what a nice picture!! I have been trying to get a bluebird for my bird list this year to no available (thus far). I moved house recently and it seems like they aren’t as common around here. Hopefully your picture can bring me some luck!

oh wow :O that’s beautiful!! I would love to visit a place like this (or be part of creating one)

I’ve been trying to reduce and reuse as much as I can, but I feel like the amount of necessary plastic that comes into my home is… infinite? I buy a carton of milk and a carton of oat milk every week, at the end of the month I have eight cartons. I turn basically all plastic containers into containers for other things (and the cartons are steadily becoming planters for my balcony garden) but I’m reaching the point where I have nothing left to contain. And I can’t stop buying milk… I dunno, just something I’ve been thinking about lately.

Ultimately - as the video concludes - I suspect that we need to pressure corporations to become stewards of the environment but that feels way more overwhelming than making a milk jug planter :c

Basically what the video says :') A lot of us here are aware that it was literally made up but I didn’t know in detail just how bad it is

My local library offers a selection of movies and a projector to watch them on! Honestly I think we should normalize going to the library for a date or hangout and, yeah, something like a regular Friday night library visit for movie night

This is gorgeous!! The skyline reminds me of my hometown so it feels nostalgic in a way despite being something I haven’t seen before

Fuck it let’s go all the way. Replace the cars entirely

My hometown actually set up something like this, with small shed-sized houses that had heating and AC, communal bathrooms, and staff on-site in case anyone needed a hand with something (including professionals trained in addiction). Folks who stayed there report that it was absolutely life changing and enabled them to finally get a job and move into a real apartment or buy a house, get married and have kids, the works.

Unfortunately, the apartment buildings next door are all owned by one asshole who, like all landlords, abhors the idea of free housing and has argued against the encampment since it started. A lot of the people who live there are pretty noisy about it, too. They say that homeless people from the encampment are harassing them, breaking their windows, stealing from their cars, etc - essentially, anytime anyone’s an asshole to them, the asshole must have been from the encampment. Never mind that my hometown is known for having a high crime rate regardless…

So that’s discouraging. But the fact of the matter is that your idea is plausible and there’s tons of evidence to back it up!! And yeah, having a permanent, safe place to live is pretty damn life changing