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To people who are desperately asking for fundz/donations on tumblr.

USE THESE REDDIT SUBS INSTEAD PLEASE FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!!!!!!!

Hate Reddit if you want, but using these subs are your best chance. People gather in these subs because they have charity to spare:

/r/Assistance /r/legaladvice /r/RandomKindness /r/Charity /r/care /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza /r/Food_Pantry https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfPetFood/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfChristmas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/almosthomeless/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homeless

/r/freelance  /r/povertyfinance /r/thrifty /r/borrow /r/gofundme

/r/depression /r/familysupport /r/transitions 

I never see anyone actually getting any significant donations on tumblr and to be honest, tumblr is the worst place to ask for assistance. Use it as your last resort, it frustrates me to no end seeing people begging for help, reblogging the same post over and over, the same types of posts over and over, to no avail, when people are waiting to help you on a different part of the web  GO TO WHERE THE HELP IS. IF YOU WANT DIRECT ACTION TO WORK STOP WITH TUMBLR AND USE REDDIT.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN REBLOG THIS SO WE CAN START REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF DONATION POSTS THAT GET STUCK FLOATING AROUND THIS WEBSITE

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Keep your medicine organized and within easy reach with this Revolving Medicine Cabinet Organizer. It features a lazy susan design that rotates for easy accessibility. Its tiered construction enables you to locate items at a glance. Has 4 compartments on the bottom tier plus an upper tier with a built-in circular compartment. Can also be used for other small items such as kitchen spices, craft materials, mani/pedi supplies and more. 10-3/8" dia. x 2-3/8"H. Polystyrene.

Spins for easy selection Perfect for medicines, craft supplies and more Details: 10-3/8" dia. x 2-3/8"H Polystyrene

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“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.

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How to interact with a wheelchair user

(a list of do's and don'ts)

Don'ts

Don't touch our chair without permission

Don't crouch down to talk to us

Don't tell us how brave we are

Don't ask us to 'do a trick'

Don't push us unless we ask

Don't say "it's not too bad" when we complain about inaccessibility

Don't have a go at us or call us fake for standing/walking (ambulatory wheelchair users to exist)

Don't ask us what is wrong with us or why we need the chair

Don't do stuff for us

Don't ask for a go in the chair

Do's

Do be kind

Do treat us like a human being

Do move out of the way if there is little space or a narrow path

Do ask if we need help

Do talk to us like any other human being

Do be supportive

Do ask us if you want to sit down, we are usually happy to move somewhere with seating

Do speak to us, not our carer or service dog

Do ask appropriate questions i.e. how accessibility can be improved, what we think about the weather, if we caught the game last night

Do reblog this so other people know how to interact with us!

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“Canes have been fashion accessories for centuries why change it now? The world’s becoming too sensitive”

Because disabled people have voices now, because we’re allowed, on some level, to speak now, because were tired of seeing our medical devices be nothing but “accessories” to abled people, because we’re tired of getting harrassed and killed for using our canes in public while abled people get praise and awards. Because canes are not yours, because disability is not an accessory.

Mobility aids never should have been fashion accessories, but they were and still are because that is how the world views mobility aids, as something you can go without, it has ALWAYS been a problem, the only difference is now youve been made aware of it.

Dont use the “its always been this way” to justify bigoted actions, because the past is bigoted.

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On twitter I’m seeing dozens of threads from Black activists warning people against burnout, giving all sorts of useful tips about preventing and managing it for the sake of a long-term, sustainable effort.

On tumblr I’m seeing a hell of a lot of young white kids yelling at anyone who actually follows those steps, and acting like burnout is a moral falling rather than a well-proven psychological phenomenon.

Be careful who you get your information from. Don’t let guilt lead you to make choices that will harm both you and the movement.

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Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: (877) 565-8860 (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564

Trevor Project: Call (866) 488-7386, text START to 678-678, or chat online.

Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

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the origin of the letter 🇦

(from the documentary The Odyssey of the Writing, 2020)

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Signs to tell if the person in your inbox, asking you to reblog a post with a link asking people to donate money for their sick pet or kid, is a scam

Before we start, a disclaimer that this is NOT a solid confirmation that this person must be a scammer. The intention of this is for you to be wary and always check before donating or rebloging this type of post.

Without further ado and from firsthand experience, here are the red flags:

The person in your inbox asking you to reblog a post with their donation link will always ask you NOT to publish the ask they sent you (but to only reblog their post), and their reasoning would always be something along the line of “I don’t want people to think I pressured you into doing it🥺”

But if you go to the person’s profile with their post asking for donation, 100% of the time, you’ll find that the account has only just been created days ago. — How can you tell this? Easy. You can literally scroll down to the first ever post of their blog in less than 10 seconds.

The thing these scammers have in common is that they will create a new blog and they WILL reblog some general posts, such as fandom posts, to make their blogs look legit. They will have legit profile pictures so they don’t look like bots. But it will always be a newly created blog with several reblogs (mostly about fandoms, because they know rebloging fandom posts will make them look more legit than if they were to reblog some suggestive photos of some women, since the latter will make them look like p0rn bots), and the only original post they made is that post asking for donation.

Move on to the information they provided about their sick pet or kid. They will provide thorough and detailed information to make it look legit. But the thing is that they could just take that from google or steal that information from someone who actually needed the donation. There is never a way to tell if your money will go directly to help save the pet or the kid. My advice is to google the patient’s name and see how old the case is, if the case of this patient with this name and this information has been used to ask for donation by other people before, etc.

The photo of the patient they gave can also help you determine if it’s legit. Save that photo and then use google image search to see if it’s an original photo or if it’s a stolen one that has been used before.

Bonus: the thing these scammers can’t do is provide updates about how the patient’s doing. So it’s only just one post with the link asking you for your money. If it is legit, you should be able to see consistent updates of how this patient is doing or if there’s any change, etc. (I’m not saying it’s a requirement for those whose loved one is in critical care to post updates on social media all the time, I’m simply pointing out that scammers tend to fail to provide any update because they can’t.)

I’ll always encourage donating and helping spread the posts of those who actually are in need, though it’s just so unfortunate that, while there are people who are genuinely struggling, there are a lot of scammers out there looking for an opportunity to take advantage of people’s kindness and using sick pet or kid as a way to scam people and making it more difficult for people who really need help to be taken seriously.

Last but not least, fuck those scammers. Stay safe y’all.

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America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

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Quick PSA, if you get one of those "Work scanned, AI use detected" comments on AO3, just mark them as spam.

Some moron apparently built a bot to annoy or prank hundreds of authors.

There is no scanning process, your work doesn't actually resemble AI writing, it's all bullshit. Mark the comment as spam (on AO3, not the email notification you got about the comment!) and don't let it get to you.

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reposting bc the prolifers found my old post and i dont want them to have nice things

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Something I love: videos with captions in them so I don't have to turn on the sound to follow it, I can follow along with the message of the video and decide if I like it before having to risk Bad Sounds

Something I haaaaaaate: videos with text on them, formatted the same as captions (not like something that's clearly a background/powerpoint type thing), and I sit there for a second waiting for the text to change & follow what's being said in the video, only to realize that the person in the video is clearly talking A LOT but the text isn't changing at all to keep up. I feel betrayed every single time, like some kind of caption bait-and-switch.