You can't beat death...

But you can beat death in life. Natural resources management: Wildlife Education, Captive wildlife, and Biology.

[damienhaaas]

FAMOUS AUTHORS

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.

Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.

Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

TEXTBOOKS

Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.

Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.

KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.

Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.

Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.

MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.

Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.

Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.

Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.

eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

MATH AND SCIENCE

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.

FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.

Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.

International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.

Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.

Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.

Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.

The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.

Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

PLAYS

ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”

ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.

The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.

Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.

Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.

Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.

The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.

Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.

John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.

Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.

ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.

Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.

Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.

Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.

KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.

Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.

Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.

Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.

Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.

Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.

CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

HISTORY AND CULTURE

LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.

The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.

Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.

Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.

Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.

Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.

Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.

2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.

Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.

Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.

Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.

Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

MYSTERY

MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.

TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.

Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

POETRY

The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.

PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.

Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.

Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

[science-junkie]

… and here is a gift for all of us.

[oreos-and-pepitos]

Aaaaallways reblog

[whoopdyprompts]

aahhh this is a godsend

[1coweveryday]

Happy disability pride month !! Sorry i got around 2 this so late but i hope everyone has a good one :]

[netherworldpost]

Today (and every day) is a great day to use your library services. Your taxes pay for them, the library is yours to enjoy. Explore it! Make the most of it!

Figure out which local politician is seeking to defund it and work to end their career forever!

[melpomeny]

I’m gonna reblog with the gofundme link so it shows up in the tags.

[melpomeny]

Help a Deaf Woman Escape Abusive Situation, organized by Paris Glass

This woman is being stalked by someone who is known to be a dangerous abuser. S… Paris Glass needs your support for Help a Deaf Woman Escape

[bekkathyst]

BEKKATHYST 8 YEAR ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAY ~ 2021

~This giveaway is in no way affiliated with Tumblr.~

Please read thoroughly before entering!

Hello lovely Tumblr folk! It’s that time again- I have a giveaway for you all. This time we're celebrating the 8th birthday of my little shop! 💜

We have both an online store and a physical location that could use your support!

My business is just a small, family run establishment that I started here on tumblr in 2013. I’ve been lucky enough to grow to the point where my husband and I opened a brick and mortar store and I’ve been able to employ my mother and several of my siblings! I’ve been supporting my mom and younger siblings since 2016 💜 I’ve always put compassion and ethics above all else in my business!

This giveaway will have one winner.

What the winner receives:

The large assortment of crystals pictured above! There are 25 crystals in total. Their full retail value is about $450

Rules:

You must be 16 or older. (If under 18 you MUST have parent’s permission)

You don’t have to live in the US to join!

Shipping is entirely free, I will cover it. But if you live outside the US and for whatever reasons your country wants to charge you import tax, you are responsible for it. If it gets sent back to me, you will need to pay shipping to have it sent again.

You must be following me, so you can get updates if anything about the giveaway changes.

Please check out our online shop!

DO NOT tag this post as giveaway. That will risk the notes getting messed up, and this will be ruined for everyone.

Reblog this post to enter. Likes count, too. No giveaway or spam blogs. If you reblog on a side blog, let me know in the tags what the name of your blog is that you’re following me with.

Please don’t spam people with reblogs- limit 2 reblogs per blog per day.  

At the end, each entry will be assigned a number and the winner will be chosen by a random number generator.

The giveaway ends Monday, May 17th, 2021 at 6 pm Pacific time.

The winner will be messaged and must respond with their full name and address within 24 hours, or a new winner will be chosen.

Please respect me and my rules, and have fun!

[guildenstern]

hey irish diaspora lets celebrate saint patrick’s day by making a donation to the choctaw nation, and for those who are settlers, by paying reparations to the people upon whose colonized lands we live and by learning how to become accomplices to causes of indigenous sovereignty and the return of stolen lands to those who belong to it 

[la-laborista-republiko]

I hate these fucking cannibals so fucking much

[howboutthatbreadtho]

Love that AOC became Nancy-Pelosi-In-Waiting so goddamn fast

[anarchblr]

“[I]t would be absurd on our part to hold a grudge against the socialist leaders who, finding themselves caught up in the electoral machine, end up being gradually transformed into nothing more than bourgeois with liberal ideas. They have placed themselves in determinate conditions that in turn determine them. The consequences are inevitable.”

–Elsée Reclus, “Evolution, Revolution, and the Anarchist Ideal” (1898)

[rasoir-national-deactivated2025]

While I don’t disagree with the Elisée (forgot an i here bud) Reclus quote, it has no place in a post that peddles such blatant misinformation.

