Pls Don’t Follow Me Back Here Lol

Ghost town of an account I think my follow count is plagued by bots.

[moved-to-aftout]

Please note that @aftout is my new main and I’m simply stuck having to like and follow via this account 😭💔 tank yewww

[trustflowerrr]

can anyone help me out please ;__; my email address is woolyandcooly @ gmail . com

[troublepunk-ldn]

Petition: Reverse the decision to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill

I want the Government to reverse their decision to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, as this legislation contains importa

hey if you're a UK resident can you sign this petition and if not please rb to spread the word

this is an official UK government petition that they have to respond to if it reaches 10,000 signatures

[rhube]

So, this one is actually a lot more important than reporting and blocking spam bots. That post has 20,000 notes rn, so it would mean a lot to me if you could give the same treatment to this as you gave to that (@neil-gaiman if you're listening).

If the petition gets 100,000 signatures they have to consider it for debate in parliament.

It's a crime that Gender Recognition Reform was blocked in England, but Scottish MPs voted it into law and that the UK Parliament overturned that is in direct contravention of democracy as a whole.

It's a pretty serious big deal. Please sign, or, if you're not a UK citizen, please boost.

[trustflowerrr]

hey guys, i need some help. my bank account has been in the negatives for awhile and as of now i have no means of paying it off

if you could spare some cash, id really appreciate it

reblogs are much appreciated!

[thekookster]

anyway you can donate to

Yad Vashem (the World Holocaust Remembrance Center) here

the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum over here

the Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews Of Europe (who do this work in Berlin) here.

all three of these organisations do vital work for holocaust remembrance and research into victims and their lives, and all three have incredible (free!!) resources on their websites for education about the holocaust, something which is more vital than ever with the increasing rates of holocaust denial. please check out their websites and consider donating to them (or to your local synagogue or jewish museum)

[visit-ba-sing-se]

may i add: The Auschwitz‑Birkenau Memorial and State Museum where you can donate here

[tealingual]

Phrasebook for Ukrainian refugees!

Help needed to make a phrasebook for Ukrainian refugees! If you speak • Polish (Польска) 🇵🇱 • Romanian (Румунська) 🇲🇩🇷🇴 • Hungarian (Угорська) 🇭🇺 • Slovak (Словацька) 🇸🇰 Please consider participating and adding the phrases in your language! 

🇺🇦 The link to the phrasebook 🇺🇦

Please reblog this to spread the word! 

[tealingual]

We are adding phrases in

• German (Німецька) 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇱🇮 • Bulgarian (Болгарська) 🇧🇬

too! If you know these languages, please help by adding them into the phrasebook!

[bibutch]

SSI Restoration Act of 2021

i have never made a post like this before but i haven’t seen anyone here talk about it yet so i want to at least provide some links because this is extremely important for disabled people with or without benefits in the USA.

link to this tiktok

[Video Description: A tiktok video from the user immarollwithit. She is dancing in her wheelchair, and is wearing a top with the moon, sun, and stars. She is also wearing a pair of denim shorts and a head wrap with a similar design to her top. She is in a room with a couch and another wheelchair behind her, and the room opens into a hallway with a door in the back. She has brown skin, and is wearing makeup with red eyeshadow and black eyeliner. As she dances, there are captions above her that appear line by line throughout the video.]

Captions: “Want to help disabled people across America? SSI currently has many outdated restrictions. People can’t have more than 2k in their savings. Benefits payments can legally be sub-poverty!!!! Many people can’t get married bc they’ll lose necessary benefits. Call your representatives to get the new bill passed!”

[End Video ID]

she doesn’t name the bill in the video but in the comments it’s clarified that the act referred to is the SSI Restoration Act of 2021.

“The Supplementary Security Income (SSI) Restoration Act of 2021 has been introduced in both the House and the Senate. The bill would improve the lives of millions of SSI beneficiaries around the country, including over 2 million older adults who are living below the federal poverty level due to inadequate benefit levels, and often lose or are denied benefits due to outdated eligibility rules.” (link) - summary from Justice In Aging, an organization dedicated to fighting senior poverty

“This bill restores a program that plays a key role in the security of millions of Americans. Specifically, it modernizes and improves SSI by streamlining and simplifying the claiming process, expanding the resources and income limits, and eliminating punitive reductions in benefits.” (link) - summary from the SSI Restoration Act Section by Section, linked on Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva’s website, in the social security tab

below is taken from the issue brief on justiceinaging.org regarding what the bill entails

• The SSI benefit rate will be increased to at least 100% of the Federal Poverty Level, adjusted annually, so that no one receiving SSI will be left to live below the poverty line.

