When public services are affordable and convenient, people will always choose those resources. They are not supposed to be a capitalistic profit-seeking initiative, they are developed for the benefit of the people, for a better life, just as government resources should be used. (tweet)
Ecosocialist praxis
"On April 17, 2025, Ibrahim shared moving messages about his terrifying experience after surviving an Israeli shooting attack while on the beach with his friends—"the little ones," he called them—who did not survive. He says he lives in a constant state of fear and has lost his home, his school, and the places he loved to spend time.
He has been displaced several times and lost many relatives in bombings. Adding to the pain, his parents suffer from health problems due to the lack of proper care, which is beyond the capacity of any child to bear.
Prices in Gaza are extremely high for everything: food, medicine, and even evacuation are expensive. Ibrahim dreams of completing his studies, but this dream is now threatened.
If you can help, your donation can help save his family and help them survive until the borders open and they can leave."
“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year
I WANT TO READ ALL THE BOOKS, STUDY ALL THE LANGUAGES, ADMIRE ALL THE ART... BUT I AM JUST SO TIRED!!!
hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity
vegans making honey a bee labour issue is the funniest thing imaginable because like, you picked the one animal that has already unionised
Lol, good stuff.