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mastodon 4.6.8+glitchi like #art, humans , animals, plants and the #universe. Also rhythms, sounds, movement and song. I try to live like if a future was possible and like if we weren't scared shit. I try to find meaning and divinity in a torrent of death that envelops us, and sometimes pierces my body and soul. As the everyday stunning beauty and divinity of creation does. Laughter helps . And dance. I don't love politics, but we're all inundated in it so there's no ignoring them. Trying to find ways to live as that real, divergent, me, that feels like if we not only should all be one but actually are. Laughable under todays conditions. I know. But still.
#healing #spirituality #now #feminism
#beauty#wonder and #love
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#solarpunk
isn't that a nice story? : "those solar panels had to go somewhere. Mostly, they ended up in Pakistan, dumped there at such a massive discount that the country solarized virtually overnight. Pakistani solar installers learned their trade from Tiktok videos set to Tamil film soundtracks, and unwired the country so thoroughly that today, the national power company is in danger of going bust because no one buys their electricity from the grid anymore. Pakistani bridal dowries now routinely include four panels, an inverter and a battery:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/praxis/
#birds #science this is really comical, I had to laugh out loud reading it: Apparently biologists have been so sexist that female birdsong was represented in their research like as 0. something% of the whole. We were all taught, that female birds don't sing.While it is much closer to 50 %, somewhat less in the northern hemisphere. Is there any place men are not projecting their crazy worldview on? We see what we project outward, wherever we look, I 'spose. But this strikes me as rather funny. Really. I mean... Does it ever stop...at anything..
it reminds me of men that shush women that laugh" too loudly". https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/19/hidden-world-of-female-birdsong-book
#Iran #solarpunk let's look at the bright side: the president of the US is employing the biggest military force of the planet to create a massive wave of solar and wind installation, a massive support program for Chinese and other EV makers, a bright spotlight on the destructive grip of oil dependency and a ton of trouble for fossil fuel politicians. In other words: Change.
While two boys are having a tantrum in the sandbox, banging their shovels onto each others head , until it bleeds, the rest of the world is forced to move That may not have been the intention, but it may be the most lasting part of the outcome.
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@phantanews @pluralistic I am wondering, reading cory doctorovs newest article about #fascism as a result of austerity and missing public services. what role #feminism plays in this. Or more specifically: the decline in willingness to provide unpaid services, emotional support, security and psychological status/feelings of power and satisfaction to men. There seem to be a lot of similarity in the experience of someone who loses healthcare and a man whos emotional care and daily unpaid services provided by women is withdrawn from him.
Pluralistic thinks it is" reasonable to assume, that people react that way. " ( with fascism) Well "people" is not a very sharp word to use here. Why are women not reacting that way to the many services, securities, comforts and support that have always been missing from their lives? I keep coming back to a realization, that any analysis of "people" and society, be it psychological, social, or political, must take the category of gender, must take the underlying patriarchy into account, in order to accurately describe reality
He closes with "Socialism or barbarism" isn't just a cliche – it's actually a choice on the ballot.
Is the way I assume roles of empathy, care and responsibility in relationships, the way I invest my energy towards someone elses needs, raise children, the "socialism" in this? And is "barbary" the way a deeply patriarchal male will lead his life, expecting to be served, not serving others, unless they are his overlords, promising reward? We will need new words for all of this, as our understanding becomes more holistic, as we integrate the invisible sphere of female experience into it.
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@Rako_Lohgar@social.tchncs.de @VQuaschning@mastodon.green gehörst du zu den Menschen, die sich Neuwagen leisten können? Das klingt so ein bisschen komisch. Man muss sich den Stromer leisten können. Ich kann um die Ecke einen Benziner für einzwei Tausend € kaufen. Sobald die Bedingungen so geschaffen werden, dass die bessere Lösugn auch für alle erschwinglich ist, werden die Leute sofort umsteigen, bis auf drei Schreihälse vielleicht.
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@tarotbird@toot.cat @pluralistic@mamot.fr "nobody could graduate from music academy who could not dance" omg, this is melting on my tongue. I want to be in that world.
#epstein #giselepelicot #metoo people are still saying things like "I'm so shocked or " this changes my worldview," or" i would never have guessed".
And that makes me angry. Abuse, rape and assault are the darkness in all our lives. They are crimes as common as shoplifting. Few women can say of themselves that they have never experienced any case of verbal or physical sexual assault. If any. About a third of us have experienced more serious forms of violence like rape or grave physical assault. It's deeply ingrained in our culture. It's everyday experience.
