J.R. Swenserbergen’s chess grand master status was revoked during his acceptance speech when he referred to it as “unlocking a retro gaming achievement.”
This post is not related to this blog but we’re in a dire situation. My sister is suffering from an incurable disease since 2017 and we are hoping to get some help from here since I’m not a long time user on reddit I don’t have much credibility to post my campaign there.
I’ve been on tumblr since 2011 on and off til now, I lost access on my personal blog @danneil because i lost my phone last year december, owned a bunch of blogs & a member on some tumblr group blogs which will also help us sharing our campaign, most of my blogs were sold off due to our situation.
Our expenses exceeds 750-900$ per month (her medical needs alone) she also needs to have consecutive check ups and phlebotomy every month depending on her situation which we haven’t done because of how expensive it is and how we struggle day by day to meet up a 25-30$ quota on her needs.
Our family has been full of debt since 2021 and we are hoping to get back on our feet.
Some information and updates can be seen on our gofundme page regarding credibility & more.
“Feeling listened to and understood changes our physiology; being able to articulate a complex feeling, and having our feelings recognized, lights up our limbic brain and creates an “aha moment”. In contrast, being met by silence and incomprehension kills the spirit. Or, as John Bowlby so memorably put it: “What can not be spoken to the [m]other cannot be told to the self.””
— Bessel Van Der Kolk, “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma (via extra-garlic)
