Off to the local kirk's #ChristianAid Week coffee morning. Nowadays, that feels like a small act of decency and resistance in the face of the oligarchs, techbros, billionaires and populists telling us to ignore #poverty and #injustice
https://www.christianaid.org.uk/appeals/key-appeals/christian-aid-week

Late night despondent thoughts

Judging and accusing billionaires for taking too much
then voting for candidates who offer lower taxes
while sitting in a comfortable home with a two car garage and jetting to vacation destinations
completely ignoring those in the community who need assistance or assuming their needs will be met by others
is the ultimate in hypocrisy.

'Billionaire thinking' exists in most of the population.

#TooManyLeftBehind

#SocialJustice #Ethics #Logic
#SingleParents #Children #Poverty
#Addiction #MentalHealth #Seniors
#Healthcare #HumanRights

URGENT! $278/1855 DUE MAY 31

please help a #transWoman struggling with parental #abuse to stay housed. she needs help with her monthly #bills including #cat supplies as she prepares for her escape next month!

- https://ko-fi.com/queeroctopuss/goal?g=33
- https://donate.stripe.com/14k6p1bMg32QfEA6os

From the tombs of hell the desperation of existence rises wrought with suffering and struggling, no light to be seen no warmth to be felt, the sound of screaming and deafness fills the still frozen air, like zombies marching through time, with no hope of life a dead soul weighted down by an earthly body broken by time.

You can encourage my continued useless poetic commentary on random thoughts and events, and by doing so your helping to feed, house and clothe a #disabled man living in #poverty, $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…

#Commentary, #thoughts, #insight, #environment, #humanity, #poem,

Just finished the first story (Unauthorized Bread) in @pluralistic's Radicalized collection and it so perfectly describes resilience in a plausible near-future dystopia at the nexus of #enshittification, #immigration, and #poverty in the US. Also, a surprising amount of education on #jailbreaking and the #dmca.

Majority of US residents (60%) don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, according to New study.

The usual data, like the 4.2% unemployment rate, grossly underestimate the level of economic distress in the US.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Canadians with disabilities are living in deep poverty. “According to the government's own data, it will lift 25,000 people out of poverty, when we know that there's 1.6 million Canadians living with disabilities in poverty,” she said. #poverty #disabilities #canada
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/05/14/disability-advocates-say-lack-of-minister-sends-message/

The subversion of diversion is designed to divide through fear, use of pseudo-facts and attention grabbing sound bites have opened cans of scorpions that have been spreading their venomous discord across the waves of time, for the trees are dying, birds exploding, fields are on fire, food is tainted water is poisoned, people shipped out of view never to be thought of again, the wars that rage are wars of greed, for the power of illusion is nothing more than delusion, we are under attack from our very own ignorance, we have allowed our nightmares to become reality, for the bed of thorns is made and everyone will now pay.

You can encourage my continued useless poetic commentary on random thoughts and events, and by doing so your helping to feed, house and clothe a #disabled man living in #poverty, $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…

#Commentary, #thoughts, #insight, #environment, #humanity, #poem,

Some 70% of children from Japanese households with an annual income of less than ¥3 million ($20,540) take no enrichment lesson outside of school education, a survey shows. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/15/japan/society/enrichment-lessons-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #surveys #poverty #children

https://www.europesays.com/uk/102372/ Talent is everywhere in Britain – opportunity is not #Britain #Education #England #FreeSchoolMeals #GreatBritain #jobs #LearningAndEmployment #london #NorthernIreland #Opinion #poverty #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales

https://www.europesays.com/uk/102200/ Welsh voters want UK Government to do more to tackle poverty #BigIssue #Britain #England #GreatBritain #LabourGovernment #NorthernIreland #poverty #Scotland #UK #UKGovernment #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Forever entombed in a body of pain, a life of disability and poverty, for the struggling and suffering are as endless as the universe it's self, offering no respite for even a moment, gnawing hunger fills the days with empty plates to crave, a body decrepit and failing from a life of despair, as the waves of the sea have no care and no stars of the sky bring hope at night, it's all one big nightmare in this endless abyss of darkness.

You can encourage my continued useless poetic commentary on random thoughts and events, and by doing so your helping to feed, house and clothe a #disabled man living in #poverty, $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…

#Commentary, #thoughts, #insight, #environment, #humanity, #poem,

https://www.europesays.com/uk/101976/ Surge in London children living in absolute low-income families #BenefitsCap #BethnalGreen #Britain #Charity #Children #EastHamCentral #England #GreatBritain #Housing #Ilford #london #LowIncome #LowIncomeFamilies #News #poverty #Richmond #UK #UnitedKingdom

REMINDER

if you see someone taking food or groceries without paying…

NO YOU DIDN’T

IF I WAS YOU OR ONE OF YOUR LOVED ONES, WOULD YOU BE SO ANXIOUS TO HAVE PLEAS OF HELP IGNORED? GETTING VERY HUNGRY I AM BEGGING YOU TO PLEASE HELP HERE WE ARE 14 DAYS INTO MAY, AND I HAVE YET TO RAISE THE MONEY I NEED TO LIVE AND TO BE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF ANYTHING I NEED, SURE WISH SOCIETY HAD COMPASSION.

POVERTY IS A HORRIBLE AFFLICTION, AND IF YOUR DISABLED LIKE ME, NOT ONLY CAN IT NOT BE AVOIDED, BUT IT GREATLY COMPOUNDS THE DIFFICULTY OF LIFE, I DESPERATELY NEED ONGOING SUPPORT, AND YOUR COMPASSION, LOVE, RESPECT AND HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

THERE IS SO MUCH I NEED AND NEED TO TAKE CARE OF, BUT BEING BOTH DISABLED AND LIVING IN POVERTY THE VAST MAJORITY OF WHAT MOST PEOPLE TAKE FOR GRANTED, I CAN NOT EVEN COME CLOSE TO OBTAINING OR DOING, I SO VERY MUCH WISH PEOPLE WOULD REALIZE I TRULY NEED HELP AND WOULD ACTUALLY HELP ME.

A GREAT DEAL OF #MUTUALAID IS STILL NEEDED, PLEASE CONSIDER SUPPORTING THIS #DISABLED MAN LIVING IN #POVERTY, I REALLY NEED TO RAISE $2700, YOU CAN ENCOURAGE MY CONTINUED CREATIVITY AND EMPOWER ME TO LIVE TODAY $5-10-15 IT ALL HELPS, VIA #CASHAPP AT $WOCTXPHOTOG OR VIA #PAYPAL AT paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…

What would lifting US sanctions on Syria mean to the war-torn country? https://www.byteseu.com/1011345/ #121798195 #Article #Conflicts #Earthquakes #GeneralNews #PoliticalRefugees #Politics #poverty #SanctionsAndEmbargoes #Syria #WorldNews

Ending poverty without compromising climate goals is possible, say researchers https://phys.org/news/2025-05-poverty-compromising-climate-goals.html

It’s Possible to End Global Poverty Without Compromising Climate Goals, New Research Shows https://www.ecowatch.com/global-poverty-solutions-climate-change-goals.html