[gyrium]

i really hope people don't mind that these days i reblog mostly fundraisers for palestinians just trying to survive, but i want my blog to be an easy way to find a list of people to donate to. i don't really make much money so it kills me that i feel so limited when there's so many people still alive and still fighting for their right to exist.

i will always reblog posts if i am sent messages or asks from the accounts in question, so if anyone in need sees this, my ask box or DMs are always open (if it's a DM it won't be replied to but i'll reblog your pinned post; if it's an ask i'll post it with the link to your donation pages). i don't care if i've boosted you before or not, i'll do it as many times as you want me to

(please know that if i don't respond, it's because i get dozens of messages a day and i am not always able to be online)

please donate if you can! anything you have to give helps.

[mummer]

im so obsessed with this it’s like the most concentrated 54 seconds of comedy in the world to me

[femmenietzsche]

Neanderthal adhesives were made through a complex synthesis process

Birch bark was heated in underground chambers to create a tougher adhesive.

Neanderthal tools might look relatively simple, but new research shows that Homo neanderthalensis devised a method of generating a glue derived from birch tar to hold them together about  200,000 years ago—and it was tough. This ancient superglue made bone and stone adhere to wood, was waterproof, and didn’t decompose. The tar was also used a hundred thousand years before modern humans came up with anything synthetic. After studying ancient tools that carry residue from this glue, a team of researchers from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and other institutions in Germany found evidence that this glue wasn’t just the original tar; it had been transformed in some way. This raises the question of what was involved in that transformation. To see how Neanderthals could have converted birch tar into glue, the research team tried several different processing methods. Any suspicion that the tar came directly from birch trees didn’t hold up because birch trees do not secrete anything that worked as an adhesive. So what kind of processing was needed? Each technique that was tested used only materials that Neanderthals would have been able to access. Condensation methods, which involve burning birch bark on cobblestones so the tar can condense on the stones, were the simplest techniques used—allowing bark to burn above ground doesn’t really involve much thought beyond lighting a fire. The other methods involved a recipe where the bark was not actually burned but heated after being placed underground. Two of these methods involved burying rolls of bark in embers that would heat them and produce tar. The third method would distill the tar. Because there were no ceramics during the Stone Age, sediment was shaped into upper and lower structures to hold the bark, which was then heated by fire. Distilled tar would slowly drip from the upper structure into the lower one. The resulting tars were all put through chemical and molecular analysis, as well as micro-CT scans, to determine which came closest to the residue on actual Neanderthal tools. Tars synthesized underground were closest to the residue on the original artifacts. “[Neanderthals] distilled tar in an intentionally created underground environment that restricted oxygen flow and remained invisible during the process,” the researchers wrote. “This degree of complexity is unlikely to have been invented spontaneously.”

[andmaybegayer]

Weeping with joy over the idea of a Neanderthal industrial engineer

[my-dailydreams]

[lucentgallivanter]

anyone else having this problem?

when i look at the shapes on a tumblr post concepts and ideas enter my head and they aren't mine....genuinely pissing me off. now i gotta take next thursday off to develop a theory of knowledge.

[anas-fromgaza]

Here you can donate to the families in Gaza. We have collected $3,912 / $20,000.

This video shows ongoing, systematic demolitions in Gaza.

Homes are being destroyed, neighborhoods cleared, and entire areas wiped out even now, while a ceasefire is supposedly in place.

People are watching their houses disappear piece by piece.

Not during fighting.

Not in the middle of airstrikes.

But after everything, when they were told it was safe to breathe again.

The destruction didn’t stop.

It just became quieter.

These images show displacement tents set up right next to a heavily damaged building.

The building was hit before and is leaning, at risk of collapsing at any moment.

Families are living in these tents because they have no other place to go.

There are no safe areas left, no intact homes, no shelters to move to.

Leaving this spot doesn’t mean safety it just means being displaced again.

So people stay.

Not because they feel protected,but because this is the last option they have They sleep knowing the building beside them could fall.

They wake up hoping it doesn’t.

This is not temporary living This is forced survival.

Donate for GAZA

This donation campaign is for ANAS family. Not for strangers, not for a cause I'm distant from but for the people who raised me, the people I love, the people I'm terrified of losing.

They are in Gaza, trying to survive something no human being should ever have to endure. Constant bombardment, displacement, hunger, fear, and the feeling that tomorrow is never guaranteed. Every day is about staying alive one more night.

If you choose to help, you are not donating to an abstract crisis. You are helping real people with names, memories, and lives that matter to me more than anything.

[johnofe]

5:30 PM

5 days a week.

No freaky business, just happy to see Norb.

This is 98% of what Norb and I do together.

It’s all I live for.

[angelicguy]

The fucking painting

[neyhaz]

love wins

[hazemsuhail]

Will you leave my family to face a slow death? 🚑🚨

If you ignore this message, you are leaving ten lives to an uncertain fate amidst the rubble. 💔

Imagine the agony we endure:

I live in a broken body. A severe injury to my twelfth vertebra gnaws at me day and night. I have no access to treatment, not even a single painkiller to alleviate this suffering. My brother, Samer, who suffers from bipolar disorder, is facing imminent death. He has run out of medication, and his legs are severely injured.

