Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

If you absolutely can't get the food you need to survive, calling 211 in the US can get you a list of food pantries. It can also put you in touch with things like rent and utility assistance.

RT https://twitter.com/ka92/status/1225114986457915392 an excellent stylized deer mecha.

The Washington State Department of Financial Institutions has developed a list of financial resources for Washington residents impacted by the Coronavirus, which will be updated as more resources come online.

https://dfi.wa.gov/coronavirus-financial-resources

Present list includes:
• Unemployment Help
• Credit Card payment advice
• Rent/mortgage payment advice
• Student Loan Deferment
• Emergency Loan advice
• Utilities
• Insurance
• Education resources

after this is all over, be sure to remind people, as often as they'll allow you to get away with it, that:

• telecoms did not need data caps, had plenty of capacity to donate to low-income folks, and were never in danger of going bankrupt because of the lack of data caps or the additional usage

• folks who work on computers all day can do that wherever computers are; most tech offices are merely trophies to show off to other tech offices.

• the government wasn't concerned with helping people, it was concerned with helping business. it was people who were helping people and often the government merely got in the way of that.

• trillions of dollars was found to allocate as soon as they wanted to; every time anyone asks how anything will be funded it's merely to shut down the conversation.

keep a running list of your favorite facts and get them in front of as many folk as you can, as often as you can, and maybe, just maybe, we can get more folks on board for change

Congress is using this opportune distraction to try to push for outlawing encryption. Please fill out this simple form through the EFF to prevent this from happening.

https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-bill

There's a whole class of weird US court cases against inanimate objects:

United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins
United States v One Solid Gold Object In The Form Of A Rooster

I decided to see what a neural net would make of them.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/612669075940900864/court-cases-that-sound-like-the-weirdest-fights

@netkitty

Thank you for starting this thread. I've linked to it in my Google Doc listing #covid19 resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R9Iz_6kXyVKz0ToOTQ14MzYEoyaFD-MqgfMHYNX4q84

i have been thinking

i have seen other people do this, but i have a lot of followers for a fediverse account so i am going to do it too. i hope you do not mind

if you're a person who is making less money due to the virus going around, pls reply to this post! i have heard that a lot of people are having a hard time with money right now.

if you have money to spare, pls have a snif around in the replies. in tough times like this it's important for us all to help each other 💕 thank mew

If you need delivered OR can deliver groceries/supplies, our support request & volunteer forms are up and running!

use este formulario si usted necesita comida e otros suministros entregados a su puerta. podemos ayudar a pagar los alimentos/suministros

REQUEST form in English:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgbAX21UARi98rKKX6b6mpvpVHW4b63F2n2beJlHielcdU2Q/viewform

El formulario para solicitar asistencia en español:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsH5_eRl6ChJp7-LZoAP5ctAyFv6t-j9i8bfU1QZulPH7BkQ/viewform

VOLUNTEER form in English:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWvT_GQbcTTM2O1VVGJ6wsQeYW27PO1RvhSKSj45QR4lvNQQ/viewform

For those in our Seattle & greater Seattle-adjacent communities who need some extra help weathering this pandemic for any reason, a group currently going by the name of "COVID-19 Mutual Aid" is rapidly forming to help match requests for aid with volunteer efforts.

The following message is copied in full (with some modification) from the "COVID-19 Mutual Aid - Seattle" Facebook group. The original is available here:
https://www.facebook.com/covid19mutualaid/posts/113866103559079

The difference between a furry and a cryptid is lighting and angle 😛

back in 2015 some researchers came up with an e-ink display device which was powered entirely by harvesting joules from the NFC connection your phone used to talk to it, and I’m honestly kind of shocked these aren’t all over the place now? http://www.alansonsample.com/research/NFC-WISP.html