• Couples will receive their full SSI benefit, totaling twice the individual rate, rather than a reduced marriage penalty rate.

• Low-income seniors and people with disabilities who can’t work enough to meet all their basic needs will be able to save up to $10,000 and couples will be able to save up to $20,000 for emergencies such as car repairs, new roofs, and other unexpected expenses, without losing benefits.

• Individuals will be able to receive up to $128 monthly from other sources, such as Social Security benefits or pension payments, without a corresponding loss in benefits.

• Individuals who are able to work will be able to earn up to $416 a month without being penalized.

• Individuals who live in households with others, including family members, will no longer be penalized with lower benefits through the in-kind support and maintenance provision.

• Individuals who transfer assets (even small amounts of money to a family member) will no longer suffer harsh penalties.

• Eliminate installment payment requirements and extend the time to spend down resources so that SSI recipients who have been waiting for months or years to obtain their benefits can receive the full overdue amount.

• Exclude retirement accounts from countable resources to allow people with disabilities to build up their savings for retirement and use those resources to pay for expenses in later life.

• State and local earned income tax credits and child tax credits will be excluded from income calculations in the same manner as general tax payments.”

here is a link to the official bill [EDIT: pdf warning]

here is the issue brief from justiceinaging.org on the SSI Restoration Act of 2021 which explains what would change about SSI in more detail, and has the list provided above

here is the FAQ (also justiceinaging.org)

here is a carrd made by myelasticheart on tiktok, which also details the bill, AND includes a script for calling representatives, as well as links for finding said representatives

please reblog

[bibutch]

hi! please reblog this version which has a video description as well as a warning for the pdf link. i apologize for not adding these sooner. thank you for reblogging and thank you to those sharing your experiences.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Some racist asshole run a muslim family down with his pick-up truck this afternoon in London (Ontario), killing four and leaving only one family member alive. The terrorist was a 20-year old islamophobic dude who targeted muslims and wanted to kill as many of them as possible; when the police arrested him, he was wearing body armor, he had intended to commit more than just murders. There's a 9-year old who lost his family and is in the hospital right now. It's heartbreaking.

More info:

Killing of Canadian Muslim family with truck was hate crime -police

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

Correction: I skipped over a few words typing too fast. I meant to say “as reported this afternoon”. The attack happened last evening.

ALSO IMPORTANT ( @allthecanadianpolitics )

If you see a post with the pictures of the victims, do not reblog it. Their relatives in London have said that the victims’ loved ones in Pakistan have not been informed yet (as of June 7th), and they are asking people online to be mindful and not post their pictures yet.

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

Sorry for spamming reblogs. If you wanna support the young survivor of the attack, you can do so here:

Support the 9-Year-Old Boy Orphaned By Hate Crime in Canada | LaunchGood

A senseless crime has left 4 family members dead and a nine year old boy an orphan. He needs our support more than ever!

This has been verified by a relative as the only legit campaign right now.

[ryan-sometimes]

COVID is slowly becoming a "third world" disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can't get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

[ryan-sometimes]

Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and "donate" or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go "Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3" when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.

[comradesaucegay]

african and latin american countries are also pushed by pfizer to give up sovereign assets as part of their vaccine agreement

[nanalineni]

Yo europeans, sign the fucking petition, get the european commission to lift the patents

No Profit on Pandemic! Sign now!

Everyone deserves protection from COVID-19.

[nanalineni]

This is not a bullshit useless change dot org petition by the way this is an actual thing with legal consequences. If this petition gets to a million signatures, the european commission HAS to examine it.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Fellow Europeans, I urge us all to sign this!

[nerdy-chocobo]

To be clear this petition is for people in the EU specifically

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Fellow people whose countries are in the EU, please sign this!

[ayay]

wishing all my asian american mutuals a very safe and good day today

[ayay]

google doc full of donation links and resources

[darlinggod]

god keep ur fucking kink meme shit out of ao3 tag y'all make this fandom even more insufferable than it already is and thats saying something!!! The kind of shit y'all post require a fucking trigger warning it doesnt belong in a safe space

[misshoneywheeler]

Hello! I see there’s been some confusion! Allow me to clear something up: AO3 is not a safe space.

Let me repeat that. Archive Of Our Own is not a safe space, not in the way you mean it.

