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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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telomeke:
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Tweet posted by Cindy Wang Brandt @‌cindywangbrandt 12:01PM UTC 7 June 2021:
“This is very normalized in my culture. The first time I asked an American friend to errand hang with me, she was so shocked I felt like I did something...
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Tweet posted by Cindy Wang Brandt @‌cindywangbrandt 12:01PM UTC 7 June 2021:

This is very normalized in my culture. The first time I asked an American friend to errand hang with me, she was so shocked I felt like I did something wrong. That’s when I learned in American culture, expecting company for mundane reasons is considered not independent enough.

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Can we take a moment to talk about the sweetness of the errand friend hang?
The errand hang - where you hit your homie up to accompany you while you tend to the tasks that come with adulting - the grocery run, getting a pair of pants tailored, helping you pick a new bedframe, etc. The errand hang dismisses the usual setting of a bar or a lunch. It waves off the expected script of: “give me the summarized updates on your life and then I’ll give you the sum on mine.”
Instead, the errand hang dances in the sweet vulnerability that comes from the everyday. The errand hang sings: “ok I’m a human and you’re a human and we’re going to take an intimate walk through this seemingly ordinary part of my life, but if you look closely, this moment will reveal something delightfully specific and illuminating to what makes me - me, and I want to share that with you because quite frankly - I just like your company, and even in the silence (sometimes especially in the silence) it makes me feel somewhere between warm and content to have you here beside me.”

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sweaterkittensahoy

Crochet is all over fashion again this spring. Reminder that crochet cannot be done by machine, so someone had to make it by hand. There is literally no fast fashion brand that is paying a fair wage to the artisans who are doing that work, even taking local wages in other countries into account. And you can tell that by the pricing. I crochet faster than most people I know, and a jacket always takes me at least 20 hours. And dresses take 30-50. The smaller the yarn, the more hours it'll take to make something.

There are tons of crocheters on Etsy setting their own prices. Check there before you shop Target or Express or any other place selling on a rack.

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I am, once again, coming on the internet to tell you all not to buy crochet from chains. I both work retail and crochet, and I can tell you that the amount you pay for something crocheted at a chain DOESN’T EVEN COVER THE SUPPLIES TO MAKE THE ITEM. There is no way that anything crocheted in a chain store is fairly paid for.


Let’s do some math here. If a crochet a sweater, it’s going to take me between 1,500 and 2,000 yards of yarn since I’m tiny. If I get that yarn dirt cheap (aka red heart or Caron one pound) that’s $30 at least. And that’s dirt cheap yarn. Without the fact that a simple sweater takes about twenty hours to make, and a complicated sweater is going to take upwards of forty. Even the crochet on place like Etsy is technically undervalued. Don’t buy it from chains that undervalue it even more.

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magnetothemagnificent

The vegan to ecofascist pipeline

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Actually I'm going to expand on the steps of the pipeline.

It starts with:

"I want to do something to better the environment". A noble pursuit.

Then, "Large scale animal agriculture is bad for the environment". Accurate statement.

Then, "Therefore, I am going to stop consuming all animal products and biproducts." A lofty goal, but still reasonable. It's not something that's for everyone, but if that's what you want to do to do your part, more power to you.

Then, "If I can do it, so can you." Inaccurate. The human body is suited ideally for an omnivorous lifestyle. While the human body is very adaptable, its adaptability varies from person to person, and not everyone is able to subsist off of a vegan lifestyle.

Then, "People who don't follow my lifestyle are maliciously contributing to climate change." We're going into dangerous 'us vs. them' territory now. Now everyone who consumes animal products and biproducts even utilyzes large-scale animal agriculture, and there are myriad of reasons for someone to not be vegan. Personal lifestyle choices are also a distraction from the larger issue at hand, which is that corporations contribute the most to climate change, and blaming yourself and other individuals is a distraction.

Then, "Human beings are responsible for climate change. Humans are inherently destructive." False. Corporations and industrialization is responsible for climate change. Humans are inherently neutral, and for the most part are actually good.

Then, "If there were less people on this Earth, we would have less climate change and pollution." And there we are. At the ecofascism finish line.

Not every vegan ends up at the ecofascist finish line. Many vegans stay comfortably on the third rung of the ladder, focusing on their own personal boundaries and lifestyle choices. However, as soon as you dip your toes into the "if I can do it, so can you" mentality, that's when the ball begins rolling down the slippery slope of ecofascism.

As soon as you begin forcing your lifestyle onto other people, that's when it becomes dangerous.