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Jewish middle eastern woman

Due to a hit-and-run accident I am disabled- my spine broke, and I often experience paralyzing pain and a difficulty standing up, walking or sometime even sitting down. I can’t afford health care right now

As of December 2019 I am homeless & sofa surfing

I am a cult victim. A few months ago I went through the journey of finally understanding that the group I was in is a dangerous cult. I was manipulated and abused slowly by the “guru”. Including into getting engaged AND canceling my wedding, breaking off my engagement, volunteering for hours on end while being poor and needing help myself, quitting my job, losing hours of sleep to the organization and more. I was under the abuse of the cult of over a year. Getting out is an excruciating emotional process and I’m dealing with the ramifications of it to this day. I can’t afford therapy right now

I support my mother financially who’s mentally ill, 80% blind, 50% deaf, with severe back problems. She is still a very active member of the cult. I was the sole provider for my family and I worked a physical job that damaged my health extensively. There were long periods of time where we barely had food

My parents are going through un ugly divorce, and the responsibility of my brothers (12, 20) well being is mine

My brother got into a car accident when he was 17 (3 years ago) and was hospitalized for a year. Despite his disability he managed to get in jail- we bailed him out

Decided to break the cycle and pursue studying so after a lot of contemplations I loaned money and started night classes of interior design

There are more good news. I am getting married (beezrat hashem itbarach!) September. Nothing fancy obviously, but every donation will help me out with having a nice wedding regardless

When I was working I felt it was my moral duty to donate to every donation post I’ve seen, even a little. That might have been a miscalculation at the time, and I’m working at being more balanced. My point is, donate only if you can. Id really appreciate every reblog ✡️🧿

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I think you might have misinterpreted the comic. the joke was how she, an ace person, could forget something as obvious and familiar to other people as sexual attraction! I thought her reaction was so funny I suggested making a daily comic about it.

Lyd is my girlfriend! We’re in love! Passionate lesbian love. For four years now! Since that comic we moved in together and we’ve started building savings for our life together! We talk online (Twitter, we don’t really use tumblr) about struggles we face, homophobia, lesbian history and representation, and the intersection of being gay with being ace, not ace, gender conforming, and gender non-conforming. That comic you’re saying is homophobic might look like it to someone without the context of our life, and maybe it did cause a sapphic woman to feel alienated due to her sexual attraction. I understand that because I’ve felt that way many times from the words of both lgbt and non-lgbt people alike. But it was an accident, and while that can’t take away the damage, I promise that Lyd’s comics showing our happy life together, our posts online, even our youtube channel all do infinitely more good for fellow sapphic women and other lgbt people than this comic did bad. Lyd apologized for the misunderstandings and lack of clarity.

Please stop holding other lgbt people to an impossibly high standard. We have so many enemies in this world, the last thing we need is to be attacking each other for the smallest infractions.

- Meg, a lesbian

- children and teens who cant get home until a later time have a safe, warm, well lit, populated area to socialize, charge devices, rest, etc

- children and teens have a safe place to go to stay away from danger

if you want this, you need to be at your local community government meetings. you need to be talking to your representatives.  you need to be out there Lobbying.

Just a few weeks ago, my library, me, my coworkers, we had to write letters, send emails, make phone calls, speak at council meetings, just to beg our aldermen to give us our usual funding. Which they didn’t even give to us last year.  Losing last year’s funding forced us to cut staff, hours, and all of our databases.  If we’d lost this year’s funding? two positions would have been gone and we would have likely had to close on Saturdays.  On Saturdays.  The day of the week most of y’all working M-F jobs actually have time to go to the fucking library.

And do you want to know how much money we were asking? We were asking for an increase of approximately 13 cents a person.

13.

Fucking.

Cents.

ACROSS AN ENTIRE YEAR.

