*motivational voice* it is always possible to make things worse for The Character

A sign to tap

"If you're still having fun in your 30s you're functionally brain damaged" sure is a take.

this is like murdering someone and then posting their obituary in remembrance come the fuck on bro

evergreen tweet

girls night

so I read the article and the story is both less and more insane than it sounds.

basically, there's been an ants' nest near a vent shaft of this abandoned Soviet bunker for decades. the nest spilled over into the bunker itself at some point once it was abandoned and there was no way for the ants to make their way back up to the nest, no queen but a constant supply of new colony members raining down from above, and no source of food in the bunker other than the corpses of their fellow ants.

fast forward to some scientists looking for bats that stumble on what's basically a post-apocalyptic ant society. they go "holy fuck" start studying, and observe that, all things considered, the ants still pretty much act like regular ants doing regular ant things.

fast forward some more, and the scientists feel like they have enough data from observing the colony as-is, so they decide to try an experiment. they put a little walkway between the bunker colony and the og colony in the vent shaft so the bunker colony members have the option of leaving and rejoining the og colony.

spoiler alert: every single ant in the bunker immediately nopes the fuck back to the colony in the vent shaft. within days the bunker is completely empty. the scientists leave the walkway in place so when more ants inevitably fall back down the vent shaft they can just climb back up instead of starting up the cycle anew.

tl;dr it's not "oh noes evil ants are on a rampage", it's "ants forced into a horrible situation to survive get to go home"

everyone in the crab bucket just wants to go home

please urgently help a trans man survive

i’m completely out of food and my account is about to overdraft. a few months ago i had a kidney injury due to not being able to eat. i didnt eat at all yesterday and im terrified right now

please help

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v*mno: @ finchfrog

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Hello Tumblr community, My name is Mohammed . I am a qualified medical lab specialist, but the current situation here in Gaza hasn't allowed me the opportunity to work in my field. Instead, I am channeling my skills into my passion for design to support my family. This is my work, a testament to resilience and creativity born from necessity. I invite you to view my post and designs here: [ Post Link ] Your support and appreciation mean the world during these challenging times. 👉 Open for collaborations & custom work. 👉If you'd like to support my family directly, please consider donating through my verified link: [ Support My Family Here ]

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My wife may die now because her condition is rapidly worsening, and she suffers from severe breathing difficulties especially at night Doctors say she urgently needs treatment and medical intervention but I cannot afford any of it

I will not forgive anyone who scrolls past this plea and keeps browsing as if nothing is happening.

Doctors say my wife needs urgent treatment and surgery, and I cannot afford any of it. Every minute without help pushes her one step closer to death.

Please donate now — your support could save her life.

I am a husband screaming into the silence, begging strangers to care. Do not let my wife become another number. Share her story, donate now, and help give her a chance to live.

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I very very urgently need $125, the remaining amount and the transfer commission is 20% ($140)

Deadline 21 January

Subject : Completing the remaining amount of my parents' rent and the transfer commission

Current process :

USD 575 / $840

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I never imagined I would be writing these words, but desperation leaves no room for pride.

My parents are in Gaza, displaced and exhausted, living in a very small rented room not a home, just a fragile shelter protecting them from the streets.

They have already lost everything. All they have left is this room and even that is slipping away.

Thanks to kind hearts, we managed to collect most of the rent.

💔 Only $125 remains to complete the amount.

But there is another painful reality:

Sending money to Gaza comes with a 20% transfer fee, which equals about $140.

This means we urgently need $265 in total

Within no more than 2 days

Two days to keep a roof over my parents’ heads.

Two days to protect them from being forced out.

Two days standing between safety and homelessness.

I ask you with all the humility in my heart.

Please imagine this was your mother and father elderly, frightened, and with nowhere else to go.

Any donation, even a few dollars, can truly make a difference.

And if you cannot donate, please share your share may reach the person who can help.

Please don’t let these two days pass without hope.

May God bless every compassionate soul who chooses to stand with them 🤍

Thank you for caring. Thank you for helping. Thank you for being human

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Urgent appeal... Save my brother Ibrahim

Peace be upon you. I am Ali, writing to you with a broken heart, hoping for your help. My brother Ibrahim is going through a terrible ordeal. He has been overcome by severe depression to the point that he has lost all will to live. He has stopped eating completely, and his condition has deteriorated to the point where he has fallen into a coma and is now in intensive care. Ibrahim needs urgent medical intervention and treatment costs that are beyond our means to save his life and then begin his journey of psychological recovery. We need your support, whether through financial contributions, sharing this post, or sincerely praying for his recovery. Ibrahim did not choose this illness, and depression has robbed him of his will. Now we are his only voice. "And whoever saves a life, it is as if he has saved all of humanity."

These are Ibrahim's medications for treating the severe depression he is experiencing.

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PLEASE READ THIS

This is one of the comics I drew about Rawan’s life to draw attention to her campaign.

The campaign has only received $5 in the last five days, unfortunately. This is Rawan’s only way of financing her studies so she can get her degree and find a job to support her family. This is also how she was able to put her youngest sister in kindergarten, and hopefully her younger brother in middle school soon.

