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Guys please I want to be in a hotel to recover from my asthma attack. I need to eat too today. I can still get a room today, three days or a week at the hotel close by is $250. I really need to be in somewhere safe for my asthma. Really badly. That and to eat.

I'm really fatigued and haven't slept well since I sleep outside, and I'm sick and hungry.

UPDATE: It might be tmi but since I haven't had my testosterone for awhile. I am a trans man and I've been through a lot of stress. While sleeping, I was woken up and saw I was bleeding, and I haven't bled in awhile. I'm freaking out because it gives me gender dysphoria. I'm still sleeping outside. I have to find somewhere to clean and change. I'm now in a more foul mood, I'm so stressed.

Please keep helping donating now I need more medical and hygiene products.

“Back in my day we didn’t have any of these childhood protective things, we were smart enough not to do stupid shit on our own!” Except your little neighbour, who got the funniest idea at the age of seven, and got his skull pierced when he slipped?

“Back in my day nobody got divorced, we stuck together and fixed our problems!” What about your cousin, who was slowly killed by her husband because she had nowhere to escape him?

“Back in my day nobody had ‘mental problems’, we didn’t whine, we just toughed it out and endured life!” Hey remember that guy you used to work with, who seemed really friendly and normal, and then suddenly hanged himself ‘for no reason’?

“Back in my day we didn’t have any of this ‘gay’ or ‘transgender’ thing.” You did, but your family cut all ties with her before you were born.

So I am okay now! I just can't be in any hotels in my area. There is one down the road from me that takes pets! But I need a Lyft to go there until I get a call from the shelter.

Right now I'm sleeping outside and it's hard for me to sleep because of everything. I'm tired and anxious because noises make me jump.

That and it'll be the weekend so I won't be able to receive any of the money from gofundme until monday! So still keep supporting me!!

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Help me have enough for the weekend so I don't have to sleep outside! Until I get something back from the shelter! I need food, a hotel, to wash clothes, etc. Thank you!!!

Some slightly good news there is now someone who has made a map of all AI data center locations where you can report your concerns to your local community.

The website:

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

So I am okay now! I just can't be in any hotels in my area. There is one down the road from me that takes pets! But I need a Lyft to go there until I get a call from the shelter.

Right now I'm sleeping outside and it's hard for me to sleep because of everything. I'm tired and anxious because noises make me jump.

That and it'll be the weekend so I won't be able to receive any of the money from gofundme until monday! So still keep supporting me!!

Here --> PAYPAL