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Here's a call to support @/fairuzfan's efforts to feed the people. See their Help Gaza Children tag.
Other fundraisers/ways to help:
Supply water to Gaza - link
Rebuild Sirdah's pharmacy in Gaza: link
Watch news from Gaza live on TikTok:
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS28UU7PJ/
Help @/awad-palestine's family evacuate (verified) - https://gofund.me/b61d1782
Fight hunger in Sudan - https://gofund.me/5f40f312
Provide tents to families in Gaza - link , link
This is really urgent please reblog if you see this!!
I need $20 so I can get my dad some Gatorade and water. He's been ill lately and he needs to stay hydrated and he needs electrolytes. If two people could get send $10 we'll be set. I'll show proof of purchasing the items!
PayPal.me/AKirk432
Venmo: @candiedraspberry
Cashapp: $autumnroses93
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By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.
Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.
This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):
Executive functioning skills range from working memory to cognitive flexibility to inhibitory control, and beyond. They power our daily func
Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):
Practical Strategies for Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults With Autism - Living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as
Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.
But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:
Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.
Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation
Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.
Meditation
Martial arts
Sports in general
Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)
Woodworking
Cooking
If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers
Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.
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if you see this or are tagged in it, tag a couple of your favorite mutuals/blogs and let them know you appreciate seeing them on your dash!
@h0neysugarfree @blueberrylovv @bequiteanddriveeeeeee @cherri-bomb-bomb @eg0mechan1c @fatrexicisback
thank you for the tag my beloveds @ramonathinks and @sweetlandspos 🩷
@yuujispinkhair @bbael @dulcento @q1ngqve @rottiens @teataglia @tartagliove @thetempleofnyx @unriding @aeyumicore @goxjo @grimmweepers @gojoest @hoshigray @lalunanymph @luv-lies @zhongrin @vampnyx @solomons-poison @starspunt @sanemistar @satorena + everyone who reads this ‹3
thank youuuu @lovegasmic i love you i LOVE YOU 🤍
@rose-tinted-kalopsia @acciotaitlynn @beneathashadytree @unluckywisher @anxiousgoddest @myusuchaa @kurishiri @judesmoonbeauty @missaengg + anyone i follow or who follows me that sees that - happy holidays i love you 🤍
Thank you @aeyumicore for the tag! It makes me feel so special 🥹🥹🥹
@ladyparamount @chaos-in-deepspace @zayne-li @unluckywisher @deputy-videogamer @hananoami @brattysiren @la-spooky + anyone that likes my crazy stuff!!
I appreciate all of you and you guys make me feel so happy just by reading my stuff and getting a laugh out of it, I never thought I could make good memories out of a hobby, much less a hobby that involves on ranking how stinky some 3d man farts 😭😭😭😭😭 LOVE YOU GUYS 🥹 AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
Tysm for tagging @anxiousgoddest @unluckywisher I love your work so much, my favourite academic/comedic weapons😩
Tagging (and with no pressure, just as appreciation for how much joy I get seeing you pop up on the tl) @wolfofcelestia @deepspacexavier @manikas-whims @reilemon @relentlessconqueror @girl-who-lives-in-delusion @narutosidebitch @jinwoosbabyboo @chibichibi-mia @elenagoeslightly and tbh several others but you're already tagged akjskskd ngl I love your posts, they make this space feel actually alive and so much more fun
Thank you @acciotaitlynn and @ladyparamount for tagging me 🩷
@its-de @totallytaurus4 @curiositykilledthecatx3 @omi-replies @readerxyourbabe @celestialforce @girl-who-lives-in-delusion + anyone who likes what I post, I appreciate you all so much 🩷🩷🩷 installing Love and Deepspace, and returning to tumblr made this year much more bearable 🙂↕️
Thank you for tagging me 😭❤️❤️ @reilemon
Tagging:
@wolfofcelestia @reverie-tofu @girl-who-lives-in-delusion @pomegranatepip @ladywolfmd @cherriejoyponce @ehmuhree @ladyparamount @mhyela @libertastandem
Sorry if i forgot anyone 🥹❤️
Thank you @its-de , @skynapple !!
I've been quiet a lot, so I want to say that, these people also make my day better when I see their posts: @girl-who-lives-in-delusion , @nobodys-saviour , @dutifullyburningwinter , @dsweave , @a-random-queer-fanpeep , @kidgillis
I'm glad you're here!
we are running low on funds for the first time in 9 months - you can donate to crips for esims for gaza below!
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
no donation is too small, and sharing is appreciated too!! thank you ❤️✨🍉🇵🇸
[image description: meme of Sonic praying, top text reading “please please send funds to bit.ly/eSimsRUs.” End ID]
Turns out we got so many Volunteers lately that our funds can't keep up!
If you aren't familiar with Crips for Esims, you can read more about the initiative on the Disability Visibility Project here. And recently, they have even gotten added to the donation page for the original eSims for Gaza movement.