It wouldn’t be so crucial if she had electricity and a stable internet connection, but she lives in a part of Gaza that’s not considered a priority for reconstruction since it’s very close to the yellow line and very few people live there. As a consequence, her only option to work on her assignments is to walk to a café for their wifi, and a day spent day costs $50, so she can only study when she has enough money.

Please pitch in to support them if you can. Even $5 goes a long way and just sharing these posts helps a ton too 🙏

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PLEASE DONATE HERE

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critically stagnant spotlight campaigns for today (1/19.)

this list comprises the majority of my active gaza funds spotlight campaigns. i am actively spotlighting 16 campaigns. six of them are critically stagnant, and three more are in danger of becoming critically stagnant. if nothing is done today, the number of critically stagnant campaigns will increase to eight.

campaigns in danger of becoming critically stagnant:

all campaigns are vetted by the organizers of gaza funds. this site has been vouched for by palestinian bloggers. for full transparency, a list of campaigns is available to view on their site.

individual posts for these campaigns are generally ignored. i suspect they’re just background noise for most people at this point. please don’t ignore this, you have the opportunity to throw someone a lifeline and do some real good. even if you don’t have any money, a reblog is free and can help get more eyes on these campaigns. none of them are on tumblr, to my knowledge. nobody sees these campaigns unless people reblog posts about them or make their own posts.

these families cannot afford to wait! are they not worthy of support because they are not personally begging you for it? please do something! even if you don't think you can give anything, you have a platform, so use it!

thank you in advance for your consideration.

tags for reach under the cut (you can always let me know if you'd rather not be on this list, or if you want to be added to the list!)

I've been at the hospital since yesterday. I'm a friend of Ibrahim Ali's. What happened to Ibrahim is because he suffers from severe depression. Because of this depression, Ibrahim hasn't eaten in a long time. The doctor told me his condition is still critical. His mother and I are worried about him.

Ibrahim told me he used to share what he's going through here, but no one is paying attention to him now. Ibrahim needs your prayers; he's in a very critical condition.

He was thinking of his mother, Ibrahim. If you love Ibrahim, before it's too late and he dies, please donate to save him and his mother and help him reach his sister safely in Canada before he dies. He is in his last breaths, as the doctor told me. He has fallen into a coma and now needs your prayers. His mother's heart is filled with pain for Ibrahim. If you love Ibrahim, please donate now for him and his mother. He is in dire need of donations.

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🚨Urgent appeal🚨My husband needs surgery...

Hello, I'm Lama... My husband, Mohammed, is 30 years old. I want to ask for your help for my husband. Please support him and share his story so that it reaches everyone.🙏

My husband, Mohammed, has suffered from numerous health problems for 12 years, and the situation has worsened during the war due to shortages of medicine and healthy food. He urgently needs surgery and medication.😔

The costs of treatment and medication are very high; please, every donation from you will contribute to his recovery.

Please help my husband, donate to him, and share his story so he can recover and get the medicine.

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"Republicans don't have consistent morals"

Yes they do. It's just that their morals are rooted in "protect the people and things closest to me at all costs". Their values are extreme tribalism. They also believe those outside the group are constantly threatening the safety and prosperity of the in-group.

This is why so much of what they do seems contradictory and hypocritical. Yes, they want prosperity for those they consider "like them", but they are also willing to do things that harm themselves if it harms the "enemy" more. And, they blame the enemy for that harm, not themselves.

It's literally "this is why we can't have nice things". It's your fault.

A conservative may think, "welfare might be nice, and it's true all my neighbors depend on it, but those welfare queens are stealing it, so we can't have it. Public pools might be nice, and they provide a safe place for my children to play, but people I consider unclean might use them, so we can't have them."

This is how a conservative woman can justify an abortion for herself, but not for others, even though anti-abortion laws make it harder for her to get that abortion in the first place.

What needs to be done will morph and change, external influences will change what they think are important values for the inside group to have to some degree, but at the core it's always about protecting their own.

When I was in highschool, I had a conversation that truly made me understand how conservatives think on a fundamental level. I was discussing with a conservative family friend an essay I was writing that was arguing for the decriminalization of sex work and I spent a while laying out my various arguments and why this issue was important and at the end she said to me "okay, but I don't want my daughter to think that is an acceptable thing to do".

I (being a teenager) was confused by this because this issue is so much larger than just her daughter. So I tried again to explain how many people are harmed by sex work criminalization and how decriminalization would decrease sex trafficking and she repeated again, with a smile on her face: "I don't want my daughter to do that and decriminalization would signal that that is an acceptable thing for her to do".

I was struck with a moment of realization that the way I see the world is the exact opposite of this woman. She fundamentally saw the world as centered on her and her loved ones as individuals, and was completely unconcerned with how it would affect society on a larger level. To her, the material harm that was caused to thousands of people is completely inconsequential when compared to the imagined possibility of it signaling something to her family that she personally disagrees with. That is, at it's core the conservative mindset.

Reblogging with a link to the artist, Emily K., who's based in Philly and is firmly anti-AI! You can print this piece (and some others) for free for use at protests and such!

VERIFIED GAZA FUNDRAISER (#67)

€8,726/€40,000 (22% as of 1/18/26)

Please donate to the fundraiser below! Mohammed and his family are currently struggling to survive in the harsh winter during this genocide, so even a dollar donation can help! If you can't donate, please share this post and share the fundraiser!