#I donate every time I see this post

[remyfire]

Much as it pains me to do, I must ask once more for a little bit of help to pay for Peach's medical care for this month.

Peach is my wonderful, beautiful, perfect, sassy, cuddly, loving cat. She's 12 years old, and a few months ago we found out that she is diabetic. I love her so, so much and I will do anything I can to keep her healthy and give her a wonderful life as she enters her senior years, but unfortunately the costs of caring for a diabetic cat are more than I can afford right now.

Thanks to the AI boom, the transcription industry is drying up because if there's one thing these things are good at, it's transcribing audio files. Work has been increasingly difficult to come by—I have yet to receive any for this week—and while I've been fortunate enough to have a handful of job interviews recently, I might not hear back about if I got a position until the end of September. And wouldn't you know it, but my credit card is just a hair away from maxing out.

Here's the current damage, which includes Peach's prescription food ($67), syringes ($19), and a fresh bottle of insulin ($133). Cats can have their diabetes go into remission, and if that happened then we would only need to maintain her diet, but in order to make that a possibility, I need to be meticulous about her care.

I've set up a Kofi goal here ($230 in order to cover PayPal fees) so you can see how much I still need for her cost of care. I know that this is a miserable time to ask for donations and that we are so fatigued on giving already, but I legitimately have no choice. Until I can find work somewhere, I desperately need help.

Reblogs are appreciated. And here's a video of her playing with a shoelace as thanks for taking the time to read this post!!

[adelle-ein]

idk man i've reblogged and said things about how certain people on this site and the bird one are putin defenders, syrian/ukranian genocide deniers, outright white supremacists, avowed antisemites, etc. pointed out the ways in which the current moment is being happily hijacked by white supremacists with very strong and obvious agendas. and some of you guys have reblogged and liked those posts, and then immediately gone on to continue reblogging violently antisemitic things from the very same people. so i don't think it's sinking in tbh

(and like, the posts in question are never anything useful or links to articles or anything remotely "worth" platforming genocide deniers, just the usual "DON'T SCROLL PAST THIS, POSTING IS ACTIVISM" shit)

[tariah23]

This Latina lady just came up to me complaining about the outcome and how her daughter and son couldn’t even get out of bed and were crying all night- (I was smiling at first and asked her how she was doing and she replied “shitty-“ and started going in- and even though idgaf, I know that sm others so do like I’m not about to laugh in another brown persons face for being emotional even though it is what it is 😭.)

[vermin-fangs]

Being condescending to poor & disabled people who have less than you is definitely a good way to get donations, I'm sure that's really working out for the people you are trying to help. What's the exchange rate exactly for superiority points

[bisexualamy]

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[stabby-pal]

People are a little too comfortable with showing REAL GORE AND ACTUAL DEAD PEOPLE on twitter, it’s a fucking problem

[dankovskaya]

HelIo! I have been blessed many times, now I try to touch your hearts to help protect my little angel grace diagnosed with sickle cell disease. but the worst were the THREE strokes to the brain.

Thank you once again for getting here and for everything you can do for Grace's well-being. Donate anything please if you're able🙏

You keep sending this exact same ask to me and other people with the same weird ass guilt trippy "but the worst were the THREE!!!!!!! strokes to the BRAIN!!!!" phrasing trying to use those pictures of a poor little black girl in the hospital to scam the broke cunts on this website and it really does disgust me actually can everyone please report this blog

[crplpunkklavier]

the internet archive is still in trouble, if you need a place to donate insane amounts of money to. i mean theres thousands of other places too, people have been bringing up wikipedia, the archive is just whats on my mind the most recently. i am an active ao3 writer (because thats where readers are) and im telling you. ao3 has so much fucking money its not going to go down if you dont donate, and even if it did? let it burn then. i mean good lord who cares. ill post my fics to tumblr. ill start a substack or whatever. its just fanfiction. ao3 wants your money but there are places that need your help. know the difference and be good. peace

[glassamphibians]

i got one of those “turn around every book i havent read on my bookshelf” tiktoks on my fyp but 90% of their unread books were special editions w/ sprayed & stenciled edges so it looked the exact same

[testosteronefag]

i hope tumblr user grawly who spent over $400 on tumblr bluecheck marks gets robbed and never has a dime to their name for the rest of their life

[ashes-onthewind]

for me i very very much want to, but a) I've never gotten to b) i have low blood pressure issues and don't know if it will fuck me up c) I'm deathly afraid of needles

[feast-for-the-worms]

If you have spent money on blazing a post about the fucking boops thing here is a set of simple instructions to follow

1. Take the same amount of money you spent on showing a shitty meme to a few more people

2. Donate it to one of the many people currently trying to escape a genocide

Why would you spend money on the anti-clout site notoriously run by racists and transmisogynists when you could be helping people. Or at the very fucking least not advertising that you prefer to throw money into a fire rather than give it to people who actually need it

[maletomboy]

ill be honest what some people are calling "compassion fatigue" might just be ocd

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

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[phagodyke]

I mostly just scroll thru blog subs when im on mobile bc I follow too many ppl on here so I add mutuals etc there n then turn off notifs so it's like the creme de la creme of the dash anyway if u see me in ur notes more its bc I forgor to add some of u on there until recently sorry 😭😭

[kuuhaiyu]

i really can't emphasize how heartbreaking it is that the recent harassment campaign against @/90-ghost (among others; see: 1, 2, 3) has led to well-meaning people telling others not to listen to him. he is one of the most visible survivors of the genocide here on tumblr. his entire journey of escape is so well documented! and yet, it only took a few people confidently pointing fingers to create an entire witch hunt accusing him and other palestinians of being disreputable scammers and liars.

i can't help but feel like the reason why people were SO eager to believe those accusations, is because it was uncomfortable to see posts from palestinians every day asking for our time, attention, money, and support; so when someone presented the perfect excuse to ignore all those posts and asks while also taking the high ground, people just LEAPED onto it. they wanted to believe it, because it would be more comfortable.

honestly, i understand feeling overwhelmed by bad news, by the number of asks and messages in your inbox, and so on and so forth. i understand needing to set boundaries for yourself so you don't get burned out. i think this is really when you have to have a set of principles to fall back on, even when you're tired, uncomfortable, angry, and/or sad. so here's the one i suggest, which has been working for me best: don't make your discomfort with this situation into someone else's problem, and for god's sake don't make it a public problem.

if you hate seeing fundraiser posts or news about gaza, i can't emphasize this enough, JUST MOVE ON. KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT AND SCROLL PAST! all you have to do is absolutely nothing. which is what you were doing anyway, so it shouldn't be hard. if you don't have the heart to read, or reblog, or share, or donate, or support in other ways, at the very least, don't obstruct the efforts of people who ARE trying to make a difference. this is, quite literally, the least you can do.