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To those struggling with the LA fires, I hope you are safe and ok. I'm so sorry for what you're going through. Please take care during this time.
If anyone is interested, you can donate to the California Fire Foundation to offer support to survivors, Direct Relief's wildfire fund to support survivors, the Canine Rescue Club to offer support to displaced dogs, or In Defense of Animals' wildfire rescue to support domestic and wild animals displaced by the fire.
(Embedded links to the websites are included; I encourage you to look into them before donating, if you aren't familiar with them)
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ā¼ļøboosting for any folks in hurricane miltonās path who have limited access to transport for evacuation:
Uber is offering free transport to shelters using the promo code āMILTONRELIEFā
To get a ride:
Open the Uber app
Tap Account on the bottom right and tap Wallet
Add promo code MILTONRELIEF
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if i were living down there, i would be 100% reliant on a ride share service, so hoping this is helpful!

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NOT ALL EVACUATIONS NEED TO LEAVE THE STATE.
SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO GO A FEW MORE MILES INLAND TO AVOID STORM SURGE.
Have you ever lost a pet? Iāve learned some things about pets that surprised me as a marriage and family therapist. If you have a pet you a
Let me be the miserable wretch to whom the caring lead the disbelieving, that they might see the wounds and know how much of a human being's humanity three furry boys can take with them.
This video, by an ER vet, reaffirms what the therapist above is saying from the veterinary side. I rewatch it, and her video on euthanasia, whenever the grief over Sully and Alphi gets too bad.
Aliko Dangote, the richest man in Africa, has been tormented by a Brazilian man named Osvaldo for the last several years.
Aliko is not taking it well
fucking love this story
#go osvaldo go
"Brazil from an altitude of 4 feet" fucking sent me

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[ID] a line drawing of a tent with text on the side. the text reads: See a tent? Fucking leave it along, thanks. Instead of complaining about a personās ONLY shelter, mind your business. As you go out of your way to make the life of a homeless person harder, ask yourself the question: What the fuck is wrong with me? [END ID]
this type of attitude is so wrong-headed even though it comes from such a good place and i know better than to argue with strangers online but this has such āi have never actually been in a homeless encampmentā vibes that it is driving me up a wall.
people living in tents are not camping. living in a tent when you are involuntarily homeless is not a humane experience. living in an encampment is dangerous, especially for women and youth; it is uniquely unhygienic; and it often considerably worsens the problems that folks are struggling with when they arrive at the encampment, be those mental health issues, addiction issues, or physical ailments.
now are there awful ways to break up an encampment? yes. donāt call the police. most cities in the u.s. have services set up that you can call - usually itās through 311 but not always - where folks from direct service orgs (shelters, housing navigators, mental health professionals) will come out and do assertive outreach. i mean really what we need to be doing is pressuring governments to humanely, collaboratively, comprehensively and kindly work with folks in encampments to get them housed in rolling shelters and then onward to permanent housing but lbr thatās a long-term battle.
but in the interim, encampments are not a solution. they make finding solutions harder, they make life worse for those living in them, and i know ālet them live in tentsā comes from a place of not wanting to be an asshole but itās exactly like saying āif that person wants to stay in the burning house, let them.ā no! call the fire department!
what i hate about the āleave encampments aloneā narrative is that it is callousness hidden as compassion, because if you feel self-righteous about NOT doing anything then you donāt recognize that you are not doing anything. you are not living in community with people because youāre ignoring their problems.
nobody lives in a tent or in an encampment because they want to, and they have a right not to have to. donāt ignore tents. care about them, let folks working in direct services know when you see them, and care enough to believe that your community can extend safety, security, and services to people who need them. you are not making their life harder by alerting housing and outreach services to them. you are making it better.
Alright, my babies, as it is now officially October, it is not only Halloween month, but it is the start of the annual FIBER ARTS FRENZY, A time when we fiber artists have to officially acknowledge the holidays have just hitched a ride on the Spaceball 1 and is coming at us at Ludicrous Speed. (If you don't get the reference your parents did not raise you right, and you have my sympathies.)
And, when I say holidays, I mean ALL of them. Why so many cultures and religions were so inconsiderate as to bunch them all up at the same time of year so we fiber artists have to scramble, wail, and curse the heavens, I'll never know.
At least we have each other.
So, to my fellow fiber artists I say: Y'ALL START YOUR ENGINES.
To the people in fiber artists lives during this frantic time: You best have comfort, understanding, support, and a sturdy sense of survival ready, because your loved one is about to try to Make All The Things.
#please imagine this from the skunk's perspective #like you fall into an inescapable pit #and one of the fae creatures appears above you #at first it descends into the pit going super fast without moving its legs #horrifying #and then when you threaten it with your only real means of defense #(ass juice) #it tries to extend a part of itself to you #its strange feet that don't move #obviously you want no part of that #then it creates a spring out of nothing and allows you to drink #then it grabs a strange branch made of thin smooth rock #and a substance that feels slightly hollow #and it makes noises at you and keeps sticking the branch in your face until you bite #and then it tries to withdraw the branch dragging you with it #so you let go #but it just keeps doing this #until you suddenly realize it is trying to drag you out of the pit #so you hold on until you're at the lip #you probably expect it wants something when you reach the top #but you let go almost too soon #and you book it out of there #and somehow are expected to go back to living life like that never happened
@kedreeva your tags are a lovecraftian skunk tale
IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT SOME OF YOU ARE UNAWARE OF MY SOULMATE
BEHOLD!!!!
THIS IS MOO DENG HER NAME MEANS BOUNCING PORK SHES A BABY PYGMY HIPPO AT A THAI ZOO AND SHE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT
GIVE HER LOVE
(pics courtesy of her trainers. thank you @yellowwwcrayon for introducing her to me)
Not telling your kid they have a learning disability, chronic illness, mental illness etc. so they can āfeel normalā actually does the opposite. They will not feel normal if they do not have the context to understand that their normal will be different from that of their peers.
The amount of times Iāve heard a parent say something like āIām just not going to tell my son he has ADHD, I want him to feel normal.ā HE DOES NOT. HE DOES NOT FEEL NORMAL. HE IS WONDERING WHY HE IS STRUGGLING AND COMING TO THE CONCLUSION HE IS AN IRREDEEMABLE FAILURE.

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Had to paint Moo Deng!! I love her so much
they probably cant love me back in a human or even mammalian sense, but my goldfish with their smooth pea-sized brain have learned to trust that i will make them better when they are sick. i feel like crying about this often
Maybe Princess the tarantula never had anything resembling what we as humans know as emotions, but she still came out of her burrow and up to the glass when weād talk to her and used to stare at the drawing Iād tape to her terrarium. Maybe she couldnāt even comprehend what we were, but she knew we were there to take care of her. And even if she never showed that sort of curiosity or trust weād still love her.
Idk if Munchie the praying mantis felt love for me, but I do know he trusted me enough to climb onto my hand when offered and was comfortable with allowing me to carry him places despite me being absolutely massive in comparison to him. So that's close enough in my book.