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nando161mando · 12 days

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Elon Musk — dead at 52 — RIP.

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growinguparo · 4 months

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Thinking once again about the intersection of being aro / perpetually single and the Housing Issue. It is without a doubt the biggest issue I face as an aro person, particularly in fucking Canada.

In my province we have rent control on almost all rental units by default. Annual rent increases are capped at 2.5%, and though I have had landlords in the past try to break that law, they back down when you say "that's literally not legal lmao try again".

In my province we also have a type of lease called a group lease, where multiple people sign on as a group. This is the standard type of lease used in properties with more than one bedroom.

If one person wishes to remove themself from a group lease, that terminates the lease for all of the other tenants in the group. Therefore, in order to continue living in the unit they are already in and may have been in for years, the landlord can choose to force the remaining tenants to reapply, and upon signing a "new lease" they can increase the rent by however much they want. Forget 2.5%, they could double rent with no consequences and still get tenants because that's how desperate people are in Canada.

Seeing as that's fucking insane, I talked to multiple lawyers about it the last time this happened to me, and they all said yeah no, if someone wants to be removed from the lease then the landlord can choose to deny a takeover and force a new lease. You can prevent the issues that come with a new lease if everyone remains on the old lease even if they no longer live there, but that is rather precarious for everyone involved and also makes your landlord hate your guts.

Anytime a new lease is signed, landlords can increase by whatever they want, so renovictions are very common (I've been renovicted as well). With all these easy-to-access loopholes, "rent control" is a joke.

It is New Year's Day and I have received yet another email informing me that since one of my roommates decided to leave at the end of the lease period, our lease will be terminating and showings will begin next week. If any one of us wants to stay, we have to reapply at market rates with a replacement person already in the group ready to sign a new lease, or we have to all remain on the old lease.

I left my parents' home in 2016, and since then I have moved 15-17 times, depending what you count as a move, and lived in 12-13 different places. That's due to a bunch of forced circumstances, including co-op placements and illegal evictions, but many of those moves were because the roommates I was living with decided to move on with their lives, and I had no choice but to move as well.

When I tell people I've moved 15 times in 7 years, they are always shocked. I'm like, how have you NOT though? Having had this conversation many times, I start to ponder what makes me vulnerable to this type of exploitation, and what makes my friends able to avoid some of it.

#1. As a low-income disabled person, I am unable to afford "market rates". This means I'm always tryna get units that are below market rate, and those landlords are invariably very interested in removing their tenants to bring their busted-ass units up to market rate.

#2. I am SINGLE bro. No one is planning their life around living with me. Every time a roommate leaves, I get forced out too. I did have a long-term roommate for a couple years who bounced around 4 places with me, but eventually she moved city - as is her right - and I was forced out again.

Couples also have more options when it comes to affordable housing, particularly if they are willing to share a room. Sharing a room cuts your rent in half. It’s pretty rare to see just one person living in a 1bed because it’s just ludicrously expensive, but for couples it’s a decent option. During the searching stage as well, if you already have someone to live with it’s a lot easier to find places than if you also have to find new roommates (this part is especially brutal for me as a trans person). It is certainly still difficult for couples in the market, I know couples who have ended up homeless as well, but being alone makes you more vulnerable.

The housing crisis is a broad issue affecting literally everyone, but single people are one of the groups that is systematically disadvantaged, making it a significant issue for aros imo. It is the combination of being single and low-income that has made me so vulnerable to housing instability.

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#yo sorry i remade this post cuz there was a bit of an error on it regarding the legality of evictions #hardly matters but i don't like spreading any misinformation #it's hard to evict but easy for the landlord to make your life hell for choosing to stay #and if the people who leave truly want to no longer be responsible for the unit then there is no choice the lease must be broken #which breaks it for all parties #insane #bonkers insane laws

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khaire-traveler · 2 months

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Reminder: Do not get your news from Tumblr. Just don't. The amount of misinformation, especially political misinformation, I see spreading here is absolutely wild. 💀

Please, y'all, double-check the information that's being given to you. If it seems kind of suspicious, look it up and try to do mild research on it if you can. Just don't take a Tumblr post at its word, I beg of you.