A third. That means if not you, than either your sister or your mum. The trauma is there. Spoken or unspoken. How can anyone not know. How can anyone not see. How can anyone not be aware.
This "surprise" tells the whole story of why victims stay silent. Why they are not being believed. why it is possible for this to go on. Why it is so easy for perpetrators and so hard for victims. The perpetrator asks nothing of you, only that you keep being ignorant. The victim asks everything of you. That you process this world of horror that shakes the ground under your feet and that exists in plain sight. And that is the world you have lived in all along.That is you rmums world. Your sisters world. Ours.
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@tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl @Bart@todon.eu @Abelvicent@mastodon.social the production of jeans and most of our consumer goods sucks other places dry. Other places will be more likely to burn as a consequence.We may never hear of it. We are not personally affected. The wasting of our diminishing groundwater resources is directly affecting us. Water is regional.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-little-red-dots-pose-a-big-mystery-about-the-universe
#science #astrophysics
a researcher asks whether "the universe is broken" cus observation matches no known theory. This is why i never went into science, even though i had top grades in all of those subjects. The arrogance.
I mean, there is this tiny little being on this tiny little speck of dust in this marvelous unfathomably large organism and it has these tiny little dim ideas about said unlimited organism. And when some dimwit observation with limited instruments doesn't meet it's idea, it asks, whether the universe is broken? I know what's broken. And that is the culture behind that
I do get excited sometimes about science, espc. astrophysics. I do read about quantum physics and stuff and it's really interesting, But its a lot of groping around in the dark. And if something works as expected, we don't know why it does that. That much is obvious to me. And in to that dark, science projects its own ideas.The limitations of the culture their from. And if you can't be aware of that, as a scientist, you are woefully blind.It always looked to me, like if that whole area requires a good portion of that blind arrogance in order to be in it and be aligned with your peers and the general values.
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@Rako_Lohgar@social.tchncs.de Und, wann amortisiert sich das, gegenüber 1.500 € bar? Wenn ich auch gelegentlich mal auf die Autobahn muss, wo der Strom genausoviel kostet wie Benzin?
Ich würd mir ja wünschen, dass die Rechnung aufgeht, aber ich glaube für viele Menschen ist das noch nicht der Fall. Ich will mich nicht streiten, ich würde mich tatsächilch dafür interessieren, wenn du das mal genauer auflisten magst, wie sich das für dich ausgeht. Es hängt ja auch davon ab , wie man wohnt, also ob man an die Säule muss oder zuhause tanken kann.
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@lifewithtrees @mvsde I have long felt, that arrogance is the main obstacle to open source reaching the masses. Not Big Tech.Too bad that knowing about tech and understanding how to communicate with people and actually do something with them are two very different skillsets.
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@KaCi @pathfinder @autistics @Susan60 "independence" in the context of what is beign discussed here, is a trauma based myth
it is also an Illusion of men, that lye to themselves about their dependency on women. A myth of strength. A patriarchal myth. Created by trauma in childhood, and later part of toxic maskulinity.
many of us have not experienced inter-dependency as connectedness and bliss. We carry scars of lack, dangerous enmeshment and powerlessness that we need to heal on our way to becoming full members of an interconnected community we can depend on. Dependency is deeply emotional. Realizing and creating a healthy web around us is healing.
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@jankaheike@mastodon.social @pallenberg@mastodon.social geht mir genauso Es sind diese Frauen , die meinen Glauben an die Menschheit nähren. irgendwie ist mir zuletzt aufgefallen, dass die ganzen Tech-wihstleblowrInnen und Journalistinnen , die in Diktaturen umkommen andauernd Frauen sind. Das fing an mit Politkovskaja und ging weiter mit einer langen Reihe von Silikon Valley Whistleblowerinnen. Ist das selektive Wahrnehmung?Oder liegt es daran , dass Buchhandel und Journalismus viele Frauen hat?
