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Victorian Bushfire Appeal WIRES-Emergency Fund for Wildlife Pics That Sum Up The Hell On Earth That Is Taking Place In Australia.

Help Thirsty Koalas Devastated by Recent Fires :

https://au.gofundme.com/f/help-thirsty-koalas-devastated-by-recent-fires

Mogo Zoo Fire Recovery

https://au.gofundme.com/f/mogo-zoo-fire-recovery

WIRES-Emergency Fund for Wildlife

https://www.facebook.com/donate/1386120504919105/10158318179549750/

Victorian Bushfire Appeal

https://www.vic.gov.au/bushfireappeal

cosmicsolo

The fires in Australia are terrifying and a direct result of man-made climate change. The immediate human loss is devastating enough, but it’s estimated that animals in the billions has died, and entire species native and exclusive to Australia are on the brink of extinction.

#australia #fires

fandomsandfeminism

This won’t be WW3. This won’t be WW1 or WW2. This won’t be an alliance of countries coming together, a war of drafts and rationing. There will be no Rosie the Riveter and no victory meats. No war bonds and no D Day. There is no holocaust to end and no ally country to liberate.

This will be another Iraq and Afghanistan war. This will be another Gulf War. This will be American drones bombing the shit out of innocent civilians half a world away so often that it won’t even be reported on. This will be American snipers committing war crimes you won’t even hear about. This will military recruiters going to your high school, promising your friends free college that they could never afford otherwise, this will be your classmates dying in a desert on the other side of the world. This will towns bombed into rubble and another million Americans with PTSD to be abandoned by the VA. Hundreds of thousands of dead civilians and another 50,000 vets homeless on the streets when they get back.

For what? For oil. For power. To make the American voter forget about Impeachment as the 2020 election cycle kicks in.

Don’t let them do it.

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Aww I saw this on Facebook and thought it was way too good not to repost

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cosmicsolo

YES!

ramenuzumaki

I just read this on twitter…

theweakenedstate

This post needs to be shared, on newspapers, and in all the blogs.

theblackmanonthemoon

Iran look lit

21,165 votes and 768 comments so far on Reddit

Ricky Gervais’ opening monologue was brilliant and I honestly think less of Tom Hanks for his reaction.

#golden globes 2020 #ricky gervais

retropopcult

20 year old Bernie Sanders leading student sit-in against segregation, 1962.

yeahiwasintheshit

Fucking republican cancers on democracy

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.” ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

#yes #John Berger

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I wish Skarsgaard had gotten the role. Chris Hemsworth is good-looking and all, but it has always ruined the Thor (and Marvel) movies for me, that he can’t pronounce anything correctly. I cringe every time he says mjølner and Asgaard. Like I realise it’s based on an american comic book, but the names and overall structure of the world is still straight out of Norse mythology. Just a tiny bit of respect for that would’ve been great

#Thor #marvel #that's not how you pronounce asgaard!

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being poor is traumatic. even if you’re not homeless or starving. never being able to get anything nice for yourself, never being able to go out to eat without feeling guilty, never being able to do anything fun that isn’t free, making you housebound in bad weather because you can’t afford to go to a cafe or a movie. it takes a toll. being poor under capitalism makes your life a waking nightmare. this post must be reblogged by everyone.

poorrichardjr

Addendum: If perchance you do scrape up the money to do something (say buy a computer or phone because you absolutely need the damn thing for work), you get shamed for doing so. “Why did you buy that expensive phone if you are poor?” I spent 20 dollars on it …. “What about that nice computer you got there?” I bought it six years ago, refurbished for about $250. “How about that big ole television you got there?” etc, etc, etc. No matter how poor you are, so many people think you should have less if you are “actually” poor.

technogenic-mess

There’s no two ways about it: poverty is violence.

mharti-mcfly

cleo4u2

THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.

No. Just NO.

I’m so glad someone put it into words.

decepticonsensual

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a legend, and he’s absolutely right.

And I really feel like there are parts of fandom that don’t get or don’t believe this, and I think that’s troubling. I’ve seen arguments that people shouldn’t have dark fantasies, or that bad impulses in themselves make a bad person. I’ve seen so much shaming over thoughts.

And if you get to a point where it’s bad to have dark thoughts and it’s bad to wonder what something would be like and it’s bad to put yourself in the shoes of anyone who isn’t “pure”, if fiction is no longer a realm where you can confront and explore, but an ongoing test of moral purity… well, maybe not everyone’s brain works like mine, but I feel like that takes away something incredibly important to being human.

athenagray

Purity culture is gonna kill art if y’all let it.

rainbowloliofjustice

Fiction is a safe place to explore whatever fucked up or dark desire that you have. You can write the most vile and fucked up shit in fiction and it be absolutely nothing you desire in real life. You can write about a serial killer who gets away with it. You can write about someone who goes on moral crusades to purge the world of all evils and still be the protagonist. You can write anything in fiction because that’s what it is meant for.

It isn’t meant to be a social commentary unless you create it to be.

It isn’t meant to be educational unless you create it to be.

Sometimes a story can be just that, a story. Entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less.

Not everything has to be deep, or have meaning, etc. unless the creator wants it to be and a lot of the purity types end up forcing something to have deep meaning or social commentary where it isn’t meant to. Is this inherently bad? No, but these people don’t just say “But this is my interpretation of it.” they go as far as trying to force that interpretation onto everyone else, including the creator, as a means of saying “See? It means that they promote/condone xyz so they’re bad and shitty people who should spend the rest of their life in jail with/are the same as people who’ve actually committed acts of violence against other people.”

one-lonely-whumperfly

THANK. YOU.

fangirlofall

@ all the people in the notes saying “yes except u can’t write about (list of immoral things they don’t want to see in fiction)” congrats on missing the point so spectacularly I’m not sure I could create better performance art if I tried

heroofthreefaces

Transcription of the Miranda quote in the images:

“I find that, for me, the work is a safe place to put all the stuff you don’t want to put in your real life. I don’t want to be a crazy, manic asshole. I don’t want to have an affair. I don’t want to have a fucking gunfight. But! There’s a part of your brain that wants to experience everything, and so work’s a safe place to explore it all. Both in the writing and in the performing. I get to write about having an affair. I get to have the guilt and the feeling of that without having to fuck my life up. [laughs] Art is the place to safely explore all those other sides of you, because the side you want to bring home is the side that wants to be a good father and be a good husband and be a good son. In art we can be fucking nuts.”