#I can’t afford this right now

[alexisrosemullens]

Jfc I will cry if my water heater goes out. It’s only three years old.

[i-have-a-head-ache]

i’ve just received the tenancy contract for my next year in accommodation and my heart stopped.

£2125

now i know my student loan technically covers it. but it’s due on the first of september. i wouldn’t be able to pay for days.

i might have to drop out, not because i hate my course, but because time is running out to find accommodation, nowhere is hiring and my parents earn enough - according to the government - to help me.

i don’t know what to do. my partner really wants to move into this place. and i do too. but i don’t know if i can.

i’m freaking out. and i’m sorry for piling this all onto you, random internet stranger who is reading these words.

[elliesbelle]

hi lovelies, realized that i did not say it on here before, but i will say it now.

i’m gonna be MIA from this blog for one week. bisan from gaza has called for a worldwide strike from january 21-28 to show support for the palestinians during this horrific genocide. striking involves several things (which i will provide in pics below), including completely abstaining posting on social media unless it is about palestine.

just in the last week, israel murdered over 1000 palestinians. there are no more fully-functioning hospitals in gaza, only 15 semi-functioning ones. the united states government itself has issued a statement saying that it does not believe in a ceasefire.

this is not war. this is not a conflict. this is an ethnic cleansing. this is genocide.

from the river to the sea, palestine will be free. 🇵🇸

[mayonesavegana]

This whole debacle makes me think of ao3. It’s a free website (of course it’s by fans for fans and not a business) that is so good that when they ask for donations the exceed their goal every single time, they even have merch and people still just give them money because they love the site. Quality free content and profit are not exclusive from each other. If your consumers are happy you will make money no matter the price of your product.

I understand production costs and all that, but I feel like they have been making bad business decisions for a while. The distribution of viewers per video is very uneven and not all of their content popular. I can’t justify paying for a streaming service if I’m not sure of the quality and amount of content I’m going to have access to. Sure, I love puppet history and I guess I enjoy mystery files, but would I pay only for those two? No way. I don’t subscribe to HBO just to watch Rick and Morty, sure it helps that it’s in there, but I also like the DC animated series, and I could watch game of thrones I guess, and the nanny, and the Barbie movie, and Harry Potter. And a lot of shows and movies with different actors and directors and production companies.

And the people comparing this to Dropout don’t get that they have a lot of content that makes the subscription not feel like a waste of money.

Artist should get paid and be allowed to art in peace, but you can’t ask casual viewers to pay for your airplane tickets, your Tesla, your cameras, your new background and your A grade wagyu gold covered stake in china when not even your more loyal fans watch all of your content. It feels greedy and out of touch with American economy right now, but also with your international fans who can’t pay because of region restrictions or because 6 dollars in other countries is not a reasonable price for anything.

I hope they grow and that their creative dreams come true, but I feel like it will be incredibly difficult to accomplish that after the way they went about it (abruptly and with no kind of preparation) and the response they got.

[woundjob]

hi friends i know i was on here asking for money last week but i have to again bc we gotta take the dog back to the vet. she’s got an impacted anal gland and won’t keep any food down. we had to ask the landlord to wait on rent :’) any help would be appreciated, idk how much the vet visit will be but hoping to get 500ish

[willowdove]

I don’t know how to process this. Not just because the ramifications are unthinkable, but because the energy just wasn’t there. Trump was hosting half empty auditoriums and rambling until people got so bored they left, meanwhile Harris was consistently filling arenas. Women were as a demographic supporting Harris by a wide margin and also voted at a much higher rate. Undecideds were breaking for Harris. Where I live, a lot of the Trump signs were disappearing, despite it being a deep red area. Where did this come from? A Reagan-style fucking mandate, and we didn’t see it coming?

To be clear I’m not saying the election was tampered with, because there is no evidence to suggest that. At least at time of writing. I just… can’t square this fucking circle.

