He's John Henry. Activist, writer, media creator, musician, and a
bunch of other things. Most of what he does is in the public interest
and strikes directly at the heart of capitalism and jobs and all the
things that keep us mired in the past and life miserable and harder than
it needs to or should be for millions.
In order to do the things he does, he needs to be able to do them -
basic needs met, tools available, etc. That means funds.
John hates fundraising and he hates that he has to and he's trying to
get back into a sane steady campaign of crowdfunded support and out of
this ongoing panic and desperation... but the solution for that is the
same as well. The unfortunate reality is we live in a world running on
money right now, and without any JH can't survive let alone keep doing
what he does.
John thinks it's awesome and wonderful that he happened to run into a
friend he hadn't seen in almost forty years who had a spare room to
rent, but there are still hundreds of thousands of people homeless and millions more far closer to it than they should be or struggling with
other poverty challenges that shouldn't exist at all in a free society.
It's awesome and wonderful that he was able to generate enough interest
in his work and the income that goes with it to stay alive and off the streets for a month and a half while he was homeless. It's awesome and wonderful that he's still alive and has an internet connection so he can
work at all.
But we're far from done and frankly John's life really isn't even "not
tight" anymore, he's just got a roof over his head now and some
reasonable degree of certainty that he's not at risk of losing it in the
next few days. Mona isn't in a position to just feed and house him
without him putting anything into it, she's walking around with a
terminal cancer diagnosis and has her own challenges as well. Feeding
John doesn't need to be one of them.
We're right on the edge of really being able to pick up and move forward
in a solid, steady, meaningful way, but it still requires staying alive
and paying bills. Right now John is behind. If JH can hit his monthly fundraising goal ($1000/month right now) he'll be able to get caught up
and get ahead at least enough to pay bills like normal people, when
they're due, instead of everything getting shut off and having to turn
it back on after last-minute panic fundraising.
That's kind of the next keyframe John wants to hit and it should be easy
even a week into the month with only $15 raised.
JH knows some of this is his own fault and he's sorry if his frustration
and anxiety over being dead broke and bills piling up makes it sound
like he doesn't understand that. John's been really tied up with
everything surrounding all these huge life changes over the last couple
of months, and it's definitely lowered his rate of content output. That stuff is spinning back up now, as you've already seen with recent new articles at Medium and JohnHenry.US as well as the relaunch of the
Substack newsletter and the reboot of WeAntiFascists. More is coming,
but John *has* to be able to pay his bills and eat and continue growing
and moving forward to make that happen and make it mean something in the wider world.
John's definitely migrating into a more stable and steady fundraising situation that gets him up and out of this crisis stuff, but we've still
got a bit of work to do before we're steady and even. He wants to help
his friend with bills since she's opened her home to him. It would be
good to not have to eat the food she's got because it's intended for her unique dietary needs due to chemo and so on. Obviously he's leaning in
and working around the house too, and she's far from infirm or withering
but still.
JH doesn't know if his pleas are being choked by social media algorithms
or it's just because he slowed down for a couple of weeks, but he's
speeding up and running out of fuel while he does it.
Please help if you can. Sustained support through Patreon is wonderful
but even five or ten bucks at a time over PayPal is wonderful too, and
either one ends up paying the bills.
Thanks.
https://paypal.me/JohnHenryUS
https://patreon.com/JohnHenry
Thank you.
He's John Henry. Activist, writer, media creator, musician, and a bunch
of other things. Most of what he does is in the public interest and
strikes directly at the heart of capitalism and jobs and all the things
that keep us mired in the past and life miserable and harder than it
needs to or should be for millions.
In order to do the things he does, he needs to be able to do them -
basic needs met, tools available, etc. That means funds.
John hates fundraising and he hates that he has to and he's trying to
get back into a sane steady campaign of crowdfunded support and out of
this ongoing panic and desperation... but the solution for that is the
same as well. The unfortunate reality is we live in a world running on
money right now, and without any JH can't survive let alone keep doing
what he does.
John thinks it's awesome and wonderful that he happened to run into a
friend he hadn't seen in almost forty years who had a spare room to
rent, but there are still hundreds of thousands of people homeless and millions more far closer to it than they should be or struggling with
other poverty challenges that shouldn't exist at all in a free society.
It's awesome and wonderful that he was able to generate enough interest
in his work and the income that goes with it to stay alive and off the streets for a month and a half while he was homeless. It's awesome and wonderful that he's still alive and has an internet connection so he can
work at all.
But we're far from done and frankly John's life really isn't even "not
tight" anymore, he's just got a roof over his head now and some
reasonable degree of certainty that he's not at risk of losing it in the
next few days. Mona isn't in a position to just feed and house him
without him putting anything into it, she's walking around with a
terminal cancer diagnosis and has her own challenges as well. Feeding
John doesn't need to be one of them.
