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Hi, everyone. This is Marta, as you all know, and it's honestly as weird as ever coming here to post this.

I've been gone for quite a while, mostly because I've been trying to juggle a lot of things, between work, family problems and trying to find a house to move in with my boyfriend. It's been some difficult times and things haven't been doing amazing. I've learned to deal with that.

I'm currently living with my parents, and they currently have a bank debt around 1500€ (they used this credit to buy groceries during Covid when my mother stopped working). It's not that big of a debt, but they are having a lot of trouble paying it off. I'm trying to help, but my job is honestly barely enough at the moment for my own things, and I had a lot of trouble with my car recently.

I see the desperation in their eyes, and honestly I just want to take this stupid burden of their backs.

That being said, I wanted to request your guys' help. I don't have much to offer in return, but I'd love to maybe write you some personalized fics, small things because I don't have much time, but maybe like little drabbles around 400/500 words.

You can help me out through my Ko-fi page.

–Any wild animal in a house/being treated like a pet. Yes, even if they say they “rescued” it. No legitimate rehabber would EVER treat a wild animal like a pet. Repeat after me: it does not matter if the animal is not suitable for release; they still shouldn’t be kept as a pet.

–Free contact with big cats. Even if it’s a “sanctuary”.

–People interacting with wildlife. Feeding, petting, playing with, etc.

–Free handling venomous snakes.

–Predator and prey interacting. Cats and birds, dogs and birds, literally anything else with birds. Cats or dogs with rodents, etc.

–Any video that claims a wild animal is domesticated. Wild animals are NOT domesticated, but they can be tamed. These are two very different things and anyone who doesn’t understand the difference shouldn’t be owning one of those animals.

–Any video claiming that (insert wild/exotic species here) is “just like owning a dog/cat!” i.e. the video that went around saying foxes are “the best characteristics of cats and dogs”.

–Facilities that breed hybrids or morphs (i.e. ligers, white tigers, coywolves, etc)

–Any video by the Dodo

–Obese animals being portrayed as “cute and chonky”.

–Click bait titles about dangerous/exotic animals i.e. “bitten by my king cobra!”, “my pet fox did what?!?”, “letting my pet alligator pick out a toy!”. You get the idea. Anyone using wild animals to get views/publicity does not have their best interests at heart.

–Any “dog trainers” promoting dominance theory (this shit has been disproven so many times and is not even accurate for wolves…)

–Owl cafes, otter cafes, or any kind of wild animal cafe.

Okay, I think i have it now and i appreciate it.

I’ve just made a bet against my Dad that if this post gets 2 million notes then i can get a Puppy. [like the one underneath]

I didn’t realise how much 2 million was and i couldn’t take that number down now. It should look like 2,000,000 in the notes bar.

He’s convinced that this will never reach that number, and very confident about it so Let’s prove him wrong!! He thinks this will get about 25 notes beofre it’s left in the dust.

You don’t have to do it for me. But for the point and to prove him wrong. He has to pay and everything so let’s make him suffer with it!!

I’m counting on you!!!

Sunshine by Robin McKinley - practical baker is captured by vampires, escapes, reluctantly teams up with better vampire to kill the bad one.

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones - young hat maker ages 60 years overnight, proceeds to upend the life of a disaster wizard while learning self-confidence.

the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett - hard to encapsulate, but equally funny and hard-hitting, tackling race and gender and corruption and other forms of inequality while also, like, making fun of post offices and Hollywood and Shakespeare. Three or four tackle war, true, but there’s something like 35 others to choose from.

the Accidental Turn series by J.M. Frey - recent Ph.D of colour lands in the Fantasyland™ she did her thesis on, goes off about agency and diversity while recovering from the Dark Lord’s attentions and learning the truth about her fictional crush.

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire - evil alchemist creates superpowered children to assist world takeover; children just want to be a family; family is complicated.

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik - young woman takes over family business, must outwit fairies with a love of gold.

the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede - princess runs away to become a dragon’s housekeeper, fights off rescuers, solves problems large and small, melts wizards.

the October Daye novels by Seanan Mcguire - Half-fae detective solves murders, finds missing persons, develops found family, can’t stop self from upending the social order.

The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker - A quiet golem, a tempestuous djinn, Gilded Age New York. Immigrants, identity, friendship, hope, and self-discovery.

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard - A witch from an outsider House enters New York’s magical Hunger Games, to prove a point. The problems of magic were not intended.

