Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

If you have covid symptoms, take a PCR test. Its free. https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test

If you don't have covid symptoms, but feel like you have a different kind of cold or have regular contact with people, you can get a free lateral flow test from your local pharmacy or chemist. You'll have a result in 30 minutes.

I'm posting this because a friend of mine with a cough was confused about this. Nobody resident in the UK who has symptoms or who is staying put in the UK needs to pay for a test.

So whilst spending a day off of twitch may be good if you were or are supporting your favourite streamers financially on twitch by subscribing I suggest cancelling that subscription and moving it to a different platform if they have it.

The best one as far as I am aware is Ko-fi since it isn't venture capitalist funded and so doesn't owe money to anybody but its users, thus it is less likely to shut down in the long run, unlike patreon or profit off of your personal information by selling it or some such.

Another thing you can do is check out https://altair.tv and if you agree with them and believe in what they are doing in setting up a, from the looks of it, much better streaming service focused on protecting streamers and others users alike in a myriad of ways, especially their mental health, invest or become a 'visionary' if you can, otherwise just spreading the word is good.

I am not financially tied to either platform yet, just believe in them.

Spread this to black trans or non-binary people you know: the Marsha P. Johnson Institute is paying $500 directly to black trans or non-binary folks, with priority given to black trans women and those who have experience as sex workers or have been formerly incarcerated
https://marshap.org/covid-relief/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh1JlHvl-do

Good video from the Jimquisition going over the bullshit happening against marginalised streamers on Twitch recently. If you are a Twitch streamer I highly encourage you to not go live on September 1st in protest against the hate raids.