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Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!

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$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think

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Ok, I get it, you hate Biden

You want a cool, leftist candidate to vote for instead. Great, me too!

What is your plan to get some candidate you like better into power?

Who should we campaign for?

How do we raise money?

What races are important? What races can't they win?

And most importantly, how do we convince ~100 Million other Americans that you're right, and we should vote for this person?

You don't have a plan.

You say "don't vote for Biden" and refuse to provide any alternatives, so I can only assume you'd rather the people on Tumblr not vote at all.

I guarantee the fascists will be voting next year, and making sure that if they win, this will be the last election you get to vote in. Don't take it from me, here it is in their own words:

There's a 900 page plan about how the fascists intend to take over America.

So I ask again, what's your plan? Do you want to help Palestinians, or do you want to make sure that the last people who still believe in elections lose?

If your only contribution is "Biden is evil" and "both sides are the same" or "every American politician is evil" then I'm going to assume your intentions are to keep young leftists disillusioned and prevent them from voting, and I'll block accordingly.

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My cats keep me chugging along.

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so it's that time of the month where I beg for money. for the new folks, I have back problems that prevent me from doing... most things, more things on bad days. if you can help me out by passing this around, or tossing me a buck or two, that would help me out a bunch.

you can also tip me via tumblr post, and I have a venmo that's also bixbythemartian.

I'm hoping to hit about $600 bucks, that should cover my bills and some groceries and stuff.

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Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

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These policies can help to improve the mental health of students

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Tiny ambition! Meet Tater Tot! (She is trying to catch the string for the light switch)

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PLEASE HELP!!

it pains me to have to come here & ask for help, but a fucking tree in my backyard fell on my house & is cracking the foundation. i'm being charged $2.5k just for people to come & save the room & i can't afford it. pls help me if you can.

the tree is in danger of collapsing and tearing down my room. it'll leave my house uninhabitable & i can't afford a hotel stay or repairs like that, so any help would be really great. ofc i wouldn't ask for anything for free, so i have commissions open!! dm me for details.

pp: https://www.paypal.me/birdsandivory?locale.x=en_US

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i Know antipasto means appetizer but i still like to believe that it refers to pasta’s archnemesis

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okay I’m running low on money and there’s a big bill I have got to take care of this week, I need $500 and I haven’t been able to find another way to get it. (my roommate and I own our home, but we need to transfer ownership with the trailer park.)

If you’re new, I have a back problem that prevents me from working, and I’m trying to sort that out but I’m currently unemployed. (it’s unlikely to be sorted in a way that allows me to work, I’m gonna try to figure something out, but I’ve been low key panicking for months now)

If you’re seeing this and you don’t know me, check out my pinned post- I’ve done a lot of writing of short stories in the past, some of them might be to your taste.

as always do NOT feel obligated if you don’t have any money to spare, you can help just by sharing this around.

https://ko-fi.com/bixbythemartian

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The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company (MCCPDC) is a registered pharmaceutical wholesaler and purchases drugs directly from manufacturers, bypassing middlemen to lower the price of more than 100 medications, it said in a statement.

For example, the leukemia drug imatinib is priced at $47 a month on MCCPDC compared to the $9,657 retail price.

MCCPDC CEO Alex Oshmyansky reached out to Cuban with an idea for a low-cost generic drug company in a cold email. It was launched in January last year. They were motivated in part by “Pharma Bro” Martin Shrkeli’s outrage-producing price hike of the lifesaving drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 per tablet while Shrkeli was CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. Cuban told Forbes last year the pricing for generic drugs was “ridiculous.” He said he decided to put his name on the company to “show capitalism can be compassionate and to send the message I am all in.” It’s not clear how much he had invested in the company.

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Reblog to save someone an entire paycheck, or more, on the pharmaceuticals they need.

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i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

im not a pissbaby

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eventually you realize you don’t want to die. you just don’t want to live the life you’re living. and slowly you try to create a life you want to live. just gotta start there.

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If your 90-year-old grandma, who had Alzheimer's disease, cancer, and COPD, got hit by a drunk driver and killed, and some jerk implied that we don't actually have to grieve her loss or reconsider public policy about driving while intoxicated because she had so many preexisting illnesses and was dying anyway, you would probably want to punch that person.

If your 6-year-old child, who was born with a congenital heart defect and had Type 1 diabetes, got salmonella at Applebee's and died, and some jerk implied that we don't actually need to reexamine food safety rules and health codes in restaurants because a healthy adult wouldn't have died of that salmonella infection, you'd probably want to do more than punch that person.

That's what all this talk about comorbidities and COVID sounds like to me. It sounds like a lot of people saying that the lives of all people who are not "healthy" (whatever that means) and who have preexisting conditions, autoimmune diseases, chronic illnesses, disabilities, or just plain advanced age just aren't worth caring about all that much. Sure, it's kind of sad when old people in a nursing home die en masse like they're in Flanders field, but it's not a big enough deal for me to accept even a minor inconvenience to my life, right?

It's disgusting, and I don't know how anyone can consider themselves a good person while also actively promoting or supporting eugenics.