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[endlesslymysteriousstarfarer]

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Today was unlike any other.

We received a few donations and with them, we had our first real meal in over a month. For the first time in so long, we didn’t go to sleep hungry. We cried, not from pain this time, but from overwhelming joy and gratitude.

To everyone who donated, shared, or simply kept us in their thoughts thank you. You didn’t just feed us. You reminded us that we’re not alone. You gave us back a piece of our dignity and hope.

But the struggle isn’t over. We’re still in need of food, support, and a little more light in these hard times.

Please, if you can, continue to help. Every share, every dollar, every act of kindness makes a real difference.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you. And please, stay with us on this journey.

Donate to Support Haya's Family: Food, Water, and Shelter Needed, organized by Peter Guenther

[Note: the fundraiser says I'm raising funds for Molly Guenther,… Peter Guenther needs your support for Support Haya's Family: Food, Water,

[boobieteriat]

Good day to everyone,

I used to be anneemay but my blog got deleted. You can call me Anne (not real name). I'm 34 years old tme lesbian from Malaysia. I'm a full time librarian and a part time gooner. I'm a big believer in open access, anti-IP and I would download a car if I could.

I'm also on bluesky as anneemay.

You may message me through the inbox but Tumblr direct message is currently on a mutual basis only. Replies are also closed to non-followers to prevent racist bots from commenting on my posts.

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[jomajaba]

Some lovely new soap from Palestinian Soap Cooperative!

I’ve been buying Nablus soap for about 4 years now and love the quality so much. I keep it stocked all throughout my house and gift it to others. It’s a great hand, body and face soap and works great for me as a ceramicist who can have a hard time getting the drying film of clay fully off my hands. People I know with eczema or sensitive skin also enjoy this soap.

Consider buying some to support businesses in the West Bank alongside donations of eSims, or direct donations to families in Gaza, or Palestinian and Gazan lead aid initiatives. I have some links on this blog tagged under #palestine 🇵🇸❤️

[nateconnolly]

Rain terrifies my children – it sounds like gunshots. The noise startles them awake whenever rain lands on our tent. “Don’t be afraid,” I reassure them. “This is the sound of God’s mercy. This is the rain.” They go back to sleep, their fear fading, but as for me? Sleep flees from my eyes. What if the tent collapses on top of us? If the weight of the water destroys what little we have left? In the past, we would rejoice when the skies opened. We would welcome the rain. Children would run outside, playing like it was a holiday. But now, when clouds gather, our hearts fill with dread, and our chests tighten with anxiety. How could it be otherwise? Our tattered tents, already torn by summer heat, are at risk of flooding. Imagine the pain and helplessness we feel. O Allah, have mercy on the young and the old! Relieve the suffering of Gaza! Protect us from the horrors of war before the harsh winter strikes with biting cold and relentless winds! You, O Lord, are more merciful to us than we are to ourselves! You are more aware of our plight!

Mohammed Alanqer wrote this, and I helped edit it. You can read more of Mohammad's story in his own words here.

[mohammedalanqar]

@nateconnolly

From the heart, thank you.. because you delivered my message in a professional and humane way.. 💟♥️✍️

[thescouring]

If you have an ounce of humanity and mercy in your heart, don't ignore me.

We are now facing fear, hunger and heavy rain Please save us and don't leave us alone We need a tent for $2000. We only have $600.🇵🇸🍉

Donate to us even if it is $5-20$ 😭

Link in bio, be our hope ،🫂😭

You can donate even 0.50$.

Through Cash App : $sydnerella11

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[psychoticallytrans]

Here is a skill that many of us are going to need for survival: how to tell if someone is offering to let you lie.

The tip-off phrase is "If [circumstance] was true, then we/I could do [helpful thing.]" This is not a guarantee that the person is offering, but it should tell you "I am being informed of a way to improve things."

Your confirmation phrase is "What documentation would that require?" This is essentially asking them "if people come asking me to prove this, will I be able to? Or will they not come at all?"

The answer you are hoping for with the confirmation phrase is "Just tell me if it's true, and I'll put it on the form." Note that this is not a direct instruction to lie, because they can't tell you that.

