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Help a Family in Need💔

I am reaching out on behalf of my dear friend, Mohamad S., who is facing one of the most challenging times of his life. Mohamad is 37 years old and left his homeland in 2015 in search of a safer and better future. He’s a kind, hardworking man, and his small family has always been his greatest priority.

Living abroad, Mohamad has recently endured unimaginable loss and financial strain. Amidst the ongoing conflict in his homeland, his mother passed away, leaving behind his sister and her five young children—the last remaining members of his immediate family.

As the situation worsened, Mohamad managed to help his sister and her children escape to safety in Egypt, covering their immediate needs and securing a temporary refuge for them. Since then, he has been fully responsible for providing everything they need to survive during this transition.

In his efforts to support his family and cope with this devastating loss, Mohamad has found himself deeply in debt. To make matters even more difficult, he recently underwent knee surgery, which limits his ability to return to work for the foreseeable future. This has made it even harder for him to manage his financial responsibilities and the pressing need to provide his family with a stable future.

Mohamad is now working to bring his sister and her five children to join him in Belgium, where he hopes they can find stability and opportunity after all they’ve endured. This transition, however, requires significant resources that he is currently unable to meet alone.

For privacy reasons, we are not sharing Mohamad’s full name, as he has chosen to keep his identity discreet. While he initially refused the idea of asking for help, I couldn’t stand by and watch him struggle alone. I insisted on doing this for him because he deserves a chance to overcome these challenges.

Your contribution will help Mohamad repay the debt incurred during this difficult time, cover ongoing living expenses for his family, and assist with the costs involved in bringing them safely to Belgium.

Mohamad has been a good friend of mine for years, and I’ve always admired his resilience and generosity. Any support, no matter the size, will make an incredible difference in helping Mohamad and his family rebuild their lives after these painful experiences.

Thank you for reading his story and considering helping a man who has always done everything he can for his loved ones.

Adam

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Not sure if I've told this story here before, but once upon a time, I didn't really get the point of most protests happening my area because I viewed them as "preaching to your own echo chamber" in a lot of cases. Ex: I saw people do a climate march through a very liberal university campus within a very liberal city, and I was just like "Okay, everyone here agrees with you. This place has crazy aggressive sustainability goals. What is the point of this?"

Then when Roe fell, there were a lot of protests outside the courthouses in cities near me, and though those city courthouses do serve the surrounding rural areas as well, the cities themselves are all rather progressive and left-leaning, so once again I was like "Okay, what is the point of this?" but I went anyway just for the experience. We stood on a street corner with our signs. Most people driving by honked in agreement with us. A few people yelled "abortion is murder" at us out their car windows, and we yelled back "abortion is healthcare!" Cool, okay, still didn't get the point because it's not like we were changing any minds or there in large numbers (we were no threat to any power structures), and the city already largely agreed with us.

But then we got another SUV that pulled up and yelled "abortion is murder!" at us (both husband and wife this time). Looked in the back seat, and they were traveling with their daughter who was maybe 13ish. She locked eyes with me, gave me the most serious look I've ever received, and gave us a thumbs up just above the window ledge so that her family couldn't see.

And that's the day I learned that protests are not always about threatening entrenched power structures but letting people in isolated ideological bubbles know that there are other perspectives and that if they share them, they're not alone.

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hi, i’m an american and stuff is very censored rn, and i was wondering if you could explain what’s happening in germany? i’ve been searching but just about all i could find was that parliament was dissolved and there’s an election in february. the way people are talking about it is super scary and i was wanting to see if there’s any info i could get on it to understand what’s going on more

Dear @ceilingpancake,

Thank you for asking. Our friend @mojo106, who (unlike me) is German, wrote an excellent reblog comment to my post, placing things in their own, local context. You can read it here: https://www.tumblr.com/mojo106/773918157418168320/httpswwwreuterscomworldeuropegerman-protest?source=share

She included an article of LA Times, clearly explaining the main issues at stake. To make it even more clear, though, suffice to say the German far-right party, AfD, is one of the most vocally aggressive of that entire European Fascist/Nazi political family, spanning the entire continent from East to West (and now coming dangerously close to winning elections, too). And also the entire spectrum, from Taliban, illiterate opportunists to that chilling, monstrous pragmatism someone like Goebbels portrayed so well.

Also taking the liberty to redirect you to these prior posts/comments of me and @mojo106, bringing even more context: https://www.tumblr.com/sgiandubh/771215878091145216/taking-the-time-to-reblog-this-very-important?source=share

Just imagine our deep shock to see our greatest Ally dangerously shifting, like this. Add to this multiple hotbeds of turmoil, all across Europe, and all of them linked to far-right movements and the hurt & confusion that necessarily come along with it. You can easily imagine the rest, I hope.

Finally, what you also have to realize is that we've collectively been through this before, ninety years ago and counting. It fractured our families, our lives, our prosperity, our destinies. The least thing many of us would like is to see all of this happening again, so this is why the same many people take to the streets to clearly say ¡No pasarán!.

They shall not pass. Hopefully.

This blog is not a political page, simply because who I am in real life has more than a daily share of it. However, sometimes and whimsically, I might address topics that burn my shirt, as we say in Romanian.

Thank you for asking. Please keep an eye on the comments' thread, because you might get extra info from my German readers (and not only them).

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Sometimes I forget that people are parts of more than one fandom at the same time. Like someone I follow posts about someone from a completely different fandom and I'm like.....'Who is that? That's not a Marauders character?'

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accidentally spoiled arcane for my friend @wonder-never-wander and accidentally mentioned certain ship and they may be dying

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how do you explain to your teacher that you’re not graduating to early to grow up faster but instead because you’re scared that you won’t grow up at all if you stay in high school.

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just realized i missed the countdown for new years because i got distracted reading jegulus fan fiction

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scars in fiction: I got this trying to save my lover from an assassin- but tragically, I was too late. now I carry the mark of my failure with me always, and I can never forget~

scars in real life: so I was trying to open macaroni sauce with a paring knife

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At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.

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“talent not the passion” this “passion not the talent that” okay yes but have you ever considered…

(drum roll please)

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having the passion and the talent but not the “IT” factor? being so good at what you do and having a strong love for it but youre just never the best because something is missing? and there’s nothing you can do about it because you just dont have IT and you will never have IT. you either do or you dont and you cant change that. i think thats the worst option

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hey sos to other fan fiction writers.

how do you know if your writing is good or bad? because i feel like all writers are biased one way or another and i dont trust my friends to give me an honest review. i’m also too scared to keep writing because the thing I have planned out would be a decently long fic and I don’t want to spend that much of my life writing a fic just for it to end up being horrible. how do you do it??????

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I find it kind of stupid how 'half full' vs 'half empty' is framed as an optimist/pessimist thing. If it starts full and gets halfway drained, it's half empty. If it starts empty and gets halfway filled, it's half full. If you don't know the starting state it's both simultaneously.

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ghost kids