oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built
I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar
I grew up with this book, which is frickin’ enormous, and it was endlessly fascinating to young me to pour over the side by side comparison of events taking place concurrently under different headings and in different parts of the world.
Or if you want something you can put on your wall, there’s this:
Last night, I sat beside my baby Qais as his wound leaked pus and blood again. I watched him cry in pain, powerless to help. I will not forgive anyone who scrolls past and keeps browsing without sharing my post.
Qais urgently needs surgery and medication, and I cannot afford either. Every minute without help makes his condition worse. Please donate now—your support can stop his suffering and save his fragile life.
I am begging as a mother who has nothing left but hope in strangers. Do not let silence bury my child. A share, a donation, a moment of compassion can keep Qais alive today.
Donations are almost nonexistent, and Qais’s medicine has completely run out. I am watching his pain grow with empty hands. Please donate now—your help can buy medicine and save my child’s life.
I refresh the page over and over, hoping for mercy, but nothing changes. Qais is still bleeding, still in pain, still waiting. Please don’t let hope die here—donate now and help save my baby.
Every night I fear sleep, because I don’t know if Qais will wake up again. His small body is exhausted, and time is slipping away. Please don’t leave us alone—donate now and help me keep my child alive.
If you're planning to eat good soon please think of your neighbors as well. Please help ease Palestinian hunger by donating to Ele Elna Elak (an organization that's been the most effective in providing clean water n food)
Please, call me Frankenstein. Frankenstein was my father, but stealing his name and overriding his presence in the dominant cultural consciousness has been really, really satisfying
I am Mohammed Qassem from Gaza. My sister gave birth to a small angel (tamer )and our family increased a new child.
In all countries of the world, when a small child comes to them, they rejoice and have a good face and happiness for them. Except here in Gaza, with his coming, a great march of suffering begins to provide milk and diapers for children. The siege that Gaza has gone through and what it is going through to this day and preventing the entry of these necessary and special needs for newborn children and their mothers made them thin children, some of whom are distorted by the effects of the bombing and the deadly smell of gunpowder. In these times, my sister gave birth to a small child like an angel who came after suffering, constant hunger and lack of glandular supplements that all pregnant women in Gaza need. This angel needs special attention to provide milk fortified with supplements and diapers. Please do not deprive us of your support for the childhood and humanity that is killed in Gaza. Until now, Israel prevents the entry of these necessary products and cleaning for personal care, and this is what causes prices to rise madly because of this scarcity of these basic resources.
Please don't ignore this urgent need and have a simple contribution to help our family and the little angel 🧑🏽🍼🤱🏽
My name is Mohammed, a Palestinian living in Gaza. For over 650 days, my family and I have lived through the nightmare of war. I've lost my
I am Eman from Gaza, 29 years old. I stand before you as a human being trying to protect her children. I am married and a mother of two children: waleed, 8 years old, and Layan, 5 years old.
We live a life filled with fear, hunger, and displacement. We have been displaced seven times and are now in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, south of Gaza. It is difficult for me to describe what we face daily in Gaza: no food, no drink, no medicine, oppression, helplessness, psychological pressure, doubt, and daily trauma due to the loss of loved ones in Gaza.
The crossings are closed, prices are high, the stones have become more severe on us, we have not found food in the markets to eat, my children are suffering from a shortage of food, the situation here is absolutely catastrophic.💔
Now, I find myself in this difficult situation. I humbly and strongly ask you to help me save my children's lives. All we want now is to buy them some food, due to the high prices and the closure of the crossings.🍉
Please help the AlMadhoun family evacuate their children from Gaz… Claire Griffin needs your support for Urgent Fundraiser to Evacuate Layan
Please help me to provide food for my children and save them from the famine we are living in.
Your help will greatly help alleviate our suffering. I hope you will share my story with your family and friends.
