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I don’t know how many of you keep up with current events, but the big story at the moment is: Pine Ridge reservation is underwater. You may recognize that is the reservation of the Oglala Lakota Sioux. Aka my tribe.

They are experiencing extreme flooding due to melting snow, and this means there are elders not getting to medical care they need, damaged homes, and people without running water.

It’s incredibly stressful to watch your tribe suffer from afar.

But if you want to help with the relief efforts monetarily, please do!

https://www.pineridgerelief.org/?fbclid=IwAR11tM1aEm53xHmXw5cEtpsqNzBRC8aVCUOJ9d-l3S0uOLu2D-QHBDFevRk

Our work is dedicated to funding and delivering charitable services and goods. We strive to inspire and improve the lives of those who need

khangi

Do consider donating. Pine Ridge is about to get smacked with ANOTHER large snow storm, which is just going to add to the problem already happening.

powerfulwizard

The narrative of humans being the ones who are responsible for earth’s destruction is a narrative that only benefits the wealthy. The wealthy make up a very small amount of the human population and we vastly outnumber them. They want us to think that humans inherently destroy the earth, because they know we aren’t just going to wipe ourselves out intentionally to save the earth, so that just keeps us complacent. they don’t want us taking the easy and obvious way out of this crisis, which is overthrowing the corporate ruling class that is causing the actual destruction.

powerfulwizard

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Here is a free PDF of Why Does He Do That if anyone wants to give it a read

pro-gay

so yeah imma be homeless in 2 weeks so i have lit zero shame in doing this anymore like at this point the universe left me no other options

if u can spare anything pls consider donating to https://paypal.me/danymitev ty

aberrantceramics

Eye Star Ornament for the Death Tarot card

against-stars

my father said to me once that one of the things he deeply regretted was not putting music on for his father while he was fading away. he told me that grandpa would just sit in his old armchair in the quiet, and not until after he’d passed did my dad think of how he could have played of his favorite classical music tapes for him so grandpa could listen to something while he still could. i was very young when this happened and not much older when my dad told me this, but it always stuck with me as something important.

my mother died at home in a hospice cot, slowly shutting down over the course of about a week. when she had stopped responding, i remembered what dad told me about wishing he’d played music for grandpa, and i put the radio on her favorite country music station and kept it on for her until she died.

daddy died in hospital. no cassette players, no decent radios. the day after he was brought in, i thought again of what he told me, and i bought a little portable bluetooth speaker. even though he never woke up, was never aware, i played music for him too.

there’s no real significance to sharing this, not really. my motivation is selfish, again: i just want to hope that someone might think of this when their loved one is stuck in silence somehow, and maybe they’ll play music for them, and they won’t have to regret not doing so. i want to hope it helps someone. and i want to hope that someone will remember my dad with me, even in just a “story i read on the internet” way.

eirianerisdar

Hey, OP, you actually might have done a very significant thing for your parents indeed. Hearing is the last sense to go when someone is passing away. It’s why palliative care doctors tell patients’ relatives to continue speaking even if the patient stops responding. So even if your mother and father could not wake or respond to you or those around you, they perhaps could have heard the music they so loved, and perhaps were comforted. So what you did wasn’t selfish at all, and I’m sorry for jumping on to your post, but it’s likely that playing music for your parents as they passed away did much more for them than you might have known at the time.

minotauri

mom said it’s my turn to conjure the old gods

heavyweightheart

Huge TW for the photo and text in the linked fundraiser, but…

A woman in my recovery community has been extremely ill with anorexia nervosa for decades, and several years ago was also severely burned in a kitchen fire. She is middle-aged, quite alone in the world, too sick to function, and in desperate need of the help that’s being offered to her (w a partial scholarship) by an excellent treatment center. But she needs the money to go.

If you can give or share, you really will be helping to pull her away from death’s door. Thank you!!! <3

blackwoolncrown

Like when I say ‘white people need to talk to bigots because bigots don’t listen to minorities’ I did not say ‘and it will be easy and fun’.

I know it’s easier to be like ~boo hooo the world is so evil and there’s nothing I can dooo~ but it’s statistically and experientially understood, just by fucking 3rd grade logic, that a bigot will be less amenable towards the subject of their bigotry.

Bigots don’t just ~not like~ minorities- they don’t think we’re human. It’s not about whether they agree with you or not in the moment. Like, pause.

Understand this:

Calls to action for white people to oppose bigotry are calls for white people to position themselves as opposition. THEY ARE NOT CALLS FOR ~SUCCESSFUL DEBATE~

Do not think you are expected nor are you likely to just go around arguing with bigots and they’ll go ‘I agree with you because you’re white!’.

Your job is to be sandpaper.

Every time they open their mouths to make a bigoted joke, or a bigoted remark, or post their shitty bigoted opinion online, you grate against them.

Your job is to make it hard to be a bigot or a fascist. Your job is to ostracize them. Your job is to speak over them the way they love to speak over minorities. Your job is to make it difficult, lonely, annoying, stressful and unwelcome to be a bigot.

When you are white and silent, You are making it easy. You are just letting it happen.

When minorities speak up for themselves, they are in danger, and the bigot just writes off our arguments as the chattering of ‘lessers’.

You, white people, whether you think so or not, are their peers.

Specifically those of you who look and talk like, to an outside observation, your average white american.

Bigots think you all think like them, but are too scared to say it. That, or you’re too much of a coward to stop them.

YOUR JOB IS TO PUSH BACK AND PROVE THEM WRONG.

YOUR JOB IS TO SEPARATE THEM FROM THEIR OWN COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

There are devils among you and if you want to stop being associated with them then fucking prove it. You’re pretty much the only people who can.

spiritroots

Damn this is so important. SPREAD THIS YALL

jamabushi

Young Nude | 1966 | The translation of bodies into then-fashionable computer language | from The Myth of the Machine : The Pentagon of Power | Lewis Mumford