If they didn't mean to extend an offer to lie or this is a situation where they can't, then they'll list off something like your paystubs or your birth certificate. Your response back in that case is "Thanks, I'll tell my friends who qualify." This clears you of any concerns that you may have been considering lying.

The more complex answer is when they answer by giving you a form on the spot. Your job, in this case, is to scan the form and see if what they are asking you can be meaningfully verified by an official source.

Things that can be verified by an official source include, but are not limited to, your age, legal sex, income, veteran status, and place of residence. It's not generally a good idea to lie about these on official documents.

Be smart, and be practical. Do what you need to in order to stay alive, and keep an ear out for the people offering to help you do so.

[ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer]

im having trouble understanding this in the abstract, could someone give an example of a hypothetical situation this would apply to?

[time-travel-toke-up]

"This medication is covered for FREE if you are quitting smoking. Are you working on quitting?"

*me, thinking about how I quit smoking in 2018 and it is now the year of our lord 2024* "Oh yeah, still working very hard. You know how those cravings can hit."

*please note, how I omitted the truth in the example. I didn't ANNOUNCE it been 6 years SINCE I ALREADY QUIT. I said that I was working hard because cravings are still a thing (6 years later not said out loud). The fact I haven't have a SINGLE one in 4 years [I was Weak during lockdown but could not finish a cig anymore] is irrelevant. The doctor asking me was *nudge nudge wink wink* pointing out that labeling my cig use as "not quite quit yet" would cut some costs on medications.

Sometimes the 'lies' you are being an opportunity to nod along for are just ommissions of truth. Like- still being an active smoker for easier access to other treatments or random pains being worse than YOU personally find them. "If X is true, Y could be an option for you" is a way to allow you to snip off details to make X TECHNICALLY true. They are asking you to be a VAGUE fuck- not a pedantic one. For BOTH of y'all's plausible deniability.

"So these symptoms prevent you from doing [X, Y, Z] activities?"

Even if YOU think you are mildly inconvenienced at best, 'OH YEAH- the generalized fatigue/nagging pain/light headed feeling just makes it so hard to [whatever activity you just find more choresome in those circumstances]!'

I have also had it happen at random coffee shops. Or vape shops.

"How much cash do you have on you? Conveniently this is on sale RIGHT NOW for you for 5 dollars less than that IF it happens to be your birthday. It's your birthday... RIGHT??????"

Is the exact same concept. "You have a coupon right?" "And you saw the BOGO deal and remembered to mention it, RIGHT? Cuz mentioning it before I complete the transaction will make these BOGO..."

[sunspotpony]

You may ask, “why would someone ask me to lie?”

You all ever seen that scene in the Incredibles where Mr. incredible basically tells this little old lady to get her stuff approved? It’s a cartoonish example of what happens all the time in real life.

You ever seen a cashier conveniently forget to ring up baby formula for a single mother, and then wish her a lovely day?

Sometimes, people look out for each other. Pay attention and let them. The world is spooky out there; we’re all in it together.

[earsandtailsarefeet]

This is a good read and worth paying attention to. The human urge to help out other beings is strong, and people are prone to trying to indicate things like this to you.

This post gives some good steer on tasting if that's what is happening, a good read.

[faunlord]

Another example I was just thinking about was when I brought up switching from t shots to gel at the doctor (I didn’t end up doing it for other reasons). She was like. “Well insurance won’t cover it, unless you have something like a phobia of needles. *Which people can sometimes develop after a while of doing shots*, if you want me to mark that on your file”.

Also I can’t think of any specific examples but I know I did stuff like that when I was working at a nonprofit. There’s a lot of stuff you can’t ask people directly, sometimes it’s not even lying at all it’s just something the person wouldn’t think to bring up or phrase in the exact right way. Like i can get you money to help pay rent if you can tell me how saying housed will help you stay in school. It’s stupid bureaucracy, but knowing how to play the game is important.

[rethrone-deactivated20250221]

if you are interested in taking arabic, please consider signing up for my friend's class on nov 30. 16 hours for a class that would normally be hundreds of dollars. this covers beginner and intermediate, with a focus on reading, writing, and vocabulary.

for spoken conversation (more dialect specific), she will also be offering a course in january. alaa is very patient and a great teacher, as well as totally fluent in english. she also records the classes in case you end up missing one.

the funds are to help family in gaza.

