doomed account

i don't know how to quit

[painwelkin]

*internal screaming*

Hey, so I moved states to escape constant anti-Black harassment and be closer to extended family and was planning on staying with said family til they found out I was on hormones and decided that was somehow threatening to my younger primxs living in the home 😑 So I’ve spent all the money I saved up on hostels and bus fare to get to job interviews and now my account is wayyy overdrawn and will be closed if I don’t get back to $0.00+ by October.

If my account is closed then I’ll also lose my phone (the bill for which is taken from the overdrawn account) because I can’t open a new bank account without a valid ID or an initial deposit which I currently don’t have. Without a phone number it’s pretty impossible to get a job and I won’t even be able to look for any w/o internet access (can’t use the library computers w/o a library card which requires, you guessed it, a valid ID).

There’s just been a storm of circumstances that have left me broke and homeless in a state where I no longer have the support that I did when I arrived. I’m continuing to job hunt aggressively (been to 37 interviews in the last month) and work random cash gigs that buy groceries but I’m just barely keeping my ahead above water and due to SESTA/FOSTA, recent stings, and trauma from previous assaults can’t reliably/consistently count on sex work to make ends meet.

So, if you have a couple bucks to spare and want to help out a Black lesbian in need my Venmo is @angelprolapse or I can accept funds thru FB Messenger (DM me 4 details). I know it’s hard outchea so if you’re not in a position to donate, do me a solid and reblog? Thx for reading + take care 🖤🖤🖤

JC

[alittleporfle]

My Ko-fi for donations is here: http://ko-fi.com/angvondra

Hello, my name is Ang and I am a 22 year old LGBT, neurodivergent (heavily suspected ASD), and chronically ill professional story artist going through a very devastating situation that has completely halted my professional career right as it started. I am asking for donations to help me survive a very uncertain and in a lot of ways, scary part of my life.

The story under a read more:

Keep reading

[lemonheadandlollipup]

Ang is an absolutely wonderful and lovely person, and they could really use the support! Please donate to their Ko-Fi page! 

[frogconnoisseur-remade-deactiva]

[eyfis]

Hey you guys. A lot of you guys formally knew me eyesis or now muna. I became recently homeless from leaving an abusive household and is now couch surfing and trying to figure out how to be as an now out queer somali woman to the world. I’m a interdisciplinary curator & artist and the only tech i have to make a living is a old iphone 5s & old pc. I have bad credit and also its hard to try to repair or upgrade these items when i’m trying to survive out here.

http://paypal.me/munanur

i kindly ask to give whatever you can. i’m the first woman in toronto who successfully threw a black folks only party and the lack of proper tech caused me to loose my job, my housing and my sanity trying to put that together. anything helps. Thank you 

[eyfis]

I’m currently living in a hospital for a psychiatric breakdown after crash surfing with friends after my mom abandon me, a mentally ill dependent who can’t take care of themselves but thought I was capable of taking care of my abusive brother. A few weeks ago I lost the only positive male figure in my life, my grandfather and we only chatted through the phone. I don’t know what’s happening anymore and I’m trying my best to not spiral out of control and just do art but it’s hard. So I beg Everyone, even a dollar would help. Just please please help me. 

[eyfis]

the only person who donated so far is @jihaad

[eyfis]

Even 1 dollar from many would help So much please

[eyfis]

Thanks for everyone who donated I’m honestly crying. Please circle this around if u can’t donate I beg of you thank you so much

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Saturn, rings and moons seen by the Cassini spacecraft wow!

Image credit: NASA/JPL (original video)

[foxy-mulder-deactivated20190929]

trans guy with H-cup needs help to pay for top surgery 🙏please boost

https://www.youcaring.com/julianm-750500

[foxy-mulder-deactivated20190929]

as of April 5/2018 still a long way to go and August keeps getting nearer

as you can imagine being a guy on T with such a large chest is pretty much torture, not to mention the dysphoria

thank you for reading this

[foxy-mulder-deactivated20190929]

also I hope it’s obvious but I would only want people who can afford to spare money to donate to my fundraiser, and reblogs mean just as much to me. I’m so grateful to everyone who has donated and also to those who have reblogged it 💚 thank you all

[foxy-mulder-deactivated20190929]

May the 4th: still halfway to goal and only four months away from surgery

reblogs would be extremely appreciated

thanks so much !!

