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So I made some mistakes with budgeting, as I didn't clock that my benefits were about 200 quid short of what I'm used to. After last month when I didn't get my housing costs covered because of admin bs, I had to borrow to make rent and living costs, which I repaid this month. Between all of that, and just not budgeting properly, I'm now in a bind. It's rent day, I'm £152 short, and I don't get paid for another 2 weeks.

Cause of this, I'm asking for anyone who can spare a bit to chuck a bit of case to my Ko-Fi. I should hopefully be able to get support for the rent I'm missing, but I do also need to eat. So yeah. If you have any spare cash and you wanna help someone out, my Ko-Fi is here. I'll track donations and add reblogs to this post if/when things look to have settled down. For now I'll set a tentative goal of £200, for what will cover rent and at least some food expenses. If at any point donations exceed this, or if I manage to raise the funds any other way, I'll take this post down. Thanks for reading, and if you could reblog, that'd be great <3

Black woman trying to stay housed after my hours were cut at work. I’m raising funds to cover rent. The main goal right now is raising $70 for back rent plus June’s $900 rent by the 1st.

$830.11 / $1,800 raised 🖤

Anything helps, including shares/boosts.

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I really don’t want to be homeless 🙏🏿

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The protagonist digs her heels in and says no, she never knew her biological father and by the way the demon explained the situation, evidently her father also doesn't know that he already has a daughter, so therefore the man who had made no contribution to her life after he bred and fled has no claim to her as something he could barter.

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

A Jewish peasant girl turned moneylender, Miriam, ends up stuck married to the fae king of winter. The daughter of a duke gets stuck married to the emperor, who is possessed by a demon.

WARMINGTON: Tearing down posters for missing girl new low in Toronto

Esther, 14, was last seen May 15 at Earl Bales Park in North York

It takes a special kind of evil to destroy posters that have been distributed to help locate a missing child.

But Toronto has seen this kind of evil before. Back after Oct. 7, 2023, hostage posters of Jewish children kidnapped by Hamas were also ripped down or defaced.

Now, as many in the city are searching for the teen girl who is on the autism spectrum and disappeared May 15, posters taped to poles around town featuring a picture of 14-year-old Esther are being physically removed.

Antisemitism is a reality in Toronto.

“A missing 14-year-old girl’s posters are being ripped down,” said Matthew Taub of Unapologetically Jewish. “Let that sink in.”

It’s despicable. But this is a city where criminals would shoot at Jewish people at synagogues so we can’t pretend it’s all rosy here.

I am not surprised it has escalated since antisemitism was not pushed back against strong enough post-Oct. 7, and then became widespread. So much was let go. For two years, antisemites got away with most of what they did.

Just last week, I also witnessed Toronto’s parking enforcement running off two women trying to tape these posters in Earl Bales Park on Victoria Day — citing parking restrictions.

It was clear right there how much is wrong with Toronto. The priority was not the missing girl, but the power and authority of the parking officers. It was all about them. Their rules and their fines, their superior position. It was heartless abuse of power and bullying that also further set the tone that was already in place.

Turning a blind eye on antisemitism. None of this would be tolerated against any other Toronto community.

Toronto Police have not yet commented on the posters being taken down. But in the past, charges have been laid for damaging hostage posters.

What Toronto Police have done is release a new picture of the girl her family calls ‘Esti.’ (According to Shomrin Toronto, she might also be going by Sylvia.) The picture is believed to depict what she was wearing when she was last seen early May 16 in the Bathurst St. and Hwy. 401 area.

The girl’s mom said she left home while not wearing shoes, and without a cellphone.

Taub also tells us that there may have been a sighting of Esti getting on a city bus early in the morning of May 16. Her mom Shira and dad Joseph have urged her to come home if she is able to hear the message.

“I worry that she is going to be too trusting, that somebody will have ill intentions,” Shira told reporters.

People taking down the posters of a missing child have ill intentions as well.

“This is not politics,” Taub said. “This is not activism. This is a child on the spectrum who is still missing.”

He added, “If you see someone tearing down Esti’s signs, call it out. Stand up to it. This is not who Canadians are supposed to be. Bring back decency. Bring back integrity. Bring Esti home.”

For Jewish community activist and well-respected journalist Marty York, this was personal.

“I know Jew haters and antisemites are driven by a systemic sickness, but this is beyond belief,” he said. “I grew up in this neighbourhood without fear because the people who lived here were decent and trustworthy. Sadly, Esti has gone missing but so has common sense and decency. This is not the same North York that it used to be, just as this isn’t the same Canada.”

Meir Weinstein of Israel Now said “this is a new level of Jew Hatred.”

Journalist Sue-Ann Levy passed along a message from the Everything Jewish Facebook site, which said, “Ester’s posters have been ripped off all over midtown — Yonge and Lawrence, Avenue and Wilson, Bathurst and Sheppard,” adding “their hatred has no end.”

As bad as that is, there are many people dedicated to try to find her.

“Volunteers throughout the city will be canvassing neighbourhoods and replacing outdated flyers,” Taub said. “Esti was last seen wearing a green long-sleeved shirt, grey sweatpants with two lines down each side.”

If someone tears down a poster, the best thing to do it just put a new one back up.

https://people.com/dad-of-missing-teen-says-hes-trying-to-be-the-detective-she-needs-me-to-be-a-week-after-her-disappearance-11982648

The parents of a missing 14-year-old Toronto girl are stepping up to help search for their daughter, one week after she disappeared.

