probably not here

felicia / 1995 / abc / intp

[totalsellout]

BABY, NOT BABY (2025) AIR (2025)

[hanfugallery]

Chinese knots 中国结 Zhongguojie on xiaohongshu (cr 贰肆（半尔）,苏连城, 浅酌花下眠, PPBIAO, 小靴0)

[rederiswrites]

Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.

[rederiswrites]

Nazis are taking over my government, and like, not even just the Nazis we fucking elected! And I'm...making hamburgers? Because somebody has to make dinner? I just feel completely unhinged.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I think that's how random civillians generally feel in these situations. Someone's gotta make dinner.

[lizardlicks]

If you're wondering, there is plenty to be done about it, and plenty being done about it already, even if it's not happening instantly in a way you can perceive.

Is Somebody Doing Something?!

Yes. Let me break it down for you.

[rederiswrites]

Reblogging because this is an excellent article that both tells you about some of what's being done and breaks it down in a way that will help you understand and think about future action. Please read!

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

Jiuzhaigou valley, sichuan province in china by Pearlene

[magic-can]

Senators are going to vote on whether or not we should continue to send aid to Israel on Wednesday, November 13th. Call them, bombard their phone lines with calls. Every fucking day. We have a chance of doing something about this.

[strike-another-match]

yall

[cosmos-collector]

Maybe it's already been added but if not this Instagram post has a great script to use and details of how and what to talk about when calling the senators and knowing who to call in the first place, please take 5 -20min out of your day to do this

[neocatharsis]

240928 CHENLE Douyin Update

[titsay]

[hikari-ni-naritai]

In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.

[rainbowgod666]

Hey its been at least 9 years anything changed?

[hikari-ni-naritai]

nope! all quiet on the linguistic front. i am a girl now though

[naonic-blog-deactivated20230221]

John Oliver Buys $15M of Medical Debt for $60K and Forgives It All, Because He Could

Once again John Oliver proves that you can do anything with money and lawyers

[partisan-by-default]

Oliver then proceeded to detail how with $50 and knowledge of the law he was able to successfully apply online to create a debt buying company named “Central Asset Recovery Professionals,” or as Oliver put it, “CARP” named after “a bottom-feeding fish.”

After setting up a rudimentary website for CARP, the satirical, but still real company was offered a $15 million package of medical debt for $60,000.

Oliver explained that the debt was out of statute, which means it is the kind of debt that a collector can only continue to collect, but not sue the debtor for.

Then, instead of chasing down the 9,000 debtors in the debt package as a normal collection agency would, Oliver decided to stage the largest one-time giveaway in television history and work with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to forgive the $15 million with no consequences for the debtors.

[helloquirks]

Okay but now I know what I want to do of I get rich?

[beabaseball]

You dont have to be rich to do a bit of this actually

RIP Medical Debt is a charity (and therefore takes donations). They buy the rights to medical debt and then forgive them. So far they’ve forgiven over 1B in medical debt.

So a little ray of hope for someone out there today.

[shayvaalski]

Donating $10 buys $1,000 of medical debt. This is real, it works, and we’ve done it ourselves. You can too.

[yummy-tummy-time]

As of June 29, 2024, the charity is still active under a new name, Undue Medical Debt

[chronicandironic]

Here is the goggle doc on what to do! Even if you don’t need to live in New York, you can message the tourism board.

[eskiworks]

Do you live in New York state? Do you like being able to protect yourself from covid in a public space LEGALLY? Please do this.

If you do NOT live in New York state, please reblog this.

[weaselle]

wtf new york

[travalicious]

why is this the hottest thing i've ever seen

[travalicious]

HE SHOWED UP WITH A DUEL DISK TODAY?????

[schakira]

AND ALL FIVE EXODIA PIECES

[gay-jesus-probably]

I need everyone to know that I looked it up, and Noah Lyles is doing this as part of an ongoing bet he has with shotput competitor Chase Jackson. She's wearing Naruto accessories every day, and if Lyles whips out Yugioh cards at every race, then for the shotput finals Jackson will re-enact the scene of Rock Lee dropping his weights.

This is now the only part of the Olympics that I care about.

