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22, plural, queer as fuck

[snorfkle]

hi for disability pride month please consider supporting a trans disabled student. im working the maximum hours my body can handle while im out of school for the summer but this tuition deadline kind of snuck up on me. i also cant put it to my credit card because im maxed out. here’s a link a link to my last thread with more info.

tuition: $407 <- DUE JULY 9

psych: $225 (overdue: if i dont pay this by july 21 i will not be able to refill my life saving medication)

rheum: $346 (overdue)

credit card: $988 (next payment due Aug 8th)

paypal cashapp etsy

^ some stuff ive made which is available on etsy!

i also do tarot readings starting at $3 so dm if youre interested!

progress (toward first goal):

$162/$406

[snorfkle]

i just got an email informing me that i owe my ophthalmologist $50 :(

total medical now $0/$621

tuition $162/$407 (typo above sorry)

[snorfkle]

im at the emergency vet with my kitten rn. she ate a piece of yarn. its gonna be at least $125 probably more. im so fucked

[snorfkle]

they just gave me an estimate. $4,000-$6000

[snorfkle]

so, i spoke with the vets and she might not need surgery if she is able to pass it on her own, so i am monitoring her at home. if she shows symptoms of pain, lethargy, loss of appetite, straining to defecate, diarrhea, or vomiting, she will need emergency surgery at the above quoted price. they have a payment plan available and ive been approved. i already signed up for a payment plan for the initial $220 for the exam and meds this morning.

please send healing energy to her as all i want is for her to get better quickly. any amount of money helps. i need $55 to pay this balance so if she needs surgery i will have a $6000 line of credit with their payment plan, Care Credit.

$165/$220

[snorfkle]

good news: she has passed the string and is doing well. im extremely relieved that she likely wont need surgery. the vet said to continue monitoring for the next 3 days in case she ate multiple strings (i actively saw her swallow the one i knew about) but she should be alright <3

financial update coming soon

[snorfkle]

im running a big etsy sale!

check out my shop TheHighStoneThicket

[snorfkle]

i did some tarot readings and sold a bookmark in person! +$35 -$20 for food at the cafe i was set up at

i also did some doordashing +$66 -$16 for taxes and bought a giant bag of beef jerky and some cat food -$31

im also updating my goal: i need $37 for the vet bill, $107 for my next tuition payment, and $225 for the psychiatrist by JULY 21

bringing me to

$199/$369

thats over halfway!! thanks to everyone whos contributed so far, please i have 7 more days which means i need to make $25 every day and i can reach this goal!! thats just 5 $5 donations a day <3

[t00thpasteface]

everyone's always complaining about how hard it is to deal with teenagers as an educator but at least teens generally tend to listen when you tell them not to terrorize an aquarium animal. little kids want to grab a funny sea pancake so bad and will furiously splash the water until they get to. and then i gently but firmly remind them not to do that and they go huh... wonder who that crazy lady with the mic is talking to... splashasplashasplashasplash

[t00thpasteface]

like yes it's a total bummer when you're trying to teach some biology fun facts to a 17 y/o in a hoodie who seems to have perfected a vulcanlike emotional placidity but it's always the kindergarteners who decide it's their true heart's wish to break into a sprint directly towards a free-roaming african spoonbill

[pixeljade]

more than anything i want a world where a trans girl realizing she is a trans girl faces zero fear from that realization and subsequent coming out. Where she can say "Oh sweet, I can just be a girl? Sign me up!", no worrying if shes girl enough, no worrying if society will accept her, no worrying if she'll be an attractive girl as she transitions, no worrying at all in any way shape or form.

[parkchanwoohoo]

I love seeing stores and cafes that display and sell shitty local art. Everybody on the planet should be making shitty local art. Everyone in the community should get to see what shitty local art everyone else is making. Eventually you will find something and be like hold on. This weirdly speaks to me. I've never seen anything quite like this, whether because of this person's idiosyncratic style or strange choice of subject matter or what. And suddenly your favorite piece of art is a collage painting done by a woman who waits tables during the day and does roller derby at night and uses the excess flyers and paper menus from both places of work to make amateur art on the weekends and you realize this is such a bizarre combination of circumstances that has produced something so striking to you, how lucky you are to live in a world where this got to exist and you got to see it

[muttrott]

hairy bodies are so hot how the fuck are people trying to say theyre not into body hair. are you not into sunsets and good food and orgasms too? jesus christ.

