PSA FOR THOSE IN DC AREA - PLEASE STOP FEEDING BIRDS (JUNE 2021)

Eartha Kitt speaking truth to power at a 1968 luncheon at the White House hosted by Lady Bird Johnson which resulted in Kitt being blacklisted in the US for nearly a decade.

stained glasses i want in my future home

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN TURKEY

I’m extremely enraged right now. Turkish government withdrew from İstanbul Convention today, putting women’s lives at more risk than ever!

I’m only asking you tumblr users to help us to get our voices heard

Making #istanbulsozlesmesiyasatir and #aklinizdanbilegecirmeyin is one way to spread our voices on Twitter

In the past social media is actually effective in forcing government to do something

Another way is that signing this, there is Turkish, English, French and Italian versions explaining the situation

https://www.change.org/p/sign-to-support-women-in-turkey-who-ask-the-proper-implementation-of-laws-to-protect-women%09

Change.org

Sign the Petition

Do not withdraw from Istanbul Convention to Protect Women

PLEASE REBLOG THIS SO MORE PEOPLE CAN SEE

With all the events going on recently I think it’s time to post this image againbc i’m tired of this shit 

Gallbladder had to be removed and hit my head on a toy.

Reblog if you have a scar with a story behind it.

This one time I tripped

Jackpot

I thought I bring a positive meme in here to let ya’ll know to look after yourselves. You got this!

can y’all just… like or reblog if y’all are polyam-safe blogs

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

The SSI Restoration Act of 2021 is currently proposed to congress. SSI is a type of disability payment for disabled Americans. The bill will increase the SSI payment to the poverty level (right now the maximum payment is 9528$ a year). It will allow disabled people on SSI to marry and not lose their income. It will increase the asset and income caps for SSI among other improvements.

Friends and I made a website that has all of this info plus a REALLY easy way to send an email to your state reps. If you click the link below and click send email, you can send a letter of support for the SSI Restoration Act to your state reps. It's already written and takes only a few minutes. Seriously it is ridiculously easy. These emails have more pull to reps than resistbot so please fill out if you can!

We also have a Facebook page called "Campaign to Fix SSI" that has this information and regular updates. Here's the link for that.

Please do this and boost! It could change the lives of millions of disabled Americans.