but you can't take the ER out of the girl

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

The men's football RPF fandom follows an extremely predictable cycle: when it's a World Cup year, things go nuts. New fans come in, dormant accounts reactivate, everyone goes around looking for the guys they see on their screen and get kind of confused that in the great minds of our AO3 writers they are with completely different guys. Most RPF is about club pairings, because these are the people they're with most of the time, but there's something special about the national team. Weeks when years happen, or something like that.

I love a rec list and those have kind of fallen out of vogue, so here's a very short list of my favorite national team-centric fics over the years, for the folks who're interested in the RPFs of World Cups past. Obligatory reminder to keep church and state separated, keep fic out of the public eye, and lock your shit down when you feel like you want to take a turn. Happy reading, welcome to hell!

It harms your lungs and it’s especially bad for children (and pets!) or anyone with health problems. There are all kinds of chemicals in that smoke. It’s not only trees that are burning. The heat already makes it harder to breath. This makes it worse.

If any of you are experiencing it, feel free to tell about it in the comments. 💚

the remainder of the dream made more sense by virtue of not being Intensely Sweaty Bureacracy. it was 10% “i understand that you’re excited, but this is an injection so i do need you to sit still,” and the remaining 30% would be best described as nonbinary club night, theme “your gender must be this unexplainable to party” (perfect for me and several friends who appeared at this point, and also apparently for erling). most of the norway nt appeared to see us off for nonbinary club night like sailors’ wives waving to a ship going out to sea. the taxidermied raccoon was there

i am half convinced that their main motive to winning is because they get sweets from the journalists afterwards 😭

Not Unai with the Uno reverse card 😭😭