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spreadsheet of families in Gaza you can help today
donate to:
Buy an e-sim
Help diabetics in Gaza
The PCRF
Anera
UNRWA
Taawon
Help Gaza Children
Sudan Tarada Initiative
Help a Sudanese family escape conflict
Darfur Women Action
Ramadan for Sudan
Period products in Sudan
Sudan Emergency Appeal
Don't donate to World Central Kitchen because even after their members were murdered by Israel, the founder Jose Andreas still collaborated with Israel and recently they served displaced Israeli settlers bombed by Iran and Hezbollah
Donate to these kitchens instead
Do you know what itâs like to watch your family starve? I do. My⊠Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian
The War in Sudan has created the Worldâs largest Humanitarian cris⊠Mustafa Ibrahim needs your support for Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khart
As a result of the devastating strikes and the harsh war that Lebanon has endured, thousands of people have been left without homes, safety,
The veteran Lebanese journalists, Fatima Ftouni and Ali Sheaib, were murdered today by the Israeli army. Their car, labelled clearly as 'Press', was deliberately targeted by an Israeli airstrike. Faced with people willing to speak the truth, the only thing the Israeli state knows is to threaten, maim, and kill. But, in the end, a liberated Palestine will remember and honour the martyrdom of these heroic journalists, while the apartheid regime will be nothing more than a ruin and a footnote in history.
The entire state of Hawaii has endured 40 inches of rain with no end in sight. There are multiple flood zones. 233 people have had to be rescued. A levee will most likely break and raise the water level to be 40ft high in some places.
If you want to help, please donate to the housing for homeless project Hui Mahiâai Aina
And to the no kill animal shelter that needs to evacuate animals Oahu SPCA Veterinary Clinic and Animal Shelter
The Hawaiâi Food Bank and Aloha United Way (AUW) Community Relief Fund are also accepting donations at this time (and other orgs via Dept of Emergency Management, Honolulu)
KIA ORA CREW!!!! they're building a five billion dollar AI data centre of absolutely colossal size in waihĆpai/invercargill.
if you don't want this to happen, it's VERY QUICK to sign this petition which will eventually be sent to parliament! you don't have to be from aotearoa to sign.
no community should have to face the consequences of an AI data centre of this size. the cost is also heinous. this money could go towards so many causes. it would mean the world if you could give this a quick boost by sharing or taking 15 seconds to sign the petition!
If the radio I heard about this on is correct, this Data centre would take as much energy to run annually as the entirety of Wellington City (the capital city for those unaware) all of this during a fuel crisis. None of us asked for this
great! great! great! wow! great! yay!
Not to mention that the groundwater throughout most of Southland - that the data centre will be drawing on for cooling - has extensive nitrate pollution from decades of intense dairy farming.
The same conditions as in Oregon USA, which is rather in the spotlight right now as the data centres there using nitrate-polluted groundwater for cooling have intensified that pollution so much that it's causing cancer and miscarriages.
There's a good chance that on top of being an immense waste of power and decimating the surrounding environment, it's going to kill people
you don't have to be from here to sign! please, please help us stop this.
March 21, 2026 - Puerto Rican activists arrived in Havana carrying suitcases of medicine, as part of the "Nuestra AmĂ©rica" convoy â a solidarity mission uniting over 600 activists from 38 countries to defy the US blockade against Cuba. The convoy joins a growing wave of international aid, all in response to a crisis deepened by Washington's energy embargo imposed in January. [video]
some organizations working on the ground in gaza right now
gaza soup kitchen
the sameer project
salam charity
watermelon relief
Before I log off, im sure you guys have heard about the blackouts in Cuba a result of the oil blockade by the US. Please consider donating this group that is planning to bring direct aid to cuba
Really easy signature. Takes 10 seconds đđŸ
US president declares he can do âanything I wantâ after oil blockade plunges country into darkness
no, the bombing and deaths of thousands of palestinians, lebanese, yemenis, iranians, iraqis and people in west asia and africa are not 'distractions' for the epstein files. we get it you see our lives as less but it's just not. we matter.
lol did you see this? theyâve fully lost their gotdamn minds
A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of Godâs plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was âanointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,â according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.
From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).
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The NCO wrote to the MRFF that their commander âurged us to tell our troops that this was âall part of Godâs divine planâ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.â
Lebanon is still being bombed right now. Thousands of families are being displaced at this very moment. Please consider donating to this grassroot effort.
Lebanon is currently being carpet bombed by the Zionist state. We are back to our emergency response work and in dire need of funds. We are
Eyewitness tells MEE girls aged between seven and 12 seen lying dead across their school
[image text: "At least 85 people, almost all of them young girls, have been killed in an air strike on a primary school in southern Iran, the Iranian judiciary said.
The attack on Saturday morning hit Shajareh Tayyebeh schoolin the city of Minab, in Hormozgan province, as the United States and Israel began launching strikes on targets across Iran.
The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies." End id]
At least 36 children were murdered by a US-Israeli attack on a primary school in Minab in Iran. Only eternal contempt and hatred is owed to those who laid the foundation for this crime, for the Pahlavi stooges and the war fetishists who pushed America and its apartheid vassal as would-be 'liberators'. Damn them all to inferno.
