I Have A Little Cousin At MU Whom I’m Trying To Contact Right Now. If Y'all Know Anyone There Or If

if you put milk in the bowl before the cereal, unfollow me now.

don’t give me no “it makes the cereal less soggy” crap either.

your fake.

your mama is fake.

your grandpappy is fake.

your whole lineage is fake for not teaching you WHAT IS RIGHT!!!

tw emotional abuse, eating disorders, self harm, cancer cw

Okay I hate to do this again but it’s my last resort

As some of you might know this year has been absolutely awful for me and my mother, she had to go through a complicated and lengthy treatment for brain cancer, luckily most of it was paid by the government owned oil company she works for, but still we had to spend a LOT of money on the stuff they didn’t cover, ever since her first cancer diagnosis about 4 years ago we had to move here to this little town in the south of mexico where my mom is from, so she could be close to her family, unfortunately we have not been able to leave, not after she went into remission the first time and not this time.

Money has always been tight for us, but things have not been this bad ever since my father left and took all our money leaving us homeless when I was 5, the state owned oil company my mom works for is being severely affected by the energetic reforms imposed by the current administration, temporary workers like my mom were being hired for about one month out of every 2, the last 6 months that went to a month long contract every 3 months and just today all temporary workers like my mom were notified that they will not be hired anymore until maybe summer of next year. Even though my mental illness makes it difficult for me to hold a job and esp now I started (long distance) college and i have the pressure to maintain a 80% average score on all my classes to keep my scholarship, I have tried time and time to find a job, even a minimum wage one to be able to save enough money to leave but i simply can’t find one, very few places are hiring and those very few like subway and local supermarkets simply don’t ever call me back.

To say out situation is desperate doesn’t begin to describe it, we had to leave our house cause even though last time i made a donation post i got enough to pay the late months eventually we couldn’t pay anymore, with absolutely no other choice we had to move into my aunt’s spare service room (bottom pic) that not only is barely 3 x 3 meters, but we have to endure cockroaches and rat plagues and the room flooding everytime it rains (which makes me really worried about my mom’s health since we sleep on the floor) but the worst of all, we have to endure our family’s emotional abuse.

I’ve posted a lot about it since there can’t be a day where they don’t do something awful, from little insidious comments about my mom’s physical health, like saying she deserved/earned cancer, or her age, telling her things like her life is over now that she’s 50 and that all she can aspire to now is living in this rat infested room from my aunt’s charity so she shouldn’t even try anything else, to the way they openly despise me and while they claim they don’t believe i’m mentally ill they often steal or hide my things to then deny i ever had them to make me believe i’m imagining things or they withhold food from us or lock us out of the house/inside of the room continuously, basically we just can’t stand a day more here, it’s literally destroying us, my mother has daily headaches, cries every night and can never sleep, i’ve basically fallen back into all my self destructive behaviors i was so proud of leaving behind like cutting, drinking and smoking and given the power these people have over our food my ed is completely out of control to the point im seriously concerned about my health because of all the dizziness and cold sweats i get.

Like i said, our situation is desperate, like never before. My mom’s current and last contract ends in nov 13, we absolutely need to get out of here, but it would be pointless to just move to another house/apartment if we don’t have a way to pay for it, which is why we need to move to Tijuana, where we lived before. Unlike this small town that lives only from the state owned oil company, Tijuana is a big and diverse city with a lot of job opportunities, esp for someone bilingual like me but even for someone my mom’s age, there’s also a lot of more affordable and flexible housing options like trailer parks, and public hospitals where me and my mom could get the medical care we need.

With all we’ve been saving we only need about 5000 (about 302 dollars with the current exchange) pesos to move there, mostly because tijuana is so far away we need to take a 10 hour bus ride and a 3 hours flight and that is pricey, but also to have some money for food until I get my first paycheck and in between the checks I get from my scholarship.

I know I’ve asked for help before, and I also know there’s people who are in even more desperate situations than us, but I truly wouldn’t do this if i had any other choice, but my father has refused to help me in any way and there’s no one else we can borrow money from cause well we owe a lot already (about 80k pesos), truly anything, 1 or 2 dollars help, if not to buy the tickets at least for a meal, there’s a donation button on my blog, and my paypal is cats.and.lollipops@gmail.com (don’t laugh) and please please, if this post annoys you or upset you just block it or block me but please do refrain from sending mean anons, thanks a lot.