Zoo City by Lauren Beukes - Part-time con artist gets hired to find two missing pop stars, with the help of the magical sloth on her back. Noir ensues.

Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica - Nature photographer lands on water-world, discovers lost family, tries to convince self magic is impossible.

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips - Greek gods, washed up in North London, curse Apollo to fall for the cleaner. Existential crisis, meet rom-com.

Every Heart a Doorway (and sequels) by Seanan McGuire - the children of portal fantasy end up in boarding school coping with being kicked out of their various worlds, then some of them start getting murdered. 

The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan - the world is flooded, there’s a lady who works with a bear at a circus that sails to different places to perform, and a lady who is sort of an undertaker, and they fall in love

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees - there are fairies but no one talks about them anymore because That’s Just Not How We Are except this state of affairs cannot possibly last and people start getting lured to fairyland

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison - fifth son of emperor who’s lived his whole life away from court abruptly becomes emperor when his father and older brothers are killed in an accident, spends entire book trying to make friends and figure how the fuck to do a) confidence and b) ruling ethically

The Various by Steven Augarde - girl spends summer at uncle’s farm, finds the group of “various” (no direct parallel, but think somewhere between gnomes and pixies) that live in the woods, mysterious history, flying horse, The Cat Is Evil (this is technically middle grade but it’s so good I can’t even)

Welcome to Build-a-Frog!

Little Eva - Loco-Motion

Martha & The Vandellas - Dancing in the Streets

James Ray - I've Got My Mind Set On You

Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog

Robert Knight - Everlasting Love

Erma Franklin - Piece of My Heart

The Family - Nothing Compares 2 U (written by Prince)

The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love

The Supremes - Keep Me Hanging On

Lord Creator - Kingston Town

The Paragons - Tide is High

Commodores - Easy

And here's an entire playlist with songs by black artists covered by The Rolling Stones:

Discord’s CEO is on twitter hinting about their apparent future involvement with NFTs/crypto.

In case you aren’t already aware, cryptocurrency is digital currency that sucks because it consumes an absurd amount of energy and computer parts, and NFTs are a way of creating false scarcity for digital items, which are bought and sold with crypto currency, and also suck. Here is an article about why that shit sucks. The article has additional information. Here is a twitter account that also documents NFT thefts & scams (NFTs are often stolen art sold without permission).

HERE IS WHAT YOU SHOULD DO ASAP:

1. CANCEL NITRO. Don’t wait around for them to reverse course or apologize. Cancel it now, choose “other” when it asks why you’re canceling and write in your answer. They need to see the financial backlash right now. You can always re-sub if they backpedal, but right now they need the impetus to do the backpedaling.

2. GO HERE to their feedback forum. make a thread and tell them you cancelled nitro and don’t want them involved with crypto garbage. contribute to other threads if you see one that piques your interest. EXTRA CREDIT: downvote this thread, boo them, downvote the crypto dingdongs in the comments.

3. If you have twitter, tweet at them. tweet at @discord and reply to Jason’s tweet with whatever dunking and booing you feel like.

4. PASS IT AROUND. Tell your friends with nitro. Tell your favorite group chats and servers. Encourage them to do the same.

Post by cielesne on instagram, summarizing what is happening in Poland right now (06.11.2021)

You can donate to Aborcyjny Dream Team here:

https://zrzutka.pl/55g5gx (site in Polish)

https://zrzutka.pl/en/55g5gx (site in English)

