Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have But I Have It - Blog Posts
boys will never understand the significance of "i want to be the girl with the most cake"
i'm sad again and i don't know why
smoking kills but we are all born to die anyways
that's what happens when you're on your own
and you're alright with letting nice things go
Pawn shop blues 𝜗𝜚
i will do anything to watch virgin suicides for the first time again
am i the only crazy one who believes in angel numbers
me if i was a perfume
anyone else randomly craves a crying session?
I really needed to see something like this today! Thank you @reasonsforhope for all that you do
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
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.
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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.
[Image description: a screenshot of an instagram post from user @northwestleftist. It’s a graphic in the style of a block print with flowers and the quote “to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing” from Raymond Williams]