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with all that carpet to scratch and grass to chew and everything! i bet your cat’s delighted 🙌

ahh amazing! netbooks are so portable, i miss the one i used for everything in the 2010s 🥹🫶

ahh, fair. either way, there’s still good nutritional value to be had out of making a big stew / soup / etc out of veggies before they go stale!

and happy fake day in that case, lol 🍰

generally, you have to be avoiding particular vitamins / minerals for an extended period to end up with a deficiency. (b12 is maybe an extreme example, but a person could have liver stores of b12 that can last them years of no b12 intake before developing a deficiency!)

so to “maximise nutrition”, it’s more important to put the emphasis on a varied diet, rather than on eating the freshest of fresh foods.

that could change if you have specific problems with absorbing particular vitamins or minerals, but if that’s not the case, i’d say throwing away edible food is being overly cautious.

editing to add: happy cake day, activistPnk!

is it not matt kaminsky? there’s a copyright on the image this person’s sharing & talking about

that’s a lot of work, fair play! i’m defo bookmarking this for future reference, thank you! 🙌

maybe food colouring or something could be added to the glue to solve the paint problems…? i might try it & if it doesn’t work out, a tablecloth will hide all my mistakes, lol

very cool, i love that you painted it like cardboard too :D

how was the paper used, was it like papier maché? (i’m definitely not asking so i could make something similar 👀)

i hope it didn’t come across as harsh! really both problems 1 & 2 that you’ve outlined are the same things that everyone is dealing with. a lot of systems of oppression like patriarchy, european colonialism, capitalism, ableism, etc push people into isolation by design, & then tell people to heal from that in isolation, rather than in community.

(i suspect it’s designed that way to make people feel that these are individual problems & not collective problems, because if we realise that we’re all suffering from the same systems of oppression, we might do something to end those systems!)

we humans are a social species, and we’ve lived & learned & healed in community with one another for hundreds of thousands of years. just being open & communicating with the friends you already have about those issues is a great first step, then seeking out hobby groups etc is a way that you might expand your social circle beyond other men.

for the dating side of things, dating apps can be great, because boundaries are lot clearer there (over what is a date, what people are looking for etc) & that way, you can avoid the potential messiness of dating within your friend group.

tl;dr: i don’t think the formality of classes/training would be needed for this, but talking to your friends about this & going out of your way to make friends with mixed company would help a lot. (also, gathering with your friends, new & old, to dismantle the systems of oppression that are causing all these problems will solve things for future generations too 😎)

If men are facing a loneliness epidemic, they could learn to be friends with one another, enjoy one anothers’ company, and open up to one another about being lonely etc, instead of expecting women to train them.

I cant train men on how women want to be treated, and I wouldnt even want to tell men how women should be treated seeing as im not a woman.

Women want to be treated as equals to men, to be paid the same as men are, to be promoted in jobs as often as men are, and to be represented in government and media as much as men are. This is absolutely something that men can and should tell other men about.

that’s cool as hell! i’m bookmarking this to try something along those lines myself ✍️✍️✍️

hup solarpunk! 🙌 these look super cool, fair play!

he would have been 97 or so if he were alive today, it really brings home how recent it was.

the civil rights movement happened within my parents’ lifetimes, but it’s so often spoken about as though it were ages ago & completely out of living memory (to both minimise it & pretend that society’s totally different now 💔)

Oh it could be! I’ve no idea about the origin of his name.

His name just coincidentally happens to be spelled the same way as two different Irish words like beach or fear, etc., so I jokingly pronounce his name as though they’re the Irish words :P

Shan ban.

His name’s made up of the words “old” (sean) and “woman” (bean) in Irish.

(Seán with the fada is what elongates the vowel, so it becomes a person’s name & gets pronounced more like “Shawn” for English speakers.)