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cymru am byth! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 uk politics, welsh politics, other welsh stuff. more info: https://www.tumblr.com/siaradwast/737592177183604736/realised-i-do-not-have-a-pinned-post-not-that-i?source=share

[siaradwast]

Updated as of 10th August 2024

[Plain text: Updated as of 10th August 2024. End PT.]

Recently people have reached out to me from Palestine to ask for help to share their fundraisers in order to get themselves and their families to safety, so I have decided to make this pinned post to get as much reach for their fundraisers as I can. Please take the time to share & donate if you can.

I have included summaries of their stories here, but would be grateful if you are able to read their posts to hear them first-hand.

The majority of these fundraisers have been verified. The majority are needing the money to make the Rafah crossing in Egypt, which can cost between 2,500 - 8,000 per person.

Bilal & family. Bilal is trying to safely leave Gaza with his family and be able to continue his education. Currently at 4,790 of the 80,000 target (5% of goal reached). Post. GFM. @bilalassadabedrou

Salem & family. Salem is trying to get his wife and two young children to safety. Currently at 2,234 of 38,000 target (5% of goal reached). Post. GFM. @salem-baker

Musab & family. Musab is trying to get himself, his family, and pets to safety, and lost his old fundraiser to a scam so had to start again. Currently at 1,839 of 8,000 target. (22% of goal reached). Post. GFM. @musababed

Asmaa & family. Asmaa is trying to get her family of 8, including young children, safely out of Gaza. Currently at 2,563 of 45,000 target (5% of goal reached). Post. GFM. @asmaayyad

Ahmed & family. Ahmed is trying to get his family out of Gaza, his father & son both have medical needs. Currently at 2,000 of 80,000 target (2.5% of goal reached). Post. GFM. @ahmeadhilles

Tamer & family. Tamer is trying to get his family to safety and be able to continue his career in dentistry. Currently at 23,270 of 40,000 target (58% of goal reached). Post. GFM. @tameraldeeb

Muhammad & family. Muhammed is trying to get his family, including his parents who are ill and two young sons, out of Gaza. Currently at 3,202 of 25,000 target (12% of goal reached). Post. GFM. @mohammedshehabnew2

Abood & family. Abood is trying to get his family out of Gaza, his wife is currently pregnant. Currently at 50 of 40,000 target. (<1% of goal reached - this is a relatively new fundraiser). Post. GFM. @aboodgaza

Alaa & family. Alaa's family have been evacuated from Gaza, but still need money in order to rebuild their lives. Currently at 26,081 of 56,000 target. (46% of goal reached). Post. GFM. @alaakh2025

Salahaldin & family. Salahaldin is trying to get his family, including 3 young daughters, safely out of Gaza. Currently at 4,713 out of 40,000 target. (11% of goal reached). Post. GFM. @salahaldinahhorsblog

I will keep this list updated as regularly as possible, if you are seeing this reblogged please click to view the post on my blog directly to see if it has been updated.

Thank you for reading.

[keirstarmerhateblog]

The online safety act is a week into effect, and it's just proving its about censoring and censuring as much information as possible thay goes against the status quo, not just from children but anyone who isn't able to access it

Now baseless insults like the suggestion that not wanting to be permanently spied on means you're automatically up to no good

How long until we all have to have cameras in our houses a la 1984, where the government sees you got some birthday money in a card and takes you to court for not declaring it

[siaradwast]

genuinely the other week almost had some english rugby fan start harassing me and my friend for being welsh. like. dude. cmon. we know we're losing every match you don't gotta yell at us for being welsh lmao.

[parkchanwoohoo]

[siaradwast]

i can't remember the exact name of the account, but there's an account on Instagram that posts welsh memes and you start watching a reel and you think "haha" at first but it gets past the first bit and you're like "hmm this seems a little too focused on a more nationalism side of things". then i check the pfp and im like "i swear that symbol looks familiar.... is it that one fascist racist nationalist welsh independence group?" but im not entirely sure and i didn't remember the name of the group, so i just decided to not interact w any of their videos in my feed and scroll past real fast

anyway one of their videos came up again and it turns out the account IS that one group (people have talked about it on here before, eryr wen I think?) so now i am blocking them so they don't show up anymore

[doloremiipsum]

If I see one more naive white queer speaking over actual Chinese queers people and proclaiming xiaohongshu/rednote or even China in general is somehow a fucking wonderland incapable of violent bigotry I’m gonna explode

1) a lot of the queer related tags have suddenly become usable again after the great migration

