across the water, across the waves

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[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

[hiveswap]

Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally

[xiaguangmagpie]

Yes actually I will not shut up about how these foods are from the Americas/cultivated by the people there, and did NOT exist in Asia, Africa or Europe before the 1490s, there was an absolute food revolution going on in the 1500s. Whatever you think is traditional food for your country? Check again, you’ve maybe only been using that ingredient for maybe 500 years. Here is the full list of crops, it is very interesting :))

[windowz97]

girl who sat next to me at the coffee shop had that Tortured By Computer Work look in her eye so i turned to her and was like Are u doing research? and it turns out she (white) just started working as an indigenous liaison for an ecological wellness surveying company (hired bc she worked with the local nation for a year) so i was like OMG can i share resources with you. and whipped out my 1 million notes and academic papers on ethical Indigenous-settler relations/research and Indigenous perspectives on ecological restoration. she was like omg are u sure this is basically a whole course for free and i wanted to tear my shirt off liek YES!!!! I WANT TO PROMOTE LOW BARRIER EDUCATION TO ADVANCE DECOLONIZATION AND RECONCILIATION!!!!!!!!!!! STEP IN2 MY GOOGLE DOC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[windowz97]

here's a googoodrive folder containing learnings on Experiential Learning in Ecological Restoration annnddd Research Practice in Indigenous Contexts. each course folder contains a "![Course number] Notes" document as well as PDFs of all the text-based readings that the notes draw from :-)

i plan 2 make accessible the learnings from my other classes too but i think ill only have time to do all that anonymizing & reformatting once i graduate in a few months lol

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

[lovedeluxe92]

hi, so i'm just gonna be brutally honest. life is absolutely fucking with me right now. my fiance got fired, through no fault of his own, i can't pick up hours at my job, i've been fucking trying for weeks. and i'd love to doordash on the side but i need new tires so there's that fiasco. i'm doing everything and saving where i can but i need help paying my mortgage and internet bill (50 for that and then 250 for mortgage) please. i have a plumber bill in the mail (cause ofc toilet wasn't working that's how life goes doesn't it lmao) i have to pay off my vacuum and payments on amazon,like every step i take i just get pushed 50 steps back. if you can't give anything a kind message or even a prayer would mean the world. i'll take this down when i get the amount. and i thank you for taking the time to listen bc this is literally the last thing i wanna be doing rn and i dread making this post. literally have $45 to my name after bills this pay period lollllll. but again, thank you for listening i appreciate it 🩷 i am thankful for the community i have on here.

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[wolf-aid]

They deceived us when they told us that there is an International Court of Justice, and they deceived us when they said that they are human beings or that they know humanity, and they deceived us when they said we are with you and will not leave you. They are developing and developing and developing everything in life in order to try to reduce the death rate and preserve the lives and safety of people, but all of this is a lie. Where is all of this in what is happening in Gaza? Why does the International Court of Justice not stop the war in Gaza? Why do they not stop Israel from committing massacres? Why do they let us die? Why do they let us starve? Why do they let us be besieged? Why do they let us leave our homeland by force? Why does this indicate? Where is their humanity? Where is the International Court of Justice that they boast about? Where is all of this about the thousands of children who were killed? Where is this about the thousands of children who were wounded? Where is this about the thousands of children who lost their families, fathers and mothers? Where are you regarding what is happening to us? Hundreds of innocent citizens die daily, hundreds are injured, and dozens of homes are destroyed. Why is all of this happening to us? Aren’t we human beings like you? Don’t we deserve to live like you? We want this? We want a normal life like everyone else. We don’t want to starve, we don’t want to be displaced, we don’t want to be besieged, and we don’t want to be killed. Show some of the humanity that you claim to have. Help us, please, help us. We don’t know how long we will live, so stand by us so that we can get out of here safely. Yesterday a residential square in Gaza was bombed

Please donate

[neechees]

22% raised

[theaceofwords]

Why Tumblr Has Rolled Out ID Verification

UK legislation: Online Safety Act 2023

Brazil legislation: Digital Statute For Children And Adolescents

Apple App Store Age Verification

These are not tumblr specific policies. Tumblr is implementing age verification in response to legislative moves that were made months ago.

Tumblr is a failing social media site that has escaped death multiple times already; they do not have the social cachet to defy state regulatory agencies. We know they won't say no to Apple, either--the porn ban on tumblr was in response to Apple's crackdown on explicit content.

If you did not know this was happening, you were behind the curve. That is fine. You're caught up now. The next step is to link up with people in your country who are working to preserve privacy, to roll back these laws where they exist, and to prevent their passage where they do not. In the US the organization you want is Stop KOSA--in the EU you can start with Fight Chat Control.

Repealing ID verification and blocking chat control will help everyone, especially the most vulnerable. We can push this back, but we cannot get it done through the Feedback form. We have to get it done at the legislative level and lock it down so it cannot be forced upon us. I see lots of anger out there. Good. Put it to use.

[melyzard]

Hey, if you're in the USA, that Stop KOSA link helps you send a letter/email to your rep in like, 5 minutes. You can change the auto generated letter (I did, a little, to make it more personal) but you can just hit Send as is.

[neechees]

Once again regardless of how you feel about ai i think the other insidious thing about it that I hate it for is like the lack of consent for everything involved. Its one thing for generative ai to be available for those who decide to use it. But then its not just that, its these companies doing shit like chrome just did. Its installing essentially malware & Spyware on your devices without consent & making it impossible to get rid of. It's shoving generative ai into every conceivable thing and down your throat with no way of opting out and I fucking hate it

[creatingblackcharacters]

"On the evening of July 1, 1919, Black residents shot at a vehicle that looked like one that had driven through their neighborhood earlier that evening, whose occupants had fired at their homes. The two men inside the vehicle were killed. They were not among the feared local terrorists; they were undercover police officers.

