Wrong Life Wrongly

28/white/autistic/NB Lesbian they/it/chronically lumpenprole with proletarian aspirations

[lifewrongly]

Hey guys,

I hate to do this again but i just had to go completely no-contact with my family and spouse for abuse ive been dealing with since the pandemic started. I've made another gofundme so that i can get my own computer so i can find work, get my name changed, and pay a few late bills. GoFundMe is very explicit about offering any kind of kickback or gifts in exchange for donations, but anybody who helps me get my OnlyFans up and running would have my gratitude, and i would encourage them to check it out once i get started.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-or-get-a-computer

[discotechnician]

Odo twirl Tuesday

[adamthegirl]

Researchers gave thousands of dollars to homeless people. The results defied stereotypes.

You've heard this refrain before -- giving money to homeless people is not the best way to help them because it might be squandered, or spen

[juicetrump]

[repotting]

“Researchers gave 50 recently homeless people a lump sum of 7,500 Canadian dollars (nearly $5,700). They followed the cash recipients’ life over 12-18 months and compared their outcomes to that of a control group who didn’t receive the payment. The preliminary findings, which will be peer-reviewed next year, show that those who received cash were able to find stable housing faster, on average. By comparison, those who didn’t receive cash lagged about 12 months behind in securing more permanent housing.

People who received cash were able to access the food they needed to live faster. Nearly 70% did after one month, and maintained greater food security throughout the year. The recipients spent more on food, clothing and rent, while there was a 39% decrease in spending on goods like alcohol, cigarettes or drugs.“

It’s almost like people self medicate to survive intense stress like, idk, not having the cash to live anywhere but outdoors. People who are extremely poor do not want to be poor, we WANT to be safe and have autonomy in our lives but capitalism makes that impossible for some people.

And drug/alcohol abuse, even when prioritized over eating and other necessities, isn’t some kind of alien mindset, it’s very often a matter of not having the resources to actually be safe and fully meet your actual needs so you have to cope somehow with the suffering that deprivation causes.

[whatbigotspost]

This is a perfect example of the kind of important study that shouldn’t NEED to be done, but does need to be done so we can once and for all implement policies that actually help people.

[quousque]

i think it’s important that it was a lump sum all at once, instead of little amounts intermittently. If you’re homeless and, say, addicted to alcohol or meth or whatever, and someone gives you $20 a day, for 12 months, what are you gonna do with that? $20 isn’t enough to pay for a place to sleep that night. You can get some food, but you can’t stock up on anything because you have nowhere to put it. You can’t buy a new pair of shoes. You can’t pay for medication. You can’t really save it up because what are you gonna do, walk around with $5000 worth of twenties in your pocket? until they get lost or stolen and you never got anything out of that money? But you can go and get $20 worth of alcohol and maybe the rest of your day will suck a little less.

But if you get that $5000 all at once and then nothing for the rest of the year, that’s enough to get an apartment for a month, and your meds, and food, and clothes, and then well hey you can look for a job (and you have a mailing address, wow!).

if you’re in a shit situation getting dribs and drabs of money can keep you alive but it won’t help you really change your circumstances, but a large lump sum can do that.

[env0]

I have brought this study up to multiple people who despite the research, still cannot break their stereotypical image of people who are homeless.

[trans-axolotl]

like i think that psych wards are fundamentally violent because the process of incarceration is fundamentally violent. even if it’s just for a few days, a few weeks, a month–it is still violent to be locked up, deprived of community, and legally unable to say no to what happens to you in there. and in the United States, I think the voluntary/involuntary designations are really useless, because how can there be meaningful consent if you can consent to go in but can’t consent to leave? how can there really be meaningful consent when your options are “you decide to go to the psych ward or we force you to go to the psych ward.” And if you do go in voluntarily, the threat of involuntary commitment is always there and is often weaponized by doctors to get you to do what you want. I cannot count the amount of times me and fellow patients were told that if we didn’t agree to something, they’d just go to court and make us do it anyway.

i see people talking sometimes, about how not all psych wards are bad. when they say that they mean that not all psych wards are abusive, use solitary confinement, physical restraints, drugging without consent, or use strip searchs. But I really think people need to understand that it is not just those horrifically abusive things that make a psych ward violent; the whole fucking practice of incarceration makes a psych ward violent in a very real sense. 

