Notices by Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) (susankayequinn@wandering.shop)

@seanbala haha! What a deal!

There's a reason my entire spice cabinet is Penzeys... and I was delighted to discover they have an actual physical store in Pittsburgh, which is *the coolest* (they have jars where you can sniff spices and HECK YEAH I did that).

In a world of Targets, be a Penzeys.
https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/vanilla-sugar/c-24/p-1524/pd-s

Tax-paying solid community-member immigrants who feed the homeless? That's about as threatening to Trump as you can possibly be, so of course he sends his shock troops to arrest them.

FUCK ICE. Defend your neighbors. This is how we fight. https://www.inquirer.com/news/ice-arrests-haddon-jersey-kebab-trump-20250226.html?int_promo=newsletter

America, ya gotta brush up on your 5th grade US Government education because Congress forgot*

*and by "forget" I mean "is run by treasonous Republicans who could, at any minute, impeach/convict/remove the tyrant President" but they don't want to**

**by which I mean they enjoy the taste of boot

@dalias I changed my name, so I'm not gonna say everyone who does so is "backward". There are plenty of cultural practices around names that people may or may not agree with (and if you get outside American culture, there's a lot of very different name practices), but regardless... people (including queer folx!) should be able to change their names to whatever they want! Without losing their rights as a citizen! This is BASIC... which is why they're attacking it.

Nobody elected Elon

Most people are NOT paying attention to what's happening.

If you are, then #resist any way you can, but one way is to just *talk* to people: tell them unelected billionaires with more money than god are digging into your social security & shutting down parks...

Elon literally swinging around a chainsaw at CPAC:
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lincstfw742j

One way to understand what's happening in America is these people(Trump/Musk/Rs)committing all these obvious crimes/power grabs do not expect to pay a price...ever. This is not the behavior of people who think you can jail them/vote them out of office.

They'll escalate the crimes to make that true.

The obvious answer to that is to start jailing them and making them fear the public's power to hold them to account. Because we do have that power, still. They cannot actually do *any* of it without our compliance.

Not easy, but those are the stakes: you only keep the democracy you demand.

@dalias I'd love to see it spark a movement of women changing their names back to match their birth certificates.

The world the fascists want—married women can't vote because they changed their names, queer people can't update their passports, "show your papers" to brown folks—is everyone besides white men worried they'll be a target.

And I just gotta say...people are not gonna put up with that shit for long.

Attended Mutual Aid 101 tonight and it was amazing: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/mutual-aid-101-3971593

(I'll share the link when it goes live but here's the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PVvlqaIHFSVu2m-0D5m7qFbJF4gaAsEsXwCaOhFJq04/edit#slide=id.g3372db6fce6_0_10 )

The speaker was incredibly inspirational, deeply knowledgeable, w/a ton of resources: https://www.deanspade.net/about/

"Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law."

#solarpunk #mutualaid #resistance

People need to understand that when Musk says he's making things "temporarily" worse in order to make them better, he means (like every other double-talking techbro billionaire) he's making things permanently worse for you and better for him.

TELL YOUR FRIENDS THIS. The truth of it needs to sink in.

I tend to forget this, but it's super important: BE VISIBLE in your reaction to the takeover of America by the fascists.

Cancel your flights and tell people why.
Wear a mask and tell people why.
Write a Letter to the Editor.
Tell your family you're going to a protest.
Sell your Tesla.
Stop using some fascist-complying company and tell people why.

Be visible in your reaction to what's happening and it will disrupt the sense of normalcy the public is desperate to have.

Whoever did this, you are a mad genius and I love you.

#art #activism

Kindness is punk.
Trans rights are human rights.
There is no Planet B.
Smash the patriarchy.
Black Lives Matter.
Fix your heart or die.
Healthcare, food&housing are human rights.
Fuck the fascists.
I will not comply.
Tax billionaires out of existence.
AI is made of crimes.
Tech is not the answer.

@anilmc
those are all excuses for why men "have to" control women or mechanisms by which they do it (to gain power socially and within the family)

you forgot

rape, abuse, murder (or threats thereof) (mechanism)

stereotypes about women being dumb, hysterical, incompetent (excuses)

legal restrictions from financial independence (banking, jobs, credit) (mechanism)

legal restrictions on bodily autonomy (birth control, abortion--also financial) (mechanism)

@neotoy

It's an uphill battle because the fossil fuel industry is working overtime to INCREASE the amount of plastics in our lives, convincing every company to shove more plastic into everything. This is because they fear reduced FF usage (solar,EVs): their plans are to *triple* plastics use by 2050 😡

my friends, I say to you, we need to reduce plastics in our lives

"nearly 60% of about 250 people who were undergoing heart surgery had micro- or nanoplastics in a main artery. Those who did were 4.5 times more likely to experience a heart attack, a stroke or death"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00405-8

I see folks taking a *shrug* what can you do?? approach to microplastics and I encourage you *not* to do that.

First, vote/advocate for reducing plastics everywhere you can.

There's no way a spoon's worth of microplastics in your brain is *good* for you.

And they're everywhere.

But you can filter your water, don't store in plastic, vacuum w/HEPA, switch to products w/out plastic, cut open tea bags, etc.

I've got a list of like 25 things that I'm doing, most very small, to reduce exposure.

More on this: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/health/plastics-inside-human-brain-wellness/index.html

https://www.ecowatch.com/avoid-microplastics-at-home-2655282616.html

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2024/11/top-5-ways-reduce-your-microplastic-exposure

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/02/427161/how-to-limit-microplastics-dangers