This is not news, but it is an important read, especially for people who were previously unaware of the trend of neo-Nazis stealing pagan symbols for their own.
If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist pagan, keep doing what you are doing, you are keeping the fight alive
If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist person who is not a pagan, help us spread the word of this, stand in solidarity with us as we kick the fascists out of our communities
If you are a fascist pagan, fuck off, this faith is a peaceful one
No platforms for fascists.
~ Max
…and right here is why you see me starting to wear non-viking garb in the SCA. Because I’m really REALLY white and really REALLY not a racist, and I hate that these people have found their way into my weekend nerdery.
I would posit that if you feel comfortable doing it, and if you feel supported, you should definitely still wear viking garb and not let fascist nazi bastards appropriate it for their own purpose without opposition. 🖤
Please, for the love of fuck, do NOT give up on either your religious paraphernalia *or* your hobbyist Viking swag because of this. Y’know what you ought to do instead? Be vocally and openly anti-racist. Make it known that all this bonehead bullshit is not what we stand for.
And how do you make something known? Well, a man by his speech is known to men.
Make fascists afraid to be vocal. Run them out and counteract their evil with overwhelming good. Make donations to charities that help people of colour under the public name and honour of Odin and Freya and Frigg and Thor. Shout louder than they do.
I see a lot of fascism and disgusting vitriol in the comments section on videos from wardruna or heidlung - and something I’d like to do is reupload those videos with the express intent of curating the comments section heavily to keep that shit out. Most accounts won’t do that and they don’t notice how much hate is in their fan base. so I get really angry about these people taking music and culture that is expressly open and for everyone to pollute it in this way.
If you know anyone personally that uploads videos to YouTube please remind them to curate that shit, report the bastards. Make statements that it’s not okay. Even one small platform is too one too many.
things that can happen bc of executive function impairment:
making decisions feel really hard. even very small, simple decisions
it’s hard to switch between tasks so this could be stopping one thing to do something else, getting really upset if you’re interrupted while doing something and the interruption stays with you
struggling to do things that have a lot of steps like driving, cooking / preparing a meal, shopping
freezing up and feeling blank if something unexpected comes up in terms of problem solving and it looks like you’re not gonna do anything about it at all but you actually just have no idea what to do or how to begin so you’re just there
following spoken instructions is hard
you seem as if you’re absentminded cause it’s hard to remember things sometimes. little things
paying attention / concentrating is super hard especially when you’re not really interested in something and u just cant make yourself do the thing cause you’re so uninterested
not finishing things you start
blurting stuff out suddenly or sharing too much and just regretting it after
difficulty starting things like even though you want to do it, it’s hard to just start it so this could be lots of things like taking a shower, cleaning up your space, organizing, starting a project, applying for a job or program or anything. it might seem like you’re lazy or unmotivated
sometimes even doing familiar tasks you have to be really focused or it’s hard to do things you’re used to doing if you’re under some type of stress (which could be lots of things cause we can get stressed out easily)
sometimes it’s hard to shift your thinking if you get new rules or info
lack of a sense of time
it might take a long time like even hours of feeling uncomfortable before u realize oh i need to eat or oh i should put on a sweater
looking at tiny problem that you can do something about and it will only take a couple seconds or minutes to get rid of but you just leave it and let it annoy you for days or weeks without realizing you could just do this very simple thing and it will be gone
you’re not lazy, unmotivated, a procrastinator, stupid, dirty, spacey, absentminded. you do not need to try harder.
use lists, reminders, routines, schedules, break stuff down into smaller tasks, allow yourself to stim more or just allow yourself to stim if u don’t cause sometimes we suppress it, rest when u need to, don’t force yourself to try harder, be your autistic self (bc not doing that actually draws on your EF too and will tire you out quickly) 💖
Cuba’s critics blame the government for the daily hardships Cubans face, dismissing U.S. sanctions as an excuse. This is like blaming a person for not swimming well when they are chained to the ground. The U.S. blockade of Cuba is real. It is the longest and most extensive system of unilateral sanctions applied against any country in modern history. It affects every aspect of Cuban life.
The number of detainees has more than doubled since the end of February, to nearly 27,000 as of July 22, according to the most recent data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The rising detentions is a sore point for President Joe Biden’s pro-immigration allies, who hoped he would reverse his predecessor’s hardline approach. Biden campaigned on ending “prolonged” detention and use of private prisons for immigration detention, which house the majority of those in ICE custody.
