[nellakes]

hello again.

[orphyd]

The Laziest Summer 🍂🌻

[eunnieboo]

[keplercryptids]

one of breonna taylor's murderers was charged with wanton endangerment for firing into her neighbors' apartments. not for murderering a young woman in her home. but for property damage. no other charges were filed.

if you can, now would be a good time to donate to the Louisville bail fund. hundreds of protesters are currently marching with a long day ahead.

black lives matter.

[fairefolked]

all alone i feel your breath i hear your whispers dark like storms telling me, “dear, i’ll never leave your mind.”

power; she is power

[ridgepoot-deactivated20200914]

i hope ea knows i have NO brand loyalty to them and i am IMMEDIATELY jumping to paralives when it’s out 

[cakenoodles]

I’m becoming a parablr the moment is comes out…. DONT be surprised babes.

[literalite]

fuck homophobes. fuck transphobes. fuck racists. fuck em all. i agree. however i dont agree with how u react to these asks. having diversity in ur game is absolutely amazing and I LOVE IT!! but having cis sims is also okay. having white sims is okay. having straight sims is okay. it doesn't mean that because ppl dont include it, that they dont support it.

nowhere did i say that im going to come over to your house and hit you with a telephone pole if you have white cishet sims. no one in the history of the entire world has ever said. hey u have white cishet characters! that means you’re a terrible person! dude, i have cishet white sims in my game. but here’s the catch! if you point blank refuse to have anything else, you might not realise it, but you are valuing other kinds of people as lesser, as other, as not worth your time to try and portray and make. and that makes you. guess what. a racist, or a homophobe, or a transphobe or even a thrillingly unsexy combination of all three. i react angrily because i am sick of coddling people who believe i am lesser then they are. i react angrily because the fact that these people can’t even fathom making a character means that they can’t come to terms with people like that being humans too.

[novac]

uly said it best but this anon is esp annoying. why do people thinkhave diversity = being white/cis/straight is bad. it’s not! nowhere in uly’s og post did they say it was. but these mfers got it so twisted that their brain automatically see “white sims” and think that poc are complaining about the exsistence of whites. theres nothing wrong with being any race/sexuality but once you only care about one you’re making the others look less important. no ones asking you to be diversity.com, mfers are asking u to evaluate why you only have white sims and see if thats a reflection of your character. WHY is making poc sims more difficult than making white sims when they are equal. also stop telling pocs theyre reating “wrong” when all theyre reacting to is racism.

[literalite]

dear simblr u dont have to have ur blonde white female het marry that brunette white het man. u dont have to have a black or lesbian best friend to the blonde het who only appears like 2 or 3 times and has no agency or personality of her own. there r other people in the world baby, think about it a little harder, u wont strain ur brain i promise xo

[rosymiel]

[simtasia]

Baby’s gained some weight and isn’t sure how to feel about it….Mello loves it tho.

[goldenwattles]

lesbians.............they’re so powerful

[seb-bill-and-taylor-oh-my-deact]

To Scotty

Love the Nelligen New South Wales RFS.

[i-have-not-had-enough-tea-deact]

Just to give those who arent aussie or who dont live in Australia, an idea of just how bad this is. And it's only getting worse. This started in August. Our winter.

My country is on fire. I live in the Australian Capital Territory, or Canberra. My city is covered in smoke everyday from the fires that are all around us. Some towns are gone. Many people are stuck because the fires have surrounded them. People are dead and missing. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed. Today, it has gotten even worse. 4000 people are currently sitting on the water at the coast because the land is too dangerous. The fires are closing in everywhere. We are terrified. If this doesnt make the people in power, especially in my own country act on the climate crisis, I dont know what will. #ourhouseisonfire

[leafvy]

this isn’t my photo but it’s a photo of all the people trapped on mallacoota beach because of the bushfires, this photo was taken at 10:30am

the sky is red

please for fuck sake this year don’t light fireworks for new years

[leafvy]

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[teekalu-archive-deactivated2020]

How fucking dare you. How dare you, Scott Morrison, sit in your tax payer funded office and deny climate change. Deny funding for the RFS. Deny compensation for exhausted, overworked fire fighters. Deny people a future on this planet.

Three volunteer fire fighters dead. Three young men, most recently a twenty-eight year old with a pregnant wife. Australian citizens dead. Endangered wildlife dead. Hundreds upon hundreds of homes lost. Thousands more structures gone.

