Look, If You're Having A Bad Day, Here's A 6,000 Year Old Pig-shaped Pottery Pot.

She finally pulled that shit off.

Anarkata is usually my happy place, ideologically speaking, so lets dive into Move Like Mycorrhizae

What are mycorrhizae?

mycorrhizae (pronounced “my-core-ih-zigh”) are mutual relationships between fungi and plant roots. They move nutrients between plants they are connected to. They can also sap nutrients from one part of a fungal network. They spread vastly within an ecosystem in ways that prevent researchers from being able to trace where the network begins or ends. They play both pathogenic and symbiotic roles. They develop in very steady, slow ways. Occasionally you see mushrooms sprouting up, aboveground, but mycorrhizae are primarily an underground entity. In this Kickback we see them as emblems for what Anarkata movement building feels like, since we work from the ground (or underground), and work from the roots (as Black Anarchic Radicals).

I cannot tell you how much I love the fungal comparison for underground/criminalized socio-political actions and spaces, I've been spinning up about it since I first heard it and I'm prolly gonna ramble about that more later lol

I imagine they'll get to it, but part of what appeals to me in that metaphor is the feeling of taking root. Mycorrhizae are critical to the rooting and uprooting of plants. When the Mycorrhizae network is damaged, plants are less resilient and less capable of self-propogation (aka more reliant on intentional spread/cultivation by "predators" and less capable of producing healthy, self perpetuating plant ecosystems).

The goal of Anarkata, to create with direct action and mutual aid the rooted networks of stabilization and survival, is one that serves to cultivate our own essential relationships with those networks, with each other, and with our own sense of agency and selfhood. The collective of individual entities acting in ebb and flow with one another to respond to critical needs triggered by environmental or circumstantial changes. I find the imagery of unseen entanglements that influence and restrict our decisions an incredibly apt analogy for socio-cultural descriptivism, and love the soothing of how raw many of us feel about our responsivity/reactivity to each other in the world. The idea that reactivity/responsibity is its own form of communicated knowledge, and matters in how we make decisions, even as we may often find ourselves needing to let the sensation surge and recede without intervention. There is normalization of the "yes, and..." response to emotional cues that can be so empowering and self-validating.

i URGENTLY URGENTLY need to vacate this place, i am on the verge of nervous breakdowns daily, hourly, because of the unsafe and unsanitary conditions my roommates have created. i am constantly exhausted, fatigued, in pain, anxious, foggy, it's been hard to take care of myself when important shared spaces like the bathroom and the kitchen are barely usable. my health issues, including moderate and worsening me/cfs that caused me to lose my job, are poorly managed because of this environment.

i have been trying to raise for this since february, currently still at barely a fifth of the goal, making very little progress that is further diminished by ongoing needs and bills including thousands in late utilities that were accrued before my gf and i moved in.

i can't stay here anymore and i cannot go unhoused and the house is getting sold soon anyway. please. i'm constantly on edge of hysteria with how difficult it's been to find and afford safe, clean, secure housing.

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Bpd is not being able to love yourself unless someone else loves you, but never fully believing that they could actually love someone like you.

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Hello, I am Reem. I live with my husband and my two lovely children, Malik and Hassan. They deserve to live in safety and security, like other children in the world,,

We had a beautiful house. We lived in it with our bodies and our souls lived in it with all love and peace...

We have many beautiful memories ther

But the Zionist occupation does not care about all the humanity we live in..

He bombed our house on the evening of the second day of December 2023 while we were sleeping.

In an instant... life was turned upside down... a huge explosion... and complete darkness... and screaming and panic from everyone... and choking dust... and fire... and the flying of stones, windows, doors and glass... those of us who died died, and those who were injured were injured and those who survived... Survived by the amazing kindness of God..

We left everything behind and all that remained were memories and nostalgia,

In light of these difficult circumstances...

My husband lost his job as a psychological counselor due to the disruption of his educational career.

In addition, he aspires to continue his studies

Completing a doctoral degree abroad.

After completing his master's degree in Gaza years ago

As for me, because of my faith in God, I have overcome some of this traumatic event, but I see in my children some of the symptoms of psychological trauma.

I try to do everything I can to make things easier so that our lives are no longer as they were.

Now, for six months, we have been suffering the bitterness of this life

We live with the difficulties of living

There is no shelter, no healthy food, no healthy water, and no electricity.

We are exposed to danger. There is no safety or reassurance in Gaza.

We feel afraid as a result of the continuous bombing and the loud sounds of explosions.

Finally, I ask you to help and support me and my small family in traveling to find a decent, stable life away from this Zionist crime and genocide, after we have no place left to shelter..

Of course, it is very difficult to leave your homeland, but we are forced to do so due to the bad conditions here.

Note that travel costs are far beyond our capacity, as the Egyptian government at the Rafah crossing... takes travel coordination costs of between 5,000 and 8,000 dollars per person, whether young or old... Thank you very much.

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I once read fic that had this exact prompt and it was hilarious and i think y'all should definitely check it out too

Hello,

How do you do ? I hope to be in a good condition.

This is my special campaign

We hope to help us by donating or sharing to others.

Every donation makes a different even if it a small.

As you know, the war began on October 7 and lasted ten months. During this period, we were unable to obtain food, drink, or treatment because we did not have money.

There is no source of income for the family at the present time, so we are unable to buy food, clean water, and medicine, especially after we are afflicted with the ongoing infectious diseases spread in the north like Hepatitis C disease.

Our house has been damaged a lot since the beginning of the war. We are from the north of Gaza and we are still in the north and have not displaced to the south. We displaced 10 times from place to another seeking to safety .

We hope for your help and support, even if only a little.

This is the link if you would to read our story well 👇👇

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Thank you all

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BTW today I met a person who's at least 50, uses they/it pronouns, and named themself Wyvern. It looks like if Santa was a biker and it plays D&D at the local library. Just a reminder that you can do whatever you want, forever.