#Doughnut Economics

[probablyasocialecologist]

[haggishlyhagging]

One diagram in economic theory is so dangerous that it is never actually drawn: the long-term path of GDP growth. Mainstream economics views endless economic growth as a must, but nothing in nature grows forever, and the attempt to buck that trend is raising tough questions in high-income but low-growth countries. It may not be hard to give up having GDP growth as an economic goal, but it is going to be far harder to overcome our addiction to it. Today we have economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive; what we need are economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow. That radical flip in perspective invites us to become agnostic about growth and to explore how economies that are currently financially, politically and socially addicted to growth could learn to live with or without it.

-Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist

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[thedigitaleconomy]

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[reasonsforhope]

"The Netherlands is pulling even further ahead of its peers in the shift to a recycling-driven circular economy, new data shows.

According to the European Commission’s statistics office, 27.5% of the material resources used in the country come from recycled waste.

For context, Belgium is a distant second, with a “circularity rate” of 22.2%, while the EU average is 11.5% – a mere 0.8 percentage point increase from 2010.

“We are a frontrunner, but we have a very long way to go still, and we’re fully aware of that,” Martijn Tak, a policy advisor in the Dutch ministry of infrastructure and water management, tells The Progress Playbook. 

The Netherlands aims to halve the use of primary abiotic raw materials by 2030 and run the economy entirely on recycled materials by 2050. Amsterdam, a pioneer of the “doughnut economics” concept, is behind much of the progress.

Why it matters

The world produces some 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste each year, and this could rise to 3.4 billion tonnes annually by 2050, according to the World Bank.

Landfills are already a major contributor to planet-heating greenhouse gases, and discarded trash takes a heavy toll on both biodiversity and human health.

“A circular economy is not the goal itself,” Tak says. “It’s a solution for societal issues like climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental pollution, and resource-security for the country.”

A fresh approach

While the Netherlands initially focused primarily on waste management, “we realised years ago that’s not good enough for a circular economy.”

In 2017, the state signed a “raw materials agreement” with municipalities, manufacturers, trade unions and environmental organisations to collaborate more closely on circular economy projects.

It followed that up with a national implementation programme, and in early 2023, published a roadmap to 2030, which includes specific targets for product groups like furniture and textiles. An English version was produced so that policymakers in other markets could learn from the Netherlands’ experiences, Tak says.

The programme is focused on reducing the volume of materials used throughout the economy partly by enhancing efficiencies, substituting raw materials for bio-based and recycled ones, extending the lifetimes of products wherever possible, and recycling.

It also aims to factor environmental damage into product prices, require a certain percentage of second-hand materials in the manufacturing process, and promote design methods that extend the lifetimes of products by making them easier to repair.

There’s also an element of subsidisation, including funding for “circular craft centres and repair cafés”.

This idea is already in play. In Amsterdam, a repair centre run by refugees, and backed by the city and outdoor clothing brand Patagonia, is helping big brands breathe new life into old clothes.

Meanwhile, government ministries aim to aid progress by prioritising the procurement of recycled or recyclable electrical equipment and construction materials, for instance.

State support is critical to levelling the playing field, analysts say...

Long Road Ahead

The government also wants manufacturers – including clothing and beverages companies – to take full responsibility for products discarded by consumers.

“Producer responsibility for textiles is already in place, but it’s work in progress to fully implement it,” Tak says.

And the household waste collection process remains a challenge considering that small city apartments aren’t conducive to having multiple bins, and sparsely populated rural areas are tougher to service.

“Getting the collection system right is a challenge, but again, it’s work in progress.”

...Nevertheless, Tak says wealthy countries should be leading the way towards a fully circular economy as they’re historically the biggest consumers of natural resources."

-via The Progress Playbook, December 13, 2023

[anyone-writing-fanfic-about-moss]

This part of my bookshelf that's about different levels of solarpunk ...

