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The potato farmers have a gofundme set up to help the farmers offset the expenses of having all these potatoes cleaned and bagged for folk on top of not getting paid for the potatoes themselves, so if you are in a position to help the potato farmers out in return for their kindness, you can do so here apparently (linked from the official potatoes.com blog, actually): https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-washington-potato-growers-feed-those-in-need

the tail of my #ADHDReadingList resource thread from last year

Crip Camp 2020: the official virtual experience

Disabled activists presenting all kinds of great stuff, no activism experience necessary. Weekly videos with ASL, captions, and downloadable transcripts.

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_96VjUdB0T92Es9y4q1Vdvg

@junebug Honestly, given what I know about him, he definitely didn't know he was doing that, but that almost makes it more important in terms of trans representation, like, this old British dude just also came up with the idea that people can be trans and stuck it in his book and was like "This is just how things are"

"[T]rans men’s relationship to gender cannot be understood by adding the privilege of maleness to the oppression of transness; the interaction between these axes substantively transforms both such that it generates an experience qualitatively different from either alone.

This qualitative difference is particularly salient for Black trans men and transmasculine people, whose experiences at the intersection of race, gender, and trans status are especially ill-captured by a sex-class approach. The assumption that masculinity necessarily means freedom from gender oppression ignores how race/ism is always gendered, and in particular how Black masculine people are gendered as inherently dangerous (and targeted for anti-Black violence on the basis of that “danger”)."

With Midnight Sun coming out, I’d like to let people know that the Quiluete tribe, featured in the books, are struggling a lot right now as climate change and tsunami risk puts their cultural heritage at risk even as an appropriated and bastardized version of their beliefs will soon be hitting shelves everywhere.

If you can, please read more about the issue here and consider donating: https://mthg.org/

Stop Shaming People For Not Doing Things You Think Are Easy 2020

Empathy: I feel you

Sympathy: I feel for you

Lycanthropy: I feel

Fun sword fact: all the swords you see in "serious" (tone-wise) fantasy like Game of Thrones are much more of a modern aesthetic than a medieval one. Medieval aesthetic would be considered downright gaudy by today's standards.

Dyes were expensive and therefore a sign of wealth, so no nobleman would be caught dead with an undecorated black scabbard or an unengraved, un-inlayed blade as long as he could afford to dye his scabbard bright colors and inlay gold or silver into his sword. The image is an example of what might be more typical for a reasonably wealthy nobleman around the time of the Battle of Agincourt.

It’s a cursed dawn in the coffee shop, and you are an elusive gremlin.

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