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notes<p>Project 2025 as a last gasp of a dying system of “power-over,” one that fears the regenerative, relational force of the people, the Earth, and the sacred.</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Tiamat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tiamat</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/PowerWith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerWith</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKings</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ReclaimTheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReclaimTheWeb</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/TiamatLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TiamatLives</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ManyCurrents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ManyCurrents</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/KinNotCrowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KinNotCrowns</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/FromStoneToSong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FromStoneToSong</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Biophilia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biophilia</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Wilderness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wilderness</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rewild</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rewilding</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Regenerative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Regenerative</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RegenerativeDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RegenerativeDesign</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/UniversalDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversalDesign</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RegenerativeAg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RegenerativeAg</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RegenAg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RegenAg</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AppropriateTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppropriateTechnology</span></a><br><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Ancestors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ancestors</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Compassion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Compassion</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialJustice</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SystemsChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SystemsChange</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Food</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>Teaser: The German Cinderella story has direct ties to footbinding in China. 😬</p><p>(Because it's a small world and ideas travel.)</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/X7ukx3SBa1c" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/X7ukx3SBa1c</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/theme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theme</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/motif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>motif</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/jung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jung</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decolonization</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>And the reason I included the rewild and decolonization tags is because you can see in these histories of fairytales how Christian cultural colonization of Europe has tamed these ancient tales, taken away their bite, watered down their power. And YET the core of these tales has survived eradication attempts, and adapted to a hostile habitat. Which is simply phenomenal. What is it our collective unconscious is trying to tell us? Why are certain symbols so important to remember?</p><p>This is all along the lines of other recent threads where I've unpacked how the artificial culture of whiteness has erased the real cultures that we all once had in our European homelands pre-Christianity.</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/theme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theme</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/motif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>motif</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/jung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jung</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decolonization</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>There's this channel on YouTube, The Resurrectionists) that digs into the ancient origins of European fairy tales. It's really interesting. I'm watching the Frog Prince one right now. The best one I saw is about Jack and the Beanstalk, which is filled with deeper mystical meanings in stories that go back to the earliest history and ancient worldviews.</p><p>(Teaser: The beanstalk represents passing into the afterlife.)</p><p>I enjoy thinking about the collective unconscious, and this is a way to look directly at it. Fairytales are the memories of an "organism" that lives longer than hundreds of generations of human lifetimes. I'm one of its neurons. You're one of its neurons. And when we die, the fellow people (neurons) that we taught will carry on these meanings written in a language that few of us can speak.... </p><p>...yet we all know it.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/AdPhGaWf79I" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/AdPhGaWf79I</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/theme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theme</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/motif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>motif</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/jung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jung</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decolonization</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rewilding</span></a>: Can it save our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> and temper <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>?</p><p>We’ve pushed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> to the brink, but it may be capable of repairing the damage - provided we step aside and let it go back to doing what it does best. </p><p>by Jocelyn Timperley<br>Published: January 8, 2021 </p><p>Excerpt: "More recently, Sir <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DavidAttenborough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidAttenborough</span></a> adopted the term in the documentary A Life On Our Planet, his much-lauded ‘witness statement’ for the environment. 'So what do we do?' he asked, after an hour journeying through the enormous biodiversity loss the world has experienced during his 94 years. 'To restore stability to our planet we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing that we’ve removed… We must <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a> the world.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/rewilding-can-it-save-our-wildlife-and-temper-climate-change" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencefocus.com/nature/rewild</span><span class="invisible">ing-can-it-save-our-wildlife-and-temper-climate-change</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rewilding</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Restoration</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoreTrees</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoreGreen</span></a></p>
