hello someone on instagram made a document with a ton of resources on the movement surrounding george floyds murder and how to help and educate yourself. its updated very frequently and is super comprehensive and well organized, i thought i could share it here

it is NOT by the way NEARLY as detailed as this doc. ive seen this spread around a lot and it should be shared more than the one i shared, which is minneapolis-specific and not made by a black person. while the one i shared has compiled general tips, email templates, and links to helpful articles on how to be an ally, please share this one more, as it has all that as well as more drop off locations and contact info and more info for non-mpls protest help. rb this version

When you've been out of high school for years and u use simple math

Imagine waking up everyday to see the news of how many of your baby brothers and sisters were found. Their bodies under your very feet.

Now imagine nobody cared. And imagine every single day that number grew. Every. Single. Day.

How would that feel? This will continue long past orange shirt day. This pain won't end. It's just a pain a daily pain us as indigenous people have to carry in our hearts. So many times a week I have to stare at these numbers and all I feel is my little cousins hair in my hands as I hold them. And listening to them play and know so many children never got that. How scared they must have been. How so many of their bodies were destroyed and burned to hide what was done to them. To children. Actual babies as young as 2. Fucking babies.

And that any of my siblings could easily have been one. How quiet my dad gets at times and I can feel his sadness. How often girls still go missing and I'm so scared that someday I'll be one. And I'll just be gone and no one will care. How I could wake up someday and one of my sisters will be gone just another picture on the news no one will care about.

We live like this every single day but we're the savages???

Please. Support and educate yourselves on indigenous issues. Most can't understand this pain but they can at least listen.

king i think it is not fucking sufficient at all. wolftopia or bust

Also Wolftopia is gorgeous by the way

Wolftopia is nearly the size of Saturn and orbits two stars that closely orbit each other!

Wolftopia 4 lyfe.

no but guys the best thing about wolftopia is that the guy who found it? his name is Wolf.

His brother suggested be name the planet after himself and I think he deserves that right. Wolftopia <3

like half of the tags on this post are along the lines of “sungwon could have been cast for every role and he would have been amazing at all of them” and you are all so right

Hey can I get like 60 bucks? My wife and I, and Our cats need food and we've been feeding them ppl food for a couple days until I get paid. We don't have nearly anything for ourselves and it's gonna be tricky to get my money into my bank account.

I just need 60 bucks, please

PayPal is paypal.me/luquisgabriela

Rent help desperately needed!

Remaking my rent post because there's a lot of notes but not a lot of money. Still at $400, and we need to get to $1,400 to pay for rent/utilities.

Any help is appreciated!

PayPal.me/marsinaries

Venmo.com/fluoresensitive

Cash.app/$yahyascholfield

@mutualaidnetworking @mutual-aid-booster

Okay!!! I talked to my dad and he says it's alright if I can only do half! So now I only need $550!

$270/$550

Thank you to everyone's who helped so far!!

american whites were just caught on footage, chasing haitian migrants on horseback with whips in their hands. on horses. with whips.

and yet, black immigrants are still completely dismissed from all conversations about the violence against immigrants. for as long as i could remember, mestizo mexicans and central americans have been the face of immigration-related abuse… so much that people wrongly assume these are the sole victims of that violence.

haitian immigrants represent a disproportionate amount (44%!) of people currently detained in ICE quarters (as of 2020), and since haiti is overwhelmingly black, most - if not all - of those figures are black people. which means the attacks on haiti are automatically attacks on blackness.

it worries me a lot how haitian migrants are being treated and have been treated by not only the united states, but the rest of latin/caribbean/south america. there have been extended violences toward haiti from the entire americas for so long, it’s naive to say that it’s not related to how black the country is. to be black is to be unthought of, and unalive.

forced migration/extermination is genocide.

and it’s so telling that people won’t bother empathizing with the victims of forced migration unless they look a certain (non-black) way.

(if i find any haiti crowdfunds for haitian immigrants, i’ll add them)

i went in the notes to see if crowdfund sources had been added in a reblog; the notes are full of "not all whites" bullshit.

