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When I find myself in times of trouble, Billie Joe Armstrong comes to me, speaking words of wisdom

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I was asking DDG AI to give me dark humor jokes - here's one it told me;

Isn't it great how we all have the right to free speech? Just not the right to be heard.

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Once again, we need your help.

Please, donate whatever you can and share to as many as you possibly can.

With a very quick search (because I am chronically offline atm for my own health's sake), the first article from Wikipedia reads as follows;

"March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip

Attack that ended the ceasefire started in January 2025

On the night of 18 March 2025, Israel launched a surprise attack on the Gaza Strip, effectively ending the 2025 Gaza war ceasefire. Israel's missile and artillery attack killed more than 400 Palestinians, including 263 women and children, making it one of the deadliest in the Gaza war. Dubbed "Operation Might and Sword" by the Israel Defense Forces, it was carried out in coordination with the United States."

Further reading some of this article, as well as cross-reading with other articles from other news outlets, makes it obvious the plan of B.N (or bs if you ask me, cuz the man is just spewing bullshit) never changed, and his goal is still to eradicate the Palestinians.

Any and all who still claims Israel has a "right to defend themselves" are officially now just plain fucking racists, feeding off of war and endless suffering, as IDF themselves publicly said "the plan was kept in closed circles in the IDF to create an element of surprise and deception." This is not defense.

First of all, thank you @jaafar-gaza06 for making me aware of the situation. Secondly, I am beyond angered and horrified that the ceasefire that was desperately asked for for over 1.5 years, has been broken merely two months after it started.

My heart goes out to every Gazans left, and though I'm not religious, I will pray for all of you. Humanity has failed once again.

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https://chuffed.org/project/helpjaafar

Please, donate and share!

I'm happy you got something, however that something is the absolute bare minimum, and no person in any situation should have to live like that!

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I'm so sorry about your situation, and I truly wish I could donate anything at all, but alas, all I can do is share.

Please help me help Jaafar! Donate anything you can and share to as many people as you possibly can!

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One thing my AuDHD fucks me over with is planning.

Like, say I wanna go to a youth group in my city.

My autism will have to make a plan;

° What am I going to wear? Is a hoodie and sweatpants enough?

° How do I get there?

° What are we gonna do?

° If no one asks for a board game, does that mean no one wants to play, or are everyone there scared to ask as well?

° Will there be food, or should I eat before I go?

° Am I allowed to ask about food?

° Do I sit quietly and follow everyone else, or should I test my anxiety and make a request?

° Wait, did I shower two days ago, or two weeks ago?

Just for good measure, I probably find out it's been too long since last shower and decide to do it, testing my fibromylgia as well.

And then my ADHD swoops in;

Absolutely not. The more "plan" is created, the more anxious I'll get.

Let's just not eat, I can survive for a few hours if they don't serve anything, and just hop on a bus and go. Fuck people there, I have music.

Board games? Scared? Nah dude, just live your life and regret it later.

So I go from feeling good about leaving to go somewhere, worried if I get something wrong, annoyed at myself, feeling sick about not being prepared, getting prepared and exhausting myself, and eventually wind up not going anywhere because I spent absolutely all my energy fighting with myself.

And then there's my logic as well, calmly telling everyone to shut the fuck up in the background as Anxiety is all up in ADHD's face screaming about iF I DON'T EAT, I'LL MAKE WEIRD NOISES AND EVERYONE WILL STARE AT ME and Autism is rocking back and forth in the corner with its thumb in its mouth, desperately trying to lull itself. And fibromylgia is currently in bed, snoring so loudly the walls are shaking, freaking everyone out.

I remember when I was like 4 my dad was sleeping on the couch and I dreamt that a massive tractor came charging at me, you know like those from Cars, the red "cows" they tip and eventually trigger the Big Tractor.

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Please reblog, share to other platforms and/or donate whatever you can.

Let's take care of our Palestinian family ♥️

I pray that all Palestinians find the peace you deserve and somehow manage to rebuild your lives.

بارك الله فيكم جميعا ♥️

One Day at a Time 🙏💙

It’s hard to describe what it feels like to lose everything. To wake up and realize your entire life has been erased.

But here we are—$1,580 raised so far.

It’s a small step in a long journey, but it proves that there are still people who care. That hope isn’t completely gone.

💙 Please, if you can, help us move forward. Every share, every donation, every kind word helps us hold on.

🙏 If this post reaches you at the wrong time or feels intrusive, I sincerely apologize please ignore it .