Saskia<p>I'm just saying, if I wasn't here trying to grow the Fediverse, I would also be a vigilante releasing beavers.</p><p>Batman but for the beavers.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygl4dv4rno" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygl4</span><span class="invisible">dv4rno</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsmast.social/tags/Rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rewilding</span></a> <a href="https://newsmast.social/tags/Rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rewild</span></a> <a href="https://newsmast.social/tags/Beaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beaver</span></a> <a href="https://newsmast.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://newsmast.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://newsmast.social/tags/Rivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rivers</span></a> <a href="https://newsmast.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a></p>
playinginthedirt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a> your yard<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HowToMessWithNeighbors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowToMessWithNeighbors</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HashtagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HashtagGames</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>Whiteness is aggressive, methodical, planned, perfectionistic. These are good traits, but not of out of balance and taken as the ONLY good traits.</p><p>I remember my first Tai Chi class (before I understood any of this). I expected we'd start by memorizing the first movements in the form, then move to the next. But nope. We did standing meditation, exercises, then the whole form. The next week, same thing. Sometimes we did the whole form twice. </p><p>I thought, how the h*ck (I was still Mormon) am I supposed to learn anything this way? I can't memorize this! I can't take this home and practice! It was a completely different approach from what this brainiac systematic test-taking overachiever had learned growing up. It was perhaps my first insight as to just how different Eastern culture is from Western.</p><p>Now, I didn't ever memorize the form. (In spite of several classes in different places, a book, and YouTube, mostly because I never have energy to stick to it.) But I did learn that there are other ways to learn, and that this way, of doing the whole thing over and over and over until you pick up pieces at a time, is also valid. And I DID pick up pieces. I learned better balance, the difference between good pain and bad, stances for movement throughout my day, and about several aspects of meditation and mindfulness that have served me well over the decades and contributed to better mental and physical health.</p><p>It taught me to look at everything holistically, and that the methodical Western approach isn't the only way.</p><p>If you're looking to decolonize, START THERE. Dump the perfectionism, the systematic plan, the mechanistic, linear assembly line of your life. The whole process of decolonization for me is an exercise in doing pieces at a time, out of "order," as it FLOWS, as it makes sense, as it works.</p><p>It's not about The Plan. It's about learning to hear and trust my intuition and nature around me.</p><p>🧵</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/RVLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RVLife</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/OffGrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OffGrid</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/decolonize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decolonize</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/AbuseCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseCulture</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>After enough of this kind of exercise, detaching from colonial institutions can start seeming more possible. What will catch me if I let go of this or that thing that I was taught by every level of society that I NEEDED?</p><p>You fill that scary ignorance with curiosity which leads to knowledge, which leads to choices, which lead to experiences, which lead to curiosity. Rise, repeat.</p><p>And then you start prodding at what you can change. </p><p>Can I give up Amazon? Maybe just Prime? Can I give up my car? (I can't.) Can I give up Google? Can I use less electricity? Can I repair things instead of buying new? Can I start a compost, even if it's not that great and I'm not going to use it in a garden, can I at least try it out? Can I consider giving up corporate work? What would that take? Can I go visit my local interpretive center and see what the tribes here want me doing? Can I watch some YouTube videos by indigenous people or read a book? Or at least follow some BIPOC voices on social media? Maybe some from outside my country, too? Can I learn some native plants, and maybe just buy two and plant them in my yard, see if I can keep them alive? These and many, many other options are available.</p><p>You don't need to do it all at once. (That's white indoctrination – "Demand for Purity" or toxic perfectionism.) Just pick one or two. If they don't work out, don't feel depressed or down on yourself (yup, more oppressor indoctrination there, don't cooperate!!) – just pick another one or two that seem easier and try again.</p><p>Like nature, it's a cycle. (Exclusively linear thinking is also whiteness indoctrination! Its' a form of "Polarized Thinking" in cult literature, (aka Black and White Thinking).)</p><p>🧵</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/RVLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RVLife</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/OffGrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OffGrid</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/decolonise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decolonise</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/AbuseCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseCulture</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>Another great step is to just start observing nature. Even if you live in the city, there is nature around you. What are the crows up to? What's that bug doing there? Why does your cat do that? What patterns are forming from the conflicts between the plants struggling to survive in the sidewalk?