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seachanger

@seachanger@alaskan.social

obligate organizer, systems thinker, radical optimist, public good believer, artsy generalist

settler in Lingít Aani, my ancestors were quebecois & ukrainian jews

posting ideas at #SocialTech; always boosting #alaska;

⚠️: I’m often wrong

Avi is wild hair blowing in wind, cover is a watercolor I made of a volcano

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seachanger, to random
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the anti-woke folk are obsessed with not wanting to feel guilt, and they project it on children as a means of virtue signaling, as in “white kids shouldn’t be made to feel guilty for being white!” but isn’t this the hallmark of the sociopath? inability to empathize and have remorse? how do you look at our jagged, murderous histories giving rise to the jagged murderous present and take only from all that a righteous refusal to empathize with other human beings and feel things?

seachanger,
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sometimes it feels like colonizers are just people who don’t have cultural systems for processing emotions. people who do not have functional or advanced social technology for coming to terms with tragedy, culpability, shame, or mortality, and so colonizer culture is instead just intricate systems of denial

seachanger,
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maybe our culture is sociopathic like toddlers are. colonizer cultures are forever young, forever in infancy, lashing out at cultures of conscience & mature cultures. we’re afraid of people who have evolved (over millenia) languages, ways of being, and social structures that don’t deny but instead embrace the dynamism of humanity, that center joy and kinship. we’re afraid because they show our earth isn’t flat after all, they expose our baby culture of denial as just that: flat and false

seachanger,
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Idk i just woke up thinking about social pain and its erasure, remembering and forgetting, and the importance of speaking truth and letting the pain of truth break you. how when we are broken by our histories we can choose to heal and how rich healing feels when it is shared with people who don’t look like you or speak your language. old cultures know our job is to fix the world, and that nothing can be fixed unless we first admit its broke

seachanger,
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@radhika that’s right! I forget about that! If life revolves around the sun rather than the current social hierarchy, people might get the idea your hierarchy is unnecessary!

seachanger,
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@anubis2814 @durrandon this is complex right? most white people are raised to avoid feeling the real hurt of our histories either by encouraging kids to “take pride in being white” or almost more insidiously, by telling them we’re better than the racists. in reality it’s an ongoing process of dismantling hurtful patterns that are part of our personalities and families! but either way it’s not denial that moves us out of guilt/shame, it’s being honest and feeling the pain, then making changes

kellyromanych, to photography
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Salvia apiana by handheld uv light just after sunset

seachanger,
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@kellyromanych @si_irini ohhhhh wow - salvia flowers are always so gorgeous and this is quite the POV

seachanger,
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@kellyromanych @si_irini caught my eye because I just noticed my garden sage is starting to bloom in my greenhouse in alaska and it feels early for that

seachanger, to random
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    seachanger,
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    Join me live on http://KFSK.Org for the next two hours 🥰

    seachanger,
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    Now playing The Sea by miss Sierra Farrell 🤩

    seachanger,
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    @mivox this new one from Melissa Carper rn is cool af!

    seachanger,
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    This song from miko marks tho!

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=twXBs4p9whc

    seachanger,
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    I play the rainbow girls every show pretty much because

    seachanger,
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    @inthehands I saw them live a few years ago and became SMITTEN, extremely talented and loveable band

    seachanger,
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    also this album is a fun new discovery for me

    seachanger,
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    @abesibe @inthehands heya good morning! Where are you?

    seachanger,
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    best tracy Chapman song in the multiverse, I won’t be taking questions https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QUntOdgpby8

    seachanger,
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    @anisian wowww!!! I will have to tune into postcards this week! Sometimes I wish AK radio stations traded more volunteer music shows around

    LALegault, to random
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    Nearly 700 Jewish professors call on Biden not to sign controversial antisemitism legislation

    https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4651826-jewish-professors-biden-antisemitism-legislation/

    seachanger,
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    @LALegault biden stop co-opting Jews for selling weapons challenge

    timberwraith, to random
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    Apparently people are portraying campus protests as entwined with "Antifa radicals" who are the recipients of secret funding by shadowy outside influences.

    One of the funders they point to is George Soros, a rich Jewish man who antisemitic conspiracy theorists believe funds most everything the right wing hates.

    The person who boosted this is the administrator of an instance devoted to Jewish Fedi-users, btw, and the magazine that is referenced is a right wing Jewish magazine.

    What. The. Fuck.

    seachanger,
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    @timberwraith pretty sure it was that guy who told me in anguish, shortly before blocking me, “at least the gop is backing us up!”

    bikepedantic, to random
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    Bike Bus is Friday, we did a Bike Bus, why isn’t it friday

    seachanger,
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    @bikepedantic just saw the video of this event! Yowza!

    coloradosun, to random
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    Meet Dr. Sammy, the University of Colorado researcher trying to fend off the next honeybee pandemic
    https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/08/sammy-ramsey-honeybee-varroa-tropilaelaps-mites-university-of-colorado/

    seachanger,
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    @coloradosun great story, thank you!

    seachanger, to random
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    not me relaxing with Macklemore’s canon like hmmm, yes hmm I see

    seachanger,
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    @Scatterseed had a song in him that just had to come out 😂

    CarrieinFbx, to random
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    This does not surprise me. I can think of past Fairbanks taxation arguments where folks wanted paved roads returned to gravel because they hate paying for public use items. But, this had a strong vein of public school hatred running through the vote. It is difficult to overcome. 😞😡

    seachanger,
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    @CarrieinFbx ugh.

    TheWarOnCars, to Podcast
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    NEW EPISODE!

    "When Driving is Not an Option with Anna Zivarts."

    One-third of people in the US can’t drive. Those tens of millions of people are often invisible to planners and elected officials, and that’s why Anna Letitia Zivarts, a low-vision nondriver and activist has written a new book, "When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency." We talked with Anna about building a system that works for everyone.

    https://thewaroncars.org/2024/05/07/125-when-driving-is-not-an-option-with-anna-zivarts/

    seachanger,
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    @TheWarOnCars do you know that @Nondriver is here on the fediverse? have you all found one another?

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