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Gays are in good company, not that it is much comfort: Christians have a long history of accusing religious, ethnic, and sexual minorities of abusing, molesting, and killing children. In medieval Europe, Jews were frequently accused of ritually killing Christian children—the blood libel—often to use their blood to make matzah. Fictitious victims—Little Hugh of Lincoln, William of Norwich, Simon of Trent—were even canonized as saints to drum up fervor for pogroms. The accusation that queer people are “grooming” children to be gay or question their gender is just the modern equivalent of the blood libel: the molestation libel. The same was at the heart of the implementation of the sexual psychopath laws against gay men and of Anita Bryant’s Save Our Children campaign. The slightly new twist is that now when politicians accuse school districts or teachers of grooming children, they have in mind that even teaching children that queer people exist is tantamount to an act of pedophilia. Their solution is the complete invisibility of queer people. “Grooming” has become less a matter of seduction than of offering knowledge of the infinite variations of sexual and gender identities in the world. It has become the psychobabble version of tasting the forbidden fruit at the risk of expulsion from Edenic innocence. Even the Disney corporation can now be a groomer under this new understanding (and this will surely have a chilling effect on corporations watching what happens to Disney before deciding whether to speak out).”

— Michael Bronski, Grooming and the Christian Politics of Innocence

[headspace-hotel]

we're gonna have to do like in medieval times and be like "okay so this concoction will make your period come quicker. in case you wanna do that."

[headspace-hotel]

In medieval Europe there were guidebooks with "fertility advice" that basically said: "So if you want to have lots of babies, here's what you DON'T do. Listen carefully, it's very important that you know NOT to do these things if you want to be pregnant. First of all, definitely DON'T take this dose of this herb prepared just like this..."

[dragkingandreweldritch]

heads up that a lot of those remedies will straight up poison you or not induce an abortion but instead cause birth defects, so please don't try them yourself if you don't know anything about medicinal herbs

there are people out there who do know about this kind of thing and there are also people who claim to know about this kind of thing but are actually full of shit, so if you live in a state without abortion access and can get pregnant (or have loved ones who can) now is a good time to seek out people who know. I wish I had resources to provide but unfortunately I don't, but if anyone reading this does, please add them.

@will-o-the-witch @normal-horoscopes @natalieironside this seems like it might be in y'alls wheelhouses, any suggestions?

[lazyscience]

Oh my fuck to the NO on the daily pennyroyal tea suggestion in the replies on this post. If it's at a concentration strong enough to cause an abortion, it is strong enough to damage your liver and kidneys, and there is nothing you can take to stop the liver toxicity once it is in your system. And if you take Tylenol (acetaminophen) or drink alcoholic beverages while regularly dosing yourself with fucking pennyroyal, you are markedly increasing your risk of liver failure and/or uncontrollable GI bleeding which is an awful fucking way to die. Pennyroyal is worse than a goddamn coat hanger. Go for the alternatives that aren't herbs, I am begging you. Natural =/= safe.

[normal-horoscopes]

Seconding this. There is a reason we don't use herbal solutions for fertility care anymore.

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Comets from the Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs, 1552

Later published as The Book of Miracles

Wikimedia

[st-just]

“I want guys like Ryan Dunn, who throw their important mail on the pool table and ignore it, to have healthcare. I want America’s biggest fuck-ups—guys who got kicked out of their parents’ house for not getting a job and playing video games all the time, guys who got fired from GameStop for selling weed to customers, guys who have really disgusting toilets and an inexplicably hot girlfriend—to have healthcare. I want anyone who lives in America, regardless of their organizational skills, moral character, employment status, immigration status, criminal status, or excessive fandom of Rick and Morty, to have healthcare. You might think people who actively ignore mail are irresponsible, especially compared to the situations I outlined above, where a person’s disability or financial status makes it harder to deal with stuff like this. You might think they’re lazy, or that someone should be able to deal with a simple piece of mail. But do you think being a bit shit at dealing with adult stuff is enough of a crime that it should cut people off their healthcare? Because that is the reality of the system we live in, where insurance determines access to care. There’s a tendency in healthcare coverage to focus on people who did everything right and still got screwed, like people who get hit with surprise bills. It’s understandable—if you want to convey how arbitrary and stupid the system is, those cases are the most powerful examples—but I’m equally outraged on behalf of people who didn’t jump through the right hoops. The hoops are the problem.”

