#and i can't afford to replace it

[nevertrulyset]

Hahaha, I'm so angry. Hahaha, I wish I could let it all go. Hahaha, thanks for ruining my entire livelihood.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Hi, I woke up today to texts from someone I love in frozen South Dakota. She's had a rough run of things lately, child support keeps being late and she's had car issues lately that she's fortunately been able to cover herself, but it's eaten into the very tiny savings she'd finally built up.

She has been taking on as much work as she can get cleaning houses to try to make up for missing child support, but her kids keep getting sick from school and then getting her sick which has made this challenging.

Today her autistic 9 yo was too sick to go to school and so my loved one had to call out of work to stay home and take care of the kiddo, while also being pretty sick herself.

She's done some math and these are the expenses she can't figure out how to cover:

$275 rent $80 medicine $45 phone bill $20 gas $20 replacement noise canceling headphones for autistic kid $20 gas $5 shampoo and conditioner $5 feminine pads

Would any financially secure adults be able/willing to help this little family with even a dollar towards meeting these needs?

She made a gfm here:

[ukgk]

sad news for Ukagaka archival efforts Σ´ω｀）

all my archive.org uploads have suddenly been deleted following the data breach that was reported around 5-7 hours ago because I changed my login details, I'll try to re-upload the difficult to track down Ukagaka ghosts I documented and my Ukagaka related CD/floppy-disk rips somewhere and I'm going to try to learn how to host stuff myself (neocities is too expensive to keep paying for extra space on) but just wanted to warn my followers that if you change your archive.org email all of your uploads will be erased, to reset any passwords that are the same as your archive.org login. always remember to back up your work on Ukagaka ghosts and progress to a local drive or hard-drive!! right now a lot of the documentation on how to create your own ghost and the history of Ukagaka is lost but hopefully it'll be back soon

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Also would like to say, outside of tags on someone else's posts, that most poor people are not paying full price for fancy smartphones. They're getting those phones through trade-in programs or "sign up for this service and get a free phone" things, they're buying discounted or discontinued phones that look fancy but work like shit, or they're doing payment plans (usually for an already discounted phone).

[sigilmint]

man it's really nuts to go every single day going "oh it's getting colder, I should get some long sleeved shirts oh but I can't afford that nevermind" and "ooh imagine if I could go see my parents or aunt and uncle some time oh but I can't afford that nevermind" and "it would be so nice to have jeans that fit me oh but I can't afford that nevermind" like it's every single thought. and some of it is the enshittification, like I have repaired the same four pairs of socks so many times, no matter how uncomfortable it is to walk on the bulky seams, bc they don't make cotton socks anymore.

[papermonkeyism]

In other news, my phone has started borking itself!

Well, technically the phone itself is fine, despite its somewhat advanced age for a smart phone. However its battery is no longer a flat rectangle, and I'm kinda afraid to use it now. This thing is not supposed to wobble on a flat surface.

I have seen a phone doctor, who's going to attempt to replace the battery, however this particular model is built in a way that to access the battery one must remove the screen, so there's a chance of the screen getting broken in the process. Plus, being an older phone and all, they don't have batteries at hand, and it'll take two to three weeks for the replacement to arrive as it had to be ordered separately.

Thankfully a friend of mine has promised to lend me a backup phone to continue functioning while I wait, but it'll probably take untill sometime next week to arrive.

In the meantime, I am so happy I now have a tablet as a backup, so I'm not completely isolated, but man, it's kinda scary to lose one's access to a functioning phone these days, huh.

[naomiknight-17]

Tiny Tim is driving me up the wall so badly by loudly clawing at the metal grate on the laundry room door that I'm seriously considering dropping a big chunk of my upcoming tax return on one of these

Even if he COULD get his claws in between these slats (and the way they're shaped, I doubt it) the wooden door wouldn't make nearly as much noise being jostled as the hollow door we have now and its screwed-on metal vents

Cats cost money in unexpected ways

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Getting slammed with an $850 vet bill today 😬 and poor Velma might have a bum knee, which will probably equal more expensive vet visits in the future 😩

[brood-mother]

following the trend that I can't have anything good or worthwhile in my life, i tipped a glass of water all over my pc earlier and it's probably fucked. it wasn't totally flooded so i turned it off, cleaned it and let it air dry for some time. turned it on and it was booting to bios and nothing else, turned it off and let it dry more, now it's booting to a black screen and nothing else. cool. cool cool.

[neganium]

need to draw bc need money... don't want to draw bc do not feel good... suffering

[chicago-geniza]

Paid my overdue gas and electric bills and texted my friends back to reschedule and refilled my Ventracard because my balance was in the negative. Please clap. I have dental and eye care and a bunch of other stuff scheduled this month in case I lose Medicaid in the new year. I am trying so hard but I am so fucking disabled and I am entirely alone and it is nigh impossible to manage my whole life by myself at this level of poverty while stymied at every turn by the US government. I only just got my muscle spasm medication back two days ago

[o-lanterns]

they should invent work uniforms that are comfortable and don't make me want to claw them to shreds

[nowoyas]

accidentally washed my wireless earbuds and I'm pretty sure they're broken this might actually be fucking it for me

[naomiknight-17]

Testing the new pens I got at Staples yesterday (left) and the Faber-Castell ones Jon grabbed for me at a downtown art store today (right)

Most of the ones I got yesterday were not what I was looking for. I'll still make use of the Sharpie paint pens and the Tombow 01, 03 and 05, but what I really needed was replacements for my Faber-Castell black brush pen and 1.5. I gave the Tombow hard/soft points to Jon, I think they'll be better for his writing than for my drawing.

There weren't a lot of Faber-Castell pen sets that included the brush and 1.5 without also including a bunch of fine tips, which I am well-stocked on, so we got a set that had some gray brush pens so I can experiment with shading and stuff

I uh. Might be reopening donation doodles soon. Being an artist is expensive

[fantabulisticity]

I'M GETTING MY NIPPLES PIERCED THIS FRIDAY

[lesenbyan]

there really is something completely demoralizing about literally starving for over a year bc i cannot work and dragging myself in for the few days i can manage and disability deciding I'm still capable of gainful employment