PenGwen With LC
@pengwen.bsky.social
P/w Long Covid, writer, nerd, loudmouth, green thumb, artist, queer, ND, & unstoppable!
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#AltUBI #LongCovidAid
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#AltUBI #LongCovidAid
Resources:
· AltUBI Nonprofit Store: altubi.myspreadshop.com
· Transparent graphics for DIY printing: www.patreon.com/posts/altubi...
· Search #AltUBI, #AltUBIGoal, #AltUBI20Challenge, #HelpTheHelpers to find people to support
· AltUBI Nonprofit Store: altubi.myspreadshop.com
· Transparent graphics for DIY printing: www.patreon.com/posts/altubi...
· Search #AltUBI, #AltUBIGoal, #AltUBI20Challenge, #HelpTheHelpers to find people to support
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Resources:
· AltUBI Nonprofit Store: altubi.myspreadshop.com
· Transparent graphics for DIY printing: www.patreon.com/posts/altubi...
· Search #AltUBI, #AltUBIGoal, #AltUBI20Challenge, #HelpTheHelpers to find people to support
· AltUBI Nonprofit Store: altubi.myspreadshop.com
· Transparent graphics for DIY printing: www.patreon.com/posts/altubi...
· Search #AltUBI, #AltUBIGoal, #AltUBI20Challenge, #HelpTheHelpers to find people to support
The time for isolated survival is over. Our safety lies in our interconnectedness. Start weaving your thread today.
(Originally published: www.patreon.com/posts/145006...)
(Originally published: www.patreon.com/posts/145006...)
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The time for isolated survival is over. Our safety lies in our interconnectedness. Start weaving your thread today.
(Originally published: www.patreon.com/posts/145006...)
(Originally published: www.patreon.com/posts/145006...)
We are rebuilding what capitalism destroyed: not through grand gestures, but through thousands of small, automated acts of solidarity. We're creating systems that assume mutual care rather than competition, that prioritize dignity over charity, that understand our fates are interconnected.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
We are rebuilding what capitalism destroyed: not through grand gestures, but through thousands of small, automated acts of solidarity. We're creating systems that assume mutual care rather than competition, that prioritize dignity over charity, that understand our fates are interconnected.
The Fabric We Weave
Each $5 commitment is a single thread. Alone, it seems insignificant. But woven together with hundreds of other threads, it becomes community Kevlar- flexible, resilient, and capable of distributing impact so no single thread bears the full force of crisis.
Each $5 commitment is a single thread. Alone, it seems insignificant. But woven together with hundreds of other threads, it becomes community Kevlar- flexible, resilient, and capable of distributing impact so no single thread bears the full force of crisis.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The Fabric We Weave
Each $5 commitment is a single thread. Alone, it seems insignificant. But woven together with hundreds of other threads, it becomes community Kevlar- flexible, resilient, and capable of distributing impact so no single thread bears the full force of crisis.
Each $5 commitment is a single thread. Alone, it seems insignificant. But woven together with hundreds of other threads, it becomes community Kevlar- flexible, resilient, and capable of distributing impact so no single thread bears the full force of crisis.
