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Radio Free Monday (Jan 27, 2025)

Good morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday for January 27, 2025! RFM posts links to peoples' personal fundraisers asking for community assistance, on both Tumblr and Dreamwidth.

Ways to give

LiamStormBorn (no link provided) is with a small group of LGBTQ+ 7 refugees from Uganda who are in jeopardy for their lives, and hoping to seek safety in an UNHCR zone across the border in south Sudan. They are looking for $1,000 to help with funding to travel. Contact Liam at the email provided, Info.spectrumssd@gmail.com.

Postalplants asks for help affording therapy sessions with their trusted therapist to make and enact a safety plan to get safely out of suicidal ideation. Read more, reblog, and find the donation link here.

Wolvereaux needs help with car repairs and maintenance. The battery needs replaced, all four tires need replaced (one immediately, the other three as soon as possible), and the engine needs a coolant flush to address its tendency to overheat. Read more, reblog, and find the donation link here.

Recurring needs

Remy, who is multiply disabled, is currently experiencing homelessness after domestic violence. They're currently in a motel, which has taken up all their SSI. They need funds to stay in the safe housing of the hotel while they await a court date and coming up on the housing list. Read more, share, and find the donation link here.

Chingaderita is raising funds to cover necessities and vital healthcare for themselves and their family, which has been struggling after a house fire and living in a temporary house full of mold for the past 5 months. You can read more and support the fundraiser.

Idiomagic and their family are in dire straits. Idiomagic is disabled, their husband is unemployed, and their cat SpyBoy has diabetes that needs controlled. They are selling their rare collectible books to fundraise, and offering custom masks and poetry for some donations. Read more, reblog, and find the donation link here.

And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can post items for my attention at the Radio Free Monday submissions form.

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I originally wanted to post this zine, which is a beginner-friendly introduction to what "intersex" means, but tumblr did that funny little thing where the post was invisible from dashboard, presumably because it was deemed nsfw. Sorry for using real words on my educational post instead of censoring myself I suppose.

So yeah. Instead you get this zine, which I made because I am pissed off that every single time I look up "intersex" anywhere I run into misconceptions that could be corrected by reading the wikipedia page on intersex people. Because I fucking guess "making a post about a group of people and actually looking up said group of people" is too much to ask.

And because this is the "piss on the poor" website: yes, I am well aware that most people are genuinely ignorant and don't mean any ill. Yes, I know it must feel really bad to see a post about a random person yelling at you about an issue you weren't aware of until now. This isn't about you. This is about me. This is for me, because every six months I make the blandest most sanded down "btw remember that intersex people exist :]" post and I feel like I'm yelling into the uncaring void. I am tired. I am so very tired of being the "friendly educational blogger who is understanding of everyone's circumstances." I'm more than that. I should be allowed to be more than that.

Anyways. Happy pride. Read up on every letter of the LGBTQIA+ acronym. At least the wikipedia page. Come on. Just the wikipedia page.

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This probably sounds obvious, but I learned today that prisoners aren't protected by OSHA regulations, and that this is another reason why employers are so eager to utilize this modern slavery. It's only a couple cents an hour, less transportation costs than the overseas sweatshops, and if you want people to work with hazardous materials without proper training? That's fine too! Prison labor is the ultimate free market solution!

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the idea that being closeted is being a liar is a heterosexual propaganda that hates queer people protecting themselves. you don't have to come out if you're not safe.

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Went to the Aboriginal artifact exhibit in Chicago. And it’s interesting. How many blankets and masks and totem poles say ‘unknown source’, because every five seconds my mom would stop and point to something and say. “Pauline’s grandmother made that,” or, “That belongs to Mike’s family, I should call him” because. It’s all stolen

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I can barely contain myself right now

holy shit

HOLY SHIT

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You don’t hear it a lot: but England is a terrifying place to live. And I know reading that single line will have some people snickering as if what I said isn’t true. Maybe we aren’t as bad as some places: that much is true. We don’t have gun crime, racism isn’t as much as heard of (though it definitely exists in a stupid amount). But that’s also because you lot don’t hear about it: you don’t hear it unless you’re in the country or from the country and keeping up with everything.

