did anyone else have the fucking. dolphin girls at school
they were like horse girls except they couldnt ht gfbfnfbnfj eb do sorry a mojth started attacking me
toilet roll now controlled by enemy forces
anyway dolphin girls where like horse girls but since they couldnt get their own dolphins they always had 24 books called like “sparkle glimmer cove” wherever they went
when the capitalists die out either thru global warming or revolution will we be able to start homegrown internet
been reading about dual power and how to grow my own tomatoes and i’m wondering how and if we’ll be able to start commie internet lol
like obviously the internet is this huge electric capitalist controlled hardware infrastructure thing so after all that shuts down is there a way to do it ourselves lol
i want to come home from a hard day on the communal allotment, kiss my Wife, crank up my generator, and start sharing meams!
GOOD NEWS: the homegrown commie internet is in the works! Across the world, people fighting against censorship and for a more democratic internet are building mesh networks (meshnets) of long-range wifi (LoRa)
Since wifi is just a standard for sending data through radio waves, and radio waves can go a pretty long way if you use ‘em right, it’s not that difficult to connect two computers by wifi from across town. Then you just keep adding more computers to the network and you’ve got internet!
Small antennae, like for connecting across the neighborhood, can literally be built out of trash
And a larger, more accurate one can be built pretty cheap too
(You can also reuse an old satellite TV dish, or really anything else that’s roughly parabolic)
There are LoRa meshnets in places like New York, India, and all over Europe: Spain (pictured below), Greece, Austria, Germany, etc
As for sharing fresh mëmês, the network to go to is Scuttlebutt. Unlike most social media, Scuttlebutt posts are stored on your computer and sent directly to your friends’ computers (rather than being stored on the cloud and sent to a central server). It works just fine over traditional internet, but you can also view and interact with it offline, and it has protocols for connecting over any means that two computers can share information - that includes LoRa, as well as hardwired connections, sneakernet (basically mailing a USB stick back and forth), etc
What that means is you always know that your info is just as safe as the network it’s sent on and the computer that receives it - no one even theoretically has the ability to collect and sell it all. And, since it’s all run on your computer, there’s no servers to go down or companies to go out of business that could destroy the whole thing
You can read more about this kind of stuff here (or here if it’s cloudy in Barcelona)!
there’s also the work being done by the DCPT, left-behind Detroiters meshing together their neighborhoods to share overpriced high-speed connections among the community and producing these good good educational documents, especially this rad resource page. building meshnets to share a global uplink is very similar to building meshnets for the purpose of intracommunication and these resources are useful in both cases
I’ve had a couple people ask about how to join/organize something like this, which is great! The best list of active projects I know of is here, though you should also do a search online if you don’t see one in your area in case they missed it. For those without a nearby group, put a pin here and try contacting nearby pins as well - you can use the instructions on buildyourowninter.net as well as the DCPT’s resources as linked above to get set up!
nowadays it’s easier than ever to make more mindful purchases and reduce your contribution to fast fashion and mass fabric and textile waste. “thrifting” encompasses more than physical stores like goodwill. apps and online shops like poshmark and thredUP have a wide variety gently used clothing. you don’t have to give up style in order to make better choices!
fuck bohemian rhapsody (the film) anyone who has an issue with me saying that can unfollow me idc
last year hollywood was all about times up but this year a film directed by a man with a bunch of sexual assualt allegations against him has won best picture at the golden globes
Hi! Sorry about this post, but my mom needs help paying bills and getting groceries. My mother is a disabled anishanaabe-metis woman and faced a very stressful situation a little before Christmas that may throw her entire life into disarray.
Long story short, her boyfriend, and her main caretaker, has been hit by a car a few days before Christmas and sustained a very very terrible brain injury. He may not recover from this, and may have to leave my mom to live in her apartment alone.
She had to go into her bill money to pay his rent and bills for him, and is going to need to dip into her grocery money a great amount as well.
The stress of this situation is starting to hit her, and is causing her great anxiety. I can offer her my time to help her talk things out, but as I have recently lost my job and am only on welfare, I am not in a situation to help her financially.
So I ask for any spare money you may have, even $5 would be appreciated. I want to ease her financial stress the best we can. If someone can raise $1000 in a day for something meaningless, I’m sure we can at least get her an extra $100, or even more, for her to pay off her bills and get groceries.
TL;DR – Disabled Native American woman needs to pay her bills and buy groceries and doesn’t have the money to do so right now.
If you need more information or another way to donate, please message me.
Some months ago my cat was sick. I posted a little bit of this on my Insta stories, and got help from some very kind people I will forever thanks.
But now, I need help again. I don’t know if you know, but I live in a 3rd world country. I applied for a job overseas and I got an offer which I accepted! However, the relocation costs barely cover my airfare…
My issue is because I want to take my cat with me. He is a family member to me, and if I don’t take him I have to either abandon him (no cat shelters here) or put him down. And I cannot do that! “Exporting” and “importing” my cat is really, really expensive (around $7000). If you consider I earn $600 monthly and I need to pay all of my paperwork from here… I am on a very tight spot.
So, that is why I opened my sewing patterns Etsy a while ago: to get money for him. But it is not nearly enough, and I need to make downpayments to start working on his vaccines and paperwork and I can’t do that right now D:
That is why I am asking for help. Please! You can:
I have more patterns to upload (regency for MSD, more tiny clothes, casual for MSD), but I am honestly doing so much paperwork that my time is limited.
Any help will be greatly appreciated, and if you cannot help me with KoFi or my Etsy, please, please reblog and spread the word!! I will be forever thankful to everyone who helps me.
