#charity single

[milkywayes]

there's downsides to ranking high in the hierarchy [prints]

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

do you know what didn’t get enough attention…this

[teamivankaye]

Just dropped by Ivan on Twitter: First shot of the ELF! 👌😄👑 New Christmas charity single for the Great Ormond Street Hospital by @sagamusictv available for pre-order now! 🎄✨️

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[totallyhussein-blog]

Snoop Dogg and Ooberfuse rally for the UK's homeless this Christmas

There was great news at the weekend, as my good friends at Ooberfuse have teamed up with US rap royalty Snoop Dogg, to take on the prejudices surrounding homelessness here in the UK.

Their new single (out December 1st) is also aiming to raise much needed support for those helping the homeless on the streets of London this Winter.

While this is great news, if you live here in Manchester and want to get involved, there are two excellent organizations who will also be working extra hard this Christmas to assist those living on the streets of the city and they would welcome your assistance.

Reach out to the Community is an award-winning charity which helps people who find themselves homeless or living in food poverty. They welcome all contributions, which can be dropped into their community hub at 488 Wilbraham Road, Chorlton, Manchester, M21 9AS. You can also call 0161 862 9415.

Another service is Mad Dogs Homeless Project, which provides support to rough sleepers across Manchester. They go direct to people living on the streets giving out hot meals, drinks, clothing and other lifesaving essentials. They can be contacted via: info@maddogshomelessproject.org.uk or call 07591-571-555 for more information.

[weaversweek]

GOSH! Bonnie Langford and the hit record

Here’s one for @partywithponies and the rest of the fan club: Bonnie Langford's one appearance on Top of the Pops.

On this day in 1988, the BBC's pop music programme played a clip from "The wishing well". What was this song, what's it got to do with a children's hospital, and why the chuff are Bonnie Langford and TV's Doctor Who on it?!

Great Ormond Street Hospital is a children's hospital in London. It's got a great reputation for medical care and research and pioneering surgery on young patients. This appeal was the first concerted effort to raise money for the work they do, and had a particular point - to refurbish the dilapidated buildings. £40 million needed to come from public fundraising.

The "Wishing Well" appeal would run through 1988 and smash through its target. It's rightly seen as a template for other charity appeals to emulate. Big events included a swimathon in February, concerts by Michael Jackson and Cliff Richard, a classic car auction, the Willow film premiere, and £1.5 million as the London marathon's default charity.

To raise awareness, there was a one-hour documentary on BBC1 in the gap between Christmas and New Year. There was also a charity single, three years after Band Aid invented the idea, and eight months after Ferry Aid kept the idea rolling.

To modern ears, "The wishing well" isn't a great song. Frankly, to ears in 1988, "The wishing well” wasn't a great song. It's simple, effective, unashamedly tugs at the heartstrings. It's optimistic, the rising cadences in the chorus point to a brighter future. Chris Copping wrote the tune, it was produced by Ray Santilli and Keff McCulloch.

Main vocals on the song came from Boy George (who seemed to do every charity single of the era, including Ferry Aid), Peter Cox from Go West, Hazel O'Connor, Grace Kennedy, forgotten 80s duo Dollar, and Noddy Holder from Slade. The chorus included one-hit wonders Jimmy Nail and Hollywood Beyond, the metal band Uriah Heep, 1970s popsters Showaddywaddy, Andy Scott of The Sweet, and Hot Chocolate.

And - like on Ferry Aid earlier in the year - the chorus featured anyone who was able to get to the studio. Folk from EastEnders, hitmakers from Spitting Image, The Rent Party, some stars of Grange Hill, Caron Keating made a film for Blue Peter, Shriekback, Roland Rat Superstar, Andy Crane and Simon Potter from CBBC's Broom Cupboard. All of them able to plug the single to their viewers / listeners / fans. And there was Lisa Maxwell, Michael Croft, Dave Joyner, Terry Rice-Milton, Tracey Wilson, Jodie Wilson, Patricia Conti, the Cantabile choir, the Housemaster Boyz, Jenny Day, Kevin O'Dowd, and "many more".

And there were Bonnie Langford and Sylvester McCoy from television's Doctor Who. They'd been invited by Keff McCulloch, as he'd written some of the incidental music for the recent series. Is there more Bonnie Langford in the video than her vocal contribution merits? Yes. Does it help to sell the single to casual buyers? Also yes.

At this distance, we forget that Bonnie Langford was simultaneously a Famous Person With Lots Of Fans, and Insufferably Uncool Because She'd Played An Irritating Girl On Telly Who Screamed And Screamed Till She Was Sick. Bonnie’s time on Doctor Who hadn't fully rehabilitated her, she'd only been in it for five minutes and we were all waiting for the way-cool Ace anyway. GOSH wasn't going to sell its record to those who thought Bonnie was uncool. It was for the mums and grannies, theatreland and luvviedom, and it hit the mark.

And that is why Bonnie Langford was on Top of the Pops. Up next, the new single from Terence “Trent” D’Arby.

