happy four seasons total landscaping day to all who celebrate
I am a Pepper - spicy and not funny.
“You seem kind” (source)
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plz help a sick mixed queer move back to the sorrowful midwest
so my last post needs to be updated: my roommate and i were given a November 20th move out date, unfortunately due to my credit score and fucked job situation i cant move with them and their friends like we originally planned which sucks but i have a place back in Minnesota i can stay with my baby boy bathbomb(pictured at bottom)
this is the cheapest flight i could find so far around the date i need to go the pet charge is $125 and im terrified my baggage might be over so i want a cushion of $125 to align with their policy cuz idk what id do if i had to leave a bag behind in laguardia i would also need transportation $ to the airport(cuz connecticut has like no flights??? what is this place?) and i need to grab some important things from my overdue storage unit i cant leave behind(documents that prove i exist)
i can figure out my phone bill and a payment plan for backrent with my landlady(she’s very understanding but i dont want to be a pos) so those wont be counted rn so all in all without food i would need
$738
most of my posts taper out around the $100 amount and im trying to get help from friends and family and take gigs but i have limited time and even more limited resources if i can get to mn i can have some time and space with a lot less financial pressure to get my life more stable i need that so plz boost plz send a few dollars me and the boy appreciate it
i am open to questions and some proof info if ur respectful just like dont push it that shit is super dehumanizing
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hi this has been circulating for a couple days now but i haven’t received any support plane tickets increase and i rly need to make sure i can get home
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i got my ticket 😭😭😭 now i just get to save for transportation bills and getting documents spent some of my big donation(tysm) on groceries as well 🫀 im sad but grateful
November 6th 2023 update:
i officially have 14 days until my flight 🥺😭 i rly need to pay my storage unit ($101 with the $10 late fee applied) and get train fare($50) so i can pick up things like my birth certificate and other important documents and items this week
i also need to have the pet carrier fee ($125) saved by the flight date November 20th
i get about $100 a week from unemployment and i’m using that for my phone bill house bills and living expenses here until i move so please keep boosting thank u all so much for the support and getting me this far!!🫀
here are the ways u can help and the updated goal for clarity:
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The yearly curse has lifted
same energy
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all the power to trans men with pussies and trans girls with cocks, but also let’s give some love to those who have had bottom surgery. to guys with homemade dicks and girls with self-designed vaginas. there is no right or wrong way to be trans and have junk, and regardless of what’s in our pants we deserve to be loved and respected
“Mayor Eric Adams, a former police captain, has said he wants to see police further embrace the ‘endless’ potential of drones, citing Israel’s use of the technology as a blueprint after visiting the country last week.”
“In general, fascism can best be understood as bringing the methods of imperial rule in the colonies into the metropole.”
The Lancetfish is a species that looks like it comes straight out of a realistic fantasy world building project.
abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don’t wanna lose the rights to them
Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don’t want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we’re certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They’re crying about opportunity cost for a product they’re not even selling.
op i know you’re probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company’s out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it’s a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can’t be converted.
for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.
so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go “well op just wants old video games to play” (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.
roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it:
Someone who hasn’t watch Star Trek, please explain this picture
everyone’s hallucinating. Red guy is having a baby, yellow guy is doing a sick air guitar solo, blue guy is getting shot in slow motion and beige guy just got out of an imaginary divorce.
beige guy just kicked EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE WIGGLES IN THE BALLS and is standing in the middle of the carnage, contemplating life
Period cramp simulator on three cis dudes and one trans man
We speak with Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned last month to protest continued arms sales to Israel amid its bombardment of Gaza, writing in a viral letter that one-sided U.S. support for Israel is “shortsighted,” “destructive” and “contradictory.” Media reports say many others inside the State Department are equally frustrated with the U.S. role in the conflict. Paul tells Democracy Now! he tried to raise his concerns with his superiors but found “no appetite for that discussion” and that unlike all other U.S. arms sales that take humanitarian concerns into account, Israel gets a blank check. Paul says the overall message inside the Biden administration is: “Don’t question the policy because it’s coming from the top.”
transcript at the link
AMY GOODMAN: Josh Paul, why was this the last straw for you? I mean, for example, if you were in charge of weapons sales, presumably you were dealing with Saudi Arabia, notoriously authoritarian. U.S. agencies concluded, even in just one case, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, that the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for this. You oversaw arms sales to them, presumably. Why Israel?
JOSH PAUL: So, let me just be clear: I was one of multiple people involved in the arms sales process. Arms sales themselves are a presidential authority that is delegated to the secretary of state, and then, through the secretary of state, to the undersecretary, who is actually responsible for approving them, for the most part. But you’re right. And as I said in my resignation letter, in my time in the department, I dealt with many morally challenging, controversial arms sales.
I think what made the difference for me here is that for all of those previous instances, even under the Trump administration, mind you, there was always room for discussion and debate and the ability to mitigate some of the worst possible outcomes, to delay sales until crises had passed, so that they weren’t contributing immediately into a humanitarian crisis, to work with Congress and be confident that once the policy debate had ended in the State Department, there would be a congressional piece to it, too. And Congress generally has stood up in the past repeatedly on matters of human rights and arms sales. What was different here was that there was none of that. There was no debate. There was no space for debate. And there was also no congressional appetite or willingness to have debate.
“ohh what if my kid starts identifying as a CAT because of the trans agenda we have to prote—” well they’ve always done that. do you remember the psychological effects of h2o on young girls. of warrior cats on autistic children. i believed i was a demigod because of percy jackson. twilight came out and kids were telling their friends they were secretly vampires. this is just a thing kids do. worry less
Not saying that Hollywood studios are committing blatant financial fraud or anything, but the writer of the original Men in Black being told that after 3 sequels, a hit song, a WB cartoon series and a comic book being told “this franchise has never made money” is rather shady.
Didn’t Mark Hamill say they once sent him a letter every year claiming Star Wars never made any money?
Hollywood is great at taking a movie that made $300 million on a $15 million budget and then fudging the numbers so they somehow lost money and then they get a tax break.
The whole thing is such a scam, and the whole reason is to avoid paying the talent: writers, directors and actors, who agreed to a lower up front paycheck in order to take a piece of the profit of a film that should be wildly successful. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/business/nightcap-hollywood-accounting-strike/index.html

