- Make, Sew and Mend, with different sewing techniques to mend clothing

- Doughnut Economics, discussing the failures of current economic theories and ideas for new and better ways of benchmarking economic development

- the Monk and Robot series, sci-fi books set in a utopian post-transition world, and I just want to live in one of the organic-tech-treehouses and drink tea 🥺

[probablyasocialecologist]

The seemingly obvious step of depicting the economy as a subsystem of Earth’s biosphere is also one of the most radical and essential acts for renewing economics this century. It calls on all economic analysis to recognize that the economy is an open system—with large inflows and outflows of both energy and matter—within our planet’s unique and delicately balanced biosphere. From this perspective it becomes clear that energy, not money, is the fundamental currency of life, underpinning all human, ecological, and industrial systems. Energy dependence then lies at the heart of the economist’s understanding. We must recognize that humanity’s continual use of resources puts intense pressure on planetary boundaries, creating a high risk of undermining the ecological stability on which human and all life fundamentally depends. When we situate the economy within the living world in this way, the 20th century pursuit of endless growth sits in sharp tension with empirical evidence to date. The ambition of decoupling consumption-based carbon emissions and material use from GDP growth in today’s high-income economies is not happening at anywhere near the speed and scale required to avert critical tipping points. This compels us to question the limits to growth and explore postgrowth economic possibilities, particularly in wealthy economies. Facing up to the ecological consequences of economic activity is now a critical moral obligation.

Kate Raworth, A New Compass for Economics

[bilbobagginsomebabez]

not reblogging the whole addition

LMFAO FAIR

in no particular order

how to incentivize people to take these jobs

teach them and pay them. we're a caring species and we like to help each other. million and a half psych majors graduate every day with a vague idea of 'helping people.' social work is A HUGE field. put em through some extra training and send 'em out. like i work in the nonprofit sector so i'm surrounded by bleeding hearts every day but seriously we dont struggle to source/staff bleeding hearts, its more a race against the burnout clock as we do our work in extremely hostile environments. and what burns you out isnt exposure to Bad Shit, its impotence. the idea that no matter what you do, you're never gonna make a dent in the avalanche of pain and hardship you're fighting. helping somebody? the success case can power a social worker through for months. a part of caring for people who do communal care work is actually letting them really help. you know how i mentioned somewhere that we live in a society that intensely incentivizes ruthlessness and cruelty? it also suppresses and punishes care workers. like, let us fuckin live and we'll do it all and be very happy about it.

ways in which e.g. American policing in particular derives some of its worst excesses from a culture that prioritises* the officer always feeling safe and able to defend themselves (with violence) over the safety of the citizenship at large

i would develop this a bit further. its not just that american policing has a culture that prioritizes their own safety over their citizens, its that when you make an army, they're going to find an enemy. our police force is highly militarized with lots of super special violent toys that they very badly want to play with. here's confessions of a former bastard cop for a baseline. they will on purpose fuck up restorative initiatives as will many Huge American Industries that heavily rely on harsh exploitation. any transition period would be shaped by those factors to a HUGE degree.

realistically messy transitional period... a realistic treatment of the people who work in it, as well

concepts to play with:

-warring institutions. this happens all the time in govt but a transitional period between a carceral and restorative justice system would have two active institutions at direct cross purposes with each other. cops in different jurisdictions already fight about cases, throw in a new institution in the justice system that is antithetical in every way to a carceral system, and you've got a recipe for interdepartmental chaos. social workers' clients being arrested and harassed. social workers demanding to keep cases that are too 'violent' according to the current division of the carceral/restorative system. you can bet they'd fight like hell about it too if they really believed they could stabilize the client.

-What Laws Do We Keep And How Do They Work. like a social worker with a homeless client who got high on the street is going to try to give them a house to get high in, not send them to jail. and like. that's required for a restorative justice system to be restorative. weve decided we dont want people getting high on the street so we have to make sure they have a house to get high in. or have we decided! do we care about people getting high on the street? is it necessary to intervene or can we all actually just be chill about a guy being kinda weird in your general vicinity.

-severe and persistent mental illness. like de-escalation and care for SPMI patients is a ROUGH fucking field, esp with psychosis. states of psychosis can pull from any element of your memory, so if the patient experienced a lot of violence, they may respond with a corresponding level of violence to the memory and not the situation. it is not their fault and it is HARD to manage and currently it's damn near impossible to do it well. you have to be able to maintain an extremely stable environment long-term and the people who are trying just do not have the funding. the revolution will not be funded and all. imagining how that works in a restorative system, when you KNOW that the risk can never be lowered below like 50 or 60% and they still deserve compassion? like people literally already volunteer for that job and they do it in far more dangerous circumstances than they deserve with far less pay so its not like you won't be able to manage it, but there's still a big fat fucking HOW. and how you protect them from a carceral system that would further abuse them and make them more dangerous. (i have firsthand knowledge of this lmao ask me about the ed and charity test of human rights its based on my parents)