No one seems to understand how libraries are funded.  It’s not just Free Stuff.  It’s your tax dollars being paid back into your community.  It’s crowdfunding.  The highest cost anyone in my community pays for the library a year is approximately $250.  Divide that up.  That’s just $4 a week.  That’s less than a coffee.  It’s the equivalent of purchasing about 10 hardcover books a year.  For that price, you could have access to every book that has ever been written, a place to go that’s not a bar, programs for kids, teens, and adults, educated staff that can help you find the answers to your questions, and so much more.

You want these late-night libraries?  You want all this stuff?  Start fighting for it.  Start showing up.  Start making phone calls.  It’s not going to come out of thin air.  Start fighting to erase the idea that taxes = evil.  Start fighting to spread the understanding that taxes are what help us build a better society.

Make sure the people who represent you know that you want this.  That this is where you want your tax dollars to go.  That this is what you want them to support.  That you are willing to see your tax bill go up a few more dollars for this.

Because otherwise?  None of this is going to happen.  Libraries are going to keep cutting their opening hours.  Keep cutting staff.  Keep cutting programs and databases and collections.

Carrots are a vegetable. Claire Baccardi 

Carrots are a vegetable. A complete sentence. A statement. A fact. That carrots are a vegetable changes nothing for the broccoli, or the lettuce. The broccoli is not less of a vegetable because the carrot is one also. The lettuce’s vegetable-ness is not diminished by the carrot being a vegetable, too.

As you read the proclamation of carrots as vegetables, you probably didn’t feel an urge to qualify the statement. You probably didn’t feel that other vegetables were threatened, or needed to be defended. You probably didn’t think that anything else needed to be added to the sentence in order to make it a complete thought.

Black Lives Matter.

Black Lives Matter. A complete sentence. A statement. A fact. That a Black life matters changes nothing for the life of the white women, or a police officer. The life of someone else does not matter less because a Black life matters also. Your own life’s value is not diminished by a Black life having value, too.

As you read the proclamation that Black Lives Matter, did you feel an urge to qualify? Did you feel threatened, or like you needed to defend something? Did you think something else needed to be added to the sentence to make it a complete thought?

If you did, take a moment and wonder — why is that? Why is it easier to accept a statement about a vegetable than a statement about a human being?

Benson: Just rip the bandaid off, Dave.

Dave: It's Jamack.

Benson:

👁👄👁

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52045958

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/us/politics/coronavirus-fbi-shooting.html

https://time.com/5810734/fbi-terrorist-bomb-coronavirus-hospital/

Wolf: Oh? And how is that possible?

Dave: Trees can’t jump.

Wolf:

Dave:

Fisheye Placebo by Yuumei

Reika Saiki is a bodybuilding model and professional wrestler as well.

A friend of mine posted this and tagged my old instagram account, asking me to share it. I figured sharing it here where I actually have a following, would be far better.

Please remember that just because the government is giving into pressure and greed, that doesn’t mean that any of this is getting any better, in a lot of ways it’s getting worse. And even if you yourself aren’t being as heavily affected anymore, there are people and communities that are.

Huh? What’s this? I don’t remember ordering something that big.

Oh, it’s a sofa? I already have one, though…

Huh??? It’s empty?? Then why was it so heavy…

Oh hang on what’s this?

Oh crap!!!!

Who knows about Sally Hemings?

She was Thomas Jefferson's slave.

Called his "mistress," but how can you be a mistress when you were a slave, a child, and could not consent? Had absolutely no choice?

She bore him 6, perhaps as many as 8 children. He kept her locked in a basement room.

The room was recently unearthed, and DNA evidence has proven the lineage of Sally's children.

She was beteeen 12 and 14 years old when he started raping her, and Jefferson was in his forties. He freed the children that he had with her, but not Sally. Her daughter had to free her mother after Jefferson passed away.

This is not taught in schools. This side of history. We are supposed to consider the founding fathers as great men, fighting for justice and freedom, guided by God... when they are evil men. Selfish men who did nothing, save that it was for their own aggrandisement, personal benefit, and financial gain.

I would also like to add that Sally was Jefferson's dead wife's half sister. Sally's mother was raped by her owner, who was Martha (wife of Thomas) Jefferson's father.

These people left a legacy.