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So that was SWERF rhetoric, which is why I was getting Bad Vibes from the post
And the lady who wrote that book was a TERF, so I’m sorry I reblogged it, keeping it up to get that book title and get books written by women less diabolical than her with the same subject matter, but afterwards imma delete the shit. Cheers. ✌🏽
not to be all *30something activist voice* kids today but @ kids today: if you are planning a direct action that you know is like… illegal… and that you have reason to suspect may draw police/state violence in response… it is usually a bad idea to signal boost that shit on tumblr to find participants. Security culture isn’t just leftist paranoia. Take it from someone who has like, done organizing under state surveillance (as in, cops tapped my phone, friends of mine were approached and pressured to become informants on our activities, etc): keep your direct action shit off social media until it is actually happening/has happened. If you need bodies, get involved with local orgs. See if you have a chapter of No One Is Illegal nearby, or an equivalent group, and reach out to them securely. And DON’T MAKE JOKES ABOUT BRINGING WEED TO YOUR DIRECT ACTION SHIT? IN PUBLIC?? PLEASE I am not trying to be obnoxious I just don’t want to see any of you guys end up in prison. I know what cops can do, will do, and have done to organizers, including people I know. Just because the right carries on about their shit on twitter all day with no serious consequences doesn’t mean that leftist activists are afforded the same courtesy!
Hi everyone, my friend JerDore, a young black trans woman, is in need of donations again! Here’s her post:
I have temporarily located NYC and staying for the whole summer. I’m leaving my mother, who’s abusive towards me. She uses her Christian religion against me to degrade me as being trans. From physically fighting (self defense on my end) To the piggies being called. Lastly verbally arguing which turn into her spitting on me on purpose.
So I decided to reach out to my uncle who is gay. I am staying with my uncle who understands trans women. Although he is not blood he treats me as such ❤. We are both black queer people. Who want a better life.
To keep me stable I want to ask for this goal, it’s very large.
Goal: $400.00. I want to go grocery shopping, clothing shopping, if hired at any job; work clothes, traveling around NYC by train and bus so i need bus fare. and have money to hold me down. For the summer.
Y'all really be saving my life especially as a black leftist trans girl. So this platform is a blessing.
PayPal: [email protected]
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Hey everyone, JerDore’s been in NYC for a few days, and she’s realized she’s gonna need to increase her goal to $800! She has about a quarter of that right now, but it’s not enough, unfortunately, so please consider donating to her if that’s an option for you!
Look y'all. Bottom line is large websites/web apps are fucking expensive
It’s not like a personal or small business site where you pay $25/mo for a shared hosting package and knock yourself out
You need multiple, dedicated, high-performance servers to handle a service like Tumblr or AO3, or Facebook, or what have you, to keep up with the insane amount of bandwidth and unfathomable amount of data.
Shit cost thousands of dollars a month. And those costs only go up the more users you have. Into the tens of thousands of dollars a month. Someone has to foot the bill for it. And that doesn’t include the salaries of the developers who pour hours of their time into making things function the way they need to.
“but Tumblr used to not have ads!!” you say! “They just got greedy!”
No, they didn’t “just get greedy”. This is how free services work. They aren’t magically able to sustain themselves. At any point. Ever.
Investors see proof of concept during the infancy of a project, and they pour their money– hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars– to 1) help fund the project into maturity. (Maturity = stable performance and a large, growing userbase) and 2) have a seat at the table when big decisions are made
Until that point, you won’t see ads, or be nagged to donate, or forced to pay a fee to access your content. That’s no accident.
Investors eat the cost of running and developing the service, because they know that once that userbase has been established, they can– you guessed it– SELL YOUR DATA TO ADVERTISERS.
They can’t do that until after they have users for advertisers to sell their shit to!
That’s how the investors make their money back, that’s how the service becomes profitable instead of being a giant cash pit.
So for the love of God, can we PLEASE stop slandering sites like AO3, Wikipedia, and now Pillowfort for having the audacity to ask for donations, or for having tiered/paid membership options for additional, non-essential features??
