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Just a little happiness for you

your bed is probably as happy to see you as you are to see it. ‘here comes the warmth slab’ it thinks

yemen is the worst humanitarian crisis of our generation. and right now they’re battling an epidemic (cholera), a pandemic, and a famine, all while a war is being fought. please do anything you can to help!

donate:

Save the Children

Help Children in Yemen

Save the Children provides assistance through health and educational programs to starving children in Yemen. Donate to children in Yemen tod

islamic-relief.org.uk

Yemen Emergency Appeal | Islamic Relief UK

Islamic Relief is currently working in 18 of the 22 governorates Yemen, reaching many of the areas worst affected by the conflict. With your

JustGiving

Kalsuma's Yemen crisis appeal - Emergency food aid

Help Kalsuma Begum raise money to support Ummah Welfare Trust

Unicef UK

Yemen crisis: Donate now - Unicef UK

You can help us reach more children affected by the crisis in Yemen. Please donate today and help keep children safe in Yemen.

sign the petition:

amnesty.org

Take action to stop the flow of weapons to Yemen

It's time to call for an end to the sale of weapons used to fuel to crisis in Yemen.

Change.org

Sign the Petition

Stop the war and end the famine in Yemen

even if you can’t donate, please sign the petitions and share

This is amazing

Rape has become endemic in South Africa, so a medical technician named Sonette Ehlers developed a product that immediately gathered national attention there. Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly, “If only I had teeth down there.”

Some time afterward, a man came into the hospital where Ehlers works in excruciating pain because his penis was stuck in his pants zipper.

Ehlers merged those images and came up with a product she called Rapex. It resembles a tube, with barbs inside. The woman inserts it like a tampon, with an applicator, and any man who tries to rape the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have the Rapex removed.

When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers replied tersely, “A medieval device for a medieval deed.” 

- Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof

They want angst with a happy ending

Today, someone has been lamenting that all stories which feature LGBT characters are about the characters suffering, sorrowing, going mad, and dying. Yesterday, someone was lamenting that all stories which feature LGBT characters are frothy, fluffy, happy stories where nobody has any serious problems and the characters are unrealistically sweet and wholesome. The person making the first complaint (proudly) only reads Very Serious Important Literature and watches Very Serious Important Cinema. The person making the second complaint (just as proudly) only watches children’s cartoons. This is literally true, but it is also a parable.

SCREAM IT TO THE WORLD

Cuddling is good and valid and not inherently romantic and can be completely platonic reblog if you agree.