living in eskew

she/her

[maxknightley]

everyone more pretentious than me is an insufferable poseur and everyone less pretentious than me is a clueless philistine

[maxknightley]

romantic and sexual partner.

[northgazaupdates]

Urgent surgery needed to save Gaza teen’s leg

Mohammed is in a crisis situation, on which you can find more information under our “#mohammed al habil” tag.

Mohammed has been unable to attend his physical therapy due to lack of funds. The condition of his leg has deteriorated as a result.

He now requires an urgent operation in order to save the function in his leg. Mohammed is only 18, and he is terrified of spending the rest of his life with only 1 usable leg.

The operation costs $4,000. Currently, Mohammed's campaign is at just over €17,000. This represents the total funds raised over time, not the funds currently avallable.

New temporary goal: €21,000 EUR

Need to raise: €3,712 EUR (about $3,828 USD)

Please help Mohammed save his leg!

NOTE: I am unable to effectively fundraise for Mohammed. We are urgently hoping for bloggers who will be able to devote time and attention to promoting his campaign. Please consider making a post for Mohammed to promote his campaign so he can save his leg!

Donate to Please help me escape from Gaza , organized by Mohammed Alhabil

Hello, I am Muhammad Al-Hubail, the son of the martyr and my martyr brother, from G… Mohammed Alhabil needs your support for Please help me

[northgazaupdates]

Mohammed's surgery is scheduled for Monday, 20 January 2025

That is 5 days from today. He needs to be able to pay for the surgery by that day, or it will be cancelled, and rescheduling puts him at greater risk of permanent disability.

It is possible to pay the bill in installments. However, Mohammed wants to pay as much of the bill as possible in order to get the expense out of the way. I'm setting our new temporary goal at half the cost of the surgery, which will bring us to €19,567 EUR, but I'm hoping we can exceed that goal before Monday.

New temporary goal: €19,567

Currently: €17,792

Progress: €225

Need to raise: €1,775 EUR (about $1,828 USD)

[northgazaupdates]

UPDATE

Mohammed’s surgery was yesterday. We did not raise the full amount, so he agreed to pay in installments. He had hoped to avoid this, but it was not possible.

Unfortunately, the surgery was only partly successful. To restore functionality to his leg, he will eventually have to travel outside of Gaza to get the care he needs. This is an extremely expensive prospect, and we will need to raise funds for this in the future.

Now, however, Mohammed is $2000 USD in debt to the hospital. Multiple people on the ground in Gaza have told me that the collections departments of Gaza’s few remaining medical facilities have become extremely aggressive. They are using imprisonment and threats of violence and legal action to bully impoverished, displaced people into scrambling to find money they do not have.

Mohammed has no income, and nor does anyone in his family. Additionally, his family has multiple disabled members who require expensive ongoing care, so they cannot help him with this bill. He is weak from starvation and only has one functional leg. We are deeply concerned for his safety should be come under scrutiny by the collections office.

Please continue sharing Mohammed’s campaign, and donating what you can. The sooner we get this debt paid off, the sooner we can start collecting funds for his evacuation and treatment abroad.

Current: €19,446 EUR

New temporary goal: €21,446 EUR

Need to raise: €2,000 EUR (about $2,086 USD)

[northgazaupdates]

UPDATE!!

Mohammed’s family has begun the trek to the north. They are traveling mostly on foot, which is impossible for Mohammed at this time. He is all alone in the south of Gaza, and still needs funds to pay off his medical debt.

Please keep sharing Mohammed’s campaign and donate what you can. He is lonely and feeling extremely down right now, he needs all the support he can get.

Current: €20,105 out of €21,446 EUR

Need to raise: €1,341 EUR (about $1,400 USD)

[northgazaupdates]

Current: €20,149 out of €21,446 EUR

No donations in more than 2 days!! Please help Mohammed out by sharing his campaign, and donate if you can!!

Need to raise: €1,297 EUR (about $1,347 USD)

[hateusandseeifwemind-deactivate]

If you've ever felt good when you did something, that's because youre an addict. You are a fucking junkie and you need to stop right now

[madmoths]

something you can do today is donate to an abortion fund in florida and to an abortion fund in south dakota since abortion rights measures failed there. you can find one to donate to in one of those states here: https://abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/

[naggingatlas]

clickable link for those on mobile

[remanence-of-love]

[ya-prosto-super]

[neenarchive]

maidens if you are going to flee dramatically from my castle in the middle of the night once i reveal my true nature to you please leave your candelabra on the little ledge by the portcullis we are running out of them

[neenarchive]

starting to think these maidens are stumbling in soaked through from the rain just to steal my beautiful gowns and homewear are any of you actually lost

[elektrashocktherapy]

At the checkout in Home Goods loading the belt with nothing but candelabras in all shapes & sizes while the cashier watches sympathetically and asks if it’s the maidens again

[feluka]

please think of the disabled people of gaza. please think of the diabetic people of gaza. please think of the neurodivergent people of gaza. please think of those whose lives are relying on medicine that has either stopped coming in due to the blockade, or is available in such scarcity that its price has skyrocketed.

we're approaching winter. on top of the challenge of securing waterproof tents and sufficiently warm clothing, some diabetic people in gaza have stopped taking their insulin as they can no longer afford it. those who are able to acquire it for now know every shot may be their last.

