#bureacracy

[dank-meme-my-gf-sends-me]

Accessible green spaces? Nah.

#funny #funny memes #meme #memes #funny meme #dank memes #wholesome #dank #too real #bureacracy #fuck cars

[thesurestthing]

21 September 2022: URGENT Disabled US family overseas in danger of separation and imprisonment in bureaucratic/medical nightmare

TL;DR: Through no fault of our own, we have a little over a month (possibly two) to come up with an estimated 7,000 USD--possibly more--in visa overstay fees, clearance fees, and travel expenses (even though we COULDN'T leave before) or risk possible separation from our daughter and indefinite imprisonment until those fees are paid. 

We ( @anexperimentallife, our daughter, and I) are a US family in the Philippines who, through a combination of illness, lockdowns, complicated  pregnancy, a mistake on our daughter's birth certificate, and sluggish bureaucracy, have been unable to leave the country with our baby daughter. Now that we've gotten past most of the bureaucratic hurdles raised by both the Philippines and US, we're being charged for involuntarily (and I stress that it was involuntary) overstaying our visas while we waited for them to sort things out. The Philippines jails people who cannot pay their overstay fees indefinitely, until someone pays them. We have no idea what would happen to our daughter if worse comes to worst.

We could have afforded all the fees if not for all the unexpected illnesses, pregnancy complications, and bureaucratic issues, which we already had to spend a heavy chunk of donations on.

We've already gone over 13,000 USD in debt for all this, despite previous donations, and our only income is Rob's disability, since I (Zoey) am not legally allowed to work here.

Here are our donation links. We prefer pay pal donations, because they take the lowest fees, but we can also accept donations through go fund me and ko-fi.

pay pal: https://href.li/?https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=AAPN4HRA9YLA4

ko fi: https://href.li/?https://ko-fi.com/anexperimentallife

go fund me: https://href.li/?https://www.gofundme.com/f/family-riding-out-covid-overseas

Thank you all again, beyond words!

In-depth explanation:

The long version (and story to date): We are an interracial, neurodivergent, disabled US couple in the Philippines (*see below for explanation). Rob got sick, and nearly died, at the very beginning of COVID (March 2020), and had to be hospitalized literally the day the first lockdown started. Unbeknownst to anyone, this would be the start of nearly two years of lockdowns and inter-city travel restrictions that changed sometimes overnight with zero notice. There were occasions when people who were already in the air were not allowed to enter. Even if not for the lockdown, Rob's doctors agreed that his health was too fragile for travel with the possibility of getting COVID again.

A few months later, still under lockdown, and with our visas about to expire, we found out we were having a baby. There were complications that required me (Zoey) to be hospitalized twice during the pregnancy, and Eleanor was delivered by C Section in March of 2021 (still under lockdown). Also, by this time, we were having to pay overstay fees because Rob’s visa had expired.

An error on El’s birth certificate prevented us from registering her as a US citizen, meaning she could not get a passport, meaning that even if we (Rob and Zoey) could leave the country, Eleanor could not come with us. We did not find this out until August 2021, when we were trying to register her with the US embassy. (Again, since travel restrictions changed at times with no notice, we could not take the chance on leaving the country without knowing when or if we'd be allowed back to reunite with our daughter.)

Thus began a bureaucratic fight with the Philippines bureaucracy that took nearly a year’s time, two lawyers--one of whom had to sweat an affidavit that fifteen was a larger number than fourteen--a priest, pediatric vaccination records a pediatrician’s word, a baby book, a newspaper publication of our daughter’s birth, and a favor from a friend, just to get the Philippines to correct her birth certificate. (If you're wondering how hellish the bureaucracy is here, one of our local friends is still officially named "Baby Boy" in his forties, despite years of his best efforts.)

In the middle of our legal battle in October 2021, Rob got COVID (again), nearly died (again), and had to be on an oxygen machine for a month. Shortly afterwards, the left side of his face also became temporarily paralyzed from blood clots, and clots unseated the retina in his right eye–he’s still in treatment, but the doctors aren't sure he will ever fully recover.

In May of 2022, the Philippines finally gave us El’s “corrected” birth certificate (with a different middle name than the one we chose for her, but we couldn’t afford another ten-month legal battle).

After this, I emailed the embassy to be certain that we would have an appointment shortly after submitting all our paperwork and the necessary forms. They emailed back and said yes, we would have an appointment between 3 and 10 business days from the date that they received our paperwork. So we planned our long and expensive trip down to Manila, and once we were there we sent in our paperwork. After a few days we get an email saying that our appointment was scheduled for the END OF AUGUST. This was in June, so they screwed us over majorly. It cost us over 200 USD just to get down to Manila, and over 1300 USD to stay there.

