headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

The more I research about conservation, the more I cannot STAND climate doomerism.

“Ough oof we’re all gonna die, everything is going extinct, blaaaahhh”

Meanwhile there are so many efforts and projects that are like “Blease…volunteers…interested homeowners…….random individuals who care…..pleas……….literally begging………”

A bunch of stuff you can probably do even if you have no land, no money, and no or limited ability to do physical work

like, off the top of my head

• share social media posts from nearby conservation organizations so other people can see them
• talk to your neighbors. develop a friendly relationship with them. perhaps pepper in casual references to invasive plants and species in decline around you (I have done this)
• but talk to your neighbors for its own sake
• teach your friends and any kids you may know cool facts about bugs, snakes and creatures so they will care more about them
• teach your mom and your dad and your grandma about creatures like spiders and snakes. help people to appreciate them.
• make and/or post relevant memes. my anti lawn memes and other memes are free for you to repost without credit.
• maybe even make a meme page idk
• look up the sounds of birds that live in your area on youtube. impress others with your ability to identify bird calls. increase knowledge of people around you.
• vote in local elections
• do not have an outside cat. Don’t even do it for the wildlife, do it for the poor cat. Don’t take my word for it on this, go google the kinds of worms cats can get.
• Since the bird flu is going around, tell other people you know with outside cats and inform them that eating a bird could literally kill their cat. this is just a good idea to do regardless
• if you have a cat, whether they are outside or inside or not, try leash training them. tell other people. post online if you want. If you are capable of doing so, take your cat out on a leash to chill in the yard with them or walk with them or whatever you want to do.
• “some cats can be leash trained” will be pointless to say until people see other people walking cats. Be the first in your neighborhood to be crazy enough to do it
• if you have a friend with a garden, ask if they’d like to take your compostable stuff for their compost
• or just start a compost pile. you don’t have to have a garden to have compost. just make compost and give it to people,?? 

This isn’t even getting into existing ways to organize in your community this is just random crap

The people who are doing the work you can’t do are set back by stuff like “people think bugs and snakes are scary and harmful, so they don’t care about saving them”

But you CAN help change the way other people see bugs and snakes, if you have contact with other people at all

share!!!! your!!!!! knowledge!!!!! with!! people!!!!!! please! People are RIDICULOUSLY uninformed about nature

*I* know that snakes are good for the ecosystem, that there are only two species of venomous snake in my area, and that snakes are timid and absolutely don’t chase you, but that doesn’t mean everybody else knows that and more people than you would think actually don’t

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soon-palestine:

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More profound when you consider that Doctors Without Borders rarely makes political statements.

In #UNSC mtg on Middle East, @MSF
SG Christopher Lockyear says: “Israeli forces have attacked our convoys, detained our staff, bulldozed our vehicles, hospitals have been bombed and raided. And now for a second time, one of our staff shelters has been hit. This pattern of attacks is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence. Our colleagues in #Gaza are fearful that as I speak to you today, they will be punished tomorrow.”

He adds: “The humanitarian response in Gaza today is an illusion. A convenient illusion that perpetuates a narrative that this war is being waged in line with international laws. Calls for humanitarian assistance have echoed across this chamber. Yet in Gaza we have less and less every day, less space, less medicine, less food, less water, less safety.”

epicdogymoment:

vague-humanoid:

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Rich Siegel, Jewish resident of Teaneck, NJ, at Township Council meeting

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[Transcription:

My name is Rich Siegel. I’m a 25 year homeowner here in Teaneck. I’m Jewish. The reason that I’m telling you that I’m Jewish is because I have a concern about something that’s going on in the Jewish community. On march 10th, there is scheduled to be an Israeli real estate sales event at the Keter Torah synagogue. That event violates both domestic law and international law. Violates domestic law because we had a Civil Rights Act in 1965 and a Fair Housing Act in 1968. We don’t allow real estate events to be for Whites only, for Jews only, or anybody only. Now, as Jews, we don’t get to fly under the radar and break the law and hide it in a synagogue. It violates international law because West Bank settlement homes are going to be available for sale at this real estate event. On the website it lists three different West Bank settlements. Those settlements are in and of themselves illegal by international law. If we allow this sale to go through, we are enabling a local synagogue to violate both domestic anti-discrimination laws and international law. Now, there’s other reasons we shouldn’t allow it. There’s a genocide going on right now. I don’t care who that offends. More than 35,000 people have been killed. More than 13,000 children have been killed. People in this community are in deep mourning. People in this community are angry. I’m angry. What this real estate event is going to do is it’s gonna fan the flames. If it goes forward, there will be a demonstration. I know there’s going to be a demonstration because I’m going to organise it.

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perkwunos:

This felt like such a jarring chronological leap

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thebibliosphere:

ayeforscotland:

ayeforscotland:

I FUCKING KNEW IT.

It is incredibly easy to ‘self-publish’ AI-generated books to Amazon - you’re doing basically fuck all work.

The hardest part of all that would be inputting your tax details during account creation. Otherwise, the fucker’s done zero work.

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portland-sunshine:

orcinus-veterinarius:

Woman at the zoo: Why do they look so sad? 😔

Sign literally 10 feet away:

I’ll never forget being at the Oregon Zoo and hearing people talk about how sad one of the chimpanzees looked. He was sitting on a log, his back to one of the viewing areas, hunched over. And they were saying “oh, he looks depressed, he must hate it here.”

But then when you walked around to the other side, you’d see that he was simply busy beating his dick like it owed him money.

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stuckinapril:

I’m actually so physically sick reading this. These Palestinians were malnourished, sick, frail. They just wanted sustenance for themselves, for their children. And Israel knows this. It knows it has created a fish bowl where people are starving every day, where they’re so desperate for the smallest morsel of food that they’re willing to go anywhere to get it. So they deliberately—on purpose—planted aid in a certain location, stayed waiting while Palestinians all rushed over for this promise of food, and then they opened fire. Now 104 Palestinians are dead, and the footage of this is so heartbreaking it actually made me wanna throw up. I am so incredibly tired of Arab lives being dispensable, or fodder for shock value videos. And with the UN having cut entry for aid trucks, I don’t know what the surviving Palestinians will do. It’s hard living with the fact that people care for Arab people so little, they’re willing to watch this and do nothing. Why are we not human to you?

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cluusheen:

i would just like to inform everyone a bit on how they’re taking charles’ diagnosis here in glasgow.. last night at pub trivia one of the teams named themselves “big chucks royal prostate”

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possumgirlbulge:

socialistexan:

i always thought of transphobia as a short hand for bigotry and not an actual phobia phobia, but this guy legit ran away from a child

babyhilton:

i still cannot get it out of my head that a police officer pointed a gun and screamed “get on the ground” repeatedly when faced with a young man burning alive. its been like 12h since i saw the video and it keeps coming back to me. you literally could not ever make this up

if someone wrote this scene as a political metaphor ppl would roll their eyes, as if as if as if. and it just happened. the arm of the state that holds a gun knows nothing but killing even when faced with death itself

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