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

[rethrone-deactivated20250221]

i see some have asked how much it is! here is what i paid for a 16 hour weekend class spot. there are a couple of different options.

[tamarrud]

The ceasefire in Lebanon has supposedly taken effect two hours ago and everyone is on edge because no one trusts Israel but there is celebratory gunfire heard in Dahye so I'll take that.

Last night, just hours before the agreement went into effect, Israel pounded Beirut with 50 airstrikes. This always happens, where Israel goes on one last killing spree like the bunch of psychopaths they are. I always think of the people who are killed in these last days.

This is a good time to remind everyone that Israel was in fact defeated in Lebanon and will be defeated in Gaza, and it's not the "international community" that twisted Israel's arm into agreeing to the ceasefire deal in Lebanon, but in fact it was armed resistance. This is exactly what settler colonial Israel is waging wars against; the right for people to defend their land and fight for their freedom.

Fuck Israel and glory to our martyrs today and every day, وعقبالك ياغزة.

[gothhabiba]

Colonizers write about flowers they keep their metaphors on ice lest they grow stale or they pickle them for posterity

if I pick flowers they are sliced up into hindba' bzeit or if I embroider quranful onto tea towels it is for Palestine if I pickle liffit or write or pluck or weave it is for Palestine and everything is wrapped up in plastic and everything is by proxy

I know I am an American because my mouth fills with blood when I speak

tell us where is our posterity are these children mine or yours or ours but anyway

fuck your Biden-Harris yard signs fuck your lawnmowers when they kill my chicory and fuck Poetry Magazine

after Noor Hindi, "Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying," Poetry, December 2020

5-minute poem with prompt word "flower" and the suggestion of taking inspiration from this Noor Hindi poem: prompt from @unlivedtenderness give me a prompt of your own with a $5 USD donation to Mohammed & Samar's campaign. Venmo: gothhabiba | Paypal: paypal.me/Najia | Cashapp: $NajiaK (with note "🍓" or "strawberry")

[gothhabiba]

if you like this poem, please consider donating $5 to Mohammed and Samar's campaign! nothing has been donated since I posted it.

[gothhabiba]

Urgent! 🍉🍓

[Masha Allah, when can you send 1000? The weather has become very cold. The first thing I will do is buy the necessary blankets and mattresses for the winter.]

Mohammed, Samar, and their three children need supplies for the cold weather! He’s asking me about a transfer and it breaks my heart to tell him I don’t have it.

Remember there is tatreez and poetry on offer!

Venmo: gothhabiba | Paypal: paypal.me/Najia | Cashapp: $NajiaK (with note "🍓" or "strawberry")

$160 / $1,000

[gothhabiba]

$210 / $1,000

[gothhabiba]

[How much can you send? How much? Tomorrow morning we don't have breakfast or baby milk and I have to fill up the gas and buy some fruit for Samar please]

[6:26–“Please try for my children’s sake, I swear I have nothing now.” 6:29 pm—“Najia” 6:36, from me—“I’ll try collect as much as I can tonight”]

$320 / $1,000

thanks so much!!

[omegaversereloaded]

Also are those people forgetting that in the past when a genocide/war has occurred we weren't living in an era where common people basically live half of their lives online...... saying that a "real Palestinian wouldnt have time to ebeg on tumblr" is like saying "oh a real hamas combatant wouldnt have time to make tiktoks in the middle of a war zone" like are those fake too lmao

[omegaversereloaded]

"Guys i cant believe that the first war to be heavily documented on social media by those affected would heavily involve social media"

[el-shab-hussein]

A pretty strange aspect of the current accelerated genocide in Ghazzah is the simultaneous terror and boredom. Because there's literally fucking nothing to do when society has collapsed and all infrastructure has been destroyed. This is why there's plenty of videos of people sitting together and singing, or going to the beach to hang out, or coming up with activities for the kids in refugee camps to lift their moods.

