GOTH AT THE BEACH

Jessica/Jezebel/Abigail. 30's. nonbinary trans woman. queer. she/her. white. poet (jessliebeltpoetry.tumblr.com). terfs fuck off.

[beachgothgay]

After gohan got super strong from training with that sword, I kept getting really frustrated that he wouldn't go super saiyan. "I'm so strong I don't even need to go super saiyan!" okay but what if you did though? Just like so you can win. Idk it just feels like one of those moments where a character isn't doing something just because it would be inconvenient for the plot.

[nanaosdailylife]

[nanaosdailylife]

There's nothing out there for us.

[beachgothgay]

Hey 37 year old trans woman with chronic depression, it's me a random doctor you've never seen before, have you tried being happy?

[translesbianethics]

Hi. So while we have somewhat figured out at least a temporary solution for food (somewhat) we need a new vehicle. The one we had bit the dust and without one we can’t regular go to food pantries and to the grocery store. With $300 more dollars we’ll at least be in a comfortable range with what we have saved up to look for at least a halfway decent potentially working kinda car for basic use. So like. Please if you can spare any extra cash for a trans lesbian to like. You know. Have access to regular food, that would be literally life saving. The PayPal is [email protected], Venmo is @Chara-Haze and cashapp is $CharaHaze

[translesbianethics]

Can someone throw like 20-30 bucks so I can grab cat food? Please on top of everything else we really do need to feed our cats please.

[translesbianethics]

Hi. So while we have somewhat figured out at least a temporary solution for food (somewhat) we need a new vehicle. The one we had bit the dust and without one we can’t regular go to food pantries and to the grocery store. With $300 more dollars we’ll at least be in a comfortable range with what we have saved up to look for at least a halfway decent potentially working kinda car for basic use. So like. Please if you can spare any extra cash for a trans lesbian to like. You know. Have access to regular food, that would be literally life saving. The PayPal is [email protected], Venmo is @Chara-Haze and cashapp is $CharaHaze

[translesbianethics]

Please we’re hungry. Help a girl out

[lesbianbloodritual]

trans woman needs help with bills and medication

hi all, sorry to do this again. i ran into some unforeseen expenses signing up with my HRT provider and now i'm behind on bills with my roommates, and i also need an extra 80 euro to get my vyvanse refilled for the month. i would really appreciate any help you could give. thanks

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p@ypl

[lesbianbloodritual]

Im just 67 euro away from my goal if anyone wants to help out

[segamascott]

[mousidy]

a transgender woman is no less delicate, no less soft, no less sensitive than anyone else. please treat her gently

[mousidy]

she has emotions, she can feel pain, she knows fear far too well. she carries trauma, she can be broken if you're too rough with her. she needs hugs, people to talk with, people to laugh with, to feel safe with. all of the pain she's been put through has been 100% real, but so too is all of the love you can show her

[tsscat]

I don’t think people realize what keeping the internet running and producing most tech they use entails like. Physically, labor-wise, energy-wise.

[tsscat]

Purposefully included some older articles here so people can see how baked in this is:

Labor Conditions of Content Moderators (2021)

Inside AOL's "Cyber-Sweatshop" (1999)

Digital Labor and Imperialism (2016)

Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Digital Sweatshop (2012)

Gig Economy, Algorithmic Control, and Migrant Labor (2022)

The Rise of Cyber-Coolies (2003)

Ecological Impact of Computation and the Cloud (2022)

The Environmental Sustainability of Digital Content Consumption (2024)

Carbon Footprint of the Internet (2010)

I think a lot of times I see people talk about this stuff in relation to AI. It's right to talk about it, but I hate when people act like AI is the only tech that has these problems. What you see with AI now is a reflection of the broader tech and internet industry that has grown for the past 20-30 years.

[beachgothgay]

Do you think they ever exploded each other's bodies?

[beachgothgay]

Nose feratu

[burninglights]

fucking insane to be a person of colour in the uk right now

[burninglights]

When my family first moved to the UK, we faced a similar risk to our wellbeing & safety as many are facing now, albeit for different reasons. in light of everything happening in Ireland & the tensions increasing in Glasgow, and the perennial England, here’s a list of actionable things to do for people who may be targeted & anti racist allies.

MY HOME IS ON THE LIST/LIKELY TO BE TARGETED, WHAT CAN I DO?

* it may bring you peace of mind to have a go-bag ready, just in case. A go-bag is a bag with everything in it that you need to get out a volatile situation quickly. Any bag that can be secured (buttoned or zipped) will do. In your go-bag, you should include;

- identifying documents; passport/driver’s license/asylum card/ILR certificate/British Residency permit card

- Wallet and/or banking books

- A spare charger & cable and/or a power bank

- any shelf-stable medication (tablets, inhalers etc.) if you are on medication that needs to be refrigerated, leave it in the fridge until you have to leave

- Sanitary items; toothbrush, toothpaste, sanitary pads & tampons, deodorant. If you have very young children with you, you may also want to take your nappy bag.

