i’ve a history of homelessness, and thus my referral was delayed for literal years and then my NHS surgeon refused to even speak to me and insisted on transferring my referral to somewhere with an 18 month waiting list.
i’m not too proud to beg: i’m already 32 and i can’t spend the next half-decade waiting on the NHS to benevolently grant me surgery — not to mention that i can’t afford travel to fucking Manchester with my disabilities or my tiny income from welfare benefits.
so my only real choice is to raise the money this way, as i’m estranged from family.
please, please donate; if 200 people donated £50 each, i’d make goal and then some. this is extremely important to me, and i’ve already got a consultation with a private surgeon coming up in early August: i’d love to have the money on hand when i go.
we’re almost halfway to the worst case scenario goal, and IY’’H, the final quoted price for top surgery won’t be the maximum guide price on the clinic’s site.
my consultation is on August 21 — i wasn’t able to secure the earlier appointment i’d hoped for, because the GIC wouldn’t pick up the phone and it took me longer than i wanted to get a copy of my old referral letter.
quite honestly it’d be perfect if i could go into the consultation with the full amount already raised and thus get the surgery scheduled ASAP.
one of the reasons i’m so reluctant to wait for the NHS re-referral is that i have not insignificant chronic pain that’s made so much worse by wearing any kind of tight garments and by not wearing any kind of supportive garments — my chest size at last measurement was 32F. i have a tiny frame and a bad back as is, and in the recent months it’s become very clear to me that how much i can do in a day is sharply limited by how long i can wear a binder without pain.
which is 2 hours max, incidentally. not binding is not an option, both for safety reasons and because my dysphoria is not insignificant.
i really, really need to get this surgery ASAP, before my overall condition has a chance to deteriorate much further. i’m getting a little desperate and i’ve explored other funding options, but raising the money to pay out of pocket seems to be the only way.
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A good friend of mine is fundraising to get his top surgery done at a private clinic! He’s based in Britain and the NHS has blown him off, so with how long it’ll take to get another opinion with them his need is getting desperate.
Right now he’s funding on gofundme but donations have been slow, so myself and a number of other friends wanted to try to help raise additional funds for him! We’ve put together a bundle of 16 tabletop games, short fiction, and larps spanning a number of genres and systems to help support him! All proceeds will go directly to him at the end of the bundle.
If you help support us, thank you! And if you can’t contribute directly or buy the bundle, shares are always appreciated!
One thing that annoys me in the trek fandom is when there’s any kind of important alien religious/cultural figure and people try to translate it into christian concepts that are in no way even close to being analogous. You know. Sometimes it’s not actually Space Jesus. You will find a lot of Space Jesi in science fiction but star trek doesn’t really do that because roddenberry hated religion & what did get in is like. Pretty distinctly not christian
This is to say I hate it when people write Vulcans seeing Surak as a christ figure because he’s not. Surak was a philosopher. A *very* important philosopher who shaped their modern society but still just a man nonetheless. He’s like Space Plato if you have to compare it to something. Or Space Marx maybe. You don’t swear on his name. As far as I know there’s nothing in canon implying he was made into like a saint or something after his death. Surakian philosophy ties into Vulcan spirituality for sure but Surak himself was very much just a guy who had some good ideas
Also replacing 1 word in christian expressions to make it Space is just cringe. In my opinion. Sorry
I mean, i’d say Space Confusious but yeaahh
True he is more of a Space Confucius, I just have a pretty big blindspot for Chinese philosophy so it didn’t come to mind & I don’t know enough to draw meaningful comparisons
Which website did you first go to for the purpose of looking at memes, and how old are you? (whether you knew the word for it or not *viral videos, lolcats etc)
I had quite a few Patrons knocked off the roll this time around. If you got declined or a fraud warning or something, please be patient and try to stay on top of it.
