Before anything, you can donate to help directly with these operations via the Red Cross, UNICEF, Catholic Relief Services and almost any other NGO that operates in the region. This list is only current to June 30th at 6:22pm GMT and is not complete. It has more info on the US response only partly because of how large it is-I'm from the US and know where to look on the 10,000 different government websites to find alot of the specifics, knowledge I don't have for any other nation rendering aid. But here's as much info as I was able to find:

American aid:

The US has now committed at least $300 million has at least 300 search and rescue personnel on the ground from four teams, has several hundred military personnel also assisting with relief efforts(such as the repairs of the runway at the airport in Caracas), has had four military field hospitals stood up already and was slated to have an unspecified amount of additional ones online in the next 24 hours.

The amphibious transport dock USS Fort Lauderdale and littoral combat ship USS Billings have arrived to transport goods and render aid via their Marine contingetts. The Fort Lauderdale has also been able to serve as an airlift point, a command-and-control hub for logistics, and administer medical aid with its hospital suite of 2 operating rooms and 124 beds.

The State Department has partnered with a major NGO, the Global Empowerment Mission and Walmart to set up a hub for aid in south Florida. The GEM is already operating donation points across the greater Miami area in coordination with municipal governments, faith-based groups and the Venezuelan diaspora in the region.

The USAF has been flying everything from aerial reconnaissance to transporting aid from the US and other countries to moving relief supplies and teams from aid hubs to the front lines, the latter likely taking the form of helicopters into La Guaira state. They were also able to get one of the runways at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas fixed enough to be functional again, helping ease a bottleneck in deploying aid.

Western Hemisphere aid:

Canada has offered CAD$5 million($3.5 million USD) in aid

Argentina has sent three planes carrying search and rescue operatives, and the largest company it has that operates airports has offered assistance in further restoring damaged airfields.

Brazil has dispatched 36 fire and rescue workers, 8 risk assessment and telecomms specialists, an open hospital, 100 solar-operated water purifiers and unspecified amounts of other aid

Chile has deployed 55 rescuers, 3 tons of humanitarian aid, and 2 tons of firefighting equipment

Mexico has sent 250 military rescuers with dog teams, 4 military aircraft, 12.7 metric tons of rescue supplies, 4 tons of medical supplies, and President Sheinbaum has stated her intent to provide more aid including water purifiers and power generators

Peru dispatched a rescue team and 14 tons of humanitarian aid

The Dominican Republic have sent search teams and supplies in amounts I couldn't find

Paraguay, despite having recently severed relations with Venezuela, deployed 32 military rescuers, with Defense Minister Oscar Gonzalez stating that the relations severing would be no obstacle to rendering aid.

El Salvador has deployed at least 150 of a promised 300 rescuers and pledged 50 tons of aid

Costa Rica's government, through its national branch of the Red Cross, has deployed 48 rescuers and 12 metric tons of aid

Global aid:

Spain has sent 58 military search and rescue personnel, 8 dogs and 40 firefighters

Qatar has sent an unspecified amount of rescuers

Germany has sent 70 rescuers, 7 dogs, and provided 6 military planes for use in transporting aid

Turkey dispatched a team of 67 rescuers and medical workers

Switzerland has mobilized 80 rescue personnel, dog teams and sent 18 metric tons of aid.

France has sent 85 rescue workers

The Netherlands has sent an aid package of 2 million euros($2.28 million) and an unspecified number of rescuers along with supplies

The Czech Republic has sent 70 rescue workers

India has sent two of its air force transports carrying a 41-member medical team, a field hospital unit, two other portable hospitals, 30 metric tons of relief supplies and 6 of medicine.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Society has released $2.5 million in funds and Pope Leo has release 100,000 euros($110,00) in funds, but both the IRCRCS and the Catholic Church will be focusing more on the collection, transportation and distribution of aid collected from donations-these were organization-level contributions, likely from discretionary funds for future emergencies.

Starlink has begun providing free internet service to customers of Spanish comms firm Movistar in the hard-hit state of La Guaria(only 300,000 people compared to 5 million in Caracas, but that's a single city that can very easily relay satellite uplinks) and is working on linking up with state-run telecom firm Movilnet and local private firm Digitel to provide free service as well. The US State Department has said it's working on getting more Starlink terminals into the country, as alot like with Ukraine there's no form of bad conditions beyond an EMP or the terminal itself breaking that can stop it from connecting to the internet.