* If you have to leave, a go-bag is a convenient way to ensure you have everything of importance with you.

* If you are being supported by an asylum seekers or refugee charity, or are a member of a gurdwara/temple, mosque, synagogue or church, reach out to your religious leaders. They may be able to provide direct support, or put you in contact with organisations or other congregants who can help. If you are friendly with your neighbours, it may be worth contacting them too.

* IN THE EVENT THAT “PROTESTORS” DO COME TO YOUR HOUSE, CALL 999 IMMEDIATELY, AND FOLLOW ANY INSTRUCTIONS THEY GIVE YOU. MOVE AWAY FROM ANY WINDOWS. DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR UNLESS INSTRUCTED TO DO SO BY EMERGENCY SERVICES.

I’M AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT/CARE WORKER/NHS WORKER, WHAT SHOULD I DO?

* Contact your student welfare office/NHS Trust/agency for advice, support and referral to organisations that may be able to provide assistance

* if you live in or commute through an area that is likely to be targeted, contact your lecturers and your faculty to find out whether remote study is possible; if you work in care or as part of the NHS, find out if it is possible to change shifts.

* If it would provide peace of mind, prepare a go-bag as listed above

* Reach out to your the uni society or student’s organisation for international students or students of specific ethnic origin; they may be able to provide you with direction to resources and peer support. If your university has a Marxist or Socialist society, reach out to them for mutual aid with a travel buddy etc., for getting to and from your place of study/work

* If you are a member of a gurdwara/temple, mosque, synagogue or church, reach out to your religious leaders. They may be able to provide direct support, or put you in contact with organisations or other congregants who can help.

* If you are friendly with your neighbours, it may be worth contacting them too for assistance with travel to & from work.

* Report any racism or racialised violence you are subjected to. NHS staff have a right to refuse to treat patients who harass, abuse, threaten or insult them; if a patient is racist to you, where possible, ask another member of staff to take over their care.

PERSONAL SAFETY:

* do not leave your home unless strictly necessary. If it is necessary to leave, don’t do it alone.

* use NextDoor, WhatsApp, social media and word of mouth to avoid commuting through “protestor” road blocks, areas of active conflict etc.,

* When travelling, use Share My Location or Life360, and keep at least two people aware of your expected time of arrival at your destination with instructions to contact the police if you do not let them know you’ve made it safely

* do not directly confront any individuals involved, or allow them to bait you into becoming confrontational

* only record if it is safe. Do not record individuals directly/from up close

* Do not directly intervene. If you see violence occurring, contact emergency services and if safe to do so, record what’s happening.

ALLYSHIP & HOW TO HELP:

* if you have neighbours, friends, coworkers or acquaintances form targeted communities, reach out to them. Ask them what you can do to help them feel safe.

* If you live in an area likely to be targeted, reach out to any vulnerable people you know. If safe and possible, offer to let them shelter with you in the event they need to leave home

* If you see any incitement to violence online screenshot it; it may prove useful in the event of individual “protesters” being prosecuted

* If you see any specific areas being discussed as targets, alert anyone you know at risk in the area

* Reach out to local refugee & asylum seekers’ organisations, to organisations supporting foreign national care & healthcare workers, and to churches, mosques, gurdwaras; they may be looking for short term assistance in helping to provide for vulnerable members of their community

CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS FOR ASSISTANCE & TO SUPPORT:

* NASC Ireland; refugee & asylum seeker charity

* Doras.org; migrant, stateless persons, refugee and asylum seeker rights advocates

* Jesuit Refugee Service; religious refugee & asylum seekers charity

* Irish Refugee Council; supporting stateless displaced persons & refugees in NI & ROI

* International Student’s House (IE & UK WIDE): provides hardship funding and help to international students

* PathFinder (UK WIDE); supports international students

* Care International (GLOBAL); global carer’s charity

* Choose Love (IE & UK WIDE); charitable organisation supporting refugees and asylum seekers

* Praxis UK (UK WIDE); supporting refugees & asylum seekers

* The Runnymede Trust (IE & UK WIDE); antiracism education charity

* Migrant’s Rights Network (IE & UK WIDE); advocacy and support for migrants and refugees

* ShareTheMeal (GLOBAL); providing meals for refugees and those fleeing conflict globally

* Amnesty (IRELAND, UK & WORLDWIDE); human rights NGO

* UNHCR & UN Refugee Council (GLOBAL); UN refugee bodies supporting those seeking asylum, fleeing conflict & internally/internationally displaced worldwide

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Pentagon bombs Iran’s drinking water, calls it self-defense – Struggle – La Lucha

The Pentagon bombed Iran’s drinking water. On June 10, U.S. strikes destroyed two water reservoirs in Sirik, a town in Iran’s southern Hormo

On June 10, U.S. strikes destroyed two water reservoirs in Sirik, a town in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the reservoirs held 2,500 cubic meters and supplied drinking water to more than 20,000 people in 10 villages. He called the attack a “calculated war crime.”

