דגל שכור 🏴 @thufie@pixie.town

and other medical issues popped up, and i just can't afford to do that anymore without losing the rest of what progress i gained so far. so pls help me. i am sorry.

GOAL MET! closing this down for now. thank you!

https://www.paypal.me/tillianthefoxxo

you can donate to my paypal or kofi

https://ko-fi.com/tillianthefoxxo

i will update my escape fundraiser soon in light of everything that happened. i'm sorry.

#mutualaid

A zine has been added to the website!

The Tangpingist Manifesto

This piece’s exact origin is hard to discern. It seems to have been either originally posted to WeChat (A popular Chinese social media app), then shared to Chinese language platforms run outside of the control of the CCP, or else vice-versa, on June 1st 2021. Although its source is unclear and the author anonymous, it’s important to understand the context from which it arose. Crushed by the repressive 996 work culture (9am to 9pm, 6 days a week), which is an almost universal experience of people living in China today, Luo Huazhong made the radical decision to cease participation. In a series of quickly censored social media posts1, Luo Huazhong (“Kind-Hearted Traveler”) told of a different kind of life that he called Tangping2. The lifestyle he detailed was a kind of traveller/dropout culture with an emphasis on spending as little time at work as possible. In the posts he shared stories of how, rather than grind himself to a pulp in order to live up to the expectations of the dominant culture, and become weighed down by its commodities, he had been happily unemployed for two years. In that time he found that an affordable diet, and modest living conditions were more than sufficient as they allowed him the time to pursue other more worthwhile activities, like cycling from Sichuan to Tibet, climbing mountains, and reading philosophy.

Since April of 2021 when this idea was introduced and then banned from every Chinese social media platform, the idea of Tangping spread quickly and became some- what of a hot-button issue in Chinese culture. Of course the party was quick to reject it, with party websites calling it bourgeois, or nihilistic. But censorship wasn’t sufficient to completely bury it, so state media began to invent a dialogue around what they claimed were the ‘real’ issues that Tangping had revealed. Tangping has benefited from being memetic in its origins, as this has allowed it to dodge the censors, and images of chives can still be seen on Chinese social media. Tangping, like most ideas, is shaped by its (in this case mostly anonymous) proponents. Luo Huazhong is not a leader, nor a messiah. He was simply the OP (original poster) of the meme that Tangping became. The author of this piece is just another anonymous Tangpingist.

:mafw_fox:

https://mafwdistro.noblogs.org/the-tangpingist-manifesto/

a respecter is haunting europe — the respecter of tomboyism

Please SHARE! I AM HIRING! Due to retirements of longtime gems of humans, our university library is hiring FIVE POSITIONS this winter (start dates flexible). Please share with those who will appreciate the kindness and joy with which we work, the fierceness with which we advocate for students and for open access to learning, and the humanity that we center in our operations. F2F, full-time, benefited jobs at a regional public university in the mountains of New Hampshire. https://library.plymouth.edu/blogs/jobs

Friend: “Haim Bresheeth, founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine, and quite an important figure-coordinator in Jewish anti-Zionist networks (including the new Bund), and author of various books on the IOF was arrested under an anti-terrorism law in London” https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/4/jewish-academic-arrested-in-uk-over-terrorism-after-gaza-speech

the last man standing on 3ds online has fallen, it's over chat

(for context, this guy managed to stay on the Nintendo Network online servers in a MK7 race almost 7 months after the official service shutdown)

Windows-ass wizard with native KDE theming is blursed

GOAL MET. Thank you all so very very very much!!!! Help other folks make their goal if you can!!!!

Update: remaining goal is currently $200, with a HARD deadline of November 5!!!!!! 🤞🏾🍀💚

http://paypal.me/rikiam
http://venmo.com/sotreu
http://cash.app/$sotreu2

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Residents throw mud and insults at Spanish king on visit to flood-hit town https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/03/residents-throw-mud-and-insults-at-spanish-king-on-visit-to-flood-hit-town?CMP=share_btn_url

Current typical smart phone lifetime is 3 years.
To compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions from production, distribution and disposal, they should last from 25 to 232 (!) years.

https://eeb.org/library/coolproducts-report/

#FrugalComputing