Desperately in need of groceries and help with the transmission payment. Changing the goal to reflect those two things specifically. 300 for groceries & house stuff (toilet paper, dish soap, etc), 400 for the car (about half the payment)
Got half a loaf of bread left. Only eaten once today to preserve the bread for the kid.
Yay! It makes me dream of hitting $1,000 in the first week of the campaign. Thank you all so much for coming through for me, as I imagine a future with no governments or politicians or police, and technology exists to make every village self-sufficient so capitalism is no more. We can dream of the world we want to live in!
Yay! It's always nice to wake up to good news. About 6 days after launching campaign to use #film to imagine a #solarpunk future, we've now raised 30% of our goal. Your generosity is touching! I still need your support to boost the drive, and donate if you can, so I can tell a story set in a world with no governments, no politicians, no police. Just ordinary folk running their lives.
A generous donation takes me a step closer to imagining a future with no central governments, no politicians, no police and where communities use restorative justice to handle crime. I'm doing this through a short film, and relying on your support to spread the word since platforms like #kickstarter exclude me, due to how global finance systems are set up.
No utopia is perfect. There will always be some kind of pain, so in my #solarpunk short film, a couple fight over chicken, but this is not just material for a dark comedy. It is a talk about food as the #climate crisis disrupts farming, with inspiration from food preservation techniques in pre-colonial cultures Help me make this film with a boost, or #donate if you can.
Now at 354/2000 four days after I started a campaign to use a dark comedy film to envision a #solarpunk future with no central government, no politicians, no military - everyone participates in running the country and they use restorative justice to handle crime with banishment as last resort. I'm excluded from #crowdfund platforms like #kickstarter so I rely on you to spread the word!
Someone asked if ostracism in my shortfilm fits #solarpunk I borrow from pre-colonial cultures to imagine how communities will handle crime yet there's no government/police using violence/jail in the name of justice.They will use rituals of reconciliation/restorative justice, but if a person is unrepentant/unwilling to pay compensatory fines, they get banished. Help me make this #film
I woke up to generous donations so we are at 262/2000. Thank you so much for pushing me closer to visualising my vision of the future, a #solarpunk world with direct democracy and every village has some level of self-sufficiency, so no corrupt politicians and no capitalism. I'm doing it through a short film, and since I'm excluded from platforms like #kickstarter I have to rely on your word of mouth.
After today's donations, I'm about 7% funded 2days after I begin seeking your support to make a #solarpunk shortfilm themed on direct democracy, community governance, and self-sustaining villages with all the goodies needed in modern life. I'm excluded from platforms like #kickstarter so I'm counting on you to help spread the word, or give what you can to help me visualize this future🙏
I'm crowdfunding for my new short film, a #solarpunk story focused on direct democracy, and need your support. I can't do a kickstarter since all such platforms only allow creators from particular countries, excluding mine, yet I really want to imagine a future without capitalism and central governments. There are lots of perks for each $$ you can spare!
I'm making a new film, a dark comedy set in a #solarpunk world where direct democracy thrives, no politicians, no central governments, where communities are self-sufficient and help each other to survive the climate crisis. But I need your support to imagine this future.
Hello fediverse! We are Cambridge Community Kitchen, a mutual aid project based in a squatted pub in central Cambridge, UK.
We cook around 300 hot vegan meals every Thursday and every Sunday, 52 weeks of the year, and we deliver to literally anybody who asks, for free, across the city.
Nobody owns CCK. We have no managers. Nobody has a job title, or decision making power over any part of the operation. And it Works™.
please help Dej! they're a #trans, #queer, #disabled #artist on the way to self-employment. they need #rent support while they work on covering back payments. they're at increased risk due to US #fascism
DuckDuckFedi (please boost, this is a mutualaid request)
Do any one of you certify or know someone who certifies as a fellow, associate, or educator in the Orton-Gillingham Method (an approach used to tutor students with dyslexia) who is willing to tutor me (a third-world living tutor that earns 35 dollars a month from the student I'm helping) in the OG way? I'm trying to tutor a kid with dyslexia and would like to learn the ethical and methodological ways of doing so.
I'm willing to pay you the full 35 dollars a month that i earn, I'm trying to help the kid and get trained at the same time.
My toot comparing Web Monetization to #mutualAid was insensitive and missed the point entirely.
Mutual aid is about community care and survival, and I spoke from a place of privilege without thinking about people who are actually struggling to get by.
I'm truly sorry.
Drop your mutual aid links below, I want to put my money where my mouth should have been. ❤️
Content warning: ‼️ $0/$630 • please help me with rent for june—due by may 26th, thanx everyone! :boost_ok:
‼️$0/$630‼️ • rent's paid in full for may as of the 1st, hell yeah!!! thank you again to those who've helped me, i appreciate y'all!
it's that time again: i am in need of rent for the month of june while i try and work towards self-employment and getting my art out there to a wider audience by signing up for art calls! please read more at the GFM page and help me with a donation, if you're able—anything helps! boosting this helps immensely as well! thanx so much for helping me!
