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I’m an unpaid writer that needs mutual aid to cover a lot of amenities offline and online. If you are in the US, my Zelle is kingettr@gmail.com or https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/ #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest @mutualaid @MutualAidVisibility @MutualAidNet

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▶️ Y'all, I've launched a new GoFundMe to help meet current and upcoming expenses. The current monthly shortfall exceeds $500, and my only income at the moment is a modest Social Security retirement payment. I am "low-income."

Your donations have kept me afloat these past months.

Please donate if you can, when you can, or boost. Thank you SO much! — Eddie & Charlene ❤️

#MutualAid #FediversalPictures

https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-eddie-cover-monthly-expenses

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Hi everyone👋 hope you guys see & noticed my posts 😔😢😖 If anyone might able to lend a little hand of support.. Just for anyone that able to:cwy:🙏 Please your kindness & support will be lifesaving 4 me & my cat jury for couple days or even a week which I really appreciated alot. 🫂💚 Boost will be a big hand of help too 🙏🫶
Thank you guys very much.💚

omoshiroii.jj@gmail.com—PP📩

#fediverse #mastodon #mutualaid #silentSunday

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Liked A Requiem for My Dignity, Sacrificed at the Altar of AI? I need your financial support! https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/ @MutualAidNet @MutualAidVisibility @mutualaid @mutual_aid #MutualAid #Disability #DisabilityMutualAid…

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Updated my tip me page, but if anybody could chip in for assistance with offline and online bills, epic! Thank you forever! https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/ @mutualaid @mutualaid@ovo.st @mutual_aid #MutualAid #Disability #MutualAidRequest

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1y

hello again #Fediverse I hope everyone is Safe & Always Stay Hydrated. I know this is not a very good time mostly in terms about Politics,Climate Change & People being sick/struggling.Please if anybody can spare me $1 or ₱5 a kind boost or anything, I really need a hand 4 getting Antibiotics & BoosterShot😭 I'm sorry to ask 4 help but I beg evryone 2 consider pls, If you see this.Thankyou, Iappreciate it ❤️
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/nekoow77

And my cat being grumpy atm idk why 😓
#CatsOfMastodon #MutualAid

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1y

Got my first paycheck in just shy of a year yesterday! I can't believe we survived intact! Thank you all so much for helping us through this unbelievably difficult time. We couldn't have done it without you. You helped to feed my kids, keep us from losing our car, and keep the lights and water turned on. I can't begin to express the gratitude I feel towards all of you, and the degree to which my faith in humanity has been restored.

Please boost this so everyone who helped sees it. You are all amazing and deserve to know that.

#MutualAid
#MutualAidSavesLives

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1y

So now that @roari has a *part time job*, the county has decided we need less than $100 in food stamps! Even though they're making less than our rent!
I've been procrastinating asking for help, but we're already behind on rent and this is the last straw. I keep thinking we just gotta wait out my last year of school, but if we don't pay rent by next month I won't be able to sign up for my last semester of classes :/
Accepting aid and commissions at https://ko-fi.com/raphaelmorgan
@mutualaid #mutualAid

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1y

Good morning everyone. I hope you all are doing well. Please im really sorry for asking you all for help.. I dont have anyone else to turn to. I dont have relatives and Im living just with my cats.
Please I really need some help just for some basicneeds like catfoood,Drinking water etc. Please anything would be a big help. Thank you so much🥺💖 Please kindlt boost & support if you can 😢🙏🏻

#Fediverse #Mastodon #MutualAid #kindnessmatters #silentsunday #today

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Quick Update: Hello Everyone here in #Mastodon & the #Fediverse👋
Been diagnosed w/ PNEUMONIA and Home Recovery + Breathing Monitoring is the doctor’s advice. I thought it's just flu + Asthma acting up. My lungs disagreed & escalated the situation.
Just a reminder to listen to our body more better & Taking Care of it🫂
Prayers, Kindness & boosts help more than you know🤍
If you’re able to help in other ways Im deeply grateful and Thank you very much.