There is a recall for albuterol inhalers that don’t deliver adequate doses in the midst of an albuterol shortage. These companies are so wasteful and greedy that they used faulty batches of valves that didn’t seal properly and allowed an already finite medication that saves lives be further wasted until entire batches of said medication became unsafe for use.
the batch numbers are IB20045, IB20055, IB20056, IB20057, IB20059, and IB20072.
i’ve a history of homelessness, and thus my referral was delayed for literal years and then my NHS surgeon refused to even speak to me and insisted on transferring my referral to somewhere with an 18 month waiting list.
i’m not too proud to beg: i’m already 32 and i can’t spend the next half-decade waiting on the NHS to benevolently grant me surgery — not to mention that i can’t afford travel to fucking Manchester with my disabilities or my tiny income from welfare benefits.
so my only real choice is to raise the money this way, as i’m estranged from family.
please, please donate; if 200 people donated £50 each, i’d make goal and then some. this is extremely important to me, and i’ve already got a consultation with a private surgeon coming up in early August: i’d love to have the money on hand when i go.
so! we’re up to around £2.6k raised, out of a projected £8.5k-£9k. donations have really really slowed down and tbh i’m at a loss as to how to promote the fundraiser more.
i have a consultation on August 21 — i’d really like to have most of the funds raised and/or saved up by then.
i’ll be honest, i’m a little desperate. i’ve been trying to get financing for this somehow, but i’m not eligible for any loans and i’m estranged from my family, so honestly … this fundraiser is really and truly my one chance.
(i have heard nothing about what’s happening with my NHS referral — it will almost certainly be 18+ months on the waiting list at the new hospital, and that’s the best case scenario)
christians: what could possibly be in that evil book…. what horrible spells does it hold within its pages… what black magic does it propagate….
the talmud: so if you send your kid off to Torah school but he has a really hard time with it, send him back home and go to school yourself instead so that once you’ve learned Torah you can go and teach your entire family. in fact, once some rabbi went out to go to Torah school and do just this, and on his way he came through this town and he asked if he could stay in the synagogue for the night. and of course the rabbi said yes but weird enough no one was in the streets and something was kind of off about the whole place. so our hero went into the synagogue only to find a seven headed demon just hanging out in the library!! our hero is terrified and prays super hard and because of this the demon is vanquished. he goes back to the rabbi and is like “dude wtf” and the rabbi was like “listen i know this is unorthodox but you’re well known for how good at praying you are and this demon has been terrorizing us for well over a month and we were desperate. we knew you wouldn’t die” and the guy was like “i didn’t know that!” who do you think is in the right? hm. tough question. anyway. what were we talking about again? oh right. what if you make your sukkah doorway 1/7 of a cubit too short. would that be fucked up or what
making a new post, disconnected from the anon hate b/c that’s just depressing! hiii im drowning in debt!
Hiiii! I’m literally drowning in credit card debt! I’m a disabled Black person, and I’m not able to hold a traditional job. I have a bit of credit card/medical debt I need help with, and I wonder if anyone could lend a hand?
cory booker and cory doctorow, which was SUPER confusing when i was looking at a list of democratic presidential candidates just now
giardiasis and giardiniera
mudslides and moscow mules, which is especially dumb bc aside from the vodka they’re COMPLETELY different. it’s literally just because they’re both alcoholic drinks that start with M.
veronica mars and life on mars, so i got very confused when i looked up veronica mars and saw no mention of the time travel plot that i thought was involved.
hair and hairspray: both are social commentaries set in the 1960s, but hairspray definitely did not have full-frontal nudity at any point in its run
this isn’t something that i mix up, per se, but “Audubon” and “autobahn” are homophones in a lot of accents, and it’s deeply disorienting whenever i hear one and my brain starts thinking of the other one.
the IWW (industrial workers of the world) and WWE (world wrestling entertainment) are two VERY different organizations. tho now i am thinking about what the industrial workers of the world wrestling entertainment would look like 🤔🤔🤔
timothy omundson and timothy olyphant. the fact that i am reasonably familiar with timothy omundson from several things somehow does not help here.
not me personally but anne rice -> anne carson -> rachel carson
I love that the concern isn’t with the practice of bringing an animal into the bathroom, the concern is “why didn’t you bring a goat?”
(Berakhot 62a)
The best part is, it’s not even “why didn’t you bring a goat?” it’s “I bet you all have exactly one question: why not a goat? Well, here’s the answer.”
ALT