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my disability benefit changes recently failed to inform me that they were no longer paying my water bill via benefit deductions. i was only notified recently, and by that point, my water bill had already run on and had also just sent me a letter requesting i pay it.

due to all of the benefit changes in the uk atm, i am also struggling for electricity and food, which my friends barely are able to help me with. then the uk introduced new anti trans billing, and im pretty much at my wits end <3

so hi, hello, please help me make my goal of at least £417 so i can avoid further fines and debt ;_; (ignore my deadname thank u)

i now cannot afford to eat for the next week.

Appointment in Samarra

A merchant of Baghdad was sipping tea in his garden when his servant ran up to him, breathless and trembling. “Master,” he cried. “I have just seen Death in your garden. She pointed at me with such a ghastly stare that I knew she had come for me.” “So you have seen Death,” the merchant replied, “as each man must. I understand your alarm.” “I must leave Baghdad and go far away from Death. I have a brother in Samarra. I will go there tonight, Master, and escape my fate.” “Then take my swiftest horse, and go with my blessing.” As the hoofbeats of the fleeing servant faded in his ears, the merchant, curious, walked through his gardens to confront Death. “My servant has done no harm. Why do you disturb him with your ghastly stare?” Death smiled. “I did not mean to. I was merely surprised to see him in Baghdad when I have an appointment with him this evening, at his brother’s house in Samarra.”