1) This tweet comes after a thread that starts like this :

2) Goes on to condemn the carceral framework of immigration policy as a whole :

3) And as for the tweet screencapped by op, it’s a response to this :

So here’s what AOC, quote-unquote “cannibal”, is actually saying in that tweet :

- no immigration facility should be carceral

- immigrant children who come in the country alone (which is a situation which has always existed and. will. always. exist.) and/or children who’ve been torn apart from their families should be taken care of in (separate) facilities which need to go through a tougher vetting process

- none of these facilities should be sub-contracted by the gvt

- and some facilities which have had problems in the past should maybe just be closed

- all of these solutions should be short term before a deeper reform can occur.

ALL. OF. THESE. ARE. VALID. AND. PERFECTLY. NORMAL. POINTS. TO. MAKE. NONE OF THEM ARE IN CONTRADICTION WITH AOC’S EARLIER TWEET.

Seriously some people have this idea that advocating for radical reform means you’re exempt from thinking about the meat-and-potatoes day-to-day inner workings of any policy. You’re all for immigration ? Great, me too. How do you plan to house migrants when they arrive ? What kind of facility would you need ? Who would run it ? How do you survey and vet the people running it ? What extra services do you need to provide for immigrant minors who come in unaccompanied and need to be protected in a country they don’t know ? And how do we deal with the damage already caused by the current system ?

AOC is absolutely not saying, as the framing suggests, that “concentration camps” would be fine with a few tweaks. She is saying that such a system is not okay and that deep change is needed, while providing concrete solutions to the most pressing issues with the current way the system works. These two statements are not incompatible.

I understand that we are basically all traumatized with the way we cannot trust any fucking politician, but behind every post calling out AOC as a “corrupted idol” I detect a real anxiety of being “ahead of the curve”, of denouncing progressives for “selling out” before they actually do, so we can’t be disappointed if and when these progressives water down their ideals. AOC is not perfect, nor should she be treated as such. But what’s happening in this post is disinformation, pure and simple. It’s twisting someone’s words for the pervert pleasure of making people feel disappointed and betrayed and dividing us. It pains me to see people fall for it when the tweets in actual context are only a click away. Be better. If we take this shit at face value and discard allies so readily, what chance do we have against people who actually want to cause us harm ?

[vaporwavesimulator]

creature in fiction: *is portrayed as bad and mean*

8 year old me: but what if there was a good and nice one :0

[discardedmilkywaywrapper]

there’s no age limit for this

[vaporwavesimulator]

youre right…………..

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Interponen demanda contra el NYPD por el tiempo de las detenciones en medio de las manifestaciones

De acuerdo con el Departamento de Policía de Nueva York, al menos 1,100 personas han sido arrestadas en relación con las protestas que se ha

[suburban-dreams]

Again the safest best is to specificaly say "I am invoking my right to have an attorney present" and then "I am invoking my right to remain silent" and then DO NOT SAY ANOTHER W O R D

[apersnicketylemon]

Also remember: If they have not read you your rights, you have a legal loophole that could get you acquitted. 

Remember if they have read you your rights. If they have not, you have been illegally detained and can tell your lawyer this when they arrive. Tell them ‘They have not yet read me my rights’, or if they delayed until the precinct to read your rights, tell them this too. Anything you say before your rights are read to, but after you were detained, becomes inadmissible to a court of law. If they have read you your rights and you asked for a lawyer however, things you say before the lawyer arrives ARE admissible, so say NOTHING AT ALL.  

You are also entitled to more than one phone call. Hollywood has taught you that you get ‘one phone call’ and if you didn’t call a lawyer then you no longer get the lawyer. YOU DO. You get more than one phone call, and if you ask for a lawyer they legally cannot continue trying to question you. 

IF YOU ARE A MINOR: They are also required to have a social worker present.

INVOKE SILENCE. INVOKE A LAWYER. 

These are not things ‘guilty’ people do, these are things that protect you. You have rights.  Remember: 

POLICE. ARE. NOT. YOUR. FRIENDS. 

[armsnotsigns]

It doesnt matter if you arent mirandized, judges literally do not give a shit and will believe the cop when they say that they read them to you off their card.

[assoc-of-free-people]

Also remember that asking if you’re associated with Antifa has nothing to do with whether you’re anti-fascist.

