Let's Go Lesbians!

No gender only lesbian

You ever buy a build a bear for comfort and then assign them a queer identity to quietly rebel against your homophobic parents?

On an entirely unrelated note here is my new friend Noel. He is a lesbian and uses he/him pronouns.

If you're reading this, I love you. ❤️

(not my image)

Yeah I don't reccomend.

Yo anyone else developing a phobia of asking for help since all the people who are willing to help you require your allegiance to an abusive cult to acknowledge your existence 😎

💖Reblog if you are Kenough💖 (you are)

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

The Conversation

Explainer: what is citizen science?

Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

TW: Venting, Emotional Abuse

This time next year I should finally be able to escape my abusive parents and this cult. I'm doing well with my internship and it even got extended, so maybe it will lead to a job. My mom is the main abuser and so my dad and I would always vent to each other, we both wished we could leave. That's why what he said to me yesterday has made me unbelievably angry.

So if you get the job and they let you work remote, do you want to get a bigger place with the family?

Ever since I actually made it clear i would eventually move out he has struggled to accept it. Asking "are you sure you and your mom can never get along?" or "are you going to leave me all alone?" It was manipulative but I knew he was scared and in the past I always indulged their fantasy of me helping support them financially and living together. But for him to say that now, after me sharing my feelings to him frequently and knowing the pain living here brings me. For him to say that knowing we were outside simply because being in those 4 walls with her makes me panic...

I knew he was going to abandon me when I finally left Watchtower, but I still believed he was just my misguided dad. I felt pity, still kinda do. But after this I just can't excuse his behavior anymore. He really fucking sucks if he looks at all the trauma this family has caused me and goes "but is stealing your money still in the cards?"

Giveaway—found family zine

We’re in the final stages of our BNHA found family zine! All proceeds go to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, an American charity that helps connect foster children to permanent, adoptive homes.

Preorders end April 17; to help promote the zine, we’re offering a free Hearth bundle giveaway, which includes a digital PDF of our 150-page zine, two digital prints, and a phone wallpaper.

All you have to do to enter the giveaway is reblog this post by April 14. 

Once the winner is announced, they will have 48 hours to contact us and claim their prize. Should the winner have already ordered the zine (either PDF-only or PDF plus merch), their payment will be canceled, and they will receive the zine at no cost.

People saying being gay is a choice and then show me characters like this:

You think anyone can choose to ignore her! Smh 😔