[uchihakakashi]

why would you like media that is good if you can like media that is bad instead and pace around your room like an insane person thinking about What If It Was Good

[sunfang]

[tchaikovskaya]

I don’t really Go Here but u can always rely on this man to read a right wing politician’s outfit for filth

[tchaikovskaya]

I mean. Just devastating 😭

[tchaikovskaya]

[creepymutelilbugger]

[condensedvaporwave]

This man has LETHAL comebacks. Idiots keep trying to get one over on him and he has never missed

[condensedvaporwave]

Actually no I'm double reblogging this I found the one where he *calls a guy's tailor* to confirm his suit isn't actually bespoke

You cannot win in his arena. This isn't "if you come at the king you better not miss" this is "don't fight a shark in the water"

[fourdiagnosesinatrenchcoat]

He's one of the few things I miss from Twitter

[dxppercxdxver]

physically incapable of being upset by being rickrolled. if it’s well executed i get to engage in the playful wink-nod with the jokester. and if it’s obvious. well then i just get to see my beautiful friend rick astley

[formeganpage]

I’m obsessed with this man

[littleguysdaily]

[phaeton-flier]

Littleguysdaily this is my favorite of your many great little guys. I think about this one a lot.

[littleguysdaily]

Hell Yeah

[ncitytweets]

[mens-rights-activia]

I saw this post and idk it made me feel some type of way. I may get flack for this but idc I feel it must be said. Poaching is a lot more nuanced than “bad people kill animals.”

Poaching, especially in Africa, is a byproduct of colonization and poverty. Although poaching existed prior to European colonizers, it was not done at a scale and frequency that would threaten wildlife populations. Poaching exploded under colonial rule where things like ivory, pelts, hunting trophies, and in some cases, land were prized and sought after by European settlers. This led to an initially boom that devastated local animal populations and cause some tribes to become very reliant on poaching as a means of subsistence.

Additionally, due to poverty, people are still being driven to poach animals, even endangered animals because it’s a more profitable way to support oneself and community, and predatory animals can be poached because they threaten and devastate local livestock. Anti-poaching measures rarely take into account the human and economic drive behind poaching. You’re shooting and killing poachers but what about their families and communities that they support? Are those animals in a better place when there more people waiting to hunt them? Anti poaching measures don’t actually care about eliminating poaching, if they did they’d come from the angle of human and economic development and community improvement. Because let’s be real, if those people living in their poor, rural, undeveloped, undereducated*, regions with not many opportunities turn to poaching, it’s not from a moral standpoint, they’re chasing survival.

African governments be corrupt af, keeping all the money for themselves and leaving masses in poverty then erect some anti-poaching laws to please smug westerners as if they aren’t driving people into desperation. And then poaching rings take advantage of this desperation, much like a gang would, and supply them with guns and a promise of a better life. And bam, you have a poaching problem. So long as you have people in desperation, poaching will still be a problem.

Like many social issues; drugs, violence, crime; a closer look and you’ll find that poverty and lack of opportunity are at the bottom of it...

[ninjakittenarmy]

Ok but none of that excuses their actions. You’re absolutely right about the root cause of poaching and the desperation these people suffer, but they still absolutely deserve to die for it.

[mens-rights-activia]

Im not excusing poaching but I’m framing it because the context matters, also sorry I simply don’t agree with “they deserve to die from it” because genuinely it’s not even well understood by the people poaching the importance and endangerment of the animals and the idea that animal life is equal to or more important than human life, is very western thought*** so even the moral framing is different.

Like do you understand that these people aren’t viewing their actions the same way that you a westerner with your much higher levels of convenience and safety would? Like a lot of these people can’t even begin to understand the idea that “we’re killing all the elephants” when they are struggling with bottom tier of maslow’s hierarchy of needs and not to mention lack of education, please consider a different point of view.

I hate poaching. I love animals, I want a better world for them and I truly believe that we can make a better world for them but making a better world for animals starts by making a better world for people, all other measures are temporary and will not solve the root cause because issues are more complicated than simply let’s kill all poachers

[negativecon]

How is the concept of "human lives matter" so out of reach for people when it comes to situations like these? I love animals and want to save the planet as much as the next person but have some freaking empathy for the people who are so desperate they'd risk being eaten alive to keep their families and communities afloat.

The weird thing to me is there are folks who don't believe in the death penalty for human murder (like me) who think poachers dying this way is justified or somehow positive (not like me). It's... Disturbing. Why do animals deserve life more than humans? Because of your arbitrary moral guidelines that determine when someone has reached suitable levels of Bad Guy to deserve death? What gives you the right to determine that?

Poaching is terrible, I think it needs to utterly stop, but I don't know how we can do that while we force surrounding communities to live in abject poverty.

[aradow]

And if the best conservation work starts with the locals that live near the animals. Investing in the communities around the endangered species is a better way to get them to care about the wildlife around them.

Look up the conservation work involved with Bali Mynah Starlings. One of my favorite examples of people working to better both animals and communities. There are other examples around the world too.

[mens-rights-activia]

Thank you for this addition!!!!