God I hate having to make this post for what's basically a third time but HEY everyone, I need some urgent help.

I have a broken molar, and I need a root canal and filling. I have until October 12th, 2021 to get the full amount of money needed. I have 1k in savings (previously $1700, but life has thrown bills at me and it's been dropped down again to only 1k. I'm not happy about this either).

The full bill is $2837.00 CAD. No I cannot travel to go get this done. No I will not "just get it pulled". Do not offer me advice on this post, please and thank you.

I've been in a lot of pain because of this tooth and I FINALLY have found a place to get it done that does full sedation (yes, I need it. Yes, I've tried moderate sedation. No, it did not work) that isn't going to cost me nearly 7k.

Here's my estimate for proof that this isn't a scam.

Please please please help if you can. I do digital art commissions if you want, and I'll reblog this with my p*ypal for donations. I'm really tired of this pain in my mouth, and I absolutely need to get it fixed soon.

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$1000/$2837

$1525/2837

$1699/2837

$1714/2837

Hey heads up, I only have 11 days left to reach the amount I need. I'm starting to feel a bit panicked, since I'm still over $1000 away from reaching my goal. Please, please donate if you can. Literally anything helps, even a dollar.

i’m watching olympic snowboarding and this guy just checked his phone before going down the hill and put it in his pocket.. he brought his phone down the hill at the olympics… this is so chaotic 

#LateStageCapitalism

Without anyone touching it, they said their thermostat was changed while they were sleeping, making their home unbearably hot.

“Was my daughter at the point of overheating?” English said. “She’s 3 months old. They dehydrate very quickly.”

His wife received an alert on her phone soon after that. The family said their thermostat had been changed remotely, raising the temperature of their home during a three-hour “energy saving event.”

The family’s smart thermostat was installed a few years ago as part of a new home security package. Many smart thermostats can be enrolled in a program called “Smart Savers Texas.” It’s operated by a company called EnergyHub.

The agreement states that in exchange for an entry into sweepstakes, electric customers allow them to control their thermostats during periods of high energy demand. EnergyHub’s list of its clients include TXU Energy, CenterPoint and ERCOT.

I’m reminded of a discussion I had in an engineering class about clean energy technology back in grad school.

They were saying “oh wouldn’t it be cool to have a smart energy grid with surge pricing, to spread out the load on the grid”

And I’m like “no”

And they’re like “WHAT”

And they didn’t seem to get that poor people who absolutely can’t afford surge pricing, and also would be in danger during a heat wave, exist

And deserve to live

They’re like “but it would be GOOD for poor people because they’d be able to lower their energy usage at peak hours and save money overall”

But like

That’s not how being poor works?

Poor people don’t have as much control over their schedules as non-poor people! They can’t just cook their dinner two hours later because electricity is too expensive right now, they just worked a twelve hour shift and need to get to bed!

Poor people are more likely to be chronically ill and really not able to “tough it out” during surge pricing times!

The whole “if we all make little sacrifices here and there, we can Help Save The Earth™” thing is making some big assumptions about what sacrifices are possible to make, and enforcing it with pricing doesn’t actually help the environment, it just hurts the poor

I know this is a tangent and not what the above post is actually about but it’s a similar kind of thing

“spread out the load” does not work in a society where systemic inequality exists

Tangent or not, this is an extremely good point

now that the media has continued on their roll of being disgusting in regards to how they treat such devastating situations such as the 215 lost indigenous children found in kamloops this past week, i absolutely encourage all of my canadian and non-canadian people on here to really look into and read about the history of residential schools in canada. this is one mass grave found at 1 of 139 residential schools across the country, we don't even know the half of what is still out there to be found. this is not just a 'devastating part of our history' the last one to close was in 1996, less than 30 years ago. this is our PRESENT, these children would have been elders in their community, guides, grandparents, this isn't history. this was a genocide, and the government of canada still refuses to acknowledge that.

some resources to peak at

this website belongs to the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc community, and also provides a significant amount of important and informative resources.

the history of residential schools told from the perspective of indigenous people of canada - this website also provides other information in regards to the truth and reconciliation commission, as well as more information about how indigenous people's are still fighting for the truth to come out.

st anne's residential school in port albany, ontario was one of the worst of them all, and many of the indigenous children who were forced to attend are currently fighting for the entire truth to be revealed.

this entire website put out by UBC gives an informative and important look into the systematic racism that indigenous people's in canada still suffer under

these are just four of thousands of resources you can find about the devastation that residential schools caused, but i would absolutely encourage each and every one of you to look into and read about these 'schools'.

“As the fight for LGBTQ rights became more mainstream, corporations have latched onto Pride Month as a way of courting the LGBTQ community, an important source of customers and skilled employees.

But do these corporations really support the LGBTQ movement? Popular Information has identified nine rainbow flag-waving corporations that gave $1 million or more to anti-gay politicians in the last election cycle.

Deconstructing corporate pride

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the most prominent organization dedicated to LGBTQ rights, produces a “Corporate Equality Index.” In 2019, 572 companies earned a perfect score. HRC says these companies are the “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.”

Popular Information identified nine corporations that received a perfect score from HRC but donated $1 million or more in the last election cycle to politicians that received a zero on the HRC Congressional scorecard. The donations were all from corporate PACs to politicians or their leadership PACs.”

Read the full piece here

The Pronoun Pin Kickstarter is live and will run until June 17. It’s already hit the base funding goal so the cauldron, rose, and mushroom pins will be guaranteed and we’re now working on the stretch goals for more designs and colour options!

Each design will be available in each pronoun option when unlocked. Pronoun options right now are he/him, she/her, they/them, xi/xir, she/they, and he/they. More options can be added by request.

See the Kickstarter

Some context for the destruction of that Aboriginal site:

When indigenous ppl complain that their sacred sites are being destroyed and they say stuff like "we have a cultural connection to this place" "if we can't come here it's like ripping off our roots" "we need this place to communicate with our ancestor spirits" etc., white australians are conditioned to handwave statements like that away with shit like "oh well they're just saying that, it's just a random tree, they'll get over it, obviously ancestor spirits aren't real, sacredness of trees isn't real", and that is total bullshit.

Aboriginal sacred sites are integral parts of highly sophisticated mnemonic techniques that have been proven to preserve information for (i know this sounds hard to believe but) at least ten thousand years (they accurately describe coastlines that are now underwater, or dry areas that have since been rainforests for 7000 years, or extinct megafauna etc.)

Physical features (either in one place, or along a track known as a songline) work as subheadings in an encyclopaedia. Ritualised teachings tell people what rituals or song cycles (like subheadings in an encyclopaedia) to associate with specific visual cues, and then those songs all contain stories that have (for example) systematised knowledge of every local animal and plant, contained in songs for easy memorisation. White anthropologists mostly handwave these techniques away as "animist beliefs" and "ancestor worship" but in reality it's this extremely sophisticated system of knowledge that's something like a cultural encyclopaedia, and that's why it's such a big deal when this fucking anglo settler state and its profiteers destroy these locations like it means nothing bc "oh it's just a tree" or "what it's a rock they'll just go to another rock"