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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • While I feel theres a slight difference between a lit cigarette while operating a gas pump, and the possible spark from breaking the diaphragm in a low voltage speaker behind grates in the pump body- you know what fair enough. Usually when I see or participate in folks talking about electricity dangers online its folks who have no clue what theyre talking about.

    A couple of months ago I was in an argument with folks on lemmy who thought if you put a nine volt battery against your nipple it’d electrocute you. At one point I went and grabbed a nine volt to take a picture of literally pressed against my skin just to prove my point 😅. A lot of folks seem to mythologize electricity and its dangers, sometimes it even seems to come from folks claiming to have electrical work backgrounds or engineering degrees

    Regardless, hope you have a good day, take care :)





  • I do like their idea of salads that dont just use delicate leafy stuff. Does feel like an odd subject to write a whole article about though, but no reason not to of you’re an article writer I suppose lol

    I have limited ability to get to the store regularly so more salads with ingredients that dont go bad immediately would be really nice, I’ll have to check out some of the recipes they mention



  • 50501 is a great way to get connected! They have a discord server for NC (https://discord.gg/62cWYvwgs) with channels where folks will discuss other projects for a local area, it can be a great entry point! For folks seeing this it might be worth seeing if they have a server for your state also!

    Don’t compete with other organizations, unite and collaborate.

    Excellent words of wisdom. It will take working together.

    I’m sorry to hear y’all have faced harassment, I imagine it varries by where you are. I’m fortunate enough to live somewhere pretty progressive despite being in a red state. Sending love my friend, thank you for your efforts!


  • they ask their daughters to pretend to pray so that the men in the family, especially the husband or the brothers of that child, won’t know that she is of fertile age now. Because as soon as they know that the girl has started menstruating, they’re going to pull her out of the school, if she goes there, and they’re going to marry her off to a man double or thrice her age. And that is something we have seen so often. It just breaks my heart. Mothers are usually very helpless in these situations. The link to child marriage contributes to the secrecy around periods and makes it an extremely isolating experience.

    As a guy I hadn’t really made that connection to how menstruation would become so stigmatized. Thats gutwrenching…






  • I’m still trying to figure out how to get more involved myself. I have some connection to local organizing, but am trying to figure out how to get more involved when a sleep disorder has me asleep durring the day- if anyone has thoughts or suggestions for me I’d welcome them :)
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    Something thats been on my mind lately that might be a helpful idea for others is linking up with friends and being poll observers or volunteering as poll workers. There’s a lot pointing to the polls potentially being a dangerous place to go this election cycle (the MEGA act, and talk of deploying ice to polling locations), folks being there may be an important way to protect your community





  • If you’re not already connected to local organizing efforts where you are, start looking for ways to change that. Look up if there are any mutual aid hubs around you, go to protests and ask around, try to get involved with food not bombs and see if you can get linked in with more efforts, figure out whos organizing ice watch in your area and do their training

    Any efforts to protect our futures and our neighbors will happen through local organizing where YOU are. If you want a democracy, this chapter of history seems to demand that we work for it; start getting connected.


  • For folks connected to local organizing- building community groups to go to the polls with folks who may be victimized by this process seems like a potential starting point, not sure what better solutions may look like

    If you’re not already connected to local organizing efforts where you are, start looking to get linked in with folks. Go to protests, ask around, look up if there are any mutual aid hubs around you, try to get involved with food not bombs and see if you can get linked in with more efforts

    If you want a democracy, this chapter of history seems to demand that we work for it.

    Edit: just learned about polling volunteers, and poll observers, you should be able to look up how to do training for those for your state if yoy want a way to get involved