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Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] subluxate at Calling Good Samaritans [Repost from arkady]
Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] arkady at Calling Good Samaritans (via [livejournal.com profile] ashbet)

A plea from one of my daughters, who is trying to raise money for charity. She’s hit a snag: she’s raised the money, but is having issues getting that money paid into her MyDonate page:

“Calling all good samaritans!
This year I’m going to be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, but to do that I need to raise £2450. I’ve already raised £800, but the problem is that as a child in care I asked for social services to hold the money for me until I needed it, but now they’re being far too slow at giving my money back to me. The deadline for the first amount, £580, is on the 14th in two days. I’ve tried everything I can to get my social worker to talk to me about it but after countless unanswered phone calls and emails, trips in to try and see her in person, it’s come to no avail. The charity director has told me that they can only extend the deadline by three days. So here’s the thing; I would be ETERNALLY grateful if someone out there could find it in their hearts to donate the £580 to my mydonate page https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/catrionamalbaski1 with the understanding that I can and will pay them back within the month, and would be willing to pay them back £650 in total for the trouble.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I know the page looks empty but please remember I have ALREADY raised £800; it just needs to be given back to me! Many, MANY thanks! - Catriona Malbaski”

Even if you can’t afford to help, please reblog this and/or consider donating. Every little will help. Let's see if we can get her MyDonate page to £580 in 5 days.





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Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] subluxate at Emergency--people stranded in Wyoming
From [personal profile] nonny:



[personal profile] louisadkins, [personal profile] omimouse, and Jade are stranded in a small town in Wyoming on the way back to their home in West Virginia. They headed out from our place Friday, made good time on the trip, but the minivan they are driving started flickering with a oil pressure light and then ... pretty much died on the road. They have been able to get AAA to take them to a hotel and the vehicle to a mechanic's shop, but... the sounds the vehicle was making lead them to believe it's an engine failure.

Which is $$$$. Which they don't have, and they have no way of getting back home otherwise. Louis's paypal is louis.adkins@hotmail.com and anything anyone can spare, bumping the word, passing this around, is much appreciated as time is something they don't have (due to cost of hotels, food, etc).

TY guys so much.










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Reposted from [livejournal.com profile] subluxate

The Congressional Budget Office recently released a report showing that the deficit "will shrink this year to $642 billion, CBO estimates, the smallest shortfall since 2008. Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit this year—at 4.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)—will be less than half as large as the shortfall in 2009, which was 10.1 percent of GDP"

And the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has released a report showing that more Social Security recipients are living in poverty than previously estimated released a report showing that more Social Security recipients are living in poverty than previously estimated (being on Social Security myself, and knowing just what it does and doesn't cover, I am *not* surprised -- if you have significant medical needs, it doesn't even begin to cover the costs.)

Given these facts, I would deeply appreciate you taking a moment to sign this petition to support "The Strengthening Social Security Act of 2013."

"By making millionaires and billionaires pay the same rate of Social Security taxes as the rest of us, and by changing the method by which Social Security benefits are calculated, Sen. Harkin's bill would expand Social Security benefits by an average of $800 per recipient per year while also keeping the program solvent for several generations."

http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=412&tag=

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Public, please feel free to repost.
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Reposted from [livejournal.com profile] myrrhmade

Stop Threatening the HIPPA Rights of People With Psychiatric Disabilities!
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Mr. Gorgeous Micah Cat needs a home.

Spread the word and give this kitty cat the loving home that he deserves.
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Reposted from [livejournal.com profile] subluxate

Limbs for Life is also fundraising for victims of the Boston bombings.

My thoughts and prayers are with Boston.


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Reposted from [livejournal.com profile] subluxate:

- A woman named Sharon has been suffering severe health issues since a collapse in February; she's currently in a medically-induced coma. There's a GoFundMe, a Facebook fundraiser event, and a Tumblr with donated goods for sale, all to help pay for her treatment.
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Help Kate Bornstein stay alive. Kate Bornstein is a major figure in the trans community, and she needs help due to cancer. If I could, I'd donate; if you can, please consider it. Whether or not you do, please pass on the link.
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Reposted from [livejournal.com profile] subluxate

[livejournal.com profile] nurzie is in the heartbreaking situation of having to rehome her two cats. She'd vastly prefer to home them together. One is eight; the other is a little under a year. She says she'll pay to fly them in the US and will briefly be stopping in Toronto in late June, so could also home them there. Currently, she's in Denver.

Please at least take a look at her post and consider passing this on. If you have room for two kitties, maybe consider it. Were it feasible, I know we'd be seriously discussing it.
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Reposted from [livejournal.com profile] night_owl_9and [livejournal.com profile] subluxate


There is an update to the petition regarding cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid -- it would mean a lot to Kira and I if you signed this, because those are the programs we depend on in able to access medical care, buy food, and pay our rent. Cuts to these programs would potentially be disastrous to us, personally, as well as to a large segment of elderly, disabled, sick, and vulnerable Americans.

I've made it public -- please feel free to repost.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/gt_letter_update/

Since the fight to raise the debt ceiling in 2011, our country has been made to suffer through a series of completely artificial fiscal crises engineered to make it easier to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security -- all overwhelmingly popular and extremely successful programs that are vital parts of the social safety net.

Today we've just started the latest in this series of unnecessary crises in the form of "the sequester" -- brutal and automatic, across-the-board cuts in federal spending that took effect on Friday.

There's every reason to believe the push to cut benefits will intensify in the coming days, especially because the continuing resolution that funds the federal government expires in a few weeks.

