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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 16d

I have 2800 followers. If 10% of my followers joined my Patreon at $1/mo, my quality of life would take a huge leap up. With another $280 a month, I could afford all my brain meds and talk therapy again

RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · Mar 17

The best help I can ask for is more patreons. Right now I’m receiving about $450/mo from Patreon. This supplements the income I get from working at Taco Bell, about $1200/mo. More Patreon = less Taco Bell, more writing, more road trips, more life on my terms

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creating documentation of life during COVID and societal collaps

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 16d

I am a writer, even if I haven’t written in a year because I’ve been scrambling for survival at Taco Bell. At my Patreon you can read years of my writing, from memoir to short fiction and poetry, and my 3 years of Covid interviews. Join for $1/mo (or more!) and drastically improve my life! Thank you

RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · Mar 17

The best help I can ask for is more patreons. Right now I’m receiving about $450/mo from Patreon. This supplements the income I get from working at Taco Bell, about $1200/mo. More Patreon = less Taco Bell, more writing, more road trips, more life on my terms

www.patreon.com/sarahwonderw...

Get more from Sarah Moose on Patreon

creating documentation of life during COVID and societal collaps

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 11h

Help the Juno, the Juno is good

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 14h

I am 375/650 on my mutual aid need. I’m so close !!! Thank you so much for sending tips

I don’t mean to be a poor and struggling artist.

I promise I won’t be soon.
My journalism and novels etc are too good for the haters to keep ignoring at levers of power.

Organic growth can’t be stopped

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Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 1d

If you're anxious and you know it, take your meds

If you're anxious and you know it, take your meds

If you're anxious and you know it and feel like you're gonna blow it

If you're anxious and you know it,
take your meds

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

they should let humans run through the car wash like one day a week

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 23h

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 14h

The world’s first Cactarium and one of its resident tortoises, Tank. Palm Springs, CA.

A greenhouse packed with gorgeous and unusual cacti and succulents, ranging from from the towering and torsioned to the wooly and white to the pendulous and tentacular

Tank, an African spurred tortoise, eating a prickly pear. He has robust, thickly scaled gray legs and a tan shell with a grid of adjacent, almost conical peaks made of stacked concentric rings. A creature that exudes an air of the primordial, seemingly plucked from the time of dinosaurs.

A large green coral cactus with rounded, undulating, rippled branches. If Van Gogh painted a cactus it would look like this.

A stapelia bloom, aka starfish flower. Star shaped. Maroon around the edges, pink in the middle, with many fine zigzagging yellow lines. Rafflesia vibes. A fly rests on one petal.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 22h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 22h

what even happened on the other site this time

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · Sep 15

Hello new followers! Please help me exist!

RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · Mar 17

The best help I can ask for is more patreons. Right now I’m receiving about $450/mo from Patreon. This supplements the income I get from working at Taco Bell, about $1200/mo. More Patreon = less Taco Bell, more writing, more road trips, more life on my terms

www.patreon.com/sarahwonderw...

Get more from Sarah Moose on Patreon

creating documentation of life during COVID and societal collaps

www.patreon.com

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clare @sadderlizards.bsky.social · Apr 3

your email finds me deeply unwell. teetering on the edge really

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 15h

My big wish is $30,000 a year to live life on the road in my tiny house with my dog. That would cover food, meds, gas, car insurance, everything I need to be healthy happy and safe

And I have no hope of ever earning $30,000 a year

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 16h

My sister could wipe out my partners catastrophic 4 chronic illness pile up with a snap of her fingers. She could afford all my brain meds with her pocket change. It’s mind boggling to me.

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 16h

What’s crazy is that they’re almost killing me for just $6,000 a year. Like. Is it that worth it to get manicures and sweet green salads? Is my life really only worth $6,000?

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 16h

I’m literally paying for her mani pedis. And her take out. So she didn’t have to get a loan which is what most new partners do.

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · Sep 14

Half my coworkers at Taco Bell are homeless. Some live in their cars. One guy literally lives under a bridge. Apartments around here start at $2000/mo but I could rent a dilapidated trailer with plastic sheeting for doors for $850/mo

Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · Sep 14

People are homeless because they can’t afford rent.

Because capitalism wrings out every piece of productivity from people while just barely maintaining their survival so they can continue to work.

Because suffering on the streets is a threat to make you go clock in.

It’s not a personal failure.

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 17h

My sister is a partner at a law firm in dc. I work part time at Taco Bell.

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 17h

It’s that $80,000 that I’ve been adding to with my $500/mo so her lifestyle doesn’t go down too far

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 17h

I found out my sister is not making $80,000

She makes more. So much more my mom won’t tell me the exact amount.

$80,000 is the amount she has left over after paying all her mortgages and car payments and utilities.

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 1d

I am going to escape the financial and emotional abuse at my mom’s house in April when my car is paid off and can no longer be used as a tracking device. I am trying to raise $1000 towards a moving van, gas, and the labor of a moving crew for 1 day. Anything helps. Please and thank you.

RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · May 4

I gratefully accept tips, donations, whatever you want to call them

Cshpp $ThreeRaccoonsInACoat
Vnm @ Sarah-Moose-Moose
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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 1d

Do you think fast food falls under that category? There are other stores nearby but I don’t know if there are 50 employees within 75 miles. I hope there are!

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 1d

I guess technically yes? It’s killing him but he’s doing it.

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 1d

He’s not fine, he’s going blind and going insane

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · Sep 1

I finally figured out my answer. Private bath house. A complete spa where I could be bathed, shaved, waxed, shampooed, towel and blow dried, and styled. I’d hire 10 people to just sit around on their phones and bathe me whenever I felt like it.

Chelly Prez @chellyprez33.bsky.social · Aug 31

The Powerball cash option is nearly 500 million. What outlandish thing would you do or buy if you won?

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 1d

That’s pretty much the whole wishlist right there

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