Nox

i haven't seen many options for people outside to donate. easiest way is this fundraiser from the I Love Venezuela Foundation

you can also donate directly through zelle and binance to Organizacion Solo con Fe in barquisimeto, but !!! make sure to label it "donacion" so it can be correctly identified. everything will be used for relief in the affected zones.

lastly, Passagio is a Miami-based courier that's put a special fare of $4/lb for aid to be sent to venezuela. no profits will be made from this, that's strictly transportation costs. they're accepting: medicine, non-perishable food, hygiene products, clothing, essential supplies.

"Métodos de pago

Tu ayuda llega más lejos

Pago móvil:

04121564143

29762955

Banco de Venezuela

Concepto donacion

Zelle:

[email protected]

Marjhorie Peraza

Concepto donacion

Binance:

[email protected]

eduardoperez11

Binance ID - 348552018

Concepto donacion

Si no ponen concepto la donación sera muy complicada de ubicar, por favor agregarlo.

¡Gracias por tu solidaridad!"

The second image is a screenshot of an Instagram story from "asistenciaiem". It reads:

"AIEM Servicio de Ambulancia

Ayuda para los afectados por el terremoto

Tu apoyo puede hacer la diferencia.

Todo ayuda cuenta. Unidos podemos ayudar a las familias afectadas.

Estamos recolectando:

Alimentos no perecederos, agua potable, insumos médicos y primeros auxilios, guantes, palas y herramientes de apoyo, artículos de higiene personal

Centros de acopio

Barquisimeto, Qué Sánguche, Av. Venezuela con calle 22 sentido oeste - este

Cabudare, Todopollo's, Av. Principal de La Mata entre calles 4 y 5 diagonal a megapixel

Puedes realizar tu aporte por:

Zelle

[email protected]

Pago móvil

V- 25.857.892

Banesco

0412 8059506

¡Cualquier emergencia, llamar al número del jefe!

0412 8059506

Número de teléfono del jefe".

I used to work at a TV station in Ohio. On weekends, we only had an 11pm news broadcast. Not much happened on weekends, ya know? I worked Monday-Friday 9-5, but someone on the weekend shift quit, so I also had to come in at 9pm on Sat/Sun to work the 11pm news. It was brutal. I worked seven days a week, even if two of them were ~3hrs.

This was a particularly bad winter. One Saturday, we had a level 2 snow emergency: That means you should only travel if you absolutely must. Like, it's not uncommon for cops to pull you over in level 2 emergencies to ask where you're going and why. It is genuinely dangerous to drive in that much snow.

I told my boss as much, how I almost crashed on the way home at 12:30am after a news broadcast. I told him I would need to call off if there were a snow emergency again during a night snow.

He told me, point blank, "If you ever call me about the goddamn snow, I will take it as a call of resignation."

And that was that! The very next Saturday, snow fell again. It was a level 2, but would become level 3 by sunup. Level 3 means driving is literally illegal except for ambulances and snow plows. I stared out the window, watching the snow, and I had to make a choice.

"Will I die for this? Will I kill myself to keep this job?" I made $11/hr.

ko-fi | twitter | bluesky | art tag

hi! for those who don't know i'm miles. im a disabled hobbyist artist living in canada where we have been blessed by a currency thats declining in power and making everything kind of expensive. i also just moved (yay) which means i have some random stuff ive had to buy because moving Just Kinda does That (not yay)

i also would like to restart therapy and also trying to get out more because a lot has been going on with me on a mental/emotional level thats gotten to a place of genuine danger. i dont want to unload it all here but i was granted disability support from the government first and foremost due to severe mental illness and unfortunately things have been getting worse. i'm using my newfound proximity to home to get the help i need, but unfortunately, for reasons only the government knows, despite being approved specifically for disability due to mental illness, my disability coverage does not apply to therapy.

the point being stuffs expensive for many reasons, but i like doing art and art is a service that can be exchanged for money, and having more money would be good. my ko-fi is also open for donations if so inclined! if you have any questions please feel free to message me here or on ko-fi. shares are always appreciated too!

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

@a-wild-osborne

taking autistic liberties - when you're done masking and you're aware you're doing or saying things that neurotypical people don't do/like, but you no longer care.

death of the autist - when neurotypicals refuse to acknowledge how you communicate and instead decide to interpret you completely wrong and insist that they know what you really meant.

a starving autist - when you're hungry but you either can't will yourself to get/make something to eat, or everything available is the wrong type or texture.

autistic freedom - the joy of being entirely beyond the influence of something neurotypicals are clearly stressing about. You don't know why they think this thing is a huge deal and you don't care.

autistic expression - stimming, mostly. Probably also other things, but almost all of them can be defined as stimming.

autist's block - when you know you have to do something, but your brain Will Simply Not.

collaborating on autistic endeavour - when you encounter others with compatible special interests and start working on something cool together. Great works of art and leaps of scientific advancement have been achieved this way.

all credit goes to the autist - when you figured out how to do something that can't fathomably have any kind of practical use, but someone else figures out how to use it as a tool to achieve something, and actually aknowledges that their idea was built on yours.