Today, I survived death once again…
I had only gone out to bring some food for my family, when a missile struck near a charity kitchen. In just a second, I could have been another name on the list of martyrs.We live in tents. No safety, no enough food, no clean water. We die on the way to find a meal… and we die if we go without it.
Can't even manage the energy to make a new post.
We have nothing.
No jobs, no jigs lined this week and soon no food or meds and lots of bills coming up.
We really need help with the mold in the house and the hole on our roof. It's over $2,500 for the repairs but at least the roof will take $600.
We have to pay our electric bill that is $45 usd by April 6 or we will be cut off, we need to keep the fridge functional or the insulin will spoil.
I understand it's hard for everyone but we really need help, we owe a big sum of money to the corner store and they won't let us add more to our tab until we pay.
Can't stress enough how urgent it is we get food.
I've had a constant headache from the heat and lack of proper rest.
Idk how to fix everything here.
Please, please please.
I'm reading this and it's so unorganized but I have a terrible headache and my abdomen is hurting so much idk why.
I'll tag for reach, thanks for the patience
Quick update
Please keep sharing.
CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!
We will be able to start getting materials to at least close the hole.
Just, can we get $120 to get my MiL both her belt/girdle and my meds please?
It's the new treatment the doctor gave on yesterday's appointment, my MiL wants to avoid the risky surgery at all costs.
Still, this is just the first step to fix our living situation but nevertheless extremely grateful!!!
NOTHING SO FAR!!!
I don't have other socials, my Tumblr blog has become key to our survival, PLEASE!!!
Thanks so much! We need the full amount to get the meds and my MiL's treatment! Please 🙏
We're very busy between repairing the roof and on our cleaning job but I will try to make a new post soon for my healthcare renewal that will come and our debt monthly pay.
Please, keep sharing!
Thank you!!
products are so bad now that i have to do approximately 8 hours of research before i buy anything
Seriously, if you're planning to spend a coupla hundred bucks on an appliance, or thousands for a car, spend $4 for a month of Consumer Reports (consumerreports.org).
They're a not-for-profit consumers union, dedicated to fair and honest reviews of everything people buy. Totally worth the membership.
And yeah, if money is tight you can join for a month then cancel the membership easily when you're done with your research.
Also check to see if your local public library has a subscription, either in print or digital format (might be listed as a database rather than a magazine - that's the case at my library in Canada).
Most libraries will provide access to CR, either in print or digital format. The digital archives are what you want when researching a specific product, since they cover different areas each issue.
Lots of good recommendations in the notes, I'd also recommend this one:
It's focused on camping gear, but many of their recommendations are also excellent for everyday use!
If anyone, at all, can match even a 10th of my donation, I'd consider it a massive christmas gift.
Please, help my friend Mohammed. His family is cold, and hungry.
It would mean a great deal to me.
You can find his fundraiser here,
And you can see that it's been vetted by 90-Ghost here.
this is fred, the dot.
fred wants to grow into a beautiful tree, but sadly has no branches
reblog to give fred a branch
i will post fred status updates as he grows
look at him go!
he's figuring out how to tree!
35 reblogs, he's growing so good :D
75 reblogs, fred continues to grow
reminder to spread out your branches (ie. dont spam reblogs on one post), he's starting to get a little crowded near the trunk :(
he's gettin' tangled D: and long :3
the fuck is this-
a piece of fred is escaping!!
what have you done to my boy
how are you -1 reblog deep
YES
HE FUCKING EXPLODED
WHAT HAVE WE DONE
HE'S BACK
LONG LIVE FRED
650 reblogs in and he's beautiful!!!!
the little disconnected bit on the side is his brother paul
he is getting rather dense
You see, this is the reckless, dangerous attitude towards understanding the online far right that I was talking about. 4chan is, in fact, not a ground zero for fascism. Hell, its predecessor, Fuck You and Die subforum of SomethingAwful, is also not the ground zero. For a standalone website, that's stormfront in 1996, though we can track it farther back for disparate chatrooms and forums even before SF. SA, to its credit had no explicit Nazi stuff as a rule, but FYAD, up til its deletion by Richard "lowtax" Kyanka as one of his last acts as SA's admin, started getting bolder and bolder with dogwhistles to the point where not even lowtax could avoid confronting doing something about, in his words, "a loving racist shithole with no redeeming qualities whatsoever."
Ah, we've gotten off-topic. 4chan as the ground zero, right. Anyway, it's, like, literally just not true, and this is very easy to verify. I am starting to think that these people are not too serious about studying the far-right on the internet. If they did, they'd know that 4chan has always been a place for embittered nerd boys (that heavily, heavily skew white) to gather and all sorts of bigotries have always been tolerated, yes, but also that stormfront, a website that we always need to be aware of when we talk about these things, only got serious about recruiting on 4chan after moot sold 4chan to 2chan's former operator, wherein the infamous politics board reopened and allowed for stormfront's posters to infiltrate /pol/, and from there, every other board.