We need to reach Egypt. My spinal injury is critical and cannot be postponed. Samer's physical and mental health is deteriorating by the hour.

Please, don't stand idly by and watch us perish. Your donation is the only bridge that can save us from the brink of death and bring us back to life. 🫂❤️‍🩹

Linktree Donation

[hazemsuhail]

Share and donate whatever you can please Please

[wolf-aid]

This is Gaza, where not a single house remains standing. We are without shelter, without food, without water. We are dying. We are being bombed every day. We are being shot at in the middle of Gaza City. Where is the ceasefire agreement? Where is the humanity? They are shooting at and targeting people who go to get some firewood for their families to cook. We are truly oppressed.

[wolf-aid]

Nasser my nephew is a young child suffering from a serious illness dreaded malnutrition and his body is very weak and he needs urgent help I do not want anything to happen to him I became my trustee is his recovery he has no immunity and he also became new sufferer of anemia Please, you are our only hope of saving him.

[wolf-aid]

Please, if you can help with anything. Please donate now to save the life of a child. I really grieve for his condition. Imagine yourself. My place is like your little brother. Please donate now. Please, dear Time runs out quickly please

Donate to Help little Nasser and his family survive this genocide, organized by amina And safaa

Hello, My name is Nasser Arheem, I am 10 years old. I am d… amina And safaa needs your support for Help little Nasser and his family sur

[hiveswap]

Please help support nasser's recovery!!

[wolf-aid]

Please donate now to his rescue and bring some food to his rescue. Please don't ignore us. And help us all I hope you guys.

[wolfer-aid]

guys Nasser Apart from Nasser's suffering, however, the shelling continues, and the occupation began exerting pressure through starvation. That's the prices are starting to go up. Please donate now before it's too late.

[wolf-aid]

Guys, please help me and donate to save Nasser, why no one crosses us, why am I? To forgive anyone who sees this and does not participate, please guys, donate and participate now. You are our only hope if anything happens to Nasser, I will not forgive those who were able to help and did not. Donate to donate now. and don’t ignore

[sloppystyle]

[patricia-taxxon]

people talk about "marginalized in one area but privileged in another" as if its a niche category of person and not everyone on earth

[tgirlwithreverb]

the continuing appeal of nationalism - perlman

[depsidase]

[ahmadwaleed55]

My friends, please understand, the so-called “ceasefire” is not real. In some areas the bombing has stopped, but the Israeli army still surrounds Gaza and allows only a tiny amount of aid to enter, just enough to keep people barely alive. From time to time, they resume bombing and destruction again, bringing more fear, more ruin, and more blood. 💔

We live among the rubble, covered in dust and smoke, with no shelter, no hospitals, no clean water, and no safe roads. Every day is a struggle to survive hunger, illness, and despair. Families are torn apart, children cry from pain, and the elderly wait for help that never comes.

Please, don’t ignore us. Don’t let my family and others fade away in this deadly silence. Your donation means food, medicine, and a small chance to survive another day. It means a glimpse of hope in a place that has forgotten what hope feels like.

And to the governments of this unjust world, where is your humanity? You unite and move mountains for the remains of a few Israeli soldiers, yet you abandon more than two million people to live in conditions beyond human endurance. Gaza is not a headline; it is a land full of souls still fighting to live.

Please, help us survive. Don’t let our lives fade away in the dust and smoke. 🙏💔

Donate to Help Gaza Families Secure Essential Needs, organized by Ahmad W

Dear Esteemed Donors, My name is Ahmad , and I am a 14-year-old resident of Khan Yo… Ahmad W needs your support for Help Gaza Families Secu

📌 Fundraiser vetted (#167 by el-shab-hussein & nabulsi)

[gyrium]

i love crpgs a lot but i think i keep bouncing off of pillars of eternity 2 because it reinvented its mechanics enough from the first game that i had to relearn the whole game from the ground up again and i just don't have the time for that anymore... PoE 1 slapped hard tho

also on the topic of crpgs and my friction with them, because i have to be a hater about something these days, there is absolutely no reason to make a game like pathfinder wrath of the righteous. honest to god the most unplayable crpg i've ever tried. epic level 3.5e dnd was bad for a reason and we dont need like a 200 hour game of that. why are there a billion encounters on a billion maps and they all need every buff under the sun just to meet damage reduction thresholds. mechanically it's dread-inducingly unfun and narratively it's completely dissonant and nonsensical. the extra plotlines for the godlike power thing was pretty cool though

[gyrium]

like why is this wolf in the woods CR 20 what's happening to the local ecosystem

[xxxdragonfucker69xxx]

the economy

[xxxdragonfucker69xxx]

to learn more google "massive wolf inflation" on your work computer

[the-haiku-bot]

to learn more google

“massive wolf inflation” on

your work computer

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[gyrium]

ive seen this image so much im starting to see the tears in his eyes. hes so proud of me

[xxxdragonfucker69xxx]

Trick or treat

[helldevilsfromsatanland-deactiv]

anthropology i do believe is a deeply embarrassing field for taking a virtuous impulse (it's good to learn about people who are different from you) and subjecting it to the corrupting, innately unethical framework of scientific inquiry ("i am studying people who are different from me" versus "i am building relationships with people who are different from me")