Month: July 2018

wolfygecko:

Okay, I have some personal experience with this and let me just say: Homeless people have trouble getting help from shelters. People who like to abuse people put themselves in positions where they will have power over others. They choose jobs like staffing at a women’s or homeless shelter because the people they come into contact with are already severely disadvantaged. The clothes you donated? The staff at many places will rifle through those IN FRONT of the residents who need clothing. The staff can and will abuse the rights of the residents because they know they’ll get away with it 9/10 times.

Another thing: People do horrible things to the homeless. I have personally witnessed people offer food to people, buy it in front of them, and throw it on them. It is so easy to spit in peoples food, or put any number of disgusting things in them, and people have done and will do that to homeless people for a long, long time. Accepting cash is safer.

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73rr4b1735:

I’ve seen an alcoholic old man have a seizure and nearly die because nobody thought he should have any money, “he’d just spend it on alcohol”. You’re damn right he would have, the seizures from delirium tremens are easily fatal and deeply terrifying. If someone would have given him just two dollars he would not have had a seizure in the middle of the street and would not have split his skull open when he hit the sidewalk. Its a damn miracle he did not die from the callous apathy of his fellow humans.

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astupidblabberingmess:

spacefaring-kissboi:

@ this entire website did u know it’s possible to make an informative post about a tragedy and/or national disaster without guilting and/or blaming your entire reader base for not posting about it when they PROBABLY simply haven’t heard about it?

honestly, this makes me so mad. that’s why i NEVER reblog any post that tries to guilt people into reblogging (or guilt people in general for that matter). even if i otherwise 100% agree with a post and am really passionate about its issue. you don’t need to ask me to reblog sth, i obviously will if i care about it. but these passive aggressive comments (e.g. [x people] can reblog this btw, i don’t care about your blog theme, this is too important not to reblog, etc.) or the outright aggressive ones á la “if you don’t reblog this you have no heart” make me mad at you instead of the issue you talk about. you’re being cruel, not helpful. 

regexkind:

snakegay:

small brain “hotel california is about drugs” normal brain “hotel california is about the music industry” giant brain “hotel california is meant to be taken completely literally and The Eagles are still trapped there”

Galaxy brain “hotel california is a fae mound abduction story”

textless:

In late May we found a bird nest in a cactus by the driveway.  There were three blue speckled eggs in it, and they belonged to a pair of curve-billed thrashers. 

Soon enough, two of the eggs hatched.  Both parents came and went all day with food.  When they weren’t feeding the babies, they perched nearby and guarded the nest.  Since they clearly didn’t like people nearby, we set up the animal camera and mostly left them alone.

Over the next couple of weeks the skinny baby birds, which started off with giant heads and the barest hint of fluff, grew into big grumpy looking teenagers who could hardly squeeze into the nest.  And then they were gone.

Cochise County, Arizona, May-June 2018.

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