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HELP US STAY HOUSED WHILE YAZ HEALS FROM SPINAL TAP COMPLICATIONS

community- we need your help keeping us housed. Yaz has been having terrible pain and complications from their spinal tap this week and i was wrongfully forced out of the job i just secured for taking care of them. i’m putting in apps daily and expect something from that job this week. where we need help is covering the rest. you directly impact the outcome of this. here’s how you can help:

1. SHARE/REPOST/SCREENSHOT- the more this spreads means the more people we can put this request in front of. don’t underestimate the power of reposting. this is the simplest act one can do in support.

2. DONATE/GIVE- we are in serious need of funds. every dollar counts and is appreciated. this is how we change the communities we live in- direct funding saves lives!!!

3. BOOK/HIT LINKS IN BIO- support us outside of traditional work. your support in this manner gets us closer to our goal.

thank you for your continued support-it means more than you know. 💚💕

cashapp: lavendernights

venmo: lavendernights/ alewis35

paypal: alewis0035

thisismenoww

6 DAYS LEFT- $600 TO GO

if we could get just 30 people to send $20 we would reach this goal in no time!!! please keep spreading and giving!

thisismenoww

$500 TO GO- 5 DAYS LEFT

thank you for sending the first donation🖤 we’ve got until monday to finish this and need all the support we can get. if 25 people sent $30 this goal would be reached in no time. it can be done and i appreciate y’all for helping us do it

please continue to share/reblog/screenshot- the more eyes the more help!

thisismenoww

$480 left- 24 HOURS LEFT TO GO

y’all we desperately need your help. our new landlord is straight evil and, despite all the hell we’ve been through, will evict us without a second thought. we need shelter so we can continue to heal and find some stability.

we need this by tonight- its a big goal but we have no one else to turn to rn

thank you for your support through all this. we need you to share/reblog/screenshot like crazy- and if you can give we need you to dig deep in your heart and give with your humanity.

thisismenoww

GOAL PAST DUE- $380 DUE IMMEDIATELY TO SECURE HOUSING!!!

CASHAPP: LAVENDERNIGHTS

VENMO: LAVENDERNIGHTS/ALEWIS35

PAYPAL: ALEWIS0035

START PRIDE MONTH OFF RIGHT- SUPPORT TRANS DYKES- HELP US LIVE!

thisismenoww

UPDATE: $300 LEFT- GOAL PAST DUE

my landlord has started her antics and i’m now running low on insulin (again 🙃) because i’ve been so stressed about rent. please consider us this pride month. we just want a place to rest and heal in. please don’t forget about us

cashapp: lavendernights

venmo: lavendernights/ alewis35

paypal: alewis0035

farmwitch

some things on pins

dyke-dyke-goose

being in your 20’s is seeing how differently everyone’s childhood trauma has effected them and the outward manifestation of it

#i've been figuring shit out about the ways i've been affected by it recently and boy!#not good!

winry-lucy-beth

I've recently learned that escaping enshitification is actually really easy. When I was younger I would use FOSS (free and open source software) because I usually couldn't afford anything else. Back then the paid options were usually significantly better than the unpaid options so when I finally got money I started using the paid stuff and completely forgot that Foss existed.

If you don't know why Foss is awesome its not just that its free. Open source software has a huge set of advantages. Most software is proprietary meaning that its code cannot be viewed by other people. Open source softwares code can be viewed by everyone and people can contribute their own code to make it better. Open source is often more secure than proprietary because more people have more eyes on it and more people have contributed to it's security. Its also easy to know how much privacy you have with every software because you can read the code. No more "trust me bro I'm not harvesting and selling your data" you know if they are collecting and selling because the code is publicly available.

In the last two months I have been switching almost completely to Foss. I was worried at first because when I stopped using Foss over 10 years ago the average Foss software was genuinely worse than the paid proprietary alternative. Thankfully things have really come full circle. 90℅ of the software I have tried in the last 2 months works better than the proprietary alternative and is 100℅ less obnoxious.

So here is a list of every Foss software I have tried and recommend. There is way more than this available. This list is just what I have used and like personally. Anyone can feel free to add and we can turn it into a master list. Please just take these as a place to start and do your own research to see if these softwares will work for your use case before you fully ditch your proprietary software.

Operating systems

Graphene os: android alt. Security and privacy focused. The most secure and private smartphone currently available.

Linux mint: easy to use linux, 100℅ better than windows.

Pop!: The Linux distro you should use if you have nividia hardware and want to play games using said hardware. Very intuitive and easy to use.

Kubuntu: Ubuntu Linux with KDE desktop. This is the linux distro one I am currently using and I don't have any plans to jump ship again. Better than windows and better than Mac. The companion app for your phone makes life soooo easy. Its pretty and easy to customize to a ridiculously granular level. No fucking notes.