(protip: if you are white in america, arguing 'does that make me racist?' then you need to examine yourself and why you personally feel attacked by a news story about antiblackness.)

here is a link to an aggregation of news stories concerning immigration to the US:

https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/news/archive.2021

and here is a link to an article that may be a good place to start looking for who might be able to help crowdfund and advocate, though the thrust of the article regards post-earthquake aid within haiti:

https://haitiantimes.com/2021/09/01/more-donors-fund-grassroots-and-smaller-groups-for-2021-haiti-earthquake-relief/

thank u so muchhh, i literally just woke up & usually i see crowdfunds on twitter but i have yet to see any. i did not expect this post to get more than 100 notes so i am a bit overwhelmed eeeek

Here are Black led organizations that are supporting Haitian migrants rn where people can donate.

https://undocublack.org/donate

http://haitianbridge.org

https://www.truealliancecenter.org

https://africans.us

https://t.co/1Bnpnr2Xgn

so appreciated !

I keep telling kids at work they can read manga and watch anime for free online and they’re like “but that’s illegal” and I’m like. Trying to find a way to tell them that it doesn’t matter without being a bad influence

When I was in middle school we watched anime episodes in three part videos on YouTube and no one gave a damn about the law

can’t believe some of you tried to say undertale was cringe as if it did not raise the bar for rpg style games AND have a banging soundtrack AND multiple endings AND a good story AND unique mechanics

memeing sans was good tho it’s what he would have wanted

I hate celebrities stealing voice actors jobs so much holy shit when will this end 

I found this in the notes:

me too

My boyfriend and I were both diagnosed with covid even though we’re both fully vaxed, so we are officially screwed. We are already behind on bills and short on food as is, and now we’re both going to be out of work for 2 weeks. If anybody can help with a dollar to help us with bills and to buy groceries and medicine to deal with our symptoms.. I’d really appreciate it. We are screwed. Please reblog. I’m desperate at this point :(

Cashapp/ $bubblebath2005

PayPal/ kaleiherbert@yahoo.com

Venmo/ @davidvenzke (it’s my boyfriend’s I don’t have one)

Hey, would somebody help me with some money to get some groceries delivered? I’ll even just send you the list for you to order yourself if you want to make sure that’s what the money is going to. I’m kinda desperate at this point.

if anyone wants to and can spare some $$ i would rly appreciate it !!! 🥺🆘 in need atm, p*ypal is here

just learned it’s bi visibility too! 💖💜💙 help ur local bisexy today, if u can donate anything that would be cool if not that’s also cool !!!

Imagine voicing the most iconic character in all of video games for like forty years and fucking Chris Pratt takes your role once you finally get a big budget movie

terrifying and incomprehensible to the human mind?

anime_irl

Golden tortoise beetle transforming from gold to red

What

@gayterenus

When your 24 hour premium skin wears off

Alright, y'all. Bug nerd here. Yes, this is real. This is Charidotella sexpunctata. It’s able change color like this by filling and emptying its elytra (the wing covers) with water. The mirror-like gold effect is caused by it forcing water into separate layers of its elytra, smoothing them out to the point where they actually reflect light. By drawing the water out, the red pigment beneath is exposed. They do this whenever they’re disturbed as a defense mechanism, likely to mimic foul tasting lady beetles.

So, there’s a fun fact.

A spy

Here’s a reminder to kill this fucker with no hesitation if you see them!

For context: this is a spotted lanternfly, it is highly invasive in the US, and causes damage to crops and plants. If you see them please report the sighting here and kill on sight.

More info

This species is a huge threat to ecosystems all over the United States. I hate to kill a bug but if I see this species I’ll do it quickly and humanely as possible, and report the sighting to the proper authorities! Here are some tips from the USDA on how to help minimize lanternfly infestation

"just not seeing enough people talking about carl clemons-hopkins, the first out nonbinary actor to be nominated for an emmy, and the nonbinary flag gown they wore last night"

@mattxiv

Carl Clemons-Hopkins on IMDB