#whom to hate

[sama-homes]

What's Going Wrong with the Environment These Days?

The state of our environment has reached a critical juncture, and several alarming trends highlight the urgent need for action. Here are some of the most pressing environmental issues we're facing today:

1. Climate Change

The most significant environmental challenge is climate change, driven primarily by the increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The burning of fossil fuels for energy, deforestation, and industrial processes have elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, leading to global warming. This results in more frequent and severe weather events, melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels, and disruption of ecosystems.

2. Biodiversity Loss

Species are disappearing at an unprecedented rate, often referred to as the sixth mass extinction. Habitat destruction, pollution, overfishing, and climate change are the main culprits. The loss of biodiversity diminishes ecosystem resilience, affecting food security, health, and the global economy.

3. Pollution

Pollution in its many forms—air, water, and soil—is deteriorating the environment and human health. Air pollution from vehicles and industrial emissions contributes to respiratory diseases and global warming. Water pollution from plastics, chemicals, and waste disrupts marine life and contaminates drinking water. Soil pollution from pesticides and heavy metals reduces agricultural productivity and harms wildlife.

4. Deforestation

Forests are being cleared at an alarming rate for agriculture, urban development, and logging. Deforestation contributes to the loss of biodiversity, disruption of water cycles, and increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change.

5. Plastic Waste

The proliferation of plastic waste, particularly single-use plastics, is choking oceans and rivers. Microplastics have infiltrated the food chain, posing risks to marine and human health. Efforts to manage plastic waste through recycling and reduction initiatives are crucial but often inadequate.

6. Overconsumption and Waste

The current rate of resource consumption is unsustainable. The 'throwaway culture' leads to massive amounts of waste, with landfills and oceans becoming dumping grounds. This overconsumption depletes natural resources, generates pollution, and accelerates environmental degradation.

7. Water Scarcity

Freshwater resources are becoming increasingly scarce due to overuse, pollution, and climate change. Many regions are experiencing severe droughts, affecting agriculture, drinking water supplies, and ecosystems. Efficient water management and conservation are essential to address this crisis.

Call to Action

Addressing these environmental challenges requires a multi-faceted approach:

Policy Changes: Stronger environmental regulations and international agreements to reduce emissions, protect habitats, and manage resources sustainably.

Technological Innovation: Investment in renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and waste management technologies.

Behavioral Shifts: Promoting sustainable consumption, reducing waste, and increasing public awareness about environmental issues.

Corporate Responsibility: Encouraging businesses to adopt sustainable practices and reduce their environmental footprint.

Our Responsibility : We should minimize the waste we produce and try not to use plastic, switch over to metal cookware , dinnerware and drink ware.

SAMA Homes : one such organization which is manufacturing and selling homeware which are sustainable

By understanding and addressing these critical issues, we can work towards a healthier planet for future generations. The time to act is now. Every effort counts in the fight for our environment.

[inkskinned]

they want to talk about mental illness and acceptance and how everyone is a little ocd it's cute and quirky and their "intrusive thoughts" are about cutting their hair off and you say yours are about taking a razorblade to your eye and they say ew can you not and everyone is a little adhd sometimes! except if you're late it's a personality flaw and it's because you are careless and cruel (and someone else with adhd mentions they can be on time, so why can't you?) and it's not an eating disorder if it's girl dinner! it's not mania if it's girl math! what do you mean you blew all of your savings on nonrefundable plane tickets for a plane you didn't even end up taking. what do you mean that you are afraid of eating. get over it. they roll their little lips up into a sneer. can you not, like, trauma dump?

they love it on them they like to wear pieces of your suffering like jewels so that it hangs off their tongue in rapiers. they are allowed to arm-chair diagnose and cherrypick their poisons but you can't ever miss too many showers because that's, like, "fuckken gross?" so anyone mean is a narcissist. so anyone with visual tics is clearly faking it and is so cringe. but they get to scream and hit customer service employees because well, i got overwhelmed.

you keep seeing these posts about how people pleasers are "inherently manipulative" and how it's totally unfair behavior. but you are a people pleaser, you have an ingrained fawn response. in the comments, you have typed and deleted the words just because it is technically true does not make it an empathetic or kind reading of the reaction about one million times. it is technically accurate, after all. you think of catholic guilt, how sometimes you feel bad when doing a good deed because the sense of pride you get from acting kind - that pride is a sin. the word "manipulation" is not without bias or stigma attached to it. many people with the fawn response are direct victims of someone who was malignantly manipulative. calling the victims manipulative too is an unfair and unkind reading of the situation. it would be better and more empathetic to say it is safety-seeking or connection-seeking behavior. yes, it can be toxic. no, in general it is not intended to be toxic. there is no reason to make mentally ill people feel worse for what we undergo.

