Yay I'm so excited!

Personally I don't think tolerating intolerance is just a differing opinion. I feel like excusing genocide puts them in a group of people i don't want to associate and I don't think an "opinion" like denying genocide should be sat at the same table as reality.

Don't mince my words, I hate all imperialistic governments who commit genocide and if there were posts about the US never having intentionally killed all the buffalo, trail of tears, those culture stripping schools etc or our own version of those schools here in Aotearoa I would be just as disgusted.

Exactly! We can't fix everything and not everyone has the resources or energy for big changes but maybe little ideas can be shared and feel more achievable. I think a lot of people would love to get more involved in their communities in a positive way and just don't know how. Maybe a place talking about little ways or laying out how something is done will make it easier for others to take action

But 3rd party app users are often content contributors or mods or the ones answering questions. I feel like reddit is about to use a chunk of real human active users

I'm still quilting up the scraps for my bellbottoms and I have a corset I'm still stitching some binding onto but I have to finish my crafty garden book by next month so that takes priority 🥲

It feels like mostly hype to keep people living exactly how they are, thinking someoneelse is fixing the big problem. While plant breeding will be crucial in adapting our food systems with climate change, money for maginal increases in carbon absorbtion would be better spent on reforestation with the tree varieties we have now and implementing serious changes on how modern people live. What's happening now is just not sustainable. The level of consumption viewed as normal is not sustainable. Allowing corporations to pollute our planet for a few rich people to get even richer is criminal.

I'll always support plant breeding projects that can improve our world but it's so frustrating to me that it seems like money is spent trying to find any other way to fix a problem we already have solutions to.

If we get the Community Betterment/Do-gooders community I would be happy to mod that or the creative space, or the nature gardening but I don't think I have the mental bandwidth for moderating politics, news, or the knowledge for the tech groups. Is there an option for moderating specifics?

The shape of the leaf with the water is very cute.

Always grieving for younger me and wondering what could have been but I love me now and I'm so excited for that this younger generation has so much support and is expressing themselves in all the ways I wish I could have. It's a beautiful things.

Sometimes it can be helpful to be in a space with people who might share similar experiences. A lot of queer people experience rejection by their birth families and having other people going through the something gives them a new support system. Those organisations often have specialised therapy available and resources that can help.

Of course you shouldn't feel pressured into a space you don't feel comfortable in but your comments all seem very pointed and angry about other people's celebrations. The world can be a dark place and I also hate rainbow Capitalism but that's all the more reason to support small queer businesses and throw your own celebrations with friends.

I'm really hoping it would lead to some contagious kindness!

I've commented on two posts 📫 haven't made one yet as I want to think it out and have linked resources and stuff. I'm so so excited! Someone's local garden does bee fest!?! Incredible and now my village needs a bee fest

Me! We've reforested the sides of our ridge with about 12000 native plants. They are a couple years old now so slowly popping up but we've already noticed an increase in our birds/manu, especially tui who love the pohutukawa and harakeke

Awesome thanks heaps 😊

Even just smaller things like posting about park clean-ups or events a local community is doing that make everyone a but happier would be a great start.

I would also be interested in hearing from people who've used community resources on how they might be improved. What fresh vegetables and fruits were best froma food pantry and what just wasnt usable? Is donating things like herbs to improve flavour more helpful than a few miss matched vegetables that can't quite make a real meal? I would love to have some recommendations on what I should be growing more of for donations

My whole life is a serious of diy projects lol. The most pressing issue is our dead solar battery array that needs replacing. They were expired when we got them 6 years ago so we knew it was coming but we don't have 20k to replace the batteries, change charge controllers, upgrade the inverter etc.

So it's been a very dark winter with limited running water to daylight hours.

Besides that I have a green house half finished and posts for a new washing line we need to put in. I just keep getting sick so I haven’t had the strength to do much beyond the smaller things

I've never seen them flower before! It's so happy 😁

Each peice took a couple hours. Each was an afternoon project but done on different days. I made the dungarees a wee while ago and the blouse a couple weeks ago.

Those leaves look perfect for a cosmos flower. I relly like your style, it almost looks like a lino print

Love and pride are not limited resources. I would say grassroots pride celebration are big and bold because other places won't allow of them. It's celebrating the freedom to express yourself and love who you love openly. One celebration isn't taking away from the lack of another, if anything it's bringing attention to the queer community and how important the right to existence is. Of course it would be ideal for all the corporate overlords to put the money they spend on pride marketing into political action in the countries lacking queer rights but that's not an option we have. It's not like pride is a limited currency we are spending on ourselves and keeping from our oppressed lgbtqa+ community.