From the AO3 Terms of Service:

Why does the Archive have a goal of maximum inclusiveness?

There are a number of wonderful specialized archives. Our aim with this Archive is to provide a place to preserve as many fanworks as possible. At the same time, the Archive software can be used by anyone to create their own archives, including archives limited to particular topics, fandoms, or ratings.

What kind of content do you allow?

We will not remove content from the Archive because it contains explicit material, as long as it doesn’t violate any other part of the content policy (e.g., the harassment policy).

One basic consequence is that users are responsible for reading and heeding the warnings provided by the creator. Risk-averse users should keep in mind that not all content will carry full warnings. If you want to know more, you may also wish to consult the bookmarks that people other than the creator have used to categorize the fanwork.

Some creators do not want to put specific ratings or warnings on their works. Our policy aims to enable creators to choose appropriate labels or to opt not to use ratings and warnings, with the understanding that some users will avoid unrated or unwarned content.

The ratings/warnings policy is really minimal. Why is this?

We believe that appropriate ratings and warnings are often in the eye of the beholder. Users who feel that a fanwork lacks an appropriate rating/warning are encouraged to try to resolve the issue with the creator. Users may also add tags of their own to on-site bookmarks of a fanwork, which other users can consult for more information. When those tags are present, you can click on the “Bookmarks” link at the top of the work to see them.

The stated desires/goals when AO3 was conceived and initially developed can be found here, on a livejournal post from @astolat (founder of VidCon, Yuletide, and AO3, and all around fannish legend). In short, the goal was “allowing ANYTHING – het, slash, RPF, chan, kink, highly adult.” 

And that, in fact, is precisely what AO3 hosts. You see, AO3 is a safe space for fanfiction. It’s a safe space for people to explore all kinds of fannish content without fear of banning, deletion, or legal reprisal. It was founded, designed, and developed to be a safe space for fandom and fannish works.

There also seems to be some confusion about the nature of safe spaces vs. trigger warnings. A fannish work that merits a trigger warning isn’t something that doesn’t belong in a safe space. The trigger warning is what MAKES something a safe space despite the presence of fannish works that merit warnings.

Something else to consider: there are many other things that include het, slash, RPF, chan, kink, and highly adult material, in addition to incest, pedophilia, infanticide, necrophilia, rape, bestiality, sadism and violence, adultery, and all manner of other things. 

So holding individual women (because that’s what fandom primarily is, women exploring their sexuality in a safe forum filled with other women doing the same) accountable for their fictional exploration of things that a) exist in real life in genuinely damaging forms, b) have significant impact on women themselves, thus leading in some part to the urge to explore those things safely, and c) have existing in movies, television, popular culture, the Bible, and in all of literature since literature began? Well, that’s just an extension of the same culture that polices women’s sexuality in the first place and drives them to find safe ways to explore it.

[alienor-woods]

Ding ding ding we have a winner 🙌🏼

[fuckyeahfightlock]

[vulgarweed]

AO3 was pretty much meant to be a safe space …  FOR WRITERS.

FOR WRITERS TO POST PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING AS LONG AS IT IS ADEQUATELY WARNED FOR AND MEETS THEIR CLEARLY POSTED CRITERIA.

IT LITERALLY EXISTS TO PROTECT FANWORKS FROM BEING CENSORED, THREATENED BY LAWYERS, OR TAKEN DOWN OR ALTERED AGAINST THE WRITER’S WILL. THIS APPLIES TO ALL WORKS THAT MEET ITS TOS. ALL OF THEM. YES, INCLUDING AND ESPECIALLY THAT REALLY ICKY ONE.

THAT IS LITERALLY ITS PURPOSE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. IT WILL NOT CHANGE ITS PURPOSE AND SUDDENLY DECIDE SOME KINDS OF CENSORSHIP ARE OKAY NOW BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE YELL.

If this makes anyone personally uncomfortable, there’s a very easy way to avoid that. Just don’t use AO3. Problem solved.

[harriet-spy]

I guess I should be glad that we have built a world where young fans can be so deeply ignorant of fannish history that they think that the mechanism of repression they’re invoking wasn’t originally built and used to silence them, and so easily could be again.  Their assumption is that they are entitled to have fandom feel comfortable and safe for them; it literally does not occur to them that within their own short lifespans you had to have separate and sometimes secret lists and archives for slash because “nobody wants to see that” and “it’s gross/against God’s will” and “what if the children see it!!!”  (I remember a man knitter having to quit the freaking knitlist because he took such shit just for referring to his partner as “DH/DB” (dear husband/boyfriend) the way the women knitters did theirs.)  And even within the slash community…the very first Smallville slash mailing list tried to ban strong language and graphic content.  A rebel splinter had to break off and found ClarkLex to publish all kinds of stories.  That was only in 2001!  

