a built-in remedy for donald and vladimir

Isidore — 30s — Scotland — white (post-)Soviet Ashke — Mad cripple — camp gay, fruit (derogatory) — he/him && sie/hir && ער/זי && он/а offline on Shabbos

[personalmoshiakh]

✨ GFM ✨

the full details are at the above link, but briefly: i’m gay, foreign, Jewish, ND with a complex psych history, crippled w/ intractable pain and unable to work. no family to help me out. i need help paying off debt from rising costs of living and paying for reduced-cost therapy.

additional context for the therapy under the cut, for people who want to know why it’s so important i access this particular programme

i am effectively unable to access therapy on the NHS. the waiting lists are atrocious and really all they offer is the exact kind of therapy that exacerbates my OCD and ultimately doesn’t actually help with anything in the long-term — i’m way past needing to learn how to self-regulate my emotions, i need to actually address and resolve trauma in a meaningful way and i need an approach that isn’t framed in narrow, goal-oriented terms or calls me a “client” or forces me to do homework. and then lasts only 6 weeks anyway.

the reduced-cost therapy i’m able to access as of last week is person-centred/patient-led psychodynamic therapy. it’s still slightly out of my means to afford, but at only £36 a session, with weekly sessions, it’s like … i am not going to get another opportunity this good any time soon.

i’ve been trying to get appropriate therapy for a decade. this is my chance!!

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[kiralamouse]

Since I hate having to do my own searches to verify stuff, here’s a Science Daily link and the journal article it cites for any similarly lazy-but-conscientious people after me. (And the University of Michigan press release, for what it’s worth.)

[lizardsfromspace]

"But the X-Men really are dangerous, so it's a bad metaphor for marginalized people" is the kind of ice cold take everyone drops like they're the first ones to ever think about it, but it's also one that only really makes sense in the context of the movies or some other adaptation where the X-Men are the only superpowered people around. Within the context of the original universe, it does make perfect sense as a metaphor, bc people as a whole are fine with individuals who gain their powers by radiation poisoning or by spider bite or whatever, but find mutants so arbitrarily repulsive they literally program giant death robots to murder them and them alone

[infimace-blog]

Admittedly, Hulk spends half of his time getting hunted by the military or getting shot into space because people think he's a menace, and the Daily Bugle hasn't gone broke despite spending every possible moment trying to make Spider-Man look bad. It's extremely easy to get a Marvel civilian to scapegoat someone with superpowers, and a lot of people with superpowers have done shit to warrant that. Hulk did wreck New York City that one time because he blamed the Illuminati for something they technically didn't do.

I think the sheer number of ways to get mutant-like powers in Marvel make the X-Men marginalized metaphor worse, actually. Unless you have some sort of genetic scanning tech, it's often hard to distinguish whether or not the guy tanking bullets in front of you is a mutant or a mutate or on some other shit entirely; only a handful of powers are rare to nonexistent outside of the X-Gene, like telekinesis and telepathy. There's even a joke about how Squirrel Girl's powers come from a genetic mutation that's legally distinct from the X-Gene, leading to her identifying as a mutant for a while before learning the truth. Think about that. Think about how TERFs target cis women who don't conform to their ideas of femininity, how Obama was derided for being an immigrant and a Muslim by conservatives despite being neither of those things, how bigotry is used to punish violation of norms as much as targeting a specific group. If we're going to be realistic here, any non-mutant superhero who doesn't have a clear origin story for their superpowers, or has a secret identity, should be rumored to be a secret mutant. The Daily Bugle should be trading in anti-mutant rhetoric in order to better slander Spider-Man. Superhero Registration should be a constant political trend so people can sort out The Good Freaks from The Bad Freaks. In-universe discourse around the Hulk should always have to include accusations that Banner is a mutant and the atom bomb just activated his X-Gene. People need to get real paranoid about it.

[infimace-blog]

So a few people (@orangeispice and @al3xand) have argued to me that I shouldn't be including The Daily Bugle here because J Jonah Jameson's track record in the comic is usually pro-mutant. He actually has a history of targeting Nazis, anti-immigration protestors, and Klansmen for the same sort of vitriol he directs at Spidey. He's even buried the hatchet with Peter/Spider-Man in the current 616 continuity. That's fair. Never been the biggest fan of Parker, so I'm not 100% read up on everything that his supporting cast has been involved with. Did you know that JJJ was Mayor of New York for a bit? I didn't.

