Welcome to Australia...

Where an already endangered species is on the brink of functional extinction...

Oh, and 500 million animals unique to this country have already lost their lives, upon homes that have been destoryed and lives lost of people as well...

I mean... we're only living in a literal inferno...

415 fires. Fuck are we dying...

Oh yeah and people are just fleeing to the damn ocean, you know?

Do you want to know what Hell on Earth looks like..?

Because there it is in all it's unfiltered, firey rage...

There it is... my home from space...

This is only the beginning. Our country has not only entered a new decade, it seems a new dawning era as well, because this flaming apocalypse doesn't show any sign of stopping any time soon.

And you know what saddens me? I've never seen Australian tragedies trending here on this website. I mean it's been going on for months and only now does it seem to really be getting recognized, even if it is only at #9.

And I'm going to be honest with you here - the internet, and media in general is so American centric, this website being no exception. You'd think that an entire continent being on fire for several months with devastating consequences would have more recognition, but no, it really doesn't. The most notes I've ever seen on a post about the Australian fires is at least a few thousand, and that's about it.

So just... please. If you can, with this post or any other post in regards to the fires going on down here, reblog. Because the only thing that should be spreading like wildfire, is a post about a burning country...

I’ve been feeling this way for months. My country is literally on fire and no one but New Zealand and Canada seem to care.

Not even our Prime Minister cares.

Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes, with many of them losing them altogether. Homes have been destroyed, thousands of people are stranded or in limbo and at least nine people have died.

Sydney University have estimated more than 480 million animals have died in Australia since September, as a result of the bushfires.

If you’d like to help, here’s how you can do it:

HELP THE FIREFIGHTERS

Donations to the NSW Rural Fire Service directly benefit the volunteer firefighters on the frontline. To help you can donate here.

You can also donate to the young families of Geoffrey Keaton and Andrew O’Dwyer, who were killed during the Green Wattle Creek fire, and Samuel McPaul, who was killed at the Green Valley fireground, here.

HELP THE WILDLIFE

WIRES

To help the NSW wildlife victims, you can donate to the NSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) here.

Port Macquarie Koala Hospital

More than 2000 koalas are feared to have perished in NSW since September.

The Port Macquarie Koala Hospital have raised more than $2 million for the wildlife affected in that area, with the initial aim of using the money to distribute automatic drinking stations in the burnt areas to help in koala and wildlife survival.

The organisation are now sharing the funds with other wildlife organisations in the fire affected regions across NSW. You can donate here.

HELP THOSE AFFECTED

There are multiple organisations helping those who have been affected. Most of these people have lost everything, including their homes, and donations would help to rebuild their lives with food, clothing, furniture, other essentials, and funds to pay bills.

Here are a few places you can donate:

The Salvation Army

Australian Red Cross

Vinnie’s Bushfire Appeal

All of those sites have great information on how your donations can help the people in need.

(Information, photos and links from news.com.au.)

Hi everyone, this time it’s unrelated to our project, but it’s related to humanity.

The situation is serious, and awareness must be spread. Please take your time to read the original post and Aeriie’s as well. If you can, help. If you can’t, please share and let more people know of this tragedy.

This is a serious issue, and it breaks my heart that this is happening and know one is reporting it. The best way to help is through spreading awareness, and if the adults won’t help than its up to the teens and millennial's to spread the word So please share this information with the people you love, and encourage them to help in any way they can.

Hey tumblr community! i need your help. 

There’s been a student movement in Bangladesh and hundreds of thousands students have been protesting for a week for safer roads and justice for those who have been killed in road accidents. I will include a post of someone from Bangladesh so you can learn more about the incident. 

by now, the Mobil Data and WiFi services in the country have been restricted so the news of students being killed and attacked won’t get out. Students in Bangladesh are using the hashtag #WeWantJustice to spread the news. Please use the hash tag on twitter because they don’t have access to social media right now. Here are some more pictures of the movement that I collected from the internet:

Please reblog, repost, share- do whatever you can to get international media attention and help them. These are children. These are students. We can’t just sit around watch them get killed! They students are just as important as the students in the U.S. They deserve to be safe. They deserve to live. Spread the word. 

This is terrible and incredibly inhumane that this government is doing. It makes me grateful how well students are treated in America and that we have a voice. The very principle that their simply asking for safer roads and being beaten for their peaceful protest is appalling. If you see this please forward, for the more people that know the more we can spread the word and create change.

Art by IG: @naolito Instagram: @artwoonz

These are are adorable, funny, and so realistic/true to social preferences.

