I am the proud princess of Kouka Kingdom.

My mother is in the ICU, and her life depends on an urgent, life-saving surgery that costs $700.

For three whole days, we haven't received a single donation. Three days of absolute silence and agonizing waiting.

The heartbreaking reality? We have only raised $3 out of $700.

My mother is slowly dying because we cannot afford her treatment.

The amount someone might casually spend on a cup of coffee is literally the price of my mother’s next breath.

We don't have the luxury of time. We don't have the luxury of pride. We need your help immediately.

Please donate whatever you can; even $1 makes a huge difference.

If you cannot donate, reblogging this is a must. It might reach someone who can help save my mother's life before it's too late.

We're just $30 away from my mother's life-saving surgery.

Let's reach the goal today. One final push can save her life.

Another mass extinction about 250 million years ago, "The Great Dying" as it's called because an estimated 90% of all life on Earth was eradicated, happened because increased volcanic activity led to the collapse of the tropical forest biosphere which further increased CO2 buildup because the plants were no longer taking it out of the atmosphere. Today, we have global warming messing up the natural timelines many species biologically operate on, in specific conditions they evolved for that are now changing. Even aside from direct deforestation, plants will keep dying.

"Indeed, warming could continue to accelerate in this case even if we reach zero human emissions. We will have fundamentally changed the carbon cycle in a way that can take geological timescales to recover, which has happened in Earth's past."

I look at this one in particular because it seems most similar to today, so could give us an idea of what we could expect.

During stage 2, the onset of volcanism began in the early Capitanian, with the significant release of greenhouse gases resulting in climate warming of 3°C–5°C. This coincided with sea level rise caused by regional subsidence, thus exacerbating stratification of the water column and marine anoxia as warmer oceans reduced the concentration of dissolved oxygen. While nutrients were brought to the surface by volcanic activity, primary productivity at the ocean surface used up most of this oxygen for respiration and organic matter decomposition, generating depleted oxygen minimum zones below.

95% of all marine species suffocated to death directly because of warming oceans. Warmer body temperatures mean increased metabolisms, and increased respiration. Warm water cannot hold as much oxygen as cold water, so there was even less oxygen for the increased demand.

Without human activity it still took the planet about 30 million years to recover. I can't even imagine what we're looking at today with the USAmerican government putting 500 Planet Death Accelerator Centers everywhere. The general public already hates these data centers, which is good, but it still has a huge problem with even acknowledging how dire our situation is. One thing people mention is that the Earth goes through natural changes on its own.

But on a geological scale this is more consistent than not.

I would like to draw your attention to the part of the graph roughly 250 million years ago, "The Great Dying" of the Permian-Triassic. And then back to the part of the graph where we are today (data from 2025). We are already in Earth's sixth mass extinction event, and the only one caused by humans.

Roughly 900 documented species have gone extinct since the year 1500, and around 1 million more are currently threatened with extinction, largely because of human activity. That 900 figure sounds modest until you consider that scientists have formally assessed less than 5% of all described species on Earth. The true number of human-caused extinctions is almost certainly far higher, and the rate at which species are disappearing is between 100 and 1,000 times faster than what would happen naturally.

gatekeeping is so effective because it allows the people in charge of it to frame it as a passive and natural force. "ah well, you just don't meet our criteria because of some technicalities, it's not that we are screening specifically for Your Kind Of Person, you understand, it's just that all the requirements coincidentally happen to produce a result where Your Kind Of Person is unable to enter our walled city :) so i think you'll see that we are not discriminating!"

i think a LOT less people understand how much gatekeeping impacts their lives than are impacted by gatekeeping. if you were ever prevented from participating in something bc of your inability to meet technical requirements for reasons outside of your control, that is gatekeeoing. if you ever decided to not even fucking try because you understood that the walled city wasn't for People Like You, that is the natural and intended outcome of gatekeeping.

I am Inas, a mother of two young children: Muhammad, 7 years old, and Hala, 5 years old. They should have been living their childhood like all children—safe and warm in the embrace of their father. But the war has stolen that dream from us😭😭😭

Six months ago, my husband Anas, a kind-hearted man who endured a life of poverty, was killed by a random shell while on his way to work as a taxi driver. Since that tragic day, I’ve been left to carry the unbearable weight of life alone.

I held a diploma in international secretarial studies and was about to start a job to help support my family. But the war shattered not only our home but also my hopes and dreams. We’ve been displaced six times and now live in a tent that offers no shelter from the bitter cold or the ever-looming fear.

My young children face relentless hunger that weakens their fragile bodies and a cold that knows no mercy for their small hearts. Each day, their cries for warmth and food grow louder, and each day, I feel more helpless to provide them with even the basics of life💔😭😭

I appeal to your humanity, to your compassion. We need your help to survive, to find a safe shelter, and to feed my children. Your generosity could be the reason Muhammad and Hala continue to live and find hope amidst this darkness🥹

Please, help me keep the light of these innocent children from being extinguished by this cruel world

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do you think the Despicable Me minions are people?

Me and my friend are in two camps. She thinks they are not, simply because they are not human. Her requirement to be a person is simply to be a human. ME on the otherhand, i extend my definition of personhood to any sapient non-human who can communicate on par with a human. Humans are people by default, but i think a 40 foot flesh creature with teeth for skin would also be a person if they gave me their name and told me they were DTF.

Thats why i would not consider a dog a person, because while they yes are very intelligent and have an internal state and way of communicating with us, they are not able to do so on the same level, whereas a minion would be, despite not speaking the same language.

And by the same logic, the Minions have the same right to inhabit the "people" section of Tomatachi Life as any other fictional character, "human" or otherwise.

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