#REFUSE

[parakavka]

柴犬ハナ on X: "やだー！ https://t.co/G5ZFeBiG5D" / X

[thepersonalwords]

They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!

Mehmet Murat ildan

[scotland-wolves]

[ghostowlattic]

refuse

[virtuouslibertines69]

"You credit yourself with a detachment which you do not yet possess. You are right in listening to your dreams and accepting them—how could you refuse?—but wrong in condemning the self that is revealed in them." - Susan Sontag, from The Complete Works; “The Benefactor,”

Painting by Lai N Nguyen

[morerogue]

Sepultura - Refuse/Resist [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

[nikkiitalks]

[stone-cold-groove]

Big capacity can... built to take it!

[metrocentric]

Chelsea Wharf; Whistler Tower, SW10

[probablyasocialecologist]

We serve pumpkin soup in November and mince pies in January. The vegetables might be chopped by Ronnie, who trained as a chef after being trafficked to the United Kingdom. She put herself through cooking school before she had a fixed abode. Those same veggies might be roasted by Maz, who came to the café to fill the void of sudden widowhood, and served up by Sarah, who came to gain confidence and cooking skills to use back home for her two children. She’s a paid employee now, working as assistant café manager and running food workshops in schools.

There’s Tattoo Dave, our caretaker, who has stayed on for years after a probation-mandated community service placement; Fireman Dave, who drives the van; and Take-Away Dave, who brings his own Tupperware to reduce our reliance on single-use plastic.

Making tea and coffee behind the counter are a group of young people who joined us after one of our volunteers gave an assembly at their school. The group made a replica café using the online world-building game Roblox, and when the real café is closed they meet virtually instead.

Ours is a local project seeking to provide solutions to a global problem. The carbon value of the food we intercept is 440 tons annually, the equivalent of a gas car driven two million miles. Across a year the volume of food we handle is equal in weight to twelve double-decker buses.

This is a minuscule fraction of the food which is wasted globally. Between 30 and 50 percent of food produced around the world goes into bins rather than bellies – more than enough to meet international food demand.

We talk a lot about value at REfUSE: the holy task of recognizing the value of places, people, and food which the governing political, cultural, and economic systems have artificially drained of worth and designated as waste. We seek to acknowledge the carbon, time, labor, and natural resources that are expended before food can reach our plates.

The efforts of each of our two hundred volunteers are a challenge to the value judgments of large retail firms, such as Amazon, which devalue this food because its sell-by date is built into their retail model. Hanging by the till in our community café is a sign which reads “This food is not free! It’s valuable. And so are you, so ‘pay as you feel,’ in money, time, or skills.”

[copperwaverider]

[parakavka]

マルちゃん on X: "#拒否柴 https://t.co/w99tgStA3q" / X

[screenshot-thoughts]

“A true relationship is two imperfect people who simply refuse to give up on each other.”

[nando161mando]

"デスノ, 波ツミ, のヅレ" (JA: 日本語)

"Revolt, resist, refuse" (EN: English)

[skylarsblue]

Did I completely restart an ENTIRE mission because I accidentally shot a horse instead of the man on it since I ran out of deadeye?

Yes, obviously.