If this is my mother's last day... I hope silence is not the last thing she receives.
Every passing minute brings me closer to the greatest fear of my life: losing my mother while knowing her treatment could have been possible if we had managed to pay for it in time.
Today is the final deadline, and we are still $700 short of covering the cost of her treatment.
There are no words that can describe what it feels like to watch your mother suffer while the clock keeps moving and all you can do is beg strangers for help.
If you can donate, please don't wait. Even the smallest contribution brings us closer to saving her. If you can't, please share this post. It could reach the one person who gives my mother another chance to live.
Please... don't let $700 be the reason I lose my mother. Help her before it's too late.
Thrilled I get to post my part of @ghostsharkpress ās transology zine before pride month ends. Our prompt was to recontextualize a formative childhood cartoon through the lense of transness/gncness.
These are thoughts Iāve had spilling around in my head for a while and seeing how important Treasure Planet was for me as a kid I thought it would be perfect. I always struggled with the fact I donāt really have any older male guide or figure to learn myself from so as a kid I tried to mimic the masculinity of shows or my peers. Growing older and wanting to step out of boyhood has really been a journey of self discovery and self worth and Iām really proud of the person Iām becoming.
not doin any of that mr ms mrs mx business . unfortunately i dont have a robust enough academic or medical background to be called doctor. but i could go by Mt. aka mount. aka mountain. the only thing you can glean from that is that im big as fuck
āyouāre such a ray of sunshine!ā thanks! one day i chose to act happy and then i kept choosing it over and over and over and over until the neurological pathways formed like desire paths in the thicket. i dug and clawed my nails into the grooves of my brain and carved out joy. i retouch it every day.
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.
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.
Go to paypal.me/MAyesh674 and type in the amount. Since itās PayPal, it's easy and secure. Donāt have a PayPal account? No worries.
My name is Mohammed ayesh from Gaza Recently, I started a new chapter in my liā¦ Shelley Gordon needs your support for Support Ayeshās family
I need everyone to pay attention and take this seriously. My Palestinian friend Nader, like many others, has had his tumblr account terminated six times in the span of only a couple of days. This is deliberate behavior by staff and its racist userbase who have spread the lie that Palestinian users are scammers, bots, and thieves "taking advantage" of "real suffering" despite years of verification and documentation from other Palestinian users on here. To say that this behavior is vile is an understatement.
I have been in correspondence with Nader for a couple of years now through WhatsApp and I can confirm that he is a real person in desperate need of support. WhatsApp has been vital to keeping us connected and informed, especially after this most recent wave of deletions. He is sadly, once again, fallen into despair because of staff's treatment of him. I made a promise to continue helping him and I don't want to let him down. He is a good, kind soul who only wants to do right by his loved ones and escape this hellish genocide. He is not asking for luxury.
For more detail, it is imperative to know that Nader is one of eight family members struggling to survive. Like many young Palestinians, he wanted to pursue higher education and the October 2023 attacks stopped this from happening. His father, Ahmed, is in desperate need of treatment for bladder cancer. This struck a cord with me because my mother is a bladder cancer survivor who is only alive today thanks to access to the appropriate medical care. Ahmed and the rest of Nader's family must be transported out of the country if there is any hope of survival.
Many tumblr users, both well-meaning and malicious and everything in between, have become indifferent to the ongoing situation in Gaza. Many feel helpless on how to help and are floundering for solutions. Others have thrown their hands in the air entirely. For some, they've taken it upon themselves to join in the ban waves and report Palestinians personally for the "crime" of tagging them too many times in posts.
I want to continue to be someone who helps even when it's hard and everything seems hopeless. For Palestinians, their continued survival depends on the kindness of strangers. There is no longer an infrastructure in place to help them. This is by design. It is up to us to do the very best we can to ease their suffering with coordinated donations and word of mouth.
I hope that there are still users on this site who want to do the right thing. I believe there are. I have seen it myself firsthand. Help me help Nader get the resources he needs to survive. I don't want to let him down.
You can still find his intact gofundme links as well as verification below.
Hello, I'm Nader, a young man from the Gaza Strip. I've livedā¦ Nadaer Alanqer needs your support for Donate to help Nader's father receive t
He is #4 on the gazavetters spreadsheet here
17% funded so far
ā¬12,285 / ā¬75K
592 donations total as of July 1st, 4:43PM EST
Oh my God, my wife collapsed today from extreme hunger and went to the hospital.
My wife is three months pregnant and suffering from severe malnutrition. My youngest child, who is a year and a half old, cries constantly from hunger, and his mother is hospitalized.
For a week now I have been pleading with you to help me so that I don't lose any of my family members.
