but never this gay earth

After reading these words today, I keep asking myself: what am I supposed to do now?

Please support my autistic sister during benefit sanctions!!

Wednesday, July 1st: Hello everyone, I’m Gem, and I’m setting up a crowdfunding campaign for my sister Cheryl. Her Universal Credit has been sanctioned for 91 days, and she urgently needs support to get through the rest of this month and through to the end of July!!

As stated in my previous post, my sister, who is in her 30s and autistic, recently caught the flu. While she was unwell, her unemployment advisor requested that she submit her CV for a job application. Unfortunately, due to her illness, this important task slipped her mind, and she ended up applying a few days later than expected. As a result, she has been sanctioned for 91 days, until July 15th, leaving her with a total welfare payment of £0 until the end of July.

This has left her devastated, and with no money to cover her bills or purchase groceries/pet supplies. She received £150 on the 30th from the SWF, which helped pay some of her bills; however, she still has utilities to pay and groceries to buy, and she desperately needs help to do so. She is STILL awaiting word back from an appeal regarding the sanction.

I know this is a lot to ask, but if anyone could spare any amount to help my sister and me get by, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would mean a great deal, and sharing helps just as much. 

Thank you ❤️

£0/£200!!

Here's the problem with that, cheap and well-constructed are mutually exclusive. They simply are. As long as you have an economy where people are paid for work, even with a robust safety net or even universal income, all costs eventually boil down to labor.

Yes, there's raw materials and such, but those are then converted into usable materials using, can anyone give me the answer? That's right, labor.

Simply put, money is a physical representation of labor. This isn't a controversial stance, this is extremely basic baby's first Marxism. Like, you say you go here, but you don't seem to understand this.

The reason things like LCD panels and disposable LED lights and hard disks are so cheap is because their production has been opitmized to produce the most of a specific item in the least amount of time. An electron tube for a radio takes a skilled technician an hour or so to make and costs you $30. Transistors can be made by the thousands on a fully automated production line in the same time and cost you less than a buck each.

If you want a laptop computer that you can service, repair, and upgrade, you have to engineer it to be serviceable, repairable, and upgradeable. That means someone has to be paid to do that. You have to use more materials in order to make it large enough that you can access the servicable parts, which means you have to pay for more materials. You have to provide quality control for all the various extra connections that make servicability possible, someone has to be paid for that. You have to be willing to reject products that make it to final assembly and do not check out for quality control, which is incredibly expensive.

So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.

someday, we'll get to exist a little closer to how we wish.

My children are eating the same simple meal every day. 😔🍝

For more than two months, we have not been able to afford vegetables, fruit, or meat. Not because we don't want to provide them — but because we simply cannot.

War has taken everything from us. 💔

Every day is a struggle to find enough food to keep our children from going hungry. As a father, nothing hurts more than watching your children grow up deprived of the basics they need.

Please don't look away. 🥺

My children need your help now more than ever. Your support, no matter how small, can bring food back to our table and hope back to our hearts.

Please stand with us before it is too late. 🙏❤️

Donate if you can, Reblog/RT to save a life

Mohammed Matar

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Precious Arzuaga is expected to be sentenced Sept. 4 to life in prison without parole after admitting to charges including first-degree murder, kidnapping, aggravated sexual abuse, concealment of a human corpse, conspiracy, coercion and endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the death of Nordquist, a 24-year-old from Oakdale, Minnesota. [...] Arzuaga is one of seven people charged in the case. She admitted to being the one to conceal Nordquist's body after his killing, prosecutors said. [...] Kayla [Sam's sister] said she does not believe all the details of Sam’s abuse were revealed in court. "I feel like I was slapped in the face because I deserve the truth, my mom deserves the truth, the community deserves the truth, and I don't feel like we got all of what happened to Sam today," she said.

Please share, and if you are able please consider donating to help the family with legal fees and living & travel expenses.

I’m a Black trans man living in the conservative suburbs of Texas without a car or public transportation. I am in need of monetary help with transportation and groceries for the rest of the month as I put my efforts toward securing housing for myself and my cat out of state.

I’m asking $200 toward transportation (I use rideshare services) and $100 toward groceries. $300 total; everything helps tremendously. Thank you!

transmedicalist statements:

being trans is a medical disorder

being trans needs to be diagnosed by a doctor or psychiatrist

not everyone who disagrees with their assignment is really trans, and the fakers make the true transsexuals look bad

you can "fully" transition and then you're not trans anymore. trans only refers to the medical transitioning process. if you find out you are not trans, you can detransition back. the goal is to not be trans, and transition is a middle stage to get through as quickly and privately as possible.

"male" and "female" are real, biological realities and anyone who says they are not one or the other is lying or delusional

not transmedicalist statements:

a lot of trans people need and/or desire access to surgical and/or hormonal healthcare options which are currently restricted on the basis of sex assignment at birth

when healthcare access is denied due to a patient's diagnosis of "gender dysphoria," that denial is specifically targeting trans people for being trans (even though not all trans people have that diagnosis)

sometimes trans people assume they do not want transition care because they have internalized transphobic propaganda about what it is, how it works, and how accessible it is for them. giving them information about it can help them make a more educated choice about what they want.

I periodically think my milk is filled with slugs and larvae, even though I know rationally, that's not the case. Most days, I can work through that by reminding myself that I live with other people who also drink the milk, and if there were bugs in it, someone else would have noticed, so it's more logical that I'm just hallucinating.

However, the worse psychosis gets, the ability to logic like that can become more difficult. I might start thinking things like "they're only pretending to drink the milk to trick me" or something. They're not, and the milk is fine, but... the brain fills in the gaps of the logic with whatever it can to preserve the delusion.

Delusions often sound completely ridiculous on the outside, but when you're in the delusional state, it feels completely rational, often in ways you can't fully explain.

I hope you'll help me get to safety, but I don't deserve a little donation that we feel tucked in like you guys guys' feelings Please donate and don't ignore me. Now I want to live even for a restful day

hi everyone, sorry to do this again every month but the situations keep piling up and my health situation keeps getting worse and worse every day.

my name's vi and i'm a disabled trans woman from south america, i have extensive nerve damage and my health is declining to the point that every day i see my teeth fall out of my mouth, i live with an also disabled mother who is undergoing treatment for cancer and her needs are barely being met.

if you've looked at the news as of late you probably have at least an idea of how things are in the region, but particularly where i live, the average wage can't even hope to cover the medication and healthcare needed for an elderly cancer patient and a disabled chronically ill woman, it can't even reach enough for groceries or transportation.

i know we're all struggling but if you see this please help out, every little bit helps, you could be the difference between keeping us afloat or not, even just by reblogging.

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