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The tipping point has already occurred, unfortunately, for a large number of children and infants and toddlers and adolescents — these are definable age categories where the level of starvation and malnutrition has passed the tipping point, where July already saw a large escalation in the number of deaths but August is going to be significantly higher because a lot of the children have already passed the point of no return where their physiology has eroded to the point where even refeeding could potentially cause death itself. The gut lining has started to auto-digest and it will no longer have adequate absorptive capacity for water or for nutrition. Death is unfortunately imminent for probably thousands of children.

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In August and September, there are probably still going to be extremely high lethality and large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point. If we start getting in large quantities of the correct formula and the correct protein and food in general, we may be able to decrease deaths in late September, October and going forward. There’s an international gradation called the “global acute malnutrition” score or GAM — we’re already at greater than 15% [of Gaza’s 1 million children meet that criteria]. Severe acute malnutrition, between 5% and 10% of children already meet that criteria. Then for moderate acute malnutrition, 20% of the children under 5 meet this.

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When I was in the emergency department, I spent most of my time in the resuscitation room where we were taking care of complex, unstable trauma patients. For adults, the average body fat percentage was probably 1%, if that; really, many of them were skeletal. We were doing emergency surgical procedures on people where all of the ribs were completely showing — there was no problem getting between ribs to put in chest tubes. Trauma in this environment is a chronic illness so we would see people with acute severe injuries who were already healing from injuries that occurred three months ago. So we would see people that had a chest tube who on the other side you could see they had a festering wound from a chest tube they had had months earlier … due to the lack of nutrition and the lack of protein, [including] albumin, which is critical for healing wounds. Even if you’re not injured, walking around in this destroyed environment, you get cuts and scrapes all the time. So people just were covered in minor cuts and scrapes that were not healing; they had secondary infections and no clean water to wash their wounds. We had so many family members who would show up with patients that had acute traumatic injury but the family members themselves were almost incoherent, where they were malnourished to the point where they couldn’t speak and think properly. They were stumbling and falling and passing out.

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This was a residency training program but really the residents were running the show because the senior attendings are very few and far between — a lot of them have been killed or are missing. In the past, they were paid a little bit of money every three to four months but it is not enough; their families are starving. These physicians were being fed a small amount of food once a day. Three weeks ago, that stopped. They are now completely on their own. There have been physicians and nurses who have simply passed out in the middle of the emergency department; there are people passing out during surgery. This is a completely new phenomenon in the last three weeks. When we were there, every person on our team lost between 12 and 15 pounds.

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Nothing but a trickle [of aid] has made it into Gaza from March to the time I left… And these so-called aid distribution points [set up under the U.S.- and Israeli-supported Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, established earlier this year and defended by Israeli troops and American military contractors] — it was like clockwork: 30-40 minutes after they started a distribution, we would just hear ambulances and cars flying in, we would receive many, many patients after these things. [The GHF denies enabling violence.] One of the things I thought was really remarkable was how young the people were coming in from these. These were young boys who were being heroic and going to these things despite the knowledge that they were a shooting gallery. I can’t tell you how many boys between the ages of 8 and 18 I saw with a bullet wound directly between the eyes, the forehead or the side of the temple. It was almost like they were changing the game sometimes because we’d get all head injuries, then we’d have several hours or a day of all neck injuries, or all chest. Or all groin injuries which are particularly terrible, because there are major blood vessels everywhere; people often bleed out, they usually have a fairly slow death and injure the bowel or the rectum so there are feces-soaked injuries which are extremely painful and difficult to manage. [The IDF maintains that it respects the laws of war and minimizes harm to civilians.]

Past ‘The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Gives On-The-Ground Insight Into Starvation In Gaza

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Doctor: $140,000 a year

Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year

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The filter relies on manually curated open-source blocklists, including the ‘nuclear’ list, provided by uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist,” DuckDuckGo said in a post on X. “While it won’t catch 100% of AI-generated results, it will greatly reduce the number of AI-generated images you see.

Left: AI filter is off Right: AI filter is on

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Hello everyone,

It's been a whole year since I first made this art for my dear friend, Mohammed Ayesh @/blackeagleplog , who is still suffering from the same dangers since the very start of this genocide. These days, I still talk to him daily via WhatsApp and he remains steadfast & positive in the face of all his troubles.

I cannot understate how deserving he is of help.

For a long time, he has put aside promoting his own campaign in favour of helping others:

Vetting campaigns on the ground to assure everyone of legitimacy

Creating the Ihyaa Society @ihyaasociety which provides a space for students to continue their education online despite the genocide

It is very important that he himself is supported, given how much he has done for others. Please consider donating to him today. Any amount, no matter how small, will help him.

As of July 9th 2025:

£4,477 / £15,000

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being so staunchly anti generative ai while everyone around you is "i used chatgpt" and "i asked grok" and google search is useless and every company is implementing ai and every single celeb is taking ai money and partnering with ai is like... it's so jarring. why can't you see the harm like i can? why are you so lazy? why are we making society this stupid? can we please stop? it's killing people does that not matter to you?

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imagine cloth mother and wire mother in family court competing for custody of the baby monkey

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reposting from bsky, but heres a cheat sheet for how to properly send a message to payment processing companies over the recent highly conservative shift in where youre allowed to legally spend your money

more info here!

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Looking west toward the solitary hill, J-Six Ranch, Cochise County, Arizona.

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Uk media reporting on the OSA:

Reality:

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widehead

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The part of me I lost

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part 2

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Justin posted the 1956 house he and his wife bought in Jasper, Indiana. It is a complete time capsule. Absolutely NOTHING has been updated or touched.  

Everything is still here- look at the appliances. All original. This is not like the classy expensive updated mid century homes we’ve seen before. 

The furniture has to be the original pieces and sets the previous owners bought. 

The wall hangings are aged.

This is an interesting piece, this bar. 

Look at the bathroom- pink fixtures.

Those lamps!

The master bath has a yellow tub and fixtures.

A 2nd bdm. Even the bedding is vintage.

And, this bath has blue Fixtures. Wow, I would definitely keep them.

More cool lamps and original furniture in the knotty pine family room. 

Wow, look at the built-ins in the office.

The lower floor.

The basement is cool- look at that floor! And, the TV. The bar is classic. I wonder if they were leaving any of this.

Off the rec room is a 2nd kitchen. A pink fridge!

And, there’s this room, too. Look at the stone wall.

for the love of old houses