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[kyle-in-hyding]

Hi, I really don’t want to come to this, but I really don’t have any choice at this point.

My family owes the landlord 2 month’s worth of rent ($2000), the electric bill needs to be paid ($300~), and we need to get the oil changed, at least two tires. I don’t know how much that will come to, but I estimate $200~. We need around $2600, but at least $1000 would help us out SO much.

If you know me, you know I hate taking money, asking for money, and asking for help in general, but right now, I can’t even get to work on a job I just started, and neither can my mom. Optimally, I want to be able to afford a new tire and give the landlord some money until we can give them everything we owe.

ANy amount helps, even if it’s $1, because it’s a dollar we didn’t have.

If you want, when you donate, you can contact me, and I’ll send you a receipt of whatever we buy with the money you’ve donated. I don’t want anyone to think that they’re money’s being wasted.

I know there are fundraiser that are so much more pressing, but I only need a little help getting back on my feet.

Thank you so much, and even if you don’t donate, please reblog, because ANYTHING helps.

Thank you.

[kyle-in-hyding]

You wanna do an act of kindness? Sign this petition.

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge - challenge many of us are aware of to raise awareness about ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) - has been taken and turned into a source of exploitation and degradation of one boy.

An autistic boy was challenged by his classmates, but instead of filling the bucket with ice water, they filled it with feces, urine, spit and cigarette butts. Let me repeat that for you, feces, urine, spit and cigarette butts. This wasn’t a harmless prank, this was purely an attempt at humiliating an autistic boy, this was pre-meditated. 

Signing this petition will hopefully bring justice to this boy and his family, who’ve been devastated by this attack. Underage or not, those responsible are possibly facing delinquency charges. Don’t just sit idly by.

Make them face what they deserve, and please signal boost this.

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WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?

I open the box for one goddamn second and i'm already being harassed.

Goddamn.

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What's really disappointing to me about this Jontron incident is that Tumblr has no VISIBLE IN BETWEEN. Both sides are extremely aggressive towards the other, making it hard to take a side on the issue.

I don't agree with Jontron, but I also don't agree with a lot of people who are condemning him. 

I wish Jontron well, and I hope he grows a bit from this experience. 

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http://i.imgur.com/pox14n4.png

Okie dokie, idfk where you came from but

Okay.

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List of games I got for my birthday for some reason because who isn't interested in me?

Things bought for me:

Shovel Knight

Resident Evil Revelations

Animal Crossing New Leaf (I lost the original copy I had, oh so sad.)

Saint's Row IV

Things bought by me with money from birthday:

Random Humble Bundle

Civilization V - Complete edition

Bully: Scholarship Edition

Garry's Mod (I've wanted this for a ridiculous amount of time.)

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Oh, I got a new follower out of that, so I should probably say this:

I don't post much, sorry. You're free to stick around, since most likely all I'll ever post is photographs from my various walks!

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And a flower post!

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Part 2 of the Little Buggy Quest Pictures of the little bud in the grass are done by Pocketlamb who I have no idea how to link in this post!

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Adventures in Photography & Buggies Part 1

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HOW WILL I DIE?

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EVERYONE PLEASE. PAY ATTENTION. Especially if you’re Asian.

On January 30th, 2014, California Senate just passed SCA-5, a legislation that would repeal portions of California Proposition 209.

In condensed words, this bill allows schools to DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ASIANS.

To…

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Art Corgi is a site for artists to organize their commissions and sell their commissions in a safe and friendly environment.

They seem to be really interested in taking care of the artists that use the website, making sure they get paid and don’t get screwed over by customers who don’t pay or try and take advantage to artists.

They’re launch day is today! So make sure you guys check it out!

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TW: EXTREME RACISM AND SLURS

Alright you guys listen up. This is really REALLY important so just do me a solid here and take a minute to read this okay.

