Stories! Hope in the face of climate change

A Cure for Solastalgia by E.M. Linden. A delightfully hopeful story about pushing back on what capitalism does to the environment.

To Labor for the Hive by Jamie Lu. First place winner in the Grist 2024 Imagine 2020 competition. A tender story about care in the context of climate change.

Mena, Until by Patricia Russo. A brief, atmospheric story about action in the face of climate change. It might be hopeful, or might be hallucinatory.

On more of the hallucinatory thread, Digger comic by Ursula Vernon,
via sophia_sol. "A wombat. A dead god. A very peculiar epic." Digger is a wombat who has gotten lost, encounters a statue of Lord Ganesh, and things get weirder from there.

Boost: Free Bulk Covid tests

I don't know if this actually (still) works, but it seems worth rebroadcasting. Anyone here connected with mutual aid orgs or large singing groups or a school or want to distribute handfuls of tests to everyone they meet? Let me know if you try this and it works!

Free Bulk Covid Tests by toothsalad. Has several reblogs with comments saying it worked.

Anyone in my geographic area need free Covid tests? There is a program through which any interested individual or group can get free Covid tests from the National Stockpile upon request.

The difficulty is that you have to take 300 tests minimum.

These have an expiration date of May 2025.

If any of my followers are connected to food pantries or mutual aid orgs, a friend of mine just found a bulk order form for free covid tests from HHS and it seems to have worked. There is a minimum quantity of 300 tests and no required proof of affiliation, so you could just get them and distribute them to your community (as my friend is doing).

How to bulk order free rapid tests from the government & FAQs (Google doc)

Per that FAQ, make a copy of this Google sheet Home Test Order Request Form_blank and send it to tdx@hhs.gov