If anything happens to any of my family, I will never forgive anyone. Remember, I asked you for help and no one helped me.
#my family does this thing#when we've majorly unfucked a room or done chore that we were putting off#or whatever. Any sort of household Improvement.#'Come brag on me.'#I means come look I cleaned/rearranged/did dishes/put away the laundry#and the scripted response is 'oh nice it looks SO much better in here now'#like my mom did this when we were kids.#'girls comr brag on the garage I finally organized it so I can get my car in there'#and we go and 'ooh' and 'aah' and tell her how nice it looked and how she did a good job#and we could have her 'come brag on' us for like doing the dishes or cleaning our rooms#I do it to my wife now too#it's a dialogue that means#'I did a chore and it feels like an Accomplishment even if it objectively wasn't a big thing. Please acknowledge this.'#and#'Wow you sure did do a thing. It has improved our material circumstance even if only in a small way. Thank you for doing it.'#like yeah scrubbing the pans is my Job and it's a Little Task but sometimes it feels like a Big Task#and it's nice to have an Accepted Script where I can just demand 'I have functioned as an independent adult praise me with great praise' - by @thepioden
Reblogging this again bc people in the notes are asking a lot of "Am I included? Am I disabled if I have x?" and I just wanted to add the flag here to show people who the pride month is for.
This is the new flag, the old one was more vivid and in a z shape, but it's been made more neutral to be inclusive of people with seizures or sensory issues.
Each stripe represents a different aspect of disability:
Red: Physical disabilities
Yellow: Cognitive & intellectual disabilities
White: (And this is the key one I think) Invisible AND undiagnosed disabilities
Blue: Mental illnesses
Green: Sensory disabilities
If you're autistic or have ADHD? this is your pride month. If you have a mental illness, it's your pride month. If you're hard of hearing, this is your pride month. If you have an autoimmune disorder, this is your pride month. If you are not diagnosed with anything but you know something is up with you: THIS IS STILL YOUR PRIDE MONTH.
as well, i feel its important to mention the meaning of the grey: its remembrance for those who have been harmed by ableist violence, those who have died to suicide because of disability, and all the disabled people who died to get us where we are.
its for the people who have experienced violence too, because of their disability. who were never palatable to abled society and were harmed or killed for it even.
So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).
Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.
So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.
You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.
And Iām like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.
It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.
Alhamdulillah, my mother survived the surgery!
But she is still in a critical stage, and we are facing an immediate crisis: we urgently need $120 to cover her post-op treatment and medication TODAY.
The Goal: $120
The Solution: Just 6 people giving $20 right now will fully secure her care.
We are so close to bringing her home safe.
Please donāt stop helping us now donate immediately and help us clear this final hurdle.
š Donate here š³ PayPal ā Verified fundraiser
in case you haven't heard, parts of venezuela were recently hit by a series of earthquakes, affecting communities across the country.
as venezuela is my home country, all of this hits especially close to home. thankfully, my family and loved ones are safe since they were in cities not as severely affected. however, many others have not been as fortunate and are now facing the aftermath of these events.
years of political and economic instability have left many communities with limited resources and infrastructure, making it even more difficult to respond to emergencies like this. there are reports of people who remain missing, and many families are still waiting for news about their loved ones. rescue efforts have been made even more difficult by shortages of equipment, ambulances, and other emergency resources needed to respond to a disaster of this scale.
if you're able to, please consider sharing information, supporting verified relief efforts, or simply helping spread awareness about what is happening.
hereās a link where you can donate if you can
Venezuela needs our help now.
After a devastating earthquā¦ I Love Venezuela Foundation ha bisogno del tuo sostegno per Emergency Relie
iāll try to get more help resources to post here!
I learned a very long time ago that I could post in English on the Anglo internet about my experience as a sexual minority in the #middleeastandnorthafrica region. I could vent about every slight or slur, every indiscretion, all the doors that might not have closed in my face had I not been who I am. But that all it would do is earn me a seat at a table half the world away, a seat that I would lose the second I said ābut my people are still human. But we are Arab women before we are queer women. But we are muslim before we are trans women. But we are imperialised subjects of the periphery before we are bisexuals. But we are ācombat-aged malesā before we are gay men and boys.ā A seat that I could only keep if I show a willingness to betray my people. And I will not. I do not want it. The price is too steep and the value too low.
I have come to know now that this western voraciousness for our stories was never an impulse born out of empathy; it has always been little more than a gathering of intel, of reasons to hate us and to justify the destruction of our bodies and the pillaging of our lands and the looting of our resources. So I no longer see the utility in being one more primary source for the proverbial NYT opinion editorial manufacturing consent for the latest campaign of imperial slaughter in my backyard on account of our inherent backwardness.
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