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4/14/25

and cut my hair off again. lol

genuinely too disabled to take care of it and honestly the freedom of not having to deal with hair at all is just top tier.

now to not let white supremacist beauty standards make me feel a way about not having hair again…

I know I can’t divorce how I feel about myself from the world I live in but truly would like to get to a place of neutral if nothing else.

might be about to shave my head off tonight

craving change I can control

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Dont skip 🔴

I am Falestine, Jad Al-Haq, I am 37 years old, married, and I have a eight-month-old child named Youssef. I gave birth to him during the war during very harsh conditions that no human being can bear. I moved from the hospital immediately after giving birth to the tent in which we were staying after we were displaced to it after the Israeli bulldozers completely bulldozed my house. and my suffering did not start from here. Rather, it began since the beginning of the war, and I am still suffering. I cannot provide enough milk for my baby or diapers. Even medicines and vitamins are not available.

I ask you for your urgent help in disseminating the link to my family and communicating it to people interested and able to help us.  I didn't want to do it, but the tragic situation we are living in is what pushed me to do it.  I feel sad and helpless, after we had everything, we are now homeless on the streets, living in a tent next to a dilapidated public toilet and there is sewage, dirt and waste everywhere, we sleep on it!  We suffer from terrible heat, insects, scorpions, the danger of death, bombs and missiles, in addition to hunger of course, the danger of pollution and terrible diseases, especially the digestive, respiratory and reproductive systems!

.  My father and mother could not bear it any longer. My father had a stroke after losing his home and his place of work, and my mother suffers from chronic diseases and needs treatment.

  Do you have the right to imagine that when you spend your life building for yourself and your children to live a decent life, all of this disappears in the blink of an eye, and now when you reach the age where you should rest, you are forced to start again!!?  But the most important thing now is to try to survive and protect your children from all the factors of death that surround us!  I ask everyone who has humanity or conscience to feel our situation and put themselves in our place.  How can someone who has lived with dignity all his life accept this?  We are slowly dying every day.

Your donation, no matter how small, can have a big impact.  It can provide a meal for my little one, a clean bottle of water, or a moment of safety under these difficult circumstances.  Every donation brings with it a ray of hope, alleviating our suffering and giving us the strength to face a new day.

I ask you to donate and support the steadfastness of the Gazan people, and share this campaign with your friends and families.  Together, we can make a difference and help my family get through this ordeal.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity and support.

Warm greetings,

Falestine

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just found out that there is a sudanfunds website! like gazafunds, it is a compilation of funds for people facing genocide

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this could really work out ✨

in fact it already has ✨

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spent yesterday evening reading Blood Over Bright Haven and my god

such a good book I don’t even have the words

the cost of magic but more really the cost of modernity/convenience

reading this as wildfires rage like what a timely read for me

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my partner and I broke up in november.

more though they broke up with me.

and we’re still good friends like the queers we are but they broke my heart.

and even though it was for the best, I feel like I’ll always be hurt over it.

and I feel so silly. like of course THAT was how and why it ended.

friends to crushes to dating to not dating to besties to partners to exes to friends.

and unlike any other era in our history I no longer hope for or even desire anything with them beyond friendship. and even the absence of that hurts.

so tired of grieving relationships.

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Just got an incredibly generous job offer, so naturally I’m passing these vibes to you!

“I will be blessed with a generous job that works for me”

📥💸💻⏰💡🎊💡⏰💻💸📥

Likes charge, reblogs cast

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this book is worth more than a dozen restaurants that grow their own microgreens on the roof

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new (calendar) year,

and the only things I want require the end of this world.

I hope it all makes sense by spring.

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Thank you so much for this thorough response!!!

Hi! I’ve been following your journey on here for years and just wanted to thank you for being so open and transparent.

I’ve recently started looking into grad school with the intention of eventually becoming a therapist. I’m not sure if I want to go the LCMC or LCSW route and was wondering if you could talk about why you choose the latter and some key things you believe one should consider now that you’ve graduated and have experience in the field.

my background is varied and I have a B.A in Media (very liberal arts education) and most of my work experience has been in non-profits if that is relevant at all.

thank you in advance and wishing you happy holidays 💗

Hello!

Personally, I view the LCSW as being the most versatile form of clinical mental health licensure and affords you a lot of opportunity in a wide variety of fields. I am someone who always wants the freedom to go in any direction I choose, I hate the feeling of being boxed in. One day, I may want to teach in academia, work in forensics, in the medical field, or in school settings. I may want to be a director or open a private practice. I can do all of this and more with an LCSW and it’s not to say it is impossible with others, but it is certainly easier.

Advice for pursuing an LCSW

Consider an LMSW program that fits your values and the core values of the social work profession. I would not recommend social work if you are not passionate about social justice as that is a core tenet of the field. Research the professors listed on their web page, ask specific questions at any informational events you might attend (many have them on Zoom for prospective students), and think about where you see yourself in the field so you can receive the ultimate assistance on that path.

Play an active role in finding your internships, even if you’re in a program that matches you to an internship. Be sure to discuss what it is you’re specifically wanting to gain from your internship, I even had placements in mind and I got matched to those.

Develop rapport with your instructors and professors! This is advice I give to anyone, but I think it is especially useful for social work. Your professors are social workers and this is a relationship building profession. I’ve gotten into so many rooms that I may not have had I not taken the time to develop relationships with my faculty. I became a graduate assistant for the free tuition but honestly the opportunity to work closely with faculty was just as beneficial. I learned so much.

Social workers on TikTok are becoming so vocal and there are tons of great resources on there if you haven’t checked already!

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officially getting serious about going to grad school. there was only ever one reason I’d go back to school but I worry I waited too late.