</p><p>Try to get inside their heads and really try to imagine the world from their perspective – which will be totally unlike your own. </p><p>This is an exercise in listening. As you get better at it, you will get better at understanding what indigenous people mean, how they see the world, what they want, and what they're asking of you.</p><p>And you will get better at listening to YOURSELF.</p><p>Because ultimately, whiteness cuts white people off from our own bodies and minds. We've got entire ecosystems going on inside of us, and that brain, that pinpoint of ego, is merely a facade of picket fences built by manipulators higher up in the hierarchy, made to look pretty and civilized, but they hide the wildness inside – wildness that turns perverse and horrifying when shoved, like monsters, into the basement of your subconscious.</p><p>They aren't monsters. They are pieces of you. And the way through isn't dominance, it's cooperation.</p><p>At a certain point, you realize that this also applies to the out-group. They aren't monsters either. They are pieces of you. And the way through isn't dominance, it's cooperation.</p><p>🧵</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/RVLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RVLife</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/OffGrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OffGrid</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/decolonise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decolonise</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/AbuseCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseCulture</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>I want to do this thread proper. I want to go through each of the 31 manipulation techniques that I outline in Recovering Agency (there applied to Mormonism/Christianity) and show how they apply to whiteness. Maybe I'll have some energy later today? I've been wanting to do that for years.</p><p>But part of unpacking my whiteness (the ableism side of it) is learning to do things half-assed sometimes. So that's basically this thread, what is coming up for me right now, raw.</p><p>Really, the first steps are being open, curious, prodding at what you think you can change now, and listening to non-white voices uncritically.</p><p>🧵</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/RVLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RVLife</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/OffGrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OffGrid</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/decolonise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decolonise</span></a><br><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/AbuseCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseCulture</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>A good place to start is to learn about other ways of seeing the world.</p><p>For me, it's trying to understand indigenous American attitudes towards nature and the land, not just from listening to non-white voices, but from observing what's around me.</p><p>As a child, indigenous cultures didn't make any sense to me. That's because they have a completely different underlying approach than those I'd been exposed to in my bubble of Mormon whiteness. My oppressors didn't want me to understand; they needed me to grow up as a middle-man oppressor. They needed me to look down on some so I wouldn't complain when others looked down on me.</p><p>(This mind control technique is known as "elitism.")</p><p>And that generated all kinds of fears (instilled phobias, another technique), that if I didn't conform to whiteness, I'd have to live in poverty, like Black and brown people did. It destroyed any curiosity I had about cultures other than my own.</p><p>That curiosity is coming back. There are other ways to relate to nature, to the land, to myself. That's the vector I'm grabbing hold of as I shed various conveniences (while I hold on to others). </p><p>🧵</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/AbuseCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseCulture</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/decolonize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decolonize</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/OffGrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OffGrid</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/RVLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RVLife</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>I'm gonna tell my fellow white Americans, if you're trying to decolonize, or want to decolonize, and are overwhelmed, start somewhere. Start with something you feel like you can do, and start gently questioning everything else, and planning the next step.</p><p>Lifestyle changes are stressful and a lot of work. Impossible to do all at once. But it's better to do some than none, especially if it's a journey towards doing more.</p><p>Each step, I find ways that whiteness holds me back, sucks me dry, and has isolated me from nature and my own humanity. </p><p>Much of this is mental. Whiteness is a cult. Almost twenty years ago I thought, "Now that I'm learning about cults, I wonder if larger society is also a cult?... someday I'm gonna tackle that."</p><p>Whiteness/capitalism *is* that cult. That's the supporting doctrinal structure of the whole package I call Abuse Culture.</p><p>Whiteness isn't a skin color, it's an ideology, a system of power. Unpacking your whiteness is deconditioning from abuse culture. It's freeing to dump cult manipulation pressures like dependency, elitism, and demand for purity. If you've done this process for religious trauma, it's only another step to do so for society's cult doctrines.</p><p>And with that comes behavior. That cycle you're in with the job and debt? Start planning a way out. It seems impossible — it might even be — but maybe it's not if you're willing to do things you believe are impossible, but that billions in the Global South prove *is* possible. Because they have no other choice. But you do.</p><p>There, right there, that resistance you feel? Maybe defensiveness? Fear? That's whiteness. And whiteness isn't you. It's a construct that adheres your ego to power's puppet strings.</p><p>I also thought it would be impossible to leave Mormonism, but here I am, 25 years later. Now I'm looking to leave the colonial indoctrination behind, too, and as many of my harmful behaviors as I can... one at a time.</p><p>🧵</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/AbuseCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseCulture</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/decolonise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decolonise</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/OffGrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OffGrid</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/RVLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RVLife</span></a></p>
