DisabledAceSocialist

economy."

Boo hoo.

My birthday is this month and I'd like to do something for it, but all my friends abandoned me when I got sick, I've got no-one to hang out with. It's cold outside and I'm recovering from a stroke and still have trouble walking, so I'd need to do something in my own home. It also needs to be free as I have no income at all, so things like renting a film off amazon or whatever are off limits.

Any suggestions? Years ago I would have celebrated with some magic mushrooms but aside from the financial aspect, I don't even know who to get them off any more. I'm totally out of ideas. Just something that will make the day feel a bit special and different from every other day.

I'm making a post on mutual aid too, but last month I made two posts asking for help on there in the space of a week, and after getting no responses, made a post on here. I know mutual aid are inundated with requests and more so than usual at the moment, it seems. So I thought I'd ask on here again, as my last request on here enabled me to eat this month.

For those who don't know me yet, I'm currently having treatment for thyroid cancer and also recovering from a stroke (caused by the cancer treatment, which has left me partially sighted and learning to walk again). The DWP (people who run the British benefits system) in their infinite wisdom, decided at my last assessment to give me zero points (saying I'm fit to work and care for myself, despite multiple doctors letters proving otherwise) and stop my payments, I had to appeal. I have no money at all, actually negative money as I've maxxed out my overdraft along with other debts.

After this, I tried food banks but it is so time consuming and difficult to access them around here, I was still going hungry most of the time. I tried begging a Christian website for advice on Christian food aid, but they turned me away. I've shoplifted multiple times and tried selling my prescription meds in desperation.

Due to the inability to keep myself properly fed, I ended up being diagnosed with several vitamin and mineral deficiencies, but instead of giving me food this insane country decided to solve the problem by prescribing me supplements on the NHS! Meanwhile, I was still starving.

Then I found this place and you are the only people who have helped me over the past couple of months. I've been able to eat normally again because of your help, and it has made a huge difference to my life. I've made the food vouchers last as long as possible but now I have just a few days food left. I've decided to ask for help again now in case it takes multiple posts on here/mutual aid again, by which time I will have run out totally.

I'm too scared to accept actual money in case it gets me in trouble with the DWP. If anyone is able and willing to help, I would be extremely grateful for any food vouchers that can be used in the UK. I know sainsburys accept google pay, credit and debit cards and you don't have to be in the UK to buy their vouchers, you just pay for it and email it to the recipient: https://www.sainsburysgiftcard.co.uk/

If that's not convenient I will gladly accept any type of vouchers that can be used for food, another supermarket, justeat, amazon, anything. Thanks so much to anyone able to help.

Basically the story is this: in 1984 a German kid named Darius was taping a rock radio show. In 2007 he and his sister Lydia found the tape again, but were unable to identify one of the songs. So Lydia posted the song online.

For the next 17 years millions of people around the world searched and investigated, trying to find out what this song was. The song became known as "The most Mysterious song on the Internet," or "Like the Wind," as that's the first line in the song. The recording was old and not entirely clear in places, and people argued endlessly over what the lyrics actually were.

Multiple subreddits became devoted to the search for the band, and it spawned an entire genre called Lostwave. Many people devoted years of their lives to searching archives, not only online but searching through actual radio station archives and similar places, turning up in person and spending hours, days, weeks, months and eventually years of their lives searching for the band who created this masterpiece. Youtubers like Justin Whang made multiple videos documenting the search.

Even the radio station that originally broadcast the song got involved, trying to help but had no idea what the song was. It seemed a lost cause. People even started to believe the song had somehow crossed into our dimension from a parallel universe, as apart from this recording, there was no trace of it, like it had never existed.

Two weeks ago, they mystery was finally solved. Turns out it's called "Subways of Your Mind," and it's awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwiEvPMANa8&list=RDDwiEvPMANa8&start_radio=1

Stephen Jay Gould.

Imagine what a utopia we could be living in if all those talented people had been able to use their talents instead of struggling to survive, or being trapped in wage slavery or actual slavery. We'd probably have free, clean energy and have terraformed Mars for human habitation by now.

Think about how capitalism, the rat race and constant struggle for survival have held us back as a species.

I did ask on mutual aid on hexbear twice but got no responses.

I'm going through a disability benefit appeal. I've got absolutely no money whatsoever, my overdraft is maxxed out and I'm 5 months in rent arrears, no family to help and the food bank is so difficult and time consuming to access. You get three days worth of food but it takes over a week to access. So every week there's 4 or more days of starvation. Anyway I am absolutely starving. The problem is, I don't dare ask for money in case I get in trouble with the DWP (British benefit nazis) for having a source of income. So would anyone please be able to help me out with food some other way than money? British supermarket gift cards (eg for sainsburys/tesco/asda), a justeat voucher, an amazon voucher so I can order food from amazon pantry, I mean anything at all that isn't actual money? I am so desperate I don't know what to do. I know sainsburys take google pay for giftcards. You don't have to be in the UK to order them.

I don't have a penny, the next food bank appointment is 30th Sept. I don't know how I'll last that long. Any faster ways?

Hi, I just discovered this site. I'm hoping to make some friends. I'm stuck at home and lonely. So I'll tell you a bit about myself. I'm cis female, ace. I've been having cancer treatment for quite a while and recently had a stroke. I'm going through a disability benefit appeal. All my friends drifted away when I got sick as I was no longer fun. The last time i saw my friends was at my 25th birthday party. I'm turning 41 this year. I've had no social life or offline companionship since then. I worked several jobs including fitness instructor and carer for the elderly, then went to university in my 20s to study philosophy. I had to drop out due to the side effects of my cancer meds.

My life now revolves around endless benefit assessments, last one I was awarded zero points and had my money stopped. I'm currently fighting it but now have no money at all and a maxxed out overdraft. Food bank access is awful so I'm starving constantly. I've been learning to walk again since the stroke. Previously I was sporty but now it's painful to even walk. So I wanted to take up art as a hobby, start learning to draw from scratch but I can't even afford paper and pencils.

So, life is awful. I need a distraction and someone to talk to. I used to talk to the people on a suicide pact forum (I've already made on attempt and often feel desperate enough to try again) but I just got banned from there for trying to sell my meds on there. Don't judge me please - I was only trying to do that out of financial desperation! So now I have literally no-one to talk to online or in real life.

Obviously I'm a leftist. I'm sick of this world where some people are billionaires while millions starve.