From there, consider:
· The #AltUBI20Challenge (4 people, $5 each)
· Hosting a button bucket in your local café or third space
· Adding an AltUBI stocking stuffer to your holiday traditions
· Making graphics for community members who need support
· The #AltUBI20Challenge (4 people, $5 each)
· Hosting a button bucket in your local café or third space
· Adding an AltUBI stocking stuffer to your holiday traditions
· Making graphics for community members who need support
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
From there, consider:
· The #AltUBI20Challenge (4 people, $5 each)
· Hosting a button bucket in your local café or third space
· Adding an AltUBI stocking stuffer to your holiday traditions
· Making graphics for community members who need support
· The #AltUBI20Challenge (4 people, $5 each)
· Hosting a button bucket in your local café or third space
· Adding an AltUBI stocking stuffer to your holiday traditions
· Making graphics for community members who need support
That's it. You've now:
· Automated a small portion of your mutual aid practice
· Become a stable income source for someone vulnerable
· Started rewiring your own relationship to giving and community
· Automated a small portion of your mutual aid practice
· Become a stable income source for someone vulnerable
· Started rewiring your own relationship to giving and community
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
That's it. You've now:
· Automated a small portion of your mutual aid practice
· Become a stable income source for someone vulnerable
· Started rewiring your own relationship to giving and community
· Automated a small portion of your mutual aid practice
· Become a stable income source for someone vulnerable
· Started rewiring your own relationship to giving and community
1. Find one AltUBI graphic (search #AltUBI, #AltUBIGoal or visit the nonprofit store)
2. Scan the QR code and commit $5/month
3. Wear or display the graphic to spark conversations
2. Scan the QR code and commit $5/month
3. Wear or display the graphic to spark conversations
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
1. Find one AltUBI graphic (search #AltUBI, #AltUBIGoal or visit the nonprofit store)
2. Scan the QR code and commit $5/month
3. Wear or display the graphic to spark conversations
2. Scan the QR code and commit $5/month
3. Wear or display the graphic to spark conversations
Practical First Steps: Your Toe in the Water
You don't need to solve systemic collapse today.
You just need to start the practice of interconnected support:
You don't need to solve systemic collapse today.
You just need to start the practice of interconnected support:
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Practical First Steps: Your Toe in the Water
You don't need to solve systemic collapse today.
You just need to start the practice of interconnected support:
You don't need to solve systemic collapse today.
You just need to start the practice of interconnected support:
Your personal emergency fund won't protect you from fascist violence or environmental collapse but a strong, interconnected community might.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Your personal emergency fund won't protect you from fascist violence or environmental collapse but a strong, interconnected community might.
This is the quiet, daily work of class warfare: moving resources from extraction to mutual support. It's recognizing that individual financial security is meaningless without community stability.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This is the quiet, daily work of class warfare: moving resources from extraction to mutual support. It's recognizing that individual financial security is meaningless without community stability.
AltUBI represents a fundamental redirecting of resources. Your $5 monthly pledge does two things simultaneously:
1. Directly stabilizes a neighbor
2. Withdraws that capital from systems exploiting us
1. Directly stabilizes a neighbor
2. Withdraws that capital from systems exploiting us
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
AltUBI represents a fundamental redirecting of resources. Your $5 monthly pledge does two things simultaneously:
1. Directly stabilizes a neighbor
2. Withdraws that capital from systems exploiting us
1. Directly stabilizes a neighbor
2. Withdraws that capital from systems exploiting us
There is no truly "safe" hoarding of resources under capitalism that doesn't ultimately fuel our own oppression.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
There is no truly "safe" hoarding of resources under capitalism that doesn't ultimately fuel our own oppression.
From Enriching Capital to Fortifying Community
Every dollar in a bank account or traditional investment isn't just sitting there - it's being loaned out, leveraged, and used to further enrich the capital class that's actively dismantling our communities.
Every dollar in a bank account or traditional investment isn't just sitting there - it's being loaned out, leveraged, and used to further enrich the capital class that's actively dismantling our communities.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
From Enriching Capital to Fortifying Community
Every dollar in a bank account or traditional investment isn't just sitting there - it's being loaned out, leveraged, and used to further enrich the capital class that's actively dismantling our communities.
Every dollar in a bank account or traditional investment isn't just sitting there - it's being loaned out, leveraged, and used to further enrich the capital class that's actively dismantling our communities.
This is how we rebuild the actual fabric of society: by creating systems where help isn't conditional on likability, where dignity isn't earned through performing worthiness. Sometimes, supporting someone you wouldn't choose as a friend is the most radical community-building act possible.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This is how we rebuild the actual fabric of society: by creating systems where help isn't conditional on likability, where dignity isn't earned through performing worthiness. Sometimes, supporting someone you wouldn't choose as a friend is the most radical community-building act possible.
The anonymous QR code graphics are intentional. They bypass our unconscious biases about who "deserves" help based on appearance, identity, or personal affinity. You're not supporting a profile picture or a compelling story - you're supporting a community member, period.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The anonymous QR code graphics are intentional. They bypass our unconscious biases about who "deserves" help based on appearance, identity, or personal affinity. You're not supporting a profile picture or a compelling story - you're supporting a community member, period.
