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can anyone help me out please ;__; my email address is woolyandcooly @ gmail . com

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hey if you're a UK resident can you sign this petition and if not please rb to spread the word

this is an official UK government petition that they have to respond to if it reaches 10,000 signatures

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hey guys, i need some help. my bank account has been in the negatives for awhile and as of now i have no means of paying it off

if you could spare some cash, id really appreciate it

reblogs are much appreciated!

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anyway you can donate to

Yad Vashem (the World Holocaust Remembrance Center) here

the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum over here

the Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews Of Europe (who do this work in Berlin) here.

all three of these organisations do vital work for holocaust remembrance and research into victims and their lives, and all three have incredible (free!!) resources on their websites for education about the holocaust, something which is more vital than ever with the increasing rates of holocaust denial. please check out their websites and consider donating to them (or to your local synagogue or jewish museum)

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Please note that @aftout is my new main and I’m simply stuck having to like and follow via this account 😭💔 tank yewww

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Phrasebook for Ukrainian refugees!

Help needed to make a phrasebook for Ukrainian refugees! If you speak • Polish (Польска) 🇵🇱 • Romanian (Румунська) 🇲🇩🇷🇴 • Hungarian (Угорська) 🇭🇺 • Slovak (Словацька) 🇸🇰 Please consider participating and adding the phrases in your language! 

🇺🇦 The link to the phrasebook 🇺🇦

Please reblog this to spread the word! 

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SSI Restoration Act of 2021

i have never made a post like this before but i haven’t seen anyone here talk about it yet so i want to at least provide some links because this is extremely important for disabled people with or without benefits in the USA.

link to this tiktok

[Video Description: A tiktok video from the user immarollwithit. She is dancing in her wheelchair, and is wearing a top with the moon, sun, and stars. She is also wearing a pair of denim shorts and a head wrap with a similar design to her top. She is in a room with a couch and another wheelchair behind her, and the room opens into a hallway with a door in the back. She has brown skin, and is wearing makeup with red eyeshadow and black eyeliner. As she dances, there are captions above her that appear line by line throughout the video.]

Captions: “Want to help disabled people across America? SSI currently has many outdated restrictions. People can’t have more than 2k in their savings. Benefits payments can legally be sub-poverty!!!! Many people can’t get married bc they’ll lose necessary benefits. Call your representatives to get the new bill passed!”

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she doesn’t name the bill in the video but in the comments it’s clarified that the act referred to is the SSI Restoration Act of 2021.

“The Supplementary Security Income (SSI) Restoration Act of 2021 has been introduced in both the House and the Senate. The bill would improve the lives of millions of SSI beneficiaries around the country, including over 2 million older adults who are living below the federal poverty level due to inadequate benefit levels, and often lose or are denied benefits due to outdated eligibility rules.” (link) - summary from Justice In Aging, an organization dedicated to fighting senior poverty

“This bill restores a program that plays a key role in the security of millions of Americans. Specifically, it modernizes and improves SSI by streamlining and simplifying the claiming process, expanding the resources and income limits, and eliminating punitive reductions in benefits.” (link) - summary from the SSI Restoration Act Section by Section, linked on Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva’s website, in the social security tab

below is taken from the issue brief on justiceinaging.org regarding what the bill entails

• The SSI benefit rate will be increased to at least 100% of the Federal Poverty Level, adjusted annually, so that no one receiving SSI will be left to live below the poverty line.

• Couples will receive their full SSI benefit, totaling twice the individual rate, rather than a reduced marriage penalty rate.

• Low-income seniors and people with disabilities who can’t work enough to meet all their basic needs will be able to save up to $10,000 and couples will be able to save up to $20,000 for emergencies such as car repairs, new roofs, and other unexpected expenses, without losing benefits.

• Individuals will be able to receive up to $128 monthly from other sources, such as Social Security benefits or pension payments, without a corresponding loss in benefits.

• Individuals who are able to work will be able to earn up to $416 a month without being penalized.

• Individuals who live in households with others, including family members, will no longer be penalized with lower benefits through the in-kind support and maintenance provision.

• Individuals who transfer assets (even small amounts of money to a family member) will no longer suffer harsh penalties.

• Eliminate installment payment requirements and extend the time to spend down resources so that SSI recipients who have been waiting for months or years to obtain their benefits can receive the full overdue amount.

• Exclude retirement accounts from countable resources to allow people with disabilities to build up their savings for retirement and use those resources to pay for expenses in later life.

• State and local earned income tax credits and child tax credits will be excluded from income calculations in the same manner as general tax payments.”

here is a link to the official bill [EDIT: pdf warning]

here is the issue brief from justiceinaging.org on the SSI Restoration Act of 2021 which explains what would change about SSI in more detail, and has the list provided above

here is the FAQ (also justiceinaging.org)

here is a carrd made by myelasticheart on tiktok, which also details the bill, AND includes a script for calling representatives, as well as links for finding said representatives

please reblog

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Some racist asshole run a muslim family down with his pick-up truck this afternoon in London (Ontario), killing four and leaving only one family member alive. The terrorist was a 20-year old islamophobic dude who targeted muslims and wanted to kill as many of them as possible; when the police arrested him, he was wearing body armor, he had intended to commit more than just murders. There's a 9-year old who lost his family and is in the hospital right now. It's heartbreaking.