-like it will be messy as FUCK and absolute chaos but i think not in the ways you're imagining. like genuinely i can't tell you enough people do not like pain and will take the easiest available option to avoid it. they dont wanna be hungry, they dont wanna be stressed, they dont want to be in the violent situation just as much as we all dont want it to be happening. (mindfully keep your definition of violence to include stuff like 'poverty' and 'suffering treatable health problems.' anything that is going to unjustly steal another humans patience coins and put them on trend towards a violent deficit.) 99% of every person you meet is choosing the path of least resistance most of the time and would prefer resistance-free paths in general (fun pop culture detective video about this using wall-e). but there are HUGE hurdles in the form of cultural imagination and How We Are Used To Managing Ourselves. the US is an extremely bureaucratic society, as most empires are. dont get me wrong i fucking love a bureaucracy but the level & type of bureaucracy we experience here and now is a surveillance state and also. ok like systems in general are designed to take varied inputs and create consistent outputs. empires do not generally produce outcomes that prioritize the people's wellbeing, they prioritize order and control and suppression. so all the systems they built no matter how you shake them out are going to produce suppressive outcomes. you can't take a machine built to make carburetors and say it's going to make solar panels now unless you also replace all the parts. like it will just keep spitting out carburetors.

so you can ABSOLUTELY create systems that produce positive outcomes for people, but they do not react well to 'institutionalization' as we understand/think of it. like restorative justice is at the very limits of our cultural imagination (why the only good examples we've got are indigenous.) that essay about the abolition of the family--they're talking about creating multiple layered systems of communal grievance management so no one person or group ever has final say. child abuse is a very good example of how our concepts of institutionalization play out. current system: parents have Ownership And Authority Over Child Until Age 18 And Nobody Can Intervene Unless Their Behavior Is Literally Illegal And Actionable In A Court Of Law. breeding ground for isolation and control and lots of silent abuses ignored until they're unbearable or life-threatening. now if you get out of that, you dont gain any more autonomy, you become a ward of the state and speaking as a foster kid you're fuckin lucky if your circumstances don't get worse. your parents make the decisions and then a social worker appointed by the state does. a program like CPS is what americans imagine when they picture restorative justice. but unfortunately that also is violence! 1. CPS intervention and being stolen from your family is fuckin traumatic you're not removing violence from the cycle there. the imposition of an institution's will over your own after you've been harmed is another act of violence. 2. what do child welfare law and age of majority even look like when parents no longer have legal control over their childrens bodies

so you can't just make a rival social worker police force that replaces the carceral police force and call it a done day. useful to make a line in your head between 'system' and 'institution.' its honestly very difficult to totally re-imagine who is present and how they're 'authorized' and how your community reinforces those bonds. how it protects people in advance, how healthy your social web is. like with child abuse, robust and socially protected bonds with a wide range of trustworthy adults is the first step. how do you create a system that effectively bonds a community intergenerationally so when a kid gets hit, they can go to a teacher or faith leader or aunt or social worker or That Nice Guy From The Gas Station and they have so many options that even if one of them falls through, more than one won't. then how do you systemically protect those bonds to give each and every one of those trusted adults the right and social reinforcement to step in and the literal laws encoding the child's right to Decide How To Feel Safe Again. all of it geared towards restoring communal trust and safety.

+ resilient, responsive systems need redundancies. the same thing in multiple different places made in slightly different ways. so how do you do that? on a practical level, who gets put where and what are they allowed to do? when they do whatever they're allowed to do, what's the next step after that, how does it escalate? there will be situations where someone would be safer if they were controlled, and how do we navigate those? what do we do if we suspect that someone is getting close to violence but hasn't committed it yet--how do we identify them outside of an invasive surveillance state and intervene without punishment? how do you respect cultural knowledge and expertise denied by institutions (.....like indigneous justice systems and indigenous ecology) without leaving the door wide the fuck open to our culture's extremely real predisposition towards fantastical thinking. we are a whole country of marks highly recommend fantasyland by kurt anderson.

