Log Date
..thoughts on the amusing, the horrifying and the notable...
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Letterpress, hell yeah. Upside Down, Left to Right
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Meet Omari. Two days ago he returned from the hospital after being hacked in the face by a machete defending an orphanage of 35 children by himself.
This man dedicates his life to take care of 35 orphaned children from the ages of 2-17 in Kenya. A couple of days ago a group of thugs raided the orphanage to pilage anything they could find, after beating and slashing Omari’s face for defending the children and himself from a previous attempted attack.
The only thing the children are living off of right now are things growing from their small garden, and eggs from a couple of chickens in their coup. Reddit looked to aim to raise $2,000 a couple of hours ago to help build a concrete wall around the orphanage with a 3 layered barbed-wire coil set on top.
In 3 hours, over $11,000 has been donated - and all the extra money is going to feeding them, giving them an education, keeping these children (and many more) safe, and building a new facility.
Please feel free to donate here:
http://www.longonoteducation.org/
Remember, anything counts!! Lets see what we can do in 24 hours! :))
I just saw this on reddit. Love when the internet rallies.
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Hitchens on what theists MUST believe
by zakiechan
One of Hitchens’ best arguments
One of my most favorite arguments. We miss you Hitch.
oh, Hitch. the world is less without you.
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The United States has fallen 27 places in the Press Freedom Index. The reason? The many arrests of journalists covering Occupy protests.
El Salvador, which is tragically plagued with horrific violence, and Japan, guilty of censoring the press over Fukushima, placed well above the United States. Incredible.
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I just found this and it is awesome! Honestly, I am so grateful someone made something like this.
If you want to add me on there just send me a message & i’ll message you my username!
Also, please re-blog because this can be extremely helpful to so many.
Reblogging for anyone who might find this useful!
They acknowledge chronic lyme exists! Signal boost!
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This is Janet Liang. She has been fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia since August 2009. Her doctors told her she needs to find a bone marrow donor by April.
Liang is Chinese-America. Currently, only 25% of the people registered in the National Bone Marrow Registry are racial minorities. Watch her heartbreaking video and please, please, please sign up for the Be The Match Registry. Sign up online and they’ll send you a kit in the mail. All you need to do is send them a cheek swab.
Here’s some information about donating. Basically, they remove some bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells with a needle. Your body will grow back whatever they take, and most people can expect a full recovery from the outpatient procedure in 2-3 weeks.
I’ve been a member of the registry since 2005 and I’ve never been matched as a donor. So don’t worry—it’s not like you sign up and you’ll be in the hospital the next day. You can always update your membership with them and/or ask to be removed from the registry if you change your mind. But imagine being able to save someone’s life with the stuff your body grows naturally. It’s an incredible gift to give. My friend Kevin is alive today because of a stranger who donated marrow. Janet is a friend of a friend from college, and she’s hoping social media can save her life.
Please consider signing up, especially if you’re a POC. And please reblog this to help find a match for Janet and thousands of other people waiting for a miracle.
-Jess
I’ve been on the registry for over 5 years and I get to read amazing stories about people who’ve received donations and have donated their marrow. It could take 5 days for them to match you, it could take 15 years. But I do it because someone out there, like Janet, needs it.
Like Jess said, technology has advanced so far that donating marrow can be an outpatient procedure. It’s worth looking into. :) Don’t worry about anything: costs, hospital stay, nothing. All that is paid for you. They just want your marrow.
More cool story bro: Two years ago I was selected to be a donor, but it was a preliminary screening. Basically they took out more blood and a swab. I think it’s said that 1 in 8 of the preliminary will be a match, but the odds could be less likely. Sadly, I wasn’t a match. But I hope whoever needed that donation got it.
Best of luck to Janet, I hope she’s matched with a donor soon!
tl;dr: REBLOG THIS PLEASE.
Reblogging for anyone who didn’t see this earlier today. Please hop over to Be The Match and register. And please reblog this! There is such a wonderful community of people on Tumblr, and it’d be so great if we were able to find a match for Janet or any of the other 10,000 people who need a life-saving marrow transplant.
-Jess
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Got bikes? Tilt & Shift Critical Mass 2010, Budapest
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life:
What are some of your favorite photography-related Tumblr blogs? (whether that be a photographers personal tumblr, or a tumblr dedicated to posting the work of photographers)
We’re always looking to feel inspired by new, compelling photography — So, to all our followers out there, what are some of your favorites?
There goes Friday… have to check all these out!
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This is a post dedicated to Dennis the clinic escort.
Dennis is a grandfather who drives 40 minutes each way (sometimes on his motorcycle!) to escort here in the city on Thursday mornings; he often volunteers on Saturday mornings, too. He posted this photo on Facebook to show me that gloves are better than mittens for, um, communicating with anti-choicers.
Men who are committed to protecting abortion access make me so happy. <3
Way to go, Dennis!
Dennis!!!
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This is not grieving.
This is not mourning.
This is not sadness.
Those are not tears.
That is not crying.
What this is is the result of an inhumane, inhuman brainwashing.
A coercion of an entire society led to believe that one man, one family is all there is, and that there is nothing more.
It is what happens when every shred of humanity is stamped out of a people through authoritarian means.
Through torture. Through famine. Through murder.
This is not grieving.
This is not mourning.
This is fear.
(Screencap of “mourners” at Kim Jong Il’s funeral procession via North Korean state TV / AFP-Getty via the Telegraph)
well stated.
