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Casi // thirtyone // Agenderflux // she/they/sir // ° Black Lives Matter and No Child Hungry Shouldn't be Radical Statements ° My Mom and I are Homeless and Struggling any help is incredibly appreciated https://ko-fi.com/desertrosechaos

[queermystic]

Please Help us Survive the Summer

Hi there again. I'm Casi. I'm a disabled Enby who is the only caregiver for my elderly disabled mother, and we're Homeless.

Mom is 70yrs old and has chronic bronchitis and arthritis and Mobility issues, and I'm chronically ill and multiply disabled myself. Where we live has already had multiple days of 105°F (40°C) temperatures throughout the Spring, its gonna be a hot summer. We cannot be on the Streets.

I have us in a Hotel because its the safest option for us. We have no family that can put us up for even a night and while I'm always on the lookout for outreach groups and programs we might qualify for, at this point we're on our own.[ and incredibly grateful for all the kind and generous support to help us through]

But the rates have gone up to Summer Prices which will make things a little more difficult than they already are. The Current rate is $98.30 a day / $688.03 a Week.

Moms Social Security is our only stable income apart from donations and my Redbubble and Ko-Fi shops where I sell my art. I've been looking for stable work but its always been a joke that there "more people than jobs" in this town and that's even truer now than ever, and without any transportation I can't even do Odd Jobs or Gigwork.[cant doordash on foot, can't to yardwork on the other side of town if I cant get myself there and back safely etc...]

Moms income will only cover 12 days of the month, and that's without putting any of that towards Meds or Groceries. We do get $290 SNAP/Food Stamps, on the 9th, but with the prices of everything between absofuckinglutly ridiculous, that too, only goes so far.

Literally Any Amount of Help would be incredibly appreciated. Really and Truly.

PayPal // Ko-Fi / Redbubble

[queermystic]

Have to pay for the room this Sunday, the 26th. Any help is so incredibly appreciated really and truly I'm so so grateful for every little bit of help and everyone who helps us.

$604 / $688

[queermystic]

So I've been having a pain episode for about four days at this point and my brain has been completely non functioning but this morning Mom pointed out that we actually had enough to cover the room until the 1st so I should relax a little.

I convinced myself that walking over to the office would help with the pain in my back so I went in and made a prepaid Reservation for the 26th to the 1st.

Have $20 left and food is getting low but it's not like I can walk to the store anyway so it's all good haha.

Thank you all so very much for getting us through another month. I'm especially grateful for this past month because I've been so down with my chronic illness bullshit and that virus. I've felt so weak and useless but your support and kindness have gotten us through again.

[queermystic]

Food is getting really low and pain medication is running out if anyone could spare like $5 for some Dollar Tree Ibuprofen and a couple frozen meals to help us make it to the first....

[queermystic]

Pain medication is Gone

If anyone could spare anything to help us it would be so incredibly appreciated

[fieldexplores]

Never Learned - Gator Days

[whitepeopletwitter]

[queermystic]

Please Help us Survive the Summer

Hi there again. I'm Casi. I'm a disabled Enby who is the only caregiver for my elderly disabled mother, and we're Homeless.

Mom is 70yrs old and has chronic bronchitis and arthritis and Mobility issues, and I'm chronically ill and multiply disabled myself. Where we live has already had multiple days of 105°F (40°C) temperatures throughout the Spring, its gonna be a hot summer. We cannot be on the Streets.

I have us in a Hotel because its the safest option for us. We have no family that can put us up for even a night and while I'm always on the lookout for outreach groups and programs we might qualify for, at this point we're on our own.[ and incredibly grateful for all the kind and generous support to help us through]

But the rates have gone up to Summer Prices which will make things a little more difficult than they already are. The Current rate is $98.30 a day / $688.03 a Week.

Moms Social Security is our only stable income apart from donations and my Redbubble and Ko-Fi shops where I sell my art. I've been looking for stable work but its always been a joke that there "more people than jobs" in this town and that's even truer now than ever, and without any transportation I can't even do Odd Jobs or Gigwork.[cant doordash on foot, can't to yardwork on the other side of town if I cant get myself there and back safely etc...]

Moms income will only cover 12 days of the month, and that's without putting any of that towards Meds or Groceries. We do get $290 SNAP/Food Stamps, on the 9th, but with the prices of everything between absofuckinglutly ridiculous, that too, only goes so far.

Literally Any Amount of Help would be incredibly appreciated. Really and Truly.

PayPal // Ko-Fi / Redbubble

[queermystic]

Have to pay for the room this Sunday, the 26th. Any help is so incredibly appreciated really and truly I'm so so grateful for every little bit of help and everyone who helps us.