Thank you to everyone who stands by us and helps us during this difficult time we are going through.🤍🥹
We need your help, the situation is unsuitable and dangerous, we need your help, you are our last hope... Food, clothes, milk, and everything else has become expensive, and we are in the holy month of Ramadan...😭😔🤲
We want food to eat after fasting for 15 hours, nothing is like before... The prices are very expensive...😞
The elderly, our children, us... we all need food, drink, medicine, milk and winter clothes... We live in tents that do not protect us from the cold of winter. 🥶
Please help us... Any donation will save our lives and the lives of our children.🙏😭👶
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Hello, I'm Lama from Gaza, I'm 24 years old, and my husband Mohammed is 30 years old, we got married in 2022 in a beautiful, warm and quiet
🚨‼️The crossings have been closed for more than two months, with no food.‼️🚨
The situation is very dangerous.😭 We are on the verge of death, from hunger on one hand and from bombing on the other. Please help us and donate so we can buy food. Every donation will save our lives and keep us alive.🙏🫂
Now that zionist occupation announced they are going to occupy all of Gaza, their genocidal intent is clear. This was always about ethnic cleansing. That's why they systematically destroyed Gaza and murdered so many civilians. If you still support Israel, you are openly in favor of genocide.
What comes after their homes were destroyed and they were forcibly displaced from their homes? Now they are suffering from famine, siege, killing, bombing and starvation. They no longer have money to buy the bare necessities of life. Save Zeina and her family before it is too late. They no longer have a home to return to and they have no one but us to help them and stand by them in these difficult times. Donate to them now through the link to their verified campaign from Gazavetters number 213.
Sadly, Only 4 people responded today, and we received €30. It’s not even enough for 3kg of flour and water for my family of 6.
We’re surviving day by day — but it’s getting harder. Please donate and share post even share can reach someone who can donate and help me and my family .
Zeina and her family's campaign has been verified. They carry the number 213. They ask for your help and donations to buy them food. They are from Gaza.
My friend Zeina and her family, along with more than a million people in the northern Gaza Strip, are under threat of forced displacement to the south within the next few hours by the Zionist occupation. They have been denied food and water, their homes have been destroyed, and now they will be forced to flee under a barrage of shells, bombs, and missiles. What they are going through is a catastrophe in every sense of the word. Please, they are in desperate need of your help—donate and share.
Really my friend they do not deserve this suffering, starvation and displacement, they deserve a bright and secure future, please my friends they need our help and donations to get some support and assistance, donate to them now and share the post
It is unfortunate what is happening to us day and night, morning and evening, by the fascist Zionist occupation, from starvation, siege, killing, destruction of our homes, the elimination of our future, the destruction of our property, and the forced displacement that is imposed on us by force. It is also unfortunate that it is happening in front of the eyes of the entire world. Please, my friends, we are suffering a lot. We need your support and help by donating to me and my family, any amount, as it may make a big difference in our survival.
Have you ever been unable to access education because of trauma or poverty?
Have you ever lost someone you love to state violence (police, military, etc.)?
Have you ever struggled to provide care for loved ones when you, too, were struggling?
Have you ever faced months of food insecurity and realized there were no social nets that could catch you as you starved?
Did you answer "yes" to any of these questions?
No, I've never experienced these things
Yes, I've had one or more of these experiences
Voting ended onJul 17, 2025
If you have never experienced these situations, please recognize the incredible privilege and luck you hold, and keep reading. If you have experienced any of these situations, please hold on to your empathy for this kind of despair, and keep reading.
My friend Mahrah Balousha (@mahrahpalestine) is living all of these experiences at once.
She can no longer afford fees to attend Al-Azhar University where she was pursuing a degree in engineering. She is enduring constant trauma. Just yesterday, Israeli occupation targeted a place just a few meters away, and saw the body of a pregnant woman who had just been brutally murdered. Who gets to access education? She is brilliant and she is not allowed to flourish because ethno-nationalists have decided nothing a Palestinian woman could ever accomplish is worth more than their own power.
Her eldest brother, who provided the most care and support to her father, was killed by Israeli military. She grieves his loss every day.
Mahrah and her brother Mahmoud (@palestinian95) are doing everything they can to care for their elderly parents and their young nephews.
Israel has constructed a famine in Gaza as a tactic of genocide, and the artificial scarcity of food has driven the prices up to insurmountable heights. The only existing aid is lethal to access, as Israeli snipers use aid distribution sites to massacre families seeking food.
To protect each other from this horrific fate, Mahrah and Mahmoud are trying to avoid aid sites and use campaign funds to buy food at the markets for their family.
The Balousha family is surviving week to week on the donations that come through this fundraiser. Any donation offers immediate and vital relief from nightmarish starvation and famine.
Their family fundraiser has been vetted by 90-ghost and shared by fairuzfan.
Please, please donate funds to the Balousha family.
Imagine risking your life just to gather food for your family—only for shells to rain down on you as you wait in line.
