Random person: Oh, you’re from Brazil? So you speak Spanish, right?
Brazilians:
On the outside: “No, in Brazil we actually speak Portuguese, common mistake.”
On the inside: “EU QUERO TE MATAR! EU QUERO TE MATAR! NÃO ANDA SOZINHO NA RUA, NÃO, QUERIDO!”
(“I want to kill you! I want to kill you! You better not walk alone on the strees, dear!”)
everyone please read this and share if you can.
Brazil is going through one of the worst climatic crisis ever seen.
i live in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. we have been suffering from extreme, nonstop rainstorms for a week now. the rivers are flooding, reaching 4-6 meters above their natural level. people are being rescued by helicopters, neighborhoods are being evacuated. entire cities are slowly but surely becoming submerged in water. 60 people missing and counting. 32 deaths and counting.
and this is not new. last november also had a flood like this one. 50 dead, many material losses. it happened again this january, with thousands being left without power or water for days.
three catastrophical disasters within less than a year. three disasters only a few months apart.
this is not natural.
unsustainable agricultural practices and politics led to this. a complete disregard for nature led to this. greed led to this. always greed.
when it comes to the climate crisis, i cannot stress this enough: we need to act now if we still want to live. disasters like this are going to happen more often and they're going to be much, much worse. this flood is being considered the worst climatic catastrophe in the history of my state. i don't know how long it will take for another bigger one to happen and take its place. i just know it will be sooner than it should.
links to donate (if you can't donate, sharing already helps a lot):
link for non-brazilians (paybox)
will update more links later. in the meantime, pray for us.
❗️NEW RELIABLE DONATION LINKS❗️
LINK - fundraiser by @badincolono on instagram, accepts donations in dollar and euro.
LINK - cozinhas solidárias, to feed the people affected by the floods. also accepts international donations through a paypal linked in the page.
LINK - s.o.s. chuvas, a fundraiser organized by CUFA (central única das favelas, or single central of the favelas in a rough translation). accepts international donation via paypal listed on the post.
LINK - donations to GRAD Brasil (response group to animals in disasters, in a rough translation), dedicated to rescue the animals in disasters like this one. accepts international donation via paypal listed at the bottom of the page.
please share and consider donating if you can. $5 is around R$25 for us and it already helps so much.
again, thanks so so much for sharing. i wasn't expecting to reach this many people and i couldn't be more thankful for it. thank you, truly.
Like to charge and reblog to cast Chinese scientists destroying the Insulin industry
Here’s a link with more details! They got an insulin dependent patient medication free in just 11 weeks using a cell transplant! It’s still very early and needs a lot more testing to see if they can replicate the results, but having success in a human is very promising!
twitter amazes me. shoutout to all the john lesbians
john lesbians dress like john wick and jon lesbians who dress like jon arbuckle from garfield
theyre sub-genres
(via @abyssal-gaze)
please welcome: Brood X!
bonus
One thing that I am 100% convinced would send an alien into cardiac arrest is sweating.
It sounds stupid but think about it: apart from horses, humans are the only species on earth that can sweat so it's not a far stretch to believe it would be incredibly rare in extraterrestrials as well.
Just imagine, one day the AC in the main engine room is broken and everyone starts panting like crazy because of the heat, but the human? Just keeps working like usual? It's not like they aren't affected by the heat at all, but they aren't breathing quite as hard as the rest and everyone thinks ahh yes, humans must have extreme durability to heat coming from that death planet. And then. The human starts melting?!?? And suddenly everyone is panicking because their human is leaking all sorts of important nutrients, metals and water out of every pore - are they dying? Surely this cannot be normal!
And the human has to explain that, no they are perfectly healthy and yes it is actually just the human body's way of cooling itself down and no they don't think it's "the coolest thing ever!!", wait till it starts to smell!
One thing that I am 100% convinced would send an alien into cardiac arrest is sweating.
It sounds stupid but think about it: apart from horses, humans are the only species on earth that can sweat so it's not a far stretch to believe it would be incredibly rare in extraterrestrials as well.
Just imagine, one day the AC in the main engine room is broken and everyone starts panting like crazy because of the heat, but the human? Just keeps working like usual? It's not like they aren't affected by the heat at all, but they aren't breathing quite as hard as the rest and everyone thinks ahh yes, humans must have extreme durability to heat coming from that death planet. And then. The human starts melting?!?? And suddenly everyone is panicking because their human is leaking all sorts of important nutrients, metals and water out of every pore - are they dying? Surely this cannot be normal!
And the human has to explain that, no they are perfectly healthy and yes it is actually just the human body's way of cooling itself down and no they don't think it's "the coolest thing ever!!", wait till it starts to smell!
Altogether, I really like the way americans say "can I help you?" as a polite general one-size-fits-all stand-in for "who the fuck are you/what the fuck are you doing here/how the fuck did you get in here/what the fuck are you staring at/what is your fucking problem." Such a polite way of going "bitch what the fuck."
i have been constantly in tears over this newly hatched duck i found on instagram last night
This is like the greatest animal ive ever seen
raise a glass to the posts you love that end up deleted. to the fanart and fanfics you lose track of and can’t locate. to the blogs you used to look through that ended up unexpectedly disappearing. to the things you didn’t archive because you always assumed they’d be there.
This is why reblogs are important. They keep circulating posts even when the blogs are long gone.
And this is why telling artists/writers/creators their work matters means so much. You might be the only one who says it.
It is entirely too easy to get tired or despondent or feel worthless and just give up.
Chicxulub Impact, 65 Million BC