I've written a little bit about my positive experience volunteering for this group here. They're all good folks who are doing the best we can. Every little bit really does directly translate into more esims sent to people in Gaza.
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:
WHERE HAS THIS INFORMATION BEEN MY WHOLE BLOODY LIFE
A Swarm of Blocks Flocks to Human Presence in DRIFT’s Interactive Installation
Petition to stop financing Israeli forces
On the morning of September 10, Israeli forces massacred 40 people sheltering in a humanitarian safe zone. Campaigners from the consumer watchdog group Ekō (who have successfully influenced several companies and governments before) are working round the clock to cut funding to the weapons companies that are supplying the Israeli government, and more than ever we need to keep up the pressure.
It's all illegal. The International Court of Justice in The Hague confirmed that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory -- including Gaza -- breaks the law. Netanyahu says he’d “fight with fingernails” — but the truth is that he depends on arms pouring in from weapons manufacturers, which depend on financing from our banks.
Tell the banks to stop.
Sign the petition and share widely.
I forget exactly where I saw the initial post asking for volunteers, but on July 10th, I reached out to the listed email. Jane, the organizer, got back to me right away and within an hour I was added in their discord.
Up until this point, I had been maintaining an average 8 ESims myself, so I already had experience checking in on them on a daily basis. The folks there helped me onboard with the spreadsheets for keeping track, and now it's very easy for me to catalog new ones I buy and record daily data usage. The whole process takes me maybe 20-40 minutes a day depending now on how many ESims actually need to be topped off.
Jane has been very up front with lots of the group's information, with frequent announcements about the groups current funds and amounts of daily ESims sent out. She and the others have been super helpful with getting funds to us when needed, and I've almost never had to actually spend any of my own money for any of this.
In the time that I've been volunteering, they figured out how to run a Business account with the Nomad ESim company. Which means that now and then they can just send 15 or so ESims my way, and I just catalog them and send the QRcodes towards Mirna and the Connecting Gaza folks. No more wasting time with the purchasing process, while getting a bit of a bulk discount on top of that.
We also share updates on whatever brand of ESims are most needed. When folks on the ground tell us that one network doesn't seem reliable, we are able to switch over for a while until either the networking issue is fixed, or we all pressure customer service enough to replace them for us.
There's also lots of complaining about new UI updates an general website bugs. There's surprisingly a lot of them and it's good to know other folks are getting info from customer service when things go wrong.
In August they made a meme channel
Anyways....
Lets get into some stats for myself. In 2 months (July 10- Sept12) I have:
Send off 171 ESims
Maintained around 60 active ones
Topped up these active ESims 139 times
Spend over $6400 donated dollars
I have multiple power users who have burned through close to 100GB. 2 of them have broken 200GB. These are most likely being used as hot spots.
Why am I sharing all of this? Mostly to show how easy it has been to make a marginal difference. I have helped at least 60 people stay connected with the outside world in just 2 months. Probably more if we assume some of the power users becoming hotspots for other folks. This is 20-40 minutes of my time a day, and I honestly regret not signing up to do this sooner.
I was specifically limiting myself to this workload because I wanted to test the waters. Those stats was me specifically not wanting to push myself and see what impact a normal person could make with 20 minutes a day. At this point I think I will be taking more advantage of Nomad's Tuesday discounts to really bulk up my numbers. It's pretty easy to buy 15 or so every Tuesday, and then send em over.
If you would like to join us in this endeavor, please reach out to Jane at cripsforesimsforgaza(at)gmail
We are specifically looking for people in European time zones, since a lot of us are in the Americas and that's quite a difference between us and Gaza. If not, that's no problem!
If you can't participate, that's totally fine, but please donate what you can! Folks like you are the ones who keep us going!
I hope this information has been useful in some way. Like I said, I wish I had heard about this group sooner, with how easy it has been to do. I can track my direct impact of what my daily time is doing for folks, and seeing the data be used up a little bit more day by day gives me hope for everyone in Gaza. Thank you for your time.
Blog update? I think?
My life and this blog might change a little as I start trying to make a career in fine art. I don't know how exactly.
All I know is that I no longer look at job search websites with so much dread, just some sort of... anxious anticipation. Hunger? Acknowledgement of the risk I'm taking? A new hope to get materials, training, and the power to actually provide care for people other than myself, who is selfish but knows she has a responsibility to fulfill?
Basically, I'm looking for part-time work to support myself while training to be an artist specializing in painting. It's not going to be easy to find one with the kind of schedule I need, but I'm trying again.
Heads up, I'm working on a side blog to document this artist-in-training arc. With a new character that I will act as (as if the Em persona wasn't enough). More details will come.
Is spinning around a lot with your arms out a stimming thing?
A little Greyson doodle to celebrate him getting a character model
pigeon
what would you like to see me paint next?
