Help Thomaserena support multiple Sudanese families and a community kitchen
Thomaserena has been organizing to help several Sudanese families, some who have relocated to Egypt and others that remain in Sudan. In addition to these families, he is also helping a community kitchen afford their operating costs so they can continue to serve displaced families with no where else to turn for meals, clean water, and shelter.
The monthly goals are 72k on gfm for the families and 28k on chuffed for the kitchen.
The operating cost of the kitchen continues to increase due to rising inflation and the ongoing water shortage. Thomaserena unfortunately had to dig himself deeper into dept last month to help the kitchen afford water tankers after donations were not enough to cover the costs. We cannot leave this burden to Thomaserena to carry alone. Please step up to help by donating what you can.
As a Sudanese living in Egypt, my heart aches every day for the people of Sudan - both those still enduring unimaginable hardship back hoke,
Urgent help needed!!
This campaign was originally meant for 4 families as you… Maurice Wenig needs your support for Help Sudanese Famili
Thomaserena is vetted on SudanFunds.com and has been shared by Sara (bsonblast). If you check the updates section on gfm and chuffed, you can also find proof of the transfers ThomaSerena has made.
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I love when people try to gotcha me on my stance that all sports should be gender integrated with "even American football???" because I can instantly come back with "oh lmao, no, I don't think ANYONE should play American football at all, it's way too dangerous" like nice try but I know no amount of testosterone is going to protect you from the profound, life ruining health issues caused by getting repeated severe concussions over the course of several years. No one should play this sport.
Because there's no amount of padding that can truly protect the human body from getting thrown 15ft(4.5 meters) in the air by 250lbs(113 kilograms) of solid muscle hitting it at 21 mph(33 kph).
Truth is, the NFL obvious benefits from football being popular but football gives 99.9% of the people who play it the degenerative brain injury called CTE (chronic traumatic encephalitis) and there isn't really a way to fix that short of dramatically and fundamentally restructuring the entire sport to the point of it no longer really being recognizable as American Football so they spend a lot of money burying former players and doctors whistleblowing about CTE while also spending stupid amounts of money developing "high quality gear" and convincing the public and the players that this special gear protects them when it doesn't, so players keep playing rough thus entertaining and the public stays quiet while hundreds of young, often poor and non-white men are used for profit while being afflicted by profound, horrific brain and body damage all the fucking time until it kills them.
The short answer, you having to ask means sadly the NFL's lies and propaganda have worked exactly as they're intended to. It looks safe, so therefore it is safe. Even if it really isn't. No shade for falling for it tho, they spend a LOT of money convincing the public that American Football is safe when short of boxing and free climbing it's probably the most dangerous sport that currently exists and it truly should not be played at all in it's current form.
That's fair, but the general perception that it's safe is indeed a major part of the NFL's bullshit. I don't think they purposefully launch each other into the air but American Football is absolutely a full contact sport where people collide at ridiculous speeds. If you've never seen it played tho it makes sense to think the padding makes you safe, but this should give you a good idea of how not at all safe this is.
Sorry bout that! Though I sure wonder why the NFL is the one that blocked that video. They do not want people to know.
These are as graphic as I'll risk posting, a quick google of "football hard hits" shows a lot of gifs like this, but maybe don't look if you're squemish. I can assure everyone, there is no amount of padding short of being inside a vehicle with crumple zones and airbags that can save you from this.
Also there was a football player with CTE that killed himself by shooting himself in the chest so that the the NFL couldn't hide what they'd done to him, said so in his note. CTE can only be properly diagnosed postmortem, and if his brain was destroyed they wouldn't be able to prove what he had and use his brain to better understand the condition.
Deeply bleak shit!! As the comment explains:
I cannot stress enough, the padding is an illusion, they'd be just as hurt without it. It does nothing, not really.
There's actually evidence the padding makes things worse by giving the players a false sense of security, which encourages them to act more recklessly. Rugby, the most similar European cousin to this sport, is perceived as more obviously brutal- and indeed, rugby has higher concussion rates than American football. But it has much lower CTE rates (and also, as far as I can tell, DRAMATICALLY lower rates of teenage athletes being killed on the fucking field during games, lmao) because when your head is exposed, you tend to be more careful with it.
You also see CTE in professional boxers, and, fun fact, traumatic brain injuries became much more common once boxing stopped being a bare-knuckle sport, because people are way more likely to hit eachother in the face when you give them huge padded gloves.
It's even more insidious though, because those huge, horrific collisions? Those aren't even what causes CTE. They're dangerous, even deadly, but CTE is a chronic condition. It's caused by FREQUENT impacts over time, and you can get it without ever having a concussion. Even minor impacts can cause brain trauma if your head experiences a rapid change in kinetic force.
