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Candace. ‘95. She.

Cherishing a moment with this spectacular squid 🙃

Chiroteuthis calyx is also known as the swordtail squid because juveniles of this species have ornate tails that are as long as their bodies. Researchers believe that the shape and color of their tails allow juvenile swordtail squid to mimic the long floats and stinging tentacles of Nanomia siphonophores. The young squid enhance this mimicry by curving their bodies and tails in the shape of a siphonophore. But as swordtail squid grow older and larger, they apparently have less need for this deception. By the time they become subadults, they lose their tails and can no longer mimic Nanomia. ⁠ ⁠ As they grow toward adulthood, the squids develop long, feeding tentacles tipped with glowing lures (perhaps an example of a different type of mimicry). The adults hover motionless in the water column and use these lures to attract crustaceans or small fish, which they seize using their arms and feeding tentacles.⁠

I’m shaking from the cold as I write this. The storms won’t stop, and our tent protects us from nothing. My family is freezing, my mother is in pain, and there is no warmth or safety.

$25 from 15 people could save us from this deadly cold. Please help us. If you can’t donate, please share and don’t scroll past in silence.

Shaggy Rogers is a young adult human man that eats dog treats and his friends don't even care. They act like it's normal. Not only do they know he loves eating dog treats, but they know he'll do scary dangerous shit just to eat dog treats, and they use that to their advantage. "Oh you don't wanna get asbestos poisoning in the scary abandoned building? What if we fed you a dog treat?" And he says yes and he does it and eats it and they act like that's a normal thing for a human guy to do. But then again, he also eats 10 feet tall sandwiches in one bite, so maybe he's not even human. Still fucked up that they manipulate him like that though. But whatever. Forget I said anything.

new post, please share & help if possible

my last post has been getting 1 or 2 notes every time i reblog it so i'm remaking it. i'll try to keep this short but i doubt it

hey everyone, i'm an illustrator that's been struggling with severe burnout and progressively worsening disability since 2021. i've been fighting to get approved for disability benefits since may 2022 and have been denied 5 times already. my mother is also disabled and barely able to work (we live together), we're in a lot of debt and are struggling to stay afloat. i need to pay my mechanic over $900 to get my car fixed, yesterday my mom's car battery died on us so now she needs to scrape up $309 to get it replaced. we are struggling to afford groceries, meds, food for my cats, basically most essentials.

i've been trying to raise money for my car repairs since october and my posts keep dying and i haven't been getting much help. i've had all this shit weighing over my head for so long and it's just making me so depressed, like i'm constantly thinking about just how hopeless my situation feels. i just really REALLY need help getting out of this hole. if anyone who has the means can throw a few bucks my way i would be so so thankful. it all adds up and it really means more than i can express. please spread this wherever you can if you can't help but still want to support me. it means so much! thank you!! 🌈💖

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caption by @/ashleytheebarroness on tiktok: People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that's our history. Local enforcement. Racialized suspicion. Vague authority. Taking people first, justifying it later. Gestapo is a warning. Slave patrols are a mirror.

Deadline 25 January

Subject: Collecting money to pay the rent of the house

Current process:

USD 3,140 / $4,640

Vatted by @fairuzfan

We are so grateful to everyone who supported us while my sister was in the hospital. Thanks to your prayers and kindness, she is finally home and slowly getting better.🙏💗

But now, we are facing a desperate situation. Our landlord has given us only two weeks to pay the rent of $1,500 or we will have nowhere to go. The weather is bitterly cold, my elderly parents cannot withstand it, and my sister is still too weak to face any stress.😔💔

We don't know what else to do, and we are turning to you with hope in our hearts. Every single donation, no matter how small, will help us keep a roof over our heads and give my family safety and warmth. Please, help us today , your support can save us from the streets and give us hope in this very difficult time.🙏😔💔

"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor: Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:

  • ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.
  • ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.
  • ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.
  • They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.
  • They are smashing windows in cars and homes.
  • ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.
  • They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.) I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later. But the community is fighting back.
  • Protests are happening every day.
  • Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.
  • Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.
  • Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.
  • Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.
  • Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.
  • Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.
  • Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.
  • Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.
  • Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed. THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.” -Grant Boulanger

Here's an AP news brief with a little more info. It's limited in the way major news outlets are right now but provides context that supports the personal account shared.

If you want to help Minnesota, here is a list of places to donate to including rent relief, food aid, and legal organizations

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