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[pomeg-glitch]

A collection of Palestinian fundraisers I’ve received and been asked to spread the word for — updated 29/07/2025:

🍉 VERIFIED:

Sahar and her family, whose campaign is verified and had to restart their campaign from scratch: $14,198/30,000 CAD, with 633 donations so far. Can be found @fahedshehab-new.

The Baalousha family, whose campaign is verified: $77,805/90,000 USD, over 3,800 donations so far. Can be found @mahrahpalestine. This campaign is almost complete, but it’s stagnating.

Ahed and Maisoon Alanqar and their children, whose campaign is verified (#174): €15,081/40,000, over 700 donations so far. Reached out from @ahedfamily. This campaign is currently frozen.

Heba Matar and her family, whose campaign is verified: $7,450/30,000 CAD, just 325 donations so far. Can be found @hebamatarsblog. This campaign is stagnating.

Amal Musa and her family, whose campaign is verified: €13,376/125,000, just 660 donations so far. Reached out from @helpamalsfamily.

Mohammed Al Deeb and his family, including @robarabah, whose campaign is verified: €3,610/35,000, just 145 donations so far. Can also be found @mohammedrabah2. This campaign is stagnating.

Amal Ashour and her family, whose campaign is verified (#175): €67,757/75,000, over 3,400 donations so far. Can be found @amalashuor. This campaign is almost complete, but it’s stagnating.

Nour Ashour (Amal’s sister) and her family, whose campaign is verified: £14,276/80,000, with only 818 donations so far. Can be found @noor-y-ashour. This campaign is stagnating.

The Rania family, whose campaign is verified by association: $4,511/35,000 USD, with only 239 donations so far. Reached out from @omarfamily80. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Ahmed Al-Habil and his family, whose campaign is verified by association: €19,614/50,000, with only 577 donations so far. Reached out from @ahmedomar3. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Asmaa and her family, whose campaign is verified: $11,520/50,000 USD, with only 482 donations so far. Can be found @asmaamajed2. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Ahmed Khalil and his family, whose campaign is verified: €23,433/50,000, with over 1,200 donations so far. Can be found @ahmed0khalil. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Walaa and her family, whose campaign is verified: $15,363/50,000 CAD, with 808 donations so far. Reached out from @ahmed79ss. This campaign is stagnating.

Ghazal Naseer and the Al-Kafarna family, whose campaign is verified (#355): £39,389/50,000 with over 2,300 donations so far. Reached out from @amal-alkfarnna--14. This campaign is stagnating.

Ayman Al-Habil and his family, whose campaign is verified (#305): €24,170/60,000, with 863 donations so far. Reached out from @malak4ayman. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Ahmed and Dina Alanqar and their family, whose campaign is verified (#264): €89,778/100,000, with over 4,400 donations so far. Can be found @zinaanqar. This campaign is no longer frozen and almost complete, but is severely stagnating.

Eman Zaqout and her family, whose campaign is verified: $46,906/60,000 CAD, over 2,300 donations so far. Reached out from @emannzaqout. This campaign is almost complete, but it’s severely stagnating.

Aziz Zaqout and his family, whose campaign is verified by association (Eman’s son in law, see above): $23,038/70,000 USD, with 860 donations so far. Reached out from @aziz-zaqout. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Imtithal and her family, whose campaign is verified: €8,913/50,000, just 546 donations so far. Reached out from @imtithalcrusadecreator. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Najah Al-Haila and her family, whose campaign is verified (#49): €14,016/80,000, almost 1000 donations so far. Reached out from @najahmeq5. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Anas, Ahmad, and their family, whose campaign is verified: €54,694/59,000, with over 2,900 donations so far. Reached out from @ahmedbasilps. This campaign is almost complete!

Muhammad Atalla and his family, whose campaign is verified: €26,197/82,000, with over 1,600 donations so far. Reached out from @mohammedatalah-amir-malak. This campaign is stagnating.

