Haida dogfish design. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 1893.
Greek mirror with a nymph washing her hair
ca. 280 BCE
Antiquity collection Berlin Misc. 8148
Please stop for a moment
Pause whatever you're doing whether you're scrolling, reading, working, or relaxing and think about the people of Palestine
They are enduring unimaginable hardship every single day. Families are struggling to survive under devastating conditions caused by Israel's ongoing attacks and blockade. They need our voices, our compassion, and our support now more than ever
friend Abdalrhman is one of them. Over the past few years, he has lived through horrors that most of us can hardly imagine: airstrikes, constant danger, the loss of his home, hunger, and endless uncertainty Despite everything, he continues to hold on Please, if you can, help him Every act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a real difference
Save my orphan children
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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i really appreciate adam mckay's willingness to discuss the elephant in the room this summer and summers into the future...
However, there is one type of rare, gargantuan, towering lie that makes all the other mass lies throughout human history seem like frightened, scurrying, little adorable fibs.
It is a lie told worldwide by hundreds of thousands of institutions, elected officials, many universities, legacy news, some large non-profits and eventually—as the deception entered mainstream culture—even by ourselves, to ourselves, every single moment of every day. It is a constantly growing gourd that even as a baby back in the 1970s was the size of three aircraft carriers. These days it is so massive it is almost easier to refer to what isn’t part of it (Disneyland, a BLT, that green croc by the side of the highway) than what is.
This massive lie can best be summed up as “when it comes to climate change... we have more time.”
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"No, the monstrous, misshapen garden colossus lie we’re referring to is subscribed to by most of the U.S., has stopped and slowed climate action far more than outright denial, and keeps growing and growing. Every day this deception whispers seductively in the ears of mankind: “global warming is real but not urgent… Keep doing what you’re doing.”
Less embarrassing than “climate change is a Chinese hoax,” but every bit as unscientific and ridiculous, it is the preferred lie of the ruling class, mainstream news media, and corporations.
Sir David King—former science advisor to the United Kingdom, professor at Oxford and then Cambridge, winner of too many awards to list and as establishment as they come—was quoted as saying that what we do over the next three to four years will determine the fate of humankind.
He said this... in 2021.
Like all grand lies, “we have more time” takes many different forms, often focus-grouped. There are the lofty-sounding promises to reach “Net-zero emissions by 2050,” as if 24 years from now was soon enough. There are the queries of “What’s your carbon footprint?,” as if individual people with plastic bags or straws were the problem and not gigantic multinational corporations. There’s the accusation that anyone who expresses urgency is a “doomer.” There are those who treat climate as an abstraction to win political campaigns, first arguing that the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act was a victory despite doing nowhere near enough to address the scale of climate collapse, and more recently that Democrats should just stop talking about climate and focus on more “winnable” issues. Most damaging and common of all, there are those who simply don’t mention it.
All of these distortions have robbed us of the most critical element people need to understand a threat and adjust their actions accordingly: context.
And make no mistake, when it comes to how much time we have, the data and the geological record are crystal clear.
For some badly-needed context, the last three years, likely for the first time in over 100,000 years, have averaged above the Paris Accords’ “do not cross” 1.5 degrees celsius planetary warming. Only ten years ago, that was considered catastrophic, but now mainstream news tells us it’s just a number.
And with a bump coming next year from a growing, historic El Niño up to 1.7 degrees celsius average warming, likely to cause agricultural failure and food shortages, we are staring right at the vaunted 2C number.
Why is 2C so vaunted?
Let’s do the context thing again: 2C will mean we have completely left the stable climate period known as the Holocene. This is the 11,000-year-old era that has given us large-scale crop and livestock agriculture, which gave us cities, written language, modern science and medicine, and warm beds and showers."
15 dollars for some listerine. I'm never listening to my dentist again.
Donate to my listerine fund to keep my dentist off my back (and maybe leave a monster or monstur suggest).
Welcome to a new attempt. I hope you’re not desperate because I’m still holding on to hope. I’m alive. Everyone knows me. I am a nursing student looking for money to secure the educational future at the university. I have a lot of problems. The most important of which is that my geographical location stole my life and made me ask for help in a way that I do not like or satisfy myself. I have obligations and I ask for help from friends. They don’t care. They care about people who call for mental illness and problems that I can’t do like them, so I personally ask you to stand with me if you get here with reading. I want to reach my goal in order to complete a future. Don’t hesitate to donate to me. I need your support.😭😭😭
Help me complete my dream of staying at the university and completing my education in nursing to help people and this is my goal 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Qusai Atef is vetted on our list at #381. Please help support his dream of working in the medical field so he can help others.