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@no_brainer@sueden.social @C_Ottenburg@hessen.social @hart@norden.social ja auch im Süden ändern sich natürlich die Bedingungen. Auf trockenen Böden, wie in MeckPomm, verzeichnen Bauern immer höhere Ernteausfälle bei Getreide. Sie beginnen auf neue Pflanzen umzusteigen. Z. B. Aronia, die zu Saft verarbeitet wird. Es hängt aber vom einzelnen Privatbauern ab, ob etwas unernommen , oder nur geklagt, Kompensation vom Staat gefordert, und so weitergemacht wird wie bisher. Und vom Bauernverband, dass die Wut und das Gejammer von Bauern als Treibstoff für agrarindustrielle Lobby poliltik nutzt, die dem einzelnen Bauern schadet. Biobauern die in MeckPomm Getreide anbauen, haben noch sehr wenig Ernteaufälle, und zwar , wenn sie Bodenverbesserung und Humusaufbau betieiben. Dann kann der Boden das Wasser viel länger halten. Es gibt einen riesigen Korb von solchen Maßnahmen, die aber nur vom kleinen Prozentsatz der Biobauern angewandt werden. Die das selbst finanzieren müssen , und wenn sie dann keine Ernteausfälle haben, eben auch keine "Negativsubsvention" erhalten.
Hier in Mitteleuropa können wir uns auf Jahtrausende Kulturgeschichte aus Südeuropa und Asien beziehen, es gibt eine Vielzahl von Nahrungspflanzen, die in dem veränderten Klima gedeihen. Gentechnik ist da überflüssig. Politkveränderung dringend notwendig. Aber auch im Süden gibt es eine Vielzahl von Initiativen und Ansätzen, die aus der unübersehbaren Viefalt traditioneller Samen und Methoden das herausfiltern, was im veränderten Klima Bestand hat. Mit Erfolg. Da, wo es zu heiß für menschliches Leben wird, kann man natürlich auch nichts mehr anbauen, aber da kann auch keine Gentechnik was dran ändern. Für Gentechnik trommeln Leute, die sich davon erhoffen, so weitermachen zu können wie bisher. ( weil sie daran verdienen). Das ist so ähnlich wie die CO2 Abscheidung. Von der wird ja auch nicht mehr viel gehört haben, nachdem sie ihren politischen Zweck erfüllt hatte, die Dringlichkeit von echtem Klimaschutz und radikaler Veränderung abzuwehren. Technik existiert halt nicht im luftleeren Raum.
die Gentechniklobby hat haupsächlich Sorten auf den Markt gebracht, die einen hohen Pestizid.- und Düngemitteleinsatz erfordern, und den jänrlichen Kauf von Saatgut erzwingen. was zur Zerstörung Umwelt und bäuerlichern Strukturen geführt hat. Die ganzen Chemikalien werden natürlich von den selben Konzernen vertireben .-das ist der Hintergrund der Gentechnik.
Wie doch ein Klimawissenschaftler so schön sagte." Wir dachten wir haben Lösungen für die Klimakrise, bis wir festestellen mussten, dass wir keine Lösung für die menschliche Gier haben, Das übersteigt die Möglichkeiten der Wissenschaft."
Keines der Werbeversprechen der Gentechnik wurde je eingelöst. Der Schaden war enorm.
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@C_Ottenburg@hessen.social @no_brainer@sueden.social @hart@norden.social braucht kein Mensch. Es gibt bereits genug angepasste Sorten. Sie wachsen in Ländern, die schon lange ein solches Klima haben, und hatten viel Zeit, sich darauf zu optimieren. Wir müssen unserer Essgewohnheiten ändern und das essen, was sich anbauen lässt. Vor allem auf Fleisch verzichten. dann werden ungefähr 50%unserer Flächen frei. darauf lässt sich eine Menge anbauen. Eine Hautmaßnahme zur Ernähriugssicherung wäre die Agrarlobby zu entmachten . Und die Lebensmittelkonzernlobby. Die sich mit der Umbennenung von veganer Wurst beschäftigen.
#women #womensrights #gender #feminism #men #change
today I read some news( about gendered violence) and some long held feelings and thoughts coalesced and formed some stream of consciousness blogpost. And, funny enough, shortly after I found another blogpost that seemed to express the exact same ideas and sentiment, only in a very different language and with many more words. Also with added numbers and reasearch that seem to support the idea, that I am not the only woman feeling this way at this moment in time.