We're right on the edge of really being able to pick up and move forward
in a solid, steady, meaningful way, but it still requires staying alive
and paying bills. Right now John is behind. If JH can hit his monthly fundraising goal ($1000/month right now) he'll be able to get caught up
and get ahead at least enough to pay bills like normal people, when
they're due, instead of everything getting shut off and having to turn
it back on after last-minute panic fundraising.
That's kind of the next keyframe John wants to hit and it should be easy
even a week into the month with only $15 raised.
JH knows some of this is his own fault and he's sorry if his frustration
and anxiety over being dead broke and bills piling up makes it sound
like he doesn't understand that. John's been really tied up with
everything surrounding all these huge life changes over the last couple
of months, and it's definitely lowered his rate of content output. That stuff is spinning back up now, as you've already seen with recent new articles at Medium and JohnHenry.US as well as the relaunch of the
Substack newsletter and the reboot of WeAntiFascists. More is coming,
but John *has* to be able to pay his bills and eat and continue growing
and moving forward to make that happen and make it mean something in the wider world.
John's definitely migrating into a more stable and steady fundraising situation that gets him up and out of this crisis stuff, but we've still
got a bit of work to do before we're steady and even. He wants to help
his friend with bills since she's opened her home to him. It would be
good to not have to eat the food she's got because it's intended for her unique dietary needs due to chemo and so on. Obviously he's leaning in
and working around the house too, and she's far from infirm or withering
but still.
JH doesn't know if his pleas are being choked by social media algorithms
or it's just because he slowed down for a couple of weeks, but he's
speeding up and running out of fuel while he does it.
Please help if you can. Sustained support through Patreon is wonderful
but even five or ten bucks at a time over PayPal is wonderful too, and
either one ends up paying the bills.
He's John Henry. Activist, writer, media creator, musician, and a
bunch of other things. Most of what he does is in the public interest
and strikes directly at the heart of capitalism and jobs and all the
things that keep us mired in the past and life miserable and harder than
it needs to or should be for millions.
In order to do the things he does, he needs to be able to do them -
basic needs met, tools available, etc. That means funds.
John hates fundraising
and he hates that he has to and he's trying to
get back into a sane steady campaign of crowdfunded support and out of
this ongoing panic and desperation... but the solution for that is the
same as well. The unfortunate reality is we live in a world running on
money right now, and without any JH can't survive let alone keep doing
what he does.
John thinks it's awesome and wonderful that he happened to run into a
friend he hadn't seen in almost forty years who had a spare room to
rent,
but there are still hundreds of thousands of people homeless and
millions more far closer to it than they should be or struggling with
other poverty challenges that shouldn't exist at all in a free society.
It's awesome and wonderful that he was able to generate enough interest
in his work and the income that goes with it to stay alive and off the streets for a month and a half while he was homeless. It's awesome and wonderful that he's still alive and has an internet connection so he can
work at all.
But we're far from done and frankly John's life really isn't even "not
tight" anymore, he's just got a roof over his head now and some
reasonable degree of certainty that he's not at risk of losing it in the
next few days. Mona isn't in a position to just feed and house him
without him putting anything into it, she's walking around with a
terminal cancer diagnosis and has her own challenges as well. Feeding
John doesn't need to be one of them.
We're right on the edge of really being able to pick up and move forward
in a solid, steady, meaningful way, but it still requires staying alive
and paying bills. Right now John is behind. If JH can hit his monthly fundraising goal ($1000/month right now) he'll be able to get caught up
and get ahead at least enough to pay bills like normal people, when
they're due, instead of everything getting shut off and having to turn
it back on after last-minute panic fundraising.
He's John Henry.
Thank you.
On Sunday, April 9, 2023 at 10:39:30 PM UTC-4, Laz Mann wrote:
He's John Henry.
Thank you.
Fuck off.
On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 19:44:41 -0700, Janithor wrote:
I'll make sure to get the word out. All you capitalists out there with
your dirty capitalist blood money, make sure you contribute. Atone for
your sins, Paypal John today!
how much has he suckered you out of so far
I'll make sure to get the word out. All you capitalists out there with
your dirty capitalist blood money, make sure you contribute. Atone for
your sins, Paypal John today!
He's John Henry.
Please help if you can.
On Monday, April 10, 2023 at 5:05:10 AM UTC-7, Family Guy wrote:
On Sunday, April 9, 2023 at 10:39:30 PM UTC-4, Laz Mann wrote:
He's John Henry.
Thank you.
Fuck off.
Hm.
