoping to do more structured events at some point but am pretty low energy these days so keeping it simple.

We have a signal group to connect and organise. Hit me up if you'd like an invite.

🔄✨

#fediLocal #covidCautious

Ok, solidification of a plan!

There'll be an impromptu #BackToTheFuture #watchParty starting at 4pm my time (circia 20mis from this toot).

Find the movie, grab some snacks and get ready to roll!

We'll chat in the #bttfToots tag.

#joinIn #bored #lonely #couchDay

@LonelinessCorps

I'm having a rough time and need some silliness and joy.

Anybody interested in a shared movie watch in an hour or so?

My netflix currently has Back to the Future. ...or whatever else we can find on Internet archive. Just need some giggles and diversion.

Boop me of yer interested, we can plan from there.

cc @LonelinessCorps
#lonelinessCorps #watchParty

One of the best features of fedi, that I think we forget to even mention when trying to engage new people, is access to curated knowledge.

I just don't even do internet searches on stuff outside my wheelhouse any more. It's so hard to discern useful/accurate content.

I LOVE that I can just ask real humans on fedi and they will answer from their depth of knowledge and share the helpful links.

#fediLove

Blowing bubbles off the balcony as the kid across the way chased them and cheered.

#randomActsOfJoy

Also, in light of the fekkin heatwave(s) I would like to resurrect the #sploot tag.

Hit me with yer sploots, yo!

(splooting is when animals or humans spread out flat on a surface, limbs splayed in an attempt to cool off)
@joybooster

If you need a time out from yucky reality (with lots of posts about less yucky reality, some quite lovely hopeful bits, really) this is your random reminder I have a @joybooster acct where I lurk and wordlessly boost shit that make me happy.

Fair warning, shit that makes me happy may include:
Bad puns
Bee butts
Benevolent shit disturbing

Feel free to reply with shit that makes you happy, if it's got alt text I'll boost it.
#doomscrolling #timelineCleanse

Autistics (and other noise sensitive fedizens) of Canada!

I need help finding a good quality fan to set in the frame of a window 20" high and 14" wide.

Needs to be decent for dB/noise. Push a fair amount of air (venting out a hot room to draw AC air in) , multi speed would be useful, and able to reverse direction or flip around easily for cool nights.

Would deeply appreciate:
- links for online ordering in Canada
- or brand recommendations
- or shops in #Guelph I can walk in and buy.

We're getting eggs with our CSA box this summer, from "very free range chickens" apparently.

Which got me pondering what kinda life *very* free ranging chickens might live.

I've decided it is probably a motorcycle gang.

Please reply with good names for said gang. 🐔🏴☠️

Ok, real talk here folks.
If you're watching the world fall apart and feeling helpless, lost as to any meaningful action you could take, especially with your own limitations...

👉 Check in with your neighbours. Reach out into your community. And I mean frickin REACH.

Every chronically ill, marginalized, disabled, housing insecure person I know is floundering. Mostly invisibly. We're exhausted. It takes so much energy to articulate a need, and too often... 🦗

We need community.

🧵

@nev @TVOntario
Good article. Good recommendations:

•Protect human rights by progressively realizing the right to an adequate standard of living.

•Address systemic causes of poverty for marginalized communities.

•Ensure income supports are adequate to afford housing.

End shelter benefit clawbacks for unhoused recipients.

Expand deeply affordable housing supply to match the scale of need.

Confront systemic discrimination in housing and employment.

@nev @TVOntario
I would also like to add, while most disabled people are not able to work, we are a walking economic stimulus package.

Do you have any idea how many people I would employ if given enough resources to take care of myself? Pharmacists, food services, physical therapists, psychologists, home supports, transportation....

A high tide floats all boats. Support disabled people and lift the whole fekkin economy up too.

#disabilityJustice #ONpoli #CDNpoli #CANpoli

Can anybody reach the dial for the gravity?
It's too damn high, I canna get off the couch.

#readThisTootThenBreathe

I'm out on the balcony, it's a mild windless day with high overcast cloud. It feels like a big soft comforter thrown over the whole world. Softening sound and holding a space for stillness.
Take a breath and join me, we can #sitTogether

I woke up in the middle of the night and said aloud to myself:

Just because you can't control the ocean doesn't mean you don't steer the boat.

...so if anybody else needed to hear that today, the void says hi.

@kedara hrm... Thanks. I just don't understand the point of them them. Why would you not just follow the tag itself?
Unless this is something to aggregate across various fedi platforms. 🤔