Harena @Harena@toot.cat

Let's talk about real estate for a moment.

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Last year, we acquired land.

Land, like creatures, cannot be owned, only taken care of for a while.

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This land is high-desert badlands, with environmental factors like the double-digits-below-zero winter cold, water scarcity, and the lack of a centralized power grid.

This winter, we're focusing on software for the #darkPi hardware, and formalizing the group governance as is becomes more than just a circle of friends.

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If you are a programmer (or want to be), we can use you.
If you write LaTeX good, we need you.
If you want to collaborate or integrate with your project, talk to us.

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This is an open call for aid towards building an intersectional place of safety.

All funds above survival go towards activism.

Reach out to myself or @woozle to get involved.

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Please boost the project!
(navigate to Preferences-->Settings-->Featured Tags and pin #ThornValley to your profile.)

it's okay and normal if you're not who you thought you'd be by now. it's okay and normal if you're not what you thought you'd be by now. stuff happens that you couldn't have prepared for and couldn't have known was coming. society isn't structured so many of us can succeed inside it. go your own pace.

#DurhamNC

#DurhamNC

Full version, with missing verse: https://woozalia.com/wiki/Megga_Mess

🎵
Wake up Wall Street, I think I got somethin' to say to you.
It's late September and it really should be getting cool.
This weather has got me confused
And I feel we're being used
Your megacorps just don't work anymore

You said they would give us wealth
But they're bad for our mental health
Our future's sold, and that's what really hurts.

The morning sun melting icebergs tells you that something's wrong
But the CEOs won't change 'cause it might spoil their fun.
Any progress, they just refuse
with propaganda on the right-wing news
Those megacorps just don't work anymore.
They said they would give us wealth
But they've taken away our health
Our future's done, and that's a loss we could do without.

[ guitar solo ]

[no room for another verse]

I applied for all of their jobs
But they're always crowded out with mobs
Oh megacorps just ain't workin'... anymore...
They'll never admit the truth
They blame our problems on our youth
They've blown their chances and blown all ours as well.
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M:tG card by Zander, created August 26 on request from @eryn

Thanks to everyone's help, we were able to afford stuff like therapy and vitamins this month.

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tldr - total is $4559.31 after it's all said and done ($3,736.86 for engine repairs, $822.45 for replacing the ball joints in the steering assembly), and after paying for the second chunk we're afloat but not by a lot.

If you're able to, please boost here, share on other social media, and if you have extra past survival and health, send a few dollars our way.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/dreadnaught-repairs/

The internet was out for five days due to lightning, and I'm behind on...everything. Ko-Fi, Patreon, Liberapay, the works, it's all out of date.

We won't starve this month, even though they withheld @sesshirecat's EBT, and that's...a relief.

From the depths of my tarnished soul, thank you, friends, for your help with this.

We've survived another financial tsunami with your help.

Queen meets Talking Heads
https://wiki.hypertwins.org/Another_Burns_Down_the_House

#SorryNotSorry

Follow-up to @eryn's post -- I can verify much of the narrative in the GFM -- which I recommend reading, although I should note that it may be rage-inducing ​:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/dreadnaught-repairs.

I first started working with Tessa when they were dealing with threatening messages from their former partners at Red Thread (https://issuepedia.org/Red_Thread_Studios) -- I recognized bullying/lying tactics from my own experiences with problematic business associates.

I remember them going through brainfog from the mis-medication. I remember the eviction. I remember the delay in disability payments which led to that, and almost killed them. I remember a lot of the other events mentioned.

Tessa is sometimes described in news articles as "mentally unstable"; this is... just wrong. (I could go off about that all by itself... but I'll just say that I'm more than familiar with being misunderstood because of not thinking the way most people do.)

If you know anyone who could help, please reshare. 🕯️ 💜

I need help.

My family is facing over $4k in unexpected repairs for an engine problem with our truck.

Please boost.
Please share to other social media.
Please help us survive this assault on our resources.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/dreadnaught-repairs

#resistTogether #transcrowdfund #librecosts

Today is my 2nd SRSniversary! 🎉

https://woozalia.com/wiki/Me/SRS
(need to update that a bit)