While we were in Manila, we finally decided to get an evaluation of Rob’s ingrown and chronically infected big toenails. At this point he had had the nails removed at least 3 times during COVID lockdown in Baguio, and they kept regrowing and becoming infected over a period of two years. During the consultation it was determined the nail bed would need to be cauterized to prevent the nails from becoming ingrown and reinfected. To have this done in a satisfactory medical facility cost us 800 USD. We had to stay in Manila an additional 2 weeks or so following this, and spent another 200 USD to get home.

During the preparation for Rob’s surgery, his blood pressure was alarmingly elevated, so after we got home to Baguio we had him consult with a cardiologist and have made medical and dietary changes to mitigate this. (This is apparently another effect of long COVID.)

His toes were still infected and resisting all the antibiotics that had been tried, so he had to go see an infection specialist and have testing done to make sure his bones weren’t infected. Luckily they weren’t, and after an actual wound culture (which no one had thought to do until after two years of this) and this latest round of heavy duty antibiotics, it is finally cleared up.

That brings us to August 2022, when we went back down to Manila again for our appointment scheduled with the Embassy. Luckily everything went well, we had all the correct documentation, and Eleanor was formally declared a US citizen. It’s been a couple weeks since then and we now have her passport. Rob and I were also able to get married over Zoom through the Utah court system, which is a huge relief for us and something to bring us some joy in this whole mess.

Unfortunately, this is not the end of our ordeal. We still have Eleanor’s immigration fees to pay and we have to secure an exit clearance for each of us before we can leave the country to reset our tourist visas. The hope and the goal is for us to be able to get the SRRV, which may be anywhere from 5,000 to 12,000 USD, which will allow us to stay here without the hassle and expense we’ve been going through, even if there’s another lockdown.

Everyone’s monetary and emotional support through this whole thing has been so wonderful, and we are so grateful to you all. Hopefully we’re able to resolve this soon but even after we get things somewhat settled, we still have an overwhelming amount of credit card debt staring us right in the face.

(* “Why were you in the Philippines to begin with?” After Rob's two adult sons died, he moved to the Philippines both to fulfill a decades-long dream, and to make his disability payments stretch further, as it’s basically impossible to live on in the US. I started talking to him online a few months later, and eventually flew over to be with him. Until COVID, everything was fine here financially--a family of three can easily live on under a thousand USD a month here.

It was only all the bureaucratic and legal hassle stemming from El’s birth certificate error, covid, the national lockdown, and the unexpected medical issues that put us in a tight spot. It’s fairly common for people to move to the Philippines on a tourist visa, renew every two months for 40 dollars until they hit the three year mark, at which point they have to leave the country for a day to reset. Thanks to ever-changing travel restrictions, Rob's health, and then El's stateless status, we were unable to do this.)

#donations #donation #mutual aid #help #signal boost #gofundme #go fund me #paypal #mutual aid opportunity #community #actuallyautistic #actually autistic #cripplepunk #cripple punk #disability #immigration #bureacracy #borders are stupid #family in need #funds needed #please help #fundraising #donations needed #community aid #covid #covid 19 #long covid #health complications #please reblog #reblogs encouraged

[felidaefatigue]

i have! gotten my fingies catalogued! now i must wait for an unknown amount of time but likely 3 months for The Law to send me back some sort of certificate. And then. I talk to The law. and get them to give me a form. aND THEN. I can give it to the filing people and THEN.... finally I will be fel :D

#when i first found out i needed 2 forms i was like haha cool i can do that in an afternoon! #alas #bureacracy

[the-typing-dragon]

Bruh

(Sincerely, Bureacracy)

I stand by what i said

#the answering dragon #bureacracy

[irreplaceable-spark]

A Resurgence of Vision | Vivek Ramaswamy | EP 380

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy discuss his ongoing campaign, the long-growing hunger for depth in political discussion, the dire need for a renewed American vision, and how Vivek plans to strip the Washington administrative agencies of their unconstitutional powers. Vivek Ramaswamy is an entrepreneur, author, and political activist. Vivek has been making headlines since announcing his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, running on a platform in part to dismantle the expansive and corrupt bureaucracy that has seeped into nearly all facets of American government. Prior to this, Ramaswamy was the founder and CEO of the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences. Leaving in 2021, he published “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam.” In 2022, he co-founded Strive Asset Management with Anson Frericks, which focuses on an alternative to the now-pushed ESG investment framework. That same year Ramaswamy published “Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence.” and has since been deemed one of the “Intellectual Godfathers of the anti-woke movement.”

