honk

clowning around (21+ he/it)

[annoyingclownery]

Hi again!

My situation has changed quite a bit. I have a decent paying job lined up to start the week after next, but I really can't afford the price to move. It isn't a small distance, it's over 100 miles, and I haven't been at the job I'm leaving behind long enough to build up any sort of savings. I would really appreciate anything that can be spared. If there's interest, I can even do some little $5 commissions for art/icons, and I'll attach some pictures of what it would look like! Thank you in advance

Venmo: @ torched-clown

Ko-fi: torch

[jame7t]

when you see a Good post, you can say "HEEHO" when the post is Bad, the post is "wawoo"

[somemerchant]

Wawoo

[jame7t]

shut the fuck up 

[ilynpilled]

jensen ackles doing so much in that hanging himself gif he shouldve been a mime instead of the world’s first omega

[ilynpilled]

[vastwinterskies]

reasons your first lieutenant might be hovering / inconspicuously seeking proximity:

someone did something they shouldn't have

someone did someone they shouldn't have

separation anxiety

needs attention

you said "stay close" 16 hours ago, you just forgot

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Like a new friend!

[gatorbeast]

these are all the same sort of animal. do you understand.

these are all small skittish creatures that love to bite and are found in drawers of garages and classrooms. they’re all related and in the same small biter family. weird little kids who play with them while they’re distracted and have empathy for them can tame them and become these beasts companions

[anchovy]

Beasts

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[medusadyke]

tumblr discourse after 13 years on this fucking website

[princessnijireiki]

[samshepard]

Hey man. Not my mountain not my eagle not my liver. Not my problem

[bimstown]

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[koiagain]

[skinks]

I love that thing when people get a little bit tongue-tied and garble what they’re trying to say so they make a little “blegh” 👅 noise and start over. verbal reset button. hitting the top of the tv to unscramble the signal

[canontranscharacter-oftheday]

The canon trans character of the day is Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus who is a trans woman and uses she/her and he/him pronouns.

[ramsay74]

wise they them magician what do you know

[naonic-blog-deactivated20230221]

John Oliver Buys $15M of Medical Debt for $60K and Forgives It All, Because He Could

Once again John Oliver proves that you can do anything with money and lawyers

Oliver then proceeded to detail how with $50 and knowledge of the law he was able to successfully apply online to create a debt buying company named “Central Asset Recovery Professionals,” or as Oliver put it, “CARP” named after “a bottom-feeding fish.”

After setting up a rudimentary website for CARP, the satirical, but still real company was offered a $15 million package of medical debt for $60,000.

Oliver explained that the debt was out of statute, which means it is the kind of debt that a collector can only continue to collect, but not sue the debtor for.

Then, instead of chasing down the 9,000 debtors in the debt package as a normal collection agency would, Oliver decided to stage the largest one-time giveaway in television history and work with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to forgive the $15 million with no consequences for the debtors.

[helloquirks]

Okay but now I know what I want to do of I get rich?

[beabaseball]

You dont have to be rich to do a bit of this actually

RIP Medical Debt is a charity (and therefore takes donations). They buy the rights to medical debt and then forgive them. So far they’ve forgiven over 1B in medical debt.

So a little ray of hope for someone out there today.

[shayvaalski]

Donating $10 buys $1,000 of medical debt. This is real, it works, and we’ve done it ourselves. You can too.

[yummy-tummy-time]

As of June 29, 2024, the charity is still active under a new name, Undue Medical Debt

[spiralarray]

Signal Boost!!!

[ffcrazy15]

If you’re Catholic this is a great thing to do for the Jubilee year by the way. Forgive debts and set captives free!

[bringmemyrocks]

Now renamed as Undue Medical Debt:

Undue Medical Debt Homepage

Undue Medical Debt makes it easy for donors to make an impactful difference in the lives of those struggling with medical debt.

[getvalentined]

I got a letter recently letting me know that a $3k medical bill from an emergency room visit in 2018 had been purchased by Undue Medical Debt and destroyed. Gone forever. They were very clear that I didn’t have to do anything, but they would appreciate it if I would talk to people about it to spread the word about what they were doing. Fucking phenomenal.

[leebrontide]

I got $2k erased last year!

[wheelie-sick]

link

[ayronaught]

Transcript

Everyone's talking about Artemis II, the first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years

Historic, right? BUT nobody's talking about the Deaf people who made it possible.

In the late 1950's, NASA had a problem.

They needed to understand what weightlessness did to the human body but every test subject kept getting violently motion sick

NASA needed to figure out FAST during the space race!

So, they went to Gallaudet University. They recruited 11 Deaf people.

Because a number of Deaf people had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children which also damaged their vestibular system.

Their inner ears couldn't be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Put them on zero gravity flights. A room for 12 straight days.

(All caps) It rotated the entire time.

One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters, the researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data and research it needed to send humans into space.

No Gallaudet Eleven? No Mercury. No Apollo. No Artemis II.

They stood on the shoulders of 11 Deaf people most people have never heard of.

Now you know!

[headpainmigraine]

@ayronaught is a gem in the wasteland, thank you providing transcript! 💐

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

struck by inspiration for a "sorry kitten, daddy is" shitpost. but sick of the kitten-daddy dynamic

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

sorry puppy dog, Your Beloved Master is busy emitting fluctuating levels of background radiation nuanced-yet-bizarre enough to infuriate local scientists