“Particularly damning is what today’s repeal will mean for marginalized groups, like communities of color, that rely on platforms like the internet to communicate, because traditional outlets do not consider their issues or concerns, worthy of any coverage. It was through social media that the world first heard about Ferguson, Missouri, because legacy news outlets did not consider it important until the hashtag started trending.” -  Mignon Clyburn, FCC Commissioner for Net Neutrality 

Today the FCC voted 3-2 to kill the net neutrality rules you helped pass back in 2015

Let’s not kid ourselves: This is a major setback in our fight for a free and open internet. But It’s not the end. Not for us, and we hope not for you. 

Net neutrality is too important to be subject to the whims of any administration. We need legislative action. 

Go to Battle For The Net to get connected directly to your Senators or Representatives. If we work together, we can get it done. Again! 

Here’s more from Commissioner Clyburn this morning:

So, Net Neutrality has officially been repealed. It was split 3-2.

Now you guys need to absolutely pummel your local congressional representatives with calls, letters, and protests until Congress steps its game up and fixes this so that the FCC can never do this again.

We watched as three men callously laughed about how silly they thought some of the calls were for not being eloquent enough for their taste. We watched as they lied about the internet, even when the truth was uttered minutes before.

Don’t let them have this win.

Make your representatives miserable until they fix this. The news will be worthless to you in the upcoming months, as every major news network is either owned by an ISP or has tangential business with ISPs. They all serve to profit on this. Fact check with extreme prejudice. Don’t stop until your internet is back to where it needs to be.

Neutral.

I don’t care if you’re far-left, far-right, or dead down the center. Do you want it to be where an ISP can choose to throttle access to Fox News or Breitbart on a whim? What about Vox? What if some bad reviews come out for a movie and Comcast throttles it to hide that? What if Netflix is throttled into oblivion so that Hulu becomes the only possible option for viewing? What if you go to start-up a new business and you’re told that you have to pay for the $500/mo “business package” in order to get higher the 0.3 Mbps traffic speeds to your site?

Nothing about this decision is going to benefit how you use the internet.You use it for paying bills, for doctors and hospitals, for school, for work, and for entertainment.

Don’t give up, guys!

Make your representatives miserable.

DOesnt it need to go through court still? WHere it would be pummeled off?

That’s when advocates take it to court! Agency actions don’t need to be rubberstamped by the courts (in fact, courts prefer not to interfere with agency action).

And depending on which district takes this court case, it could end up favoring the FCC on this.

You want Congress to make the decision because then it is written in law, and isn’t likely to be easily overturned.

If you are not sure what to say, Celeste Pewter on Twitter has some amazing tips as well as scripts.

Thread on Twitter

DON’T SCROLL PASS! FOUND THIS ON GOOGLE+ AND I FEEL LIKE IT IS IMPORTANT!

The fact that there are Net Neutrality posts that fit my blog theme boggles me

But yeah, this is important! I have to see if my anxiety will let me help out, but if not then I am absolutely cheering from the sidelines!!!

We need to take action!! 

Edited! Made all links clickable as well as added more information. I will continue to edit when someone post other important information so everyone can see it!! 

If you don’t know about Net Neutrality well you need to know about it now. This is no joke or a game because if we don’t do something living expenses are going be harder to meet.

If you thought being a college student is expensive bc of books and tuition imagine what you’ll be paying just to do a research paper.

If you were against paying for YouTube red well it won’t matter bc you’ll have to pay just to access the website. This goes for all social media sites as well. You’ll have to pay to access your email.

Forget paying for basic internet speed you’ll be paying for packages that will only allow you to access certain websites. It’s these packages is the reason why many cut cable and only pay for Netflix. To access the internet will become more expensive and controlled. Let that sink in if it hasn’t already.

That is why we need to take action. And this post will make it easy for you to do that.

Sign this petition:

Fill our FCC comment Form 

Send Letters to your Representatives:

Call:

If you’re not from US:

We only have until December 14th, 2017. You have no excuse not to take action I’ve gave you many different options how to take action. All the research is done for you. This is important and for the best results contact daily.

Singal boost this! Spread this like wildfire. Take action!!

Even if you’re not American please reblog because this may spread all over the globe! This idea needs to be killed now!

We need to take action!! 

Edited! Made all links clickable as well as added more information. I will continue to edit when someone post other important information so everyone can see it!! 

If you don’t know about Net Neutrality well you need to know about it now. This is no joke or a game because if we don’t do something living expenses are going be harder to meet.

If you thought being a college student is expensive bc of books and tuition imagine what you’ll be paying just to do a research paper.

If you were against paying for YouTube red well it won’t matter bc you’ll have to pay just to access the website. This goes for all social media sites as well. You’ll have to pay to access your email.

