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Ways to support Ukraine 🇺🇦

More than 500,000 people have already left Ukraine due to the invasion by the Russian Federation. The European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management estimates that roughly 18 million Ukrainians will be affected by the conflict in humanitarian terms, with 7 million internally displaced and 4 million seeking refuge elsewhere. To help those still in Ukraine, as well as Ukrainian refugees, we’ve compiled this list of resources.

HelpUkraineWin.org has a collection of vetted and trusted resources, charities, and organizations to help Ukraine.

Some additional ways to donate:

Vostok SOS provides immediate evacuation support.

Malteser International provides essentials for Ukrainian refugees.

Ukraine Crisis Media Center provides fundraising links and a list of tips for sharing information.

Misinformation spreads fast on social media. It is more important than ever to share accurate, verifiable news and information. Here are some resources to learn how to identify misinformation:

This link from the nonprofit WITNESS shares tips for identifying authentic video sources (available in English, Spanish, Ukranian, Russian, and Arabic).

These visual verification tips, also from WITNESS, provide information on verifying images and videos (available in English and Spanish).

This interview with NPR contains tips for identifying fake TikToks.

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[mini-wrants]

A large number of people who sat out 2024 did so because they thought the dem party didn’t go far enough in 2021 and 2022 with their climate and jobs bills and student loans and food stamp/medicare expansion.

And a large number of people sat out 2024 because they thought the democrats became the party of women and gays and high taxes and unfettered immigration and ACAB, and Gaza was an excellent rallying point even if they had already decided not to vote for Dems years before October 7th.

I don’t know a way to appease both groups of disaffected voters because they want opposite things.

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[unicorncryptid]

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."

[lizardywizard]

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?

[the-haiku-bot]

Would you want scammers

to know the state of your loved

one’s dementia?

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Happy Pride everyone, today is the tenth anniversary of the nationwide right to gay Marriage in the United States and the 22nd anniversary of nationwide legalization of Gay Sex. In 2 days is the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

[queer-as-city-folk]

We have won nothing without fighting and we have everything to lose, there is no gay liberation without trans liberation, none of us are free till all of us are free, we have won so much and come so far but the road ahead is still long, we must continue to fight for both our liberation and the liberation of all people

[queer-as-city-folk]

The gay liberation movement is young, everything we have fought for and won happened over the course of less than a human lifetime, and there are forces at play that wish to claw back at these hard fought for rights, we must be prepared to defend what we have fought for and we must continue to fight for improvement

[queer-as-city-folk]

We have to celebrate how far things have come, because we never would have made it this far without joy and hope, and while we can and must fight, we also must remain hopeful

[queer-as-city-folk]

This year is:

11 years since nationwide gay marriage in the US

23 years since sodomy was legalized

57 years since Stonewall

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[rudjedet]

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[the-haiku-bot]

post so nice had to

reblog it twice and force it

down everyone’s throats

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[mariacallous]

[anti-normalacy-blog]

I argued with my Dad about this, in the lead up to the 2020 American Election. He believed strongly that Biden was bad for America.

I didn't fight him on it. I told him that Biden may make America less safe, but that Trump would make America actively more Dangerous, especially for our family. And he agreed with me. He didn't like it, he begrudged the fact that it felt like he was supporting someone who would do poorly by America. But he ultimately agreed an Incompetent who can be trusted to leave power is better than an Incompetent Conman who can't be trusted with anything at all. And that we needed to make sure the latter lost, and the only meaningful way to do that, is vote to make the other guy win.

Voting is a bus ride not an engagement. Get on the bus that gets you closer to where you want to go. And if none take you there, choose the one that doesn't get furthest away. Eventually they'll off Buses that get closer, to capitalize on your fare/vote.

This was a case of the Trolley Problem. That it has gotten here was not our faults, we did not tie anyone to the tracks, we were not responsible for the Brake's maintenance, we were not responsible for the Brake's design, or the Brake's lack of Fail-Safe features. But we were the ones standing at the lever, and to make no choice, to be ideologically pure, would leave more people dead who could have lived, and we would be responsible for being able to save them, and not doing so.

I can still look myself in the mirror, for trying to abort this. I may have voted for people who wouldn't be universally good, to the world, and to America. But I voted against Fascism, that is by orders of magnitudes worse than Biden/Harris/Walz, for the World and for America. I do what little I can in the meantime.

Remind people to mail Ballots a week or two Earlier than they think they need to, so the Postal Service doesn't invalidate them by dating them late, according to new rules. By reminding people to vote. We can rob them of their power to make this permanent by removing their control of Congress. With enough Democrats, they can impeach and indict these criminals. They might be able to impeach and idict everyone until a Democrat Speaker is president, and the DoJ can be ordered to investigate the Epstein collaborators, and protect the fucking Victims!

[mariacallous]

[anti-normalacy-blog]

I argued with my Dad about this, in the lead up to the 2020 American Election. He believed strongly that Biden was bad for America.

I didn't fight him on it. I told him that Biden may make America less safe, but that Trump would make America actively more Dangerous, especially for our family. And he agreed with me. He didn't like it, he begrudged the fact that it felt like he was supporting someone who would do poorly by America. But he ultimately agreed an Incompetent who can be trusted to leave power is better than an Incompetent Conman who can't be trusted with anything at all. And that we needed to make sure the latter lost, and the only meaningful way to do that, is vote to make the other guy win.

Voting is a bus ride not an engagement. Get on the bus that gets you closer to where you want to go. And if none take you there, choose the one that doesn't get furthest away. Eventually they'll off Buses that get closer, to capitalize on your fare/vote.

This was a case of the Trolley Problem. That it has gotten here was not our faults, we did not tie anyone to the tracks, we were not responsible for the Brake's maintenance, we were not responsible for the Brake's design, or the Brake's lack of Fail-Safe features. But we were the ones standing at the lever, and to make no choice, to be ideologically pure, would leave more people dead who could have lived, and we would be responsible for being able to save them, and not doing so.

I can still look myself in the mirror, for trying to abort this. I may have voted for people who wouldn't be universally good, to the world, and to America. But I voted against Fascism, that is by orders of magnitudes worse than Biden/Harris/Walz, for the World and for America. I do what little I can in the meantime.

Remind people to mail Ballots a week or two Earlier than they think they need to, so the Postal Service doesn't invalidate them by dating them late, according to new rules. By reminding people to vote. We can rob them of their power to make this permanent by removing their control of Congress. With enough Democrats, they can impeach and indict these criminals. They might be able to impeach and idict everyone until a Democrat Speaker is president, and the DoJ can be ordered to investigate the Epstein collaborators, and protect the fucking Victims!

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[theconcealedweapon]

[kcyars99]

People really need to stop supporting men’s sports. It should be embarrassing atp.

[steelbluehome]

[yuumei-art]

In 2012 I painted the top image: Rise

In 2026 I am saddened to have to repaint this update: Fall

[bedbyninethirty]

I started following Yuumei back in 2011-2012 when I was in high school. Her painting "Rise" was such a huge inspiration for me. Now, to see "Fall", I cannot help but feel that this is an important, tragic, and monumental moment in our history as Americans - as a world.

Thank you for painting "Fall", Yuumei. I think it's really important and powerful, even if it breaks my heart to see such an important painting I've loved for over a decade update in such a way.

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