Millions of hectares burned, and no rain in sight.

Australia has had its hottest day on record this year. Then the next day broke that record. And then the day after that. This morning, at 8:00am, a town had already reached 49 degrees celcius. Skies have turned black at midday, clouded with smoke and flames blocking out the sun.

My sister is a volunteer fire fighter. She does not get paid. She gets two days of paid leave from her government job. The only protection for her lungs that she is supplied with is a disposable mask. She stares down thirty metre (+) tall flames without hesitation and you had the audacity, without shame, to say that she wants to be there. She has a fourteen year old son. When she goes to a fire we don’t know if she’s alive until she can find time to send a message to us. We might not even hear from her until she gets home, sometimes twelve hours later. She does not want to be there, yet she does it because, if people don’t volunteer, there would be no one else to fight these fires. To save lives.

You took a vacation to Hawaii while we burned. Then you couldn’t even walk on the scorched earth. To save face, you got in a chopper and viewed the destruction from above. You spent thousands on a chopper ride, but you deny funding to essential emergency services, to people who have lost everything.

I have never been more ashamed of the leader of my country. I am disgusted, and I’m angry.

How dare you.

[goldenwattles]

Please read!

Hey guys. I know I rarely ever post anymore but I just wanted to show and tell you guys what’s been going on in Australia right now. I’ve honestly got no idea if the rest of the world has been reporting on these bushfires but I feel like this really needs to be known.

Australia is the driest continent on planet Earth. We have always been prone to harsh bushfires, it’s something that occurs every year during summer. This is normal for us. However, what is not normal is for these bushfires to begin at such extremities - before the official bushfire season has even begun. Below is a current-time screenshot of the bushfires currently burning in Australia, the country is literally on fire:

We are currently in the worst bushfire crisis ever recorded. Summer, and the “official” bushfire season, has only just begun and yet these bushfires have been ongoing since August this year. In Australia, August is the last month of winter. These fires have been ongoing since WINTER, and if this doesn’t speak volumes on what climate change is doing to our planet then I don’t know what will.

These bushfires have been caused for a plethora of reasons, including severe and extreme drought, heat, arson, and climate change. We have been in EXTREME drought for the majority of the year.

Farmers and those living in rural areas of Australia are currently experiencing the highest levels of water restrictions that are able to be imposed. Warragamba Dam (the greater Sydney region’s primary water source) is steadily drying out and water is steadily depleting. In fact, today (December 10, 2019) level 2 water restrictions have been imposed for those of us living in Sydney. Compared to our rural counterparts, this restriction level is insignificant. Below is imaging of Warragamba’s current numbers in comparison to last year (2018):

It doesn’t help that our government are firm climate change deniers. Gladys Berejiklian, Premier of NSW, cut funding to fire and rescue services before the fire season begun. With our country on fire and our wildlife steadily burning to death, the PM was too busy checking out the “longest Qantas flight” (New York to Sydney) with Qantas CEO Alan Joyce instead of addressing and aiding with bushfire relief.

I’m sure some people might know about what has happened to the koala’s, with them being deemed “functionally extinct”, which is why I implore you to please donate to koala sanctuary’s and hospitals if possible! Wildlife experts have stated that these fires have been so extreme, that any koalas trapped within the fires would have been cremated. Their bodies will never be found which will make koala numbering that much more difficult.

I also want to include photos of Sydney today. This is my home. I was born here. I have NEVER seen this level of pollution, never breathed in air so poor in quality like this, and have never had to be on alert for people who could suffer from such severe smoke inhalation. The following images were taken off of Twitter (I do not own any of them).

This is Sydney on a normal day versus Sydney today, taken in the exact same position (credit). That’s not cloud or fog, that is bushfire smoke. It really just puts into perspective how poor the air quality is here, especially when you can barely see in front of you.

These are images of Coogee beach taken today. I come to this beach often during summer so to see such familiar environment developing into this state is heartbreaking. The water is filled with soot and the shore line is becoming absolutely polluted in it. It has worsened since these photos were taken (credit).

I implore that you all do further research into the statistics and facts of these fires! Climate change is very real and it is destroying this planet to the point of irreversible repair. I have donated to various bushfire relief-aids this season and I urge that you do too, or at least spread the word!

I’m sorry that me posting after such a long time isn’t about anything happy or positive, but this is extremely important to me and the planet so I felt it necessary.