#reminder #this is such a massive issue #i just saw a post that was spreading REALLY intense misinformation about a recent law passed in the US #so many people fell for it and reblogged it #it's extremely alarming how easily people trust random posts on Tumblr 💀#psa

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bugflies00 · 11 months

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in other great news dtumblr/dttwt are mass reporting wilbur quackity ranboo etc fan accounts and threatening mass doxxing 👍 i dont care if its meant to just be some elaborate prank this isnt Fucking normal behaviour . seek help

#i dont care if its a joke you do understand its still a crime right??#im talking abt the doxxing. like thats harassment. you could get shit with the law if someone decides to take action #i dont ever want to hear anything again about how ‘its misinformation to say dream stans harass people:(‘#youre insane!!! no other community fucking does this!!!!!!#especially not over a GROOMER #alex.rambles.txt #mcyt #dream situation

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thepro-lifemovement · 1 year

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#what else is new #prolife #pro life #pro-life #anti abortion #misinformation #twitter thread #fact check #Texas law #abortion bans #thought this was important to share

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beeben · 2 months

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Everything i hear about h bomber guy makes me hate him

#idk who he is but ik the most annoying people in the world love to suck him off #copywrite laws should be abolished #how the fuck you got people harassing content creators acting like you did it because your Internet jesus said so like #i KNOW thats not what the intention was #but the fact you put MISINFORMATION out there for EVERYONE is like shocking considering how much people hold onto his every word #youtubers should not be arguing about ai and copywrite shit and devaluing other YouTubers for making their own content it's so rotten.#dont come for me by the way i literally do not care about him #i don't like it when people lie and use a fucking YouTube video as backup you need to be locked up #nasty ass

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iolite-sunstone · 9 months

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I hope you guys know that the CG artist wasn't actually fired yet. She's gonna keep getting paid until the date of termination.

#limbus company #the whole thing about immediately firing her was misinformation #korean labor laws are VERY strict

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jeckilon · 27 days

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why tf are usa right wingers and also elon musk so fucking interested in brazilian’s supreme court all of sudden 💀 leave us alone we already have too many idiots here

#they’re calling us a ‘socialist dictatorship’ because there’s a law against fake news and online misinformation #and also because it’s a crime to attempt against democracy lmaooo

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onlytiktoks · 2 months

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smute · 7 months

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i feel like im losing my mind. only a few days ago everyone was freaking out over the false claims about decapitated babies and the reckless reporting surrounding them but then turned around and immediately ran with all the initial reports about the hospital blast. mainstream media everywhere called it an "israeli airstrike" and quoted an "official" death toll that came out minutes after the explosion – sometimes verbatim – and now most news outlets are either quietly amending their stories OR running entirely new ones while deleting older articles and pretending nothing ever happened. pouring gasoline on a fire with dogshit journalism and then going "oops haha anyway" should spark public outrage but rather than being upset about careless reporting and misinformation people are managing to twist the development of this story into something along the lines of "the zionist media are gaslighting us" :| like. are you kidding me? this is a WAR. stop doing their job for them

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cherrysnax · 1 month

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I think it’s funny and by funny I mean pathetic how transphobes opinions on us are literally just misinformation and horror stories edgy kids tell to each other

#‘it’s irreversible’ there are so many surgeries and precedures and meds what ‘it’ are you talking about #there is no one magical thing and it’s done #transphobes don’t even know that cis ppl take hormones all the time #I’ve seen these people repeat the same misinformation to each other all the time #they don’t even understand how bottom surgery works #and these are the people passing these laws

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donuttrymedebil · 8 months

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Perhaps this is the bipartisan issue we have been looking for? People of all backgrounds giving the finger to AI fetishists and tech bros?

#ai art is not art #wga strong #sag aftra #also im fully aware of other issues with ai #like data privacy and misinformation #this just happens to be the more personal one to me #and will fully advocate for strict AI regulations #and expanded copyright laws protecting IPs from ai #ai artwork #ai #ai art

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toughtink · 11 months

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wish people would stop saying cosplay is banned in florida

#the florida anti-drag law and cosplay discourse is just full if misinformation #along with folks doing the fascists jobs for them #like fuck the law didn’t even really ban drag #like’s it’s so vague on purpose but also technically that stuff is still legal #the problem is the gop wants everyone to equate drag with burlesque #anyway the law goes after venues for KNOWINGLY allowing children into adult live performances #but then they have really vague definitions for what constitutes adult #which is clearly on purpose and to be used in evil ways #but also that’s probably why it’ll end up shot down #anyways the discourse ignores actual queer people in florida in favor of internet points so that sucks #and it’s causing panic and self-censorship which is frankly what desatan fuckinf wants

