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"Like a moth I too am fuzzy and rarely appreciated."

[jennywilbury]

‘Sympathy in White Major - Absolution II’ Damien Hirst

[tulipnight]

[warriorsdebt]

Did you know that you can just….imagine a cat. like right now you can make an an entire cat inside your head and look at it. a cat. your own cat to look at right there in your mind anytime you want.  Advanced technique,,you can make the cat do things. A whole cat in your head right now playing with a bit of string. the power is yours. 

[holybikinisbatman]

the BEST post

[octopus-anarchy-deactivated2017]

me 

[clefairymoon]

HEY FLORIDA.

The governor just stated if you can’t get out of any mandatory evacuation, whether for fuel or any reason at all, call 1-800-955-5504, right now! The’ll help if you don’t have money, if you have pets, etc. They want you to call NOW because there is time to help you. (I guess signal boosting this is an upside to being subjected to the weather channel while living utterly landlocked.)

[lauraannegilman]

http://www.flgov.com/2017/09/07/gov-scott-issues-updates-on-hurricane-irma-preparedness-5/

Tolls have been suspended. Real-time traffic information and evacuation routes is available at www.FL511.com

Miami-Dade has buses set up to help evacuate those with special needs, and Broward County has buses on standby.

A list of all open shelters will be available at www.floridadisaster.org/shelters.

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) has released September SNAP benefits to current recipients who have not yet received them.

[dailyoverview]

Check out this awesome drone shot of the Botanical Garden in Mount Lofty, Australia! The garden is situated on 240 acres on the eastern slopes of Mount Lofty in the Adelaide Hills. The garden includes plants from all around the globe, including South America, China, East Africa, New Zealand, South East Asia and North America. -34.988504, 138.718630 Found on: From Where I Drone Photo by: Bo Le

[positiveautistic-deactivated202]

Life is tough dude, but so are you.

[borcksidonia]

[medusabraids]

white women get so hurt when non white women talk abt european standards of beauty and realize that white women aren’t the epitome of beauty and then they go ‘wow so much for women supporting women’ like why should i support standards that made me feel ugly for the majority of my life?why should i care abt you getting upset over some text post on a website when you have a bunch of magazines that validate you?if you really believed in women supporting women you’d understand why those posts are being made and the context behind them and you’d scroll past it without adding some unneeded comment abt how your feelings are hurt but it’s very obvious you throw that phrase around to make non white women feel bad for making you feel uncomfortable and not bc you support the meaning behind it

[fratboykate]

Guys, the first images of Irma’s level of devastation are coming out of Barbuda and it’s heartbreaking. The President of Barbuda says that 90% of the island is uninhabitable, upwards of 60% of the TOTAL population are now homeless because the hurricane destroyed virtually every building and home on the island, and that the estimated damage is valued at no less than $200 million dollars. That’s money a small island like that doesn’t have. They’re saying it’s going to take years to rebuild and Hurricane Jose is right behind Irma on the same path which means they could be hit twice. This is just one of the islands being affected.

Please, show up for the Caribbean like you did for Houston. There is no safety net for any of these islands including mine. They’ll rely entirely on foreign aid. Find local charities or global trustworthy charities (NOT the Red Cross) and make a donation asking them to aid the Caribbean. There’s whole countries being turned into rubble with no financial means to repair their infrastructures. They’re going to need help.

[fratboykate]

For the hundreds of people replying or in my inbox asking “Why not the Red Cross?!”:

Google is free.

Why The Red Cross Faces Backlash on Harvey Relief Efforts [Washington Post]

Red Cross Built Exactly 6 Homes For Haiti With Nearly Half A Billion Dollars In Donations [Huffington Post]

Red Cross Exec Doesn’t Know What Portion Of Donations Go To Harvey Relief [NPR]

Report: Red Cross Spent 25 Percent Of Haiti Donations On Internal Expenses [NPR]

Seriously, guess where I found all of those in two solid minutes of searching? Google. Even better, they didn’t charge me a penny for it. 