Nevin Al-Sir and her family, whose campaign is verified (#314): €3,759/50,000, with only 219 donations so far. Reached out from @nevenfam. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Mohammed Alwadiya and his family, whose campaign is verified (#1013): $14,596/35,000 USD, with 824 donations so far. Reached out from @mohalwadiya. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Ahmed Matar and his family, whose campaign is verified (#33): €7,407/64,000, just 294 donations so far. Reached out via Heba Matar. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Mahmoud Khalaf and his family, whose campaign is verified (#151): €62,151/65,000, with almost 2,500 donations so far. Reached out from @supportgaza. This campaign is almost complete!

Rahaf Al-Ghandour and her family, whose campaign is verified: £2,002/100,000, with only 95 donations so far. Reached out from @kisirahaf. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Ahmed and Asmaa Alanqar and their children, whose campaign is verified: €7,346/30,000, with just 385 donations so far. Reached out from @ahmedalanqer. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Khawla and her family, whose campaign is verified by association: $55,201/80,000 USD, with over 2,500 donations so far. Reached out from @khawla-family2. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Sabah Mohammed and her family, whose campaign is verified: £9,399/50,000, with just 655 donations so far. Reached out from @familysabah. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Mohamad and his family, whose campaign is verified: €7,817/20,000, with 518 donations so far. Reached out from @adambinali. This campaign is currently frozen.

Yahya Alhabil and his family, whose campaign is verified: €7,474/50,000, with only 289 donations so far. Reached out via @murderbot. This campaign is currently frozen.

Nader Ahmed Gibril and his family, whose campaign is verified: $7,439/50,000 USD, just 367 donations so far. Reached out from @nader1990.

Areej Kassab and her family, whose campaign is verified (#355): $11,962/60,000 USD, with 627 donations so far. Reached out from @areejfamil. This campaign is stagnating.

Jehad Kessab and his family, whose campaign is verified: $6,989/100,000 USD, with 384 donations so far. Reached out from @jehadkhaled.

Shada Kassab, Hussein Barakat, and their son Adam, whose campaign is verified: $5,371/100,000 USD, with 296 donations so far. Reached out from @suppirtadamfil. This campaign is severely stagnating.

Samar Al-Shawish and her family, whose campaign is verified (#53): €31,642/45,000, over 1,900 donations so far. Reached out from @samarsh11.

Ahmed Naser and his family, whose campaign is verified (#37): €5,172/100,000, with 278 donations so far. Reached out from @virovac. This campaign is stagnating.

The Alostaz & Atallah families, whose campaign is verified: €26,266/82,000, with over 1,600 donations so far. Reached out from @eman1sblog.

Mai Mohsen and her family, whose campaign is verified (#392): $2,392/5,000 AUD, with 108 donations so far. Reached out from @maimohssen.

Motaz and Huda, whose campaign is verified (#527): $6,882/30,000 USD, with 351 donations so far. Reached out from @journalistmotaz. 

🍉 NOT YET VERIFIED:

Rola and her family: £10,383/80,000, with 358 donations so far. Reached out from @mohfamily. This campaign is stagnating.

Mohamed Altelbani: $399/50,000 CAD, with just 31 donations so far. Reached out from @hamodfamily. This campaign is severely stagnating.

[natequarter]

not only are most people completely unaware of the devastation of indigenous languages in the americas, most people are completely unaware of the devastation of indigenous languages in europe. never mind occitan, they don't know about basque! it's wild! bleak! existentially horrifying!!!

[natequarter]

the last few centuries of french history involved, amongst other things, a concerted effort to establish "french" as a legitimate country and cultural identity, and crucially as a language, which sounds like an absurd statement if you know nothing about the languages of france. french is a language, yes; it exists and existed in the late eighteenth century. but it was limited primarily to the north of france and was certainly not spoken or even understood across the country. other languages within france were banned and french was enforced following the french revolution and even to this day other languages indigenous to france have very little legal protection and are not recognised as official languages.

that's just one country in europe. one. and many people straight up have no idea about any of this!