⚠️ URGENT $255/760 needed ASAP! zir fundraiser has barely made enough progress for zir #family to survive 😭
PLEASE help my #trans friend, a #disabled #parent & #photographer, who has been denied benefits. ze needs help getting food & supplies for xyr kid & pets. you can buy xyr #art below!
It's that time of the month again—I'm doing digital art comms so I can pay bills, eat, and fix the overdraft the IRS gave me, which will take 6-8 weeks to return.
⚠️ URGENT please help a dissociative agender person who recently got fired from their job without any warning and is struggling to get hired elsewhere in this economy. they need help covering rent and utilities. anything helps!
[part 1] 🧵 pals i have no idea what the fuck to do. im doing all my usual stuff but nothing is working. there are 3 people that have big payments within literal days and donations have slowed to a crawl since midmonth. idk if people have decided that anyone i post about is a scam or if people are just out of fucks to give or what. these are real people that are going to face real fucking consequences for not paying their rent on time, for example. i just dont know what more i can say to get people to pay attention or give a damn about high risk people. you can help by copy pasting any public post i've made about them onto your own profile & crossposting on other platforms.
Someone dropped off a massive food rescue haul to our free fridge and community pantry today.
They're not part of my program and we're not sure who's doing it. This is awesome. It means there are others outside of our volunteer group that does maintenance on the fridges and outside of the group that I'm working with to build out our formal food rescue program.
This is huge.
This means we have successfully built post-scarcity *infrastructure*!!!
Folks are using our fridges both to contribute and to utilize. Folks that have nothing to do directly with the core group of maintainers. Wow.
We need to build more free fridges. This one is running out of room.
my daughter is adhd-autistic and has been struggling deeply at school and home this year, on top of having to deal with the stress our continued poverty brings to her. Every day she wakes up, just 6 years old, having to face a level of dread and exhaustion usually reserved for us burnout adults, and I hate this for her.
She has been asking when I can take her to the Olive Garden again, remembering a time she loved it a year ago. She’s also really been wanting to experience the American Girl doll store!
I have a gift card with enough for her to get one outfit tomorrow, I’m going to surprise her with a day off of school and a drive. At worst we can get McDonald’s and she’ll be happy… but it would make her wee little life if she could visit the Olive Garden!
I have a post out for other things so please mark as “for Lu” if giving would bring you joy!
happy birthday to raptor! please help xyr out today!
"My air purifiers need filters, I just ran out of deodorant, the cats need food soon, I'm out of bread and out of butter, milk and eggs so I can't make any. I really hate this"
Happy Juneteenth, I am almost half way to completing my fundraiser. The purpose of raising funds is to help with necessities of rent, groceries, as I continue my field practicum in healthcare. Thanks to folks such as yourself, it has been possible to complete my PRN position and my internship. By redistributing funds, it allows me to continue my academic journey toward my masters in social work. Thank you ❤️ Link: https://gofund.me/8e16c25f @mutualaid #Juneteenth #mutualaid
It's Junteenth and I'm still on my game of breaking e-girl clichés and queering them up!
For either the sake of sorely-needed reparations that not even the State of Oklahoma could be bothered to possibly do, to help me defray monthly costs -- or just because I'm so damn cute -- please support your Friendly Neighborhood Black Catgirl at the links below:
Here is the first #Juneteenth #reparations #MutualAid thread. Lots of folk in these threads have $$ needs that are still unmet and there is also a post with Sudanese mutual aid links.
Please Help me save my life’s work from my former gallery in New York! My former gallery is refusing to safely return my artwork to me here in Germany, after they stopped representing me. It’s almost all the artwork I have made through my entire life as an artist, 138 pieces of art that represent my artistic journey through the last 25 years. I have been desperately fighting to get my work back for over a year now. the funding is stalling a bit at 2/3 of the way. Received: €4,329 Needed: €2,371
Please Boost, it would be amazing and if you are able to afford it, that would be amazing too any help would be much appreciated! Thank you so so so much!
Hey folks, my twin @banefulpuppet needs pads! Being a disabled single mom, caring for our grandmother, she doesn't have much of a budget for such necessities, but that doesn't stop the need! Also, she makes cool abstract art from her synesthesia and music, maybe check out the pieces she's got posted and commission a Black, disabled artist for music art?
My graphics card is damaged from the heat. Running Krita or Clip Studio Paint, which which are basic tools for me to do commissions, overheats my computer to the point of it shutting down.
I am looking to replace it and upgrade my ventilation/cooling system, but I can't afford it with my tiny income.
If you have any money to spare, it would be deeply appreciated.