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something disturbing I see happening a lot is when posts with notes in the tens of thousands sharing fundraisers are nowhere near their goals - obviously I'm grateful that their fundraisers have been shared, and I'm glad that people have donated, but it's still so disheartening to seeing 20,000+ reblogs on one post for a fundraiser and then go to the gofundme and see that the amount of donations is just a small fraction of that.

the most recent example I've come across is Ola's ( @olagaza ) campaign, which she has documented here! as of my writing this post there are 28,318 notes on Ola's post, but only 1585 donations. Ola is still not very far over halfway to the $50,000 goal she's set.

Ola's campaign is line 205 of @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein's vetted fundraiser list. Here's a direct link to her fundraiser:

Hello, I'm Ola, a graduate student from the faculty of science - Al-Azh… Nesma Khazendar needs your support for Ola's Family Call for your S

please donate and share. help Ola and her family survive the horrific circumstances they're currently being forced to endure, and keep in mind that just because a post has circulated widely, there is no guarantee that others have donated.

barishal

Hey guys!

I know we are helping with families in Palestine, but can we PLEASE give Sudan the same energy for a few second?

Many people are displaced, starving, and trying to escape the RSF (Rapid Support Forces) by evacuating to neighbouring countries or overseas.

(If you do not know what is happening in Sudan, click here.)

I want to bring your attention to four (4) fundraisers. Three of them are from Tumblr users! I also have donated to these campaigns, so please consider doing the same! It will help them so much!

URGENT: Eman Abdelrahman (CHF26,218 / CHF38,475).

@emooz-8 | Verified and vetted by @/el-shab-hussein.

This is the link to her extended family's fundraiser!

She and her family are in IMMEDIATE DANGER! The RSF is closing in her location. They can harm her and her family at any time! Eman needs to evacuate NOW!

Sajida's five (5) families (£7,062 / £30,000).

@niqabisinparis | Verified and vetted by @/el-shab-hussein.

This fundraiser is for Sajida's extended family.

They have been displaced from Khartoum for more than a year now and reside in a makeshift home in the scorching hot desert with no A/C and no windows. The temperature can go up 52°C (122°F)! (This is mentioned in their fundraiser).

The last update is that they have received their passports!

Randa and her family (€20,067 / €35,000).

@rnd8

Randa is in Rwanda so the campaign is to reunite her with her six family members! She has posted an update on June 26th, almost three weeks ago:

Her family has their visa rejected when they entered Rwanda, so they are staying in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but only temporarily. They have to borrow money to cover the high cost of living as well as issue new visas for Rwanda. (This is mentioned in her fundraiser).

Elaf Babiker ($18,570 USD / $35,000).

Verified and vetted by @/el-shab-hussein.

Elaf is a medical student in her final year as well as the eldest daughter. She wants to evacuate to Rwanda.

Last update: July 25th!

The RSF has claimed more terrority and closed more borders. It will be much more difficult to leave Sudan via ground transportation. So the best option is to take a flight from Port Sudan to Ethiopia and then she and her family will be Rwanda.

My donation to Elaf's fundraiser is not in the donation match's post. So here is a screenshot.

Thank you for making it this far! I didn't mean to make this long. I try to condense it as much as I can! Either way, please have a look and match!

(07/14/2024)

barishal

Update:

Elaf: $20 in 16 hours.

Eman: Nothing has changed.

Randa: €10 in 5 hours.

Sajida: £100 in 21 hours.

Okay, so clearly, I don't know how to read. I thought Elaf got a $5 donation last night and the night before, but it turns out it was $20! Either way, I am glad that we have something for her. I am also happy to see a contribution for Randa!

Let's keep it going! Please continue to donate and share!

Thank you!

barishal

Update:

Elaf: $20 USD in 18 hours.

Eman: 100 CHF in 2 hours and $5 SGD in 7 days.

Randa: €10 in 8 hours.

Sajida: £100 in 23 hours.

Ah, yes, this is my favorite kind of update: two fundraisers receive donations, and the other two don't. How about we show them all equal love and support? You can do that by donating and sharing! Please keep it going. They need to evacuate as soon as possible!

Thank you!

hunybody

also wait since we're all here we should all donate to this gofundme. it's for 20 people, mostly kids, in gaza for necessary supplies and to eventually leave if they hit their goal. even if the goal isn't reached it's still useful for food etc. good place to donate!!

oakay-deactivated20241117

as fun as clicking the boop button is, remember to also do your daily clicks for Palestine 🇵🇸 !!!!!

seraphimfall

there is an insane amount of antisemitism floating around right now.

i just want to say:

this blog loves and supports jewish people.

this blog does NOT conflate the israeli government, or the atrocities it commits, with jewish people.

this blog is disgusted with those who use or express antisemitism.

this blog knows that if someone needs to invoke antisemitism, they do not actually care about helping palestine or the palestinian people.

this blog will do its best to insure that it remains a safe space for all.

ddeck

▶ zemfira - progulka

palipunk-deactivated20260328

The organizer for Walaa's GoFundMe wanted to share this video here as well - please if you are able to help Walaa and her family escape Gaza during this genocide, I will leave the donation link below. Share with your family, your friends, and your followers - time is running out.