[natequarter]

did you know france has celtic languages? breton is the only celtic language spoken outside of the british isles. did you know france has germanic languages? alsatian, for example, is spoken in the east of france, unsurprisingly in alsace. it's not even the only french germanic language. did you know france has a number of languages and dialects known as langues d'oïl closely related to french? norman and picard, for example, are spoken in the north of france. did you know that france has gallo-romance languages? franco-provençal (which has a number of dialects) is spoken in the east of france, as well as parts of switzerland and italy. did you know that france has a language most closely related to catalan, the langues d'oc? occitan is spoken in the south of france and has a rich literary history. did you know france is home to basque, or rather euskara, a language isolate which predates indo-european languages? romani dialects! corsican! so much more than just french! there are even extinct jewish dialects of occitan! extinct langues d'oïl like angevin! so much linguistic diversity and all anyone talks about is french.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[hms-no-fun]

so i feel the urge to add a bit of context here because i find the vague on-screen text deeply underwhelming.

this is not just "a picture", it's Pale Blue Dot, one of the most famous works of astrophotography ever made public. and it was not just "a dying spacecraft", it was Voyager 1, a probe launched in 1977 to study the atmosphere and moons of Jupiter and Saturn, among other things. both Voyager probes carried on them a golden record meant as an introduction to humanity for any alien species that might discover them (if you saw Kane Parsons' Backrooms, you've heard the contents of that record coming out of a cardboard caveman standee). they did this because NASA planned to sundown these probes by letting them drift out of the solar system to parts unknown. Voyager 1 is currently 16 billion miles away, the farthest any manmade object has ever traveled from earth.

AND it's not even dead! despite supposedly being a "dying spacecraft" all the way back in 1990, Voyager 1 is not expected to be fully out of commission until 2036. to keep the probe alive they've switched off unneeded tools, adjusted its trajectory, even essentially updated the firmware, and through all that time it's basically never stopped sending back priceless data for scientists to analyze.

this is the original Pale Blue Dot, by the way:

it's relevant because "a single point of light smaller than one pixel" makes a lot more sense in the context of the original than it does in the heavily corrected version up top, where our pale blue dot looks more like a vibrant dwarf star. the difficulty of spotting earth in these waving curtains of space IS the entire impact of the picture! the blue dot is "pale" because it's hard to see! by making earth stand out so brilliantly, Terribly Interesting have inadvertently created the impression that earth is this vibrant glowing pearl, bright for all to see for billions of miles around. and it just isn't! the point is not that we can see earth from far away, but that we almost can't, because we aren't the center of the universe! when science educators past have used this image they often referred to one where the earth is circled in bright red, which only further emphasizes how small and fragile our home really is.

but hey, if you DO want an improved version of Pale Blue Dot you don't even need photoshop:

this is Pale Blue Dot Revisited, released by NASA in 2020. this is a reinterpretation of the original data using modern image processing techniques to create a more realistic or at least more high-definition rendering of the scene. it's important to understand that this is not the original image dropped into photoshop and airbrushed. strictly speaking, there isn't an "original" Pale Blue Dot the way there are negatives of traditional photography. astrophotography is almost always the product of raw data being deliberately interpreted by scientists, so the same data can produce many different images (ie if they want to emphasize the infrared spectrum vs visible light). similar work was done by Don P. Mitchell in ~2005 to enhance images taken by Soviet Venera probes of the surface of Venus to be less noisy.

here's an original:

and here's Mitchell's version:

i'm not here to argue which is "better" (and i highly recommend you read the source for this one because it's quite fascinating), just to give another example of the process in action and hopefully clarify how it's distinct from editing a jpeg in photoshop. also i just think it's neat!

which is the real reason i went to the trouble of making this post. Terribly Interesting may indeed find all of this to be terribly interesting, but it appears to be interest for the sake of a vague transient feeling of having been interested and little else. it doesn't name the probe, the photo in question, nor does it give historical context for the mission it was part of. the only substantial thing it says about the probe, that Voyager 1 is a "dying spacecraft", is so frustratingly oversimplified it may as well just be a lie.