Not that any of this matters to anyone who's already scrutinizing genocide survivors to this extent. If you can, with full confidence, already decide you know more than Palestinians about Palestinians, and go far enough to dehumanize us, accuse all the Ghazzans on tumblr of being scams or fake because they do things you wouldn't do or speak in a way you're not familiar, you have dehumanized us completely. You do not see us as people and you're not looking to empathize, sympathize, or try to understand the circumstances of Ghazzawiyeh and that they're just doing their best to deal with them.

[fairuzfan]

Something to also know is that this isn't new. In all the past wars in Gaza, it was known among Palestinians that israelis target art centers and music centers and places where you can do recreational activities specifically to make Ghazzawi miserable and bored. This is something I knew and talked about since 2021 with actual Palestinian artists. So the idea that enforced boredom in part of the psychological warfare is actually not unique to this recent phase of the genocide but it's been incredibly exacerbated.

[gothhabiba]

[ID: A photo of a work-in-progress geometric tatreez piece in shades of orange and blue in the sunlight, weighed down on one side by a deep blue teapot; in the next two photos, a black cat with green eyes has settled on the fabric and placed a paw over it. End ID]

a DM with a screenshot of a $10 donation to Mohammed & Samar will get you a ticket in a raffle to win this tatreez piece, which has the Luna Seven-Toes seal of approval!

$75 will get you a tatreez piece of your very own, in whatever colours and with whatever motifs you fancy.

Venmo: gothhabiba | Paypal: paypal.me/Najia | Cashapp: $NajiaK (with note "🍓" or "strawberry")

[gothhabiba]

$581 / $2,000 🧶🧵🪡

[gothhabiba]

thank you so much for all of your help. there’s been nothing for 16 hours or so.

in order to purchase blankets and warm clothes, this family of five needs to have enough for food for the day + some extra, or I worry that food will (obviously) come first. winter is fast approaching and exhaustion, starvation, and stress are bad enough with adding in exposure !!

[fairuzfan]

Anyways sinwar never wanted to fight a war, he just was put in the circumstances that caused him to be in perpetual violence whether it be passive or active. No matter what you believe of sinwar, every single israeli politician is 10x worse in the destruction and violence they've inflicted on people and to pretend like sinwar is the root of all evils is insulting to the Palestinians as a whole.

[tamarrud]

I was checking on someone from Gaza and I asked them "how's the condition of the tent?" a question that really, really stung.

As Palestinians, whether or not we experienced living in tents and refugee camps first hand, tents have been a symbol of our initial displacement in 1948.

Finding myself asking this question to a Palestinian 76 years later really struck me.

Israel is a settler colonial entity, intent on disappearing Palestinians through massacres and displacement to make way for its expansionist project.

The fact that this is a question we are still having to ask is beyond heart-wrenching, but it also tells me that try as they might, we are rooted in this land and Israel's attempts have never deterred us.

[tamarrud]

Despite how painful this is, the least we can do is actually ensure that these tents are adequate enough to withstand upcoming winter conditions as it approaches.

Siraj is looking to raise funds to secure an adequate living space for his family this winter. He's currently only $842 away from reaching the target and you can donate here.

And for families who aren't fundraising, the Sameer Project team is currently working to provide tents to displaced Palestinians in Gaza. You can donate to them via Chuffed / Venmo / PayPal. Just make sure you leave a note "tent" to specify which project you're donating to.

[ashourblog1]

The world looks at us as second-class peoples And our resources as spoils due to it And our country as a suitable arena for settling conflicts between major powers, then they share dominance over it among themselves

The world even denies the right of the peoples of the region to defend themselves, their Arabism, their unity, their religion, their identity, their being one nation, their right to gain their freedom and independence, all of this is forbidden and upon it a thousand complexes created by colonialism and no one else

Only the awareness, liberation, strength and unity of the peoples of the region are capable of breaking this ugly colonial path that the region has entered for decades

[ashourblog1]

It is not possible to talk about statistics of the martyrs, the wounded, and the destruction in Jabalia. In ground operations, killing and aggression take place without media and without news, on the roads and in homes. Therefore, we would like to emphasize that what is happening in Jabalia cannot be reported in the media in its complete form. We can only say that all colors Aggression and its forms occur in Jabalia in particular and northern Gaza in general, and despite that, people in northern Gaza die muttering: “No displacement towards the south”

@feluka @littlegermanboy @appsa @90-ghost

[ashourblog1]

We must know that northern Gaza and everything in it has an area of ​​only 135 square kilometers, which is equal to 0.5% of the area of ​​Palestine. Perhaps the Palestinian fate has become linked to the presence in northern Gaza, and this is not an exaggeration at all.