The death toll is around 51 children, and is expected to go higher.
Death toll risen to 70
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (Celeste Davis, Oct 6 2024)
"White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in.
White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value.
Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industryâthe men leave. That industry is then devalued.
Take veterinary school for example:
In 1969 almost all veterinary students were male at 89%.
By 1987, male enrollment was equal to female at 50%.
By 2009, male enrollment in veterinary schools had plummeted to 22.4%
A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling.
But Lincolnâs research found that âmen and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.â
Her research shows that the reason fewer men are enrolling in veterinary school boils down to one factor: the number of women in the classroom.
For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.
One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition! (âŠ)
Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but thatâs not what happens.
Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!
Itâs a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining.
Morty Schapiro, economist and former president of Northwestern University has noticed this trend when studying college enrollment numbers across universities:
âThereâs a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.â
Now weâve reached that 60% point of no return for colleges.
As weâve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.
Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement - college is stupid and unnecessary.
A waste of time and money. Youâre much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college. (âŠ)
When mostly men went to college? Prestigious. Aspirational. Important.
Now that mostly women go to college? Unnecessary. De-valued. A bad choice. (âŠ)
School is now feminine. College is feminine. And rule #1 if you want to safely navigate this world as a man? Avoid the feminine.
But we donât seem to want to talk about that."
very good tags from @downwarddnaspiral
literally saw this tweet this morning
I saw a dude say with his whole chest that biology isn't really STEM
Take a wild fucking guess as to which major has the most female students
Scientific disciplines with more women have lower funding success rates and researcher quality scores , are considered âsoft sciencesâ, and see average pay drop as women enter. This is BECAUSE women do them, not a function of women mysteriously choosing lower-prestige, poorly-paid fields.
My go-to example on this last aspect is computer programming. It was initially heavily female (and at least in the US was a significant employer of Black women in mathematics and related fields, cf Hidden Figures etc), and a lot of those women had mathematical backgrounds, but it was described in terms like âpreciseâ and âdetail-orientedâ - basically a more technical version of secretarial work. Then when men started moving into the field in larger numbers, the language shifts to describing it as creative and visionary, and the pay and prestige moves accordingly. Yeah.
It's ironic that women today must fight for equality in Silicon Valley. After all, their math skills helped launch the digital age
Women were welcome as computers partly because the work was viewed as a dull, low-status activity. Men with elite educations generally wanted no part in it. Not only were women hired, but so were blacks, polio survivors, Jews and others who were routinely iced out of job opportunities, Grier points out.
âThe reason that these pre-electronic computation jobs were feminized is they were seen as rote and de-skilled,â says Mar Hicks, a historian and author of Programmed Inequality. It wasnât true, though: âIn a lot of cases, the women doing these computation jobs actually had to have pretty advanced math skills and math training, especially if they were doing very complex calculations.â
and later:
Though women programmers have made strides in some fieldsâsuch as âfront-endâ programming, for browser applicationsâthe salaries in those specialties tend to be lower overall, simply because the industry regards anything being done by women as easy, according to Miriam Posner, an assistant professor of computer science at UCLA. It is becoming a pink-collar ghetto in coding, Posner notes, rather like the status of female human computers.
(most of my existing knowledge on this is from the UK and US but hereâs another link on the UK)
From as early as the 1840s women have made important contributions to the development of modern computers. Discover the stories of three pio
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discordâs age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open in
Ten days ago, the social chat app Discord announced that it would launch âteen-by-defaultâ settings for its global audience. As part of this update, all new and existing users worldwide will have a teen-appropriate experience, with updated communication settings, restricted access to age-gated spaces, and content filtering that preserves privacy and meaningful connections, the platform said. This, of course, means that to use Discord the way you are used to, youâll have to let it scan your face, and the internet wasnât happy. Many communities quickly announced their move to other platforms. Others, like the security researcher Celeste, who goes by the handle vmfunc, were convinced there would be a workaround. Together with two other researchers, they set out to look into Persona, the San Francisco-based startup thatâs used by Discord for biometric identity verification â and found a Persona frontend exposed to the open internet on a US government authorized server.
In 2026, Ilia Malinin made headlines for landing a backflip at the Winter Olympics after the move was officially re-approved under updated competition rules.
But this moment did not come out of nowhere.
In 1998, Black Olympic skater Surya Bonaly executed a one-foot backflip at the Nagano Winter Olympics, officials had deemed the move unacceptable at the time. She completed it, on one blade, in an iconic defiance of standards that repeatedly limited her innovation and expression.
What governing bodies labeled as ânot allowedâ in 1998 is now celebrated as history-making in 2026.
Bonalyâs backflip wasnât a mistake or a gimmick. It was skill, athleticism, and vision, long before the sport was willing to reward it. And while rules may change, her contribution should not be erased or reframed as an afterthought.
This moment isnât about taking anything away from todayâs athletes.
While Ilia Malinin is being credited with making Olympic history in 2026, the truth is that Surya Bonaly made that history in 1998.
Her one-foot backflip was revolutionary then, and it remains iconic now.
