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Since the holiday toy drive post is circulating again, I figured this would also be helpful! Food insecurity is such a massive problem in America, in general, and if you have the means to help feed others, I think you should take that opportunity. Here are some other tips:

1. If you’re planning on donating items from your own pantry, please check the expiration dates on the packaging. Think of your donations as gifts to bestow, not castoffs to be rid of. It’s awful to think of people feeling like they got scraps someone else just didn’t want. Everyone deserves dignity with their meals.

2. If you’d rather give money to a food bank, that’s also great since they buy food in bulk and know what items are most wanted/needed!

3. Not everyone has access to appliances like stoves or microwaves or hot plates so if you can donate items that don’t need to be heated up, that would also be greatly appreciated!

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much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today

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just found out that there is a sudanfunds website! like gazafunds, it is a compilation of funds for people facing genocide

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never kill yourself. i spent my sunday staying up all night playing a furry fishing game because some random person on the internet decided to sit down behind me and dedicate the next three hours of their life to playing undertale music on a shitty 18 fret guitar. the beauty of this world cannot possibly be overstated.

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I know most of tumblr is thinking about the USA right now. but fuck the nz government right now too. tomorrow, the treaty principles bill, the 'worst, most comprehensive breach of Te Tiriti in modern times' is being introduced to parliament early, because there were activations planned country wide and the cowards decided to pull it forwards. fuck this government. a friend of mine had to go home early, crying. I've been in shock all day since it came out.

check on your Māori friends, e hoa mā. see what they need. see how you can help. everyday, we see and experience racism. from people around us, up to our government. community care will save us.

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If you haven’t started already, start archiving/downloading everything. Save it to an external hard drive if you’re able. Collecting physical media is also a good idea, if you’re able.

Download your own/your favorite fanfics. Save as much as you can from online sources/digital libraries. Recipes, tutorials, history, LGBTQ media, etc. It has been claimed, though I can’t find the exact source if true, that some materials about the Revolutionary War were deleted from the Library of Congress.

It’s always better to be safe than sorry and save and preserve what you can. Remember that cloud storage also is not always reliable!

Library of Congress - millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps, manuscripts.

Internet Archive - millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Has been taken offline multiple times because of cyber attacks last month, it has recently started archiving again.

Anna's Archive - 'largest truly open library in human history.’

Queer Liberation Library - queer literature and resources. Does require applying for a library membership to browse and borrow from their collection.

List of art resources - list of art resources complied on tumblr back in 2019. Not sure if all links are still operational now, but the few I clicked on seemed to work.

Alexis Amber - TikToker who is an archivist who's whole page is about archiving. She has a database extensively recording the events of Hurricane Katrina.

I'll be adding more to this list, if anyone else wants to add anything feel free!

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Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

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IF YOU LIVE IN THE US, PLEASE READ THIS

Posting this from the bird app since I hope it can help people.

People have been contacting the White House directly to demand a recount, especially since there has been evidence that not every ballot has been counted and will be thrown away if it hasn't been cured.

The link to contact the White House is here!

The following screenshot comes from here!

If you need help writing something, check under the cut! I've provided a prewritten response from one of the replies!

"I am a concerned citizen, and I need you to hear me. I urge you to recount the ballots from this election and investigate election interference. Bomb threats have been called into multiple polling locations, causing some to close early. Domestic terrorists have burned ballot boxes. An unprecedented number of ballots have been rejected and require curing. There have been reports of polling officers allowing voter intimidation in and outside of polling places across the country and an estimated 20 million mail in ballots are unaccounted for. In addition, many people have reported that ballots were not counted for suspicious reasons such as signature invalidation which is information that vote counters do not have access to. These events have occurred in swing states such as Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia, for instance."

Feel free to add and change what you want, this is just a base for you to work off of.

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im seeing a lot of "queer people dont kill yourselves" posts and yes, i agree but also poc folks dont kill yourselves. you're needed in this space just as much as the white folks are. we will get through this hand in hand together

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one of the best ways i’ve found to combat that inherent depressive pessimism without veering into toxic positivity territory is simply the phrase “i’m open to the possibility”

this particularly works with anything negative i’ve forecasted. “i woke up feeling like shit today, so my day is gonna suck” isn’t a particularly helpful thought, but “it’s a great day to be alive!!!!!” feels hollow and insincere when i have a pounding headache & am running on three hours of sleep

instead i’ll tell myself, “i really don’t feel good right now, but i’m open to the possibility that coffee and breakfast might perk me up a bit.” or “i’m in a lot of pain today, but i’m open to the possibility that my workday might still have fun parts despite that”

sometimes, when your impulse is to slam the door on anything good, but you’re not exactly up to going out & hunting it down yourself, leaving the door open just a crack makes all the difference

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refraining from a lot of election joke posting and instead I just donated $55 USD to gaza soup kitchen and i encourage anyone else to consider donating even a couple of dollars to the people who will be affected the most from whatever outcome happens

you can also donate to care for gaza here

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❗️Nevada voters - this is going to sound weird, but PICK UP YOUR PHONE if an unknown number calls.

**Lots of signatures on ballots are not matching and your ballot may need to be fixed.

TLDR; yes, signature matching is an antiquated way to verify ballots but it is still being used. Reportedly thousands of ballots here need to be cured. Answer the phone!

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Resources for Binding Magic

Updated: June 22nd, 2017

For the purpose of this masterpost, I am defining binding as “any spell that can be utilized to prevent a person from performing any specific action, generally harmful in nature, by rendering them incapable or unable of doing so.”

There are other ways to utilize bindings of course - in the instance of keeping something closer to you - but the spells in this list will be relating to the definition I have listed above.

