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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

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.

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Hi! I’m Getti and I am having a very big, very haunted sale of gothic enamel pins on my store! All B Grades are just £6

If you would like to support a gothic femme lesbian through the barren winter, I’d be so grateful for any reblog that get more goth/dark academia eyeballs on my cursed little collections

You can find me at AHollowHymn over on Shopify

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I drew a little comic for @hiveworks' Micro Comic Summer! It's a fun blend of my two webcomics, hehe! Check the #MicroComicSummer tag for stuff others have drawn too!

✧Read Namesake✧ ✧Read Crow Time✧ ✧Store✧ ✧Patreon✧ ✧Hiveworks✧ ✧Instagram✧ ✧Tiktok✧

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Arlana's a gothitelle because, despite being a pure psychic type, everyone thinks she's a dark type

Reblog and tell me what pokemon your oc/s would be :3

Kaz is a spoink because she’s tiny and psychic, and if she stops moving, she’ll die

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we still do powerpoints of our WIPs right? :3

Featuring yet more rambling and too much effort put into silly jokes for my novel I Met a Girl in the Graveyard, updating weekly on ao3.

More info Here

Start reading here

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sometimes I miss las vegas. It felt honest in way nowhere else I've lived has. Honest in the ways it hated you and tried to kill you. Honest in that everyone was on meth or running from meth. Honest in that tourists and locals viewed each other with open spite and tried to avoid each other at all costs. Honest in that if you just picked a direction and walked all day and laid down to sleep you'd never get back to civilization and would probably die of thirst. You don't get any of that in the pacific northwest

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So uh…I know that today is Trans Day of Visibility and this website’s mods are pretty horrible to trans women but…

Over on Insta and TikTok, Mercury Stardust (also known as The Trans Handy Ma’am) has been trying to raise money for trans kids. Her account has been flagged by trolls and banned 11 times. Shes not giving up, but she could use some support. Please please go check out her accounts and consider donating to the 501c charity she’s supporting. Our trans siblings need us right now.

Link to her insta, since her tiktok is currently banned again: https://www.instagram.com/mercurystardusttopz?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

She does all types of helpful DIY videos for home repair and helps answer questions for renters. Please give her a follow. Send her a nice message. Please let our trans community members know we see them and love them—today and everyday.

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Out of Touch

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Ineffable wives in Chut Thai: Lady Khorawit (โฆรวิส) and Lady Aasira (อาศิระ)

(probably not a proper transliteration, but the names here mean 'venomous snake' and 'blessing/benediction' respectively)

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There are all kinds of goodies in my etsy shop. And now I even have the right sized envelopes to send them out!

Come find me at haysketches / sketchesmakesstuff! No link so tumblr doesn't suppress it maybe??

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Please enjoy a baby goat

If anyone has cute pet pics or neat nature pics to share, I could use those today

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If you vote please reblog and maybe put your age I'm the tags because I'm curious as to who this reaches.

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something I've been thinking about

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GUYS. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN WRITE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FICS ON AO3

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it’s time for trouble… :)

❃❀✿ Commissions / Ko-Fi / Instagram ✿❀❃

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Gotta catch ‘em all! A big gift for my close friends, featuring all of us and our favorite pokemon! It took forever, but it was absolutely worth it, I love you all!

❃❀✿ Commissions / Ko-Fi / Store✿❀❃

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I made myself a custom Les Mis sweater!! My mirror is a little blurry, but if you look past that you can tell I’m a real trendsetter who only wears haute couture XD

I’ve also put this design up on my store where you can get it on a bunch of different weird things, including sticker sheets! ^_^