I am not alone in my willingness to pay for ad free, adult friendly, social media.
Half the patreons I belong to have exclusive discord servers and they are some of the best communities I to which I belong. I would pay a few bucks a month for a tumblr that was ad free, kicked off hate blogs, had a functional block/hide system and let me use tags properly.
Here is a video produced by Jasmine Turner of NBC12 about my family's situation. Please watch and share. Thank you, and God bless you! My son John just turned two years old. John’s life has been filled with medical issues and suffering since the week he was born. John has undergone diagnostic t...
Here is a video produced by Jasmine Turner of NBC12 about my family’s situation. Please watch and share. Thank you, and God bless you!
My son John just turned two years old. John’s life has been filled with medical issues and suffering since the week he was born. John has undergone diagnostic testing weekly to determine the causes of his various medical issues: focal onset epilepsy that is difficult to control, gross developmental delays, food allergy, failure to thrive, abnormal swallowing, and aspiration of food that requires intensive feeding therapy. John was placed on a feeding tube for two months before he turned 1, to try to help him gain weight, but to this day he remains underweight for his age. Endoscopy, pH probe, and multiple ultrasounds of his abdomen revealed that possible reasons for his failure to grow were duodenal ulcers, kidney stones, severe diarrhea, hypercholesterolemia, and high calcium levels. He went through medical care for all of these problems; however, John will be in need of ongoing intensive medical care for the foreseeable future.
When I was a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University, my tuition and stipend were paid by Iraqi Higher Committee for Education Development (HCED), with the agreement that I would return to Iraq to work for them following graduation. When I reached out to HCED to discuss deferring my return to Iraq due to John’s many health and neurological problems, they said that they do not care whether John lives or dies - they want $323,129. I will gladly pay that amount in increments over the rest of my life; however, HCED demands that the entire amount is paid as one lump-sum. If I do not pay this amount, or if I do not relocate to Iraq by Mid-July, HCED will charge my parents’ family for the money, which they are unable to pay. 
The origin of John’s epilepsy was never determined, and he remains on high doses of antiepileptic medications that will be very difficult to obtain in Iraq. John goes into anaphylactic shock when he is exposed to common foods. Because of the care that John can obtain in the US, doctors have been able to save his life many times. We are scared to take John to Iraq because there would not be EpiPens or local hospitals that could save him in an emergency. 
In addition to these many health problems, preliminary observations by the program director of Richmond Behavioral Health Authority suggest that John is at high risk for autism. As concerned parents, we have researched the effects of early behavioral interventions on long-term outcomes of autism. The first few years of life are crucial for normal development, and children with autism need intensive specialist therapy if they can develop into independent adults. Again, Iraq does not have the services that John would need. There are no experts in Iraq who can work with children with developmental delays. 
I am begging you to help me raise the money to pay back my scholarship to HCED so that my son can continue to live in America and receive the medical care he needs. We hope that we can offer HCED a smaller, but substantial amount of money to defer our return to Iraq until John is better. Thank you for considering my request. Sincerely, Wisam, Maysam, Mariam, and John 
UPDATE 1: Previously, we were told that the amount I owed HCED was $300,000. My siblings in Iraq received a notice on June 17th that says that the amount I owe HCED is now $323,129, so we updated the fundraiser goal.
UPDATE 2: We are currently working with the offices of Senator Mark Warner and Senator Tim Kaine to try to resolve these issues.
We are very thankful for the contributions of all of our donors and the hardworking staffers in the lawmakers’ offices.
Please keep us in your prayers, and God bless you all.
I really believe that if Americans can spend money on liquor and fireworks for Fourth of July, then money can be spared for a family who needs to take care of a sick child.
If you have money to spend at chipotle or Starbucks regularly, then you have $5 to spare for a family in need.