so what's actually learned here, if you're someone who knows none of this history? that one time there was a thing and it did a thing? earth tiny from far away?? obviously it's just one image macro but i see this kind of thing making the rounds SO often, a screenshot with like two sentences on it explaining the image with as little descriptive text as possible. it's like there's a space-themed inspiration-posting rulebook that says you can't imply the existence of information not contained within the image. mention NASA? mention Voyager 1? mention Pale Blue Dot? nope! "a dying spacecraft" took "one last photograph", and here's a photoshopped version to make earth more visible.

and it might not even get to me nearly as much if this was any other space photo. i could accept that space stuff is complicated and this kind of fast-food image can only say so much if we were talking about Cassini or JWST's role in helping us find exoplanets. but this is Pale Blue Dot, the brainchild of arguably THE science communicator Carl Sagan! he wrote a book about Pale Blue Dot, he was on TV to announce the image personally! it's arguable that no astrophotograph exists whose context has been more digestibly packaged for laymen than Pale Blue Dot, which just makes it that much more egregious when someone doesn't go to the trouble.

so much of what i love about astronomy and studying the past & future of space travel is that everything you can learn is a doorway to learning more. you can't earnestly read about Voyager or Cassini or Venera or any other mission without finding some odd searchable detail and going "wait, what is that" and immediately falling down an hourslong rabbit hole to find an answer. and you'll never reach the bottom! i love reading articles about cutting edge astrophysics written for people in, like, early grad school, because i fully comprehend maybe 10% of it, vaguely understand 20% (on a good day), can kind of wrap my head around 30%, and find the rest totally inscrutable... but that's still a solid 60% scrutability rating even at the lowest-quality end of the spectrum! i'm no expert and i never will be, but in scouring the written expertise of others i almost always find one or two ideas that end up sticking with me forever. and it starts, every time, from questions about a photograph.

the sin of the above image is that it's solipsistic. it doesn't give you anywhere to put your curiosity or interest, doesn't invite you to leave their website and learn more than they have space to share, it doesn't even tell you anything useful about its subject! it reduces the entire history of Pale Blue Dot down to a vague and nondescript wonder that's just a pale imitation of the highly specific and ideologically driven wonder that Carl Sagan wanted us to feel.

here, feel it for yourself:

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[P.S.: before you lament that this is an "AI" problem, while yes "AI" has radically increased the volume of low-value (often negative-value) inspiration bait like this, know that this has been a problem in online science education for a LOT longer than chatgpt's been around. this example isn't extraordinary, just close to my heart. nothing new under the sun and all that]

[hms-no-fun]

lmao someone else got their knocks in on this post before i could finish writing mine. clearly we are hand in hand re: Talk About How Cool Voyager 1 Is You Fucks

Reblog by @katjohnadams · 1 image

💬 0  🔁 109  ❤️ 245 · Okay, I need to add some clarification and correction to this. This photo is known as The Pale Blue Dot. It was take

[tpwrtrmnky]

The idea of Mario and Peach having any kind of relationship beyond the occasional kiss on the nose and "mama mia" is like viscerally incomprehensible to me

Not like in a prude way I just can't conceive of Mario experiencing... urges. He's a character outside the scope of that. I'm not saying he's asexual either cause positioning him on the allo/ace spectrum implies that it's a dimension of his character that at least exists, that he has at some point noticed it. I think he just jumps.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Luigi probably fucks though.

[tpwrtrmnky]

#op interrogate yourself about why you think this right fucking now

So unlike Mario, who continues to be essentially a void with no internality, I actually act with thoughts and intent and already did do that when writing this post.

Mario is a mascot of one of the most sanitized corporate brands in existence. He differs from real, full-fledged ace people in that his sexlessness is not queer, not transgressive in any sense of the word, just a void left by his position as a player character. He has no queer identity because he has no identity beyond the fact that it's-a-him, Mario.

[antigyro]

Ok but why is Luigi different

[tpwrtrmnky]

displays internality by being capable of fear. to fear is to have something to lose. and what does he stand to lose? fucking.

