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Good morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!

Ways To Give:

amemait linked to a fundraiser for bengeskozhukel, who is having his wages garnished by a government student loan which has actually been paid off, but was sold to a third-party collector who is still trying to collect on it. He needs an additional $600 a month to cover minimal expenses until the government abatement program will review his case, and at this point can’t afford testosterone for December. He’s taking art commissions starting at $20 and giving Tarot readings starting at $5; you can read more and reblog here or support him directly through paypal here.

k-pagination linked to a fundraiser for Sara, who had to put her cat Squish down a few weeks ago after an illness, and is still working to pay the vet bills. She’s raising funds for the vet bills, with any overage to go for care for her remaining cat, Ava, and any future adopted cat. You can read more and give to the fundraiser here.

Anon linked to a fundraiser for lostindaydreams-gemz/Gemma, who needs help to keep her electricity (and heat) on and cover other basic expenses; her UC benefit is under a “capped-sanction” and she needs help to get through winter. You can read more and reblog here, give to her Ko-Fi here, or purchase items from her Amazon wishlist here.

jabberwockypie has found a new home and moved in, but unfortunately her new home is full of health violations and she is dealing with a broken ankle on top of that. She’s raising funds to get somewhere better and for expenses related to the injury; you can read more, reblog, and find her paypal information here. (That post is a trifle out of date; the place to live fell through.)

deadcatwithaflamethrower and drougnor have made the move from Maine to Florida, and are now settled in their new home! Things are improving but slowly, so they are still fundraising. You can read the latest update here, or give to the paypal here.

News to Know:

Rosy Davis has written a text anonymizer for people who are doing NaNoWriMo but don’t want to submit their original text to servers they have no control over for validation. The program will garble your novel before you paste it into the validation form, without destroying word boundaries or reducing word count. It works in javascript and doesn’t send anything to a server, so your text never leaves your computer. You can try it out for yourself here! (Currently only replaces unaccented ASCII characters, so it will only work for English and languages that use Roman character sets.)

And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can post items for my attention at the Radio Free Monday submissions form. If you’re not sure how to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help (or ask for help!). If you’re new to fundraising, you may want to check out my guide to fundraising here.