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cross-posted from: https://anarchist.nexus/post/220319

URGENT! My friend @stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com is about to go homeless tomorrow! Please help!

Hello. My friend, @stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com, is about to become homeless in just 24 hours-He's short on 700$CAD for this month, since he's spent this entire month looking for a roommate; and "found" one; only, this roommate did not have the money to pay rent anyway, and would have made everything worse.

So here we are. Winter is coming and he'll be homeless for a whole month. He is in Newfoundland, it'll be incredibly dangerous for him and i am concerned.

Please, if you have even a dollar to spare, i ask of you to donate to him; anything helps. https://ko-fi.com/stamets

Thank you. ❤️

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[–] sandbo00@feddit.org 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let me just break my habit of almost exclusively lurking on this site to say this:

I honestly understand how you feel, believe me, I've been there. I've had that feeling of self-hatred, of not being important (or at least assuming that I ain't), of being undeserving of love, affection or just help. Fuck all that. There will always be people that deserve attention more than you do, as there will always be people who suffer worse than you. That does not mean that anything you do or go through is invalid. That does not mean that you need to feel guilty when a community of, let's face it, mostly weirdos, cares about you. I do not know if this helps you, but this internet stranger values you. The number of days I've had in the last couple of months that have been significantly brightened by your memes (I do not care in the slightest of you just reposted them, that's how memes work) or silly voice recordings is staggering. Unfortunately, we are separated by thousands of miles and at least one ocean, or I would totally take you up on that hug.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago

Thank you... I just wish I had something better to say other than thank you. Or something better to do. I've been feeling at a loss for words all day which is saying something when I don't shut the fuck up normally. As for that ocean... unfortunately separates me from a whole lot of people. NFLD is great but isolating. Doesn't help the whole self isolation in my head too. I'm just being mopey at this point though, sorry