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something my mum always taught us was to look for the resources we're entitled to, and use them. public land? know your access rights and responsibilities, go there and exercise them. libraries? go there and talk to librarians and read community notice boards, find out what other people are doing around you, ask questions, use the printers. public records offices? go in there, learn what they hold and what you can access, look at old maps, get your full birth certificate copied, check out the census from your neighbourhood a hundred years ago. are you entitled to social support? find out, take it, use it. does the local art college have facilities open to the public? go in, look around, check out their exhibit on ancient looms or whatever, shop in their campus art supply store. it applies online too, there is so much shit in the world that belongs to the public commons that you can access and use if you just take a minute to wonder what might exist!!!
hey if you live in the usa i am on my knees begging you to go to benefits.gov and take their quiz to see if you qualify for literally any government benefits at all. the income requirements for some stuff (i.e. SNAP) are actually not quite as low as one might think! the quiz is really straightforward and only took me around 5 minutes to complete. i do recommend a computer over a phone but it works ok on mobile too. it will share so many great resources for you and will show you things even if you only technically meet one eligibility requirement.
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Saw this and was immediately excited and then in the same moment knew I had to share it with @pillowspace
Pspsps come see the sea slug with me
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Interviews with current and former US Agency for International Development (USAID) and State Department officials, aid agencies working in Gaza and internal USAID documents reveal that the administration rejected or ignored pleas to use its leverage to persuade its ally Israel – the recipient of billions of dollars of US military support – to allow sufficient humanitarian aid into Gaza to stop the famine taking hold. The former officials say the US also provided diplomatic cover for Israel to create the conditions for famine by blocking international efforts to bring about a ceasefire or alleviate the crisis, making the delivery of aid almost impossible. “This is not just turning a blind eye to the man-made starvation of an entire population, it is direct complicity,” former State Department official Josh Paul, who resigned over US support for the war, told The Independent. [...] “This is a population that is starving to death, this is a population that is being pushed to the brink,” the World Health Organisation’s emergencies director Michael Ryan said at a press conference on 31 January. The same day Mr Ryan described Gaza’s grim outlook, White House national security communications adviser John Kirby defended the Biden administration’s decision to suspend aid to UNRWA. Mr Kirby denied that cutting off assistance to the UN entity with the largest footprint in Gaza would have a detrimental effect on the humanitarian situation there, and instead claimed that the US was “working so hard to get more [humanitarian] assistance into the people of Gaza”. [...] A cable drafted by officials at the agency and leaked to HuffPost in early April said that “the threshold to support a famine determination has likely already been crossed,” and that the level of hunger and malnutrition in Gaza was “unprecedented in modern history”. A separate memo written by USAID officials for Mr Blinken and leaked to Devex found that Israel may be violating a White House directive requiring recipients of US military assistance to permit the unimpeded delivery of US-funded humanitarian support. The UN has said repeatedly that, by the time an official declaration of famine is made, it will be too late to prevent thousands of deaths. The declaration requires a painfully precise collection of data that is not possible to get while the north of Gaza remains cut off by the fighting. [...] According to UN figures, more than half of Gaza’s population– some 1.1 million people – face catastrophic food insecurity. This represents the highest share of a population ever recorded globally. One in three children under the age of two suffer from acute malnutrition. [...] “I believe the US to be complicit in creating the conditions for famine,” the current anonymous USAID employee told The Independent. “Not only has our response been woefully inadequate, but we’re actively responsible in large part for it.”
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Thrilled to see someone carrying on the tradition of protest folk music. Keep fighting the good fight!
there's a full version on youtube now
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the gifs i find on this website... you guys are art curators
this is not about gifsets this is about shit like this
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i may not be gods strongest warrior but there is all sorts of bullshit that he makes me deal with and i hndle it not very well usually
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fuck killing a victorian child by making them listen to hyperpop all you gotta do is make a white tumblr user listen to rap
you are that weak actually you are literally the Tumblr user this post is about
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reminder that digital libraries aren’t owned, also why pirating digital content is a necessity
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MOUSE YAOI REAL
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Ah, yes, the inherent homoeroticism of the grocery store
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Doctor: $140,000 a year
Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year
trilllizard420
i think you’re lowballing the furry art amount tbh
I’m sorry for the inaccuracies, Doctor Yiff
trilllizard420
no matter how I respond to this I don’t look good, well played. i walked right into that
boob-a-chu
Well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor, so I can see that.
Did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8+ years in a university to give you your lung transplant?
bog-dweller-official
doctors are bullshit and furry artists perform an infinitely more valuable service to society compared to them
You will die in 7 days
It took doctor’s like 10 years to diagnose what was wrong with me, some insisting I was faking for attention while a furry artist I knew just went “that sounds like crohn’s” after hearing me complain once and ended up being right
Also I can’t go to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I
You could if you weren’t a fucking coward
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Our final bid of the night, we have a transit map from the universe where the MBTA Blue line had to be shut down due to paranormal activity from hell, bidding starts at $17.00
I hear $27, can we get $30?
We have $50, can we get 65? Going Once
We have 1 cat, can we get 2 cats
@feral-goblin-kid congrats, we are selling it to you at the cost of $1,251,697,325.01 and 7.5 cats
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Our final bid of the night, we have a transit map from the universe where the MBTA Blue line had to be shut down due to paranormal activity from hell, bidding starts at $17.00
I hear $27, can we get $30?
We have $50, can we get 65? Going Once
We have 1 cat, can we get 2 cats
@feral-goblin-kid congrats, we are selling it to you at the cost of $1,251,697,325.01 and 7.5 cats
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