this pandemic will end and you’ll claim the window seat in your favorite cafe, stand in a crowd at a concert, visit a museum and make crappy art in the park. sometimes things feel like they’ll go on forever, sometimes bad things feel heavier than good things, sometimes life feels like it’s slowing down and all you’re doing is waiting for the full stop— but just because this hopelessness is all that you’re feeling right now, doesn’t mean that it’s all there is. there’s always more and you will experience that, and you will feel alive again.

Reblog if you want anyone considering suicide tonight to know that they are loved, cared for, and so valuable. 

Baby steps

Friendly reminder that the pyramid of burgers were canonically disgusting while Spongebob’s single one was the most delicious thing ever

Do something!

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Black-on-Black crime is merely a deflection from the real problems at hand. End of story.

Stay safe and educate! ✊🏽

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do pigeons sometimes forget they can fly or what

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Could you maybe reblog this post if you think respecting trans peoples' names and identities is a basic right and not a political opinion?

No pressure. Just seeking some validation of my sentiment. Due to some. people

Please, help me save a life!

Hi, guys.

Sorry for disappearing again, life is hectic now, lots of things are changing. I will adapt, soon, I hope, and will come back to all of you and all of my stories.

But today I came to talk not about that and not even about me.

Today I came here to ask you for help. Please, read this post. It’s super important.

I’ve never asked much from you, I believe. Besides asking to send me some stupid questions or read something I’ve written.

So, I hope it gives me the right to ask you today. I’m asking not for much. Just, please, guys, help me save a life.

This is Sofia Darbinyan. She’s four months old. She’s from my city, from a very good family I know, the youngest of three wonderful girls. She’s only started her life, but, unfortunately, she’s in a big trouble already.  Sofia has Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), it’s a neuromuscular disorder that results in the loss of motor neurons and progressive muscle wasting. Babies with this awful genetic disease usually die at about six months old, as they stop breathing and suffocate.

Several years ago, there was absolutely no treatment and kids were basically left to die. Last year the genetic medicine was produced, tested and licensed. There’s a cure. It’s called Zolgensma. The only problem, it’s the most expensive medicine in the world.

Sofia needs just one shot to keep living almost absolutely normal life. But this shot costs $ 2,125 million.

This is enormous money for one family. In my country some people (a lot of people, to be honest) won’t earn even 10% of this sum in their entire life. It’s almost impossible to get this medicine through our governmental programs, as it’s not licensed officially on the territory of our country. And most of charity funds refused to help due to the high cost of the medicine.

Sofia’s parents are doing everything to get at least some official help and support, but unfortunately, for now, we, usual people, are the only hope they have. The thing that makes it all even worse is that we have less than two months left, Sofia has to get the shot till she’s six months old for it to help her.  We’ve collected about $ 140 thousand already, but it’s not enough, of course.

So, today, I’m asking you, please, guys, help me save this little angel.

$ 2 million is an extreme amount of money for one person. But if 1 million people donate $ 2 and 20 cents, it’ll do the trick. In my country it’s a price of a coffee cup. Not that much for one person, right? But more than enough for Sofia to stay alive.

You can get more info on this instagram page  https://www.instagram.com/helpsofiadarbinyan (tho it’s all in Russian, but I think instagram can translate it)

The PayPal for donations is paypal.me/vladarbinyan

If you need, I can help you see all the official documents and proof you need.

If you can’t donate money (I do understand that lots of people have lost their jobs and are experiencing hardship rn), please help us with reblogs. It’s extremely important for as many people as possible to find out about Sofia, it’s more important than any fic reblogs, guys.

I see a lot of action happening every day, here on tumblr and outside, in the world. I see people standing by each other during all the madness with COVID-19, I see people protecting each other against discrimination, racism, violence and injustice. People hasn’t invented diseases, but it’s also a problem we have to fight. I believe in people. I believe in 5sos fam. I have seen how powerful we and our small actions are. I’ve seen you guys doing incredible things, like having all this disabledsos marathon or helping clean Michaels name. So, please, help me do one more good thing.

I do believe that kids like that come to this world to help us be better and kinder. And I’m gonna try my hardest to try save this little angel’s life.

Please, guys, I’m begging you, help! Any, even the smallest help matters. Every cent, every reblog, every prayer. Please, please, please. She deserves to live.

talk about yemen. talk about the 63,000 yemeni children that died of preventable causes. talk about how the UN dubbed it “ the world’s largest humanitarian crisis ”. talk about US’ major role in backing Saudi Arabia’s bombing. talk! talk! talk! this needs to get the deserved and much needed attention.

here’s some petitions you can sign and share, as well as some appeals and foundations to donate to if you can!!

CNN Live coverage when Trump was  walking towards the church

Holy fucking shit

jesus…….. THIS is what you show to people who are still calling the protests anarchist riots… this is real… the US police force and the US national guard are TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

Another black child lost their life in Brazil today.

Miguel, 5 years old, son of a maid who had to take her son to work (in the middle of quarantine), died when he fell from the 9th floor of the building his mother worked on, after the mother’s boss, a rich white women called Sarí Corte Real, put him alone in the elevator to go after his mother who had gone down to walk the dog by order of the same boss.

He fell from a height of 35 meters. From the 5th floor (apartment where the mother works) the boy ended up on the 9th, coincidentally a floor without protection. Miguel, aged 5, died because his mother’s boss was DOING HER NAIL and was too busy to take care of the boy, so she decided to let him go after his mother alone.

The women was arrested, paid a bail of 20k reais and is now free.

JUSTICE FOR MIGUEL

Say their name!

(A Brazilian thread)

Share, PLEASE!

I will reblog it with more photos since the limit is 10.

YOURE TELLING ME THIS IS WHAT THEY'VE BEEN SHOOTING PROTESTERS WITH????

YEP! These are meant to be skipped into the ground and then spin into people's legs and dissuade people from advancing or move them away. FIRING THEM AT PEOPLE'S HEADS IS 100% AGAINST THE PROPER USE. AND THEY ARE SHOOTING THESE AT MEDICS. DOCTORS, EMTS, AND NURSES. AT CLOSE RANGE. THESE CAN BREAK YOUR SKULL. THEY ARE NOT A JOKE. THIS IS LESS LETHAL LIKE A BASEBALL BAT IS LESS LETHAL THAN A SWORD. BOTH STILL CAN KILL.

I only found out today they’re meant to be fired at the ground to bounce back at protesters... I don’t think  I’ve ever seen the cops use them that way

They're also often actually metal with a thin coating of rubber.

Hi.

Your buddy from the ammo industry here.

1) these are absolutely not supposed to be fired directly at people, they are supposed to be fired indirectly.

2) they can kill and seriously injure people

3) this type of "rubber bullet" (often called a "foam baton" or "rubber baton" round) is a lightweight projectile that will nonetheless fuck you up. I've loaded and worked with foam batons and rubber shot for a long time and in all the time I've worked with people who were loading and firing rubber bullets with police departments I've never encountered any version of a 37 or 40mm baton round that has a "thin layer of rubber over a metal core," which is a description I've seen a lot of in the last few days and wanted to correct.

And yet...

Yep, ACAB.

What I will say, and I know it's cold comfort, is that everyone in photos like these has an incredible case against these PDs because the rounds they're firing say right on the casing that they're not to be fired except by properly trained users in appropriate ways so either this is a trained person who ignored the training and can be held liable or this is an untrained person whose department should be held liable

They 100% know this is not how these are supposed to be used and they are intentionally misusing them in ways they are aware make the weapons more lethal and will later claim they didn't know better. They're lying, and everyone should know they're lying.