As a non-binary trans masc person, it’s terrifying to even step out of the house and I’m not even publicly out yet. The amount of trans and homophobia around England is insane and terrifying: it’s to the point where everyday I’m reading the news and another LGBTQ-related attack is somewhere on the front page. Another transgender person has been murdered in cold blood or another lesbian couple has been beaten up on the tube in London. As someone who has been constantly penalised and put down for trying to be who I am, as well as outted against my will, it’s scary to read these things everyday. It was heart breaking to watch GMB every morning and see Piers Morgan invalidating my gender through an argument with someone who was trying his best to defend me. It was cringe-worthy hearing the comments coming from my own “friend”‘s mouth when I tried to come out.

JKR was a perfect example of just the power of the hate in this country: her voice - and her supporters voices - were so loud that they got the government to backtrack on their plans to allow me to change my legal gender easier. Because it invalidated sexual assault survivors and their hardships. I was sexually assaulted when I was 8: and again when I was 11. Believe me when I tell you, letting a transgender woman use the fucking woman’s bathroom is NOT invalidating your assault. That sounds like a you problem, not theirs.

The government is actively enabling the persistent LGBTQ hate in this country. In the last four months there have been several online petitions which they have HAD to look at due to 100k+ signatures. Each time their only was response was “No, we support you, but no. Too much work.” If you refuse to recognise me as existing- to recognise that I am a law abiding person who deserves to be able to legally be me- then you are not supporting me.

The NHS has a wait time of anywhere from two years to ten years for gender clinic appointments: just to get put on hormone medication, you could be waiting up to 7 years for one appointment. Unless you go private that is. Not only is private extremely expensive, but the NHS practitioners have every right to DENY your referral / diagnosis because it wasn’t done by an NHS professional. So even if you do go private, there’s no guarantee. A lot of transgender people are resorting to illegally obtaining hormone drugs from dealers. We’re that desperate.

It’s gotten so bad that OTHER COUNTRIES are acknowledging that it’s unsafe to live here. Two years ago a British transgender women sook asylum in New Zealand based purely off of her gender identity and WAS SUCCESSFUL. Portugal also accepts asylum seekers based off of gender identity. That is how bad it is here. Transgender people are dying everyday. This is how bad it is.

There’s so much more I can rant about but it’s 7am and I haven’t slept. I’m tired. But I just spent three hours crying over this shirt and how not only me but hundreds of thousands of other Transgender people in England have it bad; and there’s no one here to help us.

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Wow, TERFs went real quick from "It's not fair to let Lauryl Hubbard compete in a women's Olympic event because she's ~aCtUaLlY a MaN~ and therefore stronger than her competitors" before she competed, to "Oh, well obviously she just failed on purpose to make trans women seem non-threatening to sport, so they can now sneak in and take over!" after she came in last in her event.

I know this has been touched on in previous posts, but the similarities to antisemitism and transmisogyny in terms of shifting conspiracy theories in which the targets of abuse can do no right and are always deemed to be insidious is absolutely fucking terrifying, and I'm so sorry trans Jewish ladies have to put up with this on two fronts. Everybody—trans, Jewish, both, neither—should be very scared about the implications of what we're seeing with these unending conspiracy theories where the implications are very much that the targets of the abuse are always evil, and therefore should cease to exist.

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So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.

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And to those who say, but second hand books and read them, what about the one who buys a second hand book, reads it, thinks wow how awesome is this i need to find more and starts supporting JK not knowing what an terf asshole she is.

You are still perpetuating the fandom.

It does make me wonder if she was a homophobe, racist, facist etc whether her ‘fans’ would still be like - but you can support the art but not the artist’ She isnt like Lovecraft who everyone knows he was a racist bigot. He is dead, his work is known for it’s time but it’s not affecting current policy, like JK Rowlings work IS.

The UK anti trans bills that came in were also a direct result of HER LOBBYING PARLIMENT.

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A man made up random bills, and just sent them over to Facebook and Google. Facebook and Google, not caring, paid those bills thinking they were just random bills they had to pay. He stole around $122million.

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I got kicked in the face by a horse and I'm missing teeth

I'm in the hospital now but if you guys wouldn't mind helping me to make up for lost pay and help me cover any dental bills my employer won't cover

Plus my housing situation is quickly closing in on me and I need to find a place to live

Anything helps.

I'm really sorry to do this.

Edit: my jaw is broken and I need to see an oral surgeon, I'm on a liquid only diet, I need money for food if anything

Edit 2: I have 8 broken teeth and I lost a molar, I'm home right now and have a consultation with an oral surgeon on Monday. I'm potentially moving in with my parents and need to find an attorney just because of Colorado workman's comp claims. Thank you to everyone who's donated so far.

$132/$200

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