#Pneumonia #Mutualaid #HealthSupport

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1y

What is Solarpunk - An Intro with resources:

So solarpunk is an artistic aesthetic, literary genre, and social activism.

The artistic aesthetic tends to focus on the elements of solarpunk (discussed later) in an uplifting, colorful, and hopeful presentation. While it has no set limitations, popular aesthetics are art nouveau and studio ghibli styles.

The literary genre is "protopia" in style. It shows a pragmatic utopia while addressing present day social concerns. Some of it shows the ideal within a hopepunk and/or cozycore plot. Others have higher conflict and show the current social concerns being addressed and remediated.

The social activism side seeks to bring about that protopia world in the present day. The focus is to bring about a post-scarcity world where everyone has the basics of life covered while emphasizing increasing time for rest, luxury, the arts, culture, and community.

While these themes are covered in other movements (many of which are not opposed and work well with solarpunk), the solarpunks themselves seek to use modern day (and near future) technology to assist in this post-scarcity world. Technologies such as automation, renewable energies, and economies of scale - currently utilized by various ruling classes - to instead be used by the working class. Further efforts are made within degrowth (removing technology for technologies sake, and consumption for consumption's sake).

While not solely limited to anarchic politics, many of the approaches are non-hierarchical in nature and when they are hierarchical, they often focus on local political structures, decentralized, and distributed, with cooperation between various local groups for a national and inter-national co-op structure.

Long and short, solarpunks were tired of being warned of the present dystopia of cyberpunk without solutions to overcome that dystopia. They yearned for positive stories and art that showed a direction to pursue. And they wanted to act in the now to bring about that change.

Solarpunk is not the only movement towards protopia and progressive social change. And it should not be the only movement. But it adds its take on how to approach remediating current social and environmental and material crises.

The areas of focus are (but not limited to):

Post-scarcity: Food, Water, Shelter, Healthcare, Education, Transportation, and Energy (energy is focused on renewables, efficiencies, and lower energy requirements)

Social and environmental justice, minority and worker rights, equitable distribution of resources

Arts, beauty, aesthetics, culture

Rest, leisure, community bonds, and protection for individual rights

Some good places to start are:

- What is Solarpunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHI61GHNGJM
- Mutual Aid by Dean Spade: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dean-spade-mutual-aid
- Solarpunk Manifesto (not the only one and by no means authoritative, but something to muse on): https://iandennismiller.github.io/solarpunk/manifesto/english.html
- Solarpunk Notes Toward a Manifesto (more voices are better than one): https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/
- Solarpunk: A Reference Guide: https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-reference-guide-8bcf18871965
- Solarpunk Lemmy Instance: https://slrpnk.net/
- Solarpunk Discord Server: https://discord.gg/C76x3bWXEA

Some sample solarpunk projects:
- Seed Libraries, Tool Libraries, Library Economy, Libraries in general
- Community Gardens, Community Farms & Ranches, Backyard / Apartment Gardens
- Community Free Fridges & Pantries, Peer-to-peer food exchanges, community kitchens and restaurants
- Maker Spaces, home fabrication - cnc machines, 3d printers, sewing and textiles, home welding, home carpentry
- Repair Cafes, Right-to-Repair, making higher quality items that last a long time and can be maintained
- Community and Peer to Peer support and mental healthcare, mutual aid groups, community support and protection groups
- Solar and wind and other renewable energy at a small scale, localized decentralized energy grids, community prep and resiliency
- Art and literature and music and dance.
- Tenant co-ops, removing shelter and homes as an asset class, "non-profit" housing development
- Community Health Insurance schemes, "Non-profit" insurance. Direct negotiation with local doctors, specialists, etc.
- Public Transit, Trains, Subways, Light Rail, Bicycles, Personal Electric Vehicles (PEVs), pedestrian access, city design and planning

Beware:
Green Washing - Just cause its pretty doesn't mean its sustainable or solarpunk or non-exploitative.
Beware Capitalist Co-option - They like to sell back everything, including the concept of tearing down Capitalism
- Compare this advertisement that looks like solarpunk: Dear Alice by Chiboni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ng5ZvrDm4
- To the "decommodified" version (pay attention to how they changed the name from "Donations" to "Commons" - moving away from capitalist propaganda of "charity" and into an actual mutual aid approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqJJktxCY9U

Solarpunk is a vibrant and living philosophy, style, and approach. It's not the end all be all and its not meant to be the end all be all. It has it's issues and legitimate criticism. But its an approach that generates hope and it committed to dealing with actual issues using actual pragmatic solutions within the constraint of actual ethics.

