Notices by Queer Like The Slur (coolandnormal@aus.social)

@jimbob their non-government-love-ceremony is going to be wild. We're all going to be there in fursuits taking covid precautions around the straightedge vegan punch

The whole experience of the fedi is just yelling "hey nerds, I found something interesting..." into the abyss and the abyss going "fuck me, that is interesting"

500 recycled bricks:
- shows you your actions have direct impacts on the world
- proves to you to can create things you imagine
- allows to you make plans, try them, judge them on your own terms, change them, decide if you have improvement on your own terms
- recycled
- bricks

Therapy:
-CBT (not the fun kind)
-still Freud in 2024 for some reason
-problematic access and funding issues
-no bricks

It never ceases to amaze me how good it is for mood, self esteem, creativity and achievement to just have all the resources required to do the thing you're attempting.

Maybe you need therapy, but maybe you just need 500 recycled bricks.

I just realised I made this sound like it's run primarily by guys. It's not, it actually primarily revolves around couples with no kids (or no kids at home anymore).

There's a less valid argument here that this will all fall apart when people lose interest/capacity and therefore is it not sustainable.

On the first point, good. People should stop doing voluntary stuff they no longer have the resources or motivation to do, boundaries, rest and self care are good actually.

Secondly: the idea that since it could spontaneously stop any time, and probably will, that is inherently by definition unsustainable.

On the same token one might argue singing a song in a group is an unsustainable thing to do. Because you cannot sing the same song together forever without stopping.

You must rest when you're tired, then perhaps sing a different song, maybe with different people. This doesn't make singing songs an unsustainable practice. Most people in sustainability would agree singing songs in groups has a lot of offer sustainability from many angles.

I see the very valid argument that without administion and formal structure, continuity remains only when as the community has capacity to do it.

My argument is that's how things work anyway. You can have all the committee structure in the world, but the actual work is an emergent property of the community's capacity. If you burn out your people, you lose your collective service either way.

Edit: if anyone screenshots this one toot out of context and makes it about dismantling government, I will punch you right in the bicycle horn. This whole thread is specifically about small community groups.

First you grow the beans, then people eat the beans.

University: no no no no, first you count the beans.

Still rent free: the time I did an assignment on my local bike repair/recycle non-organisation and the sustainability tutor gave only negative feedback about how my proposal wouldn't work in real life.

It was an observational report on something that was and is working in real life.

Me: this is how bikes get repaired and recycled in this one small town.
- The junkyard guy leaves nice ones out by his gate for a day or two before dismantling them for scrap.
- there are several people in the town who know they can come past regularly and take anything by the gate
- there's a guy who takes any bikes he thinks we can salvage, they are almost always kids' bikes, there are just more of those
- a rotating group of friends and people who want to learn about bikes work on them
- when they're finished we distribute them by word of mouth: is there anyone around 6-8yo who wants a purple bike?
- the bikes seem to come with lifetime servicing. No one mentions this until the bike needs servicing, then they just say 'we better get onto servicing your bike, hey?' and it happens
- you can do a trade-in/upgrade. Kids swap their bikes for bigger bikes, people service the little bike and give it to another kid
-there is no name, no official location, no contact details for this, it's an ephemeral property that emerges from the community every day that the community has capacity to do it. It is fascinating and I am glad to have witnessed it.

Sustainability tutor: so first off this could never happen without NGO administration, start there

More importantly, that's just not how real fluid moves

@Oakenstone TinEye reckons it's tumblr art

It's getting jarring how often I see a new thing aimed squarely and only at boomers, then see boomers react with "oh well, guess I'd better finally adopt this ridiculous young people thing".

Babe you are the only generation looking at caravan mounted satellite dishes, no young person is forcing you, just buy it and be happy with it.

Hey weird question: how does your organisation dispose of old microscopes? Do they go on an auction site like old military vehicles?

I want one like I used to use at work in labs, just your basic solid workhorse microscope. Some fairly standard lenses included would be a bonus.

Thank fuck for 3d printing is all I can say

For me one of the most confusing parts of arriving on the fedi was when it's appropriate to apply a content warning.

I have since learned that applying an unnecessary content warning is almost always funny.

Hi #TiktokBan folks, welcome to the corner of the internet where you can publish your butthole on main as long as you describe it in reasonable detail.

Any other time since the invention of cars:
- a car blew up in front of a prominent building
- wow, a car bomb!

2024:
- a cybertruck blew up in front of a trump building
- yeah, they do that

@alcinnz @steven same, but I was *wildly* privileged, I had an outdoor space, a dog and I could get some remote work. Good times.

@jwi @inthehands I reckon the usa would be more useful if those people were eligible to vote.