The Wyrm is loose!!

I really hoped I'd never have to make this, but here we are.

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I'm really behind on rent. The apartment complex where I live is merciless, and will attempt to evict if a rent payment is late. They also charge a $299 late payment fee that stacks each day.

We cannot afford to move anywhere else right now, and the combined paychecks of my entire family are just not enough to break even, even with multiple jobs.

My entire family is POC, and we're all disabled. I myself am queer (transmasc-nonbinary), and we have a dog who we're scared of having to rehome because of potentially becoming homeless and losing our means of taking care of her.

I need to raise $2500USD by August 15th or my family risks going homeless. This is to cover the rest of our rent and late fees, and to give us just a tiny bit of grace for September.

We can't get government assistance, we tried and they said they have nothing for our area. I'm terrified. I've done everything I can and it's just not enough.

You can donate to me on my Ko-Fi, it accepts both PayPal and Stripe (for card).

And/or if you'd like to get art for your donation you can commission me on Artistree.

If you want my Paypal/Venmo you can DM me for it

Please, if you can do anything at all I'd be so grateful. If you can't donate, then please share.

Thanks for reading this ♡

I've been picking up a lot of extra shifts, and I also got a commission from a friend for $500 and I'm so, so grateful.

My aunt also said she wanted to help, so fingers crossed. If we make it through this, then hopefully we'll be able to make September work because by then my mom would finally have a salary.

I really hoped I'd never have to make this, but here we are.

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I'm really behind on rent. The apartment complex where I live is merciless, and will attempt to evict if a rent payment is late. They also charge a $299 late payment fee that stacks each day.

We cannot afford to move anywhere else right now, and the combined paychecks of my entire family are just not enough to break even, even with multiple jobs.

My entire family is POC, and we're all disabled. I myself am queer (transmasc-nonbinary), and we have a dog who we're scared of having to rehome because of potentially becoming homeless and losing our means of taking care of her.

I need to raise $2500USD by August 15th or my family risks going homeless. This is to cover the rest of our rent and late fees, and to give us just a tiny bit of grace for September.

We can't get government assistance, we tried and they said they have nothing for our area. I'm terrified. I've done everything I can and it's just not enough.

You can donate to me on my Ko-Fi, it accepts both PayPal and Stripe (for card).

And/or if you'd like to get art for your donation you can commission me on Artistree.

If you want my Paypal/Venmo you can DM me for it

Please, if you can do anything at all I'd be so grateful. If you can't donate, then please share.

Thanks for reading this ♡

I really hoped I'd never have to make this, but here we are.

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I'm really behind on rent. The apartment complex where I live is merciless, and will attempt to evict if a rent payment is late. They also charge a $299 late payment fee that stacks each day.

We cannot afford to move anywhere else right now, and the combined paychecks of my entire family are just not enough to break even, even with multiple jobs.

My entire family is POC, and we're all disabled. I myself am queer (transmasc-nonbinary), and we have a dog who we're scared of having to rehome because of potentially becoming homeless and losing our means of taking care of her.

I need to raise $2500USD by August 15th or my family risks going homeless. This is to cover the rest of our rent and late fees, and to give us just a tiny bit of grace for September.

We can't get government assistance, we tried and they said they have nothing for our area. I'm terrified. I've done everything I can and it's just not enough.

You can donate to me on my Ko-Fi, it accepts both PayPal and Stripe (for card).

And/or if you'd like to get art for your donation you can commission me on Artistree.

If you want my Paypal/Venmo you can DM me for it

Please, if you can do anything at all I'd be so grateful. If you can't donate, then please share.

Thanks for reading this ♡

Sanako and Umeno for @adagiorii !!

Indris for @the-necrobotanist !!!

Thalia for @thaliawalkstothepark !

Unnamed for BaldAntEater!!

here's where i first start experimenting with the attacks, adding stuff to the model and in post. Webcat for @fexarii !!

Leembot for @agentleem !!

and finally, Tura for @c00kietin !!

“So... We got the exploding diarrhea. Here's my advice for anyone who doesn't have it yet:

It's going to take a minute for the government to pin down where this is coming from, and then issue a recall, because the FDA has been gutted. But, I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt : this is coming from Taylor Farms produce, and you will see them recalled.

You'll want to avoid all Taylor Farms produce in the grocery store. They supply McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, about any fast food place you can think of.

Raspberries, watermelons, cilantro, and the veggies you're hearing about are not causing this many people to get sick. It's the shredded lettuce, specifically, that's the problem. But, you'll want to stay away from every type of produce this company puts out, because one strand of shredded lettuce is all it takes to contaminate bushels.

Taylor Farms is the source. Taco Bell proactively pulled their produce from their restaurants. You're going to see other fast food places doing this, and probably will see that before the government names a source. The FDA knows this, but they can't come out and tell us all until there's proof, which takes resources and research, which takes manpower, but the FDA has been cut by about 20-30%

During the Biden term, onions at McDonald's had ecoli. We knew this because DNA testing was done quickly and they were able to narrow it down to one place that caused the outbreak. And, it was traced back to Taylor Farms. This isn't going to be solved as quickly though.

When you get this, make a virtual appointment to your PCP - a "same day sick" appointment. Tell them someone in your family just tested for this and was positive and was prescribed Bactrim. If you go in person, they're probably going to make you poop in a cup and wait until results come back to prescribe.

You'll know when you get this. Trust me on all of this.

You'll want to stay hydrated because this parasite damages the lining of the small intestine. Your small intestine, in turn, secretes more water into the gut, and less nutrients and liquid are able to remain in the body. So no matter how much you shit, you're going to want to drink. A day of this leads to dehydration if you don't increase your fluid intake, and a few days will land you in the hospital.

If you have headaches, weakness, muscle cramps, dizziness, or an increase heart rate - hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Go to the ER for fluids if you can't drink enough.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. Brought to you by America's 250 birthday celebrations, workforce reduction in the FDA and CDC, and viewers like you.

Please feel free to share this.

And, MAGA - don't blow up the comment section. I argued with y'all on COVID bc I was afraid y'all would die, but I really don't care if you get explosive diarrhea.

If you get mentioned under ANY blog that says they're Tumblr staff. DON'T FALL FOR IT!!!!!!

Preorders for the comic book are now live along with all the prints and stickersheets!

You're being targeted by one of the cleverest scams going right now, and the reason it works is uncomfortable: the email genuinely came from PayPal.

The trick is in the subject line, not the email

When most people think "phishing email," they picture sketchy senders, broken English, and links to weird domains. This scam is the opposite. The email passes every authenticity check — SPF, DKIM, DMARC, all green. It comes from PayPal's actual mail servers. The fonts are right. The footer is right. The unsubscribe link works. If you forwarded it to a security expert and asked "is this really from PayPal?" they'd have to say yes.

So how is it a scam?

Scammers have figured out that PayPal lets anyone send small amounts of money to anyone else, and that PayPal will dutifully email the recipient a notification. The scammer sends you a payout of, say, one Hungarian forint — about a quarter of a cent. PayPal's system then automatically generates and sends you a real, legitimate, fully-authenticated email confirming the transaction.

Here's the catch: the email's subject line is whatever the scammer typed when they set up the payout. PayPal doesn't sanitize it. So they write something terrifying like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 — call this number with questions" and PayPal's servers cheerfully deliver that subject line straight to your inbox, wrapped in a perfectly legitimate-looking notification.