they’re just fediverse versions - so you can host your own server, federate, no ads. otherwise the same

tell them to move to loops and pixelfed 😁

as someone who doesn’t use typewriters - is this all typewriters? most? modern? all?

they say when something is forbidden, it makes it more desirable. it must have value of some sort if someone doesn’t want you to have it (i’m just explaining, not defending)

plus, if someone is open about their beliefs… you know who to keep an eye on. if someone only talks about it in private…

but again, still just explaining, not defending… banning it completely could make it harder to spread. idk. i’m tired and it baffles me that so many people actually agree with these terrible ideas and we live in a world where we even need to be having this discussion.

feel that.

https://youtu.be/1hc52_PWeU8

link to the video, for anyone curious :)

and a link to the follow-up video as well!:

https://youtu.be/PGWpGMrroi8

this is so interesting. thanks for sharing!

thank you :)

thank you :)

and .pizza, .gay

there are lots of fun ones

Looking after yourself is the first step towards looking after others

that’s been one of my motivations :) i have a wonderful, but very picky senior kitty who has a lot of food allergies and now needs frequent medication. i always worry that if something happens to me, she’ll be put down since she’d be harder to adopt out. not to mention she loves me very much and i don’t want her to be sad. fediverse cat tax?

i would also love to be in a place where i can have more pets and a family someday

and i’ve experienced and witnessed a lot of injustice being as sick as i have all these years. i don’t want anyone to go through what i’ve been through. i’ve thought about getting into politics a lot. and i’ve thought about taking another shot at entering the medical field. not in any position where i can work yet, so i still have time to think about all of that.

you know what? funny you mention that - i likely just got below 100kg around this time last year :)

i’ve lost about 39 pounds since may 2024 i believe? 21 pounds since january 2025 i think, and 15 pounds since august after i lost my shit finding out i had gained some lost weight back and my a1c hadn’t budged at all even though i’ve been working my ass off to lose this weight

still have about 18 more pounds or so until i’m in overweight territory and as you can tell it has been sloooooooowwwww. i have a lot of major health issues and for most of this past decade no matter how hard ive tried ive only gotten sicker and sicker and sicker. this is the first year in years where i’ve finally seen more progress in my health rather than regress.

i also have an upcoming appointment to check for endometrial cancer as i have bled almost every single day this year since january 6th and my endometrial lining looks huge but doing a biopsy was pushed off all year because of my age, until the most recent ultrasound where it looked way worse and my doctor was like “haha fuck”. which i know with the weight loss it’s like “did i do this or am i just dying of cancer lmao”. but there have been certain very recent positive changes that, in my very unprofessional opinion, i wouldn’t expect to see if i had cancer / the cancer was getting worse. i hope it’s not cancer, but if it is, my mind and body are in a much better position now to handle potential cancer treatment than they were one year ago. it’s been a very significant year for me. i haven’t felt like i’ve had so many reasons to feel good about myself in a very, very long time.

honestly… ads wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t so annoying

i agree, the point of my post is to clarify the misconception, especially for anyone who may have donated in the past and felt guilty about it

yeah? never said otherwise.

you’re right, i fixed it! my bad 😅

in the USA

til lemmy lets you edit post titles, very cool. i fixed it, thanks!

yeah, this is what i was going for

i’m not here to defend billionaires. i’m chronically ill and probably going to die young, suffering, and in poverty. if billionaires did the right thing, not only would i probably be suffering a lot less, but so would a lot of people. we’d probably have a better world.

but here we are. :(

from your post history it seems you might not be in the us so i’m going to try and clarify

soooo i have yet to file taxes (i’m disabled and have never made enough to file) but from my understanding, how taxes work in the us vs outside of the us is different

the government doesn’t tell you what you owe or what to deduct… you tell them what you owe, what you’re deducting, and hope you didn’t mess up somewhere unless you want to be shipped off the el salvador

so i believe neither my post nor their comment is bs, but if i’m wrong i’m happy to be corrected