Here’s the text from slides (all 10 pics are slides from instagram, with light background and black text on them): 1. What's happening in Poland and why it's worse than you think 2. Access to abortion It has been one year since Poland's Constitutional Tribunal ruled that pregnancies can be terminated only in cases of rape or incest, or if the life of the woman is endangered. The ruling excludes fetal defects – which account for the vest majority of terminations in the country. The death of the 30-year-old Izabela, who died of septic shock after doctors waited for her unborn baby’s heart to stop beating, is the first publicly known person to die as a direct result of the ruling. Protests are being held al around Poland and abroad (source: Politico, Reuters) 3. Migration and asylum The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Poland had unlawfully refused entry to asylum seekers at the Poland-Belarus border. In March 2020, Poland closed it’s border with Belarus, effectively making it impossible for people to access Polish territory to seek asylum. Since then many people, including children, have camped out on a stretch od land located between the Polish and Belarusian border control. They cannot return to Belarus nor can they enter Poland. As of Nov. 2, an Iraqi man is the tenth refugee to have died on the Belarus-Polish boarder since the summer (source: Human Rights Watch, Info Migrants, Gazeta Wyborcza) 4. Sexual orientation and gender identity The government ramped up its attacks on women’s and LGBT rights, part of the government’s increasing hostile rhetoric against what it refers to as “gender ideology”. During his election campaign, President Duda frequently made homophobic statements. He stated that LGBT rights were an “ideology” more dangerous than communism and signed a “Family Charter” pledging to “defend children from LGBT ideology”. Authorities in one-third of Poland’s cities have identified their localities as “LGBT Ideology Free Zones” (source: Human Rights Watch) 5. Freedom of media, pluralism The populist, governing “Law and Justice” party effectively took over TVP (public TV broadcaster) and public radio shortly after winning the 2015 parliamentary and presidential elections. Polish government and ruling party continue to use “public” media as a tool for spreading their own propaganda, anti-LGBT agenda, and using it as a tool to win elections. Over the last year the government strengthened control over the press and continued its smear attacks on media outlets and journalists critical of the government and ruling party (source: Human Rights Watch). 6. Women’s and children’s rights In July, the Minister of Justice declared that Poland would withdraw from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, claiming the Convention is “harmful”, as it requires educators to teach children about gender. Earlier in the year, service providers reported that calls from domestic violence victims increased dramatically during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown but that the government did not take measures to support prevention or ensure availability of services and appropriate police response (source: Human Rights Watch). 7. Sex education Sex education in Polish schools is almost nonexistent. Equivalent classes are often led by catechist or biology teachers. Lessons and topics are often outdated and extremely conservative. A controversial bill, “Stop Pedophilia”, which would criminalize activities, educators and organizations providing sexuality education to children or information on sexual and reproductive health and rights was debated in parliament in April 2020 and subsequently sent to a committee for “further work”. The legislation aims to send sex educators to prison for up to five years (source: Human Rights Watch). 8. Independence of the judiciary The Polish constitutional crisis began in 2015, just after Poland’s governing party PiS won the elections. They cancelled the earlier appointment of five Constitutional Tribunal judges and packed

the Tribunal with new judges (affiliated with a ruling party). In 2017 there was a political takeover of the National Council of the Judiciary, a constitutional body responsible for protecting the independence judges. The government continues its attacks on members of the judiciary. Judges and prosecutors are subject to arbitrary disciplinary proceedings for standing up for the rule of law and speaking up against problematic judicial reforms – an interference with their judicial independence (source: Human Rights Watch, Marcin Matczak, The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Foreign Policy, dw.com, NPR). 9. Birth control Poland has been ranked the lowest European country in terms of access to contraception and other family planning resources in a report by the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF). Only two types of birth control pills are funded by public health care system. Doctors can even refuse to prescribe one if it goes “against” their personal beliefs (source: Tygodnik Polityka, The European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights). 10. How can you help - collect signatures for legalna.aborcja (legal abortion) project. Everyone can collect signatures, but only people with Polish citizenship can sign it.

- PROTEST! There will be protests happening all around Poland and abroad on Saturday, Nov 6 and Sunday, Nov 7 – check out what’s happening near you

- support these organizations and initiatives: Aborcyjny Dream Team, Aborcja Bez Granic, Women Help Women, Human Rights Watch

Calm Harm can be tailored to your needs and will provide strategies to help you get past those crucial moments of wanting to harm.

It’s also totally FREE.

It has a safety net feature where you can put in your contacts and call them from inside the app

It also tells you about the different kinds of anxiety so you’re not confused on what kind of anxiety you have

‼️‼️PLEASE HELP ME FIND MY LITTLE BROTHER!! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY‼️‼️

He’s a missing native child and at EXTREME RISK! The cops aren’t doing SHIT!

She’s a psychologist that mainly focuses on the intersection of racism, trauma, violence and American chattle slavery. 

Here is a link to a presentation she did titled “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” culminating a lot of her research. I highly recommend watching it if you have time, it’s very informative on how slave culture still effects modern society. She also has published a book by the same name along with other works.

They’ve also recently had a guest spot on the podcast FANTI from the Maximum Fun Network, which I would also recommend giving a listen to.

My step mom made a page here and if you can at the very least spread it and or donate I’d owe you my life. My father aint a saint but he didn’t deserve to go through this alone at his age especially right now in the midst of all this outward unapologetic hatred for black men. Please spread.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/money-for-lawyer-in-texas?utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&utm_medium=sms&utm_source=customer