the nefarious anglerfish

see my about!

[imitationfeline]

Palestinian fundraisers

I don't have to tell you that circumstances are horrific for Palestinians.

I know that potential donors often have limited resources and it can be hard to decide who to help, since so many are in dire need. But the people below have all reached out to me directly, their blogs are still active, and as you will see, most of their fundraisers have only reached a small fraction of their goal; in many cases their campaigns have gotten little traction.

Whatever you can give will make a positive, material difference for people struggling to survive genocide. You can read their stories below in their pinned posts and GoFundMe pages.

islamfamily99 NEEDS GOFUNDME ORGANIZER

alimeq92 GoFundMe campaign €3,135 raised, €70K goal

anas--ahmed GoFundMe campaign €6,315 raised, €29K goal

moh-hassouna GoFundMe campaign €902 raised, €10K goal

s-sa-mo GoFundMe campaign €7,862 raised, €10K goal

mah99moud GoFundMe campaign €533 raised, €15K goal

hazemsfamily GoFundMe campaign €17,862 raised, €50K goal

nevinfamily12 chuffed.org campaign $162 Raised of $50,000

hebanaseif GoFundMe campaign €3,014 raised, €50K goal

ranensworld GoFundMe campaign €10,088 raised, €80K goal

ahmed-walid-sadeq94 GoFundMe campaign €947 raised, €70K goal

maramrafat GoFundMe campaign €4,571 raised, €45K goal

ahmedalnabih17 GoFundMe campaign $710 raised, $50K goal

abued GoFundMe campaign $1,375 raised, $29K goal

abuhamza94 GoFundMe campaign $1,711 raised, $20K goal

saeid19 GoFundMe campaign €245 raised, €50K goal

khaledblogs GoFundMe campaign €262 raised, €57.3K goal

amirashawikh GoFundMe campaign $2,145 AUD raised, $60K goal

mayarram GoFundMe campaign €4,200 raised, €20K goal

soheelsweedan GoFundMe campaign €1 095 raised, €45K target

noor509 GoFundMe campaign $42 755 raised, $45K target

abuadam86 GoFundMe campaign €3 955 raised, €50K target

jomana-ha GoFundMe campaign $23,273 raised, $60K goal

marymfamily GoFundMe campaign € 4,286 raised, € 50k goal Last updated November 3, 2024.

[cartooncoyote]

Is google threatening me

[the-uss-premise]

Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)

[catluvr985]

[captain-price-returns]

*jumps at you with a wet thud*

[maureen2musings]

Madeira, Portugal

michael.paramonti

[stupidestasshole]

soimething purple just happened

[closet-keys]

Israel systematically targets the health of pregnant mothers and infants in Gaza. This is a reality every parent in Gaza knows. It has also been confirmed repeatedly by others. Pediatric healthcare professionals in Gaza have been bravely speaking out about how Israel is currently using restrictions of formula into Gaza to torture and kill Palestinian babies.

[closet-keys]

My friend Nader recently became an uncle to his newborn baby niece, Masa. Due to the traumatic stress and malnutrition experienced under genocidal conditions, many mothers cannot produce breast-milk. Masa, like tens of thousands of other babies in Gaza, relies on formula to survive. Today, Nader told me that this little girl is in the hospital now due to a severe chest infection. She is only 8 days old. Please help her.

[abdalsalam-2000]

I woke up today to the tears of my brother's wife, the mother of little Masa, who is suffering from a severe chest infection and is currently in the hospital under medical care. We implore you, friends, to help us get out of this situation and donate to buy milk and other necessary baby supplies for this child so we can leave Gaza. Please don't hesitate to donate.

[closet-keys]

Nader's fundraising is vetted (gazavetters #4) and supports his large family of nine people, including small children of which little Masa is the youngest. Israel's systematic targeting of children means that the price of formula, diapers, medicine, and other basic supplies are extremely expensive. Please help him raise the funds needed to help innocent Masa survive genocidal conditions.

[charl0ttan]

please help nader with anything you can!

[markovchaingang]

you guys do realise walking doesn't actually move you anywhere right? it just destroys you entirely and places a perfect copy of you right in front of where you were standing

[sailatina3]

I like how the infamous tiannemen square tank video shows literally nothing bad happening to the guy at all whatsoever.

[tamamita]

[ferristriangle]

So, just out of curiosity a few years back I clicked on a headline for like an annual day of remembrance for tiannemen square, and it included a video so I wanted to see if they would play the full clip.

That clip stopped at the same point that the clip is always stopped when used in news stories, but the article linked a source about tiannemen square for further reading.

I clicked on that source, and it was very similar to the first article, roughly 2-3 short paragraphs of declarative statements, the same clip edited to cut off before it shows "tank man" climbing on top of the tank shortly before walking away unharmed, and another link to a source for further reading about the events at tiannemen square.

