[dovesndecay]

I was kinda hoping to skip a dedicated begpost this month but such is life.

(and if you don't know me, hi I'm reyah and I'm a disabled queer in florida and I make art over on ⤿patreon⤾ when the spoons allow)

For June, I still have $400 in bills to clear before I'm pushing the rock back up the same hill in August. More than half of that is for medical care -- prescriptions are coming back around to need renewal, and I need to see my doctor for updates on medication changes.

Urgently, however, I need to come up with $40 to renew my car's registration which is now officially expired.

direct donations are incredibly appreciated, but only if you can, only if you’re willing <3

PayPal | (link) Venmo | (dovesndecay) Cashapp | ($dovesndecay)

[dovesndecay]

$60/$400

The registration has been renewed, thanks to y'all, and that is a relief cuz that was stressing me tf out. *phew*

Please continue to send this around; I very much do still need more help. <3 Thank you all so much.

[dovesndecay]

6/30 Update: $115/$400

[dovesndecay]

July bills have officially already started eating into what I've got 😩 so any and all help is super extra greatly appreciated

[dovesndecay]

7/2 Update:

June's remaining need: $295

July's remaining need: $290

Total need to clear the budget: $585

[dataandphilosophy]

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Source.

[myfootyrthroat]

Also from above:

“Bob Wing, a grassroots organizer, explains this nicely: “If winning feels impossible, then righteousness can seem like the next best thing.” But righteousness is not conducive to getting normies to join your team if your team cannot demonstrate ability to, at least sometimes, win. Nor does righteousness help you make real inroads with regular people.”

[bbcwhereareyou]

Somewhat related, my favorite comic strip of all time:

[sick-jan]

[northgazaupdates]

Homeless mom of 2 needs help in Gaza

Maha and her family previously had a verified GFM to pay for basic necessities like food, medical care, and some form of shelter. Horrifically, the person running their former GFM has stolen from them and hijacked their campaign.

Below is Maha’s new GFM. Her previous GFM was vetted by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi on their vetted campaign master list, on line 163.

Donate to Support My Family To Rebuild Our Lives, organized by Ahmed Alhabil

I am physiotherapist Ahmed Khalil Al-Habil from palestine _Gaza I have been dis… Ahmed Alhabil needs your support for Support My Family To

[northgazaupdates]

URGENT: Hospital eviction imminent

Maha has been hospitalized due to serious complications from an infected tooth. She is particularly vulnerable to this type of infection, which almost killed her last year. Thankfully her husband has returned from Egypt, but both he and Maha are unable to work and thus cannot pay for her hospital bills. They are over $1,500 usd in debt for her treatment and Maha is about to be kicked out of the hospital.

As I said, last year a very similar infection almost took Maha’s life. If she is expelled from the hospital, a worsened infection is an inevitability. She still has a high fever and needs to remain hospitalized. PLEASE help her continue life-saving treatment!!

Current: €1,825 out of €3,012 (28 June)

NEED: €1,187 EUR or about $1,353 usd

[mahmoud-gaza0-deactivated202509]

Hello my friend,

My name is Mahmoud. I live in Gaza with my family, and we are going through a very difficult financial situation. I tried to create a donation link for my family, but I couldn't find someone to help organize and manage the campaign 🥺💔So my friend Ahmed decided to support me by sharing his own family’s donation link, and we agreed to split the donations between our two families.

Right now, we have almost no food, and the cost of living has become unbearable due to the siege, soaring prices, and the closure of all crossings.Everything has doubled in price in an unimaginable way 🥲🥺

We might be forced to flee to southern Gaza after the announcement of a full invasion of Gaza City 💔

The bombing and destruction never stop — not for a single moment. There is no longer any real life in Gaza. We are just struggling to survive, trying to secure the bare minimum: water and food.

Winter is coming, and we have no winter clothing after our home was destroyed and we were displaced multiple times 😭🥲Please, we urgently need financial help to buy food and store some in case the situation worsens.

This is our donation link.

Please remember: donations are shared between two families. So, for the sake of God, help us, my friend. Save our children, my younger siblings, my parents, and even my older siblings — we are all homeless and hungry 🥺🥲💔

A Donation Campaign for Ahmed and His Family

My Story: From the Hell of War to the Search for Safety My name is Ahmed, a 20-year-old young man from Gaza. Since the war began, my life ha

[a-shade-of-blue]

Vetted! #542 on @/gazavetters vetted list

[makingqueerhistory]

World’s First Chinese LGBTQ Museum Opens in San Francisco’s Chinatown | Hotspots Magazine

Hundreds gathered in San Francisco’s Chinatown as city leaders and community members celebrated the opening of the world’s first Chinese LGB

Hundreds gathered in San Francisco’s Chinatown as city leaders and community members celebrated the opening of the world’s first Chinese LGBTQ museum. Mayor Daniel Lurie joined supporters for the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the OUT Museum, a space dedicated to preserving and sharing Chinese queer history and culture. The museum was founded by Chinese artist and LGBTQ advocate Xiangqi Chen, who spent more than 20 years promoting queer visibility in China before moving to the United States in 2023.

June 5, 2026

[covid-safer-hotties]

Source

[maidslime]

There is no actual, tangible reason why we allow people to starve, to be homeless, to suffer and die needlessly. Food is plentiful. Empty homes are plentiful. Medicine is plentiful. It’s hidden away behind constructs and we pretend those constructs mean something. There is an empty home and a homeless family, give them it. There is a sick child and common medicine to treat it, give it to them. There is a starving person and so much food wasted by corporations or hidden behind a dollar sign, feed them.