I could not have predicted an ongoing global pandemic though soooooo

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going to need this soon :)

I used to work for a trade book reviewer where I got payed to review people's books, and one of the rules of that review company is one that I think is just super useful to media analysis as a whole, and that is, we were told never to critique media for what it didn't do but only for what it did.

So, for instance, I couldn't say "this book didn't give its characters strong agency or goals". I instead had to say, "the characters in this book acted in ways that often felt misaligned with their characterization as if they were being pulled by the plot."

I think this is really important because a lot of "critiques" people give, if subverted to address what the book does instead of what it doesn't do, actually read pretty nonsensical. For instance, "none of the characters were unique" becomes "all of the characters read like other characters that exist in other media", which like... okay? That's not really a critique. It's just how fiction works. Or "none of the characters were likeable" becomes "all of the characters, at some point or another, did things that I found disagreeable or annoying" which is literally how every book works?

It also keeps you from holding a book to a standard it never sought to meet. "The world building in this book simply wasn't complex enough" becomes "The world building in this book was very simple", which, yes, good, that can actually be a good thing. Many books aspire to this. It's not actually a negative critique. Or "The stakes weren't very high and the climax didn't really offer any major plot twists or turns" becomes "The stakes were low and and the ending was quite predictable", which, if this is a cute romcom is exactly what I'm looking for.

Not to mention, I think this really helps to deconstruct a lot of the biases we carry into fiction. Characters not having strong agency isn't inherently bad. Characters who react to their surroundings can make a good story, so saying "the characters didn't have enough agency" is kind of weak, but when you flip it to say "the characters acted misaligned from their characterization" we can now see that the *real* problem here isn't that they lacked agency but that this lack of agency is inconsistent with the type of character that they are. a character this strong-willed *should* have more agency even if a weak-willed character might not.

So it's just a really simple way of framing the way I critique books that I think has really helped to show the difference between "this book is bad" and "this book didn't meet my personal preferences", but also, as someone talking about books, I think it helps give other people a clearer idea of what the book actually looks like so they can decide for themselves if it's worth their time.

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I quit my job

and I miss my partner because we haven’t spent nearly as much quality time together as we use to and some of that is for the good but I miss falling asleep in their arms

and I’m scared of not finding a new job before I run out of money

and I don’t want to have to ask my family for money

and I’m sad so so so sad

and lonely because it’s a pandemic STILL and yet..

and everyday I see a new horror

and every night o see a new horror

and…

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so tired. so so so tired.

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wow at it being the day of the first journey entry. Saturday, July 20th, 2024.

we are in for a time. and while I don’t believe everything will unfold exactly as the book.

i do think the book is a warning filled with lessons.

the only lasting truth is change.

reading parable of the sower for the first time and it feels like a warning

how am I supposed to be planning for a future and trying to learn tech skills for a high paying job when I feel like I need to be learning how to grow food and find fresh water sources

how to forage and learn what herbs work for what ailments/prevention/protection/etc

we have been watching a genocide in 4K for months and being made more aware of all the ongoing genocides around the world, forced to constantly be re-infected with a bio level 3 pathogen for almost half a decade, can’t afford adequate housing, non-poisonous food, sufficient healthcare or education and it’s all getting worse and more and more money is being put into police and the military to maintain the current capitalistic world order

if they’re are true history books in the future covid will mark the beginning of the end of this era

i wish to survive it

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wow wow wow

I finished the series. wow.

I hurt for Lauren. She lost everything multiple times over and then her own brother withholds her own child from her. wow.

and the full truth isn’t him being lonely it’s that he hated his sister on some level . she’s what he could never be. and he allowed himself to ignore slavery even though he himself experienced it in order to maintain what he managed to find for himself. so much so he kept her child from her. Even just the knowledge of her existence wow

in other news, although I shouldn’t be I’m surprised by the hopeful ending. i was glad to see so many of the acorn crew having found each other again

on the lowest of keys Earthseed def would have got me 😭 I gotta be careful whew

Butler is a wizard forreal

(Like Make America Great Again????!!!!!??)

reading parable of the sower for the first time and it feels like a warning

how am I supposed to be planning for a future and trying to learn tech skills for a high paying job when I feel like I need to be learning how to grow food and find fresh water sources

how to forage and learn what herbs work for what ailments/prevention/protection/etc

we have been watching a genocide in 4K for months and being made more aware of all the ongoing genocides around the world, forced to constantly be re-infected with a bio level 3 pathogen for almost half a decade, can’t afford adequate housing, non-poisonous food, sufficient healthcare or education and it’s all getting worse and more and more money is being put into police and the military to maintain the current capitalistic world order

if they’re are true history books in the future covid will mark the beginning of the end of this era

i wish to survive it

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Parable if the Sower had me shaking!!! Already a 3rd of the way into Talents and I’m so pissed at Lauren 😭

why why why. Dove tree was as much of a warning to you in Acorn as the increase in robberies was to you in your Neighborhood and do many people warned you!!

I get not wanting to move to a town, but why not go underground with Earthseed. Start spreading the word that y’all are Christian now as soon as Dovetree burned. 😭 Ahhhhh

reading parable of the sower for the first time and it feels like a warning

how am I supposed to be planning for a future and trying to learn tech skills for a high paying job when I feel like I need to be learning how to grow food and find fresh water sources

how to forage and learn what herbs work for what ailments/prevention/protection/etc

we have been watching a genocide in 4K for months and being made more aware of all the ongoing genocides around the world, forced to constantly be re-infected with a bio level 3 pathogen for almost half a decade, can’t afford adequate housing, non-poisonous food, sufficient healthcare or education and it’s all getting worse and more and more money is being put into police and the military to maintain the current capitalistic world order

if they’re are true history books in the future covid will mark the beginning of the end of this era

i wish to survive it