During a time when we're all beat down and exhausted and fearful - solarpunk pushes back and says Fuck That. I'm going to live. I'm going to be happy. And I'm going to work to ensure that everyone else lives and is happy.

#solarPunk #mutualAid

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I have a dear friend who is in the ICU and has a Go Fund Me. I known her for years; we went to library school together.

She's not asking for much but frankly she's going to need more than what she's asking.

Please help.

https://gofund.me/af1490d1e

#MutualAid

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1y

Artemis is one of the most kindest and preciousest beings to ever exist. she’s always a ball of love and sunshine and has helped me through many tough times. after being kicked out by her parents, she’s currently struggling to survive completely alone as a trans girl in an extremely transphobic environment, having to pay for rent and tuition on her own while juggling college, work, and freelance projects at the same time. if you can, please consider donating to her paypal on https://support.ofdisorder.de/ and if you have any other way of helping her, please let her know. thank you!

#MutualAid

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32d

Just a few years ago, I escaped one of the most horrific chapter in my life.

I still don't know how I survived, and with physical and emotional reminders that have changed me forever. 🧵 1/3

$48/1360

It costs nothing to share.

#Helpfolkslive2026
#mutualaid
#mutualaidrequest #housingcrisis #homeless #BlackMutualaid
#disability
@mutualaid @disabilityjustice @blackmastodon @writers

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Text reads: Care for this Black Queer Disabled survivor in February. $1360 Due 2/9.

I am healing my body and mind as a survivor of assaults and human trafficking.

I'm calling on my communities to assists with housing and a few small bills.

One time blessing:

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361d

it's (almost) the beginning of the month, and i must ask for assistance with bills once again

$75 due Mar 8, $125 due Mar 13

(the first one went up because i had the audacity to forward money from my credit card to my checking account to avert an overdraft. ~$10 fee for $5 forward, very cool)

Ko-fi takes Paypal, Stripe, Cashapp, and Venmo
blaurascon@purelymail . com for direct paypal and zelle

#mutualaid #transmutualaid #MutualAidRequest #help #financialaid

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Hi👋🏻I hope you’re all doing okay & taking care of urself🫂
Gentle Update: I’m still recovering from pneumonia & doing my best 2 follow treatment plan. But sadly Im still short 2 fully cover my antibiotics for 4days. Writing this again takes courage🥺If anyone is able 2 support (𝘗𝘗📨: omoshiroii.jj@gmail.com) It would really save me.Boosts is very welcome💙It helps 4 visibility so this can reach who might able to help. Thank you everyone 4 being kind & amazing community.
#today #Mutualaid #Fediverse

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🆘🆘🆘 NEED HELP. IM REALLY OUT OF FUNDS😭 & NEEDED A LABORATORY TEST CHECK-UP BEFORE I AM CLEAR TO GO. PLS HELP ME OUT.🙏🤧
0/70$ Any kind support is really appreciatted & very helpful. Please🫂

→ omoshiroii.jj@gmail.com ← pp email

#mutualaid

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24d

Unable to work full time and need money for offline and online bills. I need all your support! https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/ @MutualAidNet @MutualAidVisibility @mutualaid @mutual_aid #MutualAid #Disability #DisabilityMutualAi…

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Friends, it's once again time for us to humbly ask for your help with getting by.. #MutualAidRequest ($350/$800)

Good Morning Everyone,

The good news is, it's been more than three weeks since our last begpost!! We're both still employed and it looks like my upcoming average weekly hours are on the mend after the usual first-quarter retail slump.

