UTENANTHY COMM FOR @palms-upturned .. TY OCEAN ILY i put all my anime effects it made my 13 year old very happy

ID by ocean: a digital illustration of tenjou utena and himemiya anthy walking outside in the golden hour. utena walks with a cane and anthy walks with a rollator, and the cane and rollator have matching floral patterns. anthy is wearing her finale outfit and her suitcase is sitting on the seat of the rollator. chuchu is sitting on the suitcase. utena is pointing at chuchu and both she and anthy are smiling and laughing. there are hearts floating around everyone’s heads and a rainbow in the sky. end ID

Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul is currently flooded

I don't make these kinds of posts, but Rio Grande do Sul (a brazilian estate) is going through its worst natural catastrophe in recorded history and I need everyone to know about this. Its currently looking like this:

What is going on

Most of Brazil suffers from yearly floods during the rain season. These floods most of the time aren't bad, with water going away a few hours later. Sometimes they are a nightmare, with people losing their homes and most if not all belongings. But this?

This is not fucking normal.

Currently (May 6th, 2024) there's +80 confirmed deaths and 873 thousand people are being affected by these historical floods. Eight hundred and seventy three THOUSAND people. Once again: THIS. IS. NOT. NORMAL.

Rio Grande has 496 cities, and currently, 364 are reporting problems related to this. It's almost the entirety of Rio Grande - and you know how big Rio Grande is? If you're from the USA, its just a bit bigger than Colorado, and just a bit smaller than Nevada. If you are European, Rio Grande is bigger than the United Kingdom. Can you imagine if almost the entirety of the UK was underwater? Because I sure fucking can just by watching brazilian news!

Rio Grande expects floods. It rains a lot in Brazil. What no one expect is having to deal with 2,30 meters - 7'7 feet for reference - ABOVE the expected flooding level, which is 3 meters (9'10 feet). This means that there were 5,26 meters (17'3 ft) of water. Chart for comparison:

I live in São Paulo, which is completely unaffected by what is going on over there, but I need people to be aware of this. Why?

How YOU can help

A single US dollar is almost five reais. One euro is around 5,50. This may not be much to a lot of people reading this, but literally anything helps. If you donate U$10, it's R$50 for us. If it's euros, then it's R$55,00.

If you can't donate, please just reblog this post.

INTERNATIONAL DONATIONS INFO

If you use euros, here's the donation info:

If you use dollars, here's the donation info:

You need to inform this in order to donate:

NATIONAL DONATIONS INFO

If you're brazilian, oi, aqui tá o Pix do canal SOS Rio Grande do Sul para você ajudar:

[Image description: four photos of Rio Grande do Sul and a chart.

First photo: a city flooded with orange-brown water. The high rises are still visible above the water, but their lower floors are completely submerged. Buildings that are only a few stories tall are mostly or completely underwater.

Second photo: an elevated roadway with floodwaters up to the edge of the road. In the distance, a higher part of the road that is clearly a bridge is visible. The trees planted around the elevated roadway are submerged so far that they look like bushes.

Third photo: a crowd of people in the street, standing in floodwaters that are up to most people's waists, or in some places, chests. They are partially crowded around a small rescue boat that is already full.

Fourth photo: an aerial photo of a town where the majority of buildings are so flooded only their roofs are visible.

Chart: a height comparison showing two silhouettes of people. The one on the right is labeled "6'0 ft person" and the one on the left is labeled "the flood". The six-foot person is only as tall as the middle of the flood's thigh - it would take at least 3 six-foot people to match the height of the flood.

/End description.]

Vetted family fundraiser masterpost 1

Version date: May 7th 2024.

This is a masterpost for the evacuation fundraisers I've vetted so far. The numbers next to the names have no significance beyond ease of navigation for me for when I check their progress in the future. You should look at the disclaimers instead and focus on those. Occasionally I will update these with new info, including new fundraisers, and the amount of cash that's been raised. Check in regularly on the original post when you see it being reblogged. In all likelihood once its reached you it's already outdated. This post is part of this masterpost series compiling fundraisers for Ghazzah and Sudan. I focus on Ghazzah as I am Palestinian and am more equipped to do verifications as I'm more familiar with my own country and its politics and dialect, but if I know a fundraiser for a Sudanese family is legit I will include it here.

Ottawa4Palestine’s vetted fundraiser spreadsheet (76 different families with listed fundraisers)

Joe Biden makes a speech saying Hamas are driven by the ancient desire to eliminate Jews. Hamas was created in 1987, Joe. Ain’t nothing ancient about them. So unless you are implying that Palestinians are driven by the ancient desire to wipe out Jews which is KKK cross burning level of racism, you might want to tone down the racist bullhorn that you are mistaken for a dog whistle.