A friend of mine posted this. Reblog to save a life!

… Was a friend

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400+ Animals Found Dead, State Pulls Shelter Licenses

The NC Department of Agriculture has pulled the animal shelter licenses in Davidson and Guilford Co after finding what it calls a "Systemic failure to care for animals.

chemicalsinpants:

SIGNAL BOOST THE HELL OUT OF THIS!!! 

2 county shelters around my area have had their licenses revoked due to a “Systemic failure to care for animals.” In one, over 400 animals have been found dead this year. More than 90 in two different months, and over 30 animals have been found dead so far in August. As an animal lover and zoology major dedicating my life to help animals in need, this tears me apart. To have this happen just over an hour from me is sickening.

What’s more distressing than all of the animals that have already died is that the future of the survivors is up in the air. The shelters will remain open while its decided what to do, but no one is sure. All of the rescues are full and pulled thin as it is. I hope that they will be able to pull some, but there are just so many that need help.

So, please share this link and get the word out! If this goes viral, then the spotlight will make them more accountable for the future of these poor animals.

UPDATE:

I’ve found the letters revoking licenses. They describe horrific and sickening conditions. In Guilford, animals with severe and extremely painful injuries like ruptured eyeballs, twisted spines, broken pelvises, and gunshot wounds were not given any veterinary treatment or pain medication. For DAYS, until they were euthanized. Some animals suffered without treatment for 11 or 12 days. In Davidson, a massively lethal and contagious disease swept through the shelter, especially among the cats. No vet was called or consulted with to try to fix this. In a span of 12 days in August, 38 animals were found dead.

Local rescues are actively trying to pull animals from these places, but there are so many animals that the communities cannot help them alone. 

PLEASE signal boost this so that people know that these atrocious conditions will not be ignored!

Read the Guilford County report here. 

Read the Davidson County report here.

WARNING: Above links contain details of gross animal abuse and neglect.

The Guilford County Animal Shelter Facebook Page

The Davidson County Animal Shelter Facebook Page

The NC Dept. of Agriculture Website

just listen to the crowd

“Defensive architecture” aimed at the homeless as a deliberate, considered kind of cruelty.

By Lisa Wade, PhD

I encourage everyone to go read this very smart and very sad essay from Alex Andreuo at The Guardian. It’s a condemnation of defensive architecture, a euphemism for strategies that make the urban landscape inhospitable to the homeless.

They include benches with dividers that make it impossible to lie down, spikes and protrusions on window ledges and in front of store windows, forests of pointed cement structures under bridges and freeways, emissions of high pitched sounds, and sprinklers that intermittently go off on sidewalks to prevent camping overnight. There is also perpetually sticky anti-climb paint and corner urination guards, plus “viewing gardens” that take up space that might be attractive to homeless people:

The examples above and below are from a collection at Dismal Garden. Here’s a picture of anti-encampment spikes featured at The Guardian:

This is to discourage urination:

This is to take up space so people can’t camp on the sidewalk:

Andreuo writes of the psychological effect of these structures. They tell homeless people quite clearly that they are not wanted and that others not only don’t care, but are actively antagonistic to their comfort and well being. He says:

Defensive architecture is revealing on a number of levels, because it is not the product of accident or thoughtlessness, but a thought process. It is a sort of unkindness that is considered, designed, approved, funded and made real with the explicit motive to exclude and harass. It reveals how corporate hygiene has overridden human considerations…

If the corporations have turned to aggressive tactics, governments seem to simply be in denial. They offer few resources to homeless people and the ones they do offer are insufficient to serve everyone. Andreuo continues:

We curse the destitute for urinating in public spaces with no thought about how far the nearest free public toilet might be. We blame them for their poor hygiene without questioning the lack of public facilities for washing… Free shelters, unless one belongs to a particularly vulnerable group, are actually extremely rare.

He then connects the dots. “Fundamental misunderstanding of destitution,” he argues, “is designed to exonerate the rest from responsibility and insulate them from perceiving risk.” If homeless people are just failing to do right by themselves or take the help available to them, then only they are to blame for their situation. And, if only they are to blame, we don’t have to worry that, given just the right turn of events, it could happen to us.

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.