[feluka]

mohammed @ahmed0khalil, only 19, has been injured with shrapnel in his leg.

his father is diabetic.

one of his younger siblings is blind, and another is autistic.

imagine that kind of pressure during a genocide.

Donate to Help Ahmed Khalil's family evacuate to safety, organized by Mohammed Khalil

Hello, among the hundreds of tragic stories, I am sharing my painful sto… Mohammed Khalil needs your support for Help Ahmed Khalil's family

the least we can do is shoulder some of the financial burden. don't forget about the disabled people of gaza.

vetted here

[sharkface]

It's kind of funny that so many people think America is only a fundamentally evil and parasitic entity when the "bad guys" are in office. Elementary schooler type understanding of politics

[sharkface]

How can you not understand that no matter how progressive America's policies could theoretically get it was still founded on genocide and thrives on global exploitation. Like you cannot seriously think that if things got marginally better for you or even for a lot of people that it would erase that. It does not deserve to exist either way

[sharkface]

America destroyed the entire world and is on a fast track to killing everyone for profit both directly and by attrition through ruining the climate of the fucking planet but god forbid you can't always have bananas and chocolate or t shirts made through slave labor or a new cell phone every year. God forbid anyone else's life be valued at even a fraction of yours. Everyone else might as well die so everything can stay cozy for you huh.

[omegaversereloaded]

guys i think the chattel slavery and genocide country might be Becoming a little fascist! Who can be sure though

[txttletale]

so many liberals have a significantly bleaker view of the world than the most nihilsit burn-it-all-down walmart firebombing caricature of a "leftist" you could possibly imagine

[twinsfawn]

“omg yay the first trans member of congress!!!” please be fuckin serious

[plaidos]

seeing a lot of comments like this from the “too young to remember an election before 2016” crowd and as ever it goes to show that usamericans don’t consider foreign people humans. the Obama administration spearheaded over 500 drone strikes and opened up concentration camps to genocide migrants. when you say shit like this, you’re saying “ahhhh remember when i didn’t care about all the crimes of the american empire? good times”. incredibly callous, privileged behaviour.

[el-shab-hussein]

Obama-led drone strikes kill innocents 90% of the time: report

Drone strikes conducted by the United States during a 5-month-long campaign in Afghanistan caused the deaths of unintended targets nearly ni

When I talk about the zionist genocide in Palestine and the United States' tactics to justify it and go through with it, I often compare it to the American genocide in Iraq, precisely because the similarities are so striking, the justifications are similar, and the actions were bipartisan in American politics. It doesn't matter who's in charge of the United States because the U.S. is an empire, it is a machine of subjugation and exploitation of the rest of the world. It has never not been that since its very inception as a set of British colonies, its first expansionist and genocidal crime. Stop fooling yourselves. All your 'leaders' had blood on their hands.

[estrellasrojas]

The other thing with the lesser evil shit is it makes people completely incapable of seeing the continuity across party administrations. Obama heavily expanded the ICE system established under Bush and created the concentration camps at the border, Trump continued and extended Obama’s policy to even broader demographics of migrants, and Biden and Harris have just continued Trump’s policies but focused on the borderlands themselves instead of challenging inland sanctuary cities and whatnot. This happens regardless of which party is in leadership, because the point with this way of thinking is the state itself. And communists should be focused on opposing this imperial capitalist state. We should be seeing the administrations as relevant primarily to the strategy we take against the state, since they are simply ways to arrange that state’s own strategy. If you look at a faction of the bureaucracy as your allies, or even your leaders, you’ve already lost at doing anything but rubber stamping decisions emanating from the state itself

[txttletale]

[enters hater mode] the destiel breaking news thing is the least funny meme on this website. there's no joke! the original was funny because when the episode was just out you expected to see screenshots of the original on the dash so it was jarring when it was edited to be about the election and therefore funny. now i only see it when someone is posting a gross oversimplifcation of a news headline because it wont get any traction if they just post the article and someone with ten checkmarks who doesn't read the news is replying WHY DO I ONLY GET NEWS THIS WAY ADSLAKDAS

[clarabeau]

Instructions for how to download a Youtube video using VLC on Reddit

Instructions for how to navigate the underworld on an Orphic gold tablet

[glowcowboy]

save me hot shower