More info:

Killing of Canadian Muslim family with truck was hate crime -police

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COVID is slowly becoming a "third world" disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can't get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

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wishing all my asian american mutuals a very safe and good day today

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god keep ur fucking kink meme shit out of ao3 tag y'all make this fandom even more insufferable than it already is and thats saying something!!! The kind of shit y'all post require a fucking trigger warning it doesnt belong in a safe space

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I’m at my breaking point.

Guys, please help me get out of my horrible hell that is unfortunately my prison (home). My mother is getting gradually worse and constantly berates me all day to a point where I have no energy to do anything and no care to taking care of myself. I hardly eat anymore…just once a day because I have zero appetite. I am still struggling to financially and while I am trying to make new collections and comics, she comes in and attacks me verbally, slamming my bedroom door and being outright violent. It’s really affecting me and I feel so desperate, I don’t know what to do with myself. It’s at a point where I stay up till 6 am every day just to have the midnight hours to myself to be in peace and feel like I’m alone. It’s the only time I can work but even then, the late nights tire me.

I wanted to show the whole new collection of pluto when I was done with the iOS icon set and stickers with a few new other products but I’m going to show them early…

The new theme is sweet pluto candy shop so if you want to support me that way, please purchase my products as its my only job as of now. 

All about pluto preorder book is out as well.. It will be released by the end of this month. 

Store is here: https://www.cosmicfunnies.com/accessories-and-apparel

I added a sale as well, use code PLUTOLUV at checkout to get 20% off your whole order. 

In addition, you can support me via patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cosmicfunnies

godundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/5x8qvk-help-me-move-out-of-my-abusive-home?utm_medium=email&utm_source=product&utm_campaign=p_email%2B4803-donation-alert-v5

And Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/cosmicfunnies

I am also looking for people who may be interested in freelance work or commisisons as I am a graphic designer: https://jackiemoliner.myportfolio.com

Anyone who would like to purchase online on my shop or to make a commission it is here:

https://www.cosmicfunnies.com/commissions

Pass this on to people to help donate as I would love to be able to find a place to stay..

Thank you.

Thank you for your support and have a great night.

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Please keep the homeless population of DC in your thoughts, and donate to the dccfh. Right now due to the curfew many of them are going to be unfairly detained. DC does not do cash bail. Any website saying they are a DC bail fund is a scam. Do not donate to them.

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✨Please Help Alfred ✨

Hi everyone, not an art update but a friend update. My friend Alfred Coleman, who you may know better as PaperboxHouse, (who you may know better as the “Eggman Announcement” guy) is in serious trouble. 

In the past month I’ve taken him to the ER three times. He’s been suffering from serious stomach pain and anxiety, and he hasn’t been able to keep down a full meal in almost a month. He’s suffering from malnutrition, and he hasn’t been able to take care of himself. Yesterday morning I picked him up from endoscopy surgery, and the hospital discharged him when he was obviously still unwell. He was too weak to walk, and couldn’t even get back in his apartment. I took him to a different hospital to hopefully receive better treatment.

While in the emergency room, I was able to set up a ko-fi page for him to help pay for any medical expenses. This new hospital has already been treating him much better so far, and he finally is being monitored overnight instead of being dismissed like he has been in the past. My only worry is that he would be unable to afford his new treatment, and that’s where you guys come in. 

Through some miracle, we’ve already been able to raise over $47,000. That is insane. But it only proves how much he is well-loved, and what he means to the artist’s community. Alfred is one of my dearest, oldest friends, and if you could help with this cause, whether it’s through donation, or just sharing this post, it would mean the world to me. I’ve been keeping updates on the situation on the ko-fi page, with more minute to minute updates on my twitter. Thank you all for your support. 

Link to the ko-fi page

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https://twitter.com/saltydkdan/status/1319401905286766593?s=20

link to the ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/savealfred

tumblr will not show this post in tags so please reblog if you can 

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You know what, I’m fucking tired. My country has been BURNING for weeks and not a peep has been heard from the government or the Internet. I’m exhausted. Why the fuck is no one talking about this? I’ll tell you why, because people don’t care enough to spread the news and reblog posts and donation links. So I’m gonna pause the fandom spam for a few minutes and spam you with this:

ARGENTINA IS IN A CRISIS. WE’VE BEEN UNDER HEAVY QUARANTINE SINCE MARCH, THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS HIGH, AND THE COVID CASES ARE ALSO INCREASING AT RAPID SPEED. THE ECONOMY IS AWFUL, EVERYTHING IS SUPER EXPENSIVE, PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET. THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN BURNING FOR WEEKS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING JACK SHIT ABOUT IT. AND I’M STRUGGLING TO FIND PEOPLE WHO ARE BRINGING AWARENESS TO THIS. ACTUALLY, LET ME RE-PHRASE IT: I’M STRUGGLING TO FIND PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS AND WHO AREN’T FROM ARGENTINA.

It feels like nobody cares. I don’t blame you if you genuinely didn’t know about what’s happening, but now you do, so please at least reblog this post, or any donation links you can find. A dollar is equivalent to 146 pesos, so even if you are only able to donate just a dollar, it’s already doing so much.

Also, don’t just like this post. REBLOG IT. Liking it won’t spread awareness.

Thank you for reading this. I’m sorry, I know my wording is very, very harsh, but I’ve been panicking over this for weeks, and I’ve had to beg accounts to make posts bringing awareness to the issue. I’m tired. I know my country is not the US, but it’s still important.