I know it’s a good thing that we’re now in a world where indignant young people have no idea how vulnerable they historically have been and still are in this particular context.  The time before: that was worse, for many people.  But it’s still very tiring to see.

Please, indignant young people, do start up your own archives where the Problematic Content is banned.  You’ll be setting each other on fire within the year over just where the line is to be drawn.  And advancing your actual cause not at all. 

[brydeswhale]

AO3 is big and easy to use and I have seen some fucked up shit there.

Fandom is becoming mainstream. We need to reconsider if “because you CAN write it, no other reason necessary” is a good philosophy these days. It may be that AO3 needs to reconsider its philosophy and possibly change.

[octopuscato]

Excuse me? What’s wrong with writing something “because I can”? What other philosophy do you want us to adopt? Let’s see if this fits mainstream criteria of normalcy, of “good” and “moral”?  And the answer to that is: NO. A huge big NO. This is why AO3 was created after LJ strikethrough in 2007 - because we wanted a space where it didn’t matter how weird or kinky or fucked up a story is. Where it didn’t matter that it’s not mainstream. Where we wouldn’t be judged, nobody could delete our stuff and nobody could try holding us legally accountable simply for writing something that’s not to their tastes (as long as there is no actually illegal material). 

It may be that AO3 needs to reconsider its philosophy and possibly change.

Why would they “need” to do that? For what reason? AO3 is precisely what we need - apparently now not only to ward off attacks from outside fandom as it used to be, but from inside fandom as well.

[puntointerrogativo]

“It may be that AO3 needs to reconsider its philosophy and possibly change.”

NO. Ao3 doesn’t *need* to do a damn thing. If you (and plenty of other people, evidently) think that fandom needs a more mainstream, sanitized space/archive go ahead and make it happen, the source codes are out there (and good luck deciding about how clean is clean enough).

I have seen this exact response given over and over again -make your own space, go on and do it yourselves- and it’s always ignored or treated like a dismissal. It’s NOT a dismissal, this is how everything in fandom gets created. This is how ao3 was created: a bunch of people wanted it enough to make it happen. We donated money, time and workto make it happen. And the folks at ao3 did such a good job that the result is now the biggest and most well known fandom archive. But it was born from a bunch of people who wanted to give fanfics a safe space and were willing to work for it.

Every time I see people huffing and ignoring the perfectly logical suggestion to “get together and create the fandom space that you want” I can’t help but think that they just don’t care enough about their ideas to be willing to put in the work (and if so, why should we care enough to do their work for them?) or worse, are just in it for the joy of policing and shaming others

[octopuscato]

THIS.

We didn’t like how it was done elsewhere, so we built AO3. You don’t like how AO3 does it? WELL GO BUILD YOUR OWN SPACE INSTEAD OF DEMANDIG AO3 TO DO AS YOU PLEASE! DAMN IT!

This entitlement is so disgusting.

[lorchidae]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[cosmicfunnies]

I’m at my breaking point.

Guys, please help me get out of my horrible hell that is unfortunately my prison (home). My mother is getting gradually worse and constantly berates me all day to a point where I have no energy to do anything and no care to taking care of myself. I hardly eat anymore…just once a day because I have zero appetite. I am still struggling to financially and while I am trying to make new collections and comics, she comes in and attacks me verbally, slamming my bedroom door and being outright violent. It’s really affecting me and I feel so desperate, I don’t know what to do with myself. It’s at a point where I stay up till 6 am every day just to have the midnight hours to myself to be in peace and feel like I’m alone. It’s the only time I can work but even then, the late nights tire me.

I wanted to show the whole new collection of pluto when I was done with the iOS icon set and stickers with a few new other products but I’m going to show them early…

The new theme is sweet pluto candy shop so if you want to support me that way, please purchase my products as its my only job as of now. 

All about pluto preorder book is out as well.. It will be released by the end of this month. 

Store is here: https://www.cosmicfunnies.com/accessories-and-apparel

I added a sale as well, use code PLUTOLUV at checkout to get 20% off your whole order. 