Liberals were brought to tears by Trump’s racism will nod along to Biden’s open pronouncement to eliminate Palestinians and Arabs in general.

The first Hamas constitution had antisemitic language in it (quoting the 19th century antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Article 32), but everyone who signed that original Hamas charter is dead.

The 2017 charter explicitly condemns antisemitism. But these facts don't matter to people who commit genocide. Antisemitism in one article of a document nobody uses anymore is justification, to them, for killing 50,000.

Alaa’s family’s home was destroyed by occupation bombing. After suffering homelessness, hunger, and danger from IOF troops and bombs, Alaa and her son were able to evacuate Gaza to Egypt.

However, Alaa’s ailing mother is still in Gaza. She is homeless after the destruction of her house, malnourished due to the occupation’s famine, sickly due to the destruction of waste treatment infrastructure, and exhausted from a life in displacement. You can find photos and more information about Alaa and her mother’s living conditions on Alaa’s blog @alaaalkhateeb and on her campaign page.

Alaa’s mother has had to flee various shelters on several occasions due to IOF bombing. Each time, she is forced to carry her few intact possessions and what little food and water she can find. When she is not fleeing for her life, she is forced to search for food and water, and if she is fortunate enough to find any at all, she has to haul it back to her shelter on her own.

These living conditions would be exhausting for anyone, but are especially so for an elderly woman who is sick and starving. The burdens she is forced to bear in order to survive are weighing very heavily on her, and her condition is deteriorating rapidly.

Alaa is trying to evacuate her mother from Gaza before it is too late. She only needs to pay the evacuation processing fees for one person, which means her fundraiser goal is relatively small. I am hopeful that we can share Alaa’s campaign and achieve the goal quickly, so that Alaa can evacuate her mother as soon as possible. If you cannot donate, please reblog this post, reblog the posts on Alaa’s blog @alaaalkhateeb, and repost this link to your own blogs and across all of your social media accounts.

Thank you❤️

Tumblr continues to terminate pro-Palestinian blogs and pursue the censorship of anything related to Palestine. northgazaupdates' blog has been removed.

Rio Grande do Sul is currently going through extreme flooding and the government is basically doing nothing about it.

Link to full thread with more information

Link to donations

[ID: a tweet thread by @/isatinie.

First tweet read: WHAT'S GOING ON RIO GRANDE DO SUL AND HOW YOU CAN HELP ❗❗❗❗

RT TO SPREAD THE WORD

There is a picture attached depicting the flood. It shows a bird's-eye view of an area of building and trees. The majority of them have been entirely covered in water, and there are some that have their tops poking out of the water. There are lights shining from within the murky water.

Second tweet read: Rio Grande do Sul is a state in the southern region of Brazil. It is the fifth-most populous state in Brazil and the ninth-largest by area. I was born and raised there.

Two images attached, one of the flag of Rio Grande do Sul, and the other of the state marked on a map of Brazil.

Third tweet read: Last week Rio Grande do Sul entered a state of calamity due to heavy rains. There are cities that are completely underwater.

A photo is attched, showing bird's-eye view of another flooded area, once again showing tops of building and trees just barely taller than the water level.

Fourth tweet read: Many people have lost their homes and are crying out for help. The government isn't doing much, whih results in people waiting for rescue of rooftops and dead bodies floating in the street.

There is a video attached. The preview image is of a man sweaming in the water, only his head visible. The video is taken from a little boat.

Fifth tweet read: Civilans are having to do the rescues, when they should also be protected. The situation is so serious that they are tying bodies of deceased people to trees so they can be found when the water recedes.

There is a video attached. The preview photo shows a few people holding hands in a chain in the water, and a small boat at the edge of the shot, seemingly sailing their way.

Sixth tweet read: The Brazilian media is NOT treating this seriously. Yesterday Madonna did a concert in Rio de Janeiro and the media talked more about the concert than PEOPLE DYING.

Seventh tweet read: Citizens who are safe still have no stable water or electricity, which is why I come to ask you to spread this thread. The media needs to know that human beings are important.

Eighth tweet read: The biggest news program in Brazil ended like this yesterday; smiling talking about the Madonna concert. They didn't even have the decency to ask for a minute of silence for the victims of Rio Grande do Sul.

There is a video attached. The preview image is of a news anchor looking calmly at the camera with a light smile on her face.

Ninth tweet read: I can't even contact some of my family members. I don't know if they are fine. My friends had to evacuate from their own place cause there's too much water.