Here's the challenging truth: community isn't just people we agree with or personally like. Capitalism has conditioned us to only support those who make us comfortable, but real solidarity means supporting neighbors even when it's inconvenient - even when we disagree.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Here's the challenging truth: community isn't just people we agree with or personally like. Capitalism has conditioned us to only support those who make us comfortable, but real solidarity means supporting neighbors even when it's inconvenient - even when we disagree.
The choice to start with the most vulnerable is strategic: if our safety net can catch those in freefall, it will hold everyone.
Beyond "People We Like": The Uncomfortable Work of Real Community
Beyond "People We Like": The Uncomfortable Work of Real Community
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The choice to start with the most vulnerable is strategic: if our safety net can catch those in freefall, it will hold everyone.
Beyond "People We Like": The Uncomfortable Work of Real Community
Beyond "People We Like": The Uncomfortable Work of Real Community
1. Investing in community infrastructure (these are the people who will organize during the next crisis)
2. Proving UBI works through lived examples
3. Building the patterns of care we'll all need when AI decimates traditional employment
2. Proving UBI works through lived examples
3. Building the patterns of care we'll all need when AI decimates traditional employment
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
1. Investing in community infrastructure (these are the people who will organize during the next crisis)
2. Proving UBI works through lived examples
3. Building the patterns of care we'll all need when AI decimates traditional employment
2. Proving UBI works through lived examples
3. Building the patterns of care we'll all need when AI decimates traditional employment
These aren't passive recipients; they're experts in survival under systems designed to kill them. When we stabilize those facing immediate life-or-death housing insecurity or medical neglect, we're not just helping individuals we're:
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These aren't passive recipients; they're experts in survival under systems designed to kill them. When we stabilize those facing immediate life-or-death housing insecurity or medical neglect, we're not just helping individuals we're:
AltUBI intentionally reverses this by prioritizing disabled, chronically ill, and marginalized community members- the organizers, mutual aid workers, and people who hold our communities together while facing the greatest risks.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
AltUBI intentionally reverses this by prioritizing disabled, chronically ill, and marginalized community members- the organizers, mutual aid workers, and people who hold our communities together while facing the greatest risks.
Capitalism's isolation has severed community ties, leaving the most vulnerable to fall first and hardest.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Capitalism's isolation has severed community ties, leaving the most vulnerable to fall first and hardest.
But why stop at $20? The #AltUBI100Challenge supports twenty people. The goal isn't a specific dollar amount- it's normalizing widespread participation. Each small commitment is a thread in what becomes collective armor against collapse.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
But why stop at $20? The #AltUBI100Challenge supports twenty people. The goal isn't a specific dollar amount- it's normalizing widespread participation. Each small commitment is a thread in what becomes collective armor against collapse.
· For receivers: Predictable income replaces desperate scrambling
· For givers: Losing your job means canceling manageable $5 pledges, not catastrophic $100 commitments
· For communities: Risk is spread, creating a web of support rather than fragile single threads
· For givers: Losing your job means canceling manageable $5 pledges, not catastrophic $100 commitments
· For communities: Risk is spread, creating a web of support rather than fragile single threads
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
· For receivers: Predictable income replaces desperate scrambling
· For givers: Losing your job means canceling manageable $5 pledges, not catastrophic $100 commitments
· For communities: Risk is spread, creating a web of support rather than fragile single threads
· For givers: Losing your job means canceling manageable $5 pledges, not catastrophic $100 commitments
· For communities: Risk is spread, creating a web of support rather than fragile single threads
The #AltUBI20Challenge embodies this shift: support four people at $5 each per month. For $20 - less than many streaming subscriptions you become a stabilizing force for multiple households. This distributed model creates resilience:
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The #AltUBI20Challenge embodies this shift: support four people at $5 each per month. For $20 - less than many streaming subscriptions you become a stabilizing force for multiple households. This distributed model creates resilience: