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[walks-the-ages]

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-USA Residents Only-

Time Sensitive- Apply before August 25th, 2023 (8/25/23)!

Filing a claim takes less than ten minutes, and can be done HERE

Excerpt from article:

Anyone in the U.S. who used Facebook in the last 16 years can now collect a piece of a $725 million settlement by parent company Meta tied to privacy violations — as long as they fill out a claim on a website set up to pay out money to the social network's users. 

The settlement stems from multiple lawsuits that were brought against Facebook by users who claimed that the company improperly shared their data with third-party sources such as advertisers and data brokers. The litigation began after Facebook was embroiled in a privacy scandal in 2018 with Cambridge Analytica, which scraped user data from the site as part of an effort to profile voters.

Meta denied any liability or wrongdoing under the settlement, according to the recently created class-action website. However, the agreement means that U.S. residents who used Facebook between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, can file a monetary claim as long as they do so before August 25, 2023. 

Please reblog to signal boost this! As many people as possible should know about this to make their claim, if you don't do anything you don't get anything. It takes less than ten minutes to file and pick your payment option including pay/pal and ven/mo .

-USA Residents Only-

This ended August 25th, 2023!

#facebook #free money #signal boost #facebook lawsuit #facebook settlement #time sensitive #bold text #large text #PLEASE REBLOG

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

In a world where daily living support for disabled people is built on the foundation of the 'nuclear family,' and where disabled adults are penalized for getting married, there is no age limit on "Orphan."

#large text #bold text #disability rights #disability pride month #losing your support system because someone died

[crippled-peeper]

physically disabled people who will never get better my beloveds

physically disabled people who will only get worse my beloveds

physically disabled people who can’t relate to 99% of posts about disability my beloveds

physically disabled people who hate their disabilities my beloveds

physically disabled people my beloveds

#large text #disability #cripplepunk #cpunk #cripple punk

[arovaricious]

EXPLICITLY include intersex ppl this pride month or die

#intersex #all caps #large text #done with us being erased + minimized + fetishized + ignored #when intersex and trans struggles have ALWAYS been intertwined

[agendergenderqueermasculenbyguy]

Welp, it happened.

I have posted before about how blocking content on tumblr has no stigma attached

You – yes, you, person reading this – are allowed to block whatever tags/ content you want

You don’t need to have a “reason”, you are allowed to block and filter content “just because” or “because I don’t want to see it”

Content does not need to trigger or squick you for you to be allowed to filter it

This post is officially your personal permission to filter out whatever content you would rather not see

And this includes filtering/ blocking “#current events” “#current news” “#global news”

You are allowed to exclude/ block out current world events from your tumblr experience

This does not mean you don’t care!

Yes, you are allowed to filter content “just because” or “because I don’t care”

But filtering exhausting and upsetting content does not imply you do not care!

Compassion fatigue is a real thing!

Especially if you (like me) follow several, multiple, a bunch of activist bloggers

There are global crises everywhere, I just read of 6 genocides happening which is precisely why I decided to finally block/ filter out those “current events” tags

How to filter in the tumblr app:

Go to your own blog >

click the little gear in the top corner >

General Settings >

scroll down >

just above “Color Palette” there it is >

Filtering

Type in whatever tags or words you want to not see in the future

This works for filtering out user-URLs too, if you have specific people you’d like not to see posts by

The “full text” filter will, however, 1) also look at the URL of the prev to who put it on your dash 2) ignores spaces in the post

Example 1: You follow “microplasdick” and you filtered “orange”; if the OP is called “orange-fishburne” your filter will hide that post; if the person microplasdick reblogged is “orange-cucumber” your filter will hide the post. Doesn’t matter if the word “orange” is not within the post itself

Example 2: You have filtered “orange” and a post goes “I also ran getting to my bus” – that post would get filtered because it contains “o ran ge” in that sequence

So “#tumblr is my safe space” and for that to stay true, you’re most definitely allowed to block out current events/ world news

Please take care <2

#filtering #blocking is self care #how to filter #how to tumblr #tumblr how to #tumblr filters #tumblr filter #compassion fatigue #this has been a psa #selfcare #self care #tumblr dashboard #the tumblr experience #tumblr is my safe space #long post #bold text #big text #large text #genocide mention #new to tumblr

[solarianvoidthearoace]

Because of the mess that Duolingo turned out to be, I checked out a recommended app (list of recommendations here.)

I tried Busuu today and it’s great!

