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itā€™s that time again folksā€¦.i need some help

worked myself rly hard and i made enough for rent this month! but by prioritizing my legal case for staying in this house, i lost my SNAP benefits so i have nothing to buy food with until they process my appeal. i would like help buying food, covering my utilities and hopefully drs appts i really need.

help a black trans and very disabled person stay afloat if you can afford it!

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pp or z: please inbox me but b patient because i am on mobile :(

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do not tag this as don*tions please!

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ngl I keep forgetting that Hobby Lobby is a real store that people go to. That people actually think of it as a craft store and not as a crazy Christian mass artifact smuggler. I google "Hobby Lobby" and get a page full of results that make me go "wtf is this craft supplies and operating hours shit, I thought we all knew this place for smuggling looted cuneiform tablets out of Iraq"

They are also that! And it comes from the same place.

Since 2009, the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby started taking advantage of the wars in Iraq to buy stolen and looted cuneiform tablets and clay artifacts from ancient Mesopotamia. A lot of them were suspected to have been stolen from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad in the chaos of the US invasion in 2003. The Hobby Lobby owners used HL profits to smuggle these artifacts into the US (taking them out of Iraq is illegal so they listed them as tile samples from Turkey and Israel, more friendly nations to the US). Eventually the customs officials seized them, and the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in 2017 when the news really broke about just how many ancient Middle Eastern artifacts were smuggled into the country. They were doing this to stock their "Museum of the Bible" that purports to prove the literal truth of the Bible... using stolen Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets, somehow. Idk.

They also had sixteen Dead Sea Scrolls that turned out to be forgeries but that's only tangentially related.

Hobby Lobby and its owners were fined and ordered to return, again, thousands of artifacts back to Iraq. For years they KEPT finding more artifacts of Hobby Lobby's that turned out to be stolen, looted, and smuggled. It's one of the biggest artifact smuggling scandals in recent history. And it separated artifacts from their context and permanently damaged the ability to learn new things from them, even though archaeologists subsequently have been trying.

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cloud-ya

outcast of the village

I'm so glad to see this blow up actually. this piece feels very important to me, especially that it's not a fanart

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[ID: a tweet from The Chronic Notebook (@/chronicnotebook) that reads:

ā€œWith chronic illness, you normalize things that most people wonā€™t ever feel. You normalize high levels of pain, not remembering how pain free feels, medical procedures and trauma, needing to rest after a shower. People see you surviving, but not all that you had to normalize to do so.ā€

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additional comment from the anon: this mostly applies to things like smut or nsfw art. I see a lot of blogs that are 18+ and Iā€™ve always wondered if people actually listen to "minors dni (do not interact)" or if they just ignore them.

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thelilnan

even wilder is that adding a spouse onto your plan isn't like discounted or anything. it's not even twice what you were already paying. many times it's at least 3 times more expensive than each partner paying for their own insurance

when we say the medical insurance game is fucked, we mean on Every level

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