Why are you defending embarrassing behavior? Cringe culture isn’t perfect, but it’s why we don’t have to put up with SuperWhoLocks anymore. There’s way less annoying people because shaming helps people give up bad/cringy behaviors.
i would absolutely rather be mildly annoyed by happy people enjoying stuff im not into than miserable people who feel embarrassed about everything they do. ill take a million superwholock kids any day over 1 weirdo adult who enjoys making people feel bad
hey guys its the last day of pride month and my old boss still hasn’t given me a letter proving my termination so i won’t have food stamps and might have to go through more than just submitting the letter whenever the fuck she does it. so if you can spare any $$$ for food shit, my paypal is paypal.me/GryphonArt.
Any denomination of 5 can get added to my raffle, just add a note and i’ll add you to it. there’s art worth +$100 up for raffle. Any amount will get one ticket in!
cool story, his boss is flat out ignoring his texts asking for the paperwork and we still don’t have food stamps.
this is in fact an emergency, please donate if you can.
i know for a lot of us the 1st of the month is pay day. it is for me too. but my portion of the rent is $616 before utilities and i have absolutely no room in my budget for food and my husband currently doesn’t HAVE a paycheck at all.
food stamps are all we’ve got for food funds, and we don’t even have them right now.
we got 2 donations yesterday. please keep helping as much as you can. please.
Why does the conservative include drugs in the “6-figure lifestyle?” “You can afford to have a psychological disorder/be a criminal if you make at least $100,000 a year.”
And so the first day that we begin to restrict [food intake], the cave person brain goes “I’ll take care of this. I’ve got you. I’ll protect your body weight.” And it starts to drop the metabolism… The way that this happens affects virtually every organ in the body… It shuts down normal blood flow to your hands and feet, and keeps them cold all the time like a spare room you don’t want to spend extra energy heating when you’re not using it… It cools you down a little bit and it makes you seek warm sweaters, extra layers, and hot mugs of tea, because it doesn’t want to do all that work itself to keep you at that vital body temperature. It slows down your heart rate, so that your body’s not wasting an extra beat, an extra calorie on a beat of the heart at rest. It slows down your digestion, so that you’re not processing food pushing it into your intestine, pooping it out regularly… It rolls the sex hormone center of your brain back to pre-adolescence… And it stops producing the chemicals that causes ovaries and testicles to produce sex hormones, and those go away… So the body says, “I gotcha! I will slow you way down.” And so when my patients say, “You know, Dr. G., I’m restricting so hard and I’m not losing weight”… I say, “Oh, doesn’t that make so much sense? Because that’s literally your cave person brain working. It’s lowered your metabolism to exactly what you’re eating.”
Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD
Do you diet? Do you try to “eat clean” or avoid “bad” foods or otherwise restrict and control your eating? Do you exercise to “burn” calories and compensate for what you have eat? And are you cold all the time? Do you suffer from indigestion or constipation? Do you have a low sex drive or irregular menstruation? Are you chronically depressed or anxious?
All of these are physical signs of metabolic suppression resulting from undernourishment and they can affect anyone of any size who is under-eating. These are the signs of a body in distress, and if it goes on for too long, then the distress can get worse and worse and serious health problems can result.
The cure? Stop dieting. Eat more. Truly nourish your body.
So I found a site that does a subscription box for your period- it sends you basics like hygiene products, pain medication as well as snacks and pampering stuff to make you feel good,
but the best thing is they have a specialty boxes, like vegan or kosher only snacks but also
they specifically offer boxes for menstruating guys and nb folks.
which is pretty darn cool.
it’s called bonjourjolie and I think it’s 1000% awesome tbh
Guys this is awesome! I definitely want to do this when I have the money. It’s a really understandeable price considering all the options you have and how expensive period products are. Any time, but especially on my period, I love the idea of getting a box full of cool surprises.
I’m also obsessed with the fact that they have trans men and gender neutral options, as well as a TON of dietary restriction friendly options, including sugar free, caffeine free, Halal, Kosher, vegan, gluten-free, etc. because those are both things important to me and that I rarely see, much less both at the same time. I never imagined I could have a gender-neutral menstrual box full of snacks that are safe for me to eat and everything else I could need.
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