[sheepsbian]

i'm gonna be real with you guys i do not give a shit about people "stealing" outdoor cats. i don't feel bad for people who let their cat free roam and found out that someone down the block unknowingly took it in because it was neglected enough for them to think it was a stray.

[gayluigi]

“Stealing” outdoor cats is cool and sexy, actually

Like, 99% of the time, these people don’t even care enough to microchip their cats or even stick a non-breakaway collar on them, so how do they expect people to reunite them with their pet if it wanders off anyway?

[kitbulls]

most of my followers know this dude already but in case anyone doesn't, this is jarvis.

my dumbass idiot neighbors were keeping him exclusively as an outdoor cat. which...keeping an adult cat outside is already a shitty idea, keeping a kitten outside is just straight up insane. We have coyotes and hawks for fucks sake and the kitten almost got hit by a car like at least twice.

anyway, i decided to steal him. I figured it was the best thing to do for him. My brother who lives five hours from me was coming to visit that weekend and he had been looking for a kitten for months, so i already had a good home lined up for him.

any guilt i felt about grabbing him immediately faded away when i realized he was absolutely filthy, covered in fleas and had a sore behind his ear.

it has been about a week since i grabbed him off the street. he's safely in Tallahassee with my brother and his roommates who are spoiling him rotten and i honestly dont think my neighbors have even noticed.

so yeah i fully endorse "stealing" outdoor cats.

[your-opinions-are-ugly]

Steal those cats and make sure they're so spoiled they forget they were ever neglected in the first place <3

[strawberryoverlord]

Free roaming cats are just free cats

[sheepsbian]

i'm gonna be real with you guys i do not give a shit about people "stealing" outdoor cats. i don't feel bad for people who let their cat free roam and found out that someone down the block unknowingly took it in because it was neglected enough for them to think it was a stray.

[sheepsbian]

it's funny you know because when i made this post i wasn't even necessarily pro stealing cats i was simply saying "i don't feel bad for you if you neglect your cat to the point of someone thinking it's a stray". but now after hundreds of notes from absolutely dumbass outdoor cat owners wailing about how they're good owners for letting their cat outside after getting run over by cars/stolen by people/killed by animals i have to say that i think all of you should have your cats stolen and i, personally, am beginning a road trip to steal them all

[unpopulark9opinions]

Credit goes to “controversialdogfacts” on Instagram!

[saltycharacters]

I am so tired

[kedreeva]

If you’re in a position to reblog an animal video, there are a few questions you should ask yourself before doing so.

1) Has the animal been placed in the situation by a human and/or has the behavior been provoked by a human? This includes both wild animals (trapped/cornered, provoked, or otherwise interfered with) and pet animals (removed from their enclosures unwillingly, exposed to hazards including environmental conditions, stress/fear, biohazards, predators, etc). Sometimes provoked behaviors are actually or relatively harmless (like a cat being dramatic about a food bowl or an older animal being weird about being introduced to a new addition), but a lot of times not so much.

2) If the animal has been placed in the situation by a human, is the situation overall beneficial to the animal, or beneficial to the education of a human? For example, removal of an animal from an enclosure for cleaning, their enrichment, interaction, medical reasons etc can be beneficial to the animal. Things like giving an animal a bath may be required even if it temporarily stresses the animal. Sometimes people will record medical procedures or behavior videos in order to document how to do them or what they are.

3) Can the animal escape the situation/are they interacting of their own accord? This includes both physically and mentally; an animal frozen in stress/fear response may have a clear path to freedom but be unable to use it. One example that jumps to mind is that dogs, for example, do not generally like “hugs” the way humans give them (it’s difficult to escape a hug), but they have been taught to tolerate it because telling the hugging human “no” gets them scolded.

4) Is it possible that the behavior is a fear/stress response or a medical issue? Many silly-looking displays (think, like, a puffed up owl with its wings flipped up) are fear responses by an animal who is stressed. Often in the case of wild animals, this response is being caused by the interaction of the human doing the recording. Sometimes things like a cat that appears to be spazzing out is actually a cat having a seizure. If you are uncertain what a fear/stress response looks like in a particular animal, you can always ask others! There are a lot of people who are happy to explain animal behavior. A good trick is to skim the notes of the post and see if anyone has already posted an explanation!