Toronto police first announced on Sunday, May 17, that the teen, identified only as Esther, had last been seen on Friday, May 15, and that authorities were concerned for her safety.

Police said that she was seen in the Canadian city's Earl Bales Park area at Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue West, and that she was wearing gray sweatpants, a green shirt, and no shoes. Esther is 5'2", has a medium build and brown hair.

By late Thursday, May 21, police shared that they had learned the teen was last spotted just after midnight on Saturday, May 16, near Toronto's Bathurst Street and Hotspur Road, about 2 miles south of the park, according to CityNews Toronto and CBC News.

Esther has been described as 5'2", has a medium build and has brown hair.

Police said that it is currently unclear what Esther — who has been diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum — was doing at the park. She has not been heard from since her disappearance.

Since she vanished, Esther's parents, Shira and Joseph, have helped to search for their daughter and have been outspoken about wanting to get her home as soon as possible.

“I've been pretty much a detective and making phone calls and trying to review footage from any possible place, knocking on doors,” Joseph told CTV News Toronto on Thursday, adding that he has gone “full sleuth” mode trying to find his daughter.

“I'm trying to just be the detective she needs me to be,” he told the outlet through tears. “I'll worry about the emotions later.”

Police have shared that they have initiated a Level 1 search for the teen, the highest search level possible.

“Level 1 is the most serious situation that opens up a lot of resources to us, like the marine unit, police dog services, and the mounted unit,” Duty Inspector Jon Rose said Thursday, according to the outlet.

Authorities have not shared why exactly they upgraded the level in this case. According to CBC News, only five of last year's 3,100 missing person reports were categorized as Level 1.

Speaking with CTV News, Esther's parents shared that they hoped not to have to disclose their daughter's autism diagnosis for her privacy.

“It's her medical information that she should have the right to disclose when she chooses to,” Shira said. “The only reason that we're OK saying it now [is] because she's still missing, and it's super scary to think that she's been gone for a week.”

Shira also told local media that her daughter is someone who would go "above and beyond" to help others, CBC News reported.

“I worry that she is going to be too trusting, that somebody will have ill intentions,” she said.

The night that she went missing, her parents said they followed her to Earl Bales Park but could not find her.

“We love her and we care about her, and we want her to come home to us, and we miss her, so we miss her greatly, and that's the most important thing for us,” Shira added.

When asked if they had a message for their daughter, Esther's parents said, “Esti, please come home. Everybody misses you. They just want you to come home. We're worried about you.”

“We love you,” Joseph added. “We miss Esti, and everybody in the whole community loves you. You can see, all you have to do is look around, thousands and thousands of people care about you. So, just come home safe.”

“If you're scared to come home, just be brave, be strong, and come home,” Shira added, saying that no one would be angry.

Toronto police have set up a dedicated phone line to collect tips from the public, which can be reached at (647) 355-4148. The public can also upload any tips — including video footage or photos — to a dedicated QR code link.

“We deeply appreciate how concerning this is to the community and to the family when a young person goes missing, especially for this length of time,” Duty Inspector Rose added, according to CTV News. “We would very much like to find Esther to get her home safely to her family.”

It happened in a train, near noon in the middle of July in the south of France. Which for those familiar should tell you something about how hot it was. For those unfamiliar it's pretty damn hot particularly for people like yours truly who do not take heat well.

The train was packed, which did not help the heat. I had eaten but a handful of nuts in the morning, which was a bad decision. I didn't have a seat, which isn't necessarily an issue. Usually.

But the heat and the lack of food (mostly the heat) made a bad combination. The lightheadedness fell on me like an anvil. Sudden. Heavy. I felt nauseous which was truly the worst part because is there a worse place to puke than in a packed train? I didn't think so and I still don't.

People noticed. I don't know if it was the swaying or maybe I had gone visibly pale but three different people got up to give me their seat. Or four. I don't know, but it was a lot. The rules of politeness and manners don't apply when you're afraid you're gonna puke so I very gratefully took a seat.

A woman gave me a chocolate biscuit, she said she kept this sort of thing in her bag always because her son has diabetes. Two people offered me water but I had my own which I did drink. Two other people offered me more food. A man offered me vitamins. I hesitated and he gave me the package so I could check for myself it wasn't, like, drugs. I am mildly ashamed to say that I did not hesitate for reasons of a stranger giving me medicine but because I thought the orange-flavored vitamins might not mix super well with the chocolate biscuit I was eating. For my defense, sensory issues can be bad and I already wasn't feeling well. But I did learn my lesson about trusting strangers with medicine. This one was trustworthy, but still. Man who gave me vitamins, kudos to you for making sure I knew it wasn't drugs.

People asked me if I knew what was wrong. Two older people gently chastised me for not eating enough in this weather. Several asked where I as getting off and were visibly relieved when I said my stop was soon. They kept subtly checking on me trough the train ride and several people waved goodbye when I got off.

All those strangers coming together without a second's hesitation when I felt unwell. When you think about it, that's, like, a low bar. Obviously if someone visibly wasn't feeling well I would try to help. But the way they all moved together and didn't wait for someone else to offer a seat or food or water. The way they kept checking on me. That's what I want to be like.