happy sorrow

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[happy-sorrow]

hello, my beautiful friends!!! 💞

this is a living document that i wanted to attach to my linktree on other websites, with the links to gofundme campaigns to help people in palestine! 🇵🇸❤️

you may have been redirected here from my instagram and/or tiktok - great!! that means it’s working!

so be sure to check these lovely people out, share their links and their stories, and donate if you can. ❤️‍🩹 thank you so much and, as always, free palestine!!

(edits below:)

Taher’s family

Donate to Help Taher evacuate Gaza, organized by Akram Al-Agha

Hello, my name is Tahir Agha. A Palestinian young man from Gaza. I would like to tell y… Akram Al-Agha needs your support for Help T

Fadoua’s family

Donate to help my family evacuate Gaza & continue my university, organized by Mina Namba

I am Abdelrahman Banat, a computer science student who was supposed t… Mina Namba needs your support for help my family evacuate Gaza & cont

Halah’s family

Donate to Help Hala Almzainy´s family to escape from Gaza, organized by Ursula Urdillo

[English/Español/Português/Français] [English] My name is Ursul… Ursula Urdillo needs your support for Help Hala Almzainy´s family t

Rita’s family

Donate to Support me and my family to escape from Gaza, organized by Abdallah Kalloub

Hello my name is layan Please take two minutes to read my stor… Abdallah Kalloub needs your support for Support me and my family t

Alaa’s family

Donate to help Alaa and his Family to Evacuate from Gaza, organized by Mahmoud A F Barbakh

Here is Alaa's story in her own words: Hello,dear supporters٠٠ I … Mahmoud A F Barbakh needs your support for help Alaa and his Family to

Rewaa’s family

Donate to Please help Anas and his family get out of Gaza to be safe, organized by Hatem Daloul

My name is Anas jawad AbuKaresh, I am a pharmacist from Gaza. … Hatem Daloul needs your support for Please help Anas and his family get out

Makkah’s family

Donate to Help little girl Makkah & her family evacuate Gaza, organized by Mohammed Sehweil

Hello, my name is Mohammed Sehweil , We are the Sehweil family… Mohammed Sehweil needs your support for Help little girl Makkah & her fa

Lama’s family

Donate to Lama Shaheen, organized by Mokhtaria Corvaisier

Help us save my sick brother and my family. I collect donations to save my family and my brother, a … Mokhtaria Corvaisier needs your suppor

Jenan’s family

Donate to Help my family evacuate from Gaza, organized by Jenan nabil M Abu Zer

My name is Jenan Abu Zer. I am 33 years old, a wife and mother of three childr… Jenan nabil M Abu Zer needs your support for Help my family

Marah’s family

Donate to URGENT: Please support my family to evacuate from Gaza., organized by Marah Shorafa

Beloved friends, family, and kind-hearted supporters, I am r… Marah Shorafa needs your support for URGENT: Please support my family to e

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samah’s family:

Donate to Emergency: Help me and help my family, organized by ABDEL RAHMAN TOUMAN

Hello everyone, my name is Akram from the Al Salout family. Today I will tel… ABDEL RAHMAN TOUMAN needs your support for Emergency: Help me

asil’s family

Donate to Evacuate Me and my Family from Gaza strip, organized by asil attar

My name is Aseel Karem Al-Attar.I was born and studied in Gaza and I do not know … asil attar needs your support for Evacuate Me and my Fami

nihal’s family

https://gofund.me/5ef6c49c

asil’s family (alternate links)

Donate to Support Asil's Family's Journey to Safety, organized by Asil Karim

My name is Asil Karim Al-Attar. I was born and studied in Gaza and I do not know … Asil Karim needs your support for Support Asil's Family's

Help Asil’s Family Get to Safety

My name is Asil Karim Al-Attar. I was born and studied in Gaza and I do not know anywhere else. I studied at the University of Palestine, Fa

