Black Light Guides You

I love art, cute stuff, and creepy shit.

[melgillman]

Here’s the new 24 hour comic I drew this year!  This one is called THE KING’S FOREST.  cw: blood, violence

[aireina]

hello everyone — to those who have taken the time to stop and read this — i am writing this post as a texas resident currently living and breathing in texas, creating this post on what’s left of my phone battery and data as wifi and electricity is scarce now. i am asking you all to please open your hearts, your empathy, and your wallets (if that’s a comfortable option for you) and to put aside your hatred and whatever beliefs you may have regarding what you think u.s. americans and people in texas deserve or don’t deserve.

this past week’s harsh winter weather has caused blackouts and power outages that have displaced and put in danger many — literally millions — of people and, you guessed it — the majority of the communities that are suffering the most are marginalized low-income communities and households that do not have the funds or financial resources to safely upend and flee to safety and rebound, much less during a pandemic.

for context: texas has opted to operate an independent power grid that finances separately from the rest of the country, as a reckless act to maintain independence and avoid federal funding (and ultimately capitalize monetarily on energy resources). there are many powerful lawmakers in texas who believe that it’s better for residents to go days without power than to allow for federal regulators to have control over the power grid — but it could be weeks before many communities have access to power again. nobody should die for corporate profits. yet people are freezing to death.

if you are in a position to donate, now is the time.

Mutual Aid Houston

Venmo: @ mutualaidhou

North Texas Rural Resilience

Venmo: @ ntrr4yall

Austin Mutual Aid

Venmo: @ austinmutualaid

Feed The People Dallas

Venmo/CashApp: @ feedthepeopledallas

Funky Town Fridge

Venmo: @ funkytownfridge

DFW Mutual Aid

Venmo/CashApp: @ dfwmutualaid

Lucha Dallas

Venmo: @ luchadallas

Houseless Organization Coalition

Venmo: @ hoc_htx

Cooperation Denton

CashApp: $CooperationDenton

and if you are not in a position to spend money for donations, consider spending time learning instead (i can’t link these articles i think due to using data and not wifi but search them by title and you’ll find them):

what the texas blackout reveals about America’s climate vulnerability // theweek.com

texas blackouts hit minority neighborhoods especially hard // nytimes.com

severe weather, blackouts show the grid’s biggest problem is infrastructure, not renewables // TechCrunch.com

what went wrong with the texas power grid? // houstonchronicle.com

a glimpse of America’s future: climate change means trouble for power grids // nytimes.com

texas shows what happens when we ignore climate change // bloomberg.com

what texas governor greg abbott gets wrong about the state’s power failures // nymag.com

podcast: the blackout in texas // nytimes daily podcast

texas blackouts fuel false claims about renewable energy // apnews.com

[ladypharaoh14]

A black girl will be spending years in jail because she had a mental health crisis. PLEASE READ

Meet Sarya: she was experiencing a mental health crisis. Police came and tackled her. She is 15.

Saraya Rees is a 15 year old biracial girl from Coos County, Oregon. After being abruptly instructed to stop taking her antidepressants by a local pediatrician, Saraya went into psychosis. In her manic state, Saraya poured a small amount of gasoline on the floor. Her parents called Coos Health & Wellness in hope that that would send mental health advisors, Coos Health & Wellness sent the police. While still in psychosis, the officers arrested her, questioned her without her family or lawyers present, charged with attempted murder and assault, and sent her to juvenile prison for 11 years.

This is not justice.

This is inhumane.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP:

Call these people and demand that she be let go to the custody in her parents.

Please call Governor Kate Brown and Senator Jeff Merkely.⁠

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📞Governor Kate Brown: [phone]⁠

📞Senator Jeff Merkley: [phone]⁠

Follow @justiceforsaraya on instagram. You can find info on where to send her Christmas cards and get updated on progress.

[ej0q3oey023ehg2ieh2e2212h2-deac]

The instagram handle for information on Saraya’s case and updates is actually @Justice4Saraya

They have a linktree for her case, which contains links to her facebook, a petition for Change.org, updates on her case, and other links highlighted below: linktr.ee/Justice4Saraya GoFundMe to give Saraya legal support and treatment: gofundme.com/f/justice4saraya Purchasing either the Save Saraya candle or the Justice4Saraya candle at Shantic Creations will also donate to help Saraya: shanticreationsnyc.com/justice4saraya Here is a spreadsheet of more places and people to call and email: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bD-Jc5_2IInZjaubMFgJv00nLjmXZUMvscTUflWs6-c Here is a spreadsheet of places to send physical letters to demand justice, which also includes addresses to send gifts or letters of encouragement or Holiday cards to Saraya: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M3mVfpioHUduSHsi5qkL2XUYY15zIV4JhI1OSL4BgUs Be sure to donate to the GoFundMe and not to any of the Change.org petitions linked on the above Linktree, as no money donated to Change.org is given to help those they were made for or their families.

[r0syx]

Welcome, Ms. Izzard. Your standup has been in my head rent-free for years since I was a teenager.

[r0syx]

Oh, this is about Eddie Izzard having come out as trans, though I’ve always thought of her as gender-fluid: https://twitter.com/thebearcametoo/status/1340069773489696770?s=20

(Text from screenshot: I’m seeing a lot of cruelty directed at Eddie Izzard for asking politely for people to use she/her pronouns. Eddie has been trans since the mid 80s. Eddie has been happy with she/her pronouns for years. She’s just now asking for people to drop the he/him pronouns she used to use.)

[visja]

[rosslynpaladin]

Americans- put your Thanksgiving Wokeness where Your Mouth is.

