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9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +146 points

From the Captain Awkward: "Answer: Women are people, and we can’t be hacked."
I almost audibly applauded (at my desk at work). YES.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 5 replies · +10 points

SO EXCITED. I'll be checking every day for updates bc I really want one and will be very sad if they are sold out before I get one

9 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +8 points

A 5-year-old girl anachronism who loves Journey, Bon Jovi, and the Spice Girls... a 15-year-old who was super obsessed with Hall and Oates, and was disappointed when she saw them in concert because they were old... her 16?-year-old brother who asked for a Thelonius Monk CD when he was 6...

I know some weird kids.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup and Open ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thank you. I looked at the page and they are actually linking to the GoFundMe and recommending donating to there to support the survivors and the families of the victims. What I think I will do is donate half of what I can to the GoFundMe and the other half to the Zebra Coalition directly. I'm honestly still so confused about everything else but this, at least, seems clear.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup and Open ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Thank you. This is helpful. I didn't know about Guidestar: I'll check it out when considering donations.

(I know what you mean re: feeling sad and powerless... that's exactly how I'm feeling. I also know that donating money will make me feel good and like I did something to help, but I have some fears about assuaging my personal feels without actually doing any good through this action- or, worse, unwittingly contributing to the problems. Basically I've come to look at absolutely everything with suspicion/paranoia, which to a point is good, but not to the level where it generally paralyzes me from taking ANY action.)

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup and Open ... · 1 reply · +3 points

Thank you! I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to donate money to OneBlood, but so far am only coming up with ways to donate blood (which I can't, for many reasons). If anyone can link me to this let me know- in the meantime I'm searching.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup and Open ... · 1 reply · +4 points

Would you mind telling me why? Sorry if this is a very clueless question. But I still don't know why this gofundme is bad. Are all gofundme's bad? In what ways?

(This is why I freak out about donating money to causes I care about. There are so many places that will take my money and I have no idea how to figure out which ones are good and which aren't.)

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup and Open ... · 8 replies · +5 points

What about the Red Cross? Someone suggested donating there because they likely would need the money to organize local blood donations? (If anyone can give me a link to an organization they can vouch for as legitimately helping, and that will take my money, I would really appreciate it because I don't feel at all qualified to figure this out on my own...)

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup and Open ... · 14 replies · +16 points

Does anybody know the best way to donate to the victims in Orlando? I want to but have a lot of anxiety about sending well-meant donations to the wrong place and it not actually helping anyone... Is the gofundme (https://www.gofundme.com/pulsevictimsfund) the best place to donate?

9 years ago @ The Toast - If Jason Bateman Were ... · 0 replies · +15 points

Hop-ons.... heh...

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