[spitblaze]

If you’re gonna care about prison abolition and justice you are necessarily going to have to care about the people who DID do those crimes and just want to reintegrate and live a normal life without hurting anyone. You're gonna have to be cool with the fact that the guy scanning your groceries might’ve raped someone. You're gonna have to relax about the possibility that your bank teller used to be a career criminal. The person sitting next to you on the bus might’ve committed three different murders, and as long as he's not about to commit a fourth right now, that's not your fuckin' problem. People don't disappear from society after they commit crimes, and most of them really just want to live a normal, stable life instead of going back to that. And the best way to make sure they don't relapse is to ensure they're able to live that peaceful life instead of freaking out because the guy next door used to run a dogfighting ring. You don’t have to be friends with them, you don't even have to like them, but you're gonna need to be okay with them existing in society. Sorry.

[naamahdarling]

You know what? You know what I think?

I think that if we lived as we were meant to, in larger intimate ("extended family") groups and with more shared labor and time to do it (UBI NOW) people like me would not feel so useless and burdensome because there would be people around to help and to do what neurodivergent people can't while making valuable space for the neurodivergent to do what they ARE good at.

The way we live right now, all right, the way we live right now forces units of two adults to be able to do EVERYTHING or PAY to have someone come do it for them. I have to do the housework. I have to do it! But I am having to do a million different things and most of them I am not good at. I suck at them.

I wouldn't feel like shit, okay, if I had more than one other person around who was not a child and who could do the things I can't, like do the yard and cook and do repairs and basic maintenance; and someone else to split everything else that I like but is too much for me. It would free me to do what I am good at and enjoy. Cleaning, as in the sink and toilet, the windows, the blinds. Taking out trash. Folding, hanging, and sorting laundry.

But because all the shit I can do often relies on other shit being done first, and I can't do or have trouble doing those things, the shit I can do often can't be done. And even the shit I can do, I can't do ALL of it. So I can't keep up, and things get very bad.

We aren't meant to live like this. We are not meant to live like this.

That thought hurts so much because being able to flee the birth family is integral to survival for so many people. I'm so afraid that living in larger family groups would create more opportunities for, say, queer kids to be isolated, rejected, bullied, and abused. But if we gave people enough money to survive, and stopped considering children the property of their parents with no system in place to help them escape bad situations except a system that is often just as bad, just different.

I'm aware that communes and collectives aren't all that successful and are kind of a joke. I don't mean that. I mean a fundamental shift to multigenerational families where taking in "strays" (which my family did) is also normalized so people escaping abuse into existing households was accepted, with these families centered in maybe a couple of different larger residences so not everyone has to buy and maintain their own fucking washing machine and vacuum cleaner, and so people can benefit from large group meals that yield leftovers, and so child and elder care can also be centralized.

Then disabled people and the neurodivergent and sick and injured people, and pregnant people, and grieving people, would not have to either labor through all those stressors or consign themselves to living off an unlivable pittance or being put under legal guardianship.

I'm not saying anything new. People live like this in other parts of the world and maybe it sucks and I am wrong. But I'm just really mad right now because I can either do laundry or clean the sink but not both, and I really think we could improve society somewhat by making it so I did not have to choose one without sacrificing the other.

[cherrifire]

So many pork chops..............

[asynca]

[sincerely-sofie]

Booooo ur god isn't real and you're a willingly ignorant bigot

I’ve had this ask in my inbox since early April… I now set it free, like a butterfly of bad mojo.

[b4kuch1n]

crumbs in your bed

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[sometimeswritingsometimesdying]

@7-sided-dice spoke about haiden playing pool and now it’s running around my head that they have never won a game fairly despite harvard’s best efforts

[belmarzi]

the poster i made for the hermitcraft charity livestream a couple months ago

[sevenpillz]

UAAAAHHH I keep having dreams that I find Furbys at thrift shops and flea markets and every time I wake up I am SO DEVASTATED that it's not true !!!! Like cmon man this is unfair !! I think I've had like 8 different dreams where I found furbys for sale in stores, this is torture

[sweaterkittensahoy]

How are you my dear? I hope you are in good health. I am Hani from Gaza, Palestine. The war has destroyed me physically, psychologically and financially. I hope you stand by me and read my story through the link attached to my personal page. If you are able to donate, this is a kindness.

Please share the link and I will pray for you🙏🌹

Another scammer. Gofundme was created 5 hours ago, and yet my inbox, of all the inboxes, was found so quickly. Using all the same language I have seen from many scammers. They all have several small, sad children and at least one debilitating injury, and they have photos to post showing an idea of proof of what they're saying, but they never appear to be around any other people who might be fleeing the area.

These are just things I notice when I get these inbox drops. Lots of shit to tug at your heartstrings but very little in the way of sincere evidence.

I want to be clear: I think the person in the photos IS someone who may need help, but I do not think the person in my inbox is that person. Some scammer has stolen photos from someone in order to make a buck.

Block and report. Give to charitable organizations that can prove they are on the ground providing aid.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

God I am so tired of only seeing posts about the Messenia disaster in relation to the Titan sub. Hey, maybe the deaths of hundreds of people are worth talking about outside of talking about how it's okay to meme people slowly suffocating to death? Maybe we should acknowledge the efforts of Greek protesters fighting against these unfair bans? Maybe we should be getting out of the US-centric narrative for just a moment to find out how we can actually help the thousands of migrants dying horrible and preventable deaths each year?