Where you can donate to help Maui, Hawaii
this article has places listed that you can donate to, but i’ll also put direct links to some of these places in this post:
my family is based in Oahu, but i consider all the islands my home even though i physically haven’t stepped foot on them before. seeing all the homes and history and memories being lost in this hurts.
if you are unable to donate, don’t feel guilty—doing things like spreading the word and making people aware of the situation helps as well. thank you for whatever you can do! mahalo
UPDATE: removed Maui Mutual Aid Fund for now because upon further research using the charity checking sites provided by this gov site, it doesn’t appear in results unlike the others listed. so i advise caution for now if you decide to donate there! they may still be legitimate, but i want to exercise caution.
Hope It’s all right to add a few more to the list.
University of Hawaii Foundation : Provides help to students, staff, and faculty the UHMC campus (especially when the Fall semester is starting in two weeks)
‘Āina Momona : (goes towards the Hawaii Community Foundation Maui County Strong Fund)
Additional Lists (there is some overlapping to those already listed): Mana Maoli Hawaii News Now
Some local Hawai’i artists are also donating 100% of their sales this week to Maui relief. (These are only the ones I know of offhand) Geoffrey Siu (creator of Gentlemons/Pokema’ams and other original art) JimmyxSparrow (Wide variety of art, does fusions of Pokemon and Hawaiian culture) Laulima (Native Hawaiian flora and fauna pins and so on)
Any help is definitely welcomed because many locals there are displaced and are now homeless. With cell service down back on Tuesday and were last told to stay in place, many had to quickly evacuate with just their clothes on their back and nothing else.
thank you so much for the additions!!! you did my work for me this evening.
here is also the twitter account of the Office of the Governor of Hawaii. there are updates and info being posted there. it’s where i found the article on checking legitimacy of fundraisers/charities.
cackling at this, can NOT believe it's a real, actual quote. it reads so much like one of those clickhole pieces
He also said this about the snake.
All of this is hilarious, but a gorgeous quote from the same interview:
“In all seriousness, this discovery is humbling. It’s a reminder that there’s still so much to learn about our wild world — and that humans are one small part of an impossibly vast biosphere. On this planet, all fates are intertwined, and right now, one million species are teetering on the edge of oblivion. We have an existential mandate to mend our broken relationship with nature and protect the places that sustain life.”
The wildfires in Maui aren't natural disasters, they are colonial disasters and a direct result of both the fossil fuel industry and the military industrial complex.
Realtors preying on property in Lahaina- while Kānaka Maoli who resided there for generations are now houseless- is a result of greed and disaster capitalism.
Citizen journalists on the ground are reporting on the devastating cost these fires have on their communities and the untold stories in the media about the tourists still actively extracting land and from already limited resources.
pics by slowfactory on ig
HAPA Hawaii support link
Stop Maui land grabs petition
Theres a lot of notes but more ppl need to sign the petition
it's real
A thing that really happened.
By far the funniest transition timelines are the ones from trans men where the "before" picture is some teeny little guy with sad baby seal eyes and the "after" picture looks like Kratos
This is one of the top posts in r/transtimelines and it really sums up what I'm talking about
My irl saw this post and sent me this even crazier transformation today! The little guy to Kratos pipeline is real!!!
While I remain, as always, Doctor Mung-Mung.
funniest adhd thing is when you're like ugh. doing this simple task would be too hard. guess i'll do a difficult one instead
“Simple” Task: “Oh, everybody knows how to do that naturally. Unless you don’t.
“Difficult Task” Here’s the rules, here’s what you need to do first, here’s what you need to use...
minneapolis is an insane city. a man on the street asking for change assumed i was a lesbian completely unprompted
and what the hell kind of a strip club advertisement is this
imagine you get a job there and you come out the next day to see someone painting a 4 on the sign
Look, I just work there (minneapolis) but... as a city? It’s got issues.
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
How the fuck does his have less than 200k after setting the internet on fire for months
This lack of notes is probably a big part of why TikTok seems to think they invented the meme.
They think WHAT?!
scrotes
a velvety skeleton friend here to bring you financial luck this october 🔮✨
Bless me velvety skeleton friend.
missed opportunities with Spock & medicine in SNW
Okokok I didnt mind Spock & Chapel as I felt it was well-written (in conjunction w Spock & T'Pring) for the two of them and simply a stepping stone/arc to his further character development and exemplified his struggle converging his dualistic origins
but
Spock in TOS has an extreme (and to an outsider, illogical) aversion to medicine/medical procedures/medical personnel as evidenced by his deep mistrust of McCoy in TOS. I always postulated this is because he was mistreated or belittled or made to feel "wrong" by Vulcan medical facilities as a child given that he is a biological hybrid.
This "illogical" aversion to medicine is not based on the Scientific Fact that he as a science officer treats as secular gospel -- but is instead a result of his injured emotional nature, which felt ostracized and likely put on display as some kind of marvel/freak by the professionals he likely dealt with as a child.
I have a whole other post about Spock & Medicine and how his cantankerous and frequently mocking relationship with McCoy both displays his anger/disgust with the limits of the profession and, eventually, the healing of this wound via his friendship with Dr McCoy.
