If you’re looking for a good, centralized collection of fundraisers for people and organizations doing on-the-ground work in Minnesota right now, someone on Bluesky put together a great resource hub for things like food support, rent relief, mutual aid, and immigrants’ rights centers that I’d really love to see spread around.
And if you’re local to the Twin Cities, there’s a “Take Action” section with links to ways to get active, as well as some resource guides for legal observers, etc.
Those of us here in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the metro area appreciate every bit of support we can get right now, especially with the federal government cutting off things like SNAP benefits for Minnesotans and threatening further retaliation. Keep us in your thoughts, and maybe pick a cause to support, if you can.
Reblogging to add that the person who put this together has turned it into a full-fledged website, if that’s any easier to spread around!
I write this with a heavy heart… My friend is going through the hardest days of his life. Yesterday he lost his uncle, and today his mother is still in the hospital undergoing chemotherapy.
On the third day of her treatment, his mother sleeps most of the time from sheer exhaustion. Each chemotherapy session lasts a full 22 hours, and she’s connected to it without a break.
Between the grief of loss and the pain of illness, they can no longer afford the costs of continuing her treatment
I write to you today pleading for compassion and humanity… Any donation, any help, any contribution could make a real difference and help save a mother’s life.
Whoever can help, please don’t hesitate.Support now means so much 💔
Do I deserve all this pain? Don’t I have a heart to feel what you’re going through? 💔
I share this with you with a broken heart… My mother is suffering terribly and is still in the hospital undergoing chemotherapy. She is in excruciating pain, and I stand helpless before her suffering, able only to pray. Amidst this pain, I also lost my uncle and his wife… loss after loss, and unbearable sorrow.
Genuinely one of my favorite things about TNG is how often they’re just doing art for fun. Riker’s been playing trombone since he was a kid and he really enjoys it and also he is Not Good. Dr. Crusher is stalking the halls trying to rope all her friends and acquaintances into joining her community theater productions and musical reviews even if they’ve never been on stage before. They’re constantly going to their crewmates’ music recitals and poetry readings, and some of these people are impressively good at what they do but some of them are just getting started or content to stay at beginner level. They’re having fun! They don’t have to be prodigies in order to be involved with art because engaging with art on whatever level has value of its own! THIS is what I want to see in my post-scarcity socialist space future. Will Riker’s bad trombone playing is load-bearing, actually.
oh you have to eat your produce the moment it leaves the store or the fuckin Hungering Dust will get it. and. poison your food
I ran into this post years ago and to be honest, it has completely reoriented the way I engage with food.
Like. I’ve always sorta understood that things grow moldy or stale or sour or such if left out, but I never really internalized it in a meaningful way.
But now I’m just like.
Yeah. The hungering dust. There exists omnivorous dust in the air that will eat my food if I don’t.
Those bagels have been sitting there for a week. Are we going to eat them soon or are we leaving them for the hungering dust?
Pizza’s been sitting out on the counter for an hour. Everyone’s enjoying the pizza, but if we don’t want “everyone” to include the hungering dust then we should probably put it away soon.
That’s just. That’s how food works to me now. There exists an invisible predator in the air that hungers for your yummies, and it will not hesitate to eat your food if you don’t make the effort to protect and preserve it. And eat what can’t be preserved before the dust can.
Guys if you want queer shit written by queers on our own terms you’re going to have to start seeking out weird independent media. I’m sorry that’s the only place you can regularly find it idk what to tell you, we can’t keep acting like there’s nothing if we’re not getting blockbusters and triple A titles or whatever it is we’re waiting around for. The thing you keep saying you want is already being offered for free by one person making a passion project on the internet and you would both benefit enormously if you interacted with it instead of lamenting that the only options we have for representation are pandering afterthoughts from corporate shit
I say this with so, so much care: Real queer shit written by real queers can and will sometimes make you uncomfortable. That’s one of the defining features of weird, independent queer media. And weird independent media more broadly. Art that comes from true individual passion and authenticity has edges and bite to it that mass market corporate products intentionally do not. Has a rawness that can offend.
You are allowed to feel uncomfortable about it. But don’t ask for queers to self censor for your comfort.
ive said this many times before and here i am saying it again but. sandra lynn and gilear i think was the healthiest couple on the entire show despite the fact that they divorced because of a cheating scandal. because like. she is so so flawed and problematic and troubled and broken and he is so so insecure and unlucky and sad and depressed and they did love each other. so much. sandra lynn “commitment issues” faeth found someone she was willing and happy to settle down with for over 15 years. gilear “my existence was a joke the universe made” faeth was so secure in their relationship that when he felt betrayed (ie cheating) he had the confidence to leave. did you guys hear that gilear had confidence because leaving a relationship requires that!! what the fuck. when sandra lynn is at her lowest, in a one year relationship with another man, she goes to gilear. when his daughter (a product of his wife cheating on him) is mad at her mom gilear goes hey cut her some slack. she’s having it rough and there’s more to her than you know. she took him to rock concerts. he moved countries for her sake. the saddest man in the world felt good enough to leave
