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from kiamichi: "I'm about to lose my mind. My wood floor is splitting and buckling. I am scared to tell the landlady cause I haven't got all my rent yet. I want to cry. This year is not off to a good start." please help!

$871/1500 DUE TODAY

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Afro-Roma Experiment 2025-01-01A
Here's a progress clip from my work in progress since last year. It's a fusion of my musical traditions Indigenous African and the African and Roma Diaspora. I swapped out the acoustic guitar for a claw hammer and glitch Banjo.
#Music #Banjo #Kalimba #SteelDrum #PreparedPiano #BassGuitar #BassSynth #AssortedPercussion
https://audio.com/muiren/audio/muiren-afro-roma-experiment-2025-01-01a

This shouldn't be a hot take, but please don't use choke or chain collars for your animals. In fact, don't use collars for fastening leashes at all. They choke your animal. I'm honestly not sure why they're legal at all.

Please instead use a harness. With a harness, you have better control of your animal because you are holding the center of their body and not their neck. You don't run the risk of bruising an animal's neck.

Harnesses can also have little pockets for things like poop bags and treats so you don't forget them. You can also clearly mark your animal as anxious or aggressive or in training much better on the side of a harness versus a collar.

Please don't use devices meant to choke animals when we have many better options available. If you see this and can't afford a harness, let me know, and I will purchase one for you.

This isn't up for debate. Take it up with your vet if you disagree.

do you know voice coaches for people who sing and who are on T?

I do not recommend "just run away" as a self-defence technique btw. I think people who recommend this are used to like, bar fights or domestic violence, not to political hatred. Not enemies. You may run from a drunk, but running from the enemy is a hard task. If they have a gun, how are you going to outrun it? If your enemies are likely to attack you with guns, you should change your life situation _before_ having to run away, and in the meantime you should have guns yourself, and be ready to shoot first. If they don't have a gun and you're trying to run away, presumably they're stronger than you, therefore fitter, and/or in greater number. Getting away is inherently harder than catching up, you have your back exposed, are you sure you can outrun all of them?

In the majority of cases when you're attacked out of political hatred the best defense will be offence or deescalation. It can be very hard to decide when it's better to pick one or another—and I've made mistakes on both directions. But I can't remember a situation I was in that I could have avoided by running.

Now when I say offence I mean being vicious, I don't mean overpowering them that's seldomly possible, I've never fought an enemy weaker than me: I mean vicious. This worked because of how the psychology of harassment works; they're not in for a duel or combat, they're in for the thrill of power, as soon as the situation gets challenging they fold. Every single time Nazis around me have hurt people, without exception, they were in big numerical majority and targeting nonresisting victims.

It's very hard to survive unharmed if you're attacked by a group of enemies committed to political hatred. The one strategy I've seen work is: the closest of the enemies was promptly maced, and all of the defenders drew weapons simultaneously. This made the enemy fall back and call for support. "Fuck, this is dangerous, this is serious, I can get hurt I can die". That's not the mood that Nazis wanted to be in when they went out harass people.

When doing martial arts for self-defence people tend to imagine a situation like, one on one, no weapons, no rules, which technique will win? Nobody will ever know, because this situation doesn't exist, this is a fantasy. If you're fighting one on one no weapons you're in a sports ring, and then there are rules. If you're not in the ring you're on the streets, and then you also have rules. Much bigger, stronger rules than the ring. For example, I've been "defeated in combat" by teenagers multiple times in Brazil, like tiny wiry little guys when I was at peak strength, that in a ring I could probably fold with one knee strike, maybe. But robberies have one unspoken rule: if I react against the teenager, I'm buying a fight with the druglord he's serving, and within the week my entire family will be burned alive inside truck tires to be made an example of. Pretty big fucking tournament rule. I did not run away either, how would I?, I could have been shot, people get shot all the time, at least one big BJJ bro died at my uni for resisting a robbery like that. Whenever robbed in Brazil I did whatever the Heck the teenager wanted me to do, and I would again if I was in the same situation. If I interacted with them at all it was in the most deescalative, cooperative way I could offer.