Images: (Top) A recent photo Hossam sent us of him and his infant daughter Habiba, assuring us the family is still alive. (Bottom) The messages Hossam was able to send to us, detailing a recent attack on civilians that he survived.
@diana-family
Written by @rumiandroses
This is the horrifying reality Hossam Al-Qazzaz faced this week.
Already displaced from their home, Hossam, his wife Hanan, and their four children—Bashar (9), Hani (8), Diana (4), and 9-month-old Habiba—are struggling to survive in a battered tent on the coast after being evacuated once again from the ruins of their home in Khan Younis.
To feed his starving family, Hossam often walks over 14 kilometers to reach aid distribution points; an incredibly dangerous journey, where many are shot or trampled in the ensuing chaos of the actual distribution.
Just days ago, while at one such aid distribution site, tragedy struck:
Shells were fired into the crowd.
Hossam was there with his brother-in-law, Mohammed Zanad (who we've previously written about HERE), and Mohammed's son, Abdul Rahman, when the violence broke out. Hossam suffered minor injuries to his face, but his brother-in-law and nephew were badly injured; Mohammed was badly injured by shrapnel across his entire body, while Abdul Rahman suffered a severe injury to his right hand. As of this writing, he remains in a British field hospital awaiting evaluation; the little boy’s hand may require amputation.
After days without contact due to the internet outages in Gaza, Hossam messaged us this morning, frustrated and exhausted:
“We were together, the three of us, at the aid distribution site, and a missile fell on us and those present. Now we can only pray for them. He is a poor little boy. I hope God heals his hand. Please pray for him...”
Like so many in Gaza, the Al-Qazzaz family is trapped in an endless cycle of terror, injury, and loss. They are battling hunger, constant bombardment, and the inability to flee because of closer borders and war-induced financial hardship. Skyrocketing food prices and destroyed infrastructure make basic survival nearly impossible, forcing Hossam and others like him to go to these dangerous aid sites to simply not starve.
Please consider donating to the Al-Qazzaz family's fundraiser. Every dollar we send the Al-Qazzaz family helps Hossam and feed his wife, four young children, and elderly parents without having to risk death to do it; buy formula for the youngest child, baby Habiba; help support the family financially as they are continually forced to relocate and start over with every attack that claims their belongings; and cover any necessary medical care or other essentials for the family.
The trauma this family is enduring is unimaginable, and they need help urgently.
If you are able, we implore you: please share the Al-Qazzaz family's story far and wide, and donate, of you're able. Their campaign has stalled, and they haven't received any donations in days. If we all contribute even a little, we can help this precious family survive—and give them a chance to escape this nightmare.
You can donate to the Al-Qazzaz family's GoFundMe campaign here:
Dear reader,
I am Hussam Al-Qazzaz from Gaza, and I am wr… nouraldin alqazzaz needs your support for Support Hossam’s afflicted family t
This campaign has been vetted by @gazavetters, and is (#287) on their list of verified campaigns.
Sources (independently verified across multiple international outlets):
1. Reuters — Israeli tank shelling kills 45 people awaiting aid trucks in Gaza, ministry says — June 17, 2025 https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-tank-shelling-kills-45-people-awaiting-aid-trucks-gaza-ministry-says-2025-06-17
2. Associated Press — At least 51 Palestinians killed while waiting for aid trucks in Gaza, health officials say — June 17, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-gaza-aid-06-17-2025-7af5503ea7d2176674fba26d34f6ef74
3. The Guardian — Dozens more people killed or injured seeking desperately needed aid in Gaza — June 19, 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/19/dozens-more-people-killed-or-injured-seeking-desperately-needed-aid-in-gaza
4. Washington Post — At least 51 Palestinians killed while waiting for aid trucks in Gaza, health officials say — June 17, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/17/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-gaza-aid-06-17-2025/da07a62e-4b4d-11f0-8fff-262d6ec54ab9_story.html
5. Financial Times — How Gaza’s food queues turned into kill zones (analysis of the June aid-queue attacks) — June 2025
https://www.ft.com/content/8cbea8ef-fdfe-4e75-916e-59b0820242ed
Hello my friend, I hope you are well. Please share our post just once. We have not received any donations for two days and we have not had any food for my four children for a while. Please try to help us.
Please donate to us if you can, we are in great suffering.
With the summer heat rolling in I really wanted to take a moment and highlight a program I am a big fan of, A.N.E.