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hauntingblue · 3 months

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My theory is that corazón doesn't want law (and children) to be part of the family bc he wants to protect them so he just scares and hits them away

#which is like fucked up way to do it but 🤷🏻‍♀️#baby 5 hitting law again ahdkaj #the officials aged like milk in like 16 years damn....#so law is someone with money that lost everything kinda like doffy which his father renounced to have everything i get it i get it #oh law had a sister too ooh.....#mr baby or whatever his name is damn.... he was a dapper middle aged man #there are nuns in one piece??? so was there a jesus christ??? do you think he gets compared to ace or thats just me #very funny thay mingo tells giolla not to spread misinformation lmao #law wanting to kill corazón bc everyone else died so its not fair this asshole gets to live.... well...#when the nun said theybwere going to let the kids leave... yeah no....#talking tag #watching one piece #episode 701 #jaguar d saul and the nun are the same character kinda #someone out there is going to love you no one is born to be alone/someone out there will help you and be kind to you #also trebol or diamante said that you cant win a fight with force of will and law said that exact thing to luffy....#hes gonna prove them all wrong #oh lmao even doffy and corazon there crucified like their father damn #the father explaining how they will enrich their life not like riches but like in their hearts... heart motif again #okay the father is fucking stupid lmao #yes we just moved from mariejoa and this is my government name #they lasted one (1) day ajdhask #i would hate my dad too if he was that fucking stupid lmao #now my theory is in shambles.... well cora dod protect him by not telling... i guess it mingo made his mind up he wouldn't be able to #make him change his mind #why does cora keep falling over... just a show of his kindness or is it to make the kids laugh..... bc baby 5 laughs and #pranks him with the tea always #YEEEES cora is telling law to run away form doffy bc the tenryuubitos have beef with the D.s.... two theories confirmed in one hell yeah #i need to make my one piece conspiracy board i am serious #episode 702

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femmeconomics · 11 months

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i just saw a video someone had posted of the bins of books to be discarded for a florida school library talking about how horrible this was and why florida is so fucked up. obviously the book bans are fucked up, but that’s a dishonest way of talking about it. libraries and specifically school libraries are finite spaces. there is only so many books they can hold. this means that yes, the books will be weeded, regularly, mainly for condition or for out of date information in non-fiction (and a lot of schools are now cutting out most of non-fiction since research is being done online) and it is the law that public schools cannot sell or donate the books they cut from their collection. they’re allowed to offer them to their own students/faculty to take for free, but past that they legally have to throw them away.

the stigma around getting rid of books is rooted in really really good intentions because it’s good that we care about preserving books and information and it’s good that our knee jerk response to a pile of books in a dumpster is horror. but it also prevents schools from allowing their librarians to properly go through their catalog and update their collection, because they want to avoid the blowback of getting rid of books. if you want new books, or books with diverse leads, or books with scientifically up to date information in your schools, that means throwing things out. the florida book bans are horrible but the idea of "they’re trying to throw out books, if we stop them, no one will throw out books" is misinformed and unfair. how do you think the "controversial" books got into those libraries in the first place? by throwing other things out. if the bans fail, throwing out books won’t stop, and shouldn’t stop, and in fact will probably increase so that they’ll be able to get the funding to refill their collections with the types of books we’re fighting to allow in schools.

#if you want to criticise the law that doesn’t let public schools donate books then do that but it’s a separate issue #and if it’s mostly for physical condition and misinformation it’s not really ideal to fill up donation centers with it

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myfavouritefoodisdrywall · 2 years

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Had to make a comic for gov class

and of course i jumped at the opportunity to have an assignment feature these two mischievous lads

turning in my funny little drawings of funny little queer cartoon villains explaining how bills become laws, for a grade? brilliant

#professor venomous #ok ko #professor venomous fanart #ok ko fanart #lord boxman #voxman #comic #no one is going to read it but if they did they’d notice that the law venomous is trying to make is sentencing crypto bros to death #he succeeds in eliminating these crypto bros by threatening to incinerate dc with a giant laser #bitcoin and nfts are gone for good thanks to him #disclaimer: i was not paying attention when the teacher explained the process so my comic is most certainly wildly incorrect #but honestly it’s better that way cause if i can make a comic about prof venomous eliminating dogecoin #whilst simultaneously spreading misinformation about the legislative process then that’s an absolute win

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