My Own Interior Weather

music, science, art, activism, and assorted nerdery

[st4rwiitch]

this is fantastic now children in Puerto Rico wont be able to receive the education they deserve thanks to their messed up government

[dionysusbisexual]

Its even worse than that. I’m living through it. Not only are schools closing, hospitals are collapsing. Only around 9% of the island has electricity and it comes and goes at times.

People are dying in hospitals because of lack of diesel for the generators, a lot of the water is now infected, there are disease outbreaks and scareceness of food. I am safe, but many are not.

Some have water, others don’t. We need help. Sending money would be helpful but what would help even more would be sending water filters, filtering water bottles, food, medicine, if somehow possible diesel.

All of you reblogging this news helps, but what we need is physical help. If you can’t, then spread the word, but God if you can send supplies… Please… PLEASE do. We are dying. Help us, help us save ourselves. Help us save our people. Help us save out ISLAND.

[airyairyquitecontrary-deactivat]

If you’re not in a position to ship or transport useful items to the island (which is sure as heck the case for me in New Zealand) then the best thing you can do is give money to a reputable relief organisation operating in the area.

Hispanic Federation UNIDOS fundraising page for Puerto Rico.

Choose the fundraiser you want from the dropdown menu in the “Your Information” section (as you can see from the picture they have several).

Save the Children’s Hurricane Maria fundraising page.

[wadafuqreally]

Reblogging

[mikkeneko]

You know, every time Puerto Rico comes up I’m reminded of a comment my dad made in a discussion about it, in response to someone claiming that the PR situation is terrible but oh well, what can we do? They’re SO far away after all and the logistic problems are SO hard.

He said, “When the Soviets blockaded the city of Berlin in 1948, America flew in to West Berlin enough supplies to keep the city going by airdrop for over a year. Puerto Rico today isn’t much bigger than Berlin was then, and America has grown immensely in wealth and power since that day. The problem isn’t lack of resources, it’s lack of will.”

Nothing about what’s happening to Puerto Rico (and still happening) is inevitable in any way. This is deliberate. Don’t forget it.

[different-landscapes]

[eearth-deactivated20180601]

You were born from the earth. You must water yourself with love and compassion, feed your soil with learning, pick out the weeds of doubt and fear, allow yourself the sunlight of quiet contemplation.  You can’t just sit and wait for flowers to grow; tend to yourself, and watch how quickly you flourish. 

[theshitneyspears]

THIS IS SO CUTE

THEYRE DOING CLASSIC SONGS BUT SWAPPING ALL THE PRONOUNS YAS

[infinite-playlist]

It has been released! Stream the album at the links below!

Spotify

Apple Music

Tidal

Youtube

[dearestvita-deactivated20221122]

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 22 August 1927

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

the truest ADHD ally of our time was my professor who during a field exam handed me a newt and told me to hold it and I was like “what do you want me to do with this” thinking it was for the test and he shrugged and said “it’s just to keep ya busy”

[redmensch-deactivated20190323]

“If you’re poor, the only way you’re likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it – by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car. But if you’re tremendously wealthy, you can practice industrial-scale violence without any manual labor on your own part. You can, say, build a sweatshop factory that will collapse in Bangladesh and kill more people than any hands-on mass murderer ever did, or you can calculate risk and benefit about putting poisons or unsafe machines into the world, as manufacturers do every day. If you’re the leader of a country, you can declare war and kill by the hundreds of thousands or millions. And the nuclear superpowers – the US and Russia – still hold the option of destroying quite a lot of life on Earth. So do the carbon barons. But when we talk about violence, we almost always talk about violence from below, not above. […] People revolt when their lives are unbearable. Sometimes material reality creates that unbearableness: droughts, plagues, storms, floods. But food and medical care, health and well-being, access to housing and education – these things are also governed by economic means and government policy.[…] That’s a tired phrase, the destruction of the Earth, but translate it into the face of a starving child and a barren field – and then multiply that a few million times. Or just picture the tiny bivalves: scallops, oysters, Arctic sea snails that can’t form shells in acidifying oceans right now. Or another superstorm tearing apart another city. Climate change is global-scale violence, against places and species as well as against human beings. Once we call it by name, we can start having a real conversation about our priorities and values. Because the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.”