Aseel’s family:

Donate to Help me and my family from the Genocide in Gaza Strip, organized by Shadi and Asil Aljerjawi

Hello everyone, My name is Dr. Shadi Nahed, and I am writing… Shadi and Asil Aljerjawi needs your support for Help me and my family from th

Rita’s family:

Donate to Support me and my family to escape from Gaza, organized by Abdallah Kalloub

Hello, I am Lian from Gaza. I hope you read my story, … Abdallah Kalloub needs your support for Support me and my family t

khadija’s family

Donate to my friends Help me save my family please., organized by Maher Alsafadi

Dear Friends, Family, and Community Members, This GoFundMe will be for su… Maher Alsafadi needs your support for my friends Help me save

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rozanna’s family

Help Evacuate My Family from Gaza

Hello, I hope this message finds you well. I’m Rozana (27 years old) and Rami (29 years old), a couple from Gaza. Until recently, we lived a

rawan’s family

Donate to PLEASE HELP TO RUN OUT FROM GAZA AND SAFE MY KIDS LIFE, organized by Rawan Jaber Abu Qasim

Hi everyone one I will tell my story and I pray to god … Rawan Jaber Abu Qasim needs your support for PLEASE HELP TO RUN OUT FROM GAZA

[beggars-opera]

Just lost a few braincells reading an nyt article about gen z "treat culture" and I can't even fathom that this is a thing. We're living in a dystopian hellscape where someone spending $5 a week on a cookie is considered a wasteful brat because they should have just gone for a nice free walk instead and saved the $250 a year that roughly equals four days' rent. That's why these ungrateful kids can't buy a house, naturally.

I am ALL for free treats, like hiking or reading in the park. But at some point you can't budget your way out of poverty, and you will literally go mad if you deny yourself basic pleasures that are literally all around you. They even lamented that little treats could snowball into doing something absolutely unforgivable like learning how to play the guitar or buying concert tickets.

At what point do we just start saying out loud that living an enjoyable and fulfilling life is now only acceptable at a 100k+ salary, and if you're one of the millions of people unlucky enough not to be in that category you should just eat dirt and be grateful?

[cliffexcellent]

One thing that my perspective changed on after getting to know more autistic people is on multiple diagnoses

I used to see a lot of people make fun of those who had long lists of diagnoses as if that means they must be making it up

But after getting to know more autistic and neurodivergent people... people who have just one condition and nothing else are actually in the minority, from anecdotal evidence.

That's including people who are professional diagnosed as well as those who are self-diagnosed. The number of people who got diagnosed with autism and nothing else is actually relatively small.

I looked it up and found that research backs this up too -- between 70 and 95% of children with ASD have at least one other psychiatric disorder.

And that's just the ones that are known about. A lot of autistic people I know suspect they have some other condition (for example, I suspect I have dyspraxia) but don't seek out a diagnosis because, if you're already getting accommodations for autism, there's not necessarily much reason to pursue an additional diagnosis.

I think this is something that fictional portrayals of neurodivergent people often miss. Generally a fictional character will have just the one thing. Most autistic characters are just autistic, nothing else.

From a storytelling perspective this makes sense. A 2 hour movie isn't really enough time to fully explore one diagnosis, let alone 5 of them.

But I do think it partly contributes to this false perception that diagnoses are these isolated things and only silly people lying for attention would claim to have more than one

[shadeslayer]

its so fucked that not only did they erase our languages and beat and kill our people for using them but they stole the words of important tribes and important people and used them for the military and for trees and for food and for summer camps. average native american name is seen by non ntvs as a joke or something to use or consume, not a human being

[shadeslayer]

i like that ppl r thinking abt town names and things thats very good to be aware of but just to be clear this is actually specifically about other things actually, the things everyone but those looking up their nation forget about

sequoyah was the man who created the tsalagi syllabary before it was ever a tree

if i try to look for apparel or crafts to show off my chickasaw pride, i get results for chickasaw plums which is just a specific species of plum before i get results about human beings

others have mentioned if they google their nations name they get boot companies before their nations website!