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From the bottom of my heart, thank you. ❤️

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Don't call it "transgenderism." That's a word that bigots use to call our existence an ideology. It's just transness. Call it that.

I want to start by asking if you are aware that I am trans, as I think it is important to get that out of the way first.

Secondly, without trying to make it sound like I'm trying to fight you on this, because I'm really not- I'm aware that the term "transgenderism" has changed to a more on-the-low term to avoid offending anyone, but in my eyes, it's the same as people of colour using the N word. I'm using a word that, yes, has a loaded history- to refer to myself.

I therefore also refuse to let any hateful person, despite how many and how strong their opinions can be, ruin or stop me in any way. To me, "transgenderism" is still a valid word, despite the history.

That said, it's evident the term is triggering to you, and I'm truly sorry I brought up any negative emotion in any way, but I will continue to use the term wherever I see fit, because I'm talking about myself.

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I think I've said it before, but this song made me so euphoric when they sang "Do you wanna be my boyfriend?"

Bobby Sox // Green Day

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You know, something I just realized is actually kinda funny.

The sole reason I even know what transgenderism is, is simply because I started seeing transphobia.

"This is so wrong, this is disgusting" etc made me wonder why they thought it was so wrong, so I pursued knowledge.

RuPaul's Drag Race was one of the first queer and LGBTQIA+ friendly media I ever consumed. I was not, and still am not the biggest fan of the drama because I just simply don't like drama, but I saw so many contestants coming out during that show. Grown "men" crying as they admit to feeling ostracized from their childhood communities, their family and friends, saying they've come to realize they're not actually a man, but a woman. I watched a handful of them becoming so vulnerable and stripping (emotionally) completely in front of someone they adored, but also a huge camera crew, and thus essentially the entire world. I thought "How is this wrong? What's so disgusting about this?"

I was 10 when I sat in the school bus after school and talked with some younger kids I was friends with about transgenderism. I don't remember the conversation, obviously, this is like 13 years ago, but I remember telling them it was actually possible for a boy to get a surgery to remove his penis. I remember feeling proud to be the one telling them this, but also appalled that their natural reactions were so strong, because mine never was, and both my parents and my older brother were vehemently against self expression like that.

When I was like 13, I identified as bisexual. I became obsessed with the flag's colours and tried to coordinate my outfits to have a similar vibe.

When I was 14, someone in my class told us after a visiting performance group that the lead singer *wanted* to be confusing, gender-wise. Someone had tried to make fun of the lead singer after their performance, and were quickly shut down when no one followed. My friend explained what being non-binary meant, and I felt so outed, but in a good way. My friend said the singer's long, messy hair was purposeful, that their big clothes were purposeful, and that they never introduced themselves by anything other than name, nor talked about it because they didn't need to; their self expression said everything for them. I remember going to the bathroom that same day and looking at my own long [straightened] hair and baggy clothes and wondered for the first time if I was on the same wavelength, just not the same wave.

When I was 16 I met my first ever trans friend. I quickly developed a crush on him, which, in hindsight wasn't actually a crush, but admiration, and I wanted to protect him at all costs. Whenever our elder teacher misgendered him or used his dead name, I, fairly aggressively, corrected her in front of the entire class to the point that I was yelled at for interrupting and that "she" [referring to my GUY friend] knows it's not on purpose. He never told me to stop, so I never did. We also didn't have that teacher for many classes, and I noticed she started to avoid using pronouns or even his name because I didn't back down.

That same year I found out that a friend I had, but had lost contact with, had also come out. She had socially changed her name when she started a new school, and her appearance had drastically changed from when we went to the same school just a year or so prior. I messaged her, asking if it was true and told her I was proud of her for being herself and that I was happy she had found who she truly was. The next time we met, I slipped with her pronouns, but that was also the only time I ever did. I apologized and we continued our lives as friends again. The next year, after I, too, had started my own self discovery journey, she dead named me, and I dropped her instantly. As a trans person, how do you have the guts to insult someone the same way you have been, even if they're not actively trans? (at the time, I only thought I was gay) Another in the same friend group followed suit after berating her, and after nearly 20 years of acquaintance, she dropped her as well. Apparently, they were never actually friends, they just happened to be the only two who were left out and decided to stick together. Had me and my two childhood friends from a different school not entered the picture, they wouldn't have maintained contact after their last year at the same school. I've also minimized contact with her since, after finding out she blames the entire trans community for everything that's wrong in the world after I came out as enby to her. She has always been protective of me, and has, on numerous occasions said she admires me, but when I learned that she wasn't just not a big fan of the, prior, only trans person in our group, but actually had fundamental issues with her as a trans person, my view of her changed. We had a short discussion about being trans and what it meant, and she argued with the same point you usually hear, like "You can never change your biological sex" and how we're just mentally unstable [which really felt like a personal attack because she knows I am].

