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Jan. 2nd, 2017 07:07 amGood morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!
Ways to Give:
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a_phoenixdragon lost her job a couple of months ago and has been unable to find a new one; because of mounting rent and bills, the family is being evicted and is raising money to move cross-country to a better place for jobs and low housing costs. You can read more and help them raise the move money here.
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akatonbo linked to a fundraiser for Korbin the therapy cat, who is undergoing treatment for a bladder blockage; the estimate for his treatment is high and his owner Kyndyl is raising money to help cover it. You can read more and help out here.
blooddrop recently found a dumped kitten in the snow and is raising funds to pay for worming, spay, vaccines, and other assorted medical bills. She's selling bottles of "Kitten Benefit" essential oil perfume to help defray vet costs; you can read more and purchase a bottle here.
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thephoenix04's partner, Zeah, is fundraising to afford bottom surgery. She has some money saved towards the surgery but an earlier surgery slot opened up and she's trying to pull the rest of the funds together as quickly as possible. You can read more and donate here.
dreamwaffles's job ended and she's trying to make ends meet until she can land another one. She has a donation page up here but is also selling beaded jewelery through Etsy; you can check out Saxifrage Designs and make a purchase here.
rilee16 is still struggling to cover medical expenses after two head injuries last year, and hasn't been cleared to return to work, thus can't earn money to cover basic living costs, let alone the bills they've received, including a recent rent increase. You can read more and help out here.
News To Know:
bastlynn linked to BS Detector, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that searches links on webpages and compares them against a list of untrustworthy "fake news" domains, providing warnings about questionable links to the reader. You can read more about BS Detector and its response to Facebook's fake news issue here and download the chrome or firefox extensions.
The (Possible) Fall Of Livejournal:
News has been spreading that SUP, the Russian group that owns LiveJournal, has moved the site's physical servers to Russia, which means that content on those servers is no longer subject to US laws governing free speech. There are extensive ramifications for this, and given the recent likely Russian interference in the US presidential election, the entire situation is highly politicized. Because of the server move, people are leaving LiveJournal in droves, and thus the site may also become financially unviable and close down.
(It occurs to me that the site is also no longer subject to US laws concerning hate speech, and thus LJ may begin attracting fascist and hate-group bloggers at an increasing rate, depending on how SUP decides to handle hate speech.)
brainwane linked to a post about the issue. numb3r5ev3n also has an informative post with links to news sources, and (at the bottom) a link to LJArchive, which allows you to archive your journal. Having used LJArchive in the past, it tends to hang up on comments, so if you have a lot of comments, uh, you may just have to let those go.
I know a lot of people reading this on LJ have basically stuck with LJ because it's easier than moving, but guys, I think it's time to move to Dreamwidth. Describing Dreamwidth as a code fork of LJ does DW a great disservice, but that's the best place to start -- it's a similar site, but run by people familiar with fandom who forked off from LJ because of LJ's past hostility to fandom. I already use Dreamwidth and you can find me at copperbadge there if you're coming over from LJ; I'll be looking at archiving and possibly shutting down my LJ this week, though it's possible I'll just leave Copperbadge and any other side-journals standing, lock the comms to new members, and simply cease to update.
Also please remember to be patient with Dreamwidth. They're a smallish team and they're dealing with an influx of fandom users, not to mention the Cyrillic users who are migrating over.
And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can post items for my attention at the Radio Free Monday submissions form. If you're not sure how to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help (or ask for help!). If you're new to fundraising, you may want to check out my guide to fundraising here.
Ways to Give:
a_phoenixdragon lost her job a couple of months ago and has been unable to find a new one; because of mounting rent and bills, the family is being evicted and is raising money to move cross-country to a better place for jobs and low housing costs. You can read more and help them raise the move money here. akatonbo linked to a fundraiser for Korbin the therapy cat, who is undergoing treatment for a bladder blockage; the estimate for his treatment is high and his owner Kyndyl is raising money to help cover it. You can read more and help out here.blooddrop recently found a dumped kitten in the snow and is raising funds to pay for worming, spay, vaccines, and other assorted medical bills. She's selling bottles of "Kitten Benefit" essential oil perfume to help defray vet costs; you can read more and purchase a bottle here. News To Know:
The (Possible) Fall Of Livejournal:
News has been spreading that SUP, the Russian group that owns LiveJournal, has moved the site's physical servers to Russia, which means that content on those servers is no longer subject to US laws governing free speech. There are extensive ramifications for this, and given the recent likely Russian interference in the US presidential election, the entire situation is highly politicized. Because of the server move, people are leaving LiveJournal in droves, and thus the site may also become financially unviable and close down.
(It occurs to me that the site is also no longer subject to US laws concerning hate speech, and thus LJ may begin attracting fascist and hate-group bloggers at an increasing rate, depending on how SUP decides to handle hate speech.)
brainwane linked to a post about the issue. I know a lot of people reading this on LJ have basically stuck with LJ because it's easier than moving, but guys, I think it's time to move to Dreamwidth. Describing Dreamwidth as a code fork of LJ does DW a great disservice, but that's the best place to start -- it's a similar site, but run by people familiar with fandom who forked off from LJ because of LJ's past hostility to fandom. I already use Dreamwidth and you can find me at copperbadge there if you're coming over from LJ; I'll be looking at archiving and possibly shutting down my LJ this week, though it's possible I'll just leave Copperbadge and any other side-journals standing, lock the comms to new members, and simply cease to update.
Also please remember to be patient with Dreamwidth. They're a smallish team and they're dealing with an influx of fandom users, not to mention the Cyrillic users who are migrating over.
And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can post items for my attention at the Radio Free Monday submissions form. If you're not sure how to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help (or ask for help!). If you're new to fundraising, you may want to check out my guide to fundraising here.
