a thousand years / of cigar sour

est. 1996 🔞

[sayruq]

B005t this please

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[gothhabiba]

[ID: Tweet by Mirna El Helbawi (@mirna_elhelbawi) on December 4, 2023 reading: "e-sims are needed on: [email protected] We are running low on: Nomad, Mogo, Holafly, Simly. Make sure you send a clear photo/screenshot of the QR code. Or forward the QR code. We do not press on any links. We do not use blurry QR codes. We do not use "receipts". #ConnectingGaza

Tweet by Palestine Now (@PalestineNW) reading: "To everyone following me your humanity is needed. Communication is now completely cut off. @Mirna_elhelbawi has been [running] this initiative called #ConnectingGaza where she gathers QR codes for eSims and ensures that people in Gaza are able to activate and stay connected to their loved ones and also are able to share the truth. Please help in ensuring they are not silenced. Help their voices be heard! @Mirna_elhelbawi & her team already connected thousands of people in Gaza and it's all documented on their page. They do not accept money donations and they get 0 money for what they are doing. This is completely only to support our people in Gaza.

Images in uploads are screenshots of instragram posts by @mirna_elhelbawi. They are headed with #ConnectingGaza and the phrase "led by @Mirna_ElHelbawi and @ConnectingHumanity_" and read as follows.

First, reminders:

Make sure you send a clear image of your QR code. Blurry images cannot be used.

Do not activate your purchased eSim or it cannot be used.

If you or anyone you know is currently in Gaza/Palestine and does not have access to the internet, send an email to @[email protected] and the @ConnectingHumanity_ team will get you and/or your loved ones connected.

Any data amount is helpful, but sources say >20GB is great, if possible. Plans range from $4-$60 USD.

If you did not receive a QR code, e-mail the carrier's customer service and they will send you one.

Once your email is received, @ConnectingHumanity_ volunteer team will distribute to folks on the ground in Palestine.

Do not resend anything to the team.

Please be patient while the team works with locals to activate your eSims. This process can take upwards of a month to activate. It can be a tricky digital process as local internet is spotty and any small mistake can lead to an insuccessful activation.

Credits:

Organizer: @Mirna_ElHelbawi

Volunteer Dispatch Team: @ConnectingHuamnity_

Step-By-Step Guides: @BintMeetsWorld, @Shintel

Information Consolidation & Design: @ElisaDoesStuff

Navigating Mogo:

Get $3 off: NAZIRA2503

Mogo I Download on your App Store

Once in the app, do the following:

Tap on the "Store" button on the bottom menu bar

Next, in the Data Plan section, tap on the "e-sim” tab and select "Israel" (but we know it's Occupied Palestine)

Select your preferred data package.

Then, click "Submit" at the bottom of the page

Then, sign up or use a third-party login to continue. • Select your payment method, acknowledge all the terms, and Pay (you will need to link your purchase to your phone #)

Once completed, you can leave the app and wait for a confirmation email. Do not install the e-sim.

Once you receive your e-mail, it should contain a QR Code. If you did not receive a QR code, email customer support and they will send one.

Take a screenshot of the QR Code

Email it to gazaesimslulgmail.com with the subject line: [carrier] e-sim.

Navigating: Airalo

Get $3 off: Ashley4027. Pay with PayPal.

Airalo I Download on your App Store

Once in the app, do the following:

First, create an account

Tap on the "Regional eSIMs" tab at the top of the screen and select "Middle East and North Africa" (you can also use the search bar to find this). For countries without this option, select “global.”

Next, select your preferred data package (through Menalink).

Then, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "buy now"

Select your payment method, acknowledge all the terms, and Pay

Once completed, click the "View Instructions" button

Then, tap on the "OR Code" tab at the top of the screen

Take a screenshot of the QR Code

Email it to [email protected] with the subject line: [carrier] e-sim.

Navigating: Nomad

Nomad I getnomad.app

Once in the app, do the following:

Click the Menu icon in the top right-hand side of the screen

Next, click "Shop Plans"

Then, click "Data"

Scroll down to the bottom and select "Middle East". For countries without this option, select “global.”

Select your preferred data amount, enter your card details, acknowledge the terms, and Pay

Once completed, you can leave the app and wait for a confirmation email. Do not install the e-sim.

Once you receive your confirmation email, take a screenshot the QR code. If you did not receive a QR code, email customer support and they will send one.

Email it to [email protected] with the subject line: [carrier] e-sim.

Navigating Simly

Simly I Download on your App Store

Once in the app, do the following:

First, create an account

Use the top search bar to find "Palestine" and click it [Transcriber's note: Mirna has since said that the "Middle East" plan is better than the "Palestine" one]

Next, select your preferred data package and click "Buy Now"

Then, review your details and click "Buy Now"

Select your payment method, acknowledge all the terms, and Pay

Once completed, you can leave the app and wait for a confirmation email. Do not install the e-sim.

