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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
daloy-politsey
starshooterr

Recap: I'm taking care of 2 boys (6 & almost 2) after the loss of their older brother (8) while their mom (my friend) Ash, is in a psychiatric hospital. I am also currently homeless, the boys and my pets are staying with a neighbor however they can't stay much longer. There is an apartment for rent for $920 no deposit required (it says $950 but landlord said it was a typo and is tryna get it fixed). I've been robbed and SA'd over the course of last week and most recently woke up with a knife to my neck. It's getting worse.

Several people have put in for the apartment but the landlord is giving me until Saturday to raise the last $530 for it or he has to go with someone else. Please share! I'm doingg reading and @scarsofbeauty is doing commissions to help!

$0/$530


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starshooterr

$265/$530, $265 left! halfway there!!

there was another incident last night and i got hurt bad. on the way to the hospital now but please keep sharing.

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drdemonprince

As of May 15th, image sharing platform Imgur will be purging its site of all not-safe-for-work and anonymously posted content. As part of the site’s new terms of service agreement, Imgur’s definition of “not safe for work” is concerningly broad: it will be removing not only every upload deemed to be pornography or sexually explicit content, but all depictions of nudity (no matter how artistic or educational they are in nature) as well.

Imgur was created in 2009, and has remained one of the most popular image hosting sites on the internet for decades. Its 300 million active users access content on the platform over 60 billion times per month. Compared to other image hosting sites of the early 2000s, such as Photobucket, Imgur has a reputation for being a place to host niche, originally created works, including memes, personal artwork, image macros, fan art, and yes, highly specific porn and fetish content that caters to small yet passionate communities.

Until 2016, the only way to share images on Reddit was by passing them through Imgur first. If you didn’t already have an Imgur account when you were making a Reddit post, you mostly likely uploaded it without bothering to create one, so your image files were posted anonymously. But Imgur is now mass-deleting all images that can’t be linked to an existing account. This means that the vast majority of image posts on Reddit that predate 2016 will be completely broken after Imgur’s new terms of service are adopted. That’s not just posts with pornography or nude photographs that are getting removed, which would be a sizeable data loss itself, but nearly eleven years worth of digital history.

The impact this mass deletion will have can’t be overstated. Reddit has been a crucial hub of information sharing, social networking, and documentation for approaching twenty years now. Over 1.6 billion individual people have made their mark on the site in one way or another — sharing their home renovation projects, posting tattered photographs of long-dead relatives and asking for assistance in getting them restored, pooling together genealogical records, showing off their latest power-washing job, demonstrating how to construct leather harnessesexchanging theories about their continuity of their favorite German science fiction epics, and far more.

Many of these in-depth Reddit posts are absolutely reliant upon images. And every single one of them that came before 2016 can potentially be ruined following the Imgur purge. Even many posts that were made after 2016 will be destroyed as well, because many Reddit users who upload images to Imgur never create official accounts.

Whenever sexual content is driven from social media, there is little in the way of public mourning. If anything, there is a tepid acknowledgement of the harm that will befall sex workers, alongside outright celebration that at last these sites will be scrubbed of the most unseemly and dangerous sides of human nature, and at last rendered “safe.” But condemning future generations of queer and kinky people to ignorance and loneliness is not saving them. And exposing someone to sexual content too early in life is not the only form of sexual harm. Denying a person a chance at self-recognition can be equally traumatic, and violent.

Those of us who do decry the sanitization and Disney-Worldification of the internet are frequently likened to predators who wish to expose our bodies and proclivities to children. Our mere existence as adult sexual beings with adult bodies is deemed a threat. Paradoxically, we are also mocked for taking the removal of erotic art so seriously. Porn is somehow viewed in our culture as both frivolously pointless, and profoundly terrifying.

But in reality, sex is not dangerous. And sex is not frivolous. It’s a rapturous, inevitable, and an essential force in human life. Sex isn’t for everyone, but it is one of the most precious ways to experience inhabiting a body, and refusing to acknowledge the existence of sex makes it impossible to fully appreciate human history, identity, or any form of art.