I think the cumulative effects of this sort of thing contribute to toxic cultures within not only policing but (probably more so, perhaps not uncorrelated with the ways in which the relationship is better and the people less armed) also within medicine and social services

spot fucking ON concepts of medical abuse are HIGHLY applicable to restorative justice and i do not remember enough about the specifics to speak on it but it's an area of Hot Debate because of the inherent power imbalance of needing to trust another person's expertise for your bodily wellbeing. that shit is MURKY and fascinating because it's like "the social role of nurses is currently undergoing a social self-selection process for bullies--how can we alter that system of incentives to socially self-select for Nice People and disincentivize Mean People." and another bit is that the social self-selection process for doctors is a lot of self-important 'i like being The Smartest Guy In The Room and Unquestionable' types. stuff in development with medical panels and changing how medical school is done so it's not like A Brutal Feat Of Will And Intellectual Might but teaches stuff like empathy instead.

re-- specificially a transitional period (not actually a quote just a new topic)

so one of the difficulties with that period is you don't get a ton of opportunities to represent what a restorative justice system does with perpetrators (esp serious perpetrators) as long as a carceral system is in play. because when things are too scary, people default to the familiar. and we're very afraid of The Big Bad Criminals--the malicious rapists and the unrepentant pedophiles and serial killers. the worst of the worst the jeffrey dahmers and shit. and we use those big bad monsters to keep our fear alive and our belief in the necessity of carceral justice alive. but like. that shit is uniquely american and its still rare here. so the need and request for americans to See how a restorative justice system handles their boogeyman is like--well. restorative justice mostly stops us from creating boogeymen out of people. indigenous accounts of colonization are brutal but SO good to read when you can find them to really nail it home. they could not comprehend the inhumanity and depravity of the europeans. these motherfuckers seriously wiped out everyone who was normal and spent the last 200 years convincing us we're all fundamentally evil selfish animals who must be controlled. doughnut economics by kate raworth has a fantastic explanation of the development of the 'modern man' as we understand him--the economic animal, the "rational actor." [1] we're not rational. we're rabidly social. when you create paths of least resistance that allow people to manifest that extremely real human trait? it works. it actually works better and easier than when you're forcing a lot of people to do everything through complex threats of violence.

*brit spotted

[1] as a very petty aside, the man who invented the concept of the rational actor (john stuart mill) SAID THIS HIMSELF: "the resulting depiction is an arbitrary definition of man based on premises which might be totally without foundation... No political economist was ever so absurd as to suppose mankind are really thus constituted." ITS BULLSHIT.

I would really be interested in reading a story written by a police abolitionist who has a good sense of how police would/should be replaced in society. It would be a procedural of sorts, inasmuch as it would be about the process of discovery of the facts of a wrongdoing and how the wrongdoing is handled during and after the fact, and it would follow the various groups of people involved in facilitating that process/processes.

I just think this would be both interesting and a really good way of introducing your vision to people and getting them to read it. In fact, I would be open to collaborating on this project with any interested party who had a strong sense of a system they thought would work but wasn’t so much the this-kind-of fiction writer.

[haggishlyhagging]

Anyone who has played the board game Monopoly is well versed in the dynamics of Success to the Successful: players who are lucky enough to land on expensive properties early in the game can buy them up, build hotels, and reap vast rents from their fellow players, thus accumulating a winning fortune as they bankrupt the rest. Fascinatingly, however, the game was originally called ‘The Landlord's Game’ and was designed precisely to reveal the injustice arising out of such concentrated property ownership, not to celebrate it.

The game's inventor, Elizabeth Magie, was an outspoken supporter of Henry George's ideas, and when she first created her game in 1903, she gave it two very different sets of rules to be played in turn. Under the 'Prosperity' set of rules, every player gained each time someone acquired a new property (echoing George's call for a land value tax), and the game was won (by all) when the player who had started out with the least money had doubled it. Under the second, ‘Monopolist’ set of rules, players gained by charging rent to those who were unfortunate enough to land on their properties and whoever managed to bankrupt the rest was the sole winner. The purpose of the dual sets of rules, said Magie, was for players to experience a practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences and so understand how different approaches to property ownership can lead to vastly different social outcomes. ‘It might well have been called “The Game of Life”’, remarked Magie, ‘as it contains all the elements of success and failure in the real world.’ But when the games manufacturer, Parker Brothers, bought the patent for The Landlord's Game from Magie in the 1930s, they relaunched it simply as Monopoly and provided the eager public with just one set of rules: those that celebrate the triumph of one over all.

-Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist

[female-malice]

Yes, she has 💚

All women should read the work of female economists. And the first female economist you should read is Kate Raworth. You can read the first chapter of her book here. And then buy her book or check it out from your library. And then explore all the work she does with her economics lab.

