Do you need help deciding what to donate to?

Link to mutual aid initiatives.

Recently I made some polls that would help me figure out who can afford to donate how much. I will base the following 'categories' based on the answers I received.

Preface: This is NOT a personal budgetting guide. This is just about telling you where you can donate what you've already decided you can afford to set aside for the month / week. Furthermore, if you have to struggle to scrape by, I strongly urge you to reconsider donating. There are others who can afford to donate and you should focus on urging them to do so and sharing fundraisers with them. You should also follow this guide on a dynamic basis. I.E. if you suddenly find yourself out of a job, don't keep donating weekly just because you used to. Likewise if you suddenly score a six figures, please consider increasing the amount / frequency you donate.

If you don't want to follow this guide, don't!! If you prefer donating differently, do so. This guide is exclusively for people who aren't sure what to do and need a little bit of a system but don't know how to start making one.

PS: please do not share what category you belong to in my notes or whatever. I don't need to know.

Those who can afford to donate daily:

According to the poll there's about 9 of you who can afford to donate daily. If you can afford to donate daily, it matches up with the amount of fundraisers for individual families that I queue to post on my blog per day. Please prioritize families that are struggling with difficult healthcare issues, or families who have one or more disabled members who need expensive specialized care. You can find fundraisers to donate to on the lists linked in my pinned post. I personally think this would be helpful because it provides these families in need with that extra help they need. Look out for the fundraisers that I post daily on my blog, or alternatively if you can't pick one you can consult gazafunds, which picks a fundraiser for you if you feel you can't choose one yourself. The people who run the website vet every fundraiser listed there as well.

Those who can afford to donate weekly:

There's far more of you who can donate weekly rather than daily ~ 40-50. I think most effectively it would be best to ask you to donate to mutual aid initiatives for 2 weeks in a row, and then to alternate on the 3rd week and donate to some of the individual fundraisers, prioritarily for people who are in need of medical aid. Having a large amount of people donating to mutual aid efforts every week helps make sure that people are fed through the week and allows for a steady stream of support over time. However it also helps to have people sustain the individual fundraisers with the little extra boost they need outside of the daily donators. This is why I think alternating between both would be most help.

Those who can afford to donate monthly & less often than monthly:

This is the largest donator group and for that reason I strongly urge you to donate to mutual aid groups. Because it consolidates a small amount of donations from hundreds of people and causes the most widespread positive effect. Mutual aid initiatives reach the people who cannot advocate for themselves online and who have no means to ask for donations themselves.

Here's some links to mutual aid efforts for those who will be donating.

🇺🇸tony's chocolonely chocolate bar recall due to rocks🇺🇸

literally, due to rocks. they got rocks in them

april 2, 2025

emphasis mine.

this recall only affects some lots of the dark almond sea salt bar and the everything bar, due to the rock problem. they were distributed nationwide in stores and on the internet. I included their pictures at the top.

I am not able to format a table for tumblr, so check that recall link for the specific lot codes and expiration dates.

they found rocks after there were 12 reports that said hey. there are rocks in this. this can easily lead to dental problems if someone tries to bite full force on a rock and breaks a tooth or otherwise injures their mouth. dental infections can eventually become life-threatening even in people who are young and otherwise healthy. so it is a good thing nobody apparently ate the rocks yet. or at least, nobody got injured while potentially eating rocks. yet

emphasis mine.

please do not the rocks. thank you

2025 had a record setting 157 food recalls in Q1 alone. Most are for listeria and salmonella, but sometimes they're for rocks in your chocolate or wood in your Lean Cuisine Butternut Squash Ravioli.

Deregulation of food safety is so profitable for companies. You don't get a refund when they admit whoopsies, your Alehouse Clam Chowder and Smoked Salmon Chowder are infected with Clostridium botulinum. They already have your money! It's up to you to stay on top of the recalls and throw away everything that's contaminated.

This isn't just annoying - it's lethal.

