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Two Chinese supertankers slid out of Hormuz this week carrying four million barrels that sat in the Gulf for two months. Brent crude hits its 2022 high. The U.N. cuts global growth to 2.5%. Low-income families eat the cost first. When an empire pauses, it is not mercy — it is bookkeeping.
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#Iran #Hormuz #WarPowers #OilCrisis #Geopolitics #USPolitics #ClimateJustice #Fediverse #IndependentMedia #Journalism #Introduction to the Thread
What Survives the Morning: The Empire's Pause Button, The Porta-Potty Doctrine, and the Server Farm That Wants Your Water

What survives the morning: empire's pause, political reckoning, and the infrastructure draining our future. Queer analysis meets survival tactics from The Gathering.

Wendy The Druid
May 20 at 3:00pmWeb
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160 megawatts. Two Equinix data centers proposed on golf course land in a city whose Day Zero water crisis still haunts the grid. The application doesn't disclose water use, emissions, or diesel capacity. Foxglove and the Housing Assembly filed objection. The land remembers what the contracts forget.
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#CapeTown #WaterJustice #DataCenters #ClimateCrisis #BigTech #SouthAfrica #Equinix #DigitalColonialism #ClimateAction #Fediverse
What Survives the Morning: The Empire's Pause Button, The Porta-Potty Doctrine, and the Server Farm That Wants Your Water

What survives the morning: empire's pause, political reckoning, and the infrastructure draining our future. Queer analysis meets survival tactics from The Gathering.

Wendy The Druid
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A child stands at the door of a South Carolina public school. The bathroom is locked. The only legal option: a plastic chemical toilet on the grass where every classmate watches her walk to it. HB 4756. McMaster signed Friday. The 22nd state to legislate a child's body as a problem.
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#TransRights #LGBTQ #SouthCarolina #TransKids #QueerLiberation #HumanRights #ACLU #TransJoy #Resistance #Fediverse
What Survives the Morning: The Empire's Pause Button, The Porta-Potty Doctrine, and the Server Farm That Wants Your Water

What survives the morning: empire's pause, political reckoning, and the infrastructure draining our future. Queer analysis meets survival tactics from The Gathering.

Wendy The Druid
Show threadwendythedruid2d ago
"To survive in the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras — be a crossroads." Gloria Anzaldúa, 1987. A trans kid in South Carolina is a crossroads. A grandmother in Cape Town watching the lights go out is a crossroads. Witness is the first form of refusal.
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#Anzaldúa #QueerTheory #Borderlands #Mestiza #DecolonizeYourMind #LiteraryQueer #Witness #Resistance #ChosenFamily #Fediverse
What Survives the Morning: The Empire's Pause Button, The Porta-Potty Doctrine, and the Server Farm That Wants Your Water

What survives the morning: empire's pause, political reckoning, and the infrastructure draining our future. Queer analysis meets survival tactics from The Gathering.

Wendy The Druid
Show threadwendythedruid2d ago
Motherwort slows the anxiety pulse. Marshmallow root coats a gut burned raw by the news cycle. Bilberry pulls the screen-fatigue out of the eyes. The Daily Gathering carries plant medicine alongside the war reporting because the body keeps two ledgers and someone has to tend the one the news ignores.
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#HerbalMedicine #Herbalism #PlantMedicine #Motherwort #SomaticHealing #NervousSystem #SlowMedicine #Druid #EarthBased #Fediverse
What Survives the Morning: The Empire's Pause Button, The Porta-Potty Doctrine, and the Server Farm That Wants Your Water

What survives the morning: empire's pause, political reckoning, and the infrastructure draining our future. Queer analysis meets survival tactics from The Gathering.

Wendy The Druid
Show threadwendythedruid2d ago
Today's Gathering: a paused war that didn't end, a server farm threatening Cape Town's water, a chemical toilet outside a child's classroom — and the elderflower opening anyway. We run without paywalls because paid readers refuse to let us go dark. Click an advertiser. Share a piece. Keep the lights on.
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What Survives the Morning: The Empire's Pause Button, The Porta-Potty Doctrine, and the Server Farm That Wants Your Water

What survives the morning: empire's pause, political reckoning, and the infrastructure draining our future. Queer analysis meets survival tactics from The Gathering.

Wendy The Druid