M. Ní Sídach<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Reforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reforestation</span></a> Does Not Begin With Planting Trees<br><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SciShow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciShow</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/reGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reGreen</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/reWild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reWild</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/reStore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reStore</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EcoSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EcoSocialism</span></a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4ou_GL7e0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=hI4ou_GL7e</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p>
Aabra Mastodon, PDX stereotype<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/portland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>portland</span></a> , Oregon is overrun with neglected streets. Pot holes, gravel, runoff, studded tire damage. Is it time to just.. let them go? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> <br><a href="https://bikeportland.org/2025/02/24/city-councilor-says-some-streets-should-be-repurposed-to-save-money-and-address-climate-change-392918" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bikeportland.org/2025/02/24/ci</span><span class="invisible">ty-councilor-says-some-streets-should-be-repurposed-to-save-money-and-address-climate-change-392918</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>8 Cities <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rewilding</span></a> Their Urban Spaces<br> <br>by Linnea Harris, Jun 15, 2021</p><p>"In the midst of a massive, global loss of nature, cities around the world are finding ways to protect and expand open spaces and '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a>' their communities.</p><p>"Between 2001 and 2017, the United States alone lost 24 million acres of natural area – or the equivalent of nine Grand Canyon national parks – largely due to housing sprawl, agriculture, energy development, and other anthropogenic factors, according to a 2019 Reuters report. Every day, 6,000 acres of open space – parks, forests, farms, grasslands, ranches, streams, and rivers – are converted for other uses.</p><p>"Rewilding restores an area to its original, uncultivated state, shifting away from the centuries-long practice of controlling and managing nature for human need. It incorporates both the old and the new, allowing wildness to reclaim an area and/or incorporating new elements of architectural or landscape design, like growing greenery on the facades of buildings.</p><p>"The practice of rewilding is frequently carried out in wild areas; many projects aim to restore biodiversity in an ecosystem, often by reintroducing animal species that are high on the food chain, which in turn stabilizes lower species. One of the most famous cases of rewilding is the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995.</p><p>"Cities too have begun rewilding; but, although these were spaces were once as wild as Yellowstone, introducing apex predators to New York City or Tokyo might not be the best method for success. Rewilding in urban areas might instead include reintroducing native plant species, building parks on empty lots, incorporating more biophilic design when building new structures, or simply allowing nature to reclaim space. A major draw to rewilding in urban areas is the proven positive impact of nature on human health – particularly for city-dwellers with less access to outdoor spaces."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/cities-rewilding-2653383263.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ecowatch.com/cities-rewilding-</span><span class="invisible">2653383263.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RewildingCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RewildingCities</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenCities</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenspace</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a></p>
BC BY-NC-SA<p>The Cupbearer – Music from The Search for Silence: Volume Two<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ambient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ambient</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/acoustic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acoustic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/desolation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>desolation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/devolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>earth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electroacoustic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electroacoustic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electronica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/experimental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experimental</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ganymede" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ganymede</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/knytt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knytt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/renewal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/silence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>silence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthDaytona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthDaytona</span></a><br>CC BY-NC-SA (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CreativeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCommons</span></a> Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike)<br><a href="https://thecupbearer.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-the-search-for-silence-volume-two" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thecupbearer.bandcamp.com/albu</span><span class="invisible">m/music-from-the-search-for-silence-volume-two</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rhinos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rhinos</span></a> translocated to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zululand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zululand</span></a> amid world’s largest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewilding</span></a> project </p><p>Game reserve in Zululand takes delivery of several rhinos as part of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RhinoRewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RhinoRewild</span></a> initiative </p><p>Tracey Turner, December 20, 2024</p><p>"In what is reported to be part of the largest rewilding project in the world, a northern Zululand game reserve recently welcomed several southern white rhinos to its fold.</p><p>"This latest translocation is the year-end culmination in this 10-year rewilding project, now in its second year, which aims to relocate over 2 000 rhinos across Africa.</p><p>"The relocation formed part of African Parks’ Rhino <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rewild</span></a> initiative in the NPO’s bid to rescue the species from the brink of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a>.