Croatia has contributed 1 million euros in aid($1.14 million)

China has provided 100 million yuan($14.7 million) in funding

The EU has said it will send aid worth 5 million euros($5.7 million) worth of aid focusing on shelter and health care. It also said it would organize an air bridge to transfer aid, presumably to ferry contributions from smaller states as well as private entities and nonprofits

Finland has had two major NGOs donate a combined 170,000 euros($194,000)

Jordan has sent a total of 100 rescue personnel

Israel has dispatched 16 rescuers despite not having had formal relations with Venezuela since 2009

South Korea will provide aid worth about 7.7 billion won($5 million)

Sweden has contributed 80 million krona($8.2 million)

The UK has sent a team of 68 rescuers with dogs

Syria has sent 15 rescuers.

from George V’s diary

The Dragon: Prince George met with a master tattooist (believed to be Karakusa Gonta) in Tokyo. In his personal diaries, George described the ink as a "large dragon in blue and red writhing all down the arm," a process that took roughly three hours. 

The Tiger: Later in the same trip, George visited Kyoto and received a tiger on his opposite arm to complete a symbolic representation of the East and the West. His brother Albert Victor chose a dancing crane instead.

King George V's first cousin and lookalike, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, also had a large traditional Japanese dragon tattooed on his forearm. Nicholas received his during a state visit to Japan in 1891, a meticulous design with yellow horns and a red belly that required seven hours of work.

Nicholas described the experience in his diary:

April 16, Tuesday. I awoke to a wonderful day, and the shore was irresistibly inviting. The streets and houses of Nagasaki make an exceptionally pleasant impression: everything is spotlessly clean and tidy, and it is a pleasure to enter their homes. The Japanese people, both men and women, are so warm and welcoming. We returned to the frigate around five o'clock for tea. After dinner, I decided to have a dragon tattooed on my right arm. It took exactly seven hours—from 9 p.m. until 4 a.m. Once is quite enough of that sort of pleasure to cure one of any desire to repeat it! The dragon turned out splendidly, and my arm did not hurt at all.

Dragons were a popular subject among Japanese ink-painters and tattooists. Said to control thunder and rain, they were also a powerful symbol of the East, and often paired with a prowling tiger representing the West.

Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing

Because I want to point out that the total abolition of IP would also mean that major corporate publishers of every kind of media can start distributing work from any small artist or author that gets popular, stealing their work and their audience and their money and making big budget films or merchandise from their ideas without paying them.

That is the kind of thing that IP is supposed to prevent.

You can fix a very large number of the problems with IP just by:

A) follow the actual constitution of the United states to the letter when it says you can't patent any natural process. Reproduction of living organisms is a natural process. Also abolish drug patents.

B) place software under patent instead of copyright, where it belongs. (This fixes right to repair stuff.)

C) severely limit copyright duration.

D) Nerf the ability of a corporation (as opposed to an individual) to hold any sort of copyright, although I'm not 100% sure what that would look like.

IP dies with the original author, unless the author transfers it to an heir via a legal document. In that case the copyright dies with the heir and cannot be further transferred. The heir has to be an individual and not a corporation. It can be sold or licensed to a corporation by either of them, but it still ends on their death.

Corporations can't sue individuals for derivative works, only other corporations.

An attempt was made. I definitely still don't fully feel the forest photography, but I also understand why.

There's no one subject I can focus or build the photo around.

Everything is important.

So I need to focus on what I know how to capture - light and shade, and small stories hidden between the trees.

And I know, the scene where the Ring tempts Sam with being "Lord of the Garden" is funny and awesome, but people forget that A) Sam had been wearing the ring for all of a couple days (compared to Frodo's 17 years in the book), and the Ring was clearly desperate and at the end of its tempting rope. Tolkien himself said that "no-one", not even Sauron himself (if he were inclined to do so), could destroy the ring at Mount Doom. The temptation at the ultimate moment would be too great. In fact, in the initial draft, this is exactly what happens to Frodo - the Ring shows him a vision of him using it to protect and save the hobbits from Sauron, and that's what causes him to finally put it on. (Presumably, Tolkien cut this because it didn't make sense for Frodo to narrate this moment.) So Sam's vision doesn't seem so ridiculous or out there now.

"Be like Frodo. Keep going, one day at a time, and try. He didn't believe he could succeed either. But he got so much closer than he would if he had accepted defeat, didn't he? And that was important too. Even if he failed at the end"

And you know what? I did. I did try. And I got there. And I understand Frodo now, at least enough to have a huge amount of respect for him.

First tweet: “I saw a piece of fabric? on the floor of my room so I went to pick it up but it was actually the moonlight that entered through the window lmao”

Like, it's insulting both in universe and in meta.

In universe, they're always angry and fire is hot. So it works.

Fire Plug

Smokey

Sweep (chimney sweep)

the “draw your favorite character with your problems” trend