And with the Republicans as seasoned hostage takers who are accustomed to Democrats caving to their demands whenever they threaten drive the economy into a ditch over an ideological issue, it's more important than ever for Democrats to come out and draw a line in the sand and publicly promise that they won't vote for any bill that cuts Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits.



This affects my family and I greatly, and your signatures are most appreciated.
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Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] oracne at Bloodchildren Signal Boost
Bloodchildren, an electronic anthology of stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars, is now available!

Includes eleven original stories by recipients of the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship (2007 through 2012), plus a reprint of "Speech Sounds" by the scholarship's namesake, Octavia E. Butler. This anthology also includes a brief memoir of Butler by her Clarion classmate Vonda N. McIntyre and an introduction by Nalo Hopkinson. It's edited by Nisi Shawl, published by the Carl Brandon Society (the administrator of the Butler Scholarship Fund) and available at Book View Cafe.

Nisi Shawl is reviews editor for The Cascadia Subduction Zone, a member of the Clarion West board of directors, and a founding member of the Carl Brandon Society, which administers the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund. Her collection Filter House won the 2009 James Tiptree, Jr. Award.

January 22, 2013 $8.01 ISBN: 978-1-61138-237-2

You can learn more about the scholarship fund, and how to contribute, here.
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Basically what's happening is that Rupert Murdoch is trying to buy a shitton of new media outlets, which reduces diversity and has a huge impact on things like investigative reporting. Current FCC rules don't allow that, but the chairperson is planning to push through a rule that allows his empire to buy more, despite a court ruling ordering the FCC to address the lack of diversity before allowing further consolidation. There's a letter you can sign, and you can also write your members of Congress.

The image is clickable, but here's the link again


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GIVE ME SOME SUGAR.
aka it's National Compliment Day


MY THREAD


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Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] subluxate at These cats need help



This is Smudge. Smudge almost certainly is entering chronic kidney disease, if not renal failure, and her people need help paying for her vet care. She needs to have a urine sample taken, she'll need fluids and medication on an ongoing basis, she'll need bloodwork, and she'll need special food. They need help to get her through being diagnosed and getting her started on her treatments. [livejournal.com profile] natalief links to her PayPal account, where she's asking for donations, in her post about Smudge. She also links to her Ravelry patterns that are for sale.






This is Ash, better known as Buddy, being held by [personal profile] nonny. Buddy is an anxious cat who has panic attacks. One of his triggers is the litter box. He can't use them. Therefore, he urinates and defecates elsewhere. This is creating problems, as can be expected, in his person's living situation. His person, Paul, lives on $200 a month in an apartment with two other people. Buddy is Paul's service animal; he's done things like bring Paul his bag of medication. Buddy is also tightly bonded to his sister, Girlie, and they cannot be separated. Paul can't afford to take Buddy to a vet, get him diagnosed as anxious, and started on medication to try to work on the litterbox issue without help. Because of his income, he doesn't qualify for Care Credit, and most vets don't do payment plans. If you can donate, Paul's PayPal account is p.a.pierce@gmail.com. If you want more information on the situation, [personal profile] nonny has a post about it.


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Help TinTin find a forever home!

From [livejournal.com profile] ashbet

The placement we'd been hoping for seems to have fallen through, so I'm looking for a home for our beautiful foster girl, TinTin. (As regular readers of my journal know, we started fostering TinTin in November, because her owners needed to leave on an emergency basis from a domestic-violence situation.)

She is a sweetheart, incredibly friendly and people-oriented, loves to be petted, will play fetch with her feather-wand toy, likes to talk once she gets to know you, enjoys drinking from a faucet/cat-fountain, and enjoys being brushed (Maine Coons don't need daily brushing and don't get mats if they're indoor cats, but it helps keep her coat silky.)

She gets along well with older children (12 and up -- she hasn't been around younger children much, so I couldn't swear to that), she's fine with dogs, but she needs to live in an *only-cat household* -- we'd be adopting her ourselves, but unfortunately she had been bullied by a younger male cat in her previous home, and because of that, she has been aggressive with our young male cat (chasing, not fighting, but he's scared of her, and I'm having to keep them separated, so this can't be a permanent placement for her.)

She's six years old, FeLV and FIV-negative, she's up-to-date on her shots, we have her complete medical records, our vet says she's healthy and in good shape, she's 15.5 pounds, she's microchipped (and the chip info can be transferred to her new owner), and she would make a *wonderful* companion animal for anyone who is willing to let her be the only cat in their home -- in return, she'll lavish you with affection and joyous floof! :)


Feel free to repost, in part or in full, as long as you link back to [livejournal.com profile] ashbet.

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Originally from [livejournal.com profile] subluxate

There's a whitehouse.gov petition to have Social Security recognize EDS as a potentially-disabling condition. Making this happen would have several effects:

1) EDS would have to be taken into account when someone files a disability claim. Right now, it depends on the determiner whether or not it's taken into account.

2) It would raise awareness among governmental agencies and with doctors; so many think they've never seen an EDS patient, just because EDSers are underdiagnosed.

3) It'd help me and others out a hell of a lot.

You do need a US zip code when you create an account on the site. That said, there's no spam or anything that comes to you as a result of signing this petition. It just gladdens me and some of my friends, and it's a good thing to do.

(Hat tip to [livejournal.com profile] ashbet for originally posting this.)
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For all my Trans* folks out there, you are respected, validated, and loved!
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I've refrained from all the political posts, but this is just too close to home to ignore. This is not about President Obama - it's about what's right. So frankly, if you don't agree with the innocent, heartfelt and surprisingly straightforward position of my 10 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, then please unfriend me because we don't actually belong connected here in the first place."
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