I'm not going to say that JJJ should be some kind of right-wing asshole. He's a fun little jerk of a character because his crusade is limited to this one guy 95% of the time, and making him Marvel Rush Limbaugh by default erases all of that charm. Likewise, good that Marvel finally had him move past his feud on Earth 616. Just because something's iconic in comics doesn't mean it should exist forever. But I think it's fascinating that, on aggregate and whenever possible, writers have made sure that he's on the right (i.e. left) side of fictional and real-world politics.

Like, JJJ is very much an activist for the current law and order. The best argument for his dislike of Spider-Man, ignoring any personal grievance, is that he thinks superheroes need to be accountable and, since Spider-Man keeps his identity secret, he has to be hiding something. He believes in this so strongly that he's financially backed multiple attempts to create a rival for Spider-Man who can beat him, expose him, and put him in jail. It's an argument that relies on total trust in the government and a lack of awareness of reasons why vigilantes (or activists or sex workers or what have you) might want to keep their legal identity under wraps. This is a guy who canonically supported the Superhuman Registration Act, Marvel's big metacommentary on the erosion of privacy in America after 9/11, the need to supplant individual rights in favor of the safety of the populace. He has the foundation needed to adopt some deeply bigoted ideas about vulnerable groups who struggle under law and order, and it creates an interesting juxtaposition with him going to bat for immigrants - specifically Muslim immigrants - six years after Civil War came out. It's not even entirely incoherent, just...he feels like the sort of guy who'd vote for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party on the grounds that Spider-Man's mask is technically a face, and then get real upset when they eat the face of anybody who's not on his hitlist.

[tatzlyip]

@lifeceremony was talking about how people keep on using hal and glados as examples of evil ai when hal is. very much not the same thing.

[thelastwhimzy]

im going to die and its almost entirely because of money.

[thelastwhimzy]

hi, its the tail end of trans visibility week and also my birthday month. i am unhoused + severely chronically ill and really struggling right now. the situation that i am in right now is risky for even healthy people but has the potential to legitimately kill me. id really appreciate any help so much - keeping this roof over my head is hard and my storage unit is getting auctioned off soon which is devastating because i have everything in there. meanwhile, the lack of support i have is genuinely going to be what ends my life

pypal | vnmo | cshapp | kof1

[infimace-blog]

can't stop thinking about batman's parents dying and going 'can you imagine Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk taking their child out to a normal movie theater to mingle with the plebeians and then walking home instead of immediately shuffling into a private car?'

it made sense in the 1930s because rich people hadn't perfected the art of staying as far away from their social inferiors as possible, but Batman's 35 forever now. His parents died in the 90s or early 00s, in New Jersey. They own a car. They probably own a home movie theater setup. There is no reasonable situation where 'rich people in the 90s trying to watch a movie' leads to 'rich people getting mugged in an alleyway'.

also, can you imagine someone as impossibly wealthy as the Waynes getting killed without someone getting fingered as a suspect? I'm not saying that the cops would have caught Joe Chill, but they would have arrested or publicly accused *someone* to avoid the embarrassment of two of the richest people in town getting murdered. The FBI have done insane, mostly baseless harassment campaigns when they can't find a perp, and I can't imagine the Gotham PD being better than the FBI.

i dunno at some point an alien crash-landing in Kansas as a baby feels like the more sensible origin story.

[personalmoshiakh]

✨ GFM ✨

the full details are at the above link, but briefly: i’m gay, foreign, Jewish, ND with a complex psych history, crippled w/ intractable pain and unable to work. no family to help me out. i need help paying off debt from rising costs of living and paying for reduced-cost therapy.

additional context for the therapy under the cut, for people who want to know why it’s so important i access this particular programme

i am effectively unable to access therapy on the NHS. the waiting lists are atrocious and really all they offer is the exact kind of therapy that exacerbates my OCD and ultimately doesn’t actually help with anything in the long-term — i’m way past needing to learn how to self-regulate my emotions, i need to actually address and resolve trauma in a meaningful way and i need an approach that isn’t framed in narrow, goal-oriented terms or calls me a “client” or forces me to do homework. and then lasts only 6 weeks anyway.

the reduced-cost therapy i’m able to access as of last week is person-centred/patient-led psychodynamic therapy. it’s still slightly out of my means to afford, but at only £36 a session, with weekly sessions, it’s like … i am not going to get another opportunity this good any time soon.

i’ve been trying to get appropriate therapy for a decade. this is my chance!!

[personalmoshiakh]

we’re a third of the way to the final goal! thank you all so much, please keep sharing and if you can, please donate!