Kindle jailbreak- ko reader: use jailbreak to free your kindle from the tyranny of the bezos. It will download ko reader which is a Foss OS that has every fucking feature you always wished kindle had and let's you read whatever the fuck you want, and have whatever the screensaver you want (no more ads!). Soooo fuck amazon and use this. I genuinely cannot recommend it enough.

Linux FOSS: (some available on windows and android as well)

Calibre: Foss desktop eBook library. Packed with features. You will want to use this with koreader to make managing your kindle easy.

Manuscript: skrivner alt. Does absolutely everything I need.

Bitwarden: password manager (use a keepass fork if you want self hosted)

Next cloud: private google drive and cloud alternative that you can self host if you want but it's not required. App available

Proton VPN: to the best of my knowledge it is the only Foss no log VPN you can get. You can pay for higher speeds. App available

Quad9dns: free encrypted DNS provider. App available.

News software:

Use any Foss RSS reader and for the love of god stop getting news from social media. Take control of your feed!

Apps (I only know for android)

Fdroid: great app store to find Foss android apps and download them.

Antennapod: you can get all of your podcasts fetched to one feature rich app via RSS feed. No need to rely on spotify or music steaming services.

Openreads: it's good reads but private and 100℅ stored locally. No amazon, no social media aspect, it just tracks your reading, you can import your good reads but if you want to import from storygraph you have to make a good reads burner account, import to good reads, then import to openreads. The menus Navigation on this one is a bit cumbersome but honestly good reads app is worse.

Newpipe: YouTube frontend that let's you have YouTube subscriptions, watch YouTube in the background, and blocks all ads, without logging in to YouTube. You will want to use this one with a VPN set to Canada (or any other country) so YouTube doesn't keep blocking it in order to force you to sign in. But even with that extra step its worth it for the privacy and the lack of ads.

Proton mail: one of 2 more private gmail alts. But you should note that email cannot be 100℅ anonymous or private.

I think that's it. There are still a lot software varieties I am slowly finding.

centrumlumina

LibreOffice is a FOSS Office suite that can handle word docs, spreadsheets, presentations and databases.

prismatic-bell

I know people get mad at the name, and I understand why, but straight-up I've been using GIMP for 15 years and it's a good solid art program made under the GNU program. It's worth a look.

penrosesun

To add:

Blender is an amazing FOSS suite for 3D modeling and animation, as well as digital sculpting and motion tracking. Pros use it. It’s a staple in game development. It’s what the Academy Award winning film “Flow” was made on. It’s not the bland name alternative to an industry standard; it is an industry standard.

Krita is a fantastic FOSS application for digital painting. Everyone I’ve ever talked to who uses it has loved it to death.

OBS is the absolute go-to choice for screen recording and live streaming. You can use it to record your entire desktop or a specific window, capture audio from multiple sources, and even add overlays, webcam feeds, or transitions to your videos.

VLC Media Player is the best media player, hands down. It’s lightweight, it’s reliable, it supports virtually every audio and video format known to man, and it has built in media conversion and even basic editing. I truly can’t imagine why anyone would use a media player that isn’t this one. It’s just the best there is, easily, no contest.

Audacity is a fantastic multi-track audio editor and recorder. It’s free and it’s good, and podcasters love it for a reason.

And believe it or not, Thunderbird is a really good email client now. I’m not even joking. If you used it back in the day and hated it, please give it another chance, because the glow up is unreal.

#for later

junglejim4322

My landlord pasted an ai generated ass eviction notice on my door because you have to cite a reason and he doesn’t have one so he just chopped that section out brother you cannot be serious

junglejim4322

Would you like the added layer that he did this right after I tested for mold in my house and it was quite literally in every room and he came here to check out the hole in my ceiling that he has left unrepaired for two years

junglejim4322

im gonna fight this in any way I can obviously but I want out of here as soon as possible I can’t get a new place until the end of this month but I do need to save for movers and a moving truck and a deposit. I also live with my mom who is severely disabled and I take care of which makes things more complicated. If you want to help my Cash App and Venmo are @ ishaanjs obviously nobody is obligated to give anything and thank you if you do

kaszas

don't you want a lover in your life?

You don't have the capacity to understand what I want.

suzirya

I got permission from this friend to post this because holy fuck I can't stop laughing

quinnception

goth-queen

onnightshift

i dislike the whole “horror is so back” narrative people are throwing around recently with obsession and backrooms. both are great movies, but horror was also so back with the long walk. and sinners. and the substance. and nosferatu. and literally anything directed by jordan peele. horror as a genre will always have its flops. but there will always be those few that revive the hype.