[aeoki]

Atlantis - Underwater: Chapter 4

Location: Okinawa Restaurant Characters: Touri, Yuzuru & Wataru Season: Winter

TL Note:

This is an Okinawan sweet deep-fried bun similar to a doughnut.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ< A few hours later. A new Okinawa restaurant located in the ES neighbourhood. >

Wataru: I see! So that’s what you talked about while I was away!

Thank goodness it was a topic I have no interest in!

It makes me sad to be left out of the loop, but I wouldn’t have to feel that way if it’s a topic I’m uninterested in!

Touri: You should take an interest in it – it’s something important.

Wataru: I don’t particularly care what becomes of ES. To take it a step further, I’d say I don’t care what becomes of the idol industry!

What I deem important are the stories spun by those I have an interest in and those who fascinate me. That is where my interest lies.

Eichi has a habit of excessively talking about those sorts of topics, so I thought it would be best if I gained the necessary political and economic knowledge to understand the things he says.

Touri: That’s like what a sports fan would say if it’s a sport they’re not interested in.

Wataru: A fitting expression! Amazing! ☆

Oh, I shall order this soumen – the fine white noodle dish.

Phew, today’s performance was rather rigorous and I’m exhausted. It seems I only have the stomach for something easily digestible.

Touri: You’re talking like a human being for a change, Hibiki-senpai.

Yuzuru: Indeed. It’s also rare for you to eat with us.

Wataru: Hehehe. I figured I should keep up to date with the things you’ve discussed.

Deepening our bonds over a meal as fellow members of the same unit once in a while is rather nice, isn’t it?

Touri: Eichi-sama had to leave earlier since he had something work-related at his parent’s home, though.

Yuzuru: It appears Eichi-sama had made the wrong choice. He must have felt the need to choose a replacement for the young master in great haste.

Touri: Uuu… Isn’t that too fast? I still haven’t given him a proper answer yet.

Wataru: What do you mean?

Touri: To tell the truth, it seems Eichi-sama wants to let me manage one of the branch offices related to “Project-ATLANTIS”.

He said he needed someone like a boss there and that he wanted it to be someone skilled and trustworthy.

Wataru: I see, I see? By appointing someone who will be his arms and legs to manage the branch office, Eichi’s ideas will reach every corner of the country…

Yuzuru: That’s right. It seems that’s the reason why he selected the Young Master.

Wataru: A boss at one of ES’ branches, huh. That’s a very surprising choice for someone so young.

Why did you turn him down, Himegimi?

Touri: I–I didn’t! But I was lacking sleep and in a pathetic state, and we even talked about how busy I was with the student council election…

That’s probably why Eichi-sama decided I couldn’t do it… He must have thought that he couldn’t push more things onto my plate.

I’d be fine with it, though. If it’s something that Eichi-sama believes I can do and wants me to manage, then I definitely would’ve worked super hard to meet his expectations.

Wataru: He must’ve had concerns about you pushing yourself too far, Himegimi. You collapsed during “SS” as well, so he must have thought that you might really be in danger this time.

Touri: I–In my eyes, that was the biggest blunder of my life too!

But did Eichi-sama lose faith in me because of that? Because I collapsed…?

Wataru: No, no. It should be said that Eichi is beginning to repent. He realised the responsibilities he had given you were far too heavy.

Touri: So, that’s basically saying I can’t be given anything to do because I’m useless!

Yuzuru: Young Master, we’re in public. Please keep your voice down.

Touri: I know. …Oh, sorry, I’ll have a sata andagi[⁎], please.

Wataru: You’ll gain weight if you eat a lot of sweet foods. Well, having some weight on your bones makes you nice and squishy and that’s rather adorable in itself.

Eichi has been working himself to the bone as of late and looks rather gaunt, so I’m beside myself with worry.

Yuzuru: Putting on weight is a lifestyle disease so that also worries me, though.

Touri: Hmph. I’m stressed so I need to release it by eating something sweet.

Yuzuru: Hehe. If it’s a concern that you can forget by simply eating something sweet, then that would be wonderful. I shall overlook it for today.

Touri: I think it’s going to be on my mind for a while, though… In the end, I didn’t accept it but I heard all the details.

If I had more time for it… if I had grown stronger and more impressive, then maybe I would’ve been involved with that sort of big undertaking.

