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Books are in short supply in Gaza right now. Omar has been saving books during the war and taking him with them through multiple displacements. He shared his packing and transport on September 6, 2025.

Omar is on Instagram @ omar.hamad7. He has a Chuffed fundraiser as well.

Available Go Fund Me campaigns for people whose stories have been shared on watermelllonarchive can be found in the resources post.

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@ferretly --and anyone else looking for a transcription/description of the video-- I've transcribed the video below. Let me know if you have any feedback, this is my first time adding video description. :)

Omar stands in front of a bookshelf in a tent. His left hand is bandaged. He speaks to the camera:

"I have been preserving these books since the beginning of the genocide."

Time lapse footage of him putting the books into a duffel bag. The video slows to regular speed and he continues:

"...and I saved many books from the libraries that were burned by the occupation."

Time lapse footage of Omar packing the books resumes. In the upper left hand corner are photos of him transporting books in a wagon and receiving a stack of books from friends. The video slows again to real time speed as he picks up a second duffel bag:

"I have displaced these books with me more than 10 times."

Time lapse continues for a few seconds. By now he is half way down the shelf. The video goes back to real time speed and Omar, crouching to pack books, speaks to the camera:

"I started buying and reading books when I was a child, and I discovered that this occupation monitors the Palestinian scientific curriculum in our schools."

Time lapse of packing continues. He is now on his third duffel bag:

"Today is the 11th displacement. I will secure those books first at my friend's place in southern Gaza, and then I will go back to look for a place for my tent."

Time lapse resumes and he finishes packing. Cut to Omar, tired with a weary smile, sitting on the duffel bags of books. He waves with his bandaged left hand. Cut to Omar shouldering one of the bags to carry away. It is clearly very heavy. The duffel bags strain under the weight of the books.

Video ends.

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Ａｌｃｏｒ　ｃｒｙｏｇｅｎｉｃ　 Hi dev, I wasn’t able to use the new glitch chooser (hosted on glitch.me) or the old glitch chooser, but here’s something that the old glitch cruiser generated.

#glitch #glitch art #submitted #submission

I’ve altered possibly hundreds of images through the Glitch Chooser section of your website. I saw that you were working on moving things over to server side to fix users having errors or non-outputs using your site. I’m wondering how the progress is coming along?

Honestly, I've been distracted - getting a bit deeper into game development and other things like earning a living - BUT part of that is learning ES6 and WebPack, so when I get back into this codebase it may be easier to make the node.js stuff work. I've also been looking into WASM and WebGL (and therefore C progamming) which could speed up the functionality here to better use GPU instead of the CPU. Would be nice if Browser vendors didn’t break my code, but I guess ‘security’ is important.

#glitch art #submitted #submission

glitchartz

Hello, I'm a big fan of your work, I'm a visual artist from Mexico that uses your site often, but for the past month, Glitch Chooser hasn't worked! is there any way you could fix it?

I’ll look into it

……….Turns out Chrome & Opera implemented some new cross-origin security policy that doesn’t like the local file system putting stuff into the local machines memory; I’m working to fix it, but it might take a couple more goes.

glitchartz

PS:

I started porting Glitchy3bitDither to a new platform: https://gleech.glitch.me/ ... there's still a TON of work to be done, but it processes images server-side, so there's no errors like you were getting before... still need to build out the UI the rest of the way though.

Thank you for your patience.

PPS: if anybody wants to help, I think glitch.com has a way to form a team to work on a project, let me know!

#glitch art #glitchy3bitdither #update #call for help

Hello, I'm a big fan of your work, I'm a visual artist from Mexico that uses your site often, but for the past month, Glitch Chooser hasn't worked! is there any way you could fix it?

I’ll look into it

..........Turns out Chrome & Opera implemented some new cross-origin security policy that doesn't like the local file system putting stuff into the local machines memory; I'm working to fix it, but it might take a couple more goes.