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Sometimes it is quite depressing to be on Tumblr. I recently had to block another account saying shit like 'Gaza deserves to be bombed' on a Gazan's post saying how the children have not eaten anything for days. There are so many Palestinians asking for support because they are literally starving to death and yet the majority of blogs here wouldn't even share a fundraiser post. These donations to families in Gaza are literally life-saving! And when they are asked to share these posts, they just ignore them because they don't think these fundraisers are 'trustworthy enough'. Ok, some of you are asking how the fundraisers are vetted out of genuine concern for Palestinians in Gaza, I understand and I'm always happy to provide info on how fundraisers on Tumblr are vetted (x, x, x, x, x, x), but so many of you are using this as an excuse to make yourself feel better about ignoring starving Palestinians being killed and not helping them.

Ibrahim (@aburakhiaibrahim) is starving. His family consists of 28 people and there is no food for them to eat. Yesterday he tried to get the food from the airdrop, but because the aid landed very close to the army, he couldn't go and get the food or else he would be killed. They could only turn to the markets for food, which is very expensive. I am asking you to please help. Donate if you can, if not, please at least share his fundraiser so that it may reach someone who can donate.

Vetted! vetted by @/gaza-evacuation-funds, #336 on vetted fundraiser list by el-shab-hussein, nabulsi, and MohAyesh, #802 on Butterfly Effect Project vetted list!

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What is her fault? She used to cry about the silliest stuff or about a new shiny toy, now she cries because she goes to sleep hungry every night. She gets food in priority whenever we have some, but even giving her two meals a day requires a miracle. As for us, one meal every other day has become normal.

One kilo of flour is $100. The merchants only accept cash and the commission rate is around 50%. That means we would need $200 so my family of ten can get just one kilo of flour and still be hungry at the end of the day. And even then, we won’t buy a full kilo, because we need to secure rent too, which is $1,300 a month. That’s why we’re so hungry still.

Please help us. Even if you just have $5, even if you can only share, please do it. I swear we need help or we won’t make it.

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PLEASE DONATE HERE

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PLEASE READ THIS POST

My name is Rawan and I’m trying to survive in northern Gaza with my family of 10.

Our priorities are my elderly grandmother and my four-year-old sister. Today, she told me “I’m tired of this whole life.” It broke my heart. She’s so young and doesn’t remember life before the genocide. She doesn’t understand that we’re powerless against the famine.

In our area, one kilo of flour has reached $200. Merchants only accept cash and the commission is around 50%, meaning we only get half of whatever’s sent to us. We have a monthly rent of $1,300 and we’ll be homeless if we can’t pay. Everything is so hard right now and we need help.

Please help us. Don’t feel like it’s useless if you can only donate $5 or if you can only share, because it helps too, so please do it anyway. This is our lifeline 🙏

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🎯 Gaza students need you today…

Everyone has seen what Isnad has done this month to support Gaza's students, and the journey doesn't stop…

This morning, we welcomed 40 new students, all with the hope of completing their education in a safe and respectful environment, thanks to your generous donations.

But we don't want these students to just "complete their education."

We want them to master, innovate, and become professionals in their fields.

How do we achieve this?

Through specialized training courses, delivered by professional trainers, students are guided step by step toward a true understanding and skill set that qualifies them for the job market.

💡 What do we need today? Everything is ready: space, internet, electricity… But we need to cover:

Trainer fees

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Educational board All of which are essential for the success of these courses.

🎯 Our goal: only $1,000. Your donation today, no matter how small, makes a real difference. It contributes to building a student's future… and creating a new opportunity in the heart of Gaza.

📢 Don't delay, don't hesitate. Donate now and be part of the change.

You are their only hope.

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DONATE TO THE SAMEER PROJECT 🕊️

Mosab Emad Ali, part of the heart of the Sameer Project, was also martyred recently. The organizers could use all the support they can get right now.

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"Headcanoning a gender non-conforming character as trans is bad because you're taking away GNC representation" <- comment made by people who have more in common with the "save the tomboys" transphobic crowd than they are willing to admit.

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today is my birthday!!! my greatest wish today is that my friend reaches his goal. please donate to him!!