At that point I wanted to see if I would ever get through this chain of an attribution of an attribution down to any primary sources or even a single article that just showed the full, unedited clip at the very least.

Every link I clicked on had the same exact structure. It was an article from a major publication, they all featured either the singular famous still frame of Tank Man standing in front of the tank or they showed the edited clip that is cut before the clip shows him walking away safe and unharmed in order to imply that the tank ran him over, they all had a short summary of events and then the "source" provided if a reader wanted to verify the facts of the article was just another article repeating the same thing which linked to another article repeating the same thing which linked to... and so on and so on.

I probably went a few dozen links deep and never found a single article that used any primary source documents or historical analysis or investigative reports as a source for any of the claims made in the article. The only primary source to be found was the singular video that every article refused to show in full.

And to be clear, this isn't just some odd quirk of this specific event. This pattern is exactly how most modern propaganda makes its way into the public consciousness. When a claim or accusation is made and the source making the claim is of dubious veracity (such as when the US state department, intelligence agencies, and various affiliated NGOs make claims about states or groups that are targets of US aggression and intervention), then going through this process of publishing hundreds of articles that amount to little more substance than saying "BBC reported that NYT reported that The Sun reported that WaPo reported that The Guardian reported that an anonymous state department official said something happened" serves two purposes.

The first purpose that this process serves is that the original source that is of dubious or sometimes completely discredited veracity is now buried from scrutiny under and attribution of an attribution of an attribution of an attribution.

The second purpose this process serves is that it creates the appearance of academic, journalistic, and/or scholarly consensus even though this large volume of reporting ultimately traces back to a singular source.

Anyway, this is a fun and good practice that everyone should get into the habit of that totally isn't jokerfying in the slightest!

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[shithowdy]

i've decided i'm going to learn more about yellow-headed blackbirds than anyone else. this is a strange and almost juvenile-sounding goal but no one seems particularly interested in studying them. if you try to search for information on them or certain behaviors you get the generic field mark and blurb guides, a few paywalled academic articles, and... posts by me, funnily enough. i just made a separate blog for my bird photography, but expect another at some point specifically focused on my documenting the colony of these birds that i now visit weekly.

i'm not a spiritual person, nor do i believe in the prophetic power of dreams, but i do think they serve as important windows into our fears and motivations and i think it says something that the only time i have actively photographed a bird in my dreams it was indeed a yellow-headed blackbird.

[shithowdy]

look at my blackbirds boy

[shithowdy]

the more i read about these birds the more insane i feel. i think the isolation of this tiny marsh might actually be doing some galapagos shit to the blackbirds there because everything from their vocalizations to their nesting habits completely eschews known data.

did you know that they are capable of imitation? don't worry! apparently no one else does either, but i have personally overheard them doing terrible approximations of not only red-winged blackbird songs, but also rooster crowing, ring-necked pheasant squawking, and what i now believe to be an eastern meadowlark song (which i have captured on video, something about which no one gave a fuck!!)

they are supposed to be drawn to marshes with deep water, over which multiple females will weave nests in single male controlled territories of typically 1k to 6ksqft. the waters of this marsh are wading depth, and the males control micro-territories of what cannot be more than 500sqft each-- territories that they share neutrally with marsh wrens.

this marsh is the last surviving 50 acre oasis of wetland in what used to be hundreds of miles of it, now turned into farmland. yellow headed blackbirds have been migrating across this continent for over 100,000 years according to fossil records. how does one compromise with their instincts telling them to travel a specific, ancestral route that looks and feels nothing like what their genetic memory tells them? they adapt, or they disappear, and a bird like this could never accept silence. i don't think.

[soshinee]

if u think abt it i guess bald ppl are the most aerodynamic. i bet if u shot a bald person out of a cannon they wld fly way further than a haired person

[soshinee]

which of course is a huge advantage in day to day life

[waxenneat]

This was a man, dressed as a plant, making pigeon noises at people walking by. I said hello, asked if it was okay to take his picture, and then asked why he was dressed as a plant. He said, “I’m just working through some stuff. Thank you for asking. No ones asked yet.”

[anekie]

I’ve been dealing with stuff the wrong way. 

[sobcat]

people who do a PhD are running from something

[petits-pois-carcinogenic]

the job market

[uovoc]

I went to this Northwest Passage museum once where they had the white explorers' journals on one side of the exhibit and the native people's accounts on the other side of the exhibit and the explorer journals were like "our canoe had almost sunk when we encountered some kindly Indians" and the native histories were like "we watched a bunch of strangers come down the river in the shittiest canoe you'd ever seen. Also, they had no rain gear"

[abandonedniche]

i love how the stakes of Walter White’s tragedy are that he’ll die of cancer at an upsettingly young age with very little to show for his ambitions in life despite being a near-genius at chemistry but the premise of Jimmy McGill’s tragedy is that he becomes this guy

[piningmarten]

[dovvvvv]

this is how charli xcx sounds to straight men