It actually uses the language skill levels of A1/ A2/ B1/ B2 that are used to compare language proficiency.

The assessment test was swift and didn’t feel pressuring, you can actually re-do the assessment for a language you already started whenever you feel like it!

However, one major point of critique (which is actually about accessibility): you can not turn off speaking exercises in Busuu. You can only repeatedly click “skip” whenever they pop up. But you can not just say “I don’t want/ can’t do speaking exercise at all.” And the same goes for listening exercises but worse because you can’t even skip those within your regular exercises/ lessons!

Disclaimer: I am not Deaf/ deaf nor mute. To me these things are annoyances more than actual accessibility issues but it does make Busuu feel rather inaccessible. Sometimes I just don’t want to deal with listening exercises. And I generally don’t like speaking “on command” or vocally replying to prompts. But, again, for me these are preferences.

I know speaking and listening exercises are important to achieve an actual comprehension for a language and I recognise avoiding speaking/ listening might slow down my progression in my chosen languages of study. I recognise that I need to and do consume media where I need to listen to the languages I’m learning.

To other people, it is an actual problem of accessibility that you can not universally turn off speaking/ listening exercises in Busuu.

I just figured this might be an issue people will inevitably notice now that we are changing away from Duolingo in droves and someone had to make a post about it.

#sickpunk #sick punk #accessibility #accessability #busuu #busuu language learning #language learning app #duolingo #language learning apps #langauge learning #langblr #c-punk #hard of hearing #disability advocacy #disability #italian and french #<- my language learning tag #large text #coloured text #colored text #big text #bold text

[cjoatprehn]

I’m shaky, tired, and stressed as I type this but-

I am going to be homeless in 30-37 days.

Updated with payment links

Um…I have stayed the extent of the time I’ve been able to stay with the folks I’m currently staying with. I had stayed a few months already. Since mid-May 2023. No one expected me to come and stay this long. They were able to house me longer term. Life just had other plans. They did as they were able. They know my situation. They, nor I, can’t control the systems and all. But I do need to go.

I’ve received 30 days notice. They can extend a week, but no further (thus the 37 days). I’ve put in housing applications, to help with housing, and I’ve checked with other friends that I could possibly stay at, in this state at least. But neither are able to take me in. Which I knew already as they explained their situations and I’m not going to add myself to the mix of their daily lives. I’m grateful for the family I’ve been with and their hospitality. I have run out of options in terms of safe places to stay. I saw it coming a few weeks back I just…

Everything I’ve worried about came flaring up again. I can’t go back to my abusive mom. Nor any of my family, as the majority of them are Christians. I don’t want to live in that atmosphere anymore. The only reason I know the folks I’m in is because of an ex-partner, and their network which…I’m no longer dating due to traumatic reasons. I have reached out to others to see what else I can do immediate-wise.

I don’t…I don’t know what else to do; or where else to go atm within state. It’s bad timing too, just on my part, It’s getting cold. I haven’t located my winter coat. The most I have is my winter boots and sweatpants and sweatshirts as winter clothing; along with other things, which may not even all fit in my one suitcase.

I knew it was coming but…It……I’m…really fucking scared. So I come to y’all. I will…turn off my throne wishlist for now. Without an address to send things to, I can’t receive them without complications. 30 days from now is November 12, 2023; 37 days is November 19, 2023.

I’ll pack starting tomorrow. I…need financial support, encouragement, love, or…miraculously a place I can call my own without a landlord involved. Landlords are already shitty in majority. Very little are truly good folk.

I don’t want to be driven to the dark depths of my mind that put me in where I may take my own life as it’s better than this constant up and down whiplash of lash. I’m not in that state of mind. I would like to keep it that way. I have promises to keep. Promises that keep me alive and would affect many if I don’t keep them.

This will be pinned, so check this updating link for details in terms of financially and otherwise. Halloween will not be a very treatful time for me, as it seems.

Thank you for reading.

October 16th, 2023 Update:

Payment/fundraising links Listed Below

Cashapp (US & UK only)

Venmo (won’t be able to transfer to bank instantly but—it seems to work?)

Wise (US and Most International Countries) - [email protected]

ZellePay (US only) - [email protected]

Give to ABLE Account (US only? I think?) (Ignore Deadname Pls and Thank you)

Wishlist | US and most International I think? | (going to stay open since I’m allowed to continue having my mail sent here.)

