PDX Houseless resource, severe weather
If you know or run into anyone without shelter this weekend, please suggest the Mt. Scott Community Center or the Oregon Convention Center! Both places are opening up emergency overnight shelters tonight-Monday because of the hazardous weather conditions, and they require nothing to enter (just your name.) I hear they have showers, food, masks, etc.
@Phorm ...wait. How the fuck does C2F4 polymerize and go stable? Those F atoms have gotta be desperately wanting to leave, right?
pdx call to action, mutual aid, twitter link
> We are immediately accepting emergency donations for folks impacted by the fires. Current prioritization is supporting the Klamath Tribes, refugees fleeing fire, migrant farm workers and houseless in portland. See thread for drop off spots.
Follow the link for aforementioned thread.
https://twitter.com/Symbiosis_PDX/status/1304112552389914629
URGENT - Black mother and daughter need money right away to secure housing; $500-$700 goal; venmo or cashapp
Venmo: Ladariya1
Cashapp: $Ladariya1
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7W35OhmZ2/?igshid=1hp8um1p9zdk5
RT @jamesjhaeck@twitter.com
i feel like the potential for adult dragons to carry wyrmlings in their mouths has not been adequately explored by game designers or fantasy storytellers
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jamesjhaeck/status/1303462857778970624
David Graeber "On the Invention of Money", anthropology
"Anthropologists gradually fanned out into the world and began directly observing how economies where money was not used (or anyway, not used for everyday transactions) actually worked.
What they discovered was an at first bewildering variety of arrangements, ranging from competitive gift-giving to communal stockpiling to places where economic relations centered on neighbors trying to guess each other’s dreams. What they never found was any place, anywhere, where economic relations between members of community took the form economists predicted: “I’ll give you twenty chickens for that cow.”
Hence in the definitive anthropological work on the subject, Cambridge anthropology professor Caroline Humphrey concludes, “No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money; all available ethnography suggests that there never has been such a thing”"
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money
Seattle Area Ask, local politics, All-Gender Swim
Sending this to Seattle Parks and Rec's open comment email address. If you're in the Seattle Area and feel like having a safe space for everyone to enjoy swimming is a good thing, Speak up! They won't bring it back if they don't hear about it needing to exist!
Hello!
I wanted to speak up in support of the All-Gender Swim Events! I haven’t had a place to go swimming and this program was a wonderful, inclusive, and welcoming safe space for me and a lot of my friends as well! I know with the COVID-19 safety measure currently in place that having the pools open is not currently feasible. However, I want them to continue when the pools re open. So I’m writing in so that you know there is a need for this in your community and we are all grateful that this step was taken. I hope you will continue with the All Gender Swim, and I feel that the program should be expanded! This was a good thing, and I don’t want it to be dropped.
Kelsey Astra (she/her)
Kenmore, WA
Rare coastal dragoness, often found by sunny sea cliffs. Nonbinary but fairly femme-leaning. If you're under 18 don't follow.