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yeah hype

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Gonna start calling nirvana “silverchair in slacks” just to even the playing field

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If you've ever appreciated my posts about LGBTQ issues, this Pride month, as a favor to me, please do something to help my friend Fadel ( @fadel-dani ).

Fadel is multiply disabled.

A very serious accident left his leg paralyzed for a long time, and now he walks with great difficulty. He also has thalassemia, a blood disorder, which leaves him incredibly fatigued. The medication he needs costs €400 every month. He needs to buy medication as soon as possible, because he has not been able to afford it so far this month. He suffers from dizziness and nausea all the time because he has not been able to buy his medication yet.

Fadel needs urgent surgery

Over 550 days ago, Fadel's family home was bombed and he was left with iron shrapnel embedded in his body. The medical infrastructure in Gaza has been decimated and he URGENTLY needs to get to a better-resourced hospital to get this shrapnel surgically removed safely.

Fadel's family is starving

Israel has created and maintained famine in Gaza as a genocidal tactic. Not only do they prevent food aid from entering, but they target crowds of Palestinians waiting for the distribution of aid.

Fadel and his brothers recently traveled together to an aid site, hungry and desperate for food, only to be met with Israeli snipers.

He recounted, "I saw many martyrs die in front of my eyes. Unfortunately we fled and were not able to take any food or anything. Now we have nothing to eat. A bag of flour costs 800 euros, a kilo of sugar costs 100 euros, a kilo of tomatoes costs 50 euros, and a liter of milk costs 80 euros. What's worse is that my medication is about to run out. I don't know what to do. Should I spend my surgery money to buy medicine and food to eat, or what?"

He told me today that for the last two days his family has been rationing their remaining supplies so that they have only been able to eat once a day. They are always hungry.

Fadel's campaign is vetted

His campaign has been vetted by @gazavetters (#197) and 90-ghost.

Earlier this year he raised nearly 50% of his goal, but on April 25th, 2025, GoFundMe cruelly deleted his fundraiser with no warning or explanation (something this company has done to many Palestinians trying to survive genocide) and he was forced to start over with a new campaign.

Despite GoFundMe's deletion of his first campaign automatically returning all donations to the donors, most people who previously donated have not taken the time to send that money back to him.

Today as I write this (June 22, 2025), he has has raised 39% of his goal, still over €3,000 below the amount he had raised back in April.

He has escaped death so many times, and he needs our help to survive long enough to get to a hospital who can treat his injuries.

What you can do:

Donate any amount you can to his campaign

Make a post about Fadel to share his story and encourage others to donate

Share this post with your followers

Send him a kind message at @fadel-dani and offer your friendship

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One of the most bizarre takes in defence of Harry Potter I’ve ever seen was that Harry becoming the magical equivalent of a cop wasn’t a problem because “people in the uk have a different relationship with the police than americans do” and that only americans had a problem with it, which is absurd

The uk police are still a very fucked up institution that are generally disliked for their arrogance and abuse of power, the fact they don’t regularly carry guns doesn’t change that

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sick to death of everyone being rail thin and wearing their hair in a slicked back bun. this summer and forever i'm all about big thighs big boobs big butts and perhaps most importantly big hair

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the paul mccartney is dead conspiracy theory is the funniest thing in the world because i feel like if he did die and the beatles did replace him like parents replace a gold fish and the new guy managed to look exactly like him and play left handed bass, piano, and vocals in the same style and produce the same quality of music consistently for 30+ years then it'd be honestly rude to mention it at that point. like he's earned it let him have it

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my empire of dirt!!!❤️❤️❤️ #MyDirt

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Fred Hampton Jr visiting his father on Father’s Day…his grave is annually shot by local police

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Fuck Eurovision but the lucio corsi-gojo-tommy cash friendship was cute, I love seeing artists from all over the world who make music in totally different genres have such genuine appreciation for each others work

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the assisted dying debate is so crazy

because i do fundamentally believe everyone should have the right to die when they want.

BUT if they legalise assisted suicide in the UK right now i don't trust our ableist fucking government to not just start coercing disabled people into suicide to save money. they already won't give them enough money to live.

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Busted are another band that are insanely popular in the uk and western europe but never broke america, while on the flip side the average person in the uk doesn’t know the jonas brothers cover exists, if they’re not online they probably won’t even know who the jonas brothers are

I saw Busted at download fest last year and the place was packed, they just played the isle of wight festival a couple days ago, everybody knows who they are

It’s ridiculous how famous they got considering less than three years passed between the release of their first single and their initial breakup, in that time they had eight top 5 hits including four No 1s, and their reunion tour sold out the biggest venues in Britain

They have a kind of bowling for soup/wheatus/american hi-fi vibe, early 2000s pop rock verging on pop punk, if you’re into that kind of thing you should absolutely listen to them

Actually you should listen to them regardless because by the rules of hyperfixation I must promote them to everyone

Anyway here it is

Also my personal favourite

if i have to explain to one more person that Year 3000 was not originally written by the Jonas brothers, but by BUSTED, i will genuinely start building a flux capacitor to take me to before the JB ever released the cover.

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SMOSH

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A bill has been passed granting Gaelic and Scots official status in Scotland. While symbolic in nature, the goal here is to provide support for language education.

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Fun fact: the reznor company was actually founded by his great grandfather, I suppose he could have been an air conditioning nepo baby if the music thing hadn’t worked out

I guess either way he was destined for an industrial career

NIN was destined to exist, what other career could you possibly have with a name like Trent Reznor?

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Banning all Americans from this blog except the ones who are sound.