$604 / $688

[queermystic]

So I've been having a pain episode for about four days at this point and my brain has been completely non functioning but this morning Mom pointed out that we actually had enough to cover the room until the 1st so I should relax a little.

I convinced myself that walking over to the office would help with the pain in my back so I went in and made a prepaid Reservation for the 26th to the 1st.

Have $20 left and food is getting low but it's not like I can walk to the store anyway so it's all good haha.

Thank you all so very much for getting us through another month. I'm especially grateful for this past month because I've been so down with my chronic illness bullshit and that virus. I've felt so weak and useless but your support and kindness have gotten us through again.

[queermystic]

Food is getting really low and pain medication is running out if anyone could spare like $5 for some Dollar Tree Ibuprofen and a couple frozen meals to help us make it to the first....

[queermystic]

Pain medication is Gone

If anyone could spare anything to help us it would be so incredibly appreciated

[queermystic]

Please Help us Survive the Summer

Hi there again. I'm Casi. I'm a disabled Enby who is the only caregiver for my elderly disabled mother, and we're Homeless.

Mom is 70yrs old and has chronic bronchitis and arthritis and Mobility issues, and I'm chronically ill and multiply disabled myself. Where we live has already had multiple days of 105°F (40°C) temperatures throughout the Spring, its gonna be a hot summer. We cannot be on the Streets.

I have us in a Hotel because its the safest option for us. We have no family that can put us up for even a night and while I'm always on the lookout for outreach groups and programs we might qualify for, at this point we're on our own.[ and incredibly grateful for all the kind and generous support to help us through]

But the rates have gone up to Summer Prices which will make things a little more difficult than they already are. The Current rate is $98.30 a day / $688.03 a Week.

Moms Social Security is our only stable income apart from donations and my Redbubble and Ko-Fi shops where I sell my art. I've been looking for stable work but its always been a joke that there "more people than jobs" in this town and that's even truer now than ever, and without any transportation I can't even do Odd Jobs or Gigwork.[cant doordash on foot, can't to yardwork on the other side of town if I cant get myself there and back safely etc...]

Moms income will only cover 12 days of the month, and that's without putting any of that towards Meds or Groceries. We do get $290 SNAP/Food Stamps, on the 9th, but with the prices of everything between absofuckinglutly ridiculous, that too, only goes so far.

Literally Any Amount of Help would be incredibly appreciated. Really and Truly.

PayPal // Ko-Fi / Redbubble

[queermystic]

Have to pay for the room this Sunday, the 26th. Any help is so incredibly appreciated really and truly I'm so so grateful for every little bit of help and everyone who helps us.

$604 / $688

[queermystic]

So I've been having a pain episode for about four days at this point and my brain has been completely non functioning but this morning Mom pointed out that we actually had enough to cover the room until the 1st so I should relax a little.

I convinced myself that walking over to the office would help with the pain in my back so I went in and made a prepaid Reservation for the 26th to the 1st.

Have $20 left and food is getting low but it's not like I can walk to the store anyway so it's all good haha.

Thank you all so very much for getting us through another month. I'm especially grateful for this past month because I've been so down with my chronic illness bullshit and that virus. I've felt so weak and useless but your support and kindness have gotten us through again.

[queermystic]

Food is getting really low and pain medication is running out if anyone could spare like $5 for some Dollar Tree Ibuprofen and a couple frozen meals to help us make it to the first....

[queermystic]

Pain medication is Gone

If anyone could spare anything to help us it would be so incredibly appreciated

[bundibird]

I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

[alwayswasalwayswillbeourland]

OP's tags

[espanolbot2]

So you're saying that well-made, cool-lookin' original content for a franchise gets more attention than just remaking what folk have already watched before? Fancy.

[queermystic]

Please Help us Survive the Summer

Hi there again. I'm Casi. I'm a disabled Enby who is the only caregiver for my elderly disabled mother, and we're Homeless.

Mom is 70yrs old and has chronic bronchitis and arthritis and Mobility issues, and I'm chronically ill and multiply disabled myself. Where we live has already had multiple days of 105°F (40°C) temperatures throughout the Spring, its gonna be a hot summer. We cannot be on the Streets.

I have us in a Hotel because its the safest option for us. We have no family that can put us up for even a night and while I'm always on the lookout for outreach groups and programs we might qualify for, at this point we're on our own.[ and incredibly grateful for all the kind and generous support to help us through]

But the rates have gone up to Summer Prices which will make things a little more difficult than they already are. The Current rate is $98.30 a day / $688.03 a Week.

