State of the SB and Linkdump, including #florenceprecious

[miss_s_b]

Thank you to everyone who commented on my last post. I am not sure there's anything more any of you lot can do to help, other than being the fabulous lovely people you already are. Offering me work is no good because I haven't got the time or the spoons to do it; offering me free money just makes me feel like a sponging shit, and I already owe so much money anyway... Offering hugs is great, though, and much appreciated, especially from my two big beardy comfort blankets and the delicious magister, who delivered me a Rumpole box set yesterday ♥.

However bad things are for me, though, they aren't as bad as they are for Florence and Precious Mhango, who are facing deportation back to an abusive situation and being separated. The thought of someone trying to take my Holly away from me fills me with a visceral terror that I can't even begin to describe, and the idea that Florence and her daughter will be taken away from their adopted city and their friends by pettyfogging bureaucracy fills me with rage. Caron has been posting lots about this, and I encourage you to 1, read her posts, and 2, Do Something, if you can. Even if it's just writing to Theresa May (the postcode entered there is of Barclays Bank on Maidenhead high street, btw ;)).

Other links of interest:

- Everybody point and laugh at Rupert Murdoch, who can hear the tumbleweed blowing through his webservers, and probably a bell tolling in the distance.

- and while you're doing that, point and laugh at Daily Fail readers and their obsessions, depicted here in the form of an Underground map.

- of course sometimes PoliticalCorrectnessGawnMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD actually has a basis in fact...

- How sexism hurts men too, and why we should all care about it.

- what's the difference between civil partnership and marriage?

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Comments

[andrewhickey.info]

I know *ALL* about borrowing money making you feel like a sponging shit - I've had to borrow again recently myself, and feel awful for it - but if/when Holly gets an income (hopefully very soon), you are welcome to *gifts* (not loans) of any reasonable amount (I currently earn about £50 per month less than we need to live comfortably and happily. If Holly gets even £100 per month we suddenly have more than we need...)

And if you refuse to take it, I'll just stick it in my Flattr account and only click you that month.

And in the meantime, you *won't* be sponging if you take money from others, either. You are working more than full time. Mat is working - I don't know how much, but definitely doing some work, and looking after your child as well. It is *not* then sponging to take money from others, it is redressing basic flaws in our economic system.

[muffin_nuffin]

That Daily Fail map has me in stitches. Thank you :)

xxx

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[sassy_scot]

Thank you so much for mentioning Florence and Precious. I really appreciate it especially when you're having such a tough time just now.

Sorry things are hard for you and I wish I could do more than send hugs.

[magister]

i saw it and thought of you. Or something.