Tenth tweet read: If you want to help us and donate, here's some links.

There is a link attached. It's the same link as OP of this post added under "Link for donations".

END ID]

It’s really heartening how much people on this site came together to help Ahmed @90-ghost. He’s in Egypt now with his younger brother waiting on his mom and older brother to join them. The issue now is living expenses. Life is extremely difficult for displaced people, and the future is uncertain. If you’ve ever wondered how you can help a Palestinian displaced by the genocide, here’s one way to do so.

Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

Imagine paying Columbia-amounts of money to be taught by someone with kindergarten-level art literacy. Like, motherfucker, the wholeass point of 4’33” is to emphasize how every performance of live music is inextricably linked to the ambient sounds of the context in which it is performed!!!!!!! Paying attention to and thinking about the context of the performance is the point of the song!!!! If the point was to hear birds chirping and people walking, John Cage would have fucking recorded that instead. Insisting that art is only good when contains good things and makes you feel good things is baby-level art criticism. How the fuck is this dude a professor.

Actually I’m not done going off yet. This pisses me off so much. How can you teach the humanities and be so obstinately ignorant? Like bruh, if the chanting outside makes you feel uncomfortable and upset, maybe you should take about four and a half minutes to contemplate why you feel that way. During that time, you might consider things such as: why are there students chanting? What are they protesting? Why do they feel so strongly about this issue that they’re willing to disrupt their lives to bring attention to it? Should I also feel as strongly? Should I be protesting with them? Is my desire for silence more important than the students’ desire for justice? Why do I find the noise they’re making more upsetting than the genocide they’re protesting?

Being like “loud noise make me angy 😠” is so fundamentally incurious and baby-brained it’s honestly unbelievable

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top image, a screenshot of an opinion article by John McWhorter. A portion of it is selected to highlight it

The header reads: "You're reading the John McWhorter newsletter, for Times subscribers only. A Columbia University linguist explores how race and languageshape our politics and culture."

The article reads: "Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage. His most famous piece is "4'33"," [start highlight] which directs us to listen in silence to surrounding noise for exactly that period of time. I had to tell the students we could not listen to that piece that afternoon, because the surrounding noise would have been not birds or people walking by in the hallway, but infuriated chanting from protestors outside the building [end highlight]. Lately that noise has been almost continuous during the day and into the evening, including.. [cut off]"

bottom image: a screenshot of a John Cage quote from wikipedia that reads - "They missed the point. There's no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn't know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds. You could hear the wind stirring outside during the first movement. During the second, raindrops began pattering the roof, and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds as they talked or walked out.

John Cage, on the premiere of 4'33" "

/end id]

If I can highlight any specific fundraiser I verified today, please donate to these boys. They've been orphaned and they are the last remaining members of their own families.

i couldn't even appreciate the artistry behind the clothing designs this year at the met gala because my bitterness and anger toward the exorbitantly wealthy has grown too much to be contained i try to say ooo pretty gown but all the black hateful bile starts oozing out from under the lid of its container. 7 months of genocide and the largest homeless camps my city has ever seen and food banks in the universities and baby formula locked behind glass and stomach gnawing guilt over a $7 latte and rent is always late and always behind on electricity bills uh ohhhh summer is here time for another wild fire. oooo pretty gown. the next met gala theme will be bear spray and what happens is i bear spray inside the gallery. i can't even force a sort of healthy detachment anymore like "haha oh well i guess that movie actor is rich it's not like they're an ultra wealthy bazillionaire oooo pretty gown" they're all worms to me vile beasts i look at them in their isolated imagine john lennon covid song bubble and i feeeeeel the milk of human kindness curdling within me. how can you smile at the camera. we are all dying girl. isn't there a protest not even a block away from you guys? protesters and riot cops and homeless ppl in the streets. i guess that's unfair you guys deserve a night of glitz and glamour and getting away from it all as if you're not constantly away from it all. girl we are dying. sick sick world. sick dying world. anyway i didn't watch the met gala this year

he mackled more

believe it or not there are confused zionists in the notes of that post trying to start shit with macklemore. just imagine what that must feel like, feeling like you have to defend yourself from macklemore. like finding out elmo from sesame street personally dislikes you, I assume

@/the-day-wys is a SCAMMER

Has all the hallmarks of a Laura Deramas scam. Check the 'Laura Deramas' tag on my blog to compare. Please warn everyone you see reblogging their posts or donating to them. Please take note of the paypal name "Maureen Jane Aloot" in case it is used for future scams.

Same person is now using the handle daysu2d