2) the #le tag for lesbians literally comes from the #lesbian and #les tags being banned so to act

3) the welcome you’re receiving by chinese people isn’t what actual Chinese queers have experienced (we experience a bombardment of loud angry homophobes/transphobes every single fucking day) and every single Chinese queer I know has been ranting about this for days. Unfortunately a lot of people are hypocrites who are only nice to the guests in the house

4) not only is this rhetoric of don’t ask don’t tell being the main consensus in China FALSE (I don’t even want to get into the media’s suppression of hate crimes and how many queer activism accounts are being banned left and right), passive queerphobia is still FUCKING QUEERPHOBIA…

The audacity to come into OUR HOUSE and speak over us after 3 days of being pampered on this app just for being western is vile and so fucking demoralising because we’ve been yelling about our condition for so long and you guys would rather not miss out on social media brainrot than to actually apply some nuance for once… you guys wanted to distance from the sinophobic propaganda take of China being unequivocally evil so bad that you’ve swung to the other end

[eziojensenthe3rd]

Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards

The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treate

Well fucks? Get to it!

[siaradwast]

i mean. ai is bad and we all know that but uh. the bbc headline about keir's new plan for ai in the uk was something along the lines of "government reveals plans to unleash ai on the uk" and it's like. come on. if you're describing your own plan like that surely you can see that it sounds like the backstory to a cyberpunk dystopia?? iesu grist. bobl bach. ych a fi, even

[changing-my-username]

[official-wales]

Dych chi'n hoffi smwddio cennin?

ydw, dwi'n hoffi smwddio cennin. bob dydd.

[youreamonocoque]

one of the worst things about musk inserting himself into british politics is you get uninformed american musk bootlickers who just say shit

saw someone refer to the labour government as socialist...

[charseraph]

Collection

[thefaginogion]

Welsh equivalent is hearing "The following stops are request stops, alert a conductor if you need to alight at-" and then it lists half the North Welsh coast

[prettypangolins]

Just a reminder of how shit it is here. Even if there wasn't a cost of living crisis and fuel crisis, the UK has some of the worst homes in Europe. For a long time I just assumed everywhere was like this, but it's not 🙃

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Link: https://newstartmag.co.uk/articles/uk-homes-among-worst-in-europe-for-energy-efficiency/

UK homes among worst in Europe for energy efficiency - NewStartMag

A new report by the Institution for Government (IFG) think tank, has discovered that homes in Britain are some of the worst when it comes to

[myturtlespeedy]

This is a result of the inhumane decisions that members of this administration want you to be silent about in public for fear of a loss of “civility”.

[liukka]

The kid and her lawyer were about the only humans there. For fucks sake, they’re kids.

[tired-of-capitalism-deactivated]

HERE’S THE LINK TO SUPPORT HER WORK

[norvicensiandoran]

Updated link!

Support Our Work

[feluka]

the most depressing part is that it's not even kamala's stance on genocide that is costing her the elections. i wish it were. it's people genuinely shifting for trump. but it's the pro-palestine movement that's going to get the blame for it.

[feluka]

obviously she fucked up on that front and on multiple other fronts (an understatement) but if these results have showed anything it's that the alt right white majority will never vote for a black woman even if she were perfect. but liberals will blame arabs for the faults of white nationalism and misogyny. at this point if you're blaming the pro-palestine movement and saying shit like "are you happy now? is this what you wanted?" you're just brimming with anti-arab hatred that you're desperate to release at any given opportunity

[feluka]

so what now? the genocide is still ongoing and the rise of fascism is unimpeded but now people will point to those most affected by it and saying "this is what you wanted, right?" and you and i could spend the next four years arguing and yelling at those people or we can do something that matters.

mahmoud needs to pay his fees in 5 days or he will fail this semester.

amal needs to meet the soaring prices of baby food in gaza for the sake of her daughter maryam.

look out for the vulnerable and watch out for the way people are venting their frustration at fascism by blaming its victims.

[feluka]

please reblog this version. anger without action is nothing. if you feel like this is the end of the world remember that this is just another day of the genocide for those in gaza.

[feluka]

the most depressing part is that it's not even kamala's stance on genocide that is costing her the elections. i wish it were. it's people genuinely shifting for trump. but it's the pro-palestine movement that's going to get the blame for it.

[ayeforscotland]

how much will the US election result impact the political climate of the UK?

It’s not due to the US election, but Labour support is collapsing across the country.

Trump is likely to use his presidency to platform and elevate Nigel Farage and therefore the Reform party.

We’ve all got our work cut out for us.