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The genocide in Gaza has been ongoing for almost two years now and it feels like people have moved on from it. Campaigns are constantly stagnating and not enough is coming in to keep people afloat, and this as the situation on the ground only continues to worsen. Even when there was some food available, it would be sold for exorbitant prices. Aid has been consistently denied and enough has never been let in, but now nothing is coming in at all. The US and Israel are working to deliberately starve the people of Gaza, and they now face a serious famine. What "Aid Points" these countries set up are only used to target and kill people who are trying to feed their families. There is no food left, and what little can be found is sold at even more expensive prices than before. To deliberately inflict this kind of hunger is a war crime, it is inhumane and unconscionable, and even more so when we know that the children of Gaza aren't spared from it. My friend Dina has two children, one who is a toddler and the other only about a year old, who are having to drink salt water to stay alive. Dina and her children have been suffering from intense hunger, and I am scared for my friend everyday. But people are turning away from Gaza, and people are turning away from her. Gaza needs your attention and your action now more than ever. If you can help my friend at all, if you can donate to her campaign or share her story, it would help more than you know. Please don't forget about her.

She is vetted #296 on the spreadsheet. Please, please help my friend. Things are getting dire.

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Ouroboros, 2025, tufted with wool, 45 x 50 cm

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i've been #noticing for a while. youtubers & other online people seem to no longer care for the difference between uses for articles a vs. an it's kind of driving me nuts they all just use a, even if it's followed by a vowel ??? why is the west so terrible at their own language lol

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Villanelle's Paris apartment

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relapsed 🧍🏽‍♀️🕳️ just sent a business case study pitch deck to one of the companies i'm applying to

i'd like to have at least one day where i don't look to the future. where i am only a person, moving breathing being just for the sake of it, unhurried

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i'd like to have at least one day where i don't look to the future. where i am only a person, moving breathing being just for the sake of it, unhurried

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amateurish first effort

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Black Sails × The Spear Cuts Through Water

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a coyote tugs at the strap of a trail camera [source]

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read oarfish -> brawl lit ✨️

wish i found out sooner that poetry is more exciting to write when it leans speculative than literary. no one should give a fuck about my feelings. i certainly don't. now, the fate of an oarfish... that's more interesting

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hey thanks, I heard you uttered my name while I wasn't around thus making me real.

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flint was so real for all that. if someone tells me to know no shame i WILL cry / die

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save me audiobooks.... audiobooks save me

[currently in the middle of 2 books] i miss reading

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[currently in the middle of 2 books] i miss reading

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opened it & procrastinated for 6 fucking hours

job hunt so intense i had to excavate an old college textbook from the recesses of my bottom shelf

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Catch me if you can, John Divola (because)

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genuine question — how is donating money going to help Palestinians if no food is going in? What is the money for?

Medicine, water, supplies, food, fuel (much of it black market being upsold at egregious prices) — these all cost money and pretty much all Palestinians in Gaza have no source of income now. It’s drops in the bucket compared to ending the siege and occupation but it’s one way to do at least something small to help. Others are in need of money to evacuate when the border opens again (which hopefully is asap…), tuition and supplies for school to continue studies despite it all. Another fund is focused on trying to rebuild farmlands in Gaza to get food again that way.

I can’t tell anyone what to do with their money but I don’t think this mindset of “well nothings going in so we can’t help” is helpful for people on the ground who are the ones saying that donations can and do help them survive.