7:15pm
CompUSA, nay, some hours later outside the Costa mesa apple store. I’m still outside because was just talking to Juls and she had to pick up a call. And I was right in the middle of making a really big ass out of myself because I want more from our relationship than the current wishlng-and-hoping morsels that I’ve been getting. Fuck, I’m an idiot for a multitude of reasons. I have the…
🚨Hello, I am writing to you with a heart full of hope and faith and I am asking for your help. We need your support please, this is for the family of my friend Mahmoud from Gaza. Help us spread the word. Donations are going very slowly. The amount is 35,000 euros. Remaining is 29,725 euros. Donations are going very slowly. We need your support. Donate. Please share if you can. Every share and donation can make a difference in the life of Mahmoud's family. Help save Mahmoud's family from genocide. Gaza is free🚨🩹🍉
I met 5 out of the 6 students on my Kindergarten self contained autistic support class and I gotta say I think I legitimately have been blessed with the best, sweetest, and MOSE ENTHUSIASTIC class ever!
Cost of uprooting my life and changing careers again: idk maybe $2k and 68% of what was left of my sanity, but over time I'll be making way more money.
Hearing that the whole barn staff have started to turn on the nineteen year old 'manager' with no experience that corporate hired to replace me after she sided with corporate to stab me in the back:
I don't know man. I think if you like Megatron (specifically with his mining background) and if you say the Decepticons are right, I think Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara should be required reading and I think you have to figure out what you are going to do about it.
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This time I’m not talking about dealing with the automated chatbots when you try to contact a tech vendor. I’m talking about when you try to help a friend with a tech issue and given your years of experience, you should be able to help them, no problem. But we’re not talking about the usual, “why won’t this work when I do that?” kind of problem. We’re not even talking about those time I’ve done…
I've watched the people boosting this gofundme become more and more desperate as the Rafah invasion draws near:
This baby was born during this genocide and has only ever known this genocide. If you can donate to help her family evacuate, please do.
If you were thinking about donating to any evacuation, now is the time. They don't have much left.
Edited (2024-05-01):
The target has been reached so I've gone ahead and locked this post
I really do want to express my thanks to everyone who donated and boosted:
Edited (2024-05-03):
I've unlocked this post because I guess not only do Gazans have to deal with needing to crowdfund to leave their home to escape bombs and bullets and starvation, not only do sites like gofundme and PayPal not support them and arbitrarily lock or cancel accounts unless you find someone abroad you can trust or you get scammed, NOT ONLY do you then have to successfully complete a campaign which relies on popularity, marketing ability, timing, grasp of English, access to tech (what's going to happen to all the people who simply can't manage all this?), BUT you also get charged an exorbitant fee to then be able to withdraw the money so you can pay to cross into Egypt.
The gofundme is open again with the target raised 15,000 to account for the fee, a little less than 1,800 needed at the moment:
Edited (2024-05-04):
Thank you so much, everyone, we reached this secondary target as well! I'll leave this post unlocked for a while since every bit of additional money will go to their life in Egypt.
Nothing like having to have your computer reimaged and needing to reset all of your passwords because you entire internet history got wiped because your computer's operating system corrupted.
Yes, this was a real thing we had to help with once.
Even though he complains, Donnie feels a lot of pride being looked to as the family expert for these things, I’m sure. For all that Splinter probably doesn’t know the deep intricacies of computers, I’ll bet he knows the basics. Could there be a deeper meaning to his confusion?
I personally headcanon that Splinter is the one who introduced computers, phones, and appliances to his sons way back in the dumpster diving days, and probably showed Donnie how to fix his first toaster or something. However, the special interest kicked in hard and pretty soon Donnie could run circles around Splinter when it came to fixing and engineering stuff. Perhaps, this is a way Splinter can find time to partake in Donnie’s interests and boost his confidence despite being way out of his depth on technical know-how himself.
When you don’t have a lot, it’s important to be resourceful and handy with a quick fix. Donnie had to have started building stuff somewhere!
It makes it all the more bittersweet if they were really close only to have Splinter struggle to bond with Donnie when he’s a little older. Don’t worry though, they’ll figure it out :)