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Scout Paper-Mario-Wiki Needs Help

Hey all. It's gotten bad for me.

Me, and the people I care about the most, need to leave the country, and I can no longer rely on my full time job to provide me with the funds I need to do so. This is not a matter of comfort for us, it is a matter of survival, and I don't say that lightly.

I do not feel good asking for this much assistance, but I need it, and will be doing whatever I can to make it happen.

For the first time in 4 years, I'll be opening up voice acting commissions, and I've also started a fundraising campaign.

If you'd like to support me, please click any of the links below.

Chuffed campaign

Donate on cashapp

Donate on paypal

Email me for a commission at chasejoven@gmail.com (starting at $100 for short jobs, willing to negotiate if the commission is especially small. I'm also more than willing to do non-voice-acting work if you have something else you know I can do for you.)

Pay-what-you-want for my music

Thank you very much for reading, and thank you for your help.

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If you’re looking for ways to help at-risk communities in the DC area during this crackdown please look into supporting some of the following orgs:

Remora House

Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid

HIPS

CASA (Virginia)

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The Matheson Trust's excerpts of The Hagakure, a manual for samurai, is like 2% genuinely good life advice, 96% rigid social hierarchy, 1.99% advice for actually, y'know, fighting, and 0.01% advice on how to avoid burping that doesn't work

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new post! please help me stay housed & meet my medical needs

update july 30: new post because the last one was too long.

my landlord messed up the paperwork so my lease is renewed, but the eviction hearing is still happening & i really need to move. i've been dealing with constant hostility & ableism since i moved in, to the point that i haven't even had time to go to viewings. i need to get out ASAP. she just put up a fence that blocks half the alley so i can't take my walker or wheelchair out at all & can barely even fit my body through. she's literally trapped me in my apartment. i can't walk without support & have medical appts i can't miss. i need to be able to get out in emergencies.

last month, a local org agreed to pay $299 on a pair of smartcrutches, but i still have to pay at least $230 out of pocket. it'll take a long time to get help with my landlord and i need to be able to leave the building while i look for a new place. i'd be able to squeeze them through the fence & they'd at least provide more support than a cane or standard crutches, and they don't put pressure on my hands which is really important for me.

i also couldn't get my new glasses this month because i didn't meet my goal & what disability doesn't cover will be $300 or more (i have a big head and a weird prescription & they'll only cover $76 😭).

please help me if you can!

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Have you heard of Grandbury, Texas?

This rural, small community is being terrorized by a Bitcoin Mine. It's incessant sound pollution is suspected to be causing health issues for humans and animals alike...and that's not to mention the mental health impact of HORRIBLE, constant, unwelcome sound.

Check out this reel by @ perfectunion on Instagram that thoroughly tells the story from some local voices.

As always, Texas is the place that the capitalist, conservative, money-crazed fascist wet dreams come to life. And it's always the most vulnerable and poorest among us who suffer the worst.

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Hey if you hadn't heard, now you have.

I don't post photos of myself publicly online often, but I think this is important. Under this legislation, these random photos of me would be considered pornography solely because I'm a transgender woman.

This ban hasn't gone through yet, it's in the senate right now, so please call your senators and urge them to shut this down. Aside from a ban on pornography being ridiculous in the first place, this is about targeting trans people and having our lives made a living hell.

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why they gotta do that to me

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INDEED.COM IS A BASTION OF DECEPTION AND DEVILRY

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), family Alligatoridae, found in the Southeastern US and far NE Mexico

photographs by Chris Gillette

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Are you a university student trying to learn under normal circumstances and still finding it difficult? Let me tell you about myself. I'm Mahmoud from Gaza, a computer systems engineer with only two semesters left to graduate. I'm about to get my degree. Famine is ravaging us, but that's not the main obstacle. It's the fees. To enter this semester's exams, I need to secure the required fees, which are about $800. These are the last two semesters, and I'll be done with university. I'm worried and afraid of falling behind an additional year. I must get this amount to finish this semester!

Dear student, to be able to access Moodle, you must pay 20% of the tuition fees for the registered hours for the second semester 2024/2025 as a minimum through payment methods: bank transfer, PayPal, or mobile Pay. Click here for payment methods. After payment, the notification must be delivered to Professor Raafat Muammar via WhatsApp.

Here is the exam schedule, the first exam starts on August 9th and this amount must be collected before this period to pay to the university and enter the exam!

Give me a chance to complete my education, donate what you can for me so that I can become an engineer and help my family and my country

Fundraiser || PayPal || Vetting 1 || Vetting 2

@feluka @sayruq @gothhabiba

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The unsavvy talk about furries like they're some hypersexual excretion of modernity, but drawing animal-people is one of the top 10 neolithic human activities. It's up there with collecting berries and producing clay figures of fat women.

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Food allergies suck but I've yet to decide whether its worse to have the very minor squeeze in your throat that tricks you into thinking you can keep eating/drinking it or the MAJOR squeeze start-breathing-through-a-coffee-stirrer bc it turns out that what you're eating randomly has anchovy in it

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You Can Now Watch ‘Reading Rainbow’ and Old PBS Shows for Free | Lifehacker

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Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about the name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

(Six months ago, I did a version of this poll with about five hundred options on the spinner wheel. For this one, I more than doubled it.)

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reject the western gaze!

mutual aid means no hierarchy between givers and receivers

a new mutual aid org, Bridge of Solidarity, has been established in the gaza strip by 17 year old poet yazan mohammed in response to the exploitative practices conducted by some charities and encouraged by the existing charity-based model of fundraising for gaza. according to BoS: "the western attention economy and pity economy plays a large role in who lives or dies in gaza." essentially, people need to make themselves marketable in order to receive lifesaving aid; people who are not marketable die. yazan himself wrote about the damage this can do to one's self image, which you can read here.

after trying for a year to respect his own privacy, my friend siraj was also pressured into posting images of his son's emaciated body in order to gain sympathy from westerners.

we cannot keep forcing people to do this anymore.

here's a declaration of their values from bridge of solidarity's most recent post:

Our organization is against the Western gaze. We refuse to humiliate people. We refuse to force people to take photos. We refuse to force people to take photos with our flyer or logo. People will receive aid freely without being forced to pose. We will respect people's privacy completely. Our principles include autonomy, dignity, sovereignty, mutual respect, and mutual aid.

this org will prioritize giving aid to people without phones or social media, who do not speak english, and who do not have outside support or living parents. these are the people who are not palatable to westerners but who deserve to live with as much dignity as everyone else

as of five days ago, BoS are working on a water truck delivery