— Call Climate Change What It Is: Violence, Rebecca Solnit (via tchaikovskaya)

[suzuki-left-hand-method-deactiv]

hey there LGBTQ kids who are also Christian/Jewish! If you feel like you’re disobeying God, questioning your faith, or feel wrong and dirty for loving who you love, there’s this fantastic site I found today called hoperemains that accurately and thoroughly combs through scripture and its (many) mistranslations, validates your orientation, and basically let’s you know that you’re not pissing off God. It’s insanely thorough and after reading through every page on the entire site it’s super helpful. Go check it out!

[wearyewe]

No no no! Jewish LGBTQ kinderlach! Go to Keshet! 

hoperemains is completely from a Christian perspective, and not pluralistic or interfaith at all.

[metallikato]

If you reblogged the first post from me please reblog this amendment so the Jewish peeps can access this resource too! 

[peppermintfeminist]

Trans Jewish kids, you can go to TransTorah as well!

[fuckyeahsexpositivity]

Muslim LGBTQ kids, you can go to iamnotharaam! It’s run by a mod squad of different genders and orientations, and they take submissions from everybody!

–BB

[spacevinci-blog]

MAY ANYONE WHO REBLOGS THIS BE ELEVATED TO THE EQUIVALENT OF SAINTHOOD IN THEIR RELIGION BLESS ALL OF YOU OH MY GOD.

[oiseauperdu-deactivated20210420]

“I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. February 1934

[oiseauperdu-deactivated20210420]

“I row my beautiful, temporary body through this water-lily world.”

— Mary Oliver, from Thirst; Six Recognitions of the Lord

[phil-irish-artist]

By copyrighting his property as an artwork, he has prevented oil companies from drilling on it.

Peter Von Tiesenhausen has developed artworks all over his property in northern Alberta.  There’s a boat woven from sticks that is gradually being reclaimed by the land; there is a fence that he adds to each year of his life, and there are many “watching” trees, with eyes scored into their bark.

Oil interests pester him continually about drilling on his land.  His repeated rebuffing of their advances lead them to move toward arbitration.  They made it very clear that he only owned the top 6 inches of soil, and they had rights to anything underneath.  He then, off the top of his head, threatened them that he would sue damages if they disturbed his 6 inches, for the entire property is an artwork.  Any disturbance would compromise the work, and he would sue.

Immediately after that meeting, he called a lawyer (who is also an art collector) and asked if his intuitive threat would actually hold legally.  The lawyer visited, saw the scope of the work on the property, and wrote a document protecting the artwork.

The oil companies have kept their distance ever since.

This is but one example of Peter’s ability to negotiate quickly on his feet, and to find solutions that defy expectations.

[missvoltairine-blog]

I feel like this is really important. 

[combustiblecole]

Art as resistance

[themindmovement]

I’ve often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they’re on, why they don’t fall off it, how much time they’ve probably got here… I didn’t learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn’t a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society… It means we don’t have to continue this way if we don’t like it.

Kurt Vonnegut

[bikebutch]

Struggling to keep your rolled up sleeves looking nice is gay culture

[jestbianmoved-deactivated201812]

this isn’t even a meme anymore this is accurate

[ithelpstodream]

[oh-frederik-what-a-day-its-been]

[sharp-tender-shock-deactivated2]

Jesus.

[tethmos-deactivated20180313]

Look at this, and remember it next time someone says that the gay community survived the AIDS epidemic.

We didn’t survive, we started over. We lost all but an entire generation.

[optimysticals]

This is what “we survived Reagan, you’ll survive Trump” looks like. No, we didn’t.

[transpeter-deactivated20180411]

okay so john oliver from “last week tonight with john oliver” did a segment discussing the toxic and extremely homophobic ideals (like support for conversion therapy) that mike pence holds, and at the end of his segment he said that the only likable thing about mike pence is his pet bunny named “marlon bundo” and john then talked about how the pence family is publishing a children’s book about marlon bundo, and how that upsets him bc he doesn’t want marlon bundo to get a bad reputation. so john oliver decided to combat pence’s book by making his own children’s book about marlon bundo falling in love with a boy bunny.

the book is written by jill twiss in association with last week tonight, it’s available in print, as an E-book, and as an audible with the voices of jim parsons, jesse tyler ferguson, jeff garlin, ellie kemper, john lithgow, jack mcbrayer, and rupaul. and it actually is a sweet and innocent children’s book with a very nice story and one hundred percent of the proceeds go to the trevor project and aids united!! i recommend buying it for a charming and inclusive story for children and for yourself, to help donate to the trevor project and aids united, or just as a general ‘fuck you’ to mike pence!!!

YOU CAN PURCHASE THE BOOK HERE

[politicalsci]

rest in peace stephen hawking (1942-2018)