I think this feeling of regret will go away soon enough. No, actually I think I’ll regret it forever.

Wataru: Isn’t it too early to give up?

Touri: What do you mean?

Wataru: Like I said, if you have regrets, or rather, if you’re interested in that matter, then all you have to do is to ask Eichi to let you be involved in it.

You seem to think Eichi’s decisions cannot be reversed no matter what, but that’s not true at all.

I’m sure if you ask him sincerely, then it’s unlikely that Eichi will say no.

That’s how important you are to him. That’s why he tried to involve you in that plan of his.

Yuzuru: After all, he said he wanted to leave it to someone he trusts. I’m sure there aren’t many people Eichi-sama can think of in situations like those.

Wataru: That’s what happens when you decide to lead a life that provokes antipathy. Himegimi, you should work hard to not be like him in those aspects.

Touri: Okay… Judging by how the student council election is proceeding, it just feels like I’m just doing what Eichi-sama did, though. 

I didn’t know I was antagonising everyone…

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Huntington Trails Beer and Wine Festival (Huntington, Indiana)

International Documentary Film Festival Artdocfest (Tbilisi, Georgia) [thru 6.9]

International Horseradish Festival (Collinsville, Illinois) [thru 6.8]

Lander Brew Fest (Lander, Wyoming) [thru 6.8]

Lincoln Square Greek Fest (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 6.9]

Norfolk Harborfest (Norfolk, Virginia) [thru 6.9]

Orange Warsaw Festival (Warsaw, Poland) [thru 6.8]

Pork Rind Heritage Festival (Harrod, Ohio) [thru 6.8]

Rhubarb Fest (Aledo, Illinois) [thru 6.8]

Rock am Ring (Nürburg, Germany) [thru 6.9]

Rosedale Strawberry Festival (Rosedale, Indiana) [thru 6.9]

South Dakota BBQ Championships (Huron, South Dakota) [thru 6.8]

Strawberry Festival (Forestville, New York) [thru 6.9]

Strawberry Festival (Hartford, Michigan) [thru 6.8]

Strawberry Festival (Mystic, Connecticut) [thru 6.8]

Sundance Solstice Festival (Anchorage, Alaska) [thru 6.9]

Taste of Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) [thru 6.9]

Taste of Muskegon (Muskegon, Michigan) [thru 6.8]

Taste of Syracuse (Syracuse, New York) [thru 6.8]

Up North Beerfest (Eagle River, Wisconsin) [thru 6.8]

Walleye Weekend (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) [thru 6.9]

WHITE SQUARE International Advertising and Marketing Festival (Minsk, Belarus)

Wimborne Minster Folk Festival (Wimborne Minster, United Kingdom) [thru 6.9]

Feast Days

Amazing Mumford (Muppetism)

Antonio Maria Gianelli (Christian; Saint)

Antony of Gianelli (Christian; Saint)

Captain Jack Sparrow Impersonation Day (Pastafarian)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Artology)

Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)

Colmán of Dromore (Christian; Saint)

Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Damien Hirst (Artology)

Edtors’ Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Flowers Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Gottschalk (a.k.a. Godeschalc, Prince of the Western Vandals; Christian; Martyr)

Gwendolyn Brooks (Writerism)

Judgment Day (Leaping Songs; Shamanism)

Landulf of Yariglia (Asti; Christian; Saint)

Lanfranc (Positivist; Saint)

Louise Erdrich (Writerism)

Ludi Piscatorii (Ancient Rome)

Meriadoc (Christian; Saint)

Meriasek (Christian; Saint)

Paul I of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Paul Gauguin (Artology)

Robert of Newminster (Christian; Saint)

Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière (Christian; Blessed)

Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA))

Smilin’ Ed (Muppetism)

Vestalia begins (until 15th; Old Roman festival to Vesta, goddess of the hearth, home & family)

Vulfagius (a.k.a. Wulphy; Christian; Saint)

Willibald (Christian; Saint)

Christian Liturgical Holidays

Sacred Heart Day [Friday after 2nd Sunday after Pentecost; 68 days after Easter] a.k.a. ... 