[jarmes]

Similarly, I don’t know if Peach could comprehend the concept of sex. There is no light beyond that blank stare. She doesn’t not understand anything besides baking and being a princess

Daisy fucks nasty

[tpwrtrmnky]

Peach lives a life that is almost entirely defined by her position as an object of other people's desire, wherein she is robbed of autonomy by Bowser and expected to reward Mario with signs of affection. I think if anyone in Mario has complex thoughts about sexuality to work through with a therapist, it's Peach.

[demilypyro]

What I'm hearing is Daisy needs to take Peach to a strip club

[tpwrtrmnky]

It's crucial to help her escape from comphet

[memorycycle]

the handle of the jug being hollow so that some milk gets in it is genius because its a spot where they can just chill and not have to worry about fake social rituals and small talk

[aesungaia]

Everyone's Friend

[averyterrible]

TRIP REPORT. Dosage: .25L hot chocolate, 15g marshmallows. t-5m: began heating water, feeling anticipation. t2m: extremely cozy throughout whole body.

[busket]

white people appropriating aave is always irritating but specifically the use of "-ahh" like "goofy-ahh" "stupid-ahh" bro if you are not black just say ass. ass belongs to everyone, dumbass. are you afraid of cursing?? youre stealing the language of black americans cos you don't want to be caught saying a bad word like ASS ?

[tvguts]

something about Toy Story toys is so strange to me. versions of animated characters based on real world toys, turned back into toys that are slightly different than the actual toys. slinky dog with a rubber spiral instead of a classic metal slinky. the porcelain bo peep and cloth woody turned into jointed plastic action figures. when toy story 4 came out and i saw a $30 talking action figure of forky, a character made out of a spork and a pipe cleaner, i stood in the walmart toy aisle staring at it like cameron from ferris bueller's day off staring at that painting in the art museum

[noelle-ism]

I will not call myself or other people "gooners" or "npcs" or "larpers". i will not call things i dont like "slop". i will not use terms like "-oids". i dont like how common language is slowly becoming more focused on shorthand terms for hate and apathy

[pocket-deer-belly]

apparently there's already a dutch fan translation of deltarune in the works that only has chapter 1 translated. might fuck around, who knows

[pocket-deer-belly]

fucking brilliant

[anton--rayne]

a bra and a hijab are the same thing in many ways

[anton--rayne]

Hijab is not much different from many different hair coverings which used to be extremely common throughout the world. All of those had their own religious connections with them. Hair coverings were often a tool of both religion and "modesty", the loaded gendered concept. Nowadays it's most commonly associated with Islam therefore it strikes out as Abnormal. A bra too serves the same purpose, yet its considered the "acceptable" tool of Modesty with no loaded baggage whatsoever while Hijab is the "backwards" tool of modesty with Evil Baggage. The same concept, when it's Muslim racialized, is Backwards and Violent, yet the violence of the bra, because it is accepted among White people too, is acceptable and invisible

[anton--rayne]

Can you imagine if tomorrow wearing a bra was seen as completely backwards, but nothing else changed socially for women, yet the new policy was to force women to take their bras off in public? What, that sounds like the wrong way to go about it to you because it would be humiliating and misogynistic? Now lets apply that humanity to other people's cultures

[bbyhog]

monster needs to release a "smol bean" flavor. that tastes like pure cinnamon roll

[pokkin]

monster needs to release a heckin pupper flavor that tastes like wet dog

[jame7t]

monster needs to stop these two before their dark work is complete

[anglaised]

“trad wives just need to realize their inner queer!” i promise u the white women that believe in the great replacement theory don’t have inner queer thoughts they are just nazis

[depsidase]

[mangonetics]

wow this pizza is great it's so good it's unreal *remembers the unreal engine is dogshit* I mean uh it's Source how good this pizza is

[gilgameshhimself]

(Getting swindled by a genie) it’s like talking to a fucking tumblr user with you

[higglety]

the genie: how dare you say I'm fucking a tumblr user