Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@kate happy birthday!! 🧁

@RainofTerra figure out what your useful skills and resources are, and how much time/energy you can reasonably dedicate to sharing them (burnout sucks!), and then share that info with all your current friends. If you’re comfortable with it, tell them you’re happy to help with [insert skill/resource related stuff here] if any of their friends need help. Then find out what their skills are, and if those are things you can pass along if you hear about someone needing help

See if there are outdoor/covid safe events you can go to, at least occasionally (political events like protests are good, but if you’ve only got yoga in the park you’ll still meet some potentially cool people!) Exchange contact info with anyone you meet who seems cool, and then maybe hit them up for coffee or a walk in the park or whatever if you wanna turn it into a real friendship. Mention you’ve been trying to help people with [thing] if it comes up. Find out who the organizers are, or other people who seem to be Doing The Work and are aligned with your values and introduce yourself to them. Ask if they’ve got a mailing list/signal group/whatever so you can hear about other stuff they’re doing & if there’s anything you can help with, either in the moment or in the future

@maya that sounds delicious

@celli i feel you 🫂 i ended up just logging off yesterday in favor of distracting switch games but that one only works for so long

@xieliansbignaturals i also apparently bookmarked this webinar a few years ago but i can’t remember if i ever actually watched it 😅

https://www.dustinpgibson.com/offerings/groundingmovementsindj

@xieliansbignaturals neither are straightforward how-to’s alas, but:

SURJ’s disability resource page might be helpful in tracking down resources on the subject (as well as having a decent list of orgs people might want to involve themselves in): https://surj.org/resources/disability-and-access/

and Christy Tending wrote a great piece about their own experiences with disability and activism: https://longreads.com/2023/02/02/things-that-able-me-christy-tending/

@Lady i muted a european earlier today for having takes actually

@britt is Midodrine available in Canada? My sister had good success w/it while she was on Adderall.

Also throwing out taking an electrolyte supplement (i go for https://www.skratchlabs.com ) and compression tights—which hopefully your doctor has already recommended but if they’re at ‘do your own research’ maybe not so i figured i’d double check