The next day, white residents of East St. Louis went on a murderous rampage. Black residents were beaten, shot, raped, lynched. For three days, East St. Louis was in flames as homes were burned to the ground. W.E.B. Du Bois and Martha Gruening traveled to East St. Louis to interview survivors for The Crisis and gave a grim account of what had happened there:

"from noonday until midnight; they killed and beat and murdered; they dashes out the brains of children and stripped off the clothes of women; they drove victims into the flames and hanged the helpless to the lighting poles."

Historians estimate that over one hundred Blacks were murdered and seven thousand terrified Blacks fled to neighboring cities."

Chapter 4- Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

[savechildamir]

Israel now controls 64% of Gaza Strip, up from 53% in October 2025 at the start of the “ceasefire”.

[savechildamir]

We are now trapped in the shrinking areas left for us, confined to less than half of Gaza with no real life left to live, no safety, no basic necessities, no future. We live among rubble and destruction while insects, rats, and disease spread around us. Israel continues destroying families, children, women, and the elderly with no consequences, while the world watches in silence. It feels as if they are only waiting for people to grow tired of hearing about Gaza so this horror can continue unseen.

[savechildamir]

And we are just one of those families, a father, a mother, and four children trying to survive this nightmare alone. Today, we depend entirely on donations to buy food, medicine, clothes, and the most basic needs for our children. This is not exaggeration or emotional wording; it is our reality. If donations come, we are able to survive another day. If they do not, we are left with nothing.

[savechildamir]

Please do not grow numb to our suffering. Do not let this world take away your humanity. Even sharing our story can help it reach someone willing to save a family or feed a hungry child. We are not asking for luxury, we are a family facing fear, hunger, and destruction every single day, pleading with kind people not to leave us alone in this slow death. Thank you to everyone who still sees the people of Gaza as human beings deserving of life.

[greatathunberg]

This mother is pleading with you for her four children. They are living in dire circumstances due to the war in Gaza. Please amplify their voices to the world, and whoever can help should donate to them.

[nourasbasha]

Food, medicine, clothes, safety, education… these are no longer normal things in our lives. We lost our home, our income, and any sense of stability. And now, like many families in Gaza, we survive almost entirely through the kindness of strangers.

[creatingblackcharacters]

"I do not think I would have the writing career I have today if I had not grown up in the Seattle area. This city has forced me to understand all that is unsaid about race and racism in America. Seattle is in a beautiful location, with water, mountains, and trees just about everywhere you look. It is a city where everyone recycles and everyone votes Democratic. It's a city that has ridden multiple tech booms to many consecutive decades of prosperity and security.

The only thing Seattleites love more than recycling is coming up with new ways to avoid talking about race and the city's issues with racism.

I am, even now as I near forty, followed by security staff in stores. I am followed by cops while driving. I am stared at when I attend social or work gatherings. I hear the reliable "click" of people's car doors locking as I walk past their vehicles in a grocery store parking lot.

My entire life in Seattle has required that I navigate how whiteness refuses to acknowledge itself and yet insists on asserting itself whenever it encounters people of color."

Chapter 4- Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

[quasi-normalcy]

[mosabfamily]

Stop scrolling. My wife is suffering right in front of me.

This may be the last time I write with this much pain, so please don’t ignore us as if we don’t exist.

I’m writing while watching my wife grow weaker day after day, unable to ease her pain or afford the urgent treatment she desperately needs.

The fear never leaves me I’m terrified of losing her at any moment while standing here helpless.

The doctor told us we urgently need around $700 to continue her treatment, and if we cannot raise this amount, her treatment will stop.

All I want now is to save her life before it’s too late.

The cost of treatment and medication is beyond what we can manage, and her condition is getting worse every day.

Please, even the smallest donation could help keep her alive.

And if you cannot donate, please share this post so it may reach someone who can help us.

Please do not leave us alone in this pain. 🤍

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[mosabahmad1]

I’m begging you, my friends, please donate now and share the post. Our last donation was two days ago. Please don’t leave us alone in this nightmare. Every share and every donation could save us.

[herssian]

online numbers can really fuck you up when it comes to your creative work because you're sharing something you worked on with all your heart but it's very important to remember there's actual people behind those numbers. even if it's 1. that's one whole actual person. that's a human being who said "haha nice". that's a connection with a REAL person with a REAL life and REAL thoughts and feelings and experiences. like. damn. that should mean something

[vruba]

“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.”

— Teju Cole  (via feminizt)

[neechees]

Some Gaang nose edits. I didn't like how the movie made their noses super skinny and pointy, so I edited them to resemble their ethnic noses from the show :)

[neechees]

Making a new post for Jamal's fundraiser due to tumblr's fuckass new update. His fundraiser was already regularly stagnant & recieves infrequent donations, so I want to bring attention to it again. We'd appreciate it if you could share this and/or donate, if you can.

There's also a free pin raffle going on should you send proof of your donation to Jamal, run by @seasnicker: check their pinned post for details.

Donate to Help jamal and his family save their lives, organized by jamal aldahdouh

A Young Man from Gaza Dreams of Life – Help Me Survive My name is Ja… jamal aldahdouh needs your support for Help jamal and his famil

Most recent donation was 11 days ago, 36% raised.

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