[bitchycode]

[keithcurrypochy]

Deep Hole

Tucked in the Myakka Wilderness, along the Myakka River, is Deep Hole. This place feels like the setting of a book or a movie. After hiking through expansive dry prairie and hammocks of ancient trees, you come to a large sinkhole, 200ft across and 130ft deep. Deep Hole is everything people fear when they think of Florida as a scary place. It is a watery hole filled with gators being circled by vultures. To me it is one of the most beautiful sights I’ve seen and is what I miss most about living in Sarasota.

The main attraction at Deep Hole is the population of alligators that can number in the hundreds during the dry season. The gators are drawn in by easy hunting. At the bottom of Deep Hole is hundreds of years of decaying debris, this decomposition removes oxygen from the water and forces fish to swim near the surface where the alligators can easily scoop them up. 

Deep Hole is kept pristine by sensible rules and responsible hikers. Anyone wanting to venture out to Deep Hole must secure a permit from the ranger station. Only 30 people are allowed in per day, and limited traffic pays off with unspoiled views when compared to other parts of Myakka. Just about every part of Myakka is beautiful, but there is something special about the wilderness section. 

Myakka River State Park, FL

[flukeprintphotography-deactivat]

Infanticide in a mammal-eating killer whale population

Article

Everything we thought we knew about killer whales has been shaken up. 

Today, the article “Infanticide in a mammal-eating killer whale population” by Towers et al. was published in the journal Nature. It documents the very first case of infanticide (the killing of an infant) in killer whales. It is also the first case of a mother-assisted infanticide in a species other than humans. 

Up until now, aggressive interactions between killer whales (in the wild, at least) were virtually unheard of. Just the other day I was pondering the lack of violence in killer whale society. But just as killer whales tend to do, they upturned everything we thought we knew about them. 

The attack involved the T068s and T046Bs, two families of West Coast Transient killer whales. 

Post-reproductive female T068 and her son, T068A, attacked mother T046B and her offspring. A previously undocumented neonate, dubbed T046B5, was present, and it became clear that this calf was the target of the attack. 

Figure caption from the article: “Observations leading to infanticide. (A) Fresh wounds on left flank and kinked spine anterior to dorsal fin on T046B4. (B) T046B with offspring T046B2 and (neonate) T046B5. (C) T068A surrounded by T046B, T046B1 and T046B1A. (D) T046B ramming T068A from below sending spray and blood into the air.”

T046B attempted to protect her calf by ramming the male T068A. Other members of the T046B family also appeared to try and get the calf back. At one point, T068A had grabbed the neonate by the flukes and likely had drowned it. He paraded the calf’s carcass around in his mouth. Both he and his mother took turns carrying the calf around while the T046Bs trailed behind them. The researchers recording this attack were also using a hydrophone to listen to the whales’ calls, and they documented highly erratic vocalizations that have never been heard before. 

Figure caption from the article: “Observations following infanticide. (A) T068A with the fluke of T046B5 in the left side of his mouth. Fresh scars from the teeth of another whale can be seen on his left flank and rostrum. (B) T068 surfacing with the fluke of T046B5 visible in the left side of her mouth. (C) T068A surfacing with the dorsal fin of T046B5 visible off the left side of his melon. (D) T068 rostrum to rostrum with T046B5 approximately 215 minutes after its death.”

Eventually, the light was dim and researchers had to leave the group. 

This leaves us all wondering: what is going on? Why did the T068s kill a neonate calf? In other species, infanticide is fairly common as the killing of an infant often brings the mother back into estrus and males can mate with her. It’s likely this is what was going on as other explanations, such as competition for resources, do not adequately explain it. 

This is a major discovery in killer whale behavior and I have no doubt we’ll learn more as the years go by. 

[thelonelywhale]

This is absolutely wild

I just read the article and there are so many interesting tidbits. For instance, I found this really fascinating:

“…T068A, T068 and T046B had only been documented together on two previous occasions – once in 2005 and again in 2007. The apparent low levels of association between these individuals suggest that they are not well known to each other and this may be reflective of inherent sexual conflict between their differing sex and age classes.”

