Every night, I put my four children to sleep not knowing if we’ll still have a roof over our heads tomorrow. I look at their little faces and wonder—how do I explain to them that we have nowhere to go? How can I ask them to survive the cold of the tent again, or the sound of drones hovering above? I’m a mother. All I want is to protect them.

We left the tent just a month ago, believing the nightmare was over. We rented this simple home with the hope of starting over. We built a routine. The kids started going to a temporary school. We painted the walls with colors of hope. But war doesn’t let go. Poverty is relentless. And fear returns with every passing day as the rent deadline approaches.

This plea is not just words on a screen—this is a real life slipping through our fingers. We’re not asking for luxury, just a roof to keep us safe and our children’s right to learn. We need you. Every donation—no matter how small—can be the difference between despair and survival.

For the sake of humanity 💔 don’t leave us alone.

Please keep sharing this! Despite the amount of notes on this post, Mohammed is still really struggling with getting funds to keep his children safe. (vetted, entry 174, row 178)

This is it.. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.. Only $93 left This was done by your efforts.. From the bottom of my heart, I am grateful to you for sharing this and donating so that we could do this with your help..

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did subsistence farming today

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did subsistence farming today

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did corvee labor for my lord today

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subsistence farming again

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in The Current Year there still exists a mindset that if a guy is established enough he's entitled to these relationships tbh, it comes up now and then especially when a famous athlete pleads guilty to rape. his fans will essentially say he's allowed and the woman should feel lucky. the irish guy whose name escapes me at the moment

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

Gonna use this post to bitch about something I've been wanting to bitch about for a while but hadn't found an excuse to

The other day I was watching a video about different types of pre-modern calendar systems from different places in the world.

And I saw like. multiple comments from europeans and americans asking why lunar calendar systems even exist when a solar calendar is so much more objectively useful, because what's the point of having a calendar that syncs up with the phases of the moon when the seasons are much more important.

And like. Most lunar calendars were developed by societies that lived relatively close to the equator. Why the hell would they care to have a calendar that's "synced with the seasons"? The closer you are to the equator the less observable of a phenomenon a yearly cycle of distinct "seasons" becomes, until it just straight up stops being A Thing. Meanwhile near the equator the phase of the moon remains the most plainly observable natural phenomenon to track the passage of time. And like. The fact that people living in like ancient west asia had literally no fucking reason to track "the seasons" is patently obvious if know literally anything about what the seasons are or what causes them or how they work. Literal medieval peasant scale worldview.