[headspace-hotel]

i was reading several articles written by random upper-middle-class people about how Kids These Days are too anxious because their parents don't teach them to "deal with discomfort" and coddle them too much, and This Generation uses "trauma" to refer to any mild discomfort and have broadened the words "abuse" and "bullying" too much et cetera

There is a very abundant supply of such articles and a recent one especially annoyed the hell out of me because it (without actually mentioning the idea of disability) repeatedly alluded to accommodating a kid's sensory issues as example of parents being too permissive or failing to teach kids to tolerate discomfort.

That's bullshit because being in tune with your own needs and discomforts sensory wise is so fucking important for being able to adapt and function in the world.

Like, just an example, I got rid of almost every piece of clothing I own that was polyester or a polyester blend and just doing that dramatically improved my life and gave me more ability to cope with stressors, because I figured out that a lot of my sensory issues with clothes came from bad temperature regulation and the scratchy pills that polyester blends make.

"Discomfort tolerance" has never been super helpful as a concept for me. I have no problem tolerating discomfort in the sense of like, not doing anything about the thing that's hurting me. It's just that if I do it for too long, I can't think straight and process what's happening around me and I eventually become so fatigued it feels like I've got a fever, or else become uncontrollably angry.

I think "discomfort curiosity" is way better concept. You feel uncomfortable. What is the feeling like? Where in your body do you feel it? What does your body urge you to do about it? When does it start? What is it responding to? What about that thing makes you feel that way? Feel it...Experiment with it...Dabble in it...Play with it. I say curiosity because curiosity is so closely related to fear and to some extent, disgust. Curiosity is a frontier zone between repulsion and fascination.

Curiosity is an instinct that encourages us toward unfamiliar things, not away from them. It is part of a large landscape of feelings where away-instincts and toward-instincts are blended together.

I think of the difference between curiosity and fear to be like the difference between solitude and loneliness, or like excitement and apprehension. Or, think of exploring an eerie abandoned place, one of the "liminal spaces" the internet speaks of. The place is "eerie" which is closely related to fear, but the "eerieness" shades into becoming a positive stimulus that our instincts are drawn toward. Liminal spaces, for those of us that enjoy them, are "creepy," but they are also "nice" at the same time. And the "creepiness" is part of the "niceness."

And curiosity is sensitivity. It allows for openness and playfulness toward the unknown.

Many humans' relationships with their own urges and instincts are based on domination and punishment. Tyranny over the body by the mind. The goal is to absorb without shock and endure without indulging the urge to seek relief, to reduce your attunement to your body.

But the ability to be "less controlled by" your body's urges is not positive, because your body is providing information about what your needs are. I find that the ability to make reasoned decisions about how and when and why to persist through something painful requires a deeper attunement to the body's instincts, not a greater ability to ignore them.

Stop treating your bodies like they're animals in a cruel experiment to be shocked with electricity until they lay on the floor whimpering in helplessness. It doesn't help.

Also, any article that suggests people are taking bullying too seriously should be launched into the sun because we don't take it nearly seriously enough i think.

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[purplepints]

Oldest human footprint discovered, made 153,000 years ago in South Africa.

Oldest human footprint in North America, made 21,000 years ago in New Mexico, USA.

Oldest human footprint on the Moon, made July 20, 1969 on the Sea of Tranquility, Earth's moon.

[through-a-historic-lens]

Mississippi’s first interracial marriage, August 1970.

[brazenbells]

Adding @bethanyactually 's informative tags!

[coffeefocusrat]

you're just mad because you're hungry and tired and your legs hurt and you head hurts and you're too hot and you have depression

[coffeefocusrat]

you're just mad because you're hungry and tired and your legs hurt and you head hurts and you're too hot and you have depression

[photogdenography]

Tide Pool Lurkers

Striped Shore Crab - Haystack Rock, OR

[ostolero]

young old person tip for you all. go get some photos printed (pauses so someone can say bogos binted) and fill out a physical album

[sayaratyriea]

and annotate them with who is in the photos and when and where the photos were taken!!! your extended family 50 years from now will be grateful, and so will you if you end up forgetting any details

[mortimermcmirestinks]

(sprints into room late, looking harried and frantic as fuck) bogos binted. did I miss it

[wiki-pettan-con]

they gotta invent shoplifting for online shopping

[zitongzi]

Credit card fraud , gift card hacking, piracy of you believe big companies

[wiki-pettan-con]

i want a button on the checkout page that says "ship without payment" that they make you promise not to click

[mariacallous]

Do My Grocery Store Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed?

Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the pro

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[transjudas]

never take for granted the moments when you’re not nauseous