— Libby Watson, Healthcare is for Fuckups, Too 

[theweirdwideweb]

Farmers “arrest” the sheriff who was attempting to evict a woman from her farm on behalf of an insurance company. Michigan, 1952.

[freuds-cokedealer]

For the first time, the ravening beasts set loose upon all quarters of the globe by capitalist Europe have broken into Europe itself. A cry of horror went through the world when Belgium, that precious jewel of European civilization, and when the most august cultural monuments of northern France fell into shards under the impact of the blind forces of destruction. This same “civilized world” looked on passively as the same imperialism ordained the cruel destruction of ten thousand Herero tribesmen and filled the sands of the Kalahari with the mad shrieks and death rattles of men dying of thirst;[3] [the “civilized world” looked on] as forty thousand men on the Putumayo River [Columbia] were tortured to death within ten years by a band of European captains of industry, while the rest of the people were made into cripples; as in China where an age-old culture was put to the torch by European mercenaries, practiced in all forms of cruelty, annihilation, and anarchy; as Persia was strangled, powerless to resist the tightening noose of foreign domination; as in Tripoli where fire and sword bowed the Arabs beneath the yoke of capitalism, destroyed their culture and habitations. Only today has this “civilized world” become aware that the bite of the imperialist beast brings death, that its very breath is infamy. Only now has [the civilized world] recognized this, after the beast’s ripping talons have clawed its own mother’s lap, the bourgeois civilization of Europe itself. And even this knowledge is grappled with in the distorted form of bourgeois hypocrisy. Every people recognizes the infamy only in the national uniform of the enemy. “German barbarians!” – as though every people that marches out to do organized murder were not transformed instantly into a barbarian horde. “Cossack atrocities!” – as though war itself were not the atrocity of atrocities, as though the praising of human slaughter as heroism in a socialist youth paper were not the purest example of intellectual cossack-dom!

Rosa Luxemburg, The Junius Pamphlet

[youwerefromohioandimissyou]

butch cowboys need love too!

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[magictransistor]

Richard M. Powers

[howieabel]

"The CIA looked the other way while Afghanistan’s opium production grew from about 100 tonnes annually in the 1970s to 2,000 tonnes by 1991. In 1979 and 1980, just as the CIA effort was beginning to ramp up, a network of heroin laboratories opened along the Afghan-Pakistan frontier. That region soon became the world’s largest heroin producer. By 1984, it supplied a staggering 60% of the US market and 80% of the European. Inside Pakistan, the number of heroin addicts surged from near zero (yes, zero) in 1979 to 5,000 in 1980, and 1.3 million by 1985 – a rate of addiction so high the UN termed it “particularly shocking”. - Alfred W McCoy, “How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan”, The Guardian, (9 Jan 2018).

[thunderstruck9]

Philip Pearlstein (American, b. 1924), Two Female Nudes on Oriental Rug, 1971. Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 in.

[thanatopsick-deactivated2024052]

I have good news: shrimp are trans

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Xinjiang disinformation is trending under the Stop Asian Hate tag on here so I’m reposting these infographics from @placedupon. You should be extremely skeptical of atrocity propaganda about China being peddled by the Western press to say the least.

It’s honesty appalling that y’all have anti-China propaganda trending under the Stop Asian Hate tag when the number one thing fuelling anti-Asian hate crimes in the West right now is the constant, 24/7 hysterical “press” coverage of how China is literally the most evil place on Earth. I’ll reblog separate posts about that if you want to read them.

[anarchblr]

individuals will go into a system like I'm stronger than this system and will change it but no It's literally always the opposite

[anarchblr]

"I'm gonna join the the military and reform it from the inside" no you aren't. there aren't enough words in the english language to explain just how much you won't be able to do that

[anarchblr]

“Socialist leaders who, finding themselves caught up in the electoral machine, end up being gradually nothing more than bougeois with liberal ideas. They have placed themselves in determinate conditions that in turn determine them.”

–Elisée Reclus, "Evolution, Revolution, and the Anarchist Ideal" (1898)