General Resources

[Binding Magick]

[Binding Spells]

[Bindings]

[Bindings, Bindings, Bindings!]

[Ways to Cast Binding Spells]

General / Multipurpose

[Basic Binding]

[Binding Chalk]

[Binding Poppet]

[Binding Spells]

[Bottle Cap Binding]

[A Charm to Bind an Enemy]

[Circle of Salt Binding Spell]

[General Binding Spell]

[Generic Binding Spell]

[House Bolton Flayed Man Binding Spell] (cw: gif)

[Jam the Pot]

[The Kraken’s Tentacles (Binding Spell)] (cw: gif)

[Lapis Water Binding] (cw: gif)

[Mirror Box Binding]

[My Favorite Binding Spell] (title of the post by OP)

[Put It on Ice Spell]

[A Quick Binding Technique]

[Sand Spell for Banishing or Binding]

[Suppress, Bind, Stop, and Crush Spell]

[Toilet Binding/Banishing]

[Tolerance Binding Spell]

Hinder Harmful Actions

(cw for all the spells in this section: mentions of abuse / abusive benhaviour)

[Binding a Malefactor]

[Binding Jar Spell]

[Binding Spell]

[“Blood” and Dirt Binding Spell]

[Christian Witch Binding Spell]

[The Hanged Man Binding Spell]

[Honey Binding Spell]

[(Sea Witch) Binding Spell]

[Seal of the Imprisoned]

[Simple Binding Spell]

[Simple Binding Spell]

[Spell Jar to Stop a Trouble Maker]

[To Stop a Spreading Influence]

[Trapped in the Moon]

 Stop Other Magic / Magic Users

[‘Expelliarmus’ Spell] (cw: gif)

[Protection Jar Against Binding and Hexes]

[Psychic Parasite Pesticide Paper Charm]

[Spider Thread Binding Spell]

[Unbinding Spell]

[Unbinding Spell (Knot-Magic)]

Halt Gossip / Speech

[To Bind Their Words]

[Binding Someone’s Mouth] (cw: gif)

[Binding Spell for a Silver Tongue] (cw: sigil as blog header)

[Impede Speech (Pathfinder Inspired Binding Spell)]

[Keep My Secrets Binding Spell]

[Shut the Fuck Up]

[Shut the Hell Up Spell] (cw: gif)

[Silence the Oppressor Binding Spell]

[Silencing Sigil] (cw: sigil)

[A Simple Bind to Shut Someone Up]

[To Steal a Dog’s Bark]

[Ursula’s Steal Her Voice Binding Spell]

[Gossip Stopping Scrub]

[To Halt Gossip]

[Put A Cork In It: A Spell to Stop Gossip]

[Simple Shut Up Powder]

[STFU Powder]

[Spell: Halt Gossip]

[Spell to Stop Gossip & Slander] (tw: music autoplay)

[Spells to Stop Gossip]

Prevent Touching

[Touch-Me-Not Binding Spell]

[Hands Off Spell- Body Scrub to Prevent Unwanted Touching]

Remove From Your Life / Prevent Contact

(akin to banishing)

[Black Out Vision Spell] (cw: gif)

[Ice Binding Spell] (all caps)

[Paint the Mirrors Black: Binding/Banishing Thing]

[Pepper and Dish Soap - A Binding and Banishing Spell]

[Quick and Dirty Poisonous Person Banishing Spell] (cw: gif)

[A Spell to Banish and Protect: “Restraining Order Bottle”]

[Stay the Fuck Away Spell]

Block Unwanted Love

[The Limed Rose]

[Sternly End a Relationship]

[Venus Love Chain Encircle] (cw: gif)

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Self Binding

[Bottled Emotions] (tw: gif as blog background)

[Box Up Negativity]

[Davy Jones Heart Binding]

[A Houseplant Spell to Bind Bad Behaviors]

[Intrusive Thought Banishing Spell] (can be a binding)

[Self-Binding: Sealing Away an Aspect of Yourself]

[Self Binding Spell]

[Self Binding Spell] (cw: gif)

[A Simple Self-Binding Idea]

[Transferring Your Emotions]

[A Witch’s Worry Box]

Spirit Binding

[Creating a Spirit Trap Stone]

[Spirit Binding Spell]

[The Witches’ Web]

Binding-Curses

[Bee Nice Stinging Binding Curse]

[Bind and Break Curse]

[A Fire In Your Belly Poppet]

[Four Elements Binding Curse]

[Hear Not, See Not, Speak Not]

[To Keep a Sailor at Sea]

[“The One Ring” Binding Curse] (cw: gif)

[Make Them Choke – Binding Curse]

[Poor Unfortunate Souls]

[To Prevent an Enemy’s Progress and Success]

[The Swamp: Binding & Curse]

[“You Cannot Touch Her” Curse/Binding] (the pronouns are interchangeable; also, cw: ommetaphobia)

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Casual reminder that the Palestine Children's Relief Fund has a 97% on Charity Navigator and you should donate to it if u can. Despite the limited external aid that's been allowed into Gaza, they've been able to distribute a lot of aid internally. And they are providing needed aid to Lebanon.

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Doing ancestral healing is finding a specific food/drink that is traditional in that region and it becoming your comfort thing.

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On the ethical spice search;

Currently trying a brand in Massachusetts called CurioSpice. With the whole lead recall, I mainly picked them since they posted the amount of lead found in their cinnamon on their Insta (its natural to find some, but its nice to have the honest numbers).

They also had juniper berries, which I felt like I've been searching for an age. I plan to make a mock syrup gin out of that.

Let me know if anyone wants an honest review! Especially since they were a bit pricey.

(Also if there is something sus about them that I didn't know about while researching them, please do let me know as well.)