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Damon Cassidy talking about why trades are looked down upon. Trade jobs can be really cool, and I think a lot of people would like them.

Our mother, before she became too disabled, loved welding. She wanted to be a welder in highschool and took shop class. Our dad was a trained mechanic for a long time (he's retired now) and can tell you the make and model of most cars at a glance.

Most of the men on my mom's side of the family have made good money doing construction labour.

Currently, trade education is generally cheaper and takes less time to complete.

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Lan Lam shows us how to use frozen fruits and veggies in cooking.

Whether you're using store bought, or you're freezing fresh foods, you can cook good and nutritious home cooked meals. Something that can't be bought in a store or a restaurant, homemade food.

Find more Food Prep here!

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Thinking about this lately. But I want to live in a world where you don't have to have a home to be able to have a comfortable place to sleep, access to good food and drink, and access to hygiene.

I want to live in a world where someone can spend 75% of their time in their favorite dinner, dozing at their booth in between coffees.

I want to live in a world where that person can walk out of the diner and quickly be in a place where they can wash their clothes and body.

Where libraries are 24/7 and have dark rooms to chill and nap if you want.

Where if someone really wants to sleep on a park bench, they'll be checked on and allowed to continue if they don't need help.

I want a world where homelessness is a choice and those people don't need to suffer.

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I know I've only got 10 followers on this blog. And I don't know how many might be bots. But knowing that some people like my content means a lot.

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Union workers are stronger than any US Marine.

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I feel like this goes here.

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NEW ESSAY: anarchism starts in the now: hope for a better future

there is still time

cover art: @punkitt-is-here

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Hi! That's me! Well... obviously not all me lol. Far from the anticapitalist leaders. But I'm rebuilding Hope. Inspiring people to lose their chains and pick a more simple way of life, a more sustainable life.

if it helps, i very genuinely believe an anarchist future is possible and i believe people have already started building it

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This is fixable. Deforestation is fixable. It doesn't stop it from being devastating, and it won't bring back extinct species. But it is fixable.

Actually your society is the freaks for shooting everything that moves and burning half your "nature reserves" every year so that upperclass dandies can eat leaded pheasant. North Americans are the well adjusted ones here, your country has become a desolate suburban lawn in island form

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Found via Moneyless Society on Facebook.

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This is a horror story.

Deny, defend, depose.

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The more you think about this, the more stupid money sounds.

rant under the cut.

I began to think of money in the abstract when I worked at Walmart. Realizing that money is fake while working at friggin Walmart was a contributing factor in the mental breakdown that led to permanently quitting jobs.

We spend 40 hours a week at the most productive hours of our lives, doing work that doesn't matter, for a life we didn't ask to live, to barely survive in a world that makes us spend ours of our lives trying to prove that we deserve to merely exist by making it almost impossible to successfully feed ourselves.

And we grow enough food that it is literally rotting between fields and the supermarket shelves. That much of these corporate Big Agro farms grow more food than they could possibly ever need to feed both humans and animals and to grow more crops. So this food gets destroyed. Meanwhile, the farmer doesn't even own the crops he grows, and doesn't even own the equipment that he isn't allowed to repair by himself.

The more you think about this, the more you lay out the details, the more disgusting it all is.

But there is hope. When we can form interconnected, solidarity focused, communities we can form collective permaculture gardens, develop community food stores that anyone can just take what they need when they need it, with community kitchens, or even free restaurants and food stalls.

It is possible. It really is. We don't need them. We just need to figure out how to work together and break free.

oh so that egg sandwich expires tomorrow? You have a bunch and no one is buying them? It’s still very edible and even healthy, so long as someone eats it by tomorrow?

What a coincidence we live in a city with so much food insecurity, and an alarming amount of hungry homeless folks you can find literally right outside. Surely this bougie grocery can do something meaningful with all these sandwiches—

Store: *hires security to stand at the doors, slaps on a 25% discount and throws away what expires*

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I think a lot of times people feel pressured to stay on top of and deeply knowledgeable about all the issues in the world.

Our mom always told us to keep an eye on the news. She said she didn't want us to be ignorant.

But also there's a difference between being ignorant and not knowing or caring about the world good or bad

And choosing to limit your exposure to it all, while having a general knowledge of the gist of the big things.

The news is everywhere. It's practically in the air. It was bad before the pandemic, but got so much worse since 2020.

It gets overwhelming to have news outlets from all sources begging for your engagement, plus social media, on TV, in ads, in hashtags, on signs, plus people in your day to day life potentially talking about it.

It's okay not to be an expert about a rat's ass in India when you're from The US. Or know all about the thing that happened in the place.

We weren't made to have such a gigantic 360° microscope on the whole world. We can only handle so much constant stream of information at a time before it becomes overstimulating.

So if you feel obligated to glue yourself to the news, you aren't required to do so. It's okay to free yourself from that responsibility.

If you feel anxiety to keep reading all the headlines and fear of missing something, you do not deserve to suffer with that.

If you feel ignorant for not knowing the details of the news stories, please know that you're not ignorant and knowing the basics is enough.

If you need more details, you can look them up as needed.

It's normal to get burnt out on all the constant chatter. Give yourself a break.

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Yes! Winning is possible, winning is happening! Yes yes yes!

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