"Adopt-A-Native-Elder (A.N.E.) serves to help reduce extreme poverty and hardship facing traditional Elders living on the Navajo Reservation. A.N.E. is a trusted humanitarian organization focused on delivering food, medical supplies, firewood and other forms of Elder support. Respecting the tradition and dignity of Navajo Elders, we create relationships and honor and serve the Elders.
The Program is organized in the Native American Spirit of the Giveaway Circle. The Giveaway Circle has a tradition of giving the best that we have. That may be a gift of time, talents or skills, or actual gifts of food and donations. When asked what the boxes of food meant to her, Ruth Benally explained that they were like "miracles from the sky." The miracle is the letters and gifts that arrive from people that they don't know and may never meet.
For over 30 years, Adopt-A-Native-Elder has used an integrated approach to go beyond charity to assist indigent Elders on the Navajo Reservation in Utah and Arizona."
A.N.E also puts on an annual rug show & sale, you can read about last years here. Apart from their annual events they also host an online shop where you can buy jewelry, woven baskets, and elder made rugs. All proceeds go towards providing support for our elders be it food, medical assistance, firewood, weaving supplies and so much more.
Not in the market for beautifully made Indigenous crafts? Well they also accept general donations, buy specific items for elders in need, food certificate sponsors, rug show sponsors, and of course adopting an elder.
Adopt a Native Elder Website, Instagram, Facebook, & Twitter
"Desperate, hungry people in Gaza continue to face the inhumane choice of either starving to death or risk being killed while trying to get food,” UN spokesperson Thameen al-Kheetan said in Geneva.
Aid sites operating under a US-backed model are now scenes of repeated massacres, with no pause even amid regional war escalations
” But here in Gaza… we no longer speak of choices — because we no longer have any,” This is what @zinaanqar16 father told me
Ahmed, a father of four, sits helplessly as his infant daughter cries without tears — her mother has no milk left, and hope has vanished from his eyes.
He told me:
"If I stay, I die with them in silence. If I go out, I may die alone. But I can’t bear to watch them starve and do nothing." He’s not asking for a dignified life — just a piece of bread to extend his children's lives by one more day. Just one can of baby formula… to keep his daughter from dying slowly.
In Gaza, fatherhood means offering your body to feed your children. It means becoming a potential martyr just to bring home a sip of water. It means walking into death — only to delay the death of those you love.
What kind of world is this? What conscience allows a people to be trapped between starvation and fire?
Save those who remain in Gaza… before silence becomes a mass death certificate. Please donate help Zeina’s Family
The war between Iran and Israel has overshadowed the famine and suffering in Gaza. Every day, hundreds of us are killed and wounded in silence. No one sees or knows about our suffering, fear, hunger, and terror that we are living through. Please, we need you more than ever. I thank those who have donated, and I hope that you will donate what you have. We are so close
I don’t get why people started forgetting about gaza and everything still happening there
Islam’s posts barely reach anyone now. No one reblogs like before. No one talks about him like before
his last post got almost no notes, and no donations
why did you forget gaza and its people and their pain it’s been over 500 days of genocide and Islam is living through the worst days of his life while the world moves on
I’m doing this fundraiser to help my friend Islam.
My name is Isla… Alaa Qu needs your support for From the Ashes: A Call for Humanity t
Go to paypal.me/mido87ss and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
you cannot talk about the homophobic murder of jonathan joss without including in the conversation that he is indigenous.
american indian men are at the 2nd highest risk of death by murder compared to all other ethnic groups. in their lifetimes, 82% of native men report having experienced domestic violence. yet the overwhelming majority of perpetrators are non-natives (88% of native men and 92% of native women who reported violence said their attacker was non-native). what’s more, tribal governments are often stymied in their attempts to bring justice against non-natives, meaning that many of these cases go unresolved.
this was an intersectional attack. the fact that he is indigenous matters, even if the motivation was homophobic, because it made him even more vulnerable and disposable in the eyes of his killer.
as always, look into MMIWP to learn more, and speak up for us. miigwetch, take care
Our children have become empty, worn-out bodies that are unable to even speak. Hunger has begun to kill their intestines. Their bodies are no longer able to stand up and play. Famine and a real crisis are taking the lives of our children. The UN reports came late, as there are children who have been clinically dying of hunger for weeks. Unfortunately, the world is unable to do anything. Save our children from dying of hunger.
In 48 hours, you will see our children on television screens as we bid them farewell, victims of famine and victims of the international silence on the crimes of the Zionist occupation.