The stormfront recruitment, however, also needs to be put into the context of gamergate, a radicalizing event that happened on /vg/, but quickly moved onto 8chan and reddit, becuase moot, still the owner of 4chan for 1 more year at this point, moderated /vg/ and banned the organization of organized harrassment (one of the two good things that moot ever did, the other being closing /pol/ before hiroyuki opened it again), and this follows the trajectory of what I'll talk about here shortly:
Qanon might have gotten its start on 4chan, but the Q research board was on 8chan, following the more committed and radicalized gamergate nazis. I won't even get into how funny it is to do this gnashing of teeth about Qanon when their best effort was the January 6th. Even if Qanon is as scary as these liberals "leftists" believe, most of its worst, socially reactionary, and yes, violent tenants were developed on 8chan's Q research board. While Nazis from stormfront certainly changed the broader culture of 4chan for the worse, and far and away, a lot of those Nazis stuck around, it until wasn't the iberian wedding of the two after hiroyuki's buyout that we could really say that 4chan resembles what we see today.
Once again, these (mostly)-boys that populated 4chan have always been embittered and expressed this in bigotry, both ironic and unironic, there is no denying that. However, we have to keep our eyes on the cultural historical context here. 4chan, like every other site, goes through changes, both in terms of userbase and management. To deny this and transpose the current iteration onto all iterations in backwards perpetuity or even worse, the idea in your heads as the only version that exists, helps no one but people who want you to be less informed. It is a comforting lie to think that 4chan is a singular bad place, and not a place borne out of specific grievance-based nerd culture of the 2000s that interacted with worse places and had the worst of its demographics spun off into multiple worse places. However, believing in this will surely be worse for understanding how the far-right ideas travel through the internet, which only makes you more susceptible to their dogwhistles.
Like, I also give an outsized assessment of 4chan for spreading orientalist notions of what Japan is like for the English-speaking audience, some of which the supposed "progressive" people repeat without batting an eye, because before stormfront, it was 2chan's far-right nerds that, seeing a western gathering of nerds with a format familiar to them, planted the seed of seeing Japan as a reactionary paradise, frozen in time and unable to make progress, a notion that the nascent users of 4chan took back to somethingawful, then to the rest of the 'net as, for better or worse, people from somethingawful became tastemakers on the english-speaking internet.
Even then, I don't place 4chan as this Saṃjiva hell where violence forever spills out without concern for anywhere else on the internet, like some people tend to see, because I saw the migration firsthand and I read people with even more qualification than me write about these things. If you want to confidently speak on how a website has impacted the culture writ large, like any other entities that exist in cultural context, you have to study its history before making an arugment!
All of this isn't even getting into how outside of the United States (and Japan and South Korea and China; basically anywhere else without a parallel far-right net infrastructure), facebook has been the consistent way for the far-right to organize, including facebook hosting the incitement and organization of multiple far-right calls for genocides across the world, with Ethiopia and Myanmar being two big examples.
Also while all of this is happening, InfoWars has been the real online content radicalizing people over the age of 30 and under the age of, let's say, generously, 70, since 1999, and there's a good chance that they stumbled into infowars from the coast to coast radio. How fast do we all forget the Red Angry Man of Austin, Texas.
my collection
I am obsessed with this botched restoration of a 19th century statue of saint anthony
Look at how yassified he is
THEY CHANGED THE PICTURE FOR TOTAL DRAMA ON NETFLIX TO A FAN EDIT INCLUDING AN OC IM SCREAMING
I found her.
Her name is Danielle and she was created by Emporer-Lucas on deviantart.
She is “The sarcastic punk”. She’s canon now, everyone draw fanart
one of the more bleak things to acknowledge is that if you pirate literally all of your music and then set aside a spotify subscription's worth of money each month to spend on a single pay-what-you-want album, it would almost immediately amount to you supporting those musicians more than streaming does
pirating all of your music and then buying a hat or something four times a year still makes you pull significantly ahead of the person who streams thousands of songs every year. it's not really a fair or good system for anyone
What a good post to reblog on bandcamp friday. Remember that any money you spend on albums on bandcamp today goes 100% to the artist.
I saw a lot of people reblogging this with my addition two days ago and now I'm afraid some of them might have thought it was bandcamp friday that day lol. So for anyone with post timestamps turned off: I made that addition on Friday March 7th 2025. Bandcamp fridays always fall on the first friday of the month (when they do them) so the next one should fall on April 4th
Behind the scenes images of how the Bikini Atoll island was shot in SB
