Rebumping this because it is now a critical emergency situation.
Landlady is going on vacation after tomorrow & she is insisting on collecting the rent before she leaves. $400 needed RIGHT NOW for that + $300 RN for other bills and purchasing food. ALL donations and boosts are welcome and appreciated.
Anyone who believes that the actions of Trumpster-MusKKK can be blissfully reduced to mere "class war" rather than the genesis of a global White Supremacist/Christian Right Nationalist/Social Darwinist movement needs to read this series of excellent and long prescient essays by @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes detailing the distinct and disturbing parallels between the current actions here and now and the rise of the Third Reich in Germany.
Only thing is that I won't be able to use it until Sunday night/Monday, due to Ko-fi's 2-day processing before it can be released to my card. But, I can use it for rent, if my landlord will give me some grace!!
$635 to go, and I still need it ASAP if not NOW. Can anyone match that??
(recommended because of instant withdrawals/processing)
I NOW HAVE ONLY TWO MORE DAYS TO PAY THIS $400 FOR FEBRUARY UTILITY BILLS AND RENT. HATE TO HAVE THIS KIND OF DRAMA HAPPEN EVERY TWO WEEKS, BUT STUFF HAPPENS SOMETIMES!! IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME FINISH THIS, IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!! 🙏🙏🙏🚨🆘🚨
Good news is, I have been getting some decent donations. Thank you all.
Bad news is, my new landlord is asking me to pay $400 by Monday to cover the rent and late utility bills. So, that is what I'll need at this time to finally clear everything out for February.
There's a reason, I think, so many prominent TERFs and transphobes are academic philosophers. It's a discipline with few guardrails and even fewer expectations outside of being wildly opinionated, publishing regularly, and talking people to death about stuff we all agreed we were done with already.
when the bsky exodus happens, please remember these things: - dont be the fucking mastodon hoa. everyone hates those people. nobody cares if you think someone should be using a platform "your way". it drives people away. fucking stop it.
- dont shame them for going to bsky. do not mock them, do not give them grief. they made a mistake, and if they come back here, dont shit on them for it.
- make them feel better by coming here, not worse.
Since tomorrow is supposed to be a "no shopping or consuming" day in protest to Emperor PalpaMusKKK and Darth Trumpster, and is also the final day of #BlackHistoryMonth, how about we take the bucks that would have been spent on that day and donate it to needy Black #MutualAid crowdfunders?
We also have hashtags, which are integral to Mastodon!
Using hashtags in your posts not only helps folks finds you and your posts, but they also help others filter out topics they want to avoid.
So, do use hashtags in your unlisted/quietpublic posts. So, your followers who love your art, but don't want to see food? Use a hashtag like 'food' so that they can see all of your posts except for your food posts.
But in the end, the whole point is to be thoughtful of others, and making it easier for others to sort through their timelines and help them decide what they want to read now and maybe read later, or just filter out.
We are all living through...ummm...a lot. Right now.
We all need to conserve energy and carefully choose how we spend it.
When we use CW's, we help others to manage what they read/see. We help them maintain energy for when they might need it. To maintain hope and resistance.
Seriously, if Mastodon would just rename 'CW' to 'Subject' or 'Subject/CW', it would alleviate so many hassles and conflicts while helping folks adjust to Mastodon norms.
As an Admin of a Topic Based community instance, in the years since the Twitter takeover, the biggest challenge our moderation team has faced has been to get dudes (yes, it's almost always dudes), to add CWs to certain topics.
Just calling it 'Subject' would have helped in maybe 50% of conflicts over our asking for CWs.
Not that I agree with Medicaid being looted to fund the KetamineKoup, but perhaps we can now talk about how much Medicaid (and Medicare, and the ACA/Romnbamacare) was underfunded, privatized, and woefully restricted from the very beginning, and needs to be superseded by a fully nationalized healthcare system?
Black Man. Independent Leftist. Socialist. Damn Near Communist. Pro-Porn/Decriminalization of Sex Work. Worshipper of Slut/Whore Goddesses. Bonafide "Vulgar MarXXXist". 🔞 Contains Adult Content; Some EXXXplicit Consensual Adult Sexual Expression; Viewer Discretion Advised.