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“hi mom, guess what!” at the first gay pride rally in philadelphia, in june of 1972.

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in a way we are all the dead dove

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💢A plea to everyone who sees my post 💢

I am Alaa Al-Hanjouri, 32 years old. I used to work as a teacher, educating children and carrying their dreams on my shoulders...😥😥

but the Gaza war left us with everything. My home was destroyed, my dreams shattered, and my family of six became homeless refugees, searching for a life amidst the rubble.😭💔💔

What saddens me most now is my daughter, Souad... a child no older than six years old, suffering from severe anemia. Her body is emaciated, her eyes are sunken, she sleeps crying from the pain, and she wakes up weaker than the day before. We cannot afford treatment, not even the food that would help her fight the disease.💔💔

I am helpless, and that is what exhausts me the most. Seeing your child wither before your eyes and your inability to save him. All I ask of you is your help... for Souad, and for every father like me who has lost the ability to protect their children.

Your donation is the only hope in this agony. Please, do not let my family die. Please help us. Thank you very much.

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Every once in a while I think about how the Swiss have the cachet of “good chocolate” and Italy and France have the “good coffee” and well I don’t even really have the energy to get mad about it anymore

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9/11 was just an airstrike, don't worry

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The Vietnam War was wrong and cruel

The Iraq War was wrong and creul

And this war shall be shown by history to have been wrong and cruel as well

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thinking about the character in peril or perhaps some sort of pain...

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Btw you should hug that t girl who's always putting others before herself

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Was just informed that "any sufficiently deep enthusiasm is indistinguishable from academic rigor" and hoo boy we are really in a crisis of anti-intellectualism.

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i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh

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We are a family from Gaza, currently trapped in the street with bombs falling around us. Among us is a young child with a heart condition, injured loved ones, and elderly family members who can barely move.

We are in urgent need of your help. We must escape the danger immediately. We need funds to find shelter, buy medicine, food, and water — the very basics we no longer have access to.

The children are terrified, crying for safety. Please, if you’re reading this, help us survive. Your donation — no matter the amount — can save our lives.

Donate and share to save us now:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/4qzqg-help-a-family-from-gaza

@cantsayidont @northgazaupdates2 @northgazaupdatas

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I gotta say, so much queer intra-community horseshit dropped off my shoulders when I decided to adopt a firm policy that everyone is the expert in their own identity, the single most knowledgeable person about what it's like to live life in their own skin, and that if someone describes their experience in ways I find contradictory or paradoxical I should do them the courtesy of presuming that they are striving to express something very specific and nuanced, rather than leaping to the conclusion that they're just dumb and using words wrong.

Sure, there are some combinations of identity terms that I look at and go "hmm, I don't get how that works." I'm still a human being. But there's a big difference between not getting how something works versus insisting that it doesn't.

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The age of eligibility for an ABLE account, allowing USAmerican disabled people to save up money without losing their government assistance for having “too much,” is going to go up to cover disabilities diagnosed by age 46 (currently it’s age 26), meaning a much larger number of people will be able to access them. As the article notes, many Americans don’t know these accounts exist, let alone whether they or someone they care for could qualify for one, so please share this information around.

It seems to me it would obviously be better if the “no more than $2000 a month” limit were simply removed and disabled people could have whatever savings accounts they chose, but this is heaps better than nothing.

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do y'all even know how much i hate being an "elder queer" at 40? a whole goddamn generation before me was wiped out by a plague that politicians deemed not their problem bc it was killing the "right" people. like. this was OPENLY STATED. i spent a large chunk of my childhood going to funerals. nevermind the fact that killing queer people for being queer wasn't codified into law as a hate crime until i was a junior in high school.

i should NOT be an elder queer, i should be middle at most. i am a middle aged queer. most of the elder queers died.

when i was growing up i didn't go to pride parades, i went to pride marches. because that's 100% what they were in the 80s and 90s.

from the absolute bottom of my heart, LEARN OUR FUCKING HISTORY. a generation was nearly wiped out so you young queers could be here. don't let that have been in vain, please.