— Sunrise, by Louise Glück
a little more information regarding the maui wildfires:
- medical workers on the ground are describing finding hundreds of bodies. the current death toll in the media is, unfortunately, only a fraction of the reality
- hospital workers are describing injuries and trauma as if survivors had come out of a warzone
- thousands are still missing
- an apartment complex for the elderly was lost. not everyone could get out. people were saying goodbye to loved ones over the phone
- people who did get out of lahaina were leaving with ashes covering their faces and nothing but the clothes on their backs. people are losing everything.
hotels are still operating. hotels are still operating. they are not the ones offering shelters or housing or food. even bowling alleys are offering shelter, but hotels have the audacity to build on burial sites but not open their doors to local families who have lost everything.
donate to maui united way, the maui food bank, mutual aid, and maui humane society
Hey if you work for a major company that you fucking hate, but they also have a Diversity, Inclusion, Culture Department… check if they offer donation matching.
Your $10 donation can turn into $20
Your $50 donation can turn into $100
I completely forgot until an org put it at the bottom.
when i type '!!' separately after various words and phrases that is because !! is a word herself. learn this rule
tracy chapman really unlocked something with fast car. you cant listen to fast car without Feeling. every person who has ever and will ever listen to fast car has felt the same feeling as every other person who has or will listen to it. fast car is an experience. it should be listed in the dsm5. felt too much while listening to fast car.
i <3 dicking around and doing fuck all
via niall.breen.comics
bathroom graffiti
i needed to read this today so im sharing it to all of you!!
Important tags from @parsio
holding my own face in my own hands and screaming “there is no connection without an open heart! you must be brave! you must be honest! you must be true!” in the mirror
Ok but hear me out...
What if I'm scared?
do it scared
I was having one of those “you’re on a walk let’s imagine a situation where you have to explain a thing” arguments in my head about this literally today on a walk
I know people who really really could do with regular usage of their mobility aids and maybe even get a wheelchair for certain circumstances but they flat out refuse to do so most of the time because of both harassment from the public “you don’t actually need those” kind of BS and also internalised ableism with regards to the wheelchair
Too many people see it as a thing that only people who cannot use their legs at all should use, but if you find yourself in agonising pain after being on your feet walking for a short while due to your disability, I’d very much say that you should probably consider looking into whether or not need one
Anyway, there’s a massive stigma against using mobility aids of all kinds, there’s a significant number of people who are constantly on the lookout for people that they deem to be worthy of awful abuse so they can hurl everything they have against those people and I wish that wasn’t the case
Also the government shouldn’t be such horrible awful people and deny people who need stuff
ya my mum was dying from cancer and was still like "no I don't want to use a cane it makes me look too old let me hang onto people instead"
