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There is a woman -- an immigrant -- living in a tent hidden in the woods two miles from here. She's in her fifties and has mental health deficits. As far as I know, she lives entirely on charity, mainly from local #Quakers. If found, she has no security where she is.
I have land; I could offer her a secure pitch. But I fear my own mental health would not cope.
It gnaws at my consci…

#QI
Via Quite Interesting @qikipedia
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Over €1,000,000 are thrown into Rome’s Trevi Fountain every year. The money is donated to a local charity.

"Lately I’ve started to argue that we should never refer to single projects as mutual aid. After all, mutual aid describes a relationship, it is a pattern that stretches across entire ecosystems. And it’s one of the most revolutionary concepts and practices at the heart of anarchism, and of stateless societies throughout history. With the explosion of “mutual aid projects” in the wake of the pandemic, it’s only healthy to worry about leftists1 and NGOs stealing the word from us and watering it down into a hip new form of charity, the way they systematically try to steal subversive concepts from us and pacify them, stabilize them, as they’re doing with transformative justice and abolition, intersectional and queer, as they did a long time ago with socialism (which referred to all currents of anticapitalism, until 1876 when a certain academic broke solidarity and destroyed a growing tool of internationalist organizing to keep from losing control over it...)
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Scarcity and lack of care make us afraid in a way that roots deeply in our bodies and hearts. If we find something free, we take it, maybe we take a whole lot of it so we can stockpile, and we don’t look back. And we’ll take it again and again and again—whether it’s food or love or medical supplies or respect—before we notice the expectation that there isn’t going to be any tomorrow, the deep-seated belief that we don’t deserve this thing… before we’re able to stop, and turn around, and notice the person taking care of us, and give back."

Reflections on #MayDay, #MutualAid and #DisabilityJustice by @….
https://petergelderloos.substack.com/p/may-day

EDIT-TAKEN! <3 No need to boost anymore.
I got this lovely handmade leather notebook/journal with handmade paper several years ago in a Hackers For Charity raffle, I think.
I’ll ship it free to the first person who emails me a proof pic of a $50 or better donation to the #EFF at t@tarah.org @…
https://eff.org/angrydollars here’s a link

"Three-quarters of children want more time in nature, says National Trust"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NationalTrust #Nature

Elon Musk’s charity may bear his name, but it can’t seem to match his penchant for high-dollar spending.
According to a New York Times analysis of his charity’s giving in 2022, the #Musk #Foundation gave out just $160 million in grants
—a whopping $234 million

Elon Musk’s Charity Often Benefits Elon Musk and Associates: Report
A New York Times report found that much of Musk’s charitable funds stay “close to home.”

Thanks for this, @…, but you've got a #grammar error in the first sentence. Its subject is "we," i.e., Meta. The introduction starting with "as a donor" modifies that. You're saying *you* have previously donated: "As a donor…, we are l…

I'm beginning to understand why #GOP #Republicans #MAGA say "they all do it" ( Yes, #Democrats have their …

A 9/11 Charity Provides a Financial Safety Net to a Giuliani Firm
Five months after filing for bankruptcy, the former New York City mayor disclosed his company’s income from a foundation established to honor a firefighter killed on Sept. 11, 2001.

I'm beginning to understand why #GOP #Republicans #MAGA say "they all do it" ( Yes, #Democrats have their …

A 9/11 Charity Provides a Financial Safety Net to a Giuliani Firm
Five months after filing for bankruptcy, the former New York City mayor disclosed his company’s income from a foundation established to honor a firefighter killed on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Official" #GreatLakes rankings are out. Highly quantitative 😁
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/whic

As a greyhound charity, sometimes companies with a "Corporate Social Responsibility" programme ask us if they can come and do some volunteer greyhound walking.
Here's some employees of Toshiba UK doing just that!
#Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

Thanks for this, @…, but you've got a #grammar error in the first sentence. Its subject is "we," i.e., Meta. The introduction starting with "as a donor" modifies that. You're saying *you* have previously donated: "As a donor…, we are l…

Great #AndysManClub tonight. Got some anxieties off my chest about my relationship with C, and shared my hurt and frustration at how my ex wife has been poisoning my #kids against C and I again. I can’t really put into words how important this group of brothers are to me. I’m doing my first

"Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey Gifted £2,500 Gala Ticket by Fossil Fuel Firm"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey Gifted £2,500 Gala Ticket by Fossil Fuel Firm
Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, accepted a donation worth £2,500 from Viaro Energy, which drills for oil and gas in the North Sea, parliamentary records reveal. The donation took the form of a seat at Viaro’s table at the exclusive London’s Air Ambulance Charity gala on February 7th. Viaro Energy operates over […]

The Chatteratti are saying that the #Conservatives can't find enough candidates. Is it time for those of us on the revolutionary left to accept our patriotic duty, bite the bullet, scrub up, cut our hair, raid the charity shops for suits, and rock up at Central Office chorusing "pick me"?

How $50 for Ukraine led to desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in Russia
Amateur ballerina #Ksenia #Karelina, an American and Russian dual citizen who celebrated the new year with a trip to Istanbul with her partner Chris van Heerden, a South African professional boxer, before heading to Russia to visit fam…

I have seen a greyhound and a borzoi. The greyhound came from Whittingham Kennels in nearby Waltham Abbey. 😀
#Greyhounds

What's your preferred software for library barcodes or RFID reading? Preferably for raspberry pi or android.
Got a library collection for a charity that isn't a library, that they'd like a pretty simple check out system, beyond the honor system.
#FDroid #raspberrypi #library #libraryworker

Community is everything. This club is transforming mens’ lives #mentalhealth #AndysManClub

Sometimes I feel like 95% of the work involved in helping this charity with their Facebook is reminding them that if they're gonna ask me to post something, there is no formulation of words I can come up with that is as impactful as A PHOTO OF AN ACTUAL DOG.
Give me a photo of a dog.
People want dog.
#greyhounds

"UK scheme to spur take-up of heat pumps delayed after gas lobby pressure"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #HeatPumps #Energy

This afternoon I was interviewed by Gary.
He's a sensitive sweet boy who doesn't like it when his humans go away so he needs someone to take good care of him. It's quite rare I unlock the upside down achievement during the interview, so I think we're good to go. ❤️
Gary was also homed by the charity I volunteer at so I remember him from kennels!
#Greyhounds…

"UK public invited to dance for worms to help assess soil health"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Worms #Gardening