There Is Hope. I Promise. Young People Just Won Their Case Against The State Of Montana. Ecuadoreans

There is hope. I promise. Young people just won their case against the state of Montana. Ecuadoreans braved escalating political violence to vote against oil drilling in the Amazon. Brazilian deforestation is down by enormous amounts since Lula took office. They’ve invented hydropanels that synthesise pure water from the air. People are farming in solar parks. A ship just launched for its maiden voyage using rigid sails designed to mimic wind turbine blades. EV sales are taking off, and, more crucially, cities are re-assessing their very relationship with the car. By the 2024 Olympics the river Seine will be safe for people to swim in again. More and more people are replacing their gas boilers with heat pumps. Solarpunks are growing crops in their back garden and distributing them to their neighbours. Great tracts of land are being given back to nature. Young people are channelling their energies into meaningful careers. Pilots are leaving the aviation industry. Yes, the world is dark and terrible and full of awful dangers that keep you up at night, but we are a huge movement that grows every day in numbers and power. Your small actions matter. Our collective triumphs are increasing. Things are going to get harder, extreme weather will be more common, but with ingenuity, resilience and crucially, COMMUNITY, we can build an equitable world on this strange, tired old planet. See you in the future.

I can get behind this religion (x-post r/funny)

Indian Witchcraft Series: Spice edition

~So. I kinda got tired of finding all these wonderful spells and not being able to do them because I didn’t have access to certain ingredients. It also made writing my own spells a pain in the ass. So I’m starting this series of whatever this is that deals with magic in an Indian context. So I went to the kitchen and wrote down all the spices I could find and then found the correspondences. Feel free to tell me if I’ve missed anything/ any correspondence so I can add it~

• STAR ANISE (Air): Protection, aids in Divination, Lust, Youth, Keeps away nightmares.

• ASAFOETIDA: Protection, Banishing, Prophetic Dreams, (Curses)

• BLACK SALT: Banishing

• BLACK PEPPER: Protection, Banishing

• BAY LEAF: Protection, Success, Purification, Wishes, Strength, Good Fortune, Divination

•BETEL NUT: Protection, Banishing, (Curses)

• CLOVES (Fire): Good luck, prosperity, to keep friends close, stop rumours, lust, Protection, Banishing.

• CINNAMON (Fire): Success, Protection, Love, Lust, Healing, Power, Prosperity. Also offering for fairies.

• CARDAMOM: Love, Lust, Fidelity

• CORIANDER: Love, Health, Protection, Peace.

• CHILLI: Fidelity, Love, Hex Breaking, (Curses)

• CURRY LEAF: (Beauty, Invisibility/ Metamorphosis)

• FENUGREEK: Money, Fertility

• FENNEL SEEDS: Strength, Vitality, Protection from curses, Healing, Purification, Strength

• GINGER: New Adventures, New experiences, Prosperity, Sensuality, Confidence, Success, Health

• GARLIC: Healing, Protection, Banishing, Purification.

• LEMON: Purification, Cleaning, Love, Invisibility, Protection, Travel

• MUSTARD SEED: Courage, Faith, Endurance, (New Beginnings)

• MACE: Concentration, Focus, Self Discipline

• MINT: Energy, Communication, Prosperity, Healing, (Luck)

• NUTMEG: Money/ Prosperity, Luck, Protection, Breaking hexes

• POPPY: Love, Abundance, Prosperity, Love, (Sleep)

• PUMPKIN SEED: Health

• TAMARIND: Love, (Spirit work, Curses)

• TURMERIC: (Healing, Beauty, Protection)

• SUGAR: Love, Lust, (Happiness)

• SESAME SEED: Money, Lust, Passion

• SALT (Earth): Protection, Grounding, Cleansing, Purification

• SANDALWOOD: Banishing, Protection, Healing, (Beauty)

• SAFFRON: Love, Lust, Healing, Happiness, Strength, Wind raising, (Money)

NOTE: the things in the brackets are my correspondences but feel free to use them.

Until next time! Stay Blessed 💛

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Getting your fix online: the websites that make repairing easier - Positive News

The internet may threaten to make perpetual shoppers of us, but it offers heaps of information about repair and mending too. Here's our pick

iFixit

iFixit is a wiki-based site that teaches people how to fix almost anything. It was started in 2003 by Luke and Kyle, in a dorm room at California Polytechnic University when they tried to fix an old iBook together. With no instructions, they tinkered, fiddled, broke some tabs and lost some screws. But they fixed it. When they decided to start selling spare parts themselves, iFixit was born. It now hinges around its step-by-step repair guides, which are free to download and use under Creative Commons licenses.

Now, anyone can create a repair manual for a device on iFixit and anyone can edit the existing set of manuals to improve them. The site’s founders say that thousands of people make use of the guides every day.

“We’ve heard repair success stories from forensic detectives, field translators, and even kids,” say the pair. “From New York to Alaska, Tibet to the Faroe Islands, people have used our guides to fix their stuff.

“Our philosophy is that if you can’t open it, you don’t own it. Once you disassemble, repair, and put back together your laptop or iPod, you have a much better understanding of what goes into it. It’s astounding how just 20 minutes of work can make an iPod good as new – but most people have no idea that there are instructions available to make the work easy. And why should they? Apple tells everyone that the battery isn’t user-serviceable.

“That’s where we come in, filling the ecosystem hole that Apple created by manufacturing a device without an end-of-life maintenance and disposal strategy.”

iFixit

Fixing the world, one gizmo at a time. | iFixit News

Fixing the world, one gizmo at a time.

Restart Wiki

This is a place where members of the Restart community share tips for mending appliances and gadgets with people who are starting out, or whose knowledge lies elsewhere.

This wiki won’t show you how to fix a particular make and model of device: they leave this to the various fix-it websites and disassembly videos. (You can also get help with a device on social media using #SOSRestart). Rather, contributors to this page concentrate on basic and widely applicable principles, for example soldering and how to stay safe while fixing things.

The site is aimed at anyone with a curiosity about how things work and how to fix them. No prior knowledge is assumed. In the spirit of spreading knowledge as widely as possible, everyone is welcome to read it – and to share it. Anyone is welcome to reuse anything on the wiki, under the terms of the Creative Commons ShareAlike Licence 3.0.

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Restarters Wiki

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European ‘right to repair’ law to cover phones and tablets - Positive News

Makers of electronic devices will have to make their products easier to repair under the EU’s right to repair legislation

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