Once you receive your confirmation email, take a screenshot the QR code. If you did not receive a QR code, email customer support and they will send one.

Email it to [email protected] with the subject line: [carrier] e-sim.

Navigating Holafly

Pay With Paypal.

HOLAFLY I Download on your App Store

Once in the app, do the following:

Use the top search bar to find "Israel" and click it (but we know it's Occupied Palestine)

Next, select your preferred data package

Then, click the "Checkout" button at the bottom of the screen

Enter your payment details, acknowledge all the terms, and Pay

Once completed, you can leave the app and wait for a confirmation email. Do not install the e-sim.

Once you receive your confirmation email, take a screenshot the QR code. If you did not receive a QR code, email customer support and they will send one.

Email it to [email protected] with the subject line: [carrier] e-sim.

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[hylaversicolor]

hi i know youve not been too active lately so its nbd if it takes you a while to see this. i hope you know your mgs art has changed my brain chemistry. i visit your blog 1-2 times a week to look at it again just so it doesnt fade from my shitty memory. 10/10 no notes i look at them and my heart is in shreds strewn around throughout my chest cavity all over again. wishing you a comfortable life within your home and your (very large) brain

thank you, that means a lot.

right now i have no plans to come back to this blog or to tumblr at all. between the transmisogyny, antiblackness, and islamophobia exhibited by staff and the culture of surveillance and tracking in social media in general, i can’t really return in good conscience. i don’t want to give this website any more of my time or energy. tumblr has shaped me as a human being, for better or worse, but i’m very happy to step away now and move on.

i’m delighted that my art has made an impression. i’m still drawing, considering putting together an art book (hey why not?). if i ever make one, it’ll be posted here.

in the meantime i have no plans to delete or make private this blog. thanks for all the kind comments and tags and messages over the years. they really do mean a lot.

[akkpipitphattana]

the amount of ways we have to qualify the geoncide in gaza in order to get people to care is actually sickening to me. “it’s a feminist issue!” “it’s a disabilities issue!” “it’s an environmental issue!” like i’m sorry but even if this was happening solely to able bodied men and was causing no harm to the environment, it would still be wrong because it’s a genocide and these people are being bombed and killed and starved every fucking day. you shouldn’t need an extra label to give you a reason to care about people that are dying.

[bogleech]

I hate that they keep fucking shrieking at me about how many in Gaza may or may not be The Terrorists because nothing the military butchers have done should be legally acceptable as vengeance against terrorists either. If every single person blown up was actually on the side of a roving band of radical killers the military retaliations would still be unacceptable violations of fundamental human rights. And nobody can deny that thousands of deaths are fucking children. If you think a child can deserve death for being "radicalized" then you were already radicalized long ago and you are more detrimental to society than any child can ever conceivably be anywhere on earth.

[wizard0rb]

ngl when me and my roommate were playing metal gear solid 2 for the first time and olga gestured in a way where you could tell she had visible armpit hair i cheered so loud i think the neighbors heard me

[wizard0rb]

thanks kojima

[wizard0rb]

[sotrias-labyrinth-deactivated20]

All fantasy writers are monarchists (fascists) and all science fiction writers are libertarians (fascists). This is known.

[235kg]

gay porn blogs will reblog the world’s most normal picture of the world’s most normal man and caption it some shit like. His farmer’s tan had consumed his life… ever since he got hit by the Farmer’s Tan Ray

[grundoonmgnx]

Pat Perry, Craigslist Still Life 03, 2022

Acrylic on panel, 22 x 30 in

[uzbekian]

Chingiz Akhmarov (national artist of Uzbekistan) and ceramist Anvar Nugmanov.

[violetsandshrikes]

if i was an animal and i knew i was being observed and researched i would do something super fucked up. but only once. never again. ruin their lives. keep them guessing.

[newblogisjacindaelena]

[omegaverse]

Coord to have food with friends ^__^

[expressions-of-nature]

Lanzarote, Spain by Monso Perez

[huariqueje]

Call of the loon   -  Ewoud de Groot , 2012.

Dutch , b. 1969 -

oil on canvas

[itscolossal]

By Engraving Found Plastic Waste, Duke Riley Links Extractive Practices Throughout Human History

[madtomedgar]

I think a lot of people think of things like racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, homophobia, etc as feeling hatred for x group as x group, rather than, in the case of an individual, as a combination of actions and beliefs that work to maintain a particular system of power. And so they refuse to entertain that they or something they did or said can be, for example, transphobic, because they don't feel hatred for trans people. And so conversations get real stupid real fast.

[sayruq]

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[cottoncandiescupcakes]

People need to learn about the smallest Dutch bird species, ‘De Winterkoning’ which translates into The Winter King. This bird is so round and small.