Website - Pay It Forward (Context 👈🏽 clickable)

Ko-Fi - CJOAT | PayPal or Stripe only payment methods

Payoneer - [email protected]

#time sensitive #homelessness #colored text #large text #links #social justice #transgender awareness week #life update

[tommyssupercoolblog]

I'M A CRAZY WEIRDO AND I'M!!! CALLING YOU!!!

I'VE REALLY GOT NOTHING BETTER TO DO!!!!

I DIAL UP YOUR NUMBER AND I LET THE PHONE RING

AND TWO MINUTES LATER I'LL BE DOING IT AGAIN

YOU MIGHT THINK I'LL BE MOVING ALONG

BUT!! YOU!! WOULD!!! BE!! WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!

I'VE GOT NO LIFE AT ALL!!!

AND SO I'LL CONTINUE 2 CALL!!!

IM A CRAZY WEIRDO AND I'M CALLING YOUUUUUUUUU~!!!!!!!

#i made a textpost #/LYRICS #/LYR #lyrics #song lyrics #rainbow #rainbowcore #rainbow text #all caps #all caps text #large text #nostalgia #nostalgiacore #old web #webcore #old internet #2000s web #2000s internet #2010s internet #2010s web #2000s nostalgia #2010s nostalgia #i think this was like at the end of 2000s and beginning of 2010s that this song was a meme??? not sure tho #y2k internet #y2k web #scenecore #kidcore #internetcore #parry gripp #https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-ol-Eg-hsY&pp=ygUlaW0gYSBjcmF6eSB3ZWlyZG8gYW5kIGknbSBjYWxsaW5nIHlvdQ%3D%3D <- link to song

[spectempt]

#weirdcore #oddcore #strangecore #unreality #vent tw #vent #red text #large text

[furbearingbrick]

WHAT THE FUCKITY SHIT SOMEONE ACTUALLY FOUND THE "UNCLE WALT" SHORT?! AND IT'S FOR SALE?!

sadly it's only part of a limited-edition release compilation, meaning it's another artificial scarcity situation like with what Vinegar Syndrome did with Voodoo Heartbeat. god damn it.

#lost media #caps lock #you're REALLY missing the point of public domain here guys #fuck capitalism all my homies hate capitalism #I hope as soon as someone buys that disc they re-copy it a trillion times and distribute copies all over the country for free #and upload it to every archive they can for good measure #large text

[huesofvioletandpurple]

hold on I wanna see something

#sumire yoshizawa #large text #nooty lore #from what I've noticed the 'Sumire enjoyer' and 'rgu enjoyer' venn diagram is a Circle #edit after the fact: huh ! looks like my theory isn't exactly sound #though I think I'll have to edit the way I do this poll of I repeat it in the future

[walks-the-ages]

OP deactivated, and some of the links were broken/marked unsafe by Firefox, so here's a new compilation post of Leslie Feinburg's (She/her, ze/hir) novels and essays on being transgender:

Stone Butch Blues official free source directly from Author's website:

Stone Butch Blues, backup on the webarchive:

Transgender Liberation: A movement whose time has come, on the web archive:

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, on the web archive:

Lavender and Red, PDF essay collection:

Drag King Dreams, on the web archive:

(Also, if anyone ever tells you that the protagonist of Stone Butch Blues ""ends up with a man""........ they're transmisogynistic jackass TERFs who are straight up lying)

Please also check out your local public libraries for these books and see if they carry them, to help support public libraries! If you have a library card already you can checkout Libby and Overdrive to see if your public library carries it as an ebook that you can checkout :)

EDIT: another not included on the orignal masterpost-- Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or blue !

annnnnd in light of the web archive losing it's court case, here's a backup of both PDFs and generated epubs a friend made:

5/26/2023: hello! I am adding on yet another book of queer history, this time the autobiography of Karl Baer, a Jewish, intersex trans man who was born in 1884! Please signal boost this version, and remember to check the notes whenever this crosses your dash for any new updates :)

6/24/2023: Two links to share!

Someone made an Epub version of Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years, which you can find Here , as a more accessible version than a pdf of a scanned book if you're like me and need larger text size for reading--

And from another post I reblogged earlier today, I discovered the existence of "TransSisters: the Journal of Transsexual Feminism", which has 10 issues from 1993-1995, and includes multiple interviews with Leslie Feinburg and other queer feminists / activists of the 90s!

Here's a link to all 10 issues of TransSisters, plus a 1996 "look back at" by one of the writers after the journal ended, you can find all 10 issues on the Internet Archive Here !