[ashourblog1]

I think about the national holidays that people have celebrated for dozens and hundreds of years, how much they were truly worth celebrating. On the day when the Israeli army will leave the Gaza Strip, Gaza will regain its freedom, and the war will end. Perhaps we will not only celebrate the anniversary of that day and call it a national holiday, but rather we will celebrate it every month. Every week, we strive in every sense of the word to reach that day, the signs of which have not yet appeared, but we are confident that it will come.🙏😕

@el-shab-hussein @appsa @90-ghost @palestine @magnus-rhymes-with-swagness @tamarrud @feluka @littlegermanboy @buttercuparry @determinate-negation @riding-with-the-wild-hunt

[tamarrud]

Donate to Help me get out of Gaza for my baby girl, organized by Amal Ashour

Hello, I am Amal Ashour. I live in Gaza. I am 26 years old Before the war, I was … Amal Ashour needs your support for Help me get out of Gaz

[sayruq]

You know the drill by the now. Buy eSims!

Nomad (regional middle east) ➡️ Simly

[sayruq]

[emptyemptycorners]

i stopped reblogging things that have 0 tangible helpful resource or action and serve only to "prove" i care about the topic and then i see that post again about how nobody seems to care about anything happening in the world.

i just started telling my brain the tumblr posts about World Bad don't make the world a better place so who cares if i don't reblog it ..... and ok im actually fighting really hard to make my brain not spiral about this but actually assuming strangers don't care about things happening because of whatever checkbox you have personally decided they aren't checking off doesn't make any sense and also feels just really rude. why are you assuming someone else doesn't care have you talked to them???????? if someone posts a picture of their food or their art or someone else's art is that proof they don't care about current events bc they should be posting about current events instead ????????????????????? idk i don't get it tbh. i don't personally see other people existing and assume they don't care about important topics. so why should i let a post that says "no one cares like i care" tell me that i also don't care about things that I know I care about

[emptyemptycorners]

also, personally feeling very strongly about something doesn't actually matter as much as action matters... so like what purpose does trying to prove how badly i'm feeling about the state of the world actually serve when instead i can just focus my energy on things i CAN do and know that i am doing what i can and live my life. do i WISH i could just fix everything? yeah but i can't. if one random disabled person from texas could solve every single problem in the world i think we'd all know by now

[bandofchimeras]

yeah i reblog some news stuff when it big development and people should know but mostly action. i am tired though bc there are many action to do. i feel like in general it would be good to have a pause of the Feed and a Meeting and be like - hey guys so, we all came here to dissociate, scroll, enjoy life and post about our special interests. However it seems there is a genocide happening and now there are thousands of people here begging for help while being brutally murdered. We /can/ help them, but probably could do so more effectively if we all came to some agreements about the way we help them instead of chaotically screaming at eachother about not helping/helping more. like, social media might feel separate from everyday real life but it is a web that connects hundreds of thousands of real people. and we are in a pretty fucked state if the globally spread out police forces can do what they're doing to Palestinians, to anyone. and if global warming continues to lead to hurricanes and fires and shit as it has for the past several decades, increasing in intensity and devestation. like we do understand that, right? we can't bury our heads in a hole. but I would like to see some more collaborative, genuine efforts to organize together on socials that move away from doomscrolling. the individualism and alienation has a pretty strong chokehold on a lot of internet users. at least that's been my experience - all the World Bad posts used to stress me out in an individualist way but at this point I am starting to think, shit man, I really have been numbing my pain at the cultural collapse by posting memes online. sharing a few donation links or news articles or petitions in addition to my usual Content Feed only goes so far. what if I did something different? what if we all did something different? what is that thing, that we can do, that we can't quite see yet?