Divine Compassion of Christ (Anglican Franciscans)

Feast of the Sacred Heart (Roman Catholic)

Sagrado Corazon (Colombia)

Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (f.k.a.)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [19 of 32]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 26 of 60)

Premieres

Alexander’s Ragtime Band, recorded by Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan (Song; 1911)

Captain Fantastic and the Brown First Cowboy, by Elton John (Album; 1975)

City Slickers (Film; 1991)

Cloak & Dagger (TV Series; 2018)

Dark Phoenix (Film; 2019)

The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth (Novel; 1971)

Dance of the Weed (MGM Cartoon; 1941)

Dinky Finds a Home (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1946)

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Film; 2002)

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (Film; 1991)

El Dorado (Film; 1967)

Face/Off (Film; 1997)

Feedin’ the Kiddie (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1957)

Fields of Gold, by Sting (Song; 1993)

Ghostbustrs (Film; 1984)

The Goonies (Film; 1985)

Grease (Broadway Musical; 1972)

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (WB Animated Film; 2011)

The Hasty Hare (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)

The Heat of the Day, by Elizabeth Bowen (Novel; 1948)

High School Confidential (Film; 1958)

The Honourable Schoolboy, by John le Carré (Novel; 1977)

Horse’s Mouth, by Joyce Cary (Novel; 1950)

I Am Mother (Film; 2019)

The Johnny Cash Show (TV Series; 1969)

Jungle Fever (Film; 1991)

Kim Possible (Animated TV Series; 2002)

Mr. Fore by Fore (Phantasies Cartoon; 1944)

Mr. Money Gags (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

The Mummy (Film; 1999)

Old McDonald Had a Farm (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1946)

The Old Rugged Cross, by George Bennard (Christian Hymn; 1913)

Peep in the Deep (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1946)

Perfect (Film; 1985)

Peter Grimes, by Benjamin Britten (Opera; 1945)

Post, by Björk (Album; 1995)

The Producers (Film; 2002)

Purple, by Stone Temple Pilots (Album; 1994)

Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! (WB LT Cartoon; 1969)

The Rock (Film; 1996)

Salmon Loafer (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1963)

A Satire of the Three Estates, by David Lyndsay (Play; 1552)

The Secret Life of Pets 2 (Animated Film; 2019)

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Bourgeoisie, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (Ballet; 1933)

Simple Man, by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Song; 1970)

Squatter’s Rights (Disney Cartoon; 1946)

Vincent, recorded by Don McLean (Song; 1971)

What—No Spinach? (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1936)

The Wily Weasel (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1937)

Wimmin is a Myskery (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

The Wise Little Hen (Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1934)

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (Film; 2019)

Today’s Name Days

Anita, Eoban, Gottlieb, Robert (Austria)

Valeri, Valeria (Bulgaria)

Antun, Radoslav, Robert (Croatia)

Iveta (Czech Republic)

Jeremias (Denmark)

Robert, Robi (Estonia)

Robert, Robin, Roope, Suvi (Finland)

Gilbert (France)

Anita, Gottlieb, Raimund, Robert (Germany)

Panagis, Sebastian, Zinais (Greece)

Róbert (Hungary)

Geremia, Landolfo, Roberto, Sabiniano (Italy)

Arnis, Gaida, Gijs (Latvia)

Lukrecija, Radvydė, Ratautas, Robertas (Lithuania)

Robert, Robin (Norway)

Antoni, Ciechomir, Jarosław, Lukrecja, Paweł, Robert, Roberta, Wiesław, Wisław (Poland)

Teodot (România)

Róbert (Slovakia)

Isaac, Roberto (Spain)

Robert, Robin (Sweden)

Theodot (Ukraine)

Keenan, Melody, Nidia, Nydia, Nylene, Whitney (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 159 of 2024; 207 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 23 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Geng-Wu), Day 2 (Ren-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 1 Sivan 5784

Islamic: 30 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 9 Blue; Twosday [9 of 30]

Julian: 25 May 2024

Moon: 2%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 18 St. Paul (6th Month) [Lanfranc]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 81 of 92)

Week: 1st Full Week of June

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 18 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Sīwān (a.k.a. Sivan, Siwan or Simanu) [סִיוָן / סיוון‎] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 3 of 12]

[iceprinceofbelair]

les mis characters as quotes from my sister

eponine: shut your hole of the talking

joly: i think i’ve got abdomentonoctomy (she meant appendicitis)

courfeyrac: this is why i couldn’t be rich. i couldn’t deal with all the haunted suits of armour.

bahorel: they passed away unexpectedly. economically. i mean their stock markets crashed.

combeferre: ah. i see how i’ve orchestrated this meltdown a bit.

