Words are no longer enough to capture the tragedy my family and I endure.
My name is Wedad Shadi, I am 15 years old, and I live in Gaza, Palestine.🇵🇸
Our home was completely destroyed, and now we live in a torn, fragile tent. We are a family of 7, and my mother, father, and my little sister Mira were injured when our house was bombed.
My mother and Mira are in urgent need of medical treatment, but we have nothing to pay for their care, not even food to survive.
My mother and my sister were injured during the war. I am terrified of losing them… please, don’t leave me without my mother and sister. They need urgent help to survive.
They desperately need medicine and medical treatment, as shown in the videos. Every moment without help is a struggle for their lives.
Please, I beg you… save them, help us, and give them a chance to live. 🙏💔
I have started school, but I could not register because I cannot afford the fees.
Please, I beg you to help us. Donate to save my mother and my innocent little sister before it’s too late. Every contribution can save a life and bring hope to a family in desperate need.
Every day we wake up to the same reality: destroyed homes, no safety, no stability, and needs that keep growing.
People think the pain paused… but for us, it never did.
Even with a so-called “ceasefire,” nothing has really stopped.
The explosions, the drones, the fear — the violations never ended.
And our suffering definitely didn’t.
Your support is the only reason many of us manage to keep going.
Your donation 🙏🙏 — no matter how small — can mean medicine, food, warmth, and a little bit of dignity in a life that’s been stripped of everything.
Please, stand with us. Don’t let this struggle fade from the world’s attention.
We still desperately need you to get back on our feet.
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Hello, my name is Mickey from Michigan USA and I am raising funds for Wedad… Mickey Dee needs your support for Support Wedad's Journey to Sa
I am Inas, a mother of two young children: Muhammad, 7 years old, and Hala, 5 years old. They should have been living their childhood like all children—safe and warm in the embrace of their father. But the war has stolen that dream from us😭😭😭
Six months ago, my husband Anas, a kind-hearted man who endured a life of poverty, was killed by a random shell while on his way to work as a taxi driver. Since that tragic day, I’ve been left to carry the unbearable weight of life alone.
I held a diploma in international secretarial studies and was about to start a job to help support my family. But the war shattered not only our home but also my hopes and dreams. We’ve been displaced six times and now live in a tent that offers no shelter from the bitter cold or the ever-looming fear.
My young children face relentless hunger that weakens their fragile bodies and a cold that knows no mercy for their small hearts. Each day, their cries for warmth and food grow louder, and each day, I feel more helpless to provide them with even the basics of life💔😭😭
I appeal to your humanity, to your compassion. We need your help to survive, to find a safe shelter, and to feed my children. Your generosity could be the reason Muhammad and Hala continue to live and find hope amidst this darkness🥹
Please, help me keep the light of these innocent children from being extinguished by this cruel world
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My name is Gabe. I am from Portland, OR and I am raising funds on behalf of Enas Shukry I… Gabriel G needs your support for Help Enas and he
It's waterproof. It's windproof. It's lightweight and durable. And it's made from the intestines of two bears, painstakingly cleaned and sew
I really wanted to know more about this, especially how the water proof stitching works. Here's more information on this project, and hopefully more in the future!
and i had to wonder.......was it even possible for fictional characters to be friends and coworkers with each other? or could we only exist in a world where all dynamics are processed through the lens of the nuclear family?
once again i'm begging you to understand that the answer to trans people in sports is not just allowing trans women to play in women's leagues, it is the radical gender desegregation of sports as a whole.
Men should not be allowed and encouraged to have their own leagues separate and apart from half the population. Siloing women and trans people into a completely separate space is not equality, it's fully giving away the plot.
And before anyone says "well we can't let women play in men's leagues, the men are fucking terrible and misogynistic." STOP ALLOWING THE MEN TO BE MISOGYNISTIC.
Women's leagues were already the bullshit liberal stopgap compromise. If they are to stick around permanently, it should be in an affirmative stance to make up the historical inequities in athletic development, not as the end-all-be-all final stop on a woman's athletic career.
The radical degendering of sports would solve the "issue" of where trans people get to play. If we don't segregate based on gender at all, there's no basis for excluding trans women.
Looking at sports like skateboarding, bmx, slopestyle mtb, sports which up until very recently have not had any higher level competitions for women. It becomes very obvious how much the disparity in performance between women and men is influenced and enforced by social conditions. Because these are sports that dont particularly favour strenght, or body mass or height, and the variation in body types is fairly broad. And even though there is no inherent limitation for the women to do the same tricks as the men, they perform on a much much lower level. Because if you only have access to a fraction of the resources and sponsorships, and have been told repeatedly (likely for the most of the time youve been practicing the sport) that you cant do as well as men and you cant compete in it and you definitely could not compete against men, then the bar is gonna be a lot lower.