</p><p>"This rewilding effort will supplement the reserve’s existing rhino population with new genetics, with all rhinos dehorned before their translocation [sad that has to happen].</p><p>"'We are proud to be receiving a number of white rhinos from African Parks in terms of their rhino rewilding programme,' said the chairperson of the receiving reserve, which cannot be named for protection of the rhino population.</p><p>"The project is a successful collaboration between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeWildAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeWildAfrica</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WildlifeEmergencyFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WildlifeEmergencyFund</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://www.citizen.co.za/zululand-observer/news-headlines/local-news/2024/12/20/watch-rhinos-translocated-to-zululand-amid-worlds-largest-rewilding-project/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">citizen.co.za/zululand-observe</span><span class="invisible">r/news-headlines/local-news/2024/12/20/watch-rhinos-translocated-to-zululand-amid-worlds-largest-rewilding-project/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rewilding</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RewildingAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RewildingAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RewildingZululand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RewildingZululand</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a></p>
notes<p>Due to the influx of new folks, here is another introductory thread of my interests:<br><a href="https://social.coop/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Ogapoge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ogapoge</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SantaFe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SantaFe</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SantaFeRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SantaFeRiver</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Water</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plants</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicine</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hiking</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Walking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Walking</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/NaturePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturePhotography</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Biophilia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biophilia</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Wilderness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wilderness</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rewild</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rewilding</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Regenerative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Regenerative</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RegenerativeDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RegenerativeDesign</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/UniversalDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversalDesign</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RegenerativeAg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RegenerativeAg</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RegenAg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RegenAg</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AppropriateTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppropriateTechnology</span></a> <br><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Dharma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dharma</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Dhamma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dhamma</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Buddhism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Metta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metta</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meditation</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Contemplation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Contemplation</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hesychasm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hesychasm</span></a> </p><p>I'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/introductions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introductions</span></a></p>
Caitlin Waddick<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@ntnsndr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ntnsndr</span></a></span> For anyone, the Open Social Incubator project is ... <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/09/11/open-call-join-open-social-incubator" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/0</span><span class="invisible">9/11/open-call-join-open-social-incubator</span></a> <br>...an example of how people can build technical <a href="https://social.coop/tags/skills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>skills</span></a> to create <a href="https://social.coop/tags/communities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communities</span></a> in online spaces that are democratically-run, open <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SocialNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialNetworks</span></a>, not corporate spaces that are run by autocrats. <br><a href="https://social.coop/tags/PeerToPeer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeerToPeer</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/mentoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mentoring</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/mentorships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mentorships</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/skillBuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>skillBuilding</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SolidarityEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolidarityEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/artists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artists</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/bioregionalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bioregionalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permaculture</span></a>, <a href="https://social.coop/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/publicInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publicInterest</span></a>, <a href="https://social.coop/tags/socialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialMedia</span></a>, <a href="https://social.coop/tags/BlueSky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlueSky</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>network</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/rewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewild</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>