mentally taking a drag of my mental cigarette because I don’t smoke but life has been very smokable lately

DELTWRUNE ANNOYNCED H MY FUCKUNG GOD

it's called the Switch 2 because you Switch 2 a cheaper hobby

It’s so crazy how you can measure the shifts in culture based on which race Ariana is pretending to be

I swear to God, if someone were to trap 2 million animals, deprive them of food and water, and kill 50,000 of them, the world would be shaken by this catastrophe and brutality.

What's happening is unbelievable, illogical. We are human beings... human beings!!

If we do not die from the occupation's bombing, we will die in the air Please help us and donate to our families here.

The situation in Gaza has once more become catastrophic. Mohammed and Samar Abu Alwan rely on your donations to feed their three children and provide them with medical treatment.

You can help via gofundme:

or with:

Venmo: gothhabiba Paypal: paypal.me/Najia Cashapp: $NajiaK

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

$126 / $1,000 to our short-term goal

With a donation of at least $75 USD you can get your own custom, hand-made tatreez piece.

$326 / $1,000

I need to once again ask for you all to help my friends Ahmed and Dina Alanqar and their four young children in Gaza. Unfortunately they've been struggling to contact GFM about issues transferring funds, so they needed to begin a new campaign from scratch.

Ahmed tells me the situation is becoming worse by the day now. Bombs are falling around them and the price of food keeps rising.

When they tried to return to their home they found their childrens clothes were burned and torn in rubble.

Please assist in their continued survival and ensure they have a chance to escape when they can. Donate and share! ♥️

Donate here

Vetted! 264 on El-Shab-Hussein and Nabulsi's spreadsheet (here)

please donate!!! the situation is becoming more urgent and its a terrible shame GFM is keeping life-saving funds from Gazans. the goal is now $22,000 - we've been able to raise far more before, so let's keep standing by Dina and Ahmed's family!!

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

Yup, these are actually *really* important. And a small bit of work helps, so it’s doable even if you’re snowed under with survival work or in too much pain to concentrate for longer periods.

It’s multiply-checked by more than one person, so don’t worry about fucking it up because your concentration is fucked. Your input is valuable but not the only input.

I find Zooniverse very good, and it does Citizen Historian work too - I spent time digitising concentration camp records because a) families still don’t know what happened to some of their loved ones b) this makes the records available for historians without travelling to archives in person, which I can testify is *invaluable* for disabled historians and helps cut the need for overseas travel to do vital historical work.

It unexpectedly helped me with learning how to decipher premodern handwriting too, which proved really useful in my academic stuff. You *will* pick up valuable skills doing this. Put it on your CV.

Other places you can go to do citizen science, from the notes

(Thanks to everyone who left these in the notes! If you know more, put them in the notes, and I might add them! And ty @enbycrip for the fantastic addition that covered a bunch of details I didn't get to)

Apps/Websites

In person

Also:

Even if you don't have time to spend, but do have some processor cycles to spare, check out the projects available at BOINC's Compute for Science: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Hey guys, these projects make a HUGE difference for science. For example, I run bplant.org and iNaturalist is the #1 source of images in ID guides and articles and other educational materials I develop. The plant observations are also helpful for assessing plant ranges and how these ranges are changing with climate change. And it also helps me identify local seed sources for use in restoration plantings. Use of iNaturalist, even casual use like a random person uploading pics of plants they see growing in their yard, or a random parking lot they were in, or a random vacant lot, those observations are MAJORLY helping in (1) education (2) science (3) conservation.

This stuff makes a huge difference.

Also, if you want to make the biggest impact on these sites, release any material with the more permissive licenses, like CC-BY. If you add a NC or ND clause, for instance, your photos cannot be included on Wikipedia or bplant or a number of other educational sites, because those license restrictions are incompatible with combining with copyleft material.

But yeah, go do citizen science, please!!!

I thought I'd go back and repost this because there are probably a lot of people out there who, like me, reallllyyyyyy need something to distract them right now

So, hey. You. Stop doomscrolling. Take a deep breathe. And if you want, try doing some citizen science or citizen history instead

I'm also going to especially promote MapSwipe, for those who want to do something tangible to help people now.

From their website:

Data Everywhere

many activists involved the ferguson uprising were mysteriously murdered. at least one activist i know of was murdered after the uprising in louisville. like the united states never ever ever wants an organized movement like the civil rights movement of 50’s-60’s to ever happen again and they’re are more than willing to murder, maim, and disappear people to make that the case.

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT PLEASE READ

The fundraiser organizer for Hazem Mohammed Al-Baradweel has NOT given Hazem the money he was owed.

His name is Mohammed Al Amarein, and I will be looking for any other fundraisers he might be organizing that have been put on our list to place them on a suspicion watch. I have already altered the listing for this fundraiser to reflect its nature.

REPORT THE FUNDRAISER BELOW, IT IS VERY CLOSE TO COMPLETION BUT THIS INDIVIDUAL REFUSES TO COOPERATE:

PLEASE VERIFY WHETHER OR NOT YOU'VE DONATED TO THIS FUNDRAISER, IF YOU HAVE, REQUEST A REFUND ASAP AND REPORT THE FUNDRAISER:

DO NOT DELAY ACTION BECAUSE HE MIGHT TAKE DOWN THE FUNDRAISER AS SOON AS HE GETS NOTICE HE'S GETTING REPORTED AND THE MONEY IS BEING REFUNDED.

If Hazem manages to get a new organizer for his fundraiser I will keep you updated so you can redirect your funds there.

HERE'S THE LINK TO THE NEW FUNDRAISER!! If you would like to help please redirect your refunds to this fundraiser!!

Help me spread the campaign...or donate even a little🙏😥

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Sol Badguy. More like

Literally just Fishmael

I tried using more muted colors than what I’m used to, although they’re still pretty saturated

Omar's father needs help. I am helping to collect money through paypal, as gofundme takes a larger fee and takes longer to transfer the money.

Omar's campaign has been shared by @90-ghost

paypal.me/xanadoodle

As I am collecting money for others as well, please add in the notes if the donation is for Omar

$0/1150

Everyone knows how hard it is to take care of a family alone, especially as a young girl. But imagine doing it in a war zone, with bombs falling around you, hunger creeping in, and fear never leaving your side. Imagine carrying all of this while your mother, the only pillar you have left, suffers from heart disease and desperately needs urgent surgery. And there is no way to help her.

I wake up every day to a new struggle—finding food, water, medicine—trying to keep my family together while the world outside crumbles. The weight of it all is crushing me. I can’t do this alone anymore. That’s why I came here, to you, my second family, because I have nowhere else to turn. Please, if you can, help me. Stand by me. Donate to me and my family. You might be our only hope. You can donate as little as $1 via PayPal or $5 via GoFundMe. vetted here

@notajerusalemcricket

Yes! Please keep your snails safe! (I would like to note that in my experience, some snails are too big to retract enough to stop sticking to the ground. However, take that with a grain of salt)

Keep that grain of salt away from the snails, you monster!!

oh my God i amnso sorry,,