Here are my thoughts
https://rant.li/attamtamatrant-li/end-of-care-9wz3
and here is that other blog, that speaks about the same reality that we all experience
https://sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/26-decentering-men-is-not-misandry
#men #gender #women #feminism #patriarchy #mothersday #womensrights When women speak 30% of the time in mixed gender dialog, people perceive them as “dominating” the room. Some studies find that in mixed gender groups, women contribute to conversation less than 75% of the time men do. Women only approach conversational parity when we achieve an overwhelming majority (80%+). A 2018 study of quarterly corporate conference calls found that men speak 92% of the time.
from the blogpost
https://sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/26-its-not-only-the-violence-women
I recently spoke with an acquaintance who is a member of the green party.(germany) the party has a womensstatute. which makes it mandatory that in official discussions there must be a 50/50 speakers list and when no woman wants to speak anymore, the discussion is closed. There is also the 50/50 rule of how lists for elections are created. Yet, the internal structure of the party is riddled with a few male egos that demand a large chunk of everyone's time and energy, like to attack women and don't care about how much trouble they inflict. Male party members very seldom dare to confront this , it falls to the women to exert their precious energy in dealing with it.
So, nothing new here.
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@Dodo_sipping@cupoftea.social @filmfreak75@mastodon.social @autistics@fedigroups.social
oh yeah. The meaning of the word "honesty" or "truth". Fell into that trap a million times.learned, very reluctantly, to be more careful and still thinking about how to phrase my honesty and truth for an allistic audience, taking into account, that there is a bit of a language gap.I now tend to announce my remarks in a way that frames them for allistic understanding.
It's one of the areas where I truly deeply value being neurodivergent- and value other neurodivergents contributions.
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@Dodo_sipping@cupoftea.social @filmfreak75@mastodon.social @autistics@fedigroups.social I wasn't actually thinking about hurting legit feelings. My experience is more about sticking my whole arm into the hornets nest in terms of group politics, things you "can't say" cus of vested interests, male fragility and stuff like that. I found out that I have to frame my thoughts with some social engineering blah, if I want to have a better chance at being heard and maybe bring myself into a better position for when the backlash arrives.
lies are so prevalent in any social system, no matter where. I've learned to live with that reality.
That's not the same as not wantng to hurt peoples feelings. Which I genuinely don't want.
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@mvsde I'm am glad that with initiatives like Di-day all the ranting is starting to actually bear some consequences.
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@mvsde i want to learn about these things. I don't know how to use them or what all of these abbreviations even are. I'd love to communicate over these kinds of channels more. Love to learn how to find stuff, find community , find content there.
but it always seemed to me like it was a domain of tech people. Can you point me to a resource written for non techs? Practical?
here is another great video for you, if you are interested in hearing a man speaking about the issue of what's wrong with men. It#s the only man I ever heard speaking about patriarchal violence with such clarity. And it actually moved me to tears when I first watched it, cus it proved to me that some men intrinsically need to know and are ready to go all the way. https://youtu.be/ywsTdzkiPF0
#epstein #metoo #gisele pelicot
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@sundogplanets what we need is a fediverse that puts the info in this article in to a list of required behaiviours.
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@secretsloth@mastodon.art @ana@starlite.rodeo animals minds are evolutionary linked to ours. Same biology. We share tons of genes. Contrary to common belief, our brains are not at all similar to computers. We don't process or store information. We do something much more obscure and holistic, that no scientist yet fully understands. But it has nothing to do with binaries. Also we have kinds of intelligence in all our bodyparts and organs. Feelings. Electromagentic currents. Information.
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@Dodo_sipping@cupoftea.social @filmfreak75@mastodon.social @autistics@fedigroups.social well, for an autistic female it's ( let me use my favourite chorus again) an intersectional problem.
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@mvsde i guess it's like with di- day. tech -people can rant all they want about stuff, but unless they actually take the trouble to make things accessible and share knowledge it's all just talking..Like they don't really expect any non -tech person to actually be interested and don't actually anticipate for change to be happening.
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@KatyElphinstone@mas.to @ewen@social.ewenbell.com does that coinicide with the autistic brain not pruning back it's many connections into a generally speaking "practical "amount for living in our present culture? is there a connection? ( pun intended)
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just yesterday it happened to me on this platform.
every man must read this.
"Thousands of female-appearing Twitter users started sharing the post, asking to print it on business cards or staple it to the foreheads of men"
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180727-mansplaining-explained-in-one-chart
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@ProPublica "Meanwhile, families continue to be inundated with advice from self-proclaimed experts using medical terms incorrectly and misunderstanding science to convince parents that getting the shot could put their newborns at risk of grave harm."
