Thoughts and Thinking

A reporposed blog. I used to use this as a place to vent and be sad, but thanks to therapy, I'm realizing I'm not a total piece of shit and when I do feel like one I'm not alone! So this is now a space for me to just put shit out in the world and talk out some thoughts.

[hualianisms]

verified ways to send aid to gaza directly

Help a Palestinian family directly:

gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical attention, food, rebuilding homes/businesses etc. (Spotlights 1 verified gfm at a time so if you don't know who/where to donate to just go here and donate to the one they show you!)

Help provide tents (urgent):

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents for displaced families in Gaza (emergency bc tents in Rafah are being burned as we speak) (paypal) (gfm)

Food, cash & essentials:

Care for Gaza: Working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: also working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash & other daily essential suppliess to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Water:

Gaza Municipality's water project: The official Municipality of Gaza needs help rebuilding the water infrastructure in Gaza City to restore access to clean water and waste management services for the people of Gaza. (This campaign only has a couple of weeks left but it's still only at 15%!)

eSIMs (urgent):

guide to buy & send esims for gaza

crips for esims for gaza: If you don't know how to buy esims or don't have the capacity to manage them (e.g. topping up regularly), this team of volunteers are collecting funds to buy & manage gaza esims regularly

Medical Aid

Palestine Red Crescent Society: Provides emergency medical and ambulance services and humanitarian relief on the ground in Gaza e.g. rescuing and treating the wounded.

[abedallahs-world]

⚠️Please Help my children ‼️

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #641 )✅️

Please donate and share

Urgent Help for Abdullah's Family

Hello friends, I am Abdullah Salem Abdullah, 26 years old, a graduate of the University College with a degree in Information Technology - Mu

Hello friends, I am Abdullah Salem Abdullah Jaafar, 26 years old, a graduate of the University College with a degree in Information Technology - Multimedia. I used to have a beautiful family; I’m married and have four children, and my wife is pregnant.

I previously worked at a multimedia company, but because of the war, I lost my job, my home, my car, and now I have no place to live or work.

During the war, we were forced to evacuate more than four times. Each time, we had to leave everything behind without taking any of our personal belongings.

I live in northern Gaza.

We were displaced to southern Gaza, then to Deir al-Balah, then to Rafah, and now we live in an uninhabitable tent that is not suitable for living.

My daughter Rahaf was martyred in the war due to Israeli airstrikes. Now I have Iman, Malak, Basel, and my wife is in her seventh month of pregnancy.

Please, I am in desperate need of your help just to provide food and water for my children.

I lost my home and we have become homeless."

Please donate and share

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Some spins on the "mostly male team with a token woman" trope:

The woman is trans and stayed in her old circle of bros even after transition

The woman is the only one in her circle of "girls" who didn't turn out to be a trans man

[sqbr]

Everyone is bigender. They take turns being the one woman.

[marinebiologyshitposts]

[bakwaaas]

@fairycosmos / Comic by @shhhitsfine / Comic by @incendavery

[bakwaaas]

@ryebreadgf / alison zai / phillip roth / unknown / @archbudzar

[silvermoon424]

New reaction pic for y'all to be used when you get into an argument about trans healthcare and your opponent starts talking about the 0.8% or whatever of trans people who regret transitioning

[anexperimentallife]

[indigosfindings]

i really like this thing where websites will have separate "log in" & "sign up" buttons and if you click "log in" it takes you to a sign-up screen anyway so you have to click "i already have an account" and then it will ask if you want to sign in with your facebook account or with instagram or linkedin or deviantart or whatever, and if you choose "username & password" it asks if you want to put in your username or use your thumbprint, and once you put your username & password it emails you a confirmation code, and once you put in the code it says "do you want to give us your phone number for future sign-ins? do you want to sign up for facial recognition? do you want to give us your bones? give us your fucking bones?