theres a tweet that still haunts me that was about a Quirky Quasi American Restaurant in europe or somewhere that was being funny by being cowboy themed and their steaks were named after native american nations. even outside the usa we are nothing but literal dead meat for others consumption

"blackhawk" "apache" - fuck theres a whole wikipedia page for the way weve had our names used for weapons used to colonize and kill us and others!

yes talk about town and location names but you need to look farther than that. it gets so much worse, i promise

[psalmicwitch]

To put it bluntly, the only way to end homelessness is to house people or kill them.

That's it. Those are your options. Homelessness doesn't go away based on "crime crackdowns." You will imprison the unhoused, and when they are free, they will be unhoused again. Or they will die in prison.

When you burn encampments or force people out without their stuff, they remain unhoused or freeze to death.

After working with the unhoused, it's become abundantly clear that those who don't want to support them instead want them dead.

There is blood on the hands of every government and organization that controls the homeless population with force instead of compassion.

[thelawfulchaotic]

And when you start hearing them say shit like “some actually like going to jail, you know, three hots and a cot!” you have my permission to go Feral.

Because 1) actually they probably fucking don’t??? and 2) if they do (I’ve seen this most often when the alternative is literally freezing or starving) what absolute hell were they living in to make a cage seem acceptable?

[noneedforbloodpressure]

Hand soaps recalled nationwide over potential for 'serious and life-threatening infections'

A number of soap products sold nationwide are being recalled over concerns that using them could result in "serious and life-threatening inf

[turtlesandfrogs]

From the link:

"In healthy individuals with minor skin lesions the use of the product will more likely result in local infections, whereas in immunocompromised individuals the infection is more likely to spread into [the] blood stream leading to life-threatening sepsis," the recall alert states.

In an antibacterial soap. DermaKleen, DermaSarra, Kleenfoam, and PeriGiene are the products apparently.

[androdragynous]

Here's a direct link to the products involved, sold in the United States and Puerto Rico. (Recall published August 9 2025, article published August 12 2025)

[bebsi-cola]

disabled people are worth whatever cost or resources is needed to keep them alive. disabled people are worth it even if they don't live long. they're worth it even if they will need extra support and resources for every day of their life. they're worth it even if they spend all they life indoors. none of it is wasted. none of it is in vain. time, effort, money, resources spent on a life are not wasted. these things have served their purpose. the joy of someone's existence is not undermined by not lasting forever. there's no meaningful point, some threshold where you can say "okay this is enough. after that it's not worth it." it's always worth it.

[anglaised]

hard line stance of “no race is superior we are all equal human beings and anyone who believes or promotes the opposite is dangerous” seems to be very difficult for internet “””””””leftist”””””””” to stick to

[crippled-peeper]

dressing feminine is a choice that anyone should be able to make without fearing for their safety and it makes me upset that’s not the case

[statisticalcats2]

There are gonna be people who won't like hearing this but if you want to live in a world where mixed marriages, families, and adoptions (particularly POC adopting outside their "race") aren't maligned and discriminated against, then you have got to get more chill about seeing someone partaking in something cultural that you don't think fits the "race" you perceive them as.

[sigynpenniman]

STOP LINKING ATTRACTIVENESS WITH MORALITY (“notice how the person with the bad opinion is ugly?”)

STOP LINKING WEIGHT WITH MORALITY (“lmao look how fit all the people with Good Opinion are, Person I Hate is Fat”)

STOP LINKING AGE WITH MORALITY (“people with Good Opinion just don’t age I swear!”)

STOP LINKING HEALTH WITH MORALITY (“Well xyz health problem is what Person I Hate gets for being shitty!”)

