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#struggle

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Kalvin Carefour Johnny

Guess who is exploiting and taking advantage of my vulnerability and trust? My uncle. He can use any of my mistakes that he finds to justify bullying and mocking me. I don't even have money to pay for his liquid petroleum gas for cooking. I am really sad, and no one cares. I am still a student with so many debts that I can't pay. It's around RM50,000. What does he expect? Taking advantage of me? Using my inability to pay his bills and for LPG, and when I'm at my worst, it's time for him to kick me out of his house. I am actually homeless. But that terribly destroyed house doesn't count. My father wanted me to stay at my uncle's house for stable electricity. #FamilyIssues #Struggle #Support #Homeless #StudentLife #Debt #EmotionalAbuse #Bullying #Vulnerability #Trust #Hope #Vent #MentalHealth #IAmTheProduct #MutualAid #NoOneCares

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Eric Maugendre

"There is so much that every one of us can do, and so much to be gained by doing it—not the least of which is a sense of your own agency."

"Experimentation and play can open up space. Instead of making a plan, think of one small step you can take and then see what happens. […] Notice what patch of ground or sky you can see from this new position, and take another step."

everythingchanges.us/blog/keep

children smiling around a chemistry experiment
#resilience#strength#art
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Yoram Blumenberg

«Is it wrong to not disclose my rather apparent #autism on a #job application? I don’t want to lie, but I also don’t want to tank my chances. Do I risk #discrimination? Or hide the fact that I might #struggle later? What’s the right answer?»
–Someone somewhere (but not me)

I think there is no right answer b/c we Autists/ADHD/AuDHD are very different, incl. all the other factors that play into this question.

I run into a massive #AuDHD #burnout after 30+ yrs. in the «creative»/design business and 13 yrs. in the last company I worked as a UX Specialist.

Still recovering.

While figuring out what my future path will be, I have decided to be absolute transparent about my AuDHD.

But my decision is probably not recommended for every other {neurodivergent}¹ individuum.

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“Australia willing to consider joining #PeaceKeeping effort in #Ukraine: ‘It is the right thing to do and it is in Australia’s #NationalInterest. Because what happens in the #EuroAtlantic has serious implications for our region – the #IndoPacific – and vice versa.

This is a #struggle not just for the people of Ukraine & their #NationalSovereignty. This is a struggle for the International #RuleOfLaw.

President #Putin’s regime has imperialist designs, for Ukraine and beyond.’ — #AnthonyAbanese 🍌🇦🇺⚔️

OR

Vote for me, stuff the consequences. I want a forever war to stay elected, make money. Don’t talk about houses, hospitals and energy with the public.

#Straya / #Australia / #War / #ForeverWar <theguardian.com/australia-news>

the Guardian · News live: Bandt says Australia should cancel Aukus payments and leave pact; Albanese joins ‘coalition of the willing’ talks with Starmer and ZelenskyyFollow live
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Nando161

’La Voz de la Mujer was a paper written by women for women, it was an independent expression of an explicitly #feminist current within South #America’s #labour #movement and was one of the first recorded instances of the fusion of feminist ideas with a #revolutionary and working-class orientation.

As with #EmmaGoldman, #LouiseMichel and #VoltairinedeCleyre, it differed from the mainstream #feminism by being a #workingclass movement which placed the #struggle...'

libcom.org/article/no-god-no-b

libcom.orgNo God, no boss, no husband: The world’s first anarcha-feminist groupAn account of the first anarchist-feminist group in Argentina during the 1890s.
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Zinn

   An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
   And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) American historian, academic, author, social activist
Essay (2004-09-02), “The Optimism of Uncertainty,” The Nation

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/zinn-howard/35668/

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. -- Howard Zinn
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