[oneheadtoanother]

[yeyinde]

Collins is gone.

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

wīya ispīh iyiniw-kiskīyihtamowin pasikōpayiki kāwi askiy ta-iyihyīmakan

[normaloperafan]

I Love fangames

[normaloperafan]

[miss--vikalaslutwiggle]

[awakefor48hours]

“Europoors can’t afford AC. They couldn’t survive a week of Texas’s heat wave” Okay, yeah, that’s cool and funny. Can we please talk about the fact that global warming is so bad that the heat is literally killing people that far north.

[awakefor48hours]

I get that some people are annoyed hearing about Europeans talk about the rise of heat. What constitutes a heat wave in Europe is a pleasant spring day for some people and to be someone watching entire countries moan and groan about the heat while it’s ten degrees hotter can be annoying. But some of y’all gotta stop pointing and laughing and look at the bigger issue.

It should not be that hot that far north.

Buildings and traffic lights are melting, I can only imagine what the power grids must look like in some cities considering the hoards of people hooking up AC units to their home, and most importantly, people are dying.

We can’t keep making the same “European heat wave” joke every year. Let’s look at the bigger issue. The bigger issue being global warming.

[minimalsizeconspiracy]

I promised myself I wouldn’t get involved in this, but alas, here we are.

These two posts sum it up perfectly. The problem is not the heat in measured degrees, Fahrenheit or Celsius. The problem is that it is that hot in areas where neither fauna, flora or architecture are made for that type of heat, because it shouldn’t be that hot in that area.

Yes, I’ve included fauna and flora. Because yes, it affects the vegetation and our wild animals as well, and yes, they’re suffering and dying as well. They just can’t talk about it on Tumblr.

Frankly, the number of posts I’ve seen where the motivation seems to be sheer pettiness, usually along the lines of “people can’t take a little heat, haha” or “why don’t Europeans just build AC, so stupid” is silly. If you want to get back at Europeans for some real or perceived slight in the past, make it about something that isn’t a global problem for all of humanity, and, might I remind users on the website where many pride themselves on standing up for minorities and oppressed populations, disproportionally affects people in areas that are traditionally struggling with poverty:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479725034097

Very few people with common sense are not aware that it’s much hotter in other places on the planet than it is in Europe at present. I’m actually not talking about the US, thank you. Try the African continent, India or any place located around the equator for that – and guess what: these areas are also being affected by increased frequency in heat waves. They’re also struggling. Except there’s probably a much smaller percentage of them on Tumblr, where the people gleefully making fun of Europeans are hanging out. Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

Until very recently, Europeans have not needed AC. Because the temperatures, yes, even in Spain and Greece, were rarely so high for so long that it would have made sense to plan for it. Since the industrialisation, Europe’s infrastructure has been designed to deal and handle with the range of temperatures that are normal for Europe. This includes housing, transportation, agriculture and power supplies. AC would be, as US citizens would say, “putting a bandaid on a broken bone”. It addresses the problem on a temporary basis and does not do anything to solve the problems Europe is now facing.

And that, I would like to believe, is also common sense, that if you live in a place where heat isn’t an issue, you do not design your infrastructure and houses around heat. You design them to deal with the climate that is normal for that area.

Maybe go and read some research papers on how it affects humanity globally it instead of turning it into a game of pettiness. But I guess that is too much to hope for, considering how little traction these posts have been getting as opposed to some of the other “fun” ones I’ve seen going around.

[awakefor48hours]

Great addition and I would also like to add that while we talk a lot about the infrastructures of European cities not built for the heats, it's also important to note that their bodies are also not built for this heat. The human body is made to adapt to the climate you live in. Meaning if you live in an area where it's usually warmer, your pores open up more and it's easier to sweat/regulate heat. If you've never needed to do that before, it's harder for your body to do which makes it feel even hotter.

[pitbolshevik]

people will make jokes all the time about how middle school bullies can somehow zero in on your insecurities and accurately pick them out (ie the "how do mean 14 year olds know which slurs to call you?" tweet). fucking john mulaney even has a bit about it. but the moment you suggest that closeted trans girls don't get treated like cis boys during childhood or that closeted trans boys don't experience cis "girlhood" you get told you're insane

[pitbolshevik]

i was placed firmly in the "other" category at a very young age and my female peers made it extremely clear to me that they absolutely didn't see me as one of them. my attempts to conform only resulted in them punishing me more severely. i wasn't seen as a girl or a boy by the other children, i was seen as Wrong.

most trans people of all genders I've known have talked about experiencing a very similar phenomenon

[orchidvioletindigo]

Adults (parents in particular) do this to trans kids too. And then when you come out all these transphobes who already diagnosed you as Gender Wrong start trying to shove you back into your AGAB piñata because they want to keep beating the weirdo outcasts who failed gender at age 10 with sticks forever rather than reckon with the idea that maybe treating gender diverse children like shit is bad.

They'll talk about how much better they thought you were as a boy, how much they miss their daughter. They're lying.

[sphxxshthealien]

RUBY SUNDAY MOTHER REVEAL LEAKED ????? (real) (not clickbait)

😱😱😱

[lianedegrenade]

the detached brutality of all these “women need to have more babies” thinkpieces man

[lianedegrenade]

split your body wide open for the stock market

[proffbon]

Why is Marius suddenly the funniest motherfucker in the room?

[joyflameball]

Gooseworx's account has been restored! This does confirm to me that she didn't deactivate it herself- she hasn't posted about it at least. Which means Tumblr did in fact delete her, and only reinstated her when people got mad about it.

Shocker.

[arrozaurus]

nearing the end of the vampire lestat (the novel) ive come to realize, to my horror, that the writers must have told a chatbot to make a per-part summary of the book or something like that and then written the season around the idea of the story that theyd made up in their minds as theyd read it

[yamada-ryo]

genuinely the best 2 word combo ive seen all year

[knifelesbianjo]

evil dan and phil

[dramatic-dolphin]

i love declining birth rates 🥰 "what a horrible problem! society will collapse!" oopsie it looks like you're gonna have to make having children worth it 😊 teehee you're gonna have to improve society in order to fix this problem, or it will all collapse. oh noooooo. how horrible. :3c

[weirdthingifoundonline]

[appendingfic]

"Society needs to extract all wealth from the next generation and then expect them to create enough replacement workers so they can do the same thing-"

you're describing a pyramid scheme

[redstonedust]

they should give bus and train drivers control of the aux so they can blast passengers with whatever music they choose. this would not improve the experience and in fact largely make it worse for everyone but i dont think that should stop them.

[wifegideonnav]

gonna be honest i don’t know how many more ‘enter the 6 digit code we sent to your phone’s i got left in me

[ubercharge]

this had me crying laughing

[mysharona1987]