If you are as concerned about migrant workers in Lebanon as I am, please donate to this fundraiser to help repatriate stranded migrant workers home or please donate to this fundraiser. There are networks of aid created for situations like this, please do not leave them abandoned. The most marginalized people in our society, like the SEA and African migrant workers, like the Palestinian refugees that make up my family reliving genocide again, like the Syrian refugees forced to flee to another warzone during these horrible times, the queer people abandoned by their families and pushed away from society. All of these communities will be assisted by this project.
Here are some of the situations migrant workers are finding themselves in during this time of war and the ethnic cleansing of Lebanon.
Already subject to an abusive system, many of the workers – from countries like Ethiopia, Kenya, and the Philippines – are particularly vuln
If you would like to continue supporting migrant workers in Lebanon outside of times of war / attempted genocide, this is an organization & network run by both former migrant workers and Lebanese advocates who are working to improve Lebanese society by naming and shaming the abuse migrant workers go through.
ABOUT USJoin UsThis Is Lebanon: Our Fight For Domestic WorkersTHIS IS LEBANON (TIL) is a federally registered non-profit in Canada run by a
So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.
Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?
The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!
This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.
Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:
Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or
Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.
The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.
The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).
Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.
So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.
I went down a rabbit hole this summer researching romance novel covers and painting fanart in this style and
this is an EXTREMELY fun style to work in, and also
many of the most iconic romance novel covers you’re probably picturing when you think “classic painted romance novel cover” were produced by one prolific, masterful artist
Her name was Elaine Duillo, and she had a long and extremely productive career spanning from the mid 60’s to her retirement in 2003. She worked mainly in acrylics.
She did illustration work in other genres as well, but she really found her niche in romance novels. She pretty much redefined the aesthetic conventions of the genre, popularizing male models and male nudity and sexualizing men to cater to the female gaze in a way that simply wasn’t the norm before her work. You know Fabio? she’s the one who started using him as a model, and essentially launched his career. And honestly, just look at her work:
In time travel movies, when the time traveler asks 'What year is this?!?' they're always treated like they're being weird for asking.
When in reality, if you go 'What year is this?!?' people will just say '2024. Crazy huh.' and you go 'Wtf where has my youth gone.'
And if you ask 'And what month??' people won't judge you, they'll just go like 'SEPTEMBER!!! Can you believe it?!?!' and you go 'WHAT?!? Last time I checked we were in May?!?'
@syls-uplink makes a very important point here! It's always good to be wary of things that gets you outraged AND neatly fits your pre-existing worldview.
Which is why I googled the headline. And I found the article.
It is in fact real and very recent. September 16 2024. The full story is more centered on how autistic adults communicate their emotions and how neurtypicals misinterpreting autistic people causes issues.
Though it did also have this "fun" quote:
Now if I'm sharing that quote, I do feel compelled to also share this conclusion, which I did quite like.
And for good measure, here is the link, so you can read the article yourself :] It is not actually very long
Contrary to common perceptions and years of research that autistic people can't describe their emotions or often have muted emotional respon
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excellent, a "like we've been saying" study I can show the people I've been saying it to
We were living a beautiful, ambitious and peaceful life, until a monster attacked us, which is the genocidal war that is destroying us.
I am Anas from the besieged northern Gaza Strip, which suffers from hunger, thirst and deprivation of food and nourishment due to the siege.
We are suffering from a severe shortage of basic foodstuffs, which has led to a severe deficiency in immunity.
We in Gaza are exposed to genocide every day, every hour, every minute, every second. We need your help.
I lost my seat in school, which I hoped to build my future from and my dream of becoming a doctor.
We lost our livelihood and daily sustenance after the war destroyed our agricultural land, which was our source of livelihood.
My name is Anas Al-Sharfa. Since October 7, 2023, we have been suffering from a br… Anas Alshrafa needs your support for Donate to allow my
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My name is Hashem from Gaza. I am 32 years old and my wife, Samar, is 27 years old. We have a child born in the eighth month of pregnancy. His mother was premature because of my wife's fear of war. My large family consists of 8 members: my father, mother, four male brothers and 2 females. My father died in the war due to a lack of medicine in hospitals as a result of the fierce war on Gaza.
My story began when we were displaced from our home in northern Gaza in mid-October 2023 after a letter threatening eviction, and then the house was targeted and destroyed. Between this Exodus and the current fifth Exodus there are many stories and sufferings.
We now live in plastic tents, which are thermal ovens, which are not suitable for living and do not provide the minimum necessities of life, in addition to the spread of epidemics and diseases, which puts our lives in danger.
Through this campaign, we are trying to collect enough money to meet our needs and get us out of the Gaza Strip safely. We ask you to stand by us and protect us from this severe danger.
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I’m Hashem Al-S… Hashim Friend needs your support for Help my family survive an
He’s got specific lacing advice for skates and tall boots and there are decorative patterns and I recently relaced my skate shoes for both a wide forefoot and less friction on the laces so it’s easier to tighten and loosen them but he also has lace-locking patterns so that shoes stay exactly as tight as you laced them the first time and it is just a VERY GOOD website.
Like. I’ve been buying shoes the wrong size because it’s often hard to find wide shoes but the lacing pattern for a wide forefoot means that my big hobbit feet actually fit into the previously too-tight running shoes and sneakers I had.
hi. you've all heard from me on various posts, in different ways to encourage donating to different palestinian fundraisers. it is beyond clear that people have grown complacent the longer the genocide goes on. a numbness has entered into the dialogue around what people will say or be willing to do to help people in a time of crisis. and i cry.
we cannot give up on these fundraisers or these people. they are people. they are brothers and mothers and sisters and fathers and friends and lovers and everything in between.
for the first time since we started doing short-term goals, my friend Siraj @siraj2024 has not met his goal. we are still 901 CAD from this newest goal.
he would like to reach 70k by today. he needs to reach this goal to be able to buy a water generator for him and his family. 23 lives are looking to him, and to US to raise that money.
please, donate.
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I've said this to a man before and he shut up so fast I heard his butthole clench.
He said I should wear makeup and be less mouthy. While I was working at Amazon, the closest thing to voluntarily working for a for-profit prison system.
I said "I am already married, and my spouse also works here. Who the fuck do you imagine I'm trying to attract?" And he, also a married man, had zero response.
Start making them answer for their own out of pocket bullshit. They never have an actual answer.
Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a vampire but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I’m also a witch, and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I’m in the seventh year (I’m seventeen). I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.
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Closest match: Prunus dulcis DNA, pseudomolecule Pd02
Common name: Almond
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