[djbeat]

I like it in here.

[kuruk]

There's now a gofundme for my dad's Stage 4 Colon Cancer treatment

Donate to Supporting Daniel : A Father, Teacher, and Fighter, organized by Dianne Reed

My name is Dianne Reed, I am starting this gofundme for my nephew, Dani… Dianne Reed needs your support for Supporting Daniel : A Father, Te

[kuruk]

Teacher with Stage 4 Colon Cancer Needs Help

My dad is a science teacher at a public middle school. A month after turning 50, he suddenly learned he has stage 4 colon cancer that's metastasized to his liver and lungs. When I visited him in the hospital, he kept repeating the words "I'm scared. I don't want to die." I turned my head to the wall and cried.

My mom, an LVN, has been driving to his place often in order to care for him and empty his ileostomy bag, which he's still too scared to even look at. Not being able to go to the bathroom normally, and dealing with accidents where the bag of his own waste bursts and leaks onto him makes him feel humiliated and is causing him to become extremely depressed.

We're thankful that my mother a nurse, but she makes much less than he does as a teacher, and has been draining her retirement for his treatment. She's also had to take ubers lately to go see him because she can't drive at night, as she has a serious vision disability due to a genetic condition that eventually results in blindness.

Most of the money received is from my mom, other family members, and former students of my father. But what's maybe even more important than the amount received, is the number of people donating. I can see how hopeful and excited it makes my dad to see just 5 donations in a day from people he doesn't know.

When multiple strangers donate even just $5 each in a day, I can tell that it makes him even more excited than it does to see that same amount donated by one person in a day. (which is still very exciting!! One person who reblogged this donated $100, which was so generous that my parents were scratching their heads trying to figure out who they knew with the name Adrian. Thank you so much to that very kind person who doesn't even follow me 😭🤍🩷)

The other day, I asked mutuals to donate, and 5 people sent $5-$25, bringing the gfm up ~$80. My mom called my dad to let him know, "all those donations came from her freaks on tumblr!!" He thanked me over and over and was amazed when I told him this post was shared 500 times. He said, that's so many people! It really brightened his day so much.

I would appreciate it if you could take the time to open his page, even if you can only donate $1. For you, it may be just a small dent in our goal that won't make a difference. But to him, it shows that there's one more human out there who sees him, who's thinking about him, who knows his name, knows what he's going through, and wishes for him to recover. Even a dollar means the world to us!!!

Please, think about saving this post and donating $1, $5, or $10 this week. Share it online, with people you know irl, with anyone who could help. If you can't spare anything now, I'd appreciate if you could take the time to just pray for him and his recovery. You can send an ask to let me know if you'd like, as prayers are something that comfort my dad a great deal.

Thank you everyone who's supported us so far, I love you all dearly and I'm so incredibly grateful for your help.

$2,146/$12,000

[kuruk]

Yesterday was really hard for my dad, he's had a fever and it's really scary right now. Last night texted me about how no one donated yesterday, joking "they think I'm dead". I know he's really sad over everything right now, and I feel awful for not being online yesterday to help his campaign.

I would really appreciate if people could try to send even $5 today. Even one donation makes a big difference. The other day, he got 8 donations in a day, and he immediately texted me, "looks like you're blogging today, I just got a bunch of donations!" Every single donation is a huge deal, and shows that he is supported. I would be so thankful if you guys would consider helping him today especially, to give him some hope for the future. Thank you so much to all of you :(

[i2-xmf]

“We wish we were fish” (2004)

[wocina]

[los-copa]

her name was Juniper Blessing, she was 19 and she was just doing her laundry

[wispthicket]

From one of her friends on a Reddit post.

[pjackk]

Im in trouble again for schlicking off on the clock which is total bull shit because its the only way i can find relief from my extreamly stressful as fuck job at donut tasting facility i think im gonna quit so i dont do nothing really bad to me its not worth the 6 figures when im stuck high key being under so much pressure for 2 hours striaght every single fcking tuesday and wensday it feels like i csnt be myself there because im to busy chewing eclares and shit

[soupy-sez]

Juice (1992)

[junglejim4322]

Why did 4 months of this year go by in like a week

[junglejim4322]

Where am I

[edwincarrasco]

[capacity2]

Is it really that serious

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

Bolwoningen, Netherlands, 1968

[expressions-of-nature]

by Donna McL

[femme-4-butches]

Femme Rooms.

