Talked to a lady who works for the tax authority yesterday. Based on her job experience, her take on the welfare state is something like this:
"Of course there will always be freeloaders. So what?! This is about dignity. Everyone has a right to a good life and to be supported when they're struggling. If you want that, you've got to live with the freeloaders. Leave them be. That's the price you pay for a society where everyone is taken care of. It's not like they're doing any damage in the big picture - I've run those numbers more than once. You'll always get more out of it for society at large when you're incentivising good performance than when you're punishing people."
Fight for each other, and fight because everything else that society says makes up "life" is meaningless.
Don't fight because you think we'll win. Fight because no one should get away consequence free from being an oppressor.
Pandemic, academic paywalls
Here's what we know about Omicron BA.4 and BA.5. It doesn't seem to be paywalled and it's from the journalism side of Nature, so it is readable. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01730-y
Homelessness fundraising
Vessel is at risk of being homeless in a earth week
Anyone willing to take me in
Vessel has no documents and haven't gotten any diploma as Vessel is in a special ed program called transitions supposed to help get a job etc
It's all over having trouble doing the dishes
https://www.paypal.me/technixsystems
petition, transphobia, terf island
Please add your signature to this letter if you are as horrified as I am by the UK #NationalLottery’s decision to award a grant to the conversion-therapy-promoting #LGBAlliance to run a ‘helpline’ for children and young people
https://openletter.earth/open-letter-the-national-lottery-and-lgb-alliance-6ed413c3
Warning: this petition has been spammed with hundreds of fake entries containing obscene transphobic and homophobic comments
mutal aid for a friend, phone troubles
My best friend has been without a phone for awhile, they have applied for lifeline, but there's a problem :/
they have no access to their mailbox and weren't told which was theirs
the person in charge of that is out sick and my friend just got hired at a job that requires them to have a phone
My paypal is bonemasque@gmail.com
their cashapp is $groveofspikes
boosts appreciated
thanks y'all
YOO, today's #PixelArt thing is done. Something a bit lighter ;) Phone wallpapers included, ofc :) ENJOY!
Do you want to buy a t-shirt, mousepad or a mug with this art? Then go here: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/114161844
Thank you all so much for your support, you are all AMAZING! ❤️
plural and confused. not all of us are human. If you're here for the kobold it's at @azowoza
late 20s white and labelspam
wei/muis/muir are first person semi-collective pronouns, we use them interchangeably with I/me/my and we/our