Every listeria and salmonella recall notice comes with a warning that X people have been hospitalized and Y people have died. That's how they trace the listeria - by working backwards from known infections. Those numbers only reflect insured people whose doctors or the ER thought to check, so they don't include the poor and uninsured. The real hospitalizations and deaths are so much higher.

If you're poor, you're not throwing away perfectly good food - especially if you got this food from a food pantry. You'd think the recalled foods would go in the trash, but last fall when cucumbers were lethal they were plentiful at food pantries. Same for the listeria broccoli and bagged salad mixes. I bet there will be surprise chocolate bar treats at pantries in the near future.

Groceries get a tax credit for all food donated to a pantry, regardless of whether it's safe, so this is a win-win for them. They get it away from the paying customers and get social good credit for donating X pounds of food per year to the poor.

This is all due to food safety deregulation.

It doesn't have to be this way. If you're already calling or emailing your local reps and throwing a fit about Trump's policies, add food safety to your rant. Let them know we remember when a food recall was shocking, and those are the Good Old Days we long for.

You're gonna let somebody with an outside cat talk to you that way....?

usa moment. kill urself frfr

[ID: Chris, Lois, and Peter Griffin wearing fancy attire and looking in the same direction with a complete and regal lack of concern. End ID.]

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i cant quit tumblr because i get good life advice from other maladjusted adults on here

A cooking show where every episode, the chef gets possessed by the ghost of a random person of another era, who then proceeds to cook something that they personally enjoyed as a meal while they were alive.

It remains unclear how, regardless from the historical time and place, every single "guest star" seems to have a full understanding of what a cooking show is, and also how to operate a modern kitchen. While there is no overarching plot, different context clues heavily imply that the host chef is somehow a very easy person to possess, and there are so, so many souls from all eras of human history who would love to hop in to experience the pleasure of getting to cook one more really nice meal.

Y'know, if a formerly well-behaved straight A student suddenly starts almost not passing their classes and crying all the time and getting into trouble, maybe the default conclusion from every authority figure should not be that they are lazy and simply need to pull themselves together. Maybe instead you should give them stimulants or HRT or let them kill their parents and see if one of those three things resolves the issue.

i feel like the "egg prime directive" is based in the idea that realizing youre transgender is inherently traumatic, and not just forced to be so by the current state of the world. trying to make discussions of possibly being a different gender much more casual and accessible to the average cis & "cis" person by bringing it up as an option is in fact one of the easiest ways to counteract such systemic transphobia

The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025”.

updated as of early april 1, 2025

thought “this seems like a really useful tool, i hope it continues to be maintained outside of the trump administration” and well

“If an ICE detentions appears to be legitimate (that is it would have occured during the Bush, Obama or Biden adminstrations) it will be removed and notated.”

rich people have a natural predator and its their friend's cousin's privately chartered cessna

CEO affirmations <3

this is ideology eating itself it's so amusing to me.

Like what kind of manufacturing base do you think America has right now? we're going to bring Factory Jobs back to Detroit, girlies. It's going to work, because we're Fighting Woke. Woke will Die and its death will usher in a new age of American Prosperity. By way of. Uh. Oh. Oh no. Is it supposed to do that?

"We're going to get companies to build factories in the US!! We're going to bring manufacturing back here!!" Are you?

Trump heard that Biden set money on fire with the CHIPS act and said. We can do that but with everything.

Most intelligent graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

#this will be huge for all of the american steel mills that are functional and ready to go.#hold on im getting a phone call. huh. uh oh.

LMFAOOOOOOO YEAH

UPDATE: NEW LINK! Yahya and his family were displaced by the IOF, and are currently residing in Deir al-Balah, south-central Gaza.

Life as displaced Gazans was already extremely difficult for them. Food is very scarce, and their living conditions leave them exposed to the elements. Here is the frequent condition of their tent now that the winter rains have come:

Then, Yahya’s father was injured. Some cartilage was damaged in his neck, and doctors say he requires IMMEDIATE surgery to avoid permanent paralysis.

Yahya and his family previously had another campaign, but it was suddenly shut down by GFM with no explanation. They have created a new one, but it has EXTREMELY LOW FUNDS.

