notyourplayground:

walkingoutintherain:

ayellowbirds:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

shitpost-senpai:

prochoice-or-gtfo:

paintedspectres:

this-tragic-affair:

PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)

FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)

Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)

Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure: CEO makes insane amounts of money, they deny a lot of requests for wigs/help with treatment/etc., and have attempted to sue other charities that use the color pink as part of their anti-breast cancer campaign. ( x x x )

The Salvation Army: They promote the hatred of LGBT+ people, work with fundamentalist Christian groups to support conservative politics and rip off and exploit workers. ( x x x )

Wounded Warrior: They take money that should be spent on veterans and blow it on huge opulent parties for the company bigwigs. 26 million in 2014 alone wasted! ( x x x )

^ Important reminder to NOT waste any money donating to these groups

Reblogging because of the added info about Wounded Warrior.

Let’s talk about who you can give to instead!

When I want to give money to cancer research I give it to the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center – partly because they have saved the lives of a couple people I know, partly because they are doing amazing work on cancer research and on stuff like an HIV vaccine and a cure for AIDS. If you want to give specifically to a breast cancer charity, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation is very highly rated and sends most of its donations to actual research.

Want to give money to support wounded veterans? The Semper Fi Fund has an A+ rating from charitywatch.org.

Want to give money to support autism advocates? The Austic Self Advocacy Network is run by the Autistic community, in stark contrast to Autism Speaks’ board. (N.B. that ASAN doesn’t have a large enough revenue stream to get a Charity Navigator rating, so I can’t speak to what their financials are like.)

Want to give money to fight homelessness? GO LOCAL. Find out what shelters and support organizations exist where you are and donate to them. Moreover, find out which of your local politicians – city councilmembers, state house reps, mayors, etc – are working to make real changes, like affordable housing, and give money to their campaigns and vote for them. (Seattle people, Nicole Macri is the state rep you should be voting for.)

Please add more! When people want to help, don’t just tell them “Don’t do this” – give them something to do instead.

I’m gonna shout out Fisher House Foundation.  They also have an A+ from CharityWatch and a 4 star rating on Charity Navigator.  They provide housing/lodging for military families while their loved one is hospitalized, as well as scholarship programs for military kids and spouses.  They’ll also take donations of airline miles and use them to fund tickets for service members/their families to travel for medical treatment.

angeluslorelei:

claidilady:

claidilady:

okay but what if angels are black holes and halos are just the light warping around them being pulled in by gravity 

1. paronomaniac said: Then receiving a visit from one is extra terrifying.
2. pugletto said: oooh… story fodder
3. elaienar said: That’s terrifying and I approve 100%.

WELL HERE IS THE THING, RIGHT? black holes you basically literally have to be in their gravity like pretty much on top of them to be sucked in. so that’s not really an issue. it’s TERRIFYING sure, but explains a few things which I will list:

• my astronomy teacher said if you were somehow able to survive entering a black hole and reached the bottom or singularity, the way time works is that you would be able to see the entire universe laid out - like you’d know when the universe ended if you looked back outwards
  
• which falls into line with the idea that the angels know all of time and everything except when it will all end precisely (or scientifically, the collapse of this universe is unknown, but supposing angels were black holes they would see until this unknown point)
• matter falling into a black hole creates a disc of light which is probably among the literal BRIGHTEST things in the universe 
• there are angels which are supposed to be the wheels of God’s Chariot, so it would make sense if, according to theories, that there ARE massive blackholes at the center of all galaxies which is what cause them to rotate, and those black holes are angels which make the galaxy spin. 
• black holes were formed sometime after the big bang, which lines into the story of creation, that the angels came after the universe. 
• angels can choose to physically manifest like humans, but aren’t actually. it’s said that you cannot survive looking at them or hearing them directly. NASA says that the “note” a black hole emits is the deepest sound found in the universe. i am just guessing here but you would probably die if you heard it up close instead of a bazillion light years away. ALSO side note cool fact apparently that “note”: “…It’s worth pointing out that the “sound” in question is 57 octaves (and one semitone) below middle C, which makes it 247×2−57≈1.71×10−15Hz, or one whole cycle every 18.5 million years.” CRAZY RIGHT although apparently some sing other notes and basically if there’s anything people know about angels it is that they DEFINITELY SING. anyways you can’t see black holes but you can see the things around them and the soundwaves surrounding them. 
• also apparently scientists picked up a death “scream” of a star falling into a black hole but like…
• anyways literally every angel is terrifying BE NOT AFRAID “haha okay but i’m crying though is that cool” 
• black holes are probably angels. i’m just saying. 

I will never not reblog this.