Perhaps what John thought was evidence of interest in what he does was
just a lucky bit of pity.
$114.36 is what John's lived on for the last month. Most of it came in
over three weeks ago.
Adobe: down.
Restream: down.
Autoposter: down.
John's gonna be who he is and do what he does regardless. Just really disheartening to think the only reason anyone thinks he deserves to eat
is they feel sorry for him, he doesn't deserve or merit any more than
bare subsistence, and if he's not screaming that he's at the edge of starvation nobody cares.
Y'all wonder why JH fights with depression when these are the messages
you've been sending him all his life. Trying to keep a positive attitude when it seems like the majority of people don't even care enough about anything he does to even bother actively wanting him dead, just choosing instead to act like he already is because nothing about him matters to
anyone anywhere anyway including his family and 95% of the people who've called themselves "friends" in his lifetime... yeah. Not so easy for
normal people, definitely not easy when he's also dealing with major depression, PTSD, etc.
"Nobody cares about anything or anyone unless they get something out of
it that's tangible and represents a profitable exchange somehow" isn't a
nice first thought in the morning to have to fight through just to
bother to make coffee. Especially when there's no coffee.
*shrug* it's whatever, calculus stays the same regardless. Go until he
can't no more. Just... he thinks it sucks that he's wasted his life at
it when he could've left a good looking corpse at 27 and been done with
it. From the evidence to date, he thinks it would've made exactly as
much positive impact on the world as what he ended up actually doing.
Ah well. John's going to work.
On Monday, April 10, 2023 at 5:05:10 AM UTC-7, Family Guy wrote:
On Sunday, April 9, 2023 at 10:39:30 PM UTC-4, Laz Mann wrote:
He's John Henry.
Thank you.
Fuck off.
Hm.
Perhaps what John thought was evidence of interest in what he does was
just a lucky bit of pity.
$114.36 is what John's lived on for the last month. Most of it came in
over three weeks ago.
Adobe: down.
Restream: down.
Autoposter: down.
John's gonna be who he is and do what he does regardless. Just really disheartening to think the only reason anyone thinks he deserves to eat
is they feel sorry for him,
he doesn't deserve or merit any more than
bare subsistence, and if he's not screaming that he's at the edge of starvation nobody cares.
Y'all wonder why JH fights with depression when these are the messages
you've been sending him all his life.
Trying to keep a positive attitude
when it seems like the majority of people don't even care enough about anything he does to even bother actively wanting him dead, just choosing instead to act like he already is because nothing about him matters to
anyone anywhere anyway including his family and 95% of the people who've called themselves "friends" in his lifetime... yeah. Not so easy for
normal people, definitely not easy when he's also dealing with major depression, PTSD, etc.
"Nobody cares about anything or anyone unless they get something out of
it that's tangible and represents a profitable exchange somehow" isn't a
nice first thought in the morning to have to fight through just to
bother to make coffee. Especially when there's no coffee.
*shrug* it's whatever, calculus stays the same regardless. Go until he
can't no more. Just... he thinks it sucks that he's wasted his life at
it when he could've left a good looking corpse at 27 and been done with
it. From the evidence to date, he thinks it would've made exactly as
much positive impact on the world as what he ended up actually doing.
Ah well. John's going to work.
John, you're a musician. Surely you understand the difference between
a paying gig and one you do because you love it?
The money people sent is more humanitarian than for any value of your
videos. The hope every time you do a "fundraiser" is that you'll
overcome the next obstacle and become self-sustaining. That could
mean seeking employment, finding a way to make your web projects pay,
or jumping through whatever hoops it takes to get on social programs.
It never happens.
As to the videos, I've tried to watch. There are just too many
"aaahs" and "ums", "you knows" and "so ons and so forths." Lots of
words come out without any content. And certainly nothing that makes
me want to open my wallet.
You have a passion for media creation, so consider it a hobby. Or a
side hustle. Don't rely on it for living costs.
You envision a non-capitalistic utopia where people don't need to
work. You expect the rest of the world to abandon capitalism because
you refuse to participate. Is it merely circumstance that this is the
only system in which you would fit? Sorry, but an orangey-red glowing
hippie posting streams of consciousness in the dark isn't going to
change the world.
Brooms were pushed to earn the money people sent you.
Stop making excuses, get out there and earn your keep. Don't you
think you owe it to your friend who's housing you?
Bwaahahahahaa!!!! He took my advice- did a bit of whiny bitch poor me crying and got...$80!
Your welcome JohnBoy. Pretty sure you owe me a $20 consulting fee.
I still laugh at the "it's now PROVEN my work pays" I constantly wonder does he truly believe his own shit or is it all an act? I feel like he works 20x harder begging than he would dropping fries at McDs.
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