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Donate to Emergency Housing & Relocation, organized by mallow R

hi. i recently lost my long-term, stable job and have officially burned through my savings o… mallow R needs your support for Emergency Ho

scrapping my other post to put up an official GoFundMe with updated goals - i was unable to raise the money for rent and am now making an emergency move with my pets.

long-term i'm going to need something to keep us all fed and help pay off late fees that have piled up over time, with my eventual goal being get out further and find a stable job elsewhere.

[voidcreations]

Look at my birthday cake...

[michaelnordeman]

Roe deer/Capreolus capreolus/rådjur. Värmland, Sweden (18 July 2021).

[creaturesculptures]

Unicorn Statue - Mirabellgarten, Salzburg [x]

[paintedhorses]

Hair Day

most carousel companies had their own individual style when it came to their horses manes but some shared common labels

today we’ll be talking about the different kinds of manes used on carousel horses

Windswept

also known as wind blown manes, carousel horse carvings were all about showing a horse in motion! this was the perfect mane to do the job

Peekaboo Mane

just as it sounds, this mane has a gap that you can look through!

peekaboo manes were an incredible flex in the carousel world, it proved that a company could carve thin pieces of wood without the risk of it snapping

Trojan Mane

also known as roached or chopped manes, this style of hair was given its name for its trojan-helmet resemblance

allan hershell is my personal favorite when it comes to trojan manes. sometimes they blend the trojan mane & peekaboo mane as seen in the first photo below

Side Swept

these manes bring a softer/elegant side in contrast to their energetic counterparts

it also brought great emphasis to the romance side, the side of a carousel horse that always faces the crowd

Flying Mane

similar to the windswept mane but with more volume and exaggeration

sometimes carvers such as parker would combine the peekaboo mane with the flying mane as shown below to the left

Top Knot

this mane is styled as if the bangs are floating or curled into a knot on top of the horses head, giving an energetic appearance

introduced in the 1920s, this style was used by the dentzel/muller company the most

remember that many carousel companies differ from eachother! some may share terms while others do not, thank you for reading!

[yeyinde]

Collins is gone.

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

wīya ispīh iyiniw-kiskīyihtamowin pasikōpayiki kāwi askiy ta-iyihyīmakan

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this is genuinely a country where if you lose your income you die. it's so incredibly expensive to even be poor - overdraft fees, late fees, garnishments for unpaid debts/bills, debt as a concept and the predatory behavior of lenders/credit cards when people fall on hard times, or the fact that you can be funneled into legal trouble for not being able to pay. navigating benefits takes time, effort, and energy a lot of people don't have readily accessible and you're not even really guaranteed to be accepted into any assistance programs.

it sticks to you. whatever payment you couldn't trails after your steps and changes every path you could possibly take in the future, and there are days where maybe you need to pay the credit card bill instead of eating because what if it hits your credit, what then? maybe you can't get an apartment. jobs are checking credit now too in some places. poverty has become an inescapable tool in order to keep people working until they die, or to kill the ones who are no longer generating income for corporations at a steady rate.

it's traumatizing and if i survive this i genuinely do feel i will never recover from the damage it has done, and i know for a fact this is a shared sentiment across the board. and the fact it's just accepted and ENCOURAGED by people in power is driving me up the absolute wall

[pinjakan]

かえる

2022/08/18

[aqourz]

I URGENTLY NEED HELP

i made a post asking for help with getting my car fixed which didn't get much traction, unfortunately, but now the situation has become a lot worse. My car needs extreme repairs and it is something that I actually cannot live without. Everything that I am able to do is because of my car. My original post asked for $300 and I will keep my goal the same because I do not feel comfortable asking for more. Please reblog this if you can. Anything you can give helps, even a little bit.

c$app: $mabelfandrade

vmo: mabelandrade

30/300

[aqourz]

Anyone who sees this please reblog!! I am in a very desperate situation!!!

[aqourz]

If you can give anything at all it would help a lot ❤️

[weepingwidar]

Mia Bergeron (American, 1979) - Giants (2026)

[jareckiworld]

Shinya Tamai—Rabbit Figure in the Clouds  (natural mineral pigment on japanese paper mounted on wood panel, 2020)

[salmon-n-hazel]

Orange flower

Shop print INPRNT | Scarves & Bandana: Ko-Fi

[trifoil]

why does the universe wait until you're at your worst to do shit like break your dryer

[horsesarecreatures]

Foundation Appaloosa

[horse-colorimetry]

Black leopard - E/_ a/a LP/lp PATN1/_

[beatricecenci]

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Olijfbomen in berglandschap

[trifoil]

hi i lost my job and am facing potential eviction it would be nice to raise like $1,300 for rent and help with expenses while i apply for jobs. cashapp is $trifoliumz

[trifoil]

i am making an addendum due to the bottle of wine in my system.

i am directly out of work due to data center development in north florida. i am directly out of work due to rapid flashing of capital in small towns being actively strangled by Christofascist conservative values - i walk to a church for aid and they spit in my face for being one of the few out LGBT people in town. i have been pushed to the edges of this place and told to scrape the dirt off the streets to eat.

data centers are moving in to rural florida because the people don't have the means to fight them off; our commissioners hear nothing but the rattling of change in their pockets because they have held these positions for years and remain unquestioned, unchallenged, and without consequence for the blatant corruption displayed every single day. we ARE protesting. we ARE fighting, and i know this because i fought personally with everything i had and lost to monetary gain. no amount of evidence and counsel could prepare for the absolute power these developers have when it comes to communities who can't protect themselves like a larger city might have, especially when our officials have been in the pocket of large developers before any of us had even caught wind of the projects.

NO one is immune, and i want to make that as clear as i possibly can. i worked for what i had believed was an honest, reputable facility dedicated to caring for animals, only to witness a writhing mass of corruption and poor practices blown open in my face the second i actually looked past my rose colored glasses. i'll carry the guilt with me until the day i die for ever being a part of something like that. money sat at the heart of it, but so too did the tourism industry wringing every last drop of life it can out of Florida as a whole.

i do believe life can be better, but i am ANGRY and i am guiltier for perpetuating that exploitative behavior myself - believing that i was doing good does not excuse me of that fact i was involved. it's just unfortunate that being bought and sold is what it took for me to realize just what was going on.

[huariqueje]

You are Doing Well - Line Holtegaard , 2025.

Danish , b, 1980 -

Oil on canvas , 120 x 150 cm.