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8/28/2023:

"Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out", can be found on the web archive Here, for the 25th Anniversary Edition from 2015,

and also Here, for the original 1991 version.

Each of the above can be borrowed for one hour at a time as long as a copy is available :D

This is a living post that receives sporadic updates on the original, if you are seeing this on your dash, click Here to see the latest version of the post to make sure you're reblogging the most up to date one :)

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October, 25th 2023:

"I began to dawdle over breakfast during shift changes, asking both waitresses questions. After weeks of inquiries, they invited me to a demonstration, outside Kleinhan's Music Hall, protesting the Israeli war against Egypt and Syria. I was particularly interested in that protest. The state of Israel had been declared shortly before my birth. In Hebrew school I was taught "Palestine was a land without peo-ple, for a people without a land." That phrase haunted me as a child. I pictured ears with no one in them, and movies projected on screens in empty theaters. When I checked a map of that region of the Middle East in my school geography textbook, it was labeled Palestine, not Israel. Yet when I asked my grandmother who the Palestinians were, she told me there were no such people. The puzzle had been solved for me in my adolescence. I developed a strong friendship with a Lebanese teenager, who explained to me that the Palestinian people had been driven off their land by Zionist settlers, like the Native peoples in the United States. I studied and thought a great deal about all she told me. From that point on I staunchly opposed Zionist ideology and the occupation of Palestine. So I wanted to go to the protest. However, I feared the demonstration, no matter how justified, would be tainted by anti-Semitism. But I was so angered by the actions of the Israeli government and military, that I went to the event to check it out for myself. That evening, I arrived at Kleinhan's before the protest began. Cops in uniforms and plainclothes surrounded the music hall. I waited impatiently for the protesters to arrive. Suddenly, all the media swarmed down the street. I ran after them. Coming over the hill was a long column of people moving toward Kleinhan's. The woman who led the march and spoke to reporters proudly told them she was Jewish! Others held signs and banners aloft that read: "Arab Land for Arab People!" and "Smash Anti-Semitism!" Now those were two slogans I could get behind! I wanted to know who these people were and where they had been all my life! Hours later I followed the group back to their headquarters. Orange banners tacked up on the walls expressed solidarity with the Attica prisoners and the Vietnamese. One banner particularly haunted me. It read: Stop the War Against Black America, which made me realize that it wasn't just distant wars that needed opposing. Yet although I worked with two members of this organization, I felt nervous that night. These people were communists, Marxists! Yet I found it easy to get into discussions with them. I met waitresses, factory workers, secretaries, and truck drivers. And I decided they were some of the most principled people I had ever met. For example, I was impressed that many of the men I spoke with talked to me about the importance of fighting the oppression of gays and lesbians, and of all women. Yet I knew they thought they were talking to a straight man" Transgender Warriors (1996) Leslie Feinberg

#bold text #large text #transgender #trans #nonbinary #leslie feinberg #neopronouns #activism #no id #pride #essays #Karl bae #memoirs of a man's maiden years #bi any other name

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

🔪🔪🔪No spoons left 👩‍🦼🔪🔪🔪

So. On 29 December 2022, the back of my motorized wheelchair broke completely (as in completely collapsed, flat out behind me, doubling the turning radius of my chair, and giving me zero back support). After business hours, of course. And so I couldn't call for a repair person to come out and look at it until the morning, and of course they were all backed up until after the New Year.

When the technician did come out (early January 2023), he found the frame was completely bent out of shape (I wonder if it was bent out of shape when it first broke, or if it got that way after roughly a week of bumping it into things when it was flat out, because my chair no longer fit around the corners in my house). And the whole part would need to be replaced. In the meantime, the guy rigged up some cables to hold the back up, and basically tie it into place. It's no longer adjustable, of course, but at least it gives me some support, now (I paid a whole lot of extra money for this chair for its adjustable features, like back angle, foot+leg rests, and seat tilt-in-space)

It would be expensive, but of course I gave my consent for them to order a new one.

Months go by, with no news. Finally, on 10 May 2023, I'm told the 20% deductible I have to pay, before they even put in the order. And I pay it, in installments of one half (minimum down payment), one quarter, and last quarter.

And then: Nothing. Absolute Radio Silence.