[personalmoshiakh]

✨ GFM ✨

the full details are at the above link, but briefly: i’m gay, foreign, Jewish, ND with a complex psych history, crippled w/ intractable pain and unable to work. no family to help me out. i need help paying off debt from rising costs of living and paying for reduced-cost therapy.

additional context for the therapy under the cut, for people who want to know why it’s so important i access this particular programme

i am effectively unable to access therapy on the NHS. the waiting lists are atrocious and really all they offer is the exact kind of therapy that exacerbates my OCD and ultimately doesn’t actually help with anything in the long-term — i’m way past needing to learn how to self-regulate my emotions, i need to actually address and resolve trauma in a meaningful way and i need an approach that isn’t framed in narrow, goal-oriented terms or calls me a “client” or forces me to do homework. and then lasts only 6 weeks anyway.

the reduced-cost therapy i’m able to access as of last week is person-centred/patient-led psychodynamic therapy. it’s still slightly out of my means to afford, but at only £36 a session, with weekly sessions, it’s like … i am not going to get another opportunity this good any time soon.

i’ve been trying to get appropriate therapy for a decade. this is my chance!!

[personalmoshiakh]

we’re a third of the way to the final goal! thank you all so much, please keep sharing and if you can, please donate!

[personalmoshiakh]

✨ GFM ✨

the full details are at the above link, but briefly: i’m gay, foreign, Jewish, ND with a complex psych history, crippled w/ intractable pain and unable to work. no family to help me out. i need help paying off debt from rising costs of living and paying for reduced-cost therapy.

additional context for the therapy under the cut, for people who want to know why it’s so important i access this particular programme

i am effectively unable to access therapy on the NHS. the waiting lists are atrocious and really all they offer is the exact kind of therapy that exacerbates my OCD and ultimately doesn’t actually help with anything in the long-term — i’m way past needing to learn how to self-regulate my emotions, i need to actually address and resolve trauma in a meaningful way and i need an approach that isn’t framed in narrow, goal-oriented terms or calls me a “client” or forces me to do homework. and then lasts only 6 weeks anyway.

the reduced-cost therapy i’m able to access as of last week is person-centred/patient-led psychodynamic therapy. it’s still slightly out of my means to afford, but at only £36 a session, with weekly sessions, it’s like … i am not going to get another opportunity this good any time soon.

i’ve been trying to get appropriate therapy for a decade. this is my chance!!

[personalmoshiakh]

we’re a third of the way to the final goal! thank you all so much, please keep sharing and if you can, please donate!

[ana-bananya]

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[shesnake]

hello I'm Deah and I have tooth surgery coming up soon and just found out I need $1,000 aud for the anaesthesia 💀 I hate having to ask but I've already had to pay 3.8k for the surgery itself which has drained me financially and I'm very stressed out about it + there's going to be additional hospital fees so if anyone can help me out by donating anything at all/sharing this post I'd be so so grateful ♥️

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Some of the procedure pricing info I've received 💀 which doesn't include my hospital fees

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[shesnake]

thanks to everyone for sharing this post. I've received no donations yet, but UPDATE I've just learned I don't have to pay the total costs upfront before getting the rebate, so I only need $496 AUD

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[shesnake]

69/496

Thank you!

[personalmoshiakh]

✨ GFM ✨

the full details are at the above link, but briefly: i’m gay, foreign, Jewish, ND with a complex psych history, crippled w/ intractable pain and unable to work. no family to help me out. i need help paying off debt from rising costs of living and paying for reduced-cost therapy.

additional context for the therapy under the cut, for people who want to know why it’s so important i access this particular programme

i am effectively unable to access therapy on the NHS. the waiting lists are atrocious and really all they offer is the exact kind of therapy that exacerbates my OCD and ultimately doesn’t actually help with anything in the long-term — i’m way past needing to learn how to self-regulate my emotions, i need to actually address and resolve trauma in a meaningful way and i need an approach that isn’t framed in narrow, goal-oriented terms or calls me a “client” or forces me to do homework. and then lasts only 6 weeks anyway.

the reduced-cost therapy i’m able to access as of last week is person-centred/patient-led psychodynamic therapy. it’s still slightly out of my means to afford, but at only £36 a session, with weekly sessions, it’s like … i am not going to get another opportunity this good any time soon.

i’ve been trying to get appropriate therapy for a decade. this is my chance!!

