#the heart is a muscle the size of your fist

[cosplaymutt]

“Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist

Keep on loving, keep on fighting

And hold on, and hold on

Hold on for your life”

You've gotta love Jews more than you hate Nazis.

You've gotta love trans folks more than you hate TERFs.

You've gotta love your unhoused neighbors more than you hate the billionaires.

You've gotta love immigrants more than you hate ICE.

You've gotta love queer kids more than you hate christian fundamentalists.

You've gotta love fat people more than you hate the diet industry.

You've gotta love disabled people more than you hate the insurance companies.

You've gotta love your fellow humans more than you hate the worst that humanity has to offer. You don't have to like every person you're fighting for, and you sure as hell don't have to give up your righteous anger, but hate is ultimately corrosive.

You've gotta love.

[upthewitchypunx]

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[infernoflorys]

"humanity sucks i hate all people and we should just nuke the earth" i understand. have you considered that your heart is a muscle the size of your fist, so keep on loving, keep on fighting, and (hold on, and hold on) hold on for your life?

[beguilingcorpse]

actually my personal favorite unconfirmed locked tomb theory is that when gideon said "your heart is a party for five thousand nails" at the beginning of gtn it was intended to be read in the cadence of the spongebob squarepants theme song

[cowboylikeyouu]

oh winterhawk olympic bang 21/22, you will always be famous to me <3

[a-muscle-the-size-of-your-fist]

ROSTER UPDATE POLL! PLEASE CHOOSE AT LEAST 5!

[aztralsea]

Sometimes I wanna sing this song for everyone I know

[wormsuperfan]

Everything is fine and great

[floorworm]

"Keep on loving, keep on fighting!" Through gritted teeth, eyes glazed over with tears and voice cracking

[moondust-magic]

This world is cursed but sometimes you forget about that for a moment while you're off the penjamin riding in your friends car on a warm night with the windows down blasting ramshackle glory.

[hopefullydrawingdaily]

Today I didn't draw anything great, but I want to try embroidering a patch related to my fav song so I drew how I sort of want it to look like. So uh here's a drawing of a heart

[ihavenomouthandimustyap]

I'm starting to think I don't actually want to have friends because I think it's inherently good to have friends but so that I can feel normal and so that I no longer have to just stutter and feel ashamed when somebody asks me who my friends are. Which obviously is bad but also why does my brain not find meaningful connections with other humans inherently valuable? What's wrong with me?

[clancyreinhart]

Obligatory "LIBRARY!LIBRARY!LIBRARY!" Use it, defend it, demand they fund it!

If libraries were invented today they'd be called socialism and conservatives would try to block them.

25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

[hoicacti]

YOUR HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF YOUR FIST

KEEP ON LOVING, KEEP ON FIGHTING

AND HOLD ON, AND HOLD ON

HOLD ON FOR YOUR LIFE

[hbhm-music]

Now Appreciating:

Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist - Ramshackle Glory

https://tidal.com/track/132304867