UPDATE: If you've have the means and have been on the fence about donating to us, I hope you'll consider doing so now; the bulk of our funds for this (and nearly all of our prior fundraisers) have come from one (insanely generous) individual, and it breaks my heart to keep relying on them constantly. They have been so unbelievably kind. Please help us spread out the burden a little more.

Otherwise, please boost the hell out of this so we can reach goal and quit cluttering up the timeline! 🙏

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Good Morning, Friends!

I mean.. I suppose as good a morning as it can be given the international circumstances.

Unfortunately I must add clutter to your already-crowded timelines with more digital panhandling because we're running out of time before #rent goes late. I'm trying desperately to avoid incurring late fees and undue attention from the leasing office. Moreso the latter than the former, if I'm being honest because we loathe "rocking the boat" and attracting scrutiny.

We have received a couple of #gofundme donations in response to my previous post which we sincererly appreciate and can definitely use to compensate for my hours at work having dipped now that we're past the holiday season, but sadly we won't see the funds for several days so I can't count them towards our running total (unless we don't make deadline. Going late would also burn most if not all the funds from those donations in rental late fees which would really suck).

Please forgive me yet again for the constant #MutualAid posts. I know it's getting very, very, very old. I want to say "I shouldn't have let things get this far", but the reality is, it's complicated; I tried to do everything I could. I don't really have the mental and emotional stamina to work multiple jobs -- everyone says, "You'll just get used to it", but I literally start to have emotional breakdowns and mental glitches when I try to work that much, and my #BPD becomes almost unmanageable -- and my partner was struggling so badly with his #PTSD trauma.

I don't want to be a burden to the community anymore, and I promise you we're working as hard as we can to achieve that. But we're not quite there yet. We adore this apartment and don't want to do anything to jeopardize it.

As an additional incentive for donating, I'm including a pic I took this morning from our balcony. If you donate or boost, you can look at it and vicariously enjoy the view that my partner and I have enjoyed for the past month and a half only because of the generosity of the fine folks of the #Fediverse. But only if you donate or boost.. otherwise sorry but you can't look. (kidding)

You all made this happen, and I'm sorry we haven't yet become self-sufficient. It feels like home here thanks to you. We're really, really trying even if it may not seem like it.

Thank you.

If you're willing AND able, please boost and if possible donate. If you can't donate, *do NOT feel guilty* for being in the same boat as us. Your feelings about it are valid but rest assured you needn't feel bad.

Venmo: https://venmo.com/thegizmotwins
Cashapp: https://cash.app/$thegizmotwins
PP: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982

#MentalIllness #Solidarity #Poverty @mutualaid

UPDATE: If you've have the means and have been on the fence about donating to us, I hope you'll consider doing so now; the bulk of our funds for this (and nearly all of our prior fundraisers) have come from one (insanely generous) individual, and it breaks my heart to keep relying on them constantly. They have been so unbelievably kind. Please help us spread out the burden a little more.

Otherwise, please boost the hell out of this so we can reach goal and quit cluttering up the timeline! 🙏

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Good Morning, Friends!

I mean.. I suppose as good a morning as it can be given the international circumstances.

Unfortunately I must add clutter to your already-crowded timelines with more digital panhandling because we're running out of time before #rent goes late. I'm trying desperately to avoid incurring late fees and undue attention from the leasing office. Moreso the latter than the former, if I'm being honest because we loathe "rocking the boat" and attracting scrutiny.

We have received a couple of #gofundme donations in response to my previous post which we sincererly appreciate and can definitely use to compensate for my hours at work having dipped now that we're past the holiday season, but sadly we won't see the funds for several days so I can't count them towards our running total (unless we don't make deadline. Going late would also burn most if not all the funds from those donations in rental late fees which would really suck).

Please forgive me yet again for the constant #MutualAid posts. I know it's getting very, very, very old. I want to say "I shouldn't have let things get this far", but the reality is, it's complicated; I tried to do everything I could. I don't really have the mental and emotional stamina to work multiple jobs -- everyone says, "You'll just get used to it", but I literally start to have emotional breakdowns and mental glitches when I try to work that much, and my #BPD becomes almost unmanageable -- and my partner was struggling so badly with his #PTSD trauma.

I don't want to be a burden to the community anymore, and I promise you we're working as hard as we can to achieve that. But we're not quite there yet. We adore this apartment and don't want to do anything to jeopardize it.

As an additional incentive for donating, I'm including a pic I took this morning from our balcony. If you donate or boost, you can look at it and vicariously enjoy the view that my partner and I have enjoyed for the past month and a half only because of the generosity of the fine folks of the #Fediverse. But only if you donate or boost.. otherwise sorry but you can't look. (kidding)

You all made this happen, and I'm sorry we haven't yet become self-sufficient. It feels like home here thanks to you. We're really, really trying even if it may not seem like it.

Thank you.

If you're willing AND able, please boost and if possible donate. If you can't donate, *do NOT feel guilty* for being in the same boat as us. Your feelings about it are valid but rest assured you needn't feel bad.

Venmo: https://venmo.com/thegizmotwins
Cashapp: https://cash.app/$thegizmotwins
PP: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gizmo1982

#MentalIllness #Solidarity #Poverty @mutualaid

My PTSD stems from my 6 yrs as a journalist. I was a emergency beat reporter and saw some gnarly things. Hard to sake 18 years later. #PTSD #Journalism #PoliceBeatReporter

｢ Once cloaked in shame, trauma has shifted from “stigmatizing to romanticizing”, Javanbakht said. It is the modern hero’s journey, facilitated by a booming marketplace and algorithms that reward the recitation of our misery ｣

#mentalhealth #trauma #ptsd

｢ Today, an entire industry has spawned around the idea that everything is trauma. Once understood as the psyche’s confrontation with genuine catastrophe, trauma is now treated as a personal possession: something to be owned, narrated and curated by the individual.

This drift marks the entrance point to a broader cultural shift: the commodification of pain ｣

#mentalhealth #trauma #ptsd

｢ what was once tragedy has become a product ｣

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/14/trauma-mental-health

#mentalhealth #trauma #ptsd