Stop wanting things to be spoonfed to you. While you waited for someone to link you to sources, you could’ve done it yourself and already donated to people who desperately need it. 

[fratboykate]

Because people are also asking where to donate instead of the Red Cross:

MercyCorps [89% rating on Charity Navigator]

Heart To Heart International [97% rating on Charity Navigator]

Direct Relief [100% rating on Charity Navigator]

Habitat For Humanity [83% rating on Charity Navigator // Because with islands like Barbuda 90% destroyed and French St. Martin said to be 95% destroyed then people are going to need homes built]

Catholic Relief Services [90% rating on Charity Navigator // For those who would want to donate to a religious organization]

If there is a note or comments section on their donation page please do let them know that you would want your money to go to their Caribbean relief efforts. Houston and Florida have the US government backing them in whatever they will need but these islands will have very little except for these charities to fall back if they have any hope of rebuilding what seems to be entire countries in some cases. For the people who lost everything even a few bucks will go a long way. 

For the most part I would suggest staying away from privately launched GoFundMes unless you know the person directly. Ultimately, you just never know where those funds are going to end up and if your money will be used wisely. Sure, the same can be said for charity organizations but at least there is a better shot at possibly helping through them. The five listed above are world known and have been studied by charity oversight organizations. It’s as close to perfect as we’re going to get.

[xanderuwu]

seeing all of these hurricanes and heatwaves is just another reminder of how fucking important it is that we take steps to prevent further climate change

climate change has been affecting countries around the equator for over a decade, causing heavy floods and unbearable heatwaves - of course, those countries are mostly underdeveloped & inhabited by poor people of color

maybe now that it’s really starting to affect the northern hemisphere, y’all will start caring

so what can you do to help halt climate change?

recycling and using less fossil fuels are both great ways to lessen your carbon footprint, but the most effective way to help halt climate change is by consuming less animal products

livestock + its byproducts emit at least 32,000 million tons of co2 per year, 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions (x)

nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas with 296 times the global warming potential of co2 and it stays in the atmosphere for 150 years aaand livestock is responsible for 65% of human-related nitrous oxide emissions (x)

energy-related emissions are estimated to increase 20% by 2014, emissions caused by animal agriculture are estimated to increase 80% by 2050 (x, x)

also no one ever talks about methane but let me tell y’all, methane is one wild son of a gun that knows how to fuck shit uppp (x)

cows produce 150 billion gallons of methane EVERY DAY (x)

and those are only the main emission-related problems caused by animal agriculture, there’s also ocean pollution, deforestation, and animal agriculture is also simply not sustainable, you can read more about all of this in my #veganism tag - so, decreasing your intake of animal products, especially meat and dairy, is a great way to help

and i also urge y’all to educate yourselves on these issues and speak up because climate change is happening right now and has been happening for years, we need to fight the capitalistic governments that pretend this isn’t real

we can’t just keep letting people die because of this, we have to do something!!

[agirlnamedally]

going vegan isn’t changing your beliefs

we already knew hurting others is wrong, we already loved animals, we already wanted to alleviate poverty and we already wanted our planet to survive

going vegan is just aligning your actions to match up with those beliefs

[the-veggie-tales-blog]

[noelbadgespugh]

[midnight-charm]

[frommybowl-deactivated20180413]

Newest obsession: oven baked fries with everything bagel spice + smoked paprika 😍 How are you celebrating #fryday? 🍟 (To get perfect fries every time, I simply chop up some Russet Potatoes, toss them in a bowl with seasoning, and bake them on a silicone mat at 425F for 35 min. No flipping required!) http://ift.tt/2gqcE9G

[the-real-eye-to-see]

This is modern-day slavery. Private prison owner/investors profit from incarcerated POC and get paid by the state. Evil-genius

[weavemama]

These are the people trump is trying to deport due to racist and xenophobic ideologies. MEXICO 👏🏾 IS 👏🏾 NOT 👏🏾 A 👏🏾 THREAT

[lanenaa]

Mexico is always the first to help out