I keep track of my online donations and will show a portion of it below. But first, my philosophy and a story explaining it.

When I was in my early twenties, my dad came to visit me and a guy approached asking for money. My dad gave him $20. I asked how he felt comfortable giving so much not knowing how it would be spent. He answered in two parts.

"First, if he's going to humble himself enough to ask, he clearly needs it more than I do." And second, if he spent it on drugs or booze, "if that's what he needs to get through the night, who am I to judge?"

This stunned me. And I'm happy to say that it shaped my model going forward ever since.

I will never decline someone who asks me to buy them food out of principal. I will give cash when I don't get a bad feeling about someone and will not when I do; I trust my gut when someone feels off. I don't give cash in person very often because I usually don't carry cash, but I do at times. I try not to let the person see the amount because I usually do either $20 or, in rare cases, $100. I fold the bill while they can't see it and give it to them and walk away before they can have a look. I'm not doing this for clapping.

I'm in a financial position to be able to treat it this way. I'm not suggesting that anyone is a bad person if they can't be this loose with donations. When I had much less financial security, I gave less often and at lower scale.

Online donations:

$100 1x CCF Fund, Disaster, Los Angeles - Wildfire Recovery Fund $100 1x Mastadon via GiveButter ($118 total after fees) tax-exempt $100 1x Luigi defense fund $100 1x Ukraine $100 1x Trans-inclusive vagina museum $50 1x Ultraviolet (Andrew Tate petition) $50 1x Internet Archive lawsuit music labels $100 1x woman tortured and paralyzed found in storage bin $100 1x Michigan Pro Palestine defense fund $200 1x former software engineer with major depressive disorder $100 1x Kshama Sawant for Congress $100 1x food gift card lemmyuser@email.com $100 1x SF Bay Area Bench Collective