[mohdayesh]

I don't want to talk about the 1000 days because I died a thousand times over during those days. They ripped my soul from me, took my sanity, and killed everything beautiful I saw. It's just a number the world talks about today and forgets tomorrow, even though tomorrow will be worse because it's 1001, meaning tomorrow there will be death, hunger, fear, poverty, and oppression. Nothing will change except that we keep getting worse and worse and worse. The whole world is showing sympathy today, but tomorrow they'll forget, even as our extermination and killing continue.

[el-shab-hussein]

Please help my friend Mohammed Ayesh. Without his help vetting fundraisers, hundreds of families would not have gotten the support and backing they needed. And now, he and his family are in need of help too.

His pregnant wife still has bullets lodged in her body and needs surgeries to have them removed. Please help them if you can.

Pay Mohammed Ayesh using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/MAyesh674 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

Donate to Support Ayesh’s family for a better life, organized by Shelley Gordon

My name is Mohammed ayesh from Gaza Recently, I started a new chapter in my li… Shelley Gordon needs your support for Support Ayesh’s family

[covid-safer-hotties]

Heart attack risk rises after Covid infection and can last for three years

Cardiovascular risks such as strokes and heart attacks are higher for some time after a Covid infection, a study finds

[saveaboud]

“YOU MAY DIE WITHIN HOURS.”

That is what a doctor told me today.

[saveaboud]

Unfortunately, the countdown to my discharge from the hospital in Gaza has begun because the treatment I need is unavailable.

[saveaboud]

If I cannot afford treatment, my siblings may soon bury their brother. Please help before that day comes.

Chuffed – PayPal – Verified

[aboud-lives]

Guys, only $550 stand between me and treatment. Please donate even a small amount or share my story as widely as possible.

[martindykewood]

please help!

[northgazaupdates]

Family in double crisis

In addition to 15-year-old Nour’s ongoing health issues, Nour’s sister Noha recently developed a severe stomach ulcer due to an infection induced by drinking unsanitary water. This ulcer is causing Noha extreme pain and digestive issues, and if it is not treated very soon, will lead to internal bleeding. This ulcer has gone untreated in order to allot more funds for Nour’s ongoing nebulizer treatments, but it has progressed to the point of literally debilitating pain and serious complications. Let’s raise the cost of treatment ASAP so Nour can continue nebulizer treatments and Noha can live her life again!!

Current: $4,927 out of $5,290 usd (28 June)

Need: $363 usd

Donate to Help Nour: A 15-Year-Old Girl with Heart Disease In Gaza, organized by Zachary Morgan

Nour is a 15-year-old girl living in a fragile tent in Gaza. … Zachary Morgan needs your support for Help Nour: A 15-Year-Old Girl with Hea

[embroiderycrafts]

this message is for reese witherspoon (iykyk) by shopenchantedplanet on reddit.

[zoestorm]

The worst thing you can do, as someone who has recently realised they are transfem, is to let terves and transphobes convince you cis women will never accept you.

I was told that when I came out everyone would reject me. That I would find myself isolated from the world, and from other women especially, who would react to me with horror and revulsion.

In reality, within the first months of coming out, in no particular order:

My sister's reaction on my coming out was, "Right, so I have a sister instead of a brother. Cool. I'm taking you clothes shopping tomorrow."

A friend, when she learned I am a woman, immediately invited me to her women-only, girls-night-out birthday party the following week.

Another friend, when a friend of hers expressed doubts about my gender, immediately shut them down and reaffirmed I am a woman.

I went camping with a group of friends, and we had two tents, one for the boys and one for the girls; I was unsure as to which I should enter, to which a girl friend responded by grabbing me and physically dragging me inside the women's tent.

In the women's bathroom at a movie theatre a random woman, whom I'd never seen before and haven't seen since, stopped me as I was going into a stall, to warn me there was no toilet paper in there, because she'd just used the last of it.

All of these, and more, some from friends, some from complete strangers. All within a few months, as a trans woman who hadn't started medical transition yet, and was very visible as being a trans woman.

I've had some people reject me, true, but the vast majority, including almost all cis women, accepted me as a sister with open arms.

Cis women are cool. It's terves who are bigots.

[evil-wild-lesbian-wizard]

I needed to see this today

[thishasalwaysbeenmyname]

@this-is-trans-joy

[this-is-trans-joy]

This is trans joy!!!

[green-is-gay]

i dont WANT pride months to be over,

on the other hand...

[gaslit-dipshits]

[appalachian-werewolf]

PoweredByWho — Who's Building Data Centers in Your Backyard?

Follow the money behind America's data center boom. Track 2,300+ projects, PAC spending, and the politicians who sign off on it.

[djarinmuse]

I fucking hate A.i.

The giant a.i data centers they're building in my state are ruining the ground water and the beautiful springs. A Dutch company is bulldozing a river valley near me for their headquarters and a massive a.i data center, the deal was drafted with no input from the public and then after listening to five hours of public opposition the city council still voted to approve it. It's broken trust and hearts, the most we can do is vote out those that supported it and we have.

Anyway, it's gonna be an unfollow from me if I see a.i memes pop up on my dashboard too often.