javert when valjean does anything ever: oh no he’s going to use them for his nefarious schemes

gavroche: have you ever dry swallowed a gummy bear?

grantaire, hungover, trying to order breakfast: whole wheat on rye. no wait. that’s just two kinds of bread, isn’t it?

jehan: that’s a penny farthing, BITCH

grantaire: i got startled because the light turned on suddenly…maybe i just opened my eyes.

bossuet, cutting onions with tears in his eyes: why is it every time i do this i think i’m gonna one-up the fucking onion?

combeferre: i hate this book. five stars.

feuilly, eating greek yoghurt: oh the greeks were so right about this

eponine @ grantaire: just because i’m a doughnut, that doesn’t make you a bagel. we’re both doughnuts.

joly: um, i don’t have a good gauge of your spongebob knowledge

gavroche: is “fuck” a surname?

courfeyrac: there’s a reason andrew garfield was cast as spiderman and it’s not just because of his incredible performance and voluptuous ass.

[rae-arachne]

I really think a lot of you guys don't see the larger systems at play behind events. On here its always "this thing is going to ruin everything, we have to get up and fight right now to stop this specific thing or it's all going to fall apart." Every new issue is the worst thing that has ever happened and not the result of complicated political forces that have been going on for a long time and will continue long after this specific issue stops being newsworthy. Systems thinking is often relegated to saying it's capitalism's or billionaire's fault and leaving it at that, which at this point feels like blaming the Darkness in Men's Souls, especially in coming up with effective solutions. If you kill an oil executive, there's a line of succession which places someone else in that oil executive's role of promoting climate change. And that person is probably going to be more paranoid and less willing to give up their sources of wealth and power.

However, I do think this is because a lot of you actually don't have the context for our current political systems (a lot of you are literally teenagers), so this is going to be a post where I offer suggestions rather than just bitch.

All of these books are one's that I've read and personally recommend. None of them are a complete picture but combined I think they make a good baseline for thinking about our current (usamerican) situation:

A People's History of the United States

An oldie but a goodie. Please don't go around being knowingly ignorant about history. If you think/know your usamerican history from school is lacking/biased, fix it. Please don't really on tumblr to fill in those gaps.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Along with that, there's no usamerican history without indigenous history. The process of colonization is not what it appears to be and learning about it gives us a better idea of what's standing in the way of decolonization.

The System

The Color of Law

A very legal book, but not bad. He really goes into almost every aspect of 20th century u.s. that had a hand in creating/maintaining segregation (and a handful of people who resisted it).

White Trash

A lot of you see poor white men as enemies and it shows and your leftism is worse for it. You really need some class solidarity if we're going to actually solve anything, and part of that is understanding that poor white usamericans are tired of the government intervening in their lives

Doughnut Economics

I just finished this and it's now one of my favorite books (that happens a lot). It's just a really good re-framing of economics into something that's a tool to help meet societal goals, and not just a way to make the most money.

Please add more, this certainly isn't any kind of comprehensive list, just books that I know helped me put things in perspective

[iamthepulta]

My brain is moving a hundred miles an hour today and for some reason the chosen emotion is sadness that I haven't had time to read this semester. Look at all the really cool books on my list!! :(

The Lowell Offering (Textiles)

Medieval Arabic Toxicology

Material World: This 6 Raw Materials that Shape Modern Civilization

If you Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans

Dinotopia (Fiction!)

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in 8 Plagues

Modern Poisons: A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Fiction!)

Dune (Fiction!)

Dune Messiah (Fiction!)

Children of Dune (Fiction!)

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

[edge-oftheworld]

okay so i need to tell you guys about something over on my main acc. you remember that clip interviewing michael and luke asking 'have u ever been called...?' at wwwyf? the analogy of punk and yeast and bread and going in the oven?

yeah i basically built a whole movement around it. maybe that's an exaggeration. sourdough analogies about punk, i worked in doughnut economics which is about meeting everyones needs and caring for the planet (very punk right) and it's all very academic and then. all strung together by this one unhinged analogy that was definitely come up with on the spot.

random moments that save the world i guess. one day i'm gonna do something big and have to acknowledge these guys for helping me put my thoughts together and i need you guys to believe in me. we gonna fit humanity on that doughnut. all get some, all get paid. we gonna not exploit the planet. we gotta do this just so i can make that quote famous. and for the people and the planet i guess. but mostly because i want to see luke and michael's reactions when the movement takes off