u/Mobile-Staff2898

Not sharing too many details as I’m still doing this sit. I’m so confused. I have been doing this one stay for almost 3 weeks, the dogs love me, I’m taking great care of them, and I’m in frequent contact/communication with the owners. Tonight I came back and the dogs were gone. I checked the security app and saw that their friend, and person they had down as an emergency contact for me, came over and apparently took the dogs with her around 5:30pm. I had checked on them and let them out around 5:15. She got there right after me. I tried calling and texting, I genuinely thought someone broke in and stole the dogs. She finally responded to me after about 40 minutes, saying that “she was tasked with ensuring the house was in good condition for her friends to return”(I found out soon after she had not told the owners she was coming and they had not asked her to). She said that the house was not in a condition for them to return and she implied the dogs were being neglected. I will admit things had gotten a bit messy as I had to be out and about the last two days, but nothing was broken or damaged, just a bit of dirty dishes and laundry. I feel totally insane, and honestly incredibly angry. This is my job, I’m legally responsible for these animals right now and this house is where I am staying. I don’t know if I should report this somehow or if I even can. The owners are just as confused as me and have told me to just stay at my own house until they hear back from their friend. What do I even do?

hello, if you want to see pics or info about my stocking you can go down a bit on my account. My tank is doing incredibly well and the plants are growing like crazy. I made the mistake of not turning the LED lid lights off while I was out of town for a few days last week and there’s a small algae bloom on the front of the tank. it’s kind of an aesthetic issue more than anything, I think, but I’m looking for

A) advice on how to scrape it off, the tank is acrylic

B) Advice on any other algae control critters I could get, I have bladder snails but that’s it. I don’t want to overstock so I’m leaning towards snails, but I’d honestly love to have a shrimp or two.

Starting this with: If you say anything transphobic or hateful, 1) you’re a loser, 2) Im blocking and deleting and reporting so fast it ain’t even funny.

I’m a 24 year old trans guy and I’ve been socially/medically transitioning since I was a teenager, and done the entirety of my transition here in Birmingham. I’ve spent some time in other cities that are maybe a little bigger and a little louder about how progressive they are, and I’ve been inspired by seeing the Transmasc Society of Chicago, and have been considering trying to get something like that going here. I know we have LGBT+ groups, and Im definitely not trying to be exclusive in any way, but personally I feel that I know very few other adult trans men. I don’t have a whole lot of ideas now beyond having meetings and having a presence at protests, parades, etc., maybe some transmasc sports events—but I’m still brainstorming and I’m open to ideas. There might be people more well suited to starting something like this, but I wanted to put it out there and see how many of us there even are/how many people might be interested.

tagged nsfw because of the mentions of mental health. I am a 24 year old FtM person with a long history of mental health issues, I’ve been on medication for a while, but TLDR im at the point where I am having suicidal ideation much more than is comfortable and it’s impacting my life. I feel like I’m at a breaking point and I want help very badly, but as an LGBT person in Alabama I’m honestly terrified of being institutionalized here. does anyone know of any programs that are LGBT friendly, ideally, or at least any that do not have a strong Christian background?

UPDATE: I went to the ER at UAB highlands today and they determined I wasn’t enough of a threat to myself right now to require inpatient, but I got a lot of resources and referrals and mostly I got a lot of affirmation and encouragement from the nurses and doctors and staff. Thank you so much to everyone who replied to this and encouraged me to go.