In TOS Spock dismissively refers to medicine as "potions" which make him feel sick and nauseous - (likely a side effect of his hybrid physiology where no medical traditions from either Vulcan or Terran origin completely mesh with his genetics or organs/hormones). Thus, even when he can get help from a compassionate provider - it likely does not help all the way or is uncomfortable to endure.
Discovery took this one step further and had Spock literally institutionalized because his emotional break following his visions/hallucinations which further highlights an origin for Spock's mistrust and distaste for medicine. We learn his visions were a result of an explicable cause & that medicine failed Spock yet again.
These experiences can even be applied to TOS and also color his relative annoyance with Nurse Chapel's one-sided affections.
Spock does not like doctors or nurses.
And he has good reason to fear and mistrust them despite his logical knowledge of their professionalism or expertise. Spock is scared, burned, and embittered by medical efforts and endeavors.
It is the one overt example in TOS where his human emotionality overtakes his logical mien almost effortlessly and with visible sharp resentment towards McCoy in almost every conversation they have.
Strange New Worlds seems to forget this important part of Spock's character which was evident in TOS (and eventually resolved by his friendship with McCoy), and expanded on in Disco with his institutionalization.
Sadly, his relation to Medicine in Strange New Worlds is a nonissue that pretty much ignores the canon in those two series - whether it is in a scene with Dr M'Benga or Nurse Chapel. It does not seem given the other canon he would ever be as cooperative or receptive to their treatments or suggestions.
However, as Spock is being written in this series to have mental duress over his "opposing" halves as personified by his desperate attempts to make two DOA romances with both T'Pring and Christine work - it seems this would be an important and relevant topic to broach considering Christine is in fact a nurse, and a representation of a system that has so far at this point in his life failed, harmed, and excluded him.
Not only that, but T'Pring is essentially the equivalent of a Vulcan psychiatrist.
It is fascinating that Spock, reviled and mistrusting of both medicine and psychology, sandwiches himself between a nurse and psychiatrist.
Despite his bone-deep betrayal by both of these institutions he finds himself indeed broken by them: beholden and shackled to the need for their love and approval - as deeply unhappy with himself as he is.
Spock, through these two flailing and ill-begotten relationships, continues to subconsciously punish himself for the truth.
That he is neither nor both - and there is no way to define him except by himself alone.
And that is what he fears the most: that he is truly alone in the endless universe.
Recognizable to no one.
these.. are good thoughts
Her courage will save the world.
Xena: Warrior Princess (1995—2001)
Look. We’re all lesbian for her. Women, men, straights, queers, catgirls- we can’t help it. In a world ruled by giant corporations and mindless religions, only our unified desire for Her could save us.
AITA for not telling my son we know he’s queer. I 40s(m) and my wife 40s(f) have a 17 (m) son lately he’s been sneaking around and keeps almost starting to come out and then backing out or getting interrupted. It’s exhausting and I think we should just tell him we know but I’m not sure that’s the best course of action? I worry it might come off wrong.the worst part is his grades have been slipping and if he’s sneaking around with a boyfriend that might be what was causing it? I don’t care if he has a boyfriend I just want him to succeed.
EDIT: nvm he’s Spider-Man
Spider Man, Spider-Man
He’s not gay he’s Spider-Man.
The Political Cartoons of Herblock.
Early 1960s, ladies and gentlemen.
You could post any of these without the date and some people would think they were done today.
I love the term “loanwords” because it implies that you intend to give them back.
*dumps a box full of words on French’s front porch* You never came back for your shit.
Loanwords, loaned to the British Museum so
Would everyone like to know the best thing??? There are two types of borrowed word - loan words and calques. Loan words are words taken directly from the language i.e. tattoo, sushi, guillotine. Calques are words literally translated from the language before being borrowed i.e. beer garden, scapegoat, killer whale (incorrectly calqued, the original actually means whale killer which is a whole other post).
Did anyone notice the fun thing?
Loan word is a calque (German lehnwort lit. Loan+word) and calque is a loan word (French calque - tracing or imitation). Have a good day!
Angry Women are Free Women ~Mona Eltahawy
Art by Zarascomics
I want to draw something SO gay and sapphic and hot and tender that it shocks ppl 😤
Okay but I DO remember in middle school when I saw this sapphic drawing of two girls with glow in the dark lipstick and in the dark you could see everywhere they had kissed. In the drawing I think they were just in a dark setting holding hands, maybe at like a party or park at night or something I can’t remember.
One of them had like really sweet and loving kisses in really innocent places and the it was so sapphic and cute AND THE OTHER GIRL HAD LIPSTICK MARKS EVERYWHERE LIKE EVEN ON HER V-LINE AND i think thats why im bisexual its all the artistic community’s fault
Anyways i have to search my old phone for that art it was fucking incredible I ALSO THINK ITS A GOOD CONCEPT FOR ARTISTS especially for characters who differ in personality showing the contrast in how they show physical affection towards each other VERY COOL
omg?? this sounds SO cute I need to see it,, I also love the idea of it being hidden in the dark in a way it adds layers to the sapphicness
Dude you are so fucking incredible WHAT HOW DID YOU FIND THIS I WAS LOOKING SO FUCKING HARD