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Small Town Girl from #WNY #Blogger #Empath #Homesteader #LGBTQIA+ #Resister #BLM #ProChoice #Community Do-Gooder
Who doesn’t love a book giveaway? Visit THE KNEELING MAN page on Goodreads and enter to win a free copy! This one is open to US residents, but please stay tuned for more in the future 🙏🏽
(And if you’d be so kind as to mark it “want to read,” that would be pretty great.)
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@hamneggs716 Me too.
In the middle of reading THE 1619 PROJECT: A NEW ORIGIN STORY, and it occurs to me that at every stage of our history, society has normalized some form of pervasive violence and suffering
Freedom is not a zero-sum game.
You don’t lose yours by allowing others to have theirs.
Talked to someone today who is unvaxxed because they didn’t like ‘being forced to do it.’ Anyway the reason I was talking to them was because they had just died.
Please read. Please share and give a little if you can.
Calling all my WNY #longcovid peeps!
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Did you sign up yet? It only takes a few minutes of your time...and can help make a difference. (And please share with others, thank you!)
How long do you continue reading/listening to a book before you give up if you just aren't vibing?
I started Cloud Cuckoo Land - went to start listening again and thought, I don't even remember what the book was about when I picked up where I left off a few days before. Nope, returned to library, unread.
And now, I'm listening to Lucy by the Sea and while it's fine. I'm terribly bored. But I think I'm going to finish this one because, I've enjoyed her other books.
Sigh...
@fionataylor Truly miraculous.
@abejaclaustro I miss you. And my Twitter community. Honestly, I've just been off social for the last few weeks - I'll get back, eventually and build.
My love of snow has been a giant pit of despair the last few days.
Also - my friend Christina is mentioned in the article.
"“It’s so cold in the house, it just put us into survival mode,” Banas said. “We weren’t even hungry. It’s almost like being in a state of stasis.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/27/buffalo-blizzard-death-toll/
2022 has been a bitch.
Buffalo Shooting
Roe Overturned
Buffalo Blizzard
Struggling.
I love snow. I'm usually VERY UNHAPPY when the big storms hit close but not at home.
But not this blizzard.
"In Buffalo, with professional rescuers slow to arrive, and shelters often unreachable, residents improvised. A restaurant became a hotel, bunking stranded people atop the bar. Doctors and nurses interrupted Christmas celebrations to make house calls. A couple took in a busload of Korean tourists who cooked Christmas Eve dinner. A tow-truck driver helped deliver lifesaving medicine.
Blizzard Facebook groups popped up overnight, with stranded residents begging for help. More than one family sought out a midwife to coach a pregnant woman through labor. Christopher Pulinski put out a call for help reuniting with his 17-year-old son, stuck home alone in the neighborhood of Elmwood Village. A stranger with a snowmobile replied that he was on his way.
Leon Horace Miller, 52, of Buffalo, transformed his landscaping and snow plow company into a rescue operation. By late afternoon on Christmas Day he had dislodged 14 people from snow banks or moved them out of unheated homes that had lost power. “It’s been nonstop since Friday,” Mr. Miller said. “Everyone knows I have big trucks.”
Healthcare workers posted their locations and phone numbers online in hopes that those in need nearby would find them. At 2 a.m. on Sunday, Tamara Joy Rettino, an alternative medicine doctor, fielded a call from a mother whose asthmatic child was struggling to breathe.
Neighbors and local businesses donated supplies, an outpouring of support which made the mood, despite the storm, “ecstatic,” he said."
- Reports on mutual aid in #Buffalo, #NewYork in the face of a massive storm from the New York Times
Also, its interesting that the media will champion these forms of mutual aid that go somewhat outside of property relations: people utilizing a building for housing, and the sharing of skills, resources, and supplies, but when it comes to the 'looting' of corporate stores; the looting of commodities from stores that have insurance and will most likely loose food items due to the storm regardless, there is vast hand ringing and condemnation.
We should cheer on mutual aid just as we cheer on people organizing outside of market and property relations during disasters, just as we should support those who do so amidst the disaster of everyday life in capitalist society.
@jaquandor I'm liking Post.News. This platform while it seemed to be the likely hot one - is pretty dead for me at least. I havent really been on too much the last month in general though. Sad. I really loved Twitter....
@LexEtAmor I know....................arrrrrrrrrrrrughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@abejaclaustro Oh love, I hopehopehope you are feeling better now ---- sending you all so much love.
@SpectacledLangr HA! Perfect!
@abejaclaustro On to the to-read pile!