#jordan peterson #vivek ramaswamy #vivek2024 #discussion #politics #culture #national identity #america #republicans #conservative #family #religion #christian #background #heterodox #counterculture #society #civic engagement #2024 presidential election #bureacracy #government #managerial class #government agencies #fbi #department of education #Youtube

[biglisbonnews]

America's secretive, 1,566,062-record No Fly List leaked and published A copy of the famed No Fly List, vastly expanded after the 9/11 attacks and now populated by more than a million people who are 5 years old, have common Arabic names, or simply upset some random cop or official, was left to be found on an unsecured cloud server. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/01/30/americas-secretive-1566062-record-no-fly-list-leaked-and-published.html

#Post #bureacracy #no fly list #official secrets #security theater #Rob Beschizza #Boing Boing

[areadersquoteslibrary]

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

- Henry David Thoreau

'Walking'

#wild #nature #philosophy #quotes #henry david thoreau #transcentalism #technology #bureacracy #government #systems #anarchy #law and order #laws #life #philosophy of life #amreading #am reading #romanticism #books #reading #thoreau

[starofhisheart]

Someone might have made this connection already but in episode 6 of s2 I noticed that Gabriel and Beelzebub are shown right from the beginning of the flashback continuously swapping sides

and I think this may have been a deliberate choice to contrast with aziracrow and highlight that ineffable bureacracy are on equal footing right from the start and had abandoned notions of "different sides". We know that aziracrow being shown on different sides of the screen is symbolic of when they have swapped sides/positions in relation to heaven and hell, good and evil, etc. So perhaps its the same for ineffable bureacracy?

#sorry im not good at explaining #or meta rlly #but here's my two cents #good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens 2 #go spoilers #good omens spoilers #ineffable bureacracy #gabriel x beelzebub #gabriel #beelzebub #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #aziraphale x crowley #aziraphale #crowley #good omens meta #gos2 spoilers

[wrishwrosh]

re: tags on labor in historical fiction post, would be very interested to hear what the four examples you mentioned are!!

ok u know what that tag WAS bait, thank you for taking it. technically speaking these aren't works dealing strictly with labor in historical fiction, they are my four treasured examples of BUREAUCRAT FICTION (so not NOT about labor in history?) i was gonna try to make this post pithy and short but then i remembered how extremely passionate i am about this microgenre i made up. so sorry.

bureaucrat fiction is not limited by genre or format but criteria for inclusion are as follows: long and detour-filled story about functionary on the outside of society finding unexpected success within a ponderously large and powerful System/exploring themes of class and physicality and work and autonomy and what it means to hold power over others beneath the heartless crushing wheels of empire/sad little man does paperwork. also typically long as hell. should include at least one scene where the protagonist is unironically applauded-perhaps for the first time in their life-for filling out a form really good. without further ado:

soldier's heart by alex51324. the bureaucracy: british army medical corps during wwi. the bureacrat: mean gay footman/new ramc recruit thomas barrow. YEAH it's a downton abbey fic YEAH it's a masterpiece. i've talked about it before at length, my love has not faded. the crowning moment of bureaucracy is a long interlude where thomas optimizes the hospital laundry (this actually happens twice or maybe three times)

hands of the emperor by victoria goddard. the bureaucracy: crumbling fantasy empire some time after magical apocalypse. the bureacrat: passionate late-career clerk from the hinterlands cliopher mdang. i reread this book every winter bc it is as a warm bath for my SAD-addled brain and every time i neglect all my responsibilities to read all nine billion pages in three days. it puts abt 93% of the worldbuilding momentum into elaborating all of the ministries and secretaries and audits necessary to run a global government and like 7% into the magic and stuff. there are also several charming companion novellas and an equally long sequel that dives more into the central relationship between cliopher and the emperor which i highly recommend if you like gentle old man yaoi and/or magic, but there's more bureaucracy in HOTE.

the cromwell trilogy by hilary mantel. the bureaucracy: court of henry viii. the bureaucrat: thomas cromwell, the real guy. curveball! it's critically acclaimed booker prize winning rpf novel wolf hall! mantel is really interested in particular ways of gaining and maintaining power in delicate and labyrinthine systems like the tudor court, specifically in strongmen who use both physical intimidation and metaphysical manipulation to succeed. under these conditions i do think my best friend long-dead historical personage thomas cromwell counts as Bureaucrat Fiction (as do danton and robespierre in a place of greater safety. bonus rec.)

going postal by terry pratchett. the bureaucracy: fantasy postal service of ankh-morpork. the bureaucrat: conman, scammer, and little freak moist von lipwig. this is definitely shorter and lighter than the other three entries on the list, sort of a screwball take on the bureaucrat. but the mail is such a classic bureaucracy thing? who doesn't love thinking about the mail? also contains a key genre element which is a fraught sexual tension with the person immediately above the protagonist in their hierarchy, who is also their god-king and boyfriend-dad. you can't tell me vetinari isn't torturing moist psychologically AND sexually.

anyway sorry about all this. if you've read any of these come talk to me about them. bureaucrat fiction recs welcomed with the openest possible arms.