[comradekarin]

im sorry but social media “leftists activists” are some of the most unserious people? especially twitter ones? you don’t vote, you don’t donate, you don’t endorse candidates…. hell some of you have never taken a civics class before and it shows. y’all just bitch about trivial things like flag emojis and instagram posts and fucking twitter likes? play moral high ground? distress over the current state of affairs and then do absolutely NOTHING about it? project 2025 is probably the most terrifying thing I’ve ever read, and I foresee 2016 happening all over again. for an online group of people who preach about caring about human rights and civil liberties, you’ve been doing such a great job showing that. VOTE blue

[skrimshaw]

Going home as soon as possible to file for a name change & get a top surgery consultation. I’m glad I’ve been able to stockpile my T

[jackoquako]

I think what the biggest kick in the teeth is with the watcher announcement- at least for me- is knowing that they are NOT Netflix OR Hulu. they do not have enough content to hold an entire streaming service on their back. I get why they’re doing it and that just worries me more. They’re trying to make more money to support their growing company but they just aren’t Dropout, Netflix, or Hulu. With the big buck streaming services, they have enough content beyond their original series to keep people watching (ignoring the fact that most big boy services have needed to switch gears in their monetization to keep going) but watcher does not have that. in order for this change to work even remotely on their end, they’d need to kick into high gear and make more content. Like fast. Someone else pointed out that they’ve got a “two episode per month” schedule and that absolutely will not work for a streaming service. and of course everything I’ve mentioned is on their end, not even taking into consideration how many people are very visibly angry by this. What happens when they don’t have enough people sign up? 

what a kick in the pants.

[charmsandtealeaves]

Anyone else ever feel like they’re talking to a brick wall when talking to their parents about money/cost of living?

Because I swear with mine the answer to everything is just “you’ll work it out” and they expect I’ll be able to magic the solution out my arse.

If I took this job my mother is so desperate for me to take. I would be left with $141 after tax. I still then need to pay fees for the tax service, for the cleaning products I’d use, and childcare.

The MINIMUM rate for paying someone for childcare is $20/hr. Plus I’d still need to find someone. After that I’ve got… $11 to pay fees/products and myself for a full days work.

I’ve not even broken down the costs of products and how often I’d likely have to replace them.

She can’t understand why I don’t consider the hours of employment worth it. Why I wouldn’t just trust someone I don’t know to watch my kid and pay them pittance. No red flags to her at all.

This is not the life I expected or wanted for myself but it’s the one I got, and I’m just trying to make the best of it. I’d rather just spend the time with my child and not get paid for it without the additional stress and potential -$ this “opportunity” would offer me.

For the record: We pay rent to live here. We pay for our own food, laundry detergent and toilet paper. We pay for household items like dish soap, coffee etc on a regular basis. I’m also the person responsible for being here to collect packages or meet trades people. I’m expected to keep the house clean and tidy, do their dishes and laundry, collect firewood and keep the fire going, feed their cats and deal with their litter trays. Plus any other errand or meal preparation they ask me to do at the drop of a hat. I’m doing an Early Chilhood Education certificate while managing the household and looking after Miss 2, I’m not doing nothing with my days.

I’m tired and fucking frustrated man.

[vogelmeister]

anyways guys im really stressed out rn bc i got into my friends play and all the rehearsals are at night which is when i work and like he now knows because i told him but also i will have to miss so much because i’m stressed and i feel like it was just thrown in to my schedule

[ehgood-enough]

My landlord just upped my rent by the most he ever has because of “inflation” wtf inflation doesn’t change the cost of your mortgage.

Water rate hasn’t gone up.

Since I’ve been renting here he’s gone from working a very busy full time job and driving an old little Mazda and living in house down the street to early retirement, moved to one of the richer parts of town in a huge house and driving an Audi. Fucking “inflation” my ass

Mind you I don’t have a functioning sink in my bathroom and haven’t in over a decade. My fridge that he was totally going to replace after I moved in is still sitting in my kitchen with busted shelves and either being too cold or too warm no middle ground. Windows that don’t close all the way that he was totally going to replace ? Yep still not done just like the fridge over a decade later

I could go on and on. He’s literally fixed one thing the entire time I lived here. Replaced a toilet that had been leaking for I think 3-4 years possibly longer. I kept mentioning it but he kept saying oh ok he’ll get to it but didn’t bother until it became a serious issue

But yeah I can’t really afford to move so…..

But what an asshole move to raise the rent at the start of heating season because I can really afford more rent and the outrageous costs for heating that have gone up like mad

And of course I was just finally feeling like life had become somewhat stable for me heading towards better. Every fucking time I feel ok there’s something that ruins it

[cheridraws]

see I often get conflicted because yes, I do want to watch things that will ultimately help myself, especially with an issue I have that I’m highly aware of. But also that fear of having the issue fixed is always there, and the issue is so convenient that I don’t wanna get rid of it, so,,,,, augh

[orchidyoonkook]

Personal

Hi.

How did you get over your quarter life crisis?

Because I’m trying not to fall into the vast unyielding void. And I’m failing hilariously.

[tentacleteapot]

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[staybeautiful]

do you think the eras tour movie will be on disney+ or netflix or something?