Ulla's Room, 1998. Asia's Room, 1996. Miss Deena, 1999.

All photographs © Chloe Sherman.

[anglaised]

not getting rlly into it bc im chilling but it rlly is crazy to think about history bc the way the entire globe loves and normalizes antiblackness you would think somewhere in african history there was some collective mass crime against humanity carried out solely by black ppl but there just wasnt, u would think there was some massive genocide, some previous mass enslavement of other races, conquering of entire lands done just by black bodies but there was not, the equivalence of what we deal with today is so disproportionate to the actual history my people have endured and its like genuinely confusing, there was not big event or catalyst that made black ppl specifically a worthy enemy to the globe, but u look at how we r treated in all histories across humanity and it would not reflect that with the amount of violence and depravity put onto us, ik ik afropessimism wins again but it’s seriously like wow. what did we do to make em that damn mad

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Foxy: my collection of vintage fox imagery.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

can't look at artist merch without thinking of its supply chain

[spider-xan]

I mean this in a gentle and constructive way, but every time this topic comes up, the notes will be full of people who agree that there are exploitation issues in the supply chain due to unequal economic power between the imperial core and (semi-)periphery, and between the petite bourgeois small business owner artists and proletariat workers who manufacture their merch, but then talk about how people should make their own merch by hand as an ethical alternative, as if that doesn't have supply chain issues too - the problem is that capitalism is a system under which there is no ethical consumption, and while it is noble to try your best to at least be less unethical and you should do that if you must make merch, we should not be getting smug about individual solutions as if that makes you one of the good Etsy merch artists not engaging in exploitation; there is also a chauvinist tendency to act like handmade merch by artists is truly handmade and therefore elevated, while the labour behind mass-produced merch in the Global South, which is also handmade, gets dismissed or made invisible even by people who claim to support them, not just the artists exploiting them and taking credit for their work.

'Just buy some fabric and sew your own plushies!' - Who made the fabric? Who grew the cotton? Where did the oil for the polyester stuffing come from? Who manufactured the sewing machine? What did the workers at all levels get paid? Especially for you to be able to buy the materials and make a profit on what you sell?

'Just re-purpose old t-shirts!' - Who made the t-shirts? Who grew the cotton? Where did the dyes come from? How did so many t-shirts end up where you are? Would you even have a supply of t-shirts to re-purpose if it were not for exploitative supply chains and overproduction?

'Just make your own charms out of shrinky dinks!' - Where did the oil for the plastic come from? Who manufactured the shrinks dinks? What materials are in the packaging? What is the supply chain for the heat source you are using? If you are against acrylic charms bc they are plastic and will end up not decomposing in a landfill and releasing microplastics into the water, how is manufacturing plastic merch yourself by hand supposed to be any better for the environment?

'Just source your materials locally!' - Do the business owners you are buying from pay their workers a living wage? How are their workers treated? Do they import any of their supplies from the Global South to sustain their business? If they do, are their suppliers being paid fairly? Is the business built on land and natural resources stolen from Indigenous peoples?

[spider-xan]

There are now people in the notes agreeing with my addition, but doing obnoxious, 'And yet you participate in society - how curious' nonsense about how if you participate in capitalism at all, then you have no right to criticize the poor maligned petit bourgeois small business owner indie artists ever, or how it's so mean that only little artists get criticized when corporations don't when they have the same supply chain issues, or think I am saying you are a bad person unless you grow your own grass to braid - my addition was not to defend these artists or say you can't criticize them bc everyone is bad too, but to address the problem of offering individual solutions to a systemic problem like capitalism, which requires internationalism and solidarity with the global proletariat; some of you who claim to be 'anti-capitalist' need to learn concepts like petit bourgeois and labour aristocracy, and stop defending small business owners in the Global North who have the capital to outsource production to the Global South and profit off surplus value as some kind of impoverished proletariat workers who are just try to get by just bc they are not corporations.

[spider-xan]

Can some people in the notes actually take the time to read these two articles before misinterpreting my addition and arguing that small business owners are just poor wage labourers trying to get by and that's why people like OP are mean and only corporations can be criticized, especially the first article:

Petite bourgeoisie - Wikipedia

[fritolaycorporation]

What is “Pig 3?”

3rd pig

[wayneradiotv]

Dude I can't have SHIT in this life not even a toy