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT

[3liza]

desegregate all sports now. no more gendered sports. its stupid

if you absolutely must, in primarily muscle force-based sports, create competitive classes like in boxing except separated by body comp, not just pure body weight. i mean, if you must. this will eliminate any tiny advantages in muscle mass. some will say basketball should have height classes but frankly some of the NBA's most impressive players were not tall so idk that this actually matters ever

the primary athletic impediment to all women is overwhelmingly cultural and psychological. i have won probably half the physical competitions with cis men that i have engaged in, friendly or otherwise. even without the benefit of a lifetime of people trying to make me throw or hit balls, i have won wrestling matches, sparring matches, funny backyard foam sword fights, video games, equestrian activities, dance, endurance tests of various kinds, etc. i'm small and weak. men think theyre stronger and more skilled than they are, women think the opposite about themselves

humans just arent that differently-sized or -shaped, as a species. we have almost no sexual dimorphism at all compared to the vast majority of other mammals.

animals that have similar levels of sexual dimorphism to humans, for example cats, dogs, and horses, do not generally have competitive events segregated by sex. the dog agility trials dont normally have separate leagues for male and female dogs (gendered competitions exist they're just unusual). because it doesnt matter. there is no kentucky derby 2 just for girl horses. thats not a thing

remove all gendered categories from online shopping websites and universalize clothing and shoe sizing. im sick of having to search two entirely different sections of ebay when im just trying to find a nice velvet loafer in size 39 EU. what the hell is "women's clothing"

[artyphex]

Apparently there’s a “kids shouldn’t be allowed in grocery stores” thing being spread on TikTok because they might scream or run around and look yeah that’s annoying but at a certain point you’ve gotta just put up with kids being a little annoying in public. Sure the kid pouring milk in the isles is the fault of a shitty parent and should be asked to leave, but a single mom with an otherwise controlled by crying toddler isn’t doing anything wrong. I think you’ll live if someone’s two year old starts screaming in their arms in isle 3. It might be annoying but that mom is probably having a worse day than you

[butchdemiurge]

please do not forget how politically convenient it is for you to earnestly believe sexuality and desire is an inherently dangerous thing that can only be gentled or tamed and can never be a healing or positive thing in of itself

[milfsisyphus]

the weed dispensaries should ask if you would like to round up your purchase to donate to PBS. and if you say yes you get to scan a QR code that gives you 30-day free access to the full run of antiques roadshow. this is how drugs can win the war on drugs again.

[thirdchoiceurl]

IMPORTANT PSA! If you contribute to PBS or any local public broadcasting subsidiary at $5/mo ($60/yr) or above, you gain access to PBS Passport, which has a tremendous library of public broadcast programs available…including the full run of antiques roadshow

[depsidase]

[1theneighborhoodcoffeeaddict1]

If you'd like to do something against this, the ACLU is starting a petition to have construction of this ended. Also, they're suing the Trump regime, which might be more practical. There's also the Friends of the Everglades, a smaller group filing a separate lawsuit against the camp on environmental grounds. You can sign the petition or donate to either group and support their actions.

Shut Down "Alligator Alcatraz"

"Alligator Alcatraz" is an environmental and humanitarian disaster. The cruelty must end. Join me in telling Congress to demand access and b

STOP "Alligator Alcatraz"

[catchymemes]

[stracciatellino]

I've been a proud - user since my mid teens and AI will have to pry it out of my cold dead hands.

[pandaferrets]

I have set easy, memorable keybinds on my computer for both the en dash and the em dash. They were made to be used, after all.

Here's a handy guide on how to use the en dash, the em dash, and the hyphen respectively. I would suggest giving this a read, even if you feel like you already understand how to use them; even I learned some additional use cases when skimming the page.

How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-)

Be dashing—and do it well

If you want to spot AI usage, the em dash can be evidence but it isn't proof. Here's one way AI loves to use em dashes—usually in one of the first few sentences of a passage:

“It isn't just — it's .”