Urgent Help Needed

“…NOTHING wrong babygirl…you were doing NOTHING wrong….”

Most of us will never know the agony of being a parent that does everything to provide for their child, only to keep coming up empty. Of the immense suffering and self-loathing that comes with being responsible for this little life, and feeling like you're failing: to keep them safe, warm, sheltered, fed. Of holding your child, your toddler, your newborn, watching them slowly waste away from that relentless, gnawing hunger you can't stop (one that you feel yourself). Watching as they howl in pain, and the hollowness that comes when your child becomes too weak even to do that. All the while being totally helpless to stop it because it's not up to you.

Most of us will only see the aftermath of such a thing: a parent carrying the far-too-light shroud of their child, pictured under a headline that details how starvation has taken hold of some given population. Distant and removed from us.

Except that it isn't. There are so many desperate parents who've run out of options, for whom this isn't some abstraction, who are asking—begging—us for our help. Just so they'll be able to buy some of the shit canned food left from the last aid delivery, and a couple loaves of bread to feed their children with. Extortionately pricey because of scarcity, but it's enough to keep their children in a state of "acute malnutrition" rather than "catastrophic hunger", so they'll pay anything for it.

Attacks on NGOs & prevention of aid into Gaza puts every single person there at risk of a slow death due to starvation. Especially children, like Samah's newborn baby boy, her little 2 year-old girl, and their big sister (who's only 9). But we can help. What's pocket money for us, is an invaluable lifeline to parents like Samah. At a time when so many seem to have decided to live in an alternate universe in which deliberate starvation and mass slaughter of civilians is acceptable, we have to do what we can to oppose it. Not to push it away, to ignore it, to decide it's been going on so long we don't care or that it's hopeless so give up, but to grit our teeth, dig our heels in, and say "no, seriously, what the fuck are we doing here?"

tldr: donate to Samah so she can buy food for her kids so they don't starve to death. please. and thank you. :)

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IOS users and Patreon. Big old heads up.

"Apple is requiring that Patreon use their in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app by November 2024. This means that starting in November, new memberships purchased in the iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% App Store fee.

First, we want to be clear about one thing: this will not impact your existing memberships at all. Apple's App Store fee only applies to new memberships purchased in the iOS app beginning in November 2024."

Apple users, if you make your pledges through your browser you can dodge this fee.

This is just apple doing its usual nickel and diming to take a slice of every pie.

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Can we have people fucking stop throwing eggs at the concept of transformers prime NOT being a kids show? Like we get it it's your childhood and it was mine too, but don't go throwing out backhanded "opinions" because you think the show was "perfect", no it was not and you fucking know it. I don't wanna have to sit here and tell ya'll that the autobots being fucking thrown aside just for more plot WASN'T on purpose because of the way they portrayed their characters.

I wanna know why ya'll think are entitled to only believe that and try and FORCE people to believe that there can't be another transformers universe where optimus is like his bayverse counterpart. Like oh I'm sorry for having different ideas that could've flourished and different opinions on things alot of ya'll take OFFENSE to, but if you're gonna sit here and be pissy just because I like to THINK differently, then you don't deserve recognition or time of day. Sue ME for being fucking FUN and shit.

"Oh but optimus thinks this and this character shouldn't have done that -" do you wanna know something funny?

*leans in close*

Copying this over from my IG. All @‘s are IG handles!

because it is only one little cubie

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