The bad news is, we're still struggling a little to get on our feet. The increase of aforementioned scheduled work hours won't happen for several more weeks, so funds will be tight for a bit longer.

On top of that, we've had multiple one-off expenses; my partner finally convinced me to allow my six-year-old Pixel 4 to rest in peace, which will piss me off til the end of time because I know I could get at least a couple more years out of it if the damned battery weren't welded on. Fucking planned obsolescence.

It got to the point where it was getting very, very warm during charging and was almost unusable unless strapped to a wireless battery charger (the USB port ceased charging a couple years ago). We figured since I'm walking and/or riding the bus home from work late at night it might be a good idea to have a lifeline.

The phone replacement was probably the most significant expense this month, but we've also needed to address things or difficulties that we had indefinitely postponed due to our precarious poverity living situation the past two years until the #Fediverse gave us the chance to stage a true, honest-to-goodness comeback for the first time in our lives. We finally have all-purpose cleaner and Softscrub again after years of just.. not cleaning anything. Our pantry is slowly becoming stocked. An upgraded Crock-Pot (on a killer sale) gives us much more flexibility than the 2-qt slow-cooker we've always used.

We still need to get the oil changed, replace the wiper blades to have functional windshield wipers, and get the dog to the vet for the first time in almost five years. But.. one step at a time. We're still recovering and can't do everything at once, much as we wish we could.

Anyway since I'm off today and tomorrow, I have no daily pay advances to guess about which means I can start fundraising a couple days earlier this time, which is always helpful.

I realize this amount is even *greater* than what we needed at the beginning of January for rent, which seems like we're going backwards; but as I mentioned above, we had a substantial expense replacing my phone in addition to lower than usual weekly work hours and the cost of replenishing our pantry and fridge and so on. Without those almost exclusively one-time (or at least quite rare) expenses, this amount would be less than half.

So.. I must respectfully ask for your #MutualAid help yet again. I know things are.. awful everywhere. Everyone needs help right now; I can't begin to imagine what others are going through right now. I know there are so many, many people who need help. But if you can pitch in, we would be deeply grateful.

If you're willing AND able, please boost and if possible donate. If you can't donate, *do NOT feel guilty* for being in the same boat as us. Your feelings about it are valid but rest assured you needn't feel bad.

Venmo: https://venmo.com/thegizmotwins
Cashapp: https://cash.app/$thegizmotwins
PP: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982
GFM: https://gofund.me/12171be3

#Solidarity #MentalIllness #BPD #PTSD @mutualaid

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My friends, we are just one final step away from reaching our goal to secure the needed supplies, with only $200 remaining. Any contribution, no matter how small, will make a real difference and help us continue. I kindly ask for your understanding of my situation, as we truly need your support at this stage. Please don’t ignore my call, and heartfelt thanks to everyone who stands with us.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-mitqals-family

#gaza #palastina #MutualAid

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#mutualaid #getfedihired
Looking for IT work/some money to pay the bills. Hmu xmpp if you got a job offer. I can program in Perl and can setup servers, websites, services, etc. Still jobless after leaving the psych ward, shit sucks.

https://liberapay.com/dushman/donate

https://ko-fi.com/dushman

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Whelp.. we managed to make it a full calendar week without begposting. Huzzah! So of course I'm back with a huge ask. #MutualAidRequest ($50/$400)

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Mutual aid ask

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344d

🚨 EMERGENCY MUTUAL AID POST 25/1150 🚨

y'all, I got my due date for the electric bill extended to the 26th but I have to pay in full by then

I need $1150 to pay them

if you can spare anything, please help, my autistic child, my two disabled partners, and me all depend on it

I'm really at a loss, please help 🙏

#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #transmutualaid #disabledmutualaid #bills #electric #help #begpost #autism #disabled #native #adhd #ptsd #helpme

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We're going to put together a resource for musicians on how they can have album art without using large language models. Do you have any resources you'd like to see in that? Free image libraries? Friends who can help do design? Basic how-tos?

#mutualaid #solidarity #helpingeachother #mirlo #resources #ai #llm

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