About a year after I came out to my friends as enby, I came out to my mom after we had been drinking. I remember my thoughts being so loud when she started her usual transphobic tirade, and just as I was about to tell her, my nose started bleeding. I cleaned myself up and started by saying I knew why that happened, and came out to her on the spot. She stammered when she realized every bad thing and every criticism she has ever slung at the trans community, were also indirectly thrown at me. We've tried talking about it since, but she stands firm on non-binary not being real and how it doesn't matter if one is trans during life because "iN onE ThOusAnD yEaRs-"

My point is that in my peers' attempt at keeping everything strictly conservative, they helped me figure out that I'm a liberal.

My transphobic family's comments made me pursue my own conclusions because they were too emotional about it and never talked about trans people as other civils.

And I find that kinda funny.

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Call me Marge Simpson, because I love you, Homie.

If you look at your homie anywhere but the eyes, you're gay.

If you're amazed over your homie's hair, you're gay.

If you like your homie's eye color, you're gay.

If you like your homie's fragrance, you're gay.

If you like your homie's sister, you're gay.

If you like your homie's music taste, you're gay.

If you ride shotgun with your homie, you're gay.

If you sleep over at your homie's, you're gay.

If you have a night out with your homie, you're gay.

If you get drunk with your homie, you're gay.

If you move in with your homie, you're gay.

If you sleep in the same room as your homie, you're gay.

If you tell the world who your homie is, you're gay.

If you vow to be homies forever, you're gay.

If you get a pet with your homie, you're gay.

If you live the rest of your life with your homie, you're gay.

If you touch your homie's hands, you're gay.

If you have a homie, you're gay.

If you like women, you're gay because they've had a dick in them [probably]

If you have a baby with a woman, you're gay, because it could be a boy and now you've shared a vagina with another boy and that's gay.

If you kiss a girl, that's gay because she's probably kissed another boy.

Fellas, is it gay to be alive?

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oh my god...

so the first screenshot is trying to look this up on tiktok normally, "donald trump rigged election" and it says that search violates community guidelines.

the second screenshot is looking up the same exact thing, but with a (australian) vpn on. canadian vpn didn't fix it fyi.

THIS is exactly the type of censorship to be looking out for on tiktok. this actually is crazy.

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First Felon is building a concentration camp at Guantanamo, Cuba.

It had a previous capacity of 800, but First Felon wants to increase to 30,000.

This is a call to action.

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Billionaires are beyond evil. Their greed and labor theft is a blight on the world.

They give absolutely nothing back.

No scholarships. No libraries. No hospitals. No public spaces. No investments. No medical research.

Nothing.

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Hello, I'm Banan from Gaza🍉🇵🇸. I live with my family of 9 in a tent😓 My life was very beautiful before the war💔, but the war came and destroyed all my dreams and memories and I couldn't complete my studies😓. They destroyed our beautiful home and we became homeless and we live in a tent in Deir al-Balah and we face great difficulty in living due to the lack of food supplies and their exorbitant prices 😓😢 Help me and my family from the genocide and donate to us so that we can provide our food supplies, please 💔😢🇵🇸https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-banana-and-her-family-to-reach-safety?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=customer&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_ft&attribution_id=sl:46ecf2e7-cc81-436a-ba6b-7ba823fad8fc

I'm broke and can't afford to donate, I'm so sorry!

I'm sorry, Banan, for your home of 20 years, for your mother and father's conditions, for all the children you must watch suffer when they're supposed to be safe and protected, and I'm so incredibly sorry the world isn't doing enough to help you. You deserve so much better than to watch your friends, family, neighbours and home being demolished and slaughtered this way. The situation in Gaza is inhumane and absolutely shattering, and I so deeply wish I could do more than just sit at home that was given to me because I'm white in a rich country, and all I can do is watch as you must endure the opposite. I'm so sorry you have to go through this.

Guys, anyone reading this, please donate whatever you can, and if you can't, please reblog and share! We must do anything we can to help our unfortunate brothers and sisters in Palestine. If the situation was reversed, we would need and seek help too. Don't let these monsters win, don't let the state of the world discourage you to do what you can to make a change! We need to stand united, we have to stick together and do what we can to make HUMANITY win this unfair battle.

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