This is the website of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe.

These are the People who met the “pilgrims”.

 In spite of this, the US government doesn’t fully acknowledge their sovereignty as a Tribal Nation, or human rights, or their right to live in their own home land.

They are trying to keep their last few scraps of land out of the greedy grabbing hands of the Tr^mp Administration.

Land is more than square footage. It’s ancestral sites, it’s the right to say ‘We live here and you can’t just throw us out when it’s convenient to you’, and it’s Family for generations, and it’s Home.

Donate to help them keep it, and to fund their community programs, education, healthcare, senior services and more.

[b1rdonawire]

you do know that when jewish and romani people say “never forget” we mean “learn about the holocaust so you can recognize the warning signs of facism and genocide” not “repeatedly bring up the holocaust whenever anything bad happens and exploit our pain and trauma to make people care about your cause” and when we say “never again” we mean “take action to prevent any stage of genocide on any scale by any means, hold collaborators responsible and don’t be complicit” not “only care about genocide when it’s too late”, right? or did you think it was just a fun catchphrase?

[b1rdonawire]

anyways genocide watch has upgraded the situation in armenia to the 9th stage of genocide — extermination. if you reblogged this post, this is your chance to do something. make true to the promise of never again. 

links to explanations of what’s going on and how to help: 1, 2, 3

[sonnearchive-deactivated2022120]

If you're celebrating Biden's win, consider celebrating by donating to a bail fund, planned parenthood, or the Navajo Water project.

Your action to help the marginalized shouldnt end at presidential candidates and voting.

[populus-tremuloides]

To add some more:

Navajo/Hopi Covid Relief Fund

Critical Resistance, working to dismantle the prison industrial complex and abolish the police

The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, working to end violence against indigenous women and children and provide resources for the MMIW campaign

Sunrise Movement, a youth-led political campaign pushing the Green New Deal and climate legislation

Industrial Workers of the World. Unions.

And of course it’s always a good day to venmo, paypal, or cashapp black, indigenous and other POC in your community, or donate to your community mutual aid fund.

[moringmark]

Among Us but it’s the Alien Franchise.

[thoughts-ofthecollective-shadows]

These are a few of my favorites out of our new deck! They are so gay I love them! And they seem to like me so far. And they told our husband that he is strong and can get through this. So I love them more! -Dawn

[creaturesofnight]

An Enormous Skeleton Emerges in the Middle of a Mexican Street for Día de Muertos

[sophie531896273240810891]

let me relax……………will comment later…………………..

[bringiton]

Some of you may not know, but the Pantanal is burning. Pantanal is the world’s biggest tropical wetlands and most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet. It is the home of the biggest sanctuary for the Onça Pintada/Jaguar (Panthera onca). This area is the most damaged by fire in 2020, losing 15% of the biome to the flames.

 So, we need your help, please donate: 

 DONATE TO THE FOREST FIRES COMBAT (SOS PANTANAL WEBSITE)

Pantanal Relief Fund (WEBSITE)

Instituto Arara Azul (LINKTR.EE and WEBSITE)

 And here we have some articles: 

 Wildfires sweep into Brazil park harboring jaguars

Fires destroy home of one of the world’s rarest birds in Brazil 

Fires in Pantanal, world’s largest tropical wetlands, ‘triple’ in 2020 

Burned jaguars and reptiles consumed by flames: Fires rage in Brazil’s wetlands 

In Pictures: Brazil’s Pantanal wetland is on fire

Fighting Fires in the Brazilian Pantanal

The Pantanal: Saving the world’s largest tropical wetland

[coyotepack-official]

[jenniferrpovey]

Because this is apparently stick up for wolves day.

Wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone has changed the ecosystem *significantly*.

One remarkable thing that was not predicted that demonstrates how interlinked these things are:

Wolf eat elk.

Elk eat fewer willows.

Willows become healthier.

Number of beavers increase.

Number of songbirds increase.

Overall health of streams increases.

Number of fish increases.

Water table stabilizes.

This is called a “trophic cascade” and we normally see them as bad things. But a positive trophic cascade is an amazing thing, and apparently nobody predicted this one.

What they didn’t predict was that wolf predation would keep elk on the move so they wouldn’t overgraze a specific area.

When the elk overgrazed the willows, they removed the best source of food for beavers during the winter.

Once that stopped happening, the beaver population rebounded and it turns out beavers are pretty good for the entire ecosystem.

[coolthingoftheday]

A woman in the U.S. was left this couch in a will.

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

*buys this couch at her estate sale after her tragic, unexplained death and notices there’s one more teddy bear than there used to be*

[pleasestopandrew]

[kryptonians]

I remember watching a video where they posited that our base 10 numerical system was determined by the fact we have ten fingers. So what if another species has 12 fingers? What if they have 37 fingers?

[dragongirltitties]

my man got so stressed his beard fell off

[awkwardtodoroki]

Right now Oregon and California are experiencing one of the worst wildfires to date. The sky is orange and everything smells like a campfire and I'm bad at articulating but it's really serious. Thousands have had to evacuate and lost they're homes in the process. I don't like talking about topical stuff on the blog v often but I'm in the midst of the evacuation zone in Oregon and shits scary. I'm afraid of losing my home and I'm afraid for my family and friends.

Idk what the point is of this post but I feel like not many people outside of the northwest know how bad it is rn cus it's bad. The moment I find donation links I'll link them to this post but I haven't found any yet. And if you're in the northwest rn, please be safe.

Edit: here's a link to a California wildfire relief fund

And a link to an article explaining where to donate to help Oregon as well