Support Maui, Hawai'i Residents During the Lahaina Wildfire Crisis

A series of wildfires exacerbated by hurricane winds and climate change has destroyed homes, historical sites, and natural flora in Lahaina, Maui. Thousands have been displaced, and lives have been lost.

WWC's mod Ren has put together a page outlining resources for residents displaced and affected by the wildfires, and for those who wish to support them during this crisis.

Please share this resource and consider donating, especially if you are not local to Hawai'i and have visited or are considering visiting the islands.

Find a list of orgs to donate to HERE

Our hearts are with Maui residents during this tremendous loss.

-Writing With Color

not really sure how to start this but in the past few days maui has been devastated by wildfires caused by a dry summer and the high winds of a passing hurricane. at least 36 people have died and over 270 structures, homes, and small businesses belonging to kamaʻāina have been lost.

many people who have evacuated have lost everything, and are left with only the clothes on their backs, so every little bit helps. please keep sharing news and encourage others to help where they can.

if you can, please consider donating to organizations like the Maui Strong Fund, Maui Humaine Society, Maui United Way, and the Maui Red Cross (write 'maui wildfires' in your donation).

sharing some recent images that have come out in the aftermath, since it's hard to understand the scope of devastation these types of disasters bring, especially for our small islands so far away from the mainland.

The historic town of southern Lahaina, on June 25 (left) vs Aug 9 (right). (maxar tech)

People at Kahului Airport waiting to evacuate off the island. Hawaiian Airlines canceled flights to bring planes to Maui to aid evacuation. This airport is TINY as well, and half of the waiting areas are outdoors. (ap news)

photos from the guardian and ap news, top right is from a video screenshot via ap news

Video description. a tiktok from user covertinstruments, showing a close-up of two white hands opening a series of padlocks with a jiggler against a black background. a jiggler is a tool that looks like a key blade with low evenly spaced bumps, that you use to pick locks by pushing it in and jiggling it around. the video is in response to a comment that says, "That's not at all how you pick a lock. It takes a pick and a tension tool. You've watched way too many movies. ROFLMFAO." the hands show a padlock, and the voice-over says, "if you have one of these, but lost your keys, consider using the single-sided jiggler. to operate, stick it in and wiggle it around until something happens. to verify that something happened, check to make sure your lock isn't like how it was." the rest of the video shows the creator opening 10 locks with the tool in seconds. End VD.

ID. reblog image is a screenshot of the tiktok duet where someone puts every shape through the square hole in a children's sorting toy, while the person dueting gets increasingly agitated about the shapes being put through the wrong hole. End ID.

You want some serious old fart advice? Never, ever lend your friends more money than you think you can lose permanently. I don't fucking care if they say they'll pay you back. I don't care how small the amount is. Write that shit off as gone in your mind. It will eat at you forever if you don't.

Some people say the same thing about family, but I think it applies more to friends. Family is (usually) held together by obligations the way friends aren't. And money is a huge stressor in all kinds of relationships, not just romantic.

I'm not saying this to bum you out. I'm telling you because this is not something you want to learn on your own. Because it fucking sucks to realize it's one reason you're no longer friends, whether you were necessarily aware of it or not.

I generally go one step further: I do not lend friends money at all. I will give you what I can afford to give, and I ask you to pay forward what you can when you can, give to someone else who needs it. This policy has really served me well. When I'm giving money, I never have to worry if I'll get it back -- I won't! It's a gift! No stress!

reblog to kill an HOA manager

seems a lot less walkable

the sidewalk is exactly the same size and unobstructed in any way

there's just something inherently holy about a girl vibing alone in her room

via Vincent Giarrano on instagram

https://instagram.com/vgiarrano?utm_medium=copy_link

Joel Slotte (Finnish, 1987) - A Possibility of an Idyll (2019)

Returnal // The Spiral of Hades

I’ve got another orange cat video to show....

He's got his own dinner theme

ALT

lil feets

from here

Passo delle Streghe - Witch Pass in San Marino by Joshua Kettle

wish ppl understood the power nowadays in not giving something attention. things today are so focused on attention and reaction and #memes that the best way to shut literally anything down is simply not give it exactly what it wants. like you arent going to own that bigot on twitter youre going to boost their original message whether thats your intent or not and you arent just playing with ai for shits and giggles you are giving it free learning and data. just stop engaging with things that dont deserve it

part of the reason our government does nothing as our lakes and rivers dry up and our forests burn and our air becomes poisonous and species are dying off en masse and the planet is dying and will be uninhabitle within a handful of generations is bc they're all terminally christian and earnestly believe that there can't possibly be more than 2 or 3 generations before jesus returns anyways so none of this matters to them