Hi, this is me, Walaa Abusamra, 24 years old and living in the Gaza Strip f… Jae Brieffies needs your support for Help Walaa and her family

sabellart

bringing these guys back around in honor of seeing the beloved once again

the-bastard-king

You can donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund for as little as $1.00.

There is a fee you can choose to apply to cover processing.

Which if you choose to do leaves you with a total of ~$1.35 (USD) depending on the type of card you have.

PCRF has a score of 97% on Charity Navigator.

Adults and children alike are currently dying in Palestine due to starvation. (World Health Organization Link)

The Gaza Strip is one of two places in the entire world that is categorized as Phase 5 (the highest phase) on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale.

So even if you think it isn't enough, remember that donating even as little as $1.35 helps! It's $1.35 they wouldn't have had otherwise. So donate if you can. 🇵🇸

control-z-my-decisions-deactiva

Since the minimum is so low, this is a great place to put the last of a prepaid card, don't just give it back to the card company by tossing it with money still on it! Even a dollar can do good!

vampmilf

i am begging you all to stop treating this site like instagram if you dont want it to be content free by next year

syrcusnt

actually i'm reblogging this again with commentary, fuck it.

There's people in the notes talking about "not basing your worth off numbers", and like. that isn't what this post is about. It's not a threat, either, it's a comment on how this site works, at a mechanical level.

Likes are worthless. Let me say that again.

Likes. Are. Worthless.

They don't do anything. They're a bookmark. They were never part of how tumblr works - in the early days we didn't even have a like button, and the site still more or less acts as though we don't. They're personal bookmarks and the only people who "get" anything from them are you (you bookmark the post) and the OP (maybe a very slight serotonin boost), but they don't keep the post in circulation, they don't keep it alive.

Without reblogs, a post will be dead in the water within an hour. No matter how good it is, no matter how many hours of painstaking love and attention its creator put into it, it will be dead within an hour and never seen again. It gets pushed down the dashboard and nobody aside from the followers who were online when it was posted will see it. And there's a huge difference in engagement on posts that get even one lucky reblog from someone with wider reach - that one reblog shows your post to five, ten, fifteen other people, and if one of those people also reblogs it, and so on and so forth, that's how posts stay alive and in circulation. It's like a contagion, but we're sharing creativity instead of disease.

And that matters. That "lifespan" of the post matters, artists and writers give up on this site and go to sites where posts have longer lifespans because it sucks to spend hours of your life, maybe even days, to get two notes and some fucking pocket lint for your efforts. We create for ourselves, but we share because we want people to see it, because that engagement offers positive feedback and encouragement to continue. But more than that, if every post (whether art, fic, gifset, whatever) is dying within an hour or a day of being posted, that means it's not making it onto your dashboard. And if it's not on your dashboard, you won't see it. This kills the site, after a while. You stop seeing the posts, because nobody is putting them on your dashboard, because this site doesn't have an algorithm like twitter and insta's and it shouldn't, it's the last bastion of chronological timelines.

Forgive my giant fucking rant I am so tired right now and full of the plague but like stop acting like artists and writers are just being whiny little babies, or "threatening" to withhold our fucking work (you're not entitled to it! it's ours! if we get nothing out of sharing it we're well within our rights to keep it private!) when we say this site will dry up without reblogs. We're just stating facts.

sabrinaacarpenters

also I’ve seen some people in the tags say ‘oh there have always been more likes on posts’ no there haven’t ????

these are posts from 2013, look at the ratio

not to sound like a nursing home resident but back then people know that the point of this site was to reblog things and share them, not to bury them away among your other 23k liked posts

swartists4palestine

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Links to donate to Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund & Medical Aid for Palestinians

Donate to a Palestinian family’s gofundme here

embraceyourdestiny

to any americans who feel "paralyzed" and "dont know what to do" to help with gaza:

reading a fucking book. i beg of you.

in a time of knowledge suppression is it your duty to arm yourself with knowledge.

read about americas occupations in the middle east.

read about 9/11 from outside of america and see how they inflicted senseless harm and violence to countless amounts of people and have been suppressing your rights for the past 2 fucking decades.

read about any of the countless wars from the past 30 years. especially from a civilian's. and the victims and survivors' perspective. listen to the horror stories and do not plug your fucking ears as to what your country is doing.

and read about fucking gaza and palestine and keep up with what is happening no matter how "sad" or "uncountable" you might get.

dont look away from this.

you dont have the right to be comfortable during countless active genocides.

if you're knowledgeable, you're powerful, and our current state doesnt fucking want that.

you have the power to change things if you open your eyes and scream to the world.

wake the fuck up.