5) Is the animal a wild animal in the care of a human and if so, why? There are wild animals and domestic animals, and some that fall between who are in the process of domestication (like foxes). If you are 100% certain that the animal in the video is a captive wild species with no history of domestication or household captive keeping (for example, most fish, reptiles, and amphibians aren’t “domesticated” the way mammals and birds are, but the average ball python or bearded dragon is a far cry from a wild animal), then you should try to determine why the animal is in captivity. Accredited zoos, rescues, sanctuaries, rehabber homes etc are usually good sources for captive wild animal videos. Some guy with a “pet” panther in his bedroom is not. A café full of owls is also not.

6) Is the animal safe? Safe is a relative term, but MOST predator/prey interactions are NOT safe. Even if you trust the animals not to eat each other, a lot of predators carry bacteria that can be fatal for prey species. Cats, for example, carry a bacteria called Pasteurella multocida, which causes avian cholera in birds exposed to it, which is why sometimes only mildly injured birds still die to a cat attack they escape. Placing a prey animal in an open, exposed position, such as putting a mouse outside in the grass where they can’t get to cover, can be extremely stressful for the animal. Removing an animal from an environment they need to live (for example, removing a fish from water) is usually not good. Things like touching amphibians with dry hands or butterfly/moth wings, also frowned upon.

7) IS THERE A SOURCE?? If the video is unsourced and didn’t come from OP, either go find a source or don’t reblog it. A source link is the easiest way for others to poke their nose in and see what they think of the situation the animal is in; for example, say you see a video of a bunch of tiny crocs making laser noises in a bathtub. Is this cute? are they distressed? who is the person talking to them in the background? If the video has a proper source, you would be able to quickly check and find out that ah yes, these are rescues this certified guy is working with to raise and release and that noise is the social noise those crocs make as babies. 

OF COURSE there are always going to be exceptions, and context is always, always important. Sometimes, things just happen. Someone might be recording an animal doing nothing unusual and suddenly something weird happens that isn’t provoked or caused by the humans or medical issues or anything. Sometimes wild predator/prey animals interact of their own accord (or at least there’s nothing a person video recording it could do to stop it). Sometimes there are extenuating circumstances for why a person has an animal they shouldn’t have (for instance, maybe they just found it and are in the process of getting it to a rehabber). Sometimes an animal is being a giant baby and is not actually in any danger of starving to death if you don’t fill their food bowl in the next 5 seconds. But if you ask yourself a few simple questions and do a quick check of the notes, often you can avoid passing on videos of animals in distress.

[draconym]

@gawki Thank you for helping to organize the art call to Stop Line 3! Here’s what I worked on tonight. If you’re unfamiliar with this long struggle that Water Protectors, environmental groups, and community orgs have been going through, please check out the SL3 website.

P.S. like all my activist art, this is creative commons, no attribution required, PLEASE feel free to distribute it to help raise awareness.

[mellow-elbow]

In regards to what happened yesterday (Jan 6th 2020), Rep. Cori Bush is calling for signatures to hold those at fault accountable for the coup. They’re very close as of 8:30 AM EST, but you can sign here.

NON AMERICANS: PLEASE DO NOT SIGN. THIS NEEDS AMERICAN SIGNATURES ONLY. PLEASE GO DONATE TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND PEOPLE IN NEED. DO NOT FAKE A NAME AND ZIP CODE. /srs

[wanderingnork]

PEOPLE:

STOP COMING TO TUMBLR FOR NEWS.

There are live updates happening on most major news outlets. Posts circulating on tumblr are behind the times. If you want ACTUAL UP TO DATE NEWS with a minimum of panic and rabble-rousing then check elsewhere.

Yes, this is as bad as it looks. No, a panicky tumblr post does not have all the information. Prefer verifiable facts to social media soundbites.

CNN live updates

NBC live updates

NY Times live updates

CBS live updates

C-SPAN live video feeds (heads up: these are live and I’m not sure what content might be inside—so call this a violent-content warning)

Reuters article (updating but not a live feed)

Additionally, check your state and local news sources. There are related events already happening at the state/local level—it’s equally important for you to know what’s happening close to home. Be informed!

GO TO A REPUTABLE NEWS OUTLET.

[violetsandshrikes]

This fund is to install water purifiers for indigenous families in Canada, where there is a water crisis and desperate need for safe water sources. There are currently 58 long term water drinking advisories across Canada, which does not include short term ones (eg ones that are under 12 months long)

Since the beginning of the year it has only reached $2547 out of $10000 (as of December 21st 2020). If you can donate or share this, please do!!