Poor people making a living on social media algorithms and solvent groups to be advertised to. Like with COVID. Covid disinfo made some people a lot of money on YT. There is whole village economies in poor countries having discovered this as a source of income.
It's fun, if an Indian medical student pays for his ed. through targeting dump MAGA rednecks with AI generated BS. It's no fun if babies die. But I think it has the same basic driver behind it.
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@sundogplanets i believe it is all the output of too much money available to a small number of very very delusional egos. unchecked and unbalanced. Money needs to make more of itsself all the time. that's how the system works. All sensible investments would be realeconomy. And for many reasons much less attractive. Taxing the rich would be helpful on so many fronts..
Taxing them into a sustainable shape, like maybe 5% of the power /wealth they have now.
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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online isn't this the blueprint of everything? aren't we all affected by pollution and destruction does any of us know what's in our water, air, food? or have any control over it? aren't we all on the receiving end of the schemes of these mafias and aren't those cartels the way we distribute power and organize social structures in patriarchy?
I've read many such accounts. We won't survive as a species this way , that much is clear. And there's no place to run anymore, for noone. No remote nature reserve this stuff doesn't rain down over . And if there was, you'd probably find some oligarch bu building his palace there. Hard to make a living without being a part of this in any way.
#epstein #metoo #giselepelicot this is a wonderful interview that tells you everything you nee to hear about public amnesia and about" not all men" https://youtu.be/wtE9cbwaBnE
Manon Garcia, who is being interviewed here, has also written several books worth reading. What I particularly like about her is, that she takes us right back to the banality of evil and to how nazi Germany worked. With all those good dads and family men enacting the holocaust or serving some minuscule function in the whole process and the workings of an authoritarian society. Its basically the same pattern of the darkness and dehumanization being embedded in everyday culture.
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@ZDF@zdf.social uhh uhh, wer hat denn diese Anhäufung von Klischees verbrochen? Das Thema verdient besseres.
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@guido3@infosec.exchange @Rako_Lohgar@social.tchncs.de Herkunftsland ist mir erstmal egal, nur rein mit den guten Tipps.
#iran the only thing we can and should do is to install batteries, solar, wind, as fast as we can. It'll be years till this situation is over. The damaged facilities will take time to repair. If we had a green government, this would be the chance to put the necessary changes onto the priority express lane. Use the pain to accelerate lasting solutions. That's what every sane democracy would do, that looks to the benefit of its citizens.
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@RuthSalter@mastodon.scot Nice article. Why do I not need Gramsci , Monbiot or any other alpha male to know this? Anyway, it never hurts to be reminded. And it also doesn't hurt if those alpha male heavy powerstructures called "political parties" discover some simple truths, normal people namely women have always been aware of.
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@wordstitcher@thecanadian.social ohh I remember it the exact same way. Women do most of they work. They carry everything. They are the ones , that stay up late and see things through
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@Rako_Lohgar@social.tchncs.de @guido3@infosec.exchange hmm. Das ist eine interessante Rechnung. Ich merke gerade dass ich im Grunde mit meinem alten Opel Astra vergleiche, den ich im Alter von 15 Jahren geschenkt bekam und der praktisch nie repariert werden musste, 25 Jahre alt wurde und dabei kein einziges mal wegen Rost geschweißt wurde. Ich und mein Schrauber wahren gleichermaßen begeistert von dem Teil. Es war unschlagbar billig. Ich glaube mich schockt im Moment jedes Auto, finanziell gesehen. Es ist auch nicht so, dass ich einen Verbrenner kaufe. Eher schleiche ich um die gebrauchten E-Autos herum und versuche mich an den Gedanken zu gewöhnen, wieviel das alles kostet. Udn dann sind es eben auch soziale Aspekte. Das sind dann immer so Mittelschichtler , die das Auto vielleicht auch noch von der Firma gesponsert kriegen, die ich mit E-Autos wahrnehme. Meine Nachbarschafts- AutoSchrauber, auf die ich so zurückgreife , wissen noch nix über E-Autos, die sind bei denen noch nicht angekommen.
Gebt mir doch mal einen Tip für ein günstiges kleines Leasing-E-Auto. (Ich werde euern Überzeugungswillen jetzt schamlos ausnutzen, wenns recht ist 😀 )
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@Rako_Lohgar@social.tchncs.de @guido3@infosec.exchange wusste gar nicht, dass man die auch beim Leasing bekommt. Und hast du was angezahlt? *schaut Leapmotor nach*