Moms Social Security is our only stable income apart from donations and my Redbubble and Ko-Fi shops where I sell my art. I've been looking for stable work but its always been a joke that there "more people than jobs" in this town and that's even truer now than ever, and without any transportation I can't even do Odd Jobs or Gigwork.[cant doordash on foot, can't to yardwork on the other side of town if I cant get myself there and back safely etc...]

Moms income will only cover 12 days of the month, and that's without putting any of that towards Meds or Groceries. We do get $290 SNAP/Food Stamps, on the 9th, but with the prices of everything between absofuckinglutly ridiculous, that too, only goes so far.

Literally Any Amount of Help would be incredibly appreciated. Really and Truly.

PayPal // Ko-Fi / Redbubble

[queermystic]

Have to pay for the room this Sunday, the 26th. Any help is so incredibly appreciated really and truly I'm so so grateful for every little bit of help and everyone who helps us.

$604 / $688

[queermystic]

So I've been having a pain episode for about four days at this point and my brain has been completely non functioning but this morning Mom pointed out that we actually had enough to cover the room until the 1st so I should relax a little.

I convinced myself that walking over to the office would help with the pain in my back so I went in and made a prepaid Reservation for the 26th to the 1st.

Have $20 left and food is getting low but it's not like I can walk to the store anyway so it's all good haha.

Thank you all so very much for getting us through another month. I'm especially grateful for this past month because I've been so down with my chronic illness bullshit and that virus. I've felt so weak and useless but your support and kindness have gotten us through again.

[queermystic]

Food is getting really low and pain medication is running out if anyone could spare like $5 for some Dollar Tree Ibuprofen and a couple frozen meals to help us make it to the first....

[queermystic]

Pain medication is Gone

If anyone could spare anything to help us it would be so incredibly appreciated

[lupusbaby]

Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

[goth-princess-gwennie]

Forgive me if this is inappropriate but

So are

colostomy bags

Diapers

insulin pumps

Oxygen systems

Braces

[cuntpunkop-ed]

catheters

rollators

hearing aids

compression garments

prosthetics

FREEDOM AIDS

[seraph1c-mo0n]

- canes

- service animals

- noise cancelling headphones/ear defenders

- wheelchair attachments

- fidgets

IT’S DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH YALL

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY DISABLED AND TAKE UP ALL THE SPACE AND TIME YOU NEED!!!!!

[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

Favourite Monster from the Dungeon Tournament 2026, Round 2 Part 1

Basilisk

Red dragon

Voting ended onJul 9

Masterpost

[scardinandocitheclown]

as a dragon lover, the red dragon lacks the sauce ngl

like think of the diversity of dragon designs across media and compare it to dungeon meshi dragon. still cool seeing it in the anime but overall it's pretty bland. no extra oomph

versus butt-to-butt chicken snake, now we're talking, that's a nice design

[ot3]

[pinsforfingerz]

[unidentifiablelifeform]

Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species

The insects covered its largest area since 2018, despite threats from habitat loss, climate crisis and pesticides

[scribefindegil]

I'm still thinking about the guy who saw me realize my wheelchair wouldn't fit in the elevator because he (also a wheelchair user) was already inside it and immediately quipped, "This elevator ain't accessible enough for the both of us."

[xenosagaepisodeone]

right wing handwringing over birth rates has always unsubtly been a combination of wanting more white babies/wanting control over women, so it's bothersome that the popular response to that is just pointing out the cost of living. "we Would be having more kids if you guys made some positive changes to society" and such. pronatalist sentiment is becoming so much more explicit that I don't think many self-styled progressives are ready to reconcile with the fact that many women simply do not want to have children. we already see how women are demonized for refusing to undertake the thankless burdens of their mother and grandmother's generations lol, I can't imagine how full abdication from child rearing will come across to some people.

I can't even see "we Would be having kids" as a strategic approach to get conservatives to consider advocating for a higher quality of life considering that they truly could not care less if you, specifically, are poor. it's true that more couples would have kids if it was cheaper, but that will not be enough for these types until women's subservience is codified. even now, they consider the lack of child rearing in today's insane society to be a matter of selfishness. they view themselves as completely different animals than you. they have and will continue to advocate for more advantages for people of their specific backgrounds and income brackets to reinforce this lol.

[communistkenobi]

I think this rhetoric also ignores that the right wing want the inverse for Black and brown people - this logic of “raise living standards and we’ll have more kids” is a white perspective that ignores white supremacist medical violence, forced abortions, forced sterilisation, mass deportations, mass incarceration, police murder, imperial aggression, and forced removal of children from families as institutional programs of population control (Canadian residential schools, for example, were built for this exact purpose).

