This Image In The Latest Watchtower Is So Unhinged. I'm Waiting For This To Have Animated Gifs Of The

Hey bestie I'm having one of those moments

idk i guess there’s just something terribly lonely about growing up in an environment where people love you well enough, sure, but only the parts of you they want to love. they look at you and they see something they could love, if only you were a little different - a little happier, a little straighter, a little more complacent. so they take those traits of you that they like and they treat that part of you with love and kindness, and they take the rest of you and leave it for dead, all while talking about how much good they do for you

things i need to remind myself:

i’m safe now

it wasn’t my fault

i did what i was supposed to do: survive

No one:

Me, in a weird point of deconversion/relearning stuff where I can’t do a lot of technical stuff I frequently did in fundamentalist environment I was raised in anymore, but I also don’t know how to do a lot of technical stuff I have to do in the secular environment I’m in now, that others grew up being taught how to do:

Jws: One day god will rain massive fireballs down on our planet and the earth will crack open and swallow entire cities whole and many people you've known and loved for years will die horribly right before your eyes. Isn't that such a wonderful thought?

5-year-old me:

URGENT HELP NEED

Please don't scroll

The eviction moratorium have been ended by the Supreme Court, and our landlords are stalking the house where we have been squatting.

We had another donations post going but we're making another because the others died.

My roomate and I are queer, mentally ill and disabled. He is indigenous, and I am visibly trans. We have no money, and we're looking for options desperately. We have a rental assistance program we can apply for when we find a place but until then, we are fucked. We can't go to my family because of abuse, and his family told us they'd rather watch us die than help.

Until we can get something more permanent we're still trying to borrow an RV but we need money to rent a space to put the RV.

We also need food, medications, and water.

Please, if you can donate at all, anything is appreciated. If anyone donates more than $50 my roomate will draw one of your pets within 2 weeks. Obviously we can't promise drawings immediately since we're disabled and grasping at straws to try to survive, but he will do them as he can.

https://www.paypal.me/creepiecrpple

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If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

The Conversation

Explainer: what is citizen science?

Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

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It sounds crazy but I kinda want to pursue a PHD now. I have always been very passionate about education but wasn't sure if I'd ever get to even do undergrad. Realized recently I don't have to plan my life around my parents' arbitrary rules anymore. I'm free.