‼️Where is humanity when entire families die on the streets and under the rubble of their homes? Where is humanity when a wounded person is still alive and could be saved, but ends up dying because anyone who tries to help is also killed beside them?
‼️When I leave my home by force and coercion and no one moves, where is humanity, oh world? Move for us, please, move so we can provide the requirements of displacement and some food. We are falling to the ground because we are unable to walk. We are very tired.
I am layan, writing to you with a trembling heart and tears in my eyes. We are facing forced displacement under relentless bombing and internationally banned weapons. Here in Gaza, there seems to be no recognition of what is forbidden, only a desire to kill as many of us as possible and burn what remains. We have never seen anything like this before, but now we are enduring something even greater than genocide. Donate to save my family here
Hey! Thank you for sharing this! There was an unexpected surge of notes on this post, and you are the one who caused it.
Re: Pride attendance: I don't know about Madrid, but here in Luxembourg, it made me seriously angry how the people organizing it didn't mention this initiative in their speeches. They pose demands to the state each year, and this year, banning conversion therapy was one of them. You'd think that they'd at least mention that, hey, by the way, you could totally do something about that, but no, they just said that the Government should ban conversion praxis, anyway, let's party. There were so many people at that event! We could have had the signatures for our country together then and there pretty easily. Instead, we only got, like twenty new signatures? I believe. Not sure. I did check it at the time, but it was a while ago, I forgot the exact number.
update: after sending this to multiple allied loved ones back home, it appears ppl do not have a solid understanding of what the heck conversion therapy is and will assume it's a good thing (I think they are confusing it with trans healthcare or something) hence that they shouldn't sign this at any cost and I had to explain no this is the bad thing we want to be banned, PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE IT 🤦♂️
Even though they were both Luo Binghe... For what reason had that one been able to meet this sort of Shen Qingqiu, while he had only met a rotten bastard—vindictive, petty, and jealous to the core?
For what reason?!
[ID: A fan comic. Panel 1: A young Shen Jiu, who carries a baby Ning Yingying on his back, and his old master, Wu Yanzi, come across a dying Su Xiyan. While Wu Yanzi looks through a pouch he stole from her person, Shen Jiu simply stares as Su Xiyan touches her infant son’s cheek.
Panel 2: When Shen Jiu kills Wu Yanzi to save Yue Qingyuan, blood splatters on his cheek. Two babies are on his person, one secured to his front, and the other behind his back. Yue Qingyuan approaches, horrified.
Panel 3: Shen Jiu, dressed in Qing Jing uniform, holds toddlers Ning Yingying and Luo Binghe to his right and left hip respectively. All three have their right eyebrow raised. He is ranting to someone unknown, “I cannot believe cang qiong is incapable of something as simple as child rearing!” Beside the speech bubble, there is a small text that says, “NOTE: child rearing is not simple, and ying-er and binghe are hardly ordinary.”
Panel 4: Toddlers Luo Binghe and Ning Yingying are holding hands, looking up at Yue Qingyuan. Ning Yingying exclaims with a smile, “Are those gifts for us, Yue shibo?” Meanwhile, Yue Qingyuan holds up a stack of gifts, beaming. His eyes are just barely seen from above the stack. END ID]
everyone totally thinks sj gave birth to both of them—he only did with nyy
the babies are so incredibly smiley. so bright. yk who else is incredibly smiley? yqy. naturally, everyone thinks sj was yqy’s abandoned lover.
yqy’s regret and self loathing levels are THROUGH. THE. ROOF. in this au. dw tho qijiu sort it out in the future
My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza by Maia Kobabe
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My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza
Project organized by @ connectinghumanity_
by Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks
Page 1
In Fall 2023, I saw instructions on instagram for how to purchase an eSIM card and submit it to be distributed to someone in Gaza.
Download an eSIM app-> Select Middle East as the region-> Purchase-> Screenshot the QR code-> Do not activate-> send to [email protected]
Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “That sounds easy, I’ll buy one.”
I emailed an Airalo eSIM QR code to gazaesims on Nov 17 2023.
Page 2
By January 2024, it hadn’t been activated yet. I bought a second one from Nomad and sent my new QR code and resubmitted my old one.
Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “How long does this usually take, I wonder?”
By February neither had been activated, but Connecting Humanity kept posting about needing more. I bought a second Nomad and resubmitted all of them on February 15, 2024.
Page 3
The Nomad eSIMs are much cheaper than Airalo, but what I didn’t realize is that they expire even if they haven’t been activated. At the end of February I decided to try a third company, Simly. Here’s a price comparison:
AIRALO: $39 USD for 3GB, never expires
SIMLY: $22 USD for 3GB, never expires
NOMAD: $16 USD for 3GB, expires after 8 weeks even if unused, only offers in-app refunds
Page 4
Connecting Humanity asks folks to wait at least 3 weeks before resending a QR code that hasn’t been activated yet. On March 7 Mirna Elhelbawi posted:
We send EVERY esim we receive. Bear in mind that we are dealing with people at a war zone. They might take it and get killed before activating it, they might take it and their phone gets lost or destroyed. They might take it and search for days for stable internet connection to activate it, and some of them activate it unsuccessfully due to lack of knowledge and the horrific situations they are in. ~Connecting Gaza
By early April, my first Nomad eSIM expired unused. I resubmitted my three remaining eSIMs.
Page 5
Suddenly, two of my eSIMs were activated on the same day! The Airalo I’d purchased 4.5 months earlier and my second Nomad.
Image of Maia looking happy and surprised.
Image of Maia looking very intensely at eir phone. “I have to make sure these don’t run out!”
I began buying top-up packages immediately.
Page 6
I felt like I had planted a seed in the fall and waited all winter for it to sprout. Seeing it activated was like watching the first new leaves break the soil.
Image of Maia with a watering can labeled “data”, sprinkling water on two little sprouts. “Watering my eSIMs!”
Sadly, only .07 GB of data was ever used on my Nomad. It was never used again after that first day.
Page 7
But my Airalo has been in constant use for over a month now. I check on it every day.
I will never know the person I am buying data for and they will never know me. But we are connected by the same strings of hope and grief that connect us all.
Image of two hands holding a phone, which is connected to a flying kite.
Page 8
On April 5, 2024 Connecting Humanity reported they had sent more than 250,000 eSIMs to Gaza, equivalent to approximately $6.3 million donated! You can visit gazaesims.com for more info, instructions, and discounts. Here are my referral codes:
MAIA5367 for $3 off Airalo
MB772 for $3 off Simly
MAIA66GF for $3 off Nomad
If you need more incentive, the Cartoonist Coop is doing art rewards. Visit cartoonist.coop/esims4gaza
Page 9
Image of Maia, weighing two options. “Buying an eSIM is easy and can make a very direct impact. It can also take a lot of patience and could get expensive over time if you commit to keeping the eSIM topped up indefinitely.”
If an immediate one time donation is more your speed, I recommend Operation Olive Branch and Gazafunds, two places to find Gofundmes aiding Palestinian families.
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