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Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

is it just me, or is the whole “for every new follower we gain, we’ll donate $1″ a bit.. ick?

fucking make a donation or don’t. don’t turn a natural disaster and the heartache of millions of people into a grab for social media engagement.

maybe that sounds ungrateful, but.. really?

#ugh

I was thinking of Perseus, this man with all his gadgets, going there and having this victory... This difference between a masculine victory and a feminine one, that was central to my work. The representations of Perseus, he’s always showing the fact that he won, showing the head…if you look at my Medusas…she is determined, she had to do what she did because she was defending herself. It’s quite a tragic moment.

Luciano Garbati

https://qz.com/quartzy/1408600/the-medusa-statue-that-became-a-symbol-of-feminist-rage/

hey there. it’s been a while. how are you all? x

#anybody out there?

“[Daniel Knox] is part of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) which calls itself "the world's largest volunteer firefighting organisation". Its 70,000 members are extensively trained and, except for a few senior staff, mostly unpaid.”

“Since September, close to 3,000 firefighters have been out every day in NSW battling blazes the size of small European countries.

Close to 90% of those people on the ground are unpaid volunteers, says the NSW RFS, the government-funded organisation leading the fight.”

“This century-old model is common across Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia - Australian states which have traditionally had bushfires each summer. In recent years, fires have also flared up in Tasmania and sub-tropical Queensland.

In NSW, most of the 2,000 or so brigades are found in country towns and rural centres dotted among eucalyptus bushland. Members are almost always locals, stepping in to save their own communities.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50887982

#nsw fires #nsw rfs

Melbourne is blanketed in smoke

For reference, I am roughly 300ks (186 miles) from the major fires in Victoria (so, a fair distance) and I can now smell smoke in my office. That’s how vast they are.

#australia fires

#australia fires #nsw fires #qld fires #the goodest boy

#australia fires #nsw fires

A firefighter and a koala in South Australia. Photograph: Eden Hills Country Fire Service/Facebook

At Lobethal in the Adelaide Hills, another town hit by the Cudlee Creek blaze, two koalas came out of the bush to escape the fire. They met the best person who could help.

Dale Adams, a lieutenant at the Eden Hills Country Fire Service, took the photo of his colleague. He told Guardian Australia it was common for koalas to come out, apparently looking for firefighters, in these situations.

“Up behind us there were a couple of houses under threat so we were working to protect them from ember attack,” he said. “They stepped out of the bush seeking help.”

He said the koalas were given water and moved to a safer location.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/24/heartbreaking-and-heartwarming-animals-rescued-from-australias-bushfires-devastation

#australia fires #nsw fires

Koalas in a home in Cudlee Creek, South Australia, after being rescued from fires in a garden. Local firefighters helped a woman move them into her house. Photograph: Adam Mudge/AP

“At the Cudlee Creek fire in the Adelaide Hills, a firefighter called Adam rescued at least six koalas from one of the most intense blazes to hit the state.

The devastating fire, which reached emergency level on Friday, killed one person and destroyed 72 homes and 227 vehicles.

On Friday, resident Janelle Michalowski shared an image of the six koalas huddled safely inside after being rescued.

Journalist Laura Thomson praised the rescuer – later identified as Adam Mudge.

She later wrote: “I’m told Adam doesn’t quite get why so many people are praising him – it’s just a part of his job as a volunteer firefighter.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/24/heartbreaking-and-heartwarming-animals-rescued-from-australias-bushfires-devastation

#australia fires #nsw fires

Mim the kangaroo in a family’s home in Kulnura, NSW, after they took her in for shelter from the fires. Photograph: Matthew Abbott/The Guardian

“On the New South Wales central coast, a fire at the start of December burned through thousands of hectares, on a day when eight different fires in NSW reached emergency level.

In the town of Kulnura, firefighters set up outside a house, preparing for the firefront. Inside, Narelle Davis and Jill Gilbert were cooking sausages on the stove. Mim the kangaroo sat, unperturbed, on a blanket.

The family told Guardian Australia they had raised the eastern grey kangaroo since she was young, feeding her by hand. They released her, and had let her roam wild for years.

Now, as the fires burned, she turned up at their door seeking shelter.

“Now she’s wild but she comes in. I’ve kept her in because of the fires and that,” Davis told Guardian Australia.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/24/heartbreaking-and-heartwarming-animals-rescued-from-australias-bushfires-devastation

#australia fires #nsw fires