[personalmoshiakh]

donations have stalled a little, but we're nearly a third of the way to final goal (£3000). please, please keep donating and boosting <3

[personalmoshiakh]

✨ GFM ✨

the full details are at the above link, but briefly: i’m gay, foreign, Jewish, ND with a complex psych history, crippled w/ intractable pain and unable to work. no family to help me out. i need help paying off debt from rising costs of living and paying for reduced-cost therapy.

additional context for the therapy under the cut, for people who want to know why it’s so important i access this particular programme

i am effectively unable to access therapy on the NHS. the waiting lists are atrocious and really all they offer is the exact kind of therapy that exacerbates my OCD and ultimately doesn’t actually help with anything in the long-term — i’m way past needing to learn how to self-regulate my emotions, i need to actually address and resolve trauma in a meaningful way and i need an approach that isn’t framed in narrow, goal-oriented terms or calls me a “client” or forces me to do homework. and then lasts only 6 weeks anyway.

the reduced-cost therapy i’m able to access as of last week is person-centred/patient-led psychodynamic therapy. it’s still slightly out of my means to afford, but at only £36 a session, with weekly sessions, it’s like … i am not going to get another opportunity this good any time soon.

i’ve been trying to get appropriate therapy for a decade. this is my chance!!

[personalmoshiakh]

donations have stalled a little, but we're nearly a third of the way to final goal (£3000). please, please keep donating and boosting <3

[personalmoshiakh]

✨ GFM ✨

the full details are at the above link, but briefly: i’m gay, foreign, Jewish, ND with a complex psych history, crippled w/ intractable pain and unable to work. no family to help me out. i need help paying off debt from rising costs of living and paying for reduced-cost therapy.

additional context for the therapy under the cut, for people who want to know why it’s so important i access this particular programme

i am effectively unable to access therapy on the NHS. the waiting lists are atrocious and really all they offer is the exact kind of therapy that exacerbates my OCD and ultimately doesn’t actually help with anything in the long-term — i’m way past needing to learn how to self-regulate my emotions, i need to actually address and resolve trauma in a meaningful way and i need an approach that isn’t framed in narrow, goal-oriented terms or calls me a “client” or forces me to do homework. and then lasts only 6 weeks anyway.

the reduced-cost therapy i’m able to access as of last week is person-centred/patient-led psychodynamic therapy. it’s still slightly out of my means to afford, but at only £36 a session, with weekly sessions, it’s like … i am not going to get another opportunity this good any time soon.

i’ve been trying to get appropriate therapy for a decade. this is my chance!!

[personalmoshiakh]

donations have stalled a little, but we're nearly a third of the way to final goal (£3000). please, please keep donating and boosting <3

[mahrahpalestine]

The occupation continues to close the crossings and control our lives in an unbelievable way, and we cannot accept it. Prices are increasing day after day, and we have been deprived of healthy food for two years. We are missing out on all meanings of life.

For your information, I have not received any donations for two days, even though we are suffering and the suffering is not over. We depend on your donations greatly. Click here to donate, please.

[personalmoshiakh]

✨ GFM ✨

the full details are at the above link, but briefly: i’m gay, foreign, Jewish, ND with a complex psych history, crippled w/ intractable pain and unable to work. no family to help me out. i need help paying off debt from rising costs of living and paying for reduced-cost therapy.

additional context for the therapy under the cut, for people who want to know why it’s so important i access this particular programme

i am effectively unable to access therapy on the NHS. the waiting lists are atrocious and really all they offer is the exact kind of therapy that exacerbates my OCD and ultimately doesn’t actually help with anything in the long-term — i’m way past needing to learn how to self-regulate my emotions, i need to actually address and resolve trauma in a meaningful way and i need an approach that isn’t framed in narrow, goal-oriented terms or calls me a “client” or forces me to do homework. and then lasts only 6 weeks anyway.

the reduced-cost therapy i’m able to access as of last week is person-centred/patient-led psychodynamic therapy. it’s still slightly out of my means to afford, but at only £36 a session, with weekly sessions, it’s like … i am not going to get another opportunity this good any time soon.

i’ve been trying to get appropriate therapy for a decade. this is my chance!!

[personalmoshiakh]

donations have stalled a little, but we're nearly a third of the way to final goal (£3000). please, please keep donating and boosting <3

[wagahai-da]

lost 4 days of pay because of being sick earlier this month and we're ~$600 short on rent and won't be able to get food for a couple weeks with my paycheck and my wife isn't getting food stamps

pypal

vnmo