A New York Times visual analysis published June 11 confirmed the account: precision-guided U.S. munitions struck two drinking-water facilities, and the Times’ analysts noted that deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure would constitute a war crime.

The strikes came during a heat wave, with temperatures in the region running between 113 and 122 degrees Fahrenheit. The villages around Sirik were already struggling with chronic water scarcity before the bombs fell.

[hell-on-sticks]

Today in australia they started senate hearings on the bill the government hopes will make enough disabled people die or disappear to make us all less irritatingly expensive for them. We had two weeks to submit feedback on over 400 pages of complicated legal terms. They don't care what we have to say and they don’t care that this will kill people and disenfranchise disabled people across the country.

There are 760,000 Australians on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the system that - if they feel like it and your personalised plan says you get to have it - provides funding for everything from personal hygiene care to support workers to therapies to assistive technology. It's already very hard for disabled people to get on the NDIS, regardless of your disability. It's near impossible to access most support and equipment without being on the NDIS. And the government has announced that they want that number to drop to 600,000 in four years. 160,000 of us cut off the Scheme - and countless more denied access. This will cause deaths. People will die and people will suffer because there is no safety net. The NDIS is the only option for most of us. Even private health insurance doesn't cover most of these things. Nobody will swoop in to save us.

The bill wants to give the (non disabled!) NDIS minister basically unlimited power to cut our funding. They're already planning what they'd do with that power. What rights they'll strip from us. What dignity and freedom they'll remove to make their budget look better.

The bill wants to force people to try every treatment out there before they're allowed to be on the NDIS. Including if the treatment is literally impossible to access. There’s a lot of us living in regional areas or out bush who can't just pop to the capital cities for specialists. This will especially hurt disabled First Nations people in regional and remote communities, who already experience limited access to healthcare. Oh, and it includes chemical restraint, too. The government has directly refused to exclude chemical restraint from the required process, calling it "trialling medication".

If you're australian and worried, the ABC did a good breakdown of the proposed changes.

I know australia stuff doesn't really pop up on the radar on this site, but I want everyone to know what's going on. What we're fighting for here. Your australian disabled friends might be NDIS participants fearing for their life, rights, and freedom. They might not be a participant and afraid these changes mean they never will have access. We deserve better. The government built a system with no backup plan, and now they want hundreds of thousands of disabled people to pay the price for their bad planning.

Sorry we're too expensive to have rights, I guess.

[caesarsaladinn]

“I was not a flying officer, I was a staff officer, but I analyzed bombing and bombing operations and how to make them more efficient, i.e. not more efficient in a sense of killing more,” although that’s exactly what they did, “but more efficient in weakening the adversary.”

brutal quote break

[caesarsaladinn]

McNamara remembered taking part in a briefing session in Guam in March 1945 after a firebombing raid over Tokyo at which one B-29 crew commander complained, “Some Goddamned fool took this airplane that can fly at high altitude and ordered us to go in at 7,000, and I lost my wingman. I’d like to know who that son-of-a-bitch was.” McNamara [who had helped make the decision] happened to be sitting next to LeMay. “He knew, having been in the lead airplane himself, exactly what that young man had been facing. He got up and gave a very sensitively stated—sympathetic but clear—answer. He said, in effect, ‘Well, our job is to destroy targets and the proper measure you should give, captain, of relative losses at high level and low level is not per sortie, but per target destroyed. So, per unit of destruction, you’re way ahead.’

there there son. I know it's tough, but you have to remember: you're just a number to your country

[commiesofia]

[demonfoxbunny]

we're going to be short on rent this month probably by a couple hundred, and i don't have anything to cover the 431 monthly on the storage unit that was supposed to be shorter term.

if anyone can help a trans girl and her wife out, here's my paypl and my vnmo and ko-fi

[demonfoxbunny]

this is true again.....if i get groceries for me and my wife we won't have rent. and we didn't manage to get the storage cleared bc i got sick. and bc i got sick i'm out like several days of pay. and i still need to pay my phone and for my meds and hopefully at some point the dentist. and they're going to start asking me to pay back my student loans soon on top of everything else

[demonfoxbunny]

rent made.

but!

will need to get groceries again soon, the storage is still not paid (and hopefully we can get it cleared out this month since i'll be unemployed in a week), and internet and medications still need paying

thanks so much for the help so far!!

[demonfoxbunny]

meds cost. i have 25 bucks right now

[demonfoxbunny]