Forget paying for basic internet speed you’ll be paying for packages that will only allow you to access certain websites. It’s these packages is the reason why many cut cable and only pay for Netflix. To access the internet will become more expensive and controlled. Let that sink in if it hasn’t already.

That is why we need to take action. And this post will make it easy for you to do that.

Sign this petition:

Fill our FCC comment Form 

Send Letters to your Representatives:

Call:

If you’re not from US:

We only have until December 14th, 2017. You have no excuse not to take action I’ve gave you many different options how to take action. All the research is done for you. This is important and for the best results contact daily.

Singal boost this! Spread this like wildfire. Take action!!

Even if you’re not American please reblog because this may spread all over the globe! This idea needs to be killed now!

This isn’t art-related, but this is EXTREMELY SERIOUS IF YOU LIVE IN THE US.  The following message is pasted from Reddit user DrDreamtime. I did not write this, but it contains all the most important information you should know. It should be spread as far and wide as possible.

For those that do not know or understand what net neutrality is and would rather see a video instead of a LOT of text, here is a good video by John Oliver on Net Neutrality.

Don’t want to do that? Understandable, it’s a 15 minute video. So heres a simple picture to highlight what things could look like

Please take the time to at least do the first easy step, either of the two options work and take very little time.

If this fails, the possibility of actually having to pay more to access reddit, facebook, and any other website or face massive loading speed increases or even a straight out site-block by your ISP.

Tell him how you feel.

Ajit Pai, FCC Chairman: 1-202-418-1000

Reddit won’t let me post the rest of the FCC contact information, something with the formatting and the automod, I think. You can click here, to go to the FCC’s official contact page.

You need to contact your representatives and senators about Net Neutrality even if they already support it, but especially if they don’t.

Remember that this very thread is only possible because of a free and open internet; kill net neutrality and threads like this might be a thing of the past.

Easy way:

Step 1: Go to BattleForTheNet.com. Step 2: Do what BattleForTheNet.com tells you to do.

-OR-

Text RESIST to 50409 to get help from RESIST Bot. It helps you find your reps, write letters to them, and sends them faxes FOR FREE. Everyone who cares about Net Neutrality should take 5 minutes to write to your representatives, once a week (or a day). Be heard.

The harder, but still very easy way:

Step 1: Find out who your Representative and Senator is/are.

Step 2: Find your Representative and Senator’s contact information.

Step 3: Call, write, or fax to express your feelings on this.

A lot of people are nervous about calling their elected officials for the first time, maybe you don’t know what to say, or how to say it, or even who you’ll be talking to, so here’s what you’ll need to know.

Reminder: Only call YOUR OWN elected officials! Calling Mitch McConnell from sunny Florida won’t do anyone any good, and might actually harm the cause. Only call your own elected officials, period.

Source

“Soon it will be too late to shift course away from our failing trajectory, and time is running out. We must recognize, in our day-to-day lives and in our governing institutions, that Earth with all its life is our only home.”

Pledge to Stand Up For Science, today and every day: climatetruth.org/standup

If are reading this pass it along. If you believe in climate change spread this article, tell your friends, voice concerns to your government officials, and never stop doing your part. Every small thing and action can add up, but we all need to work together in order to protect ad preserve our planet.

This tweet from scientist Jacquelyn Gill (@JacqelynGill) went viral, and for good reason. The war on science continues, and she summed up this story perfectly into 3 sentences on Twitter. 

Read the full article: http://bit.ly/2AxVBf3

Take action to keep standing up for science: http://bit.ly/2gOFm5N

This is ridiculous! Not only is this proof that are president is obstructing climate science, but that he is willing to waste our countries already spent money on the replacement. Down with climate change denial, and make room for the believers! 

REBLOG: go to your blog and click the egg to see what hatches

I got Sonic the Hedgehog.

Sonic the freaking Hedgehog.

Maybe I cracked the egg too fast.

I GOT A SPARKLY NICHOLAS CAGE

I GOT LUKE HEMMINGS ROLLING HIS EYES WHAT THE HELL

REBLOG IF YOU WANT AN AMELIA ROUTE

If we can have a route with a unicorn, then we can have a route with our roommate!

Reblog if you want the Amelia route!

I would love that!! Maybe something between her and Luca? Or Yukiya?

Do you live in New York State? Then PLEASE take 15 seconds (seriously, that’s all it will take) to vote “AYE” in support on a carbon tax bill making its way through the New York State Senate. This is a big deal, friends. We need to start putting a price tag on carbon pollution. It’s the only way to create less of it and spur further growth in renewables. #YEARSproject #PutAPriceOnIt

This should have been done years ago, and it should be passed. Please reblog and share this post, and then vote aye in favor of putting a price on carbon. The time to fight for our planet is now.