you type why is everyone so quick to turn on someone showing clear signs of trauma but you already know the fucking answer, so what's the point of bothering. you kind of hate those this is what anxiety looks like! infographics because at this point you're so good at white-knuckling through a severe panic attack that people just think you're stoic. even people who know the situation sometimes comment you just don't seem depressed. and you're not a 9 year old white kid so there's no way you're on the spectrum, you're not obsessed with trains and you were never a good mathematician. okay then.

mental illness is trending. in 2012 tumblr said don't romanticize our symptoms but to be fair tiktok didn't exist yet. there's these series of videos where someone pretends to be "the most boring person on earth" and is just being a normal fucking person, which makes your skin crawl, because that probably means you are boring. your friend reads aloud a profile from tinder - no depressed bitches i fucking hate that mental illness crap. your father says that medication never actually works.

you still haven't told your grandmother that you're in therapy. despite everything (and the fact it's helping): you just don't want her to see you differently.

[gatixan]

[tinynerdycthulu]

tbh i dunno why so many sj apologists are anti-yqy. because like????? he is your mascot. he was the originator. the head honcho of excusing sj's levels of unmitigated villainy. look into my eyes and tell me that qi ge wouldn't blush and kick his feet if he saw xiao jiu commit murder. actually we don't NEED to imagine bc jiumei did just that and yue qi just grabbed his hand and ran, no thoughts head empty. arson? child abuse?? yue qi doesn't care. whatever makes xiao jiu happy <3

[kiwinatorwaffles]

i pity people who say “yeah it’s nice to see these two characters as friends but their relationship becomes so much more meaningful if you see them as romantic.” how has the dredges of the amanormative world poisoned you this bad? have you never had a friend or wanted a friend who changed your life for the better? or if you do i feel bad for them because of so obviously little you value them

[m4rs-ex3]

the callum / runaan dynamic is so funny bc like. out of nowhere your daughter has a boyfriend who happens to be the most wildcard character you imagine she could find - human (mind you you're currently in the process of unlearning all your racial prejudices), magical, and a government official in addition to all of his other Emo Personal Lore - and they're the most beautifully devoted but also most painfully public affection-displaying couple you've ever seen and the guy also kind of freed your soul from purgatory plus you love and trust your daughter so basically you just kind of have to Deal With It. yet it would seem he's determined to make that as difficult as possible because he is the biggest fucking dork you have ever met in your life and it seems you are the only person who is bothered by this because your husband is amused, your daughter thinks he is the greatest thing to ever happen, and the dumbass himself attempts to show you some respect but also apparently refuses to stop being cringe so now you must continue on with your life while this loser teenager does your daughter in the room next to yours every night and you can't do anything about it because oh yeah you killed his father

[yore-donatsu]

Some idiot #sketches on Ramattra and D-va bc I like them 😊 (both as silly friends and/or like a ship💜) Before some people start moaning: I love to see our great ommiac in good company and be happy ! 😚

[emiliagrant]

Buck and Tommy ♡ flirty, kinky and in love

[madscientistreaction]

long time, no see !

[lurukifennecfox]

Anti-spectra!Jazz

so, we have Ghost!Jazz for whatever reason, i personally like it to happen a few years after Danny's Accident.

so Jazz is a ghost now, and her Obsession is predictably Psychology but unlike Spectra, Jazz gets pover from her clients actually making progress!

i also think it would be hilarious if Jazz's human disguise is more convincing that Danny's human form since his ghost side started bleeding into it more and he gives off uncanny vibes. Jazz does too but not more than anybody from amity park.

and she decides to move to Gotham because of course she wants to work in Arkham she can fulfill her Obsession and actually help people a lot there!

[tiredandoptimistic]

What I really enjoy about Luke and Maryse's interactions in City of Ashes is that they clearly grew up separate from each other. Both of them are in their late thirties, but they hold this image in their heads of who the other was when they were teenagers, when they were enthralled by Valentine's hateful rhetoric.