That's not derailing the point at all, that's actually highlighting the fact that the only limiting factors in women's sports achievement are social attitudes and money. The solutions remain the same. Investing in women's and girl's athletic programs until they achieve parity with what men and boys have access to, and continuing to address the misogyny inherent in the attitude that women/girls can't compete on the same level.
To take a small tangent, I wanna talk about a sport-like activity I used to be heavily involved in: Drum Corps International (DCI for short). DCI is a highly competitive marching band league (that's an oversimplification, but enough info for the purpose of this comparison). DCI has two main divisions, World Class and Open Class. Think of these as a major league and a minor league. The main differences between WC and OC are the average age of the members of the corps, the cost of enrolling in the corps, and the amount of time dedicated to training and rehearsal during the season. World Class costs more, has an older average age, and rehearses far longer and more rigorously. Open Class has it's own competitive circuit, and is judged at a slightly lower standard than World Class. OC has its own seeding shows and its own semifinals/finals competition. There is an Open Class Champion named every summer at the end of the season.
And then every Open Class corps also competes in World Class finals week. Every corps in DCI, regardless of division, competes in World Class Prelims, and then the top 24 corps regardless of division advance to World Class Semifinals, and then the top 12 regardless of division advance to Finals. The Open Class champions also get to perform at WC Finals as "the thirteenth corps". When DCI started formatting it's finals competitions like this, Open Class corps got better on average. Having the opportunity to compete at the highest level raised the overall quality of the activity for everyone. Some OC corps regularly make semifinals, some WC corps get knocked out of contention in the process. It's not perfect, but the fact that every corps is allowed to compete in the same competitions is something to be lauded. This isn't a perfect one-to-one with a lot of competitive sports, but I think it's a decent analogue when discussing the effects of economic disparity.
I think, until all of the economic disparities have been addressed (which is as much of a class issue as a gendered issue), women and girls need a space where they can be developed and celebrated. But I don't think that necessitates the existence of Men's Leagues at all. The NHL should not be allowed to bar women and trans people from playing hockey full stop. The NBA should not be allowed to bar women and trans people from playing basketball full stop. There are already women and trans people who play well enough to be in these leagues. The continued existence of Men's Leagues speaks to the misogyny inherent in the culture, and I think the rise of women's sports (the PWHL, the WNBA, the NWSL) is both something to be celebrated but also needs to be understood as a compromise position, not the end-all-be-all of gender equality in sports.
Because it's not equality. It's segregation. It is separate but equal in all but name.
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
hey. talk to your coworkers about this. remember that the "taking advice from everyone except the experts" thing cuts both ways. you can be the non-expert guy at work who isnt an expert and gives someone advice they decide to follow based on vibes, but your advice can be the right advice instead. this is something we can all do.
the vitamin k shot has zero side effects, it doesnt contain any mercury or any other unsafe stuff, it is literally just a vitamin that does nothing except prevent babies from bleeding to death internally. its one of those things that does absolutely nothing except what it's supposed to do, is cheap, and has drastically reduced infant mortality this century and the last
I will not dox my neighbour and post pictures of his house because I am not an asshole, but he just put an addition on his already batshit insane house and I am dying to share.
He lives in a 1950 PanAm passenger plane. I have no fucking clue how he got it here, because we're nowhere near a runway and it still has its wings and its landing gear. The living space is a solid 15 feet off the ground and he has one of those old school staircase vans as his front step. I would assume its not terribly different from living in a trailer or other mobile home, but its way better insulated because its a plane.
Anyway, he just finished a glassed in porch that comes out of the pilots side of the cockpit and its so cool. This isn't some gimmicky airbnb, this is his house and the commitment to the bit is legendary.
this post is getting notes and now my notifs are a solid mantra of "I will not dox my neighbour and post pictures, I will not dox my neighbour and post pictures, I will not dox my neighbour and post pictures "
throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, our generation was inundated with aave. it eclipsed lolcat as the "funny way to talk." ain't nobody got time fo dat turns into dat boi o shit waddup. this is blatantly not an "aracial" or "gen z" way to talk. it IS black english. not to mention the amount of black reaction images!!
WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's
and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.
we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.
all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?
it feels like the effort to categorize slang as AAVE and not 'gen z' or 'gen alpha' slang has really petered out. it feels like we stopped talking about digital blackface in an era where the administration is posting ai-generated videos of black women who speak and act like exaggerated stereotypes and it frustrates me because we all have a responsibility to understand our generation's role in normalizing this type of racist shit for kids today. this needs to be addressed!
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