What’s also really interesting (though not necessarily surprising) is that this attack was highly coordinated between T068, a post-menopausal female, and her adult son. The paper essentially concludes that the infanticide was conducted in order to bring T046B back into estrus, and that T068 would serve to benefit by having her son’s genes passed on should he mate with T046B.

Regardless, this is still an incredible discovery. Who knows if this is a somewhat regular occurrence in WCTs (or other orca populations), or if this was an aberrant or unusual encounter…

[witch-of-the-wild-xxx]

This is insane!! Is there anywhere to listen to the hydrophone recordings?

[flukeprintphotography-deactivat]

If you follow the link to the paper, there are several recordings of the vocalizations as well as some footage (underwater and above water) of the attack in the supplementary material section.

[caglob]

a NRKW made this meme

[aly-semi-archived-deactivated20]

Liberalism is in such a fucking incredible state of crisis since the election. The total inability to accept the fact that the ideal neoliberal candidate (both economically and in terms of neoliberal identity politics) could have lost due to people not wanting more neoliberalism is just shocking.

Literally, liberals find it more reasonable to assume that like 84 tumblrs (that we still lack proof of their connection to IRA or whatever) undermined the election than to accept that the politics Clinton represented are not desirable to the masses. 

And of course, in this moment of crisis, liberalism shows its hand and reveals the insidious turn from liberal democarcy to a more reactionary social order. Discussing police violence is now misniformation and destruction of national unity. Attentiveness to white supremacy is now condemned by liberals. This is what we on the far left have meant all along when we say liberalism is the left wing of fascism. It is one economic and ideological crisis away from undergoing a transformation into something much uglier.

[pure]

I repeat, the overwhelming majority of the black people who did not vote were not brainwashed by accused IRA clickbait blogs on tumblr. If you’re a liberal who is concerned about the Black voter turnout being suppressed by some outside evil force, look no further than your state prison. Many of the Black people who would have given Hillary their pity vote are in prison or have had their voter rights rescinded due to being felons, thanks in part by some of the tough on crime bills that her husband was supportive of during his tenure. Tough on crime bills that Hillary herself supported at the time, too. But carry on with the #resistance and what not lul :P

[4lung]

[brutereason]

Domesticity is queer culture. It is taking a space, making it feel good for you, taking care of it, showing it love, and then letting that place show you love in return. I spend my mornings taking care of my house a little at a time, and in turn it’s a place where I and my guests feel free to be our whole selves.

AM/PM: Reclaiming Domesticity | Autostraddle (via brutereason)

[flukeprintphotography-deactivat]

An unknown resident killer whale pod traveling through Kachemak Bay, Alaska. 

Studies on Alaska’s killer whales started in the 1980s, and while much information on them has been gleaned, we still have so much more to learn. Over 700 individual resident killer whales have been documented in southern Alaska alone (Kodiak Island to Southeast AK), and there are an estimated 1,500+ that live in western Alaska.

So where does the pod pictured above come from? I have not the faintest idea, and neither does anyone else! I’ve spent days searching through our identification catalogs, studying every scar, nick, and scratch on the identification photographs of known killer whales. Though I obtained good quality ID photos of this pod, they thus far appear to be undocumented. I have sent off photos to different researchers in hopes that if this pod makes an appearance somewhere else, they might be noticed.

Few things are more fascinating to me than these mystery killer whales that show up once and then vanish, sometimes never to be seen again. 

[politicalsci]

[alovesogentle]

@beyonslayed

[swollennugs]

FUCK

[pure]

Here is the source for this work of art

[kropotkhristian-deactivated2019]

You guys, as a US labor historian, let me tell you: It is actually very significant that US union membership actually increased in 2017. Like it probably won’t get huge play on the major media outlets, but that is a big fucking deal. That hasn’t happened to any significant degree since the 1970s. Unions have pretty much only declined since 1976. But unions added over 200,000 members last year, most of whom were under 35. That is a massive deal. That is building people power. That is a huge reason to be optimistic.

Keep it going. Join a fucking union y’all. iww.org