Sex’s removal from public discourse and digital record keeping is a hateful, genocidal destruction of one of the most precious aspects of the human experience. We are right to mourn for it. And we are right to fear what comes next, after our bodies are rendered unviewable and our dreams unspeakable.

the first time i posted this essay link, tumblr removed it for being sexual content and then blurred my account. jesus fucking christ. read the piece, please. our ability to communicate and find one another online is rapidly eroding and this is no light matter

insurrectionary-frybreadism
andhumanslovedstories

Would your twelve year old self like who you are today, and sorry no nuance allowed you have to pick one

Yes

No

i think 12yr old me would like 32yr old me i mean they'd be simultaneously ecstatic and terrified seeing how those gender feels worked out but the important stuff - still into punk rock and have a buncha piercings and doing anarchisms - theyd think im so cool maybe a little disappointed we stopped skateboarding though
azpunkdotcom
sg-x00-airgetlam

Disabled Trans Girl Needs Help Again (Stuck in a Fascist State Edition)

Unfortunately, after several months, I haven't been able to find a job I'm capable of working here. I live in Montana which you might have seen in the news recently for silencing our trans rep Zooey Zephyr, throwing her supporters out of the gallery with riot police, and then passing/signing one of the most transphobic bills into law. It's not quite Florida death penalty stuff, but it's about on par with the horrible Missouri one. Healthcare ban for Trans Youth, taking away insurance coverage, etc.

It's legal to discriminate here in hiring etc for being trans, and my state medicaid coverage is going to stop paying for my hrt later this year. I'm pretty scared of even my city, which was relatively left leaning, becoming more and more hateful. There have been shooting threats made against local queer events even. Also, my housing situation is going to become extremely unstable after July. Bozeman has possibly the single worst housing market in the country.

After a lot of blood tests and scans etc trying to figure out the cause of my worsening chronic fatigue, pain, and digestive issues, my doctor is diagnosing me with fibromyalgia. I'm in constant pain, and I spend a lot of my time in bed each day because I can't even focus on my computer etc with it sometimes. That combined with autism/ptsd is making my life in a city with very little in the way of social resources extremely hard. I am trying to get approved for disability, but it is taking forever.

Ideally, I would like to somehow leave this state and go somewhere more trans friendly. Last time I asked for help, I was able to replace my dead car battery, so I'm able to actually drive now. However, the voltage regulator on my alternator is apparently broken. I'm unsure how soon that will become a bigger issue.

In terms of more immediate problems, I've run out of food again, and I'll need to get more catfood and litter soon. Anything anyone can offer helps a lot.

I can receive payments on my venmo, @ Talon-Battle. (The name should show up as Claire Battle).

Here are some pictures of my cat.

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Thank you for reading/reblogging/helping me!

puppy-grl-femme
puppy-grl-femme

My fucking car got stolen. Walked out of my building to leave for work, and my car is nowhere to be fucking seen. 3 phone calls and 1 breakdown later, I find out it was recovered in the next city over and is currently being held in impound. Now, I have to pay $170 to get it Out of impound, plus pay to replace the back window the thief/thieves smashed in so they could joy ride my car.


If anyone could spare some cash for the fee, the repairs, or the gas/Uber money to get to the impound, I'd greatly appreciate it. My cashapp and Venmo are ser3nitycpt21, and you csn DM me for my PayPal link.

puppy-grl-femme

Fun update:

The thief/thieves ripped out my fucking ignition cylinder. Meaning my car won't even start now. I had to pay $165 for a tow to an store shop, who tells me the ignition cylinder for my make/model is on NATIONAL BACK ORDER, and won't be available for a few weeks, at least.

I've been at the impound for over two hours.

I haven't eaten yet.

I don't have any water.

And I don't know if I'll be able to pay for repairs, let alone when they might be done.



I hope I die.