Where I live now, the strongest combat rule is the rule of law. It's a police state, there's cameras and hidden mics everywhere, police does DNA tests and fudges evidence on a whim, and every damn person in this fucking country is a snitch including prisoners, criminals and antifas. As a result, the chances of the enemy having a gun are relatively low, and moreover, everyone is terrified of escalation. So when a Nazi hits my head with a metal bat and in response I draw a knife, the calculus he's making is not "can I kill this tranny before she gets close", it's "fuck this got real, this maniac is still coming, if I kill her I get twenty years". That's when they run. When a big soccer hooligan comes intimidate me and I spit on his face and flash the pepper spray, he's not thinking "is my jet kune do able to beat her long guard flicker jabs", it's "fuck this is some crazy psychopath I can get hurt", he was expecting me to be scared so he's thrown off his rhythm, and gives up.

I've successfully ran away from danger before, but "running away" here looked more like putting myself in a safer environment—moving from the sidewalk to inside a shop, merging with the crowd in a protest, taking a taxi. But this was never possible like, during an attack. Better than running is avoidance; it's great to learn situational awareness, to always consider escape routes, to learn to discreetly and deescalatively not have people behind on you the streets. A few times I have taken a taxi rather than tram out of pure gut feeling, probably unnecessarily, but after a single time where my paranoia turned out to be correct, I learned to err on the safe side.

I am here to announce that I have decreased #spam on my web contact form from 1 message every 15 minutes (for months straight) to 0 messages in the last week by adding a "I am a spam bot" radio button.

I am not joking.

No I am not using something like ReCaptcha, I literally just added a radio button to the list.

Do I happen to know anyone in the St Louis area who would want an air hockey table? We need to finish cleaning out a family member's place this upcoming weekend and don't have room for it ourselves... and since we don't live in STL, I don't think we'll have time to list it on Craigslist or anything.

Too many writers are using generative 'AI' to make their book covers, so I've written a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap without turning to a machine.

If you can't afford to pay an artist, you CAN make your own!

I hope this is a helpful overview that covers the basics and points to some free resources.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/create-your-own-118846775 #covers #indie #writing #WritintCommunity #SelfPublishing

December Mutual Aid. Need January rent and electric. 871/1500 raised. Due today. If you want to just support a disabled Native artist share or donate. Also have my etsy where I sell my art.
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My etsy where I sell my art

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MahtheyzhaweyArts

My link🌲 where I have wishlists for medical stuff and other things.

https://linktr.ee/mahtheyzhawey

#MutualAidRequest #DisabilityMutualAid
#NativeAmerican #DisabledArtist

Really need help with dog and cat food this month!

25/300

• gift card send to evel at riseup.net https://www.chewy.com/chewy-egift-card/dp/1502182
• or gift cards off throne https://throne.com/evel
• or paypal us https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/beeees5

Our assistance dogs and autism support cats thank you 🤎

#disabilityCrowdfund #autistic #dogs #cats #mutualAid #IndigenousMutualAid

⚠️ EXTREMELY URGENT please help my disabled friend cover rent. she deserves to start off 2025 on hopeful note. please share this widely, feel free to copy-paste this on your own profile.

kiamichi is a Indigenous mom & artist that needs to keep her and her family safe and housed. you can buy her art and jewelry below!

$640/1500 DUE TOMORROW

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URGENT MUTUAL AID

$1790/$2400

Rent & utilities due Wed, Jan 1

Queer, neurodivergent couple w 4 month old infant. Partner has long COVID, I have fibromyalgia, and your support helps us survive the capitalist hellscape :)

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monthly gifts appreciated

plz boost!

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Happy New Year! Have a new issue of my zine: Paranormal Palestine. This issue features a celebration of Irish solidarity, and a comparison of our spookyness. Available for free, or a donation!

https://soniasulaiman.itch.io/paranormal-palestine-4-the-bride

I'm wrapping up my 2024 with a celebration. I was just notified that my painting was selected as one of Honorable Mentions, Emerging Artist - Dakota Art Pastel Fourth Quarter contest.
https://www.dakotapastels.com/content/2024-fourth-quarter-winners?preview=true
There were about 650 entries in this category alone, and this is my very first time being selected for anything this major.

It's a view of behind the Huntsman Cancer Institute where I was taking a walk while husband was in a treatment. Makes it doubly special. #MastoArt #PastelArtist

if you don't follow fucking fire safety rules during holidays i will send you to god

however, my own escape plans are now in uncertainty, so...please help me.

540/950

i am really sorry it ended up like this.

upd: there were no donations in days

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