[louisegluckpdf]

anxiety will have you thinking things like "will everyone hate me if i order coffee at the coffee shop" and "will people think i'm crazy if i work out at the gym"

[evilnicegirl]

i hope that someday there will be no more advertisements ever again

[wyrmoftheweb]

well yeah i have a pet hydra and it only has one head. i'm not going to cut its head off just to make it look cooler, you asshole. that's seriously unethical. and i'm not letting you cut its head off either. if you really want a hydra with multiple heads, you should go for a rescue- but if you want your pet to look cooler at the cost of its physical health, maybe you shouldn't get any kind of pet at all. no, the hydra's not for guarding my evil tower, it's my pet. have you ever heard of a pet? like a puppy or a kitty? you think i can't defend my evil tower by my self?

[ojiisan01]

SOMEBODY CALL A DOCTOR JAMES IS SICK AF

[nthincmpares2ux]

[segamascott]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Hey did y'all ever think about that if doctors blame all fat people's medical issues on them being too fat without proper investigation and then feel justified in neglecting their medical concerns, then statistically more fat people WILL develop and potentially die from serious health issues and it might not actually be because of the fat when everything comes down to it

[tacocandle]

Hey siri what is the opposite of survivalship bias?

[sparecrew]

[bigfatgingernerd]

This went from "average American high school" to "existential horror" surprisingly quick

[necromeowncy]

Pasting what I posed in Bsky here, too. The lady I spoke to told me "we are getting a lot of calls about this." IT IS WORKING. CALL. JUST FUCKING CALL.

If you find it difficult to find the words, you can use this as a script:

"Hi, my name is _____ and I would like to file a formal complaint. I'm calling about a recent change to Visa's payment processing. I am being blocked from making legal purchases on (Steam, Itch.io, etc., whatever you use). I am an adult with money, and I should be able to spend my money wherever I please. It is ridiculous that your company is barring me from making legal purchases with my own money. I am going to stop using Visa if this isn’t rescinded and fixed. I am very displeased as a customer, and will be taking my business elsewhere if this is not remedied in a timely manner."

That's basically what I said. Feel free to spice it up!

[delightfulvoidstudent]

Just did this for all my cards.

Yes, all of them. Even the debit ones. Anything with the Visa or Mastercard logo. The bank ones bounced me to my bank and I chewed on them too.

Worst lunch break ever, but they need to HEAR US.

[griseldagimpel]

Remember to be polite to whoever you're talking to. They're just so minimum wage employee with no decision making power. You're not even trying to convince them.

The goal is to have enough calls over a long enough period that the higher ups decide that rolling back a decision is less of a headache than keeping it.

[thespookiestace]

^^ really need to emphasize that last point. I don’t work for Visa/Mastercard but I work for a company that works with Mastercard for our brand card (think like a Best Buy card or Amazon card) and you will accomplish nothing by being rude or harassing the call center employee. They’re the bottom of the pyramid, they have no control over any decisions and minimal agency in how the complaint is handled once the call is over. They’re just doing their job and they have no control over what the hire ups decide to do.

Also, make sure you’re calling the right people. I was off work this week but I know I’ll be coming back to a bunch of calls from people mad at Mastercard and therefore calling us, when we’re not Mastercard. Don’t call your bank, don’t call Amazon, you need to call Mastercard or Visa directly using the phone numbers in the og screenshot. You might think getting through to someone at your bank or the brand partner will be quicker but you’ll accomplish nothing. Visa/Mastercard are the ones making these decisions and every card issuer who uses them will be forced to comply, banks and brand partners included.

[aromantic-diaries]

While I do think that people who don't know shit about how the aro & ace spectrums actually work need to stop telling repulsed & nonpartnering folks that they can still date/have sex, I do not like the comparison that it's like telling gay men and lesbians that they can still be in heterosexual relationships. An aromantic person being in a relationship or an asexual person having sex is usually not the same as a gay man and a lesbian being in a lavender marriage because there is in fact a subset of aro/ace people who genuinely enjoy these things and are not doing it out of obligation. Are there aro/ace people who are pressured into dating/sex or participate because they feel like they need to "fix" themselves? Yeah, I won't deny that. But those who actually go into it willingly have done enough introspectionnto figure out what works for them

And finally, aro/ace people who do end up in romantic/sexual relationships are still aro/ace and it does not negate or contradict their identity