Increasing white birth rates is only one half of the equation for the right wing, and this raising-living-standards rhetoric fails to address this completely. Even in the outlandish scenario where the right wing accepts this logic and institutes robust welfare programs, do people think the state will offer these things to black, brown, and indigenous people? In any scenario where this happens it would just be Aryan UBI

[goth-princess-gwennie]

The idea of listening to no black music is bizarre to me. Even if it's not rap like no earth wind and fire? No reggae? No moonstomp? No ska? No classic jazz? No R and B? No disco??? No skindred? No jungle? No even like metal bands with a few black members? No gospel? Not even stuff like alors en dance? No blues music? No mo town? No jazz of any kind? No big band? No soul music? Not even a little James Brown?

[jabbotmohan]

not even yola or tanner adell or brittney spencer or tracy chapman or india.arie or chapel hart or the carolina chocolate drops or rhiannon giddens????

[xoxoviva]

Or…

Hemlocke Springs (alt rock/new wave revival),

the Noisettes (indie),

Skunk Anansie (hard rock/metal),

Tamar Kali (rock/punk),

Valerie June (country/blues),

Santigold (indie),

Bloc Party (post punk revival/indie rock),

O Children (goth),

Lord Scary Black (goth),

Cemetery Sex (death rock)

[gayvampyr]

a few more artists i love:

deepincision (heavy metal)

zulu (metal)

black pantera (rock, metal)

winter wolf (punk, metal)

erzulie (punk, rock)

youth man (punk)

the 1865 (punk)

crystal axis (punk)

pleasure venom (post-punk/hard rock)

the rack (they describe their sound as “hard pop rock”, blends punk vocals and rock)

danny denial (indie punk/rock, queer)

gloom east (alt/indie rock, moody pop blend)

big joanie (synth punk + some more melodic, blues-like tones)

madame st beatrice (gothic, moody and melodic)

shadow age (goth)

saccharin (goth)

the ire (goth, punk)

bastet (goth punk)

here’s a playlist with a good mix of the above genres + some alt & indie from Black artists

[innerchildabortionclinic]

i'm still working on explaining this the best I can, but I have a theory that environmental destruction under capitalism is a relatively common fetish--not as in I think actual environmental destruction is caused by it, but I think in media, there are people who are attracted to the power dynamic involved, combination of patriarchy and capitalism (see: phenomenon of "petromasculinity").

anyway I wrote this because I saw a fan edit of the anti-environment villain of some new kids movie and it had me thinking of a study I read recently on anti-environment politics as affirmation of masculinity lmao

[storyweavingspider]

I mean this makes perfect sense. In a lot of cultures nature/the environment is associated with femininity, which is why a lot of the early green movements struggled to get any foothold with men and men who participated were often seen as emasculated.

But also see: Tumblr and Onceler.

Shit, im convinced if tumblr had been around during Captain Planet days there would’ve been fandomites horny for Looten Plunder:

The conquering of the natural world is associated with power, which a lot of people find attractive 🤷🏽🫠

[monkeyartfiend]

this phenomenon comes from the Bible

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” - genesis

from White, Lynn. 1974. "The historical roots of our ecologic crisis" Ecology and religion in history, (New York :Harper and Row, 1974) >>

Man named all the animals, thus establishing his dominance over them. God planned all of this explicitly for man's benefit and rule: no item in the physical creation had any purpose save to serve man's purposes. And, although man's body is made of clay, he is not simply part of nature: he is made in God's image. Especially in its Western form, Christianity is the most anthropocentric religion the world has seen. As early as the 2nd century both Tertullian and Saint Irenaeus of Lyons were insisting that when God shaped Adam he was foreshadowing the image of the incarnate Christ, the Second Adam. Man shares, in great measure, God's transcendence of nature. Christianity, in absolute contrast to ancient paganism and Asia's religions (except, perhaps, Zorastrianism), not only established a dualism of man and nature but also insisted that it is God's will that man exploit nature for his proper ends. At the level of the common people this worked out in an interesting way.

In Antiquity every tree, every spring, every stream, every hill had its own genius loci, its guardian spirit. These spirits were accessible to men, but were very unlike men; centaurs, fauns, and mermaids show their ambivalence. Before one cut a tree, mined a mountain, or dammed a brook, it was important to placate the spirit in charge of that particular situation,and to keep it placated. By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects.

so, yeah, youre correct - the fetishistic way mankind dominates the earth is very real, and, has a very specific cultural origin.