The surgery is a stifling €15,000 euros (about $15,729 USD). Yahya and his family have no hope of paying for it without your help.

I am currently watching an elderly loved one lose their mobility, and it is an extremely heartbreaking and isolating situation. I cannot imagine what Yahya and his family are going through, having no social or financial support and only minimal medical care.

Please give what you can to this family. You are their only hope to save their beloved father’s mobility!

Major update on Yahya’s little brother Omar

As discussed previously, Omar remains hospitalized with severe burns. You all raised €700 EUR to attain burn ointment for the immediate treatment of his wounds. Thank you.

Unfortunately, this is just the beginning of Omar’s treatment journey.

At just 7 years old, little Omar has third-degree burns over much of his small body due to the IOF attack. The burns are severe in that they burned through his skin, through his ligaments and muscles, and down to his very bones. To say this little boy is in constant, excruciating pain would be a gross understatement.

The pain is not his only problem. The damage to his skin is so severe that his body is unable to heal itself. He requires a skin graft in order to transplant new skin that will be able to regrow.

Without this, Omar’s extensive wounds will remain exposed for a very, very long time. This makes him extremely vulnerable to a catastrophic infection, and his body will be unable to fight it off. Infections are widespread in Gaza right now due to the IOF’s destruction of sanitation infrastructure and the scarcity of antibiotics and other medicines.

This means that at virtually any time, Omar could contract an infection and die. He URGENTLY needs this skin graft so he can finally start to heal!

Please share the campaign widely, donate if you can, and share Omar’s story with your friends and loved ones in real life!! A little boy’s life is at stake!!

Current: €3,134 EUR

New temporary goal: €6,134 EUR

🚨🚨UPDATE!!!🚨🚨

You all raised the preliminary $1,500 for Omar’s skin graft! Thank you so much❤️

As described here, there is is still about $1,500 USD to pay on the bill, and it must be paid in the next 2 months

Current: €4,871 out of €6,134 EUR

yahya has informed me that despite all of the money that we raised, omar was only able to have a partial operation. he was able to have skin grafts on 60% of the burns he had, but they weren't able to afford the last 40%

due to all the high living costs of basic food and water, they were not able to pay for the rest

the rest of the operation costs €800 - after the 30% fees, this means they will need about €1,150

i have set the temporary goal accordingly, and hopefully we will be able to raise enough for the rest of omar's operation. i will keep updating if we need more once we hit this goal

€6,188 / €7,333

€6,458 / €7,633

yahya's family has now been told they need to move their camp in the midst of these bombings. that would cost €150 - i have heard from other families that the current people exchanging digital money for physical cash now ask for 50% fees.

if yahya's family also needs to pay in physical currency, they likely need €300.

i have added this amount to the temporary goal - of that €300, currently €65 has been raised

your regularly scheduled reminder that tumblr operated with <20 tech staff for literal years. honestly even having like... 100 was a relatively new and short-lived development

tumblr will never be the next pdf at this rate

"We are living the worst moments of our lives… No shelter, no food, no safety."

We fled from death into the unknown, carrying our pain and fear with us. We left our homes under heavy bombing, searching for a refuge to protect us, but all we found was hunger, thirst, and cold. Our children are crying, our bodies are growing weaker, and hope fades with each passing day without food or water.

We are not asking for much… just enough to keep us alive. Your support can save us—every donation could be a lifeline.

Donate now and be the reason a family survives. You can donate as little as $1 via PayPal or $5 via GoFundMe. vetted here

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Hi! If you don't know me, my name is Katelyn. I've been working as a machinist for two years and am trying to start my own very tiny workshop so I can work on creative projects. I also volunteer at my local makerspace where I am helping train a new generation of other transgender machinists, welders, and makers. I am trying to buy a lathe so that I can begin this process. Specifically the SIEG C3 7x14 mini lathe. It costs about $1000. This is a completely frivolous and unnecessary purchase, but it would mean the world to me if you reblogged this post, and even more if you threw a few dollars my way. I will be crowdfunding this project until either my goal is reached, or my birthday in September.

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