From how he describes them to Clary, it's clear that Luke looks down on the Lightwoods. He says that they were Valentine's closest lieutenants and the most dedicated to his doctrine, and yet he ignores the fact that he was Valentine's second-in-command for most of the Circle's existence. He knows that he had doubts at the time and then grew into a kind and accepting adult, but Robert and Maryse appeared dedicated to Valentine from the outside and have been separate from Luke ever since, so to him they must still be as cruel as they ever were. He sees himself as superior because he got out first, but forgets that he stuck around until Valentine literally told him to kill himself, while Robert and Maryse surrendered to the Clave voluntarily.

Then there's Maryse, who's still bitter over Luke's betrayal. Not because he turned against Valentine, but because he and Jocelyn set a trap that ended with every member of the Circle (other than the Lightwoods, Hodge, and Michael) being killed by the combined forces of the Clave and the Downworlders. Of course Maryse is being pretty hypocritical here, since she was fully in on the plan to murder a bunch of unarmed diplomats, but she does have a point that Luke and Jocelyn did nothing to protect their former friends. Their plan saved lives in the long run, but it resulted in far more bloodshed that night than Valentine's simple massacre.

After Valentine's supposed death, Jocelyn, Luke, Robert, and Maryse all went into a sort of retirement in New York City. For Luke and Jocelyn it was their mundane employment and for Maryse and Robert is was their place as Institute heads, but both couples spent fifteen years raising their kids and learning to be better people. By the time we see them in TMI, all four former circle members had come to terms with how atrocious Valentine had been and dedicated themselves to doing better with their adult lives, but since it happened in relative isolation, they all still remember each other as they were at age twenty. To Maryse, Luke is still the man who left his friends to die, and to Luke, Maryse is still the woman who stuck by a murderer until the end.

I just think it's very interesting that there are so few survivors of the Circle left in 2007, and barely any of them communicate with each other at all. Amatis was left alone in Idris, Hodge felt so abandoned by the Clave that he went back to Valentine, Robert and Maryse trapped themselves in a loveless marriage rather than give up the illusion of stability they'd built for their kids, Luke and Jocelyn denied their past until it came to find them, and Michael was killed with his family in a scheme that would never have worked if a single person came to check up on him in the ten years Valentine inhabited his life. They could have found a community through this common experience, but instead they saw each other as monsters for the things they all did.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

genuinely I think one of the most pressing calls for Christians (namely Protestant Christians) today is to stop underestimating the power of beauty

visual beauty, beauty in word, beauty in sound, beauty in story

we have ceded beauty for the past 70 years to the atheistic world and people of all beliefs are realizing that world has failed to carry that standard. people are realizing their daily lives are starved of beauty--especially natural beauty--so they are turning to the entities which recognize its power. entities like paganism, witchcraft, ancestor worship, the New Age. if they are drawn to Christianity (not necessarily believing it), they are more likely to attend a Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox mass.

humans need beauty because humans need God, and beauty belongs to God. which means the church should be the standard-bearer of beauty in this world.

if a church can afford it, they should prioritize building a beautiful church, even if that means it will be smaller or less trendy.

if a church has skilled musicians in their midst, they should prioritize using those musicians in worship, even if it means the style of the music changes.

the church should always prioritize hymns and spiritual songs which exemplify goodness, truth, and beauty in their composition and lyrics, even if it means newcomers don't understand every line yet.

all these forms of beauty should reflect the beauty of the story of the Gospel.

[topaz-mutiny]

Hilarious how their naive plan to reason with and/or control Predathos was foiled by the very thing they were warned about: Predathos being pure Id, single-mindedly focused on wanting freedom and eating and consuming and devouring and eating and consuming and devouring and eating-

[viradahlen]

"I often hiked through the forest, but since the center was located in a mountain region, there was never anyone to be found nearby." (Wesker's Report II).

[vampiresuns]

people who don't like Wyll, how does it feel to be the weakest link when this man just:

Realised as soon as possible he had been tricked about Karlach and changed her mind about her, to the point of risking his own life and becoming what he thinks is the worst version of himself just to save her, because she is an underdog

Is kind, is funny and says dramatic things like "the Blade stands at the ready". if you like Gale, you don't get to use the excuse that speaking about oneself in third person is annoying btw

A character that clings to hope and fairytales in hopes he is good enough to the eyes of the people, because he thinks he was not good enough for his father given he gave up the life he had planned for him should score him so high up. SO HIGH UP

literally became a demon because he undertook a pact with a demon, thinking nothing too terrible could come out of it. King, the hubris. King, the dumbass???

Says things like "Gale slurped that thing like a horse with a carrot"

[dayleebear]

*crawls out of little hole in the ground, throws this at you, then scurries back into the hole*

done with mouse because my ipad charger is missing :((