A few years ago, a good friend of mine named Whitney Mitchell became extremely sick and had to have both arms and legs amputated. She was given a 12% chance to live but she fought through it and she’s one of the bravest and most beautiful people I’ve ever met in my life.

Today, her mother sent me a message on Facebook saying that Whitney had been targeted by a website called Chimp Mania. I’d never heard of it, so I did some research, and at just a glance I was immediately disgusted. Just the RULES for the website are awful beyond words.

The forum thread for Whitney is mocking enough, calling her a “shefreak” and saying she “plans to knuckle drag again.” The comments say some pretty stomach-churning things, but I decided to leave a lot of them out. A lot of them were photoshopped pictures of Whitney from when she was in physical rehab, replacing her legs with things like fried chicken legs and a map of Niger. This is the only thread I even bothered looking at and I could barely stomach it.

There is a petition to get this website permanently deleted. I don’t know how much good it will do but it NEEDS signatures. It’s got barely any right now and I don’t want this blatant vomiting on human beings to continue.

Here’s a link to the petition: http://chn.ge/1dectHH

This bullshit has gone on long enough. The fact that it exists in the first place makes me sick to my stomach. Please take a moment to sign this petition.

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There are a lot of problems facing social justice movements today, but this is the biggest one. Because it’s holding us back internally. People learn and read about social issues and oppression and abuse online and suddenly they think they know everything. And of course they’re angry - there’s a lot to be angry about. And yes, it’s a great, wonderful thing that they’re aware and are working to better themselves.

But omgosh, please just stop trying to teach it and spread it because you are doing it wrong. Lashing out and yelling out buzzwords and SJ jargon and calling people racist and sexist and writing people off with no compassion - these are literally the opposite of what we should be doing. Anyone who’s actually been trained in social justice, SJ communication, facilitation and dialogue sees that and gets embarrassed to be associated with that form of “social justice.” 

Because it’s not social justice. It’s not fighting racism and sexism and classism and homophobia. All it’s doing it’s turning people off, closing their minds further and making everyone who knows what they’re doing look bad. All it’s doing is spreading more hate, more negativity and generally making everyone feel like shit about themselves - except of course for the OP, who feels great about themselves for supposedly doing their part and helping the movement. 

But they’re not. All they’re helping is the oppressive structure holding everyone back.

I’ve been there. I’ve been pissed off and angry and lashing out at everyone and everything. And it bit me in the ass more times than I can tell you. So I stopped and I learned. I was trained in social justice education by the university that developed the most widely accepted program for social justice education. I have practical experience, both in my daily life and in dialogue, that proves that these methods are not only better, but the only ones that actually work. 

That showing compassion for agents and those who are uneducated gets you much farther than writing them off as hateful assholes and refusing to teach them in a way they can understand. That listening to where a person is coming from is far more important than listening to what they say. That we must all understand that most *people* are not maliciously racist/sexist/classist/ableist, but the society we were all raised in *is*. 

We are all trying to work within this structure set in place long before any of our great grandparents were born and we all have our own starting point on the journey. 

The other, possibly biggest and most widespread problem among the untrained crowd is the complete and total lack of understanding of teacher/learner. You do not know everything. You only know your own experiences. That’s it. In order to actually teach someone about social justice, you have to teach them about your own experiences. In order to do that, you must be willing to learn theirs, too. You must have compassion and empathy or you will get nowhere. This is literally the most important thing I ever learned and it’s the one that I see lacking the most in online SJ. 

Now this is specifically directed at fandoms (and more specifically the Teen Wolf fandom, which I call home) but this is a message for everyone. It pains me to see the field that I am so incredibly passionate about get dragged through the mud because people who consider themselves to be a part of it do such horrible things in such horrible ways. Online SJ has a bad name because it has earned it and I cannot tell you how much I hate that. Social justice is not only my work, but it is also my life. I will not stand any longer for people abusing it and using it to spread hate.

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reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

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this is the worst thing to ever happen