#this post was very challenging to write bc i cannot spell the word bureaucracy to save my life. EVERY time i forget where the U goes #long post #asks #bureacracy. beaureaucracy. bereaucracy. fuck french

[weirdwaterbear]

*sets aside the Agony of the ending in a little matchbox for a second* Ok but as avid Ineffable Bureaucracy shippers it was SO FUCKING FUNNY and such a rollercoaster for my fiance and I when it became canon like. There were just so many moments throughout the season where we were joking like "lol ship vibes" because we had LONG since come to grips with the fact that it was basically a crackship and didn't expect to get anything REAL for them AND THEN HELLO???

Like- every time it cut back to Beelz demanding updates on the hunt for Gabriel and sending out search parties and shit I distinctly remember making jokes about them being stressed af like "FIND ME MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT HIMBO RIGHT NOW IMMEDIATELY SCOUR THE EARTH" especially that bit they said about how nice it would be to have someone to tell you you're doing a good job and i jUST-

The fucking SHIP SPEEDRUN MONTAGE hit us like a fucking BUS!!! "Going faster than a rollercoaster" INDEED BUDDY HOLLY

#i am still in agony over the husbands of course but oh my god oh my god bureacracy fans we are FEASTING we WIN holy fuck #ramblings #txt #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #ineffable bureaucracy #THEY HELD HANDS THEY SANG TO EACH OTHER I- *throws a chair* #good omens 2 spoilers

[hot-vampire-summer]

i didnt do green and purple this time whos proud of me. anyway maybe ill do yb next whos to say. no promises ;>

#ryou bakura #yugioh #duel monsters #anyway aint nothin better than drawing him instead of doing schoolwork <3 #i do not want to study for the secondary science praxis exam #but fortunately you only need like a 41% to pass lol #the bureacracy is in shambles lmao

[brotpqueen]

Hi! So this is my first proper post on here that isn’t a reblog from someone else. It’s a link to my fanfic! (Btw if you like the fic plz subscribe to the fic itself not follow me on here I like to monitor who follows me on tumblr for safety reasons. Anxiety yk.) It’s a WIP and I’m probably gonna update slow but I’ll try my best. It’s a summer camp AU featuring Crowley and Gabriel as brothers with issues™️, Aziraphale and Beelzebub as head councillors that are done with everyone’s shit, and all your fave characters!

#Good omens #Good omens 2 #Good Omens AU #Camp Armagetalong #beelzebub good omens #good omens beelzebub #Aziraphale #Crowley #Anthony J Crowley #Ineffable Bureacracy #Ineffable husbands #Aziracrow #ao3 #my first published fanfic

[animentality]

your friends saying it is okay doesnt mean it is. it is equal to say my homo friends gave me the pass to be homophobic. your logic is invalid

no no no, you see, my friend is the king of heterosexuals.

he told me I had the h word pass and that all of his subjects had to follow his commands.

I might not be heterosexual myself but I have the rights and authorities bestowed upon one.

I'm basically one of you. legally.

#its a complicated political system for a monarchy but trust me the paper work is there #the bureacracy #red tape #lgbt #lgbtqia

[wizardnaturalist]

obsessed with the governments decision on how to Deal with laurence at the end of victory of eagles. oh heres this guy who keeps disobeying orders on moral grounds and valuing human life over the glory of the empire. damn but hes too useful to just kill him. I know what we should do. put him on the front lines of colonization

#this can only turn out well #laurence will definitely not feel rage and pity for the treatment of aboriginal people #he will certainly not become embittered to the actions of the east india trading company #or the bureacracy of the colonies #no Im sure hell meekly go about quarrying and annexing new land. easy #temeraire #william laurence #naomi novik

[soulsilversprings]

i don't wannaaaa write fic i just wanna make a huge doc of pokeani headcanons and minute lore that no one cares about except me :D

#what's the bureacracy behind the pokemon league like? #what's the media discourse around contests like? #how does professor cerise have enough money to fly ash and goh wherever they want? #it's all so intriguing :0 #i don't think i'll be touching the legendary/mythical lore with a 10 ft pole though #shoutout to everyone who has the bravery and intellect to do so!

[butterscotch-goat]

me: afraid I might offend someone by making my OC version of Satan have a boyfriend

neil gaiman, writing with a glittery pink pen: and then Gabriel and Beelzebub hold hands

#good omes spoilers #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens 2 #gos2 #gos2spoilers #go2 spoilers #ineffable bureacracy #this is no shame btw i love the ineffable bureacracy w all my heart #this is just a silly haha :) #butterstalk