Taina / is on Nostr

Studies social sciences, 44 years old (she/her).

Activist, self-dx #ADHD/#autism, #leftist, #socialist, fat activism, climate justice, #intersectionality, nature & social justice. Trying to be the change I wish to see in the world.

I have many hobbies and interests: #gaming, #cooking, #sourdough #baking, #hiking, #lifting, #painting, #music (to name a few).

Toots about any- and everything in Finnish and English, always tries to think with portals.

Last Notes

2023-08-30 16:43:02

Incredible mushroom my sister came upon today, had to share this to the #FungiVerse.
As far as we can tell this is volvariella bombycina aka tree mushroom. Silkkituppisieni in Finnish.
A rare find in Finland. Sighting was made in Southern Finland.
#sieni #sienestys #fungus #mushroom #fungus #fungi
https://files.strangeobject.space/media_attachments/files/110/979/544/683/633/535/original/70d6191b09f01900.jpg

2023-08-29 18:59:32

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 I know right?
Listening to the stuggle and what they did feels incredible.
Wish I could visit and change thoughts about social work with folks from an actual socialist country. Might have to look into going on a brigade there.

2023-08-29 18:20:38

Blowback, season 2. The Cuban revolution.
Two episodes in and what a revolution it was.
The covid vaccine making nation that sent all those healthcare professionals out to help others in solidarity.
They have persisted againts all this, it's kind of incredible.
#podcast #leftist #cuba

2023-08-09 13:59:08

I honestly believe that one big reason why the paradigm of pathology is so strong when it comes to #autistic, #adhd and other #neurodivergent folks is that:
we have a strong tendency to dismantle all the things.
We do not automatically respect authority, not unless we see that it is deserved.
We question the status quo as our natural mode of operation.
It has even been labelled and demonized as "justice sensitivity" or whatever, one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard.
"Oh you don't like it when people are being oppressed? You must have justice sensitivity."
And seeing folks like us as valuable and useful to society might be tricky for those who benefit from all that oppression.
We are the people who call shit out. I for one am very proud of that. It has always been one of my best qualities.

2023-08-07 14:41:42

South of Finland right now.
#ClimateBreakdown
https://files.strangeobject.space/media_attachments/files/110/848/845/887/337/870/original/be21b9a4ff435a85.jpg

2023-08-03 08:15:16

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 Same. The future heat scares me, where do we run when there is nowhere to go.

2023-08-03 08:08:14

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 Well this also in Finland.
I have counted my blessings so many times this summer, we lucked out in an incredible way. The previous summer heat domes have been horrible already.

2023-08-01 19:11:53

Autumn. Today feels like autum.
The very best time of the year.🥰
Cool air, all the harvest things, soft light, scent of the earth and moss. Falling leaves, silent forest. Ah. Darkness.❤
#autumn #syksy

2023-07-06 11:47:02

I have some complex feels about us neurodiverse folks using indigenous terms to describe ourselves.
I don't know, the entire neurodiversity discussion seems to revolve a lot around the experiences of white and often still pretty privileged folks and I am not sure if we should use terms from peoples who have suffered immense oppression. I wrote an essay on gendering and neurodiversity and the obvious racialized nature of the paradigm is unmissable. It's not great as it is.
Is it just me or has someone else thought about this? Is this empowering or stealing?
It has bothered me for some time, not an easy topic to talk about. But I can't unsee this.

2023-06-20 17:19:41

As we worry about a billionaire getting lost doing the submarine games I am here to remind everyone that 700 people drowned in the Mediterranean last week.
Not many headlines about that is there?
Edit. People, not migrants. My bad.

2023-06-04 14:20:50

After living 9 years in this apartment with upstairs neigbours who love to play all kinds of musical instruments, but can't hold a tune even if their life depends on it, I am actually pretty happy our move is coming up in a week or so.
One of them has practiced Für Elise on a piano for 9 years straight, never once managing to actually play it.
It sounds like we are doing the accordion today.

2023-06-04 08:49:50

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As has been pointed out to me, this guy may or may not have said this. Or he said this, but in different words.
The sentiment remains valid though, which is why I posted this in the first place.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/23/capitalism-motives/?amp=1

2023-06-03 22:41:02

"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of motives, will somehow work together for the benefit of all."
—John Maynard Keynes
#AntiCapitalist

2023-05-25 17:46:42

An interesting observation I have made about myself as a lifelong fan of horror, dystopian scifi and other grim stuff.
I have apparently lost my stomach for it.
I had to walk away from the audiobook version of Neil Gaimans Neverwhere (even though I have read it in the past), because the brilliant acting of the violence in it got too far under my skin. It made me feel sick and anxious.
All kinds of torture, violence, the world ending. I just can't anymore. Not when the reality we live in has become so violent.
Wonder if anyone else has had this experience?
#reading

2023-05-09 16:01:32

A few days ago I read a piece about #NeuroDiversity and #adhd in particular that stated how dopamine is produced by either motivation or fear. To simplify. Like the drive to do stuff can be triggered purely by fear. Be it of failure or anything.
It haunts me now thinking about my late identified audhd and the whole "high performing" thing or "but you are doing so well" thing. And how this is gendered and how so often women with adhd/audhd are not diagnosed or validated because they "do so well". Yet it is all there.
Think about the amount of fear, trauma, masking and harmful learnt behaviours there has to be and where it has come from to produce one "high performing" neurodivergent person? It's all invisible harm that produces an indivual who seemingly does sort of ok in todays world. The implications of this are so violent in nature it makes me shiver.

2023-02-10 19:08:23

Been thinking about this whole #capitalism business and the way it seems to stand in the way of meaningful #ClimateChange solutions, proper #pandemic mitigation and often the same applies to all the "fixes" that get sort of watered down under our current policy. Been thinking about the "why".
After understanding that our current regulations all favor economic growth and free competition as the very first principle, there can be no "fixing the things" under this model.
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