A Few Ways You Can Donate To/support People In Palestine:

Living on a planet where any government is allowed to go through with military action that they know will result in the death of civilians should be gut-wrenchingly painful for all of us. Over 10,000 children have died in Palestine since October 7th, and there is not a single child in Gaza who is not suffering. CHILDREN. INFANTS. I can't stop thinking about all the innocent children we are losing and leaving to suffer every day.

Please use whatever privilege you have to do whatever you can during the Global Strike for Palestine (January 21st - 28th). Contact your representatives. Call for an immediate ceasefire. Boycott, stimulate the economy as minimally as possible, participate in pro-Palestinian protests, educate yourself, and most importantly, amplify the voices of Palestinians.

A few ways you can donate to/support people in Palestine:

eSims for Gaza

Hardcore 4 Gaza

Hirbawi Kufiya Factory

Handmade Palestine (the inspiration for this post)

HELP US ESCAPE!

Hello! It's me again. I know we keep asking for help, and I know this is a lofty goal. This goal, however, if achieved, will set us up for financial stability, for safety, for mental and emotional health, etc. This is our only hope now.

Kippers and I need to get out of KY. We are moving to Colorado. A thousand and some miles away from that which keeps us pinned down and suffocating. We are currently living in a bad situation. My sister is abusive toward us. When she is home, we are not allowed to make *any* noise. We cannot speak above a whisper. We can't use the microwave, washer, dryer, or anything that makes noise. If we do, she yells, she screams, she insults us, she threatens us, slams doors, throws things, etc.

Please. We are incredibly stifled here. The two of us are both autistic, and trans. Two things that she does not "believe in" and readily spews vitriol at us for, saying transphobic and ableist shit at us daily.

We are both artists, but this situation makes it to where we can't even express ourselves through our art; we are too pushed down, the creative spark is dead.

We have a cat, Waldo, who needs to come with us if we can afford it. He can't stay here with her. She has already hit him once. She *will* do it again, I'm sure of it.

We have tried for years to work things out. We have tried getting her to leave. We have tried -everything- . There is no other resolution but this. We need to get as far away as we can, lest she try to follow. We need to be in our own home, away from everyone here.

Please help us.

2000/2750 - first goal

We are both working, Though Kippers is on temp disability. We still can't make it out by May with that. We *need* your help to get out. We need deposits, car repair, a pack rat, moving funds, etc.

I am dedicated to keeping the totals for everything added up on Ko-fi, even if the donations come from elsewhere.

My PaƴPâl is Maldefekt@gmail.com

My Câsĥapp is $MalDefekt

My Kọ-Fi link is at the top.

Your shares, your reblogs, your donations, and your words of encouragement are what will get us through this. Please, please share. We are both willing to do commissions for anyone who donates more than 50$, just DM us with proof and we'll work it out from there. Anything will help, though!!

We have a goal of 10k

What this covers, in detail, will be under the cut:

Post Updated: 3/4/24 ; Lowered goal amt, updated info under the cut.

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This is the board lists everything that we need, with the approximate and average prices of what is needed.

• First/Last month's rent and deposits: $3,600 - We avg'd the area, and found the average rent to be around $1,200/month, with deposits equalling one month of rent.

• Other deposits: ~$830 - We are including the pet deposit of 500$ in this, plus water, sewer, trash, electric and internet deposits.

• Travel Costs: ~$1000 - We considered gas, incidentals, food, lodging for the middle of this 19hr drive, etc.

• Car Repair: $1500 $1000- My honda needs new brakes, a/c evac and recharge, transmission and coolant flushes, oil change, fuel filter, and needs the charging port fixed (for gps charging). Transmission and coolant flushes done for 200, not 250. Brakes and tires checked and are okay.

Paying off current rent: $2275 - We still owe the landlord this from when I had cancer. We knocked it down to $1500!

This is what we're trying to get help raising. We cant do this on our own in this amount of time. Please share this if you can. And thank you so much to everyone who has shared and helped thus far.

A special thank you to the following people;

@yakamashi-ao3 @gearthepunk @theramseyloft @thegrindragon @tway-la @mondhound @jayprawn @grrawesomeness @gendermuttreal @pulsarsatellite @v0idbird @iamthewanderingbard @dericbindel @sneeblbop @nonekop @thesketchystar @kibbits @basyacriptid

Thank you all so much for the shares, the boosts, the morale, the love, and everything else you've given us in the last month. We appreciate you SO much 💗.

(Link to commission post)

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dragonflyarou

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AO3 IS IN TROUBLE IF CALIFORNIAN AGE VERIFICATION LAW PASSES

An upcoming Age verification bill centered in California will be voted on Monday-- And as always,instead of actually protecting kids, it will lead to more online censorship and privacy risks, as it will force websites hosting to verify their users age by sending their ID, your browser history would be linked to it. if you live California, call your reps and tell them to oppose the bill AB3080 as it highly unconstitutional.

They also deem LGBT content harmful to minors, as well as mentions of weapons and tobacco, putting them on the same level as NSFW content.

Since AO3 headquarters reside in California, much like Reddit, Twitter,Discord and Youtube (and others) who knows how bad the effects would be. Instead of just effecting Californians (even then its concerning.) the effects would be US or even worldwide. VPNs wont help.

Please take actions here (a script is included to help you) https://www.defendonlineprivacy.com/ca/action.php

Find your rep here https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

You can also send faxes using this https://faxzero.com/

If you don't live in California, please talk about this,tag your friends and urge others to take actions, make posts and tweets using the hashtags AB3080 and NoOnAB3080

More info HERE

Edit: Lots of this information is outdated for a more recent post click here.

Voting has been delaying until Monday May 13th 2024

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dragonflyarou

1 month ago