Last week, I notice that my battery is no longer holding a charge, so I schedule a technician to come out and replace it (Wheelchair batteries have a lifespan of ~ three years, and I bought the battery in March 2021, when I bought this @!#$-ing chair). While I'm making the appointment, I mention: "Hey, it's been a year since the back on this chair broke, any news on the replacement part?" The receptionist says she doesn't know, but she'll ask the guys in the repair department, and call me back.

She doesn't call back.

Today, 1 February 2024, 13 months later, after the repair guy replaced the battery, and while he was replacing screws on one of my armrests, so I don't have to hold it in place with duct tape, any more, he gave me the news:

The company that makes this chair has completely discontinued the model, and are also no longer making replacement parts.

The chance of me getting the back on my wheelchair fixed is zero.

(I think I'd have to pay more for a lawyer to get a refund on that deductible I've already paid than the price of that deductible).

Oh, and also: this chair is also a swapped out model, and not the one I actually ordered, because the company discontinued that model, too. And I didn't find out until they were driving this one into my living room.

That was 3 years ago. Medicare will only pay for a new chair ever 5 years, or longer. So I'm stuck with this chair until at least the end of 2025 (I started placing my order for a new chair -- the one I have now, in September or October 2020)

Oh, and you know what else the repair guy told me? Wheelchair companies even specially design (and Patent) every single screw and bolt that goes into their chairs, so you can't fix the chairs yourself.

🤬Capitalism!!!

#Wheelchair user #Disablism #Disability World #emoji #large text #bold text

[tropicalgothships]

I apologize in advance for the rage to come.

By the way, what a chickenshit move for that person to make, creating a sideblog to slander you with because you have anon off. I don't think touching grass is enough here, I think this idiot needs to touch the bottom of the ocean and stay there forever. Four years of constant harassment is FUCKING UNACCEPTABLE. HEY IF YOU'RE READING THIS, YOU SICK FUCK RANDO, GET A LIFE. FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF. QUIT ACTING LIKE A GODDAMN TODDLER AND LET THIS PERSON EXIST IN PEACE. RUINING SOMEONE'S ENTIRE LIFE OVER A SELFSHIP IS BULLSHIT. AND ENOUGH WITH THE LIES BTW, JUST GET OVER YOURSELF. YOU DISGUST ME, YOU PATHETIC WORM. I'M SICK OF WATCHING MY FRIENDS GET HURT BY PEOPLE LIKE YOU. SOMEONE WITH THE BRAINS OF A ROCK AND THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF A SCORNED BABY. GROW THE FUCK UP.

(I'm so sorry for the rant, you absolutely do not have any obligation to post this ask btw... I'm just fucking livid as a selfshipper, friend and fellow fat person!! Hiding behind a screen is fucking simple. It doesn't take balls, it takes a shriveled up sack with nothing inside. Fucking coward.)

And if this wasn't clear, I CARE SO MUCH AND AM SO SORRY THAT SUCH A HUGE PART OF THIS COMMUNITY THAT WAS BUILT TO SUPPORT HAS INSTEAD TORN YOU DOWN.

IT'S NOT RIGHT. IT'S NEVER BEEN RIGHT. YOU DESERVE BETTER.

🫂

Basically it all stemmed from being blocked by this person for no real reason, they told all my friends when the self ship community moved to X that I stalked them- when really I just blocked them on every social so I didn’t see them and they didn’t see me. This was in 2018.

A month later in January 2019, a mutual friend of mine and this person wanted to mediate a chat with us both and we both agreed to it. It didn’t end very well because I chewed this person out for lying about me. I’ve been stalked in real life, where it had to get legal action involved. Making sure that someone doesn’t see you online isn’t stalking.

And that was that. It’s been going for years but it really kicked up a notch in 2020, at the start of the first lockdowns. Everyone was online, I wasn’t as I was at work and that was basically when the impersonating anonymous asks started.

It’s been like that ever since March 2020.

#say something nice #capital letters #large text

[arovaricious]

End intersex surgery

Give all bodies our autonomy

Fight against eugenics

#intersex awareness day #intersex #surgery mention #eugenics mention #large text

[nudibranchbutch]

this is a reminder that if you support pr0ship content or are neutral on it or are mutuals with someone who has been called out for being a pr0shipper you are not fucking welcome on my page. you will never be welcome on my page.

(Plain text: this is a reminder that if you support pr0ship content or are neutral on it or are mutuals with someone who has been called out for being a pr0shipper you are not fucking welcome on my page. you will never be welcome on my page. 0 = o)

#🌺 #large text #colored text #plain text provided