ven @nventous@chitter.xyz

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hey folks, me, @nventous,and @ctrlaltdog still about flat broke while waiting for our tax returns to come in, which may or may not come in by the time we need to pay rent, nor are we certain it will be enough in total.

id love for us to be able to eat properly in the meantime and maybe not shaft our roommates on rent, so if you can help, here's my ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/luminol

thank you

what some of y'all offer up is more like "shunning or prison, your call, if you're lucky".

don't try to act like social media doesn't affect outcomes, either. media in general always has. the idea that "the law is blind" (ugh) doesn't account for that in a lot of cases, especially in high-profile cases *as well as* ones where "community standards" are heavily influenced by media bias, including punitive media bias.

"but what is someone is ~ really bad ~?" look, stop using that as an excuse, please. it's all but a red herring, and in the cases where someone has done something requiring strong intervention (which btw, is also an institutional form of abuse in a lot of cases) the *entire point* of transformative justice is to come up with ways to allow people to address core causes, resolve conflicts, and allow people pathways to come back to the community.

Unless if you're personally familiar with AND trust someone who is posting a "missing person" flier to social media, or it's being posted by an organization that you trust, DO NOT REBLOG IT. Stalkers can use fake "missing person" fliers to dupe strangers into feeding the stalker constant updates on the victim's whereabouts.

aight imma do this

if anyone knows of any linux/unix sysadmining positions needing filled in seattle hit me up. i have experience, im certified, and my laptop has lots of stickers which I'm sure counts for something.

also would be interested in embedded linux dev, possibly. have experience there too.

im not in seattle, but i want to be.

(boosts appreciated for visibility)

finally have an apartment but due to "snowpocalypse" + bad luck w/ my partner's W2, we haven't been able to get work or tax refund money as fast as necessary :x we're finding jobs but we need to have $900 by the 1st and i dunno if we'll have enough in time.

if we make it thru this month + find work i think we'll be okay. help making rent this month would mean a lot ❤️ https://ko-fi.com/luminol #TransCrowdFund #DisabledCrowdfund

I have a comrade whose car is broken down and the estimate is $1,000. Her kid doesn't have public transport to school and they are pretty reliant on the car. She works super hard on local and nationwide organizing projects, so if you can help out, here is her venmo https://venmo.com/cruciverberella

"What the fuck, Venmo updated their UI and it sucks, I can't even find my transactions, this makes no sense." - Me for an uninterrupted minute before realizing the app I had opened was Vimeo.

is there blacklight sensitive lube out there. asking for a friend (im the friend)

the way idiot, moron etc.'s use as diagnostic terms gets brought up in discussions about medicine kind of imply that medicine is The Source To Trust about what things are connected to disability. 'medicine applied these terms to the disabled, ergo these terms really do concern disability'

I reject that premise. In the process of giving me medicine that helps me live with madness & folly (antidepressants, amphetamines) doctors have fucked me over repeatedly. medicine is a power structure.

why, yes, insults like "idiot" and "moron" WERE adopted as diagnostic terms by medicine at one point. That's revealing of the fact that medicine, which is given a great deal of authority over the lives of disabled people, has no respect for disabled people!

other things revealing of this same fact: forced sterilization, involuntary hospitalization, forced administration of treatment, drugs whose 'side effects' are to sedate and incapacitate the insane, sexual abuse in the medical sphere,

I would actually rather not use euphemisms to talk about my own madness, folly, and idiocy, and I think the value judgments people hold about words like 'crazy' or 'stupid' are less significant than the material realities that inform those judgments: criminalization of insanity, carceral medicine, withholding access to education from the intellectually-and-otherwise disabled, vulnerability to abuse by caretakers and accessibility providers...

Okay I'm going to be so real right now. I just moved into a new place. I barely have enough to make first months rent with these new roommates but it's perfect. I'm finally somewhere I can live. They know I'm Trans and I feel safe. I just don't want to be late on next month's rent. Anything would help right now. I do not need much just want to be sure I can afford next month's rent.

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They had a gay keyboard. I bought a gay keyboard.

There is no one huge, ginornmous tent called "the left" that is like "well, if you're not in that tent, you're shit out of luck". It can *appear* to be that way, but easily half of that is scenesters, opportunists, ideologues and people who are green (new) as fuck.

Look, there's a lot of people on the left who aren't comrades/companer@s/friends, who discriminate, who refuse to learn, who are abusive, who use people's abusiveness as cover for their own abuse, who simply won't like you (and possibly, the feeling is mutual).

That's nothing remarkable, that's the nature of many, if not, most groups.

It's valid to leave orgs, to not want to join orgs, to be the quiet person in some small group that does amazing work that nobody knows about, to devote yourself fulltime to an interest or passion and find ways to make that transformative, to be "me and my friends", to fly solo. Always.

People can and will give you crap about this. Ignore them, do what you know works best.