In addition, you can support me via patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cosmicfunnies

godundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/5x8qvk-help-me-move-out-of-my-abusive-home?utm_medium=email&utm_source=product&utm_campaign=p_email%2B4803-donation-alert-v5

And Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/cosmicfunnies

I am also looking for people who may be interested in freelance work or commisisons as I am a graphic designer: https://jackiemoliner.myportfolio.com

Anyone who would like to purchase online on my shop or to make a commission it is here:

https://www.cosmicfunnies.com/commissions

Pass this on to people to help donate as I would love to be able to find a place to stay..

Thank you.

Thank you for your support and have a great night.

[higurashinonakukoronigou-moving]

Please keep the homeless population of DC in your thoughts, and donate to the dccfh. Right now due to the curfew many of them are going to be unfairly detained. DC does not do cash bail. Any website saying they are a DC bail fund is a scam. Do not donate to them.

[hug-bees]

✨Please Help Alfred ✨

Hi everyone, not an art update but a friend update. My friend Alfred Coleman, who you may know better as PaperboxHouse, (who you may know better as the “Eggman Announcement” guy) is in serious trouble. 

In the past month I’ve taken him to the ER three times. He’s been suffering from serious stomach pain and anxiety, and he hasn’t been able to keep down a full meal in almost a month. He’s suffering from malnutrition, and he hasn’t been able to take care of himself. Yesterday morning I picked him up from endoscopy surgery, and the hospital discharged him when he was obviously still unwell. He was too weak to walk, and couldn’t even get back in his apartment. I took him to a different hospital to hopefully receive better treatment.

While in the emergency room, I was able to set up a ko-fi page for him to help pay for any medical expenses. This new hospital has already been treating him much better so far, and he finally is being monitored overnight instead of being dismissed like he has been in the past. My only worry is that he would be unable to afford his new treatment, and that’s where you guys come in. 

Through some miracle, we’ve already been able to raise over $47,000. That is insane. But it only proves how much he is well-loved, and what he means to the artist’s community. Alfred is one of my dearest, oldest friends, and if you could help with this cause, whether it’s through donation, or just sharing this post, it would mean the world to me. I’ve been keeping updates on the situation on the ko-fi page, with more minute to minute updates on my twitter. Thank you all for your support. 

Link to the ko-fi page

[milkthetea246]

@one-time-i-dreamt please help boost this!

[emirrart]

https://twitter.com/saltydkdan/status/1319401905286766593?s=20

link to the ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/savealfred

tumblr will not show this post in tags so please reblog if you can 

[mushroomjar]

You know what, I’m fucking tired. My country has been BURNING for weeks and not a peep has been heard from the government or the Internet. I’m exhausted. Why the fuck is no one talking about this? I’ll tell you why, because people don’t care enough to spread the news and reblog posts and donation links. So I’m gonna pause the fandom spam for a few minutes and spam you with this:

ARGENTINA IS IN A CRISIS. WE’VE BEEN UNDER HEAVY QUARANTINE SINCE MARCH, THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS HIGH, AND THE COVID CASES ARE ALSO INCREASING AT RAPID SPEED. THE ECONOMY IS AWFUL, EVERYTHING IS SUPER EXPENSIVE, PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET. THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN BURNING FOR WEEKS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING JACK SHIT ABOUT IT. AND I’M STRUGGLING TO FIND PEOPLE WHO ARE BRINGING AWARENESS TO THIS. ACTUALLY, LET ME RE-PHRASE IT: I’M STRUGGLING TO FIND PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS AND WHO AREN’T FROM ARGENTINA.

It feels like nobody cares. I don’t blame you if you genuinely didn’t know about what’s happening, but now you do, so please at least reblog this post, or any donation links you can find. A dollar is equivalent to 146 pesos, so even if you are only able to donate just a dollar, it’s already doing so much.

Also, don’t just like this post. REBLOG IT. Liking it won’t spread awareness.

Thank you for reading this. I’m sorry, I know my wording is very, very harsh, but I’ve been panicking over this for weeks, and I’ve had to beg accounts to make posts bringing awareness to the issue. I’m tired. I know my country is not the US, but it’s still important.

[theocseason4]

[beefstrugglenoff]

So this guy thats been making everyone smile lately's been living in housing with no running water. With all the joy he's been bringing everyone, he deserves a helping hand at the very least.

His cashapp is $420dogdace208, and his paypal is [email protected]

[beefstrugglenoff]

here's his tweet about his living situation btw