We all love the "becoming the very thing you sought to destroy," trope. but I have a growing fondness for "destroying the very thing you sought to become"
I remember one time I got INSANELY high off of edibles while playing Among Us, and it quickly became apparent to the other players online. I forget how honestly but literally anything "sus" I did was ignored by everyone because I was so fucking high. I tested this theory by standing in front of a body and the person that actually reported it didn't even mention me. The funniest part was when I was trying to do wires, I kept fucking up over and over again, so I was just standing in front of wires for actual minutes trying to figure it out. A small crowd of players gathered around me to watch and would get mad every time someone reported a body or emergency meeting because "she's never going to get her tasks done if you keep interrupting them." I don't think anyone cared about winning at that point, they just wanted to see the high crew mate succeed in her tasks.
it's truly insane how much more functional society would be and how much happier everyone would be if every job was perpetually 10% overstaffed (and people who weren't needed could chill and rotate in when needed while still getting paid) instead of 10-50% understaffed but that wouldn't be 'efficient' (in the short term, for shareholders) so fuck everyone I guess
i love how this is always showing up on my dash entirely free of the context that the ood’s response to this question is ‘the beast shall rise from the pit and make war against god’
URGENT: August Is My Family's Last Chance to Escape Gaza and Reunite with Me in Ireland
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2. @riding-with-the-wild-hunt Here .
Please Don't Let Me Lose My Family. August Is Our Last Chance
Thank you from the bottom of our broken hearts. For nearly three years, you have stood beside my family through this devastating war. Your kindness has helped me support them as they have endured life in tents, unimaginable hardship, and the constant fear of bombardment and death.
We will never forget your compassion or the hope you have given us.
Now, FINALLY!!!, There is HOPE ...
I have been informed that my family’s evacuation is expected to take place in August. However, the Irish Embassy and the Department of Justice require us to show sufficient funds in our bank account before family reunification visas can be issued for my wife and our four children.
Without these funds, we cannot complete the visa process, and my wife and children will remain in Gaza, where their lives are in constant danger from bombing, starvation, and the devastating conditions they face every day. Even worse, my elderly parents, siblings and their children entirely depend on funds I send them in the incredibly harsh conditions they live!
We lost our home and everything we had in this hellish war and all my wife and children have right now is a tent in the living hell of Gaza.
My Irish college is providing the necessary supporting documents, but we urgently need your help to meet the financial requirement for them to be able to start a new life in Ireland.
If you are able, please donate and share my GoFundMe with friends and others who may have compassionate hearts.
Your support could help save the lives of my wife and four children.
Please Donate if you can, reblog our life saving blog and share with your friends.
Your kindness and support is the only hope I have to save my family!
People say: "Family always comes First," and to that, I say: "Amen!".… Mahmoud Khalaf needs your support for Death chases my family in Gaza;
My family is being torn apart, piece by piece. While my wife and children have finally been granted family reunification visas, my elderly and sick parents, my three brothers, and my five sisters are still trapped in Gaza, waiting and hoping for their chance to escape.
The applications of my parents, brothers, and sisters have been put on hold by the Irish authorities, who have asked me to provide evidence that I can financially support them when they are evacuated to Ireland.
This is why reaching our fundraising goal is SO URGENT. I need to be able to show that I can support my family and help them through the evacuation and the difficult process of rebuilding their lives in safety.
I cannot stop fighting while the people I love most are still trapped behind in the vicious cycle of death, displacement and suffering.
If you can donate, please help us. If you cannot, sharing our campaign could mean everything.
Me: Yeah so I've started a new sport, I got my first tattoo, I like the way I look and there's a lot for me to look forward to. It feels like since I started transitioning I've achieved more than in all the nearly forty years before put together.
Shadow the Hedgehog: Interesting. It's as if you've been wearing limiters this whole time and you realizing you wanted to live as a woman was what broke the limiters.
Me: Yeah, it's a lot like that.
Shadow the Hedgehog: Hmmm... tell me about this "estrogen."
I am raising funds for Yesmin, a 27 year old mother from Gaza and a victim of the ongoing genocide. Here are her own words:
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Hello friends, I am Yasmin from northern Gaza Strip. I am 27 years old, a mother of two children, Sila and Youssef, and I have been married for more than 7 years.
I was studying Journalism and Media at the University College, and I had both a home and a job. But because of the war, I lost my home, my work, and everything I owned.
My family’s house was also destroyed, and now we have nothing left except a worn-out tent whose torn walls cannot protect us from the heat of summer or the cold of winter.
My husband is injured. He was involved in a traffic accident while trying to get aid, and he is now disabled and unable to work.
My children have suffered from malnutrition due to the lack of food and proper nutrition.
That is why I am only asking for your help and support. I am here trying to save what is left of my children’s lives. They are between life and death.
Please, try to support us and donate whatever you can.
