Naamloos

Please help circulate <3

Image description:

A soft, scrapbook-style graphic on a light gray fabric-textured background. At the top left is a black-and-white photo of a white nonbinary person lying down and cuddling a cat. The person wears round glasses and looks gently toward the camera, while the cat rests against their arm. The photo is framed with a blue patterned border, with a small crocheted yellow bow at the top right corner.

To the bottom right of the photo is a cream-colored postcard with a red dotted border that reads: “send some birthday love to a bedbound community member with severe M.E. <3”.

Anna has severe ME/CFS, as well as other chronic conditions. She is bedbound and has to stay in a darkened room. The people she's living with neglect her, sometimes fail to feed her, severely limit her access to the outside world, and expose her to infections that have worsened her condition. She has tried and failed to get support from the Australian healthcare, disability, and domestic violence systems; she's not really in a position to effectively advocate for herself.

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3