Are you a university student trying to learn under normal circumstances and still finding it difficult? Let me tell you about myself. I'm Mahmoud from Gaza, a computer systems engineer with only two semesters left to graduate. I'm about to get my degree. Famine is ravaging us, but that's not the main obstacle. It's the fees. To enter this semester's exams, I need to secure the required fees, which are about $800. These are the last two semesters, and I'll be done with university. I'm worried and afraid of falling behind an additional year. I must get this amount to finish this semester!

Dear student, to be able to access Moodle, you must pay 20% of the tuition fees for the registered hours for the second semester 2024/2025 as a minimum through payment methods: bank transfer, PayPal, or mobile Pay. Click here for payment methods. After payment, the notification must be delivered to Professor Raafat Muammar via WhatsApp.

Here is the exam schedule, the first exam starts on August 9th and this amount must be collected before this period to pay to the university and enter the exam!

Give me a chance to complete my education, donate what you can for me so that I can become an engineer and help my family and my country

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@feluka @sayruq @gothhabiba

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Hello everyone,

It's been a whole year since I first made this art for my dear friend, Mohammed Ayesh @/blackeagleplog , who is still suffering from the same dangers since the very start of this genocide. These days, I still talk to him daily via WhatsApp and he remains steadfast & positive in the face of all his troubles.

I cannot understate how deserving he is of help.

For a long time, he has put aside promoting his own campaign in favour of helping others:

Vetting campaigns on the ground to assure everyone of legitimacy

Creating the Ihyaa Society @ihyaasociety which provides a space for students to continue their education online despite the genocide

It is very important that he himself is supported, given how much he has done for others. Please consider donating to him today. Any amount, no matter how small, will help him.

As of July 9th 2025:

£4,477 / £15,000

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NEW: The Global Sumud Flotilla has announced the largest civilian sailing to Gaza since the siege began in 2007, aiming to break Israel’s blockade and challenge global complicity. Dozens of boats will depart from Spain on August 31, with additional launches from Tunisia and others on September 4. Delegations from 44+ countries—including the U.S., Malaysia, Brazil, Italy, and Sri Lanka—will take part. The flotilla will carry doctors, lawyers, journalists, and activists. Organizers say any Israeli interception would constitute piracy under international law. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will flag off the Southeast Asian convoy on August 23. Mass rallies in support are planned globally for August 9.

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i don't know what to say anymore. it feels like every other day i am writing a post about ibrahim @aburakhiaibrahim but donations are barely coming in. he's starving. this is not hyperbole, he is literally starving. we've all seen the news, we know the occupiers are not letting any food in. whatever is left in gaza is insanely expensive. if you've ever had to go hungry for any reason, you know how torturous it is.

donate to ibrahim so that he can eat. (vet)

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Guess what show I started…

[ID: Drawing of Janeway and Tuvok from Star Trek Voyager. Janeway thinks: "Wow, I am so unhinged, good thing I have a responsible and logical sidekick to keep me in check." Next to her, Tuvok is labelled as "most unhinged person you have ever met". /end ID]

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i've watched @isnadfoundation grow from a simple idea that @ma7moudgaza2 proposed over chat one day to one of the most wonderful initiatives i've had the privilege of aiding. more than 70 gazans have been able to pursue their degrees or do freelance work remotely to support their families through isnad.

but raising the monthly rent has been an uphill battle. less than halfway the amount for next month have been raised, and less than a month remains until rent is due. please support isnad if you care for education.

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a pixel art piece in honor of seeing tgwdlm reprise a couple weeks ago! i had such a fun time <3

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So one of the things I like about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which I think is somewhat underappreciated in the audience because it clashes hard with the utopic vision of the future, is that the Federation is in many ways still systemically and culturally ableist.

I think this is explored best in S02E06's "Melora," obviously.

This episode starts off with Dax being shocked that the replicator contained a schematic for a wheelchair, because no one has needed one in three hundred years. Bashir answers that no no no lol, Federation replicators in fact cannot make wheelchairs based on their built-in libraries, and that the wheelchair is a schematic that their incoming wheelchair user coworker sent over to have replicated for her on arrival.

The rest of the episode explores how this utopic vision of the future that the difficult-to-accommodate disabled are not a part of has absolutely de-normalized the cultural concepts and accommodations surrounding some disabilities, thus creating complex and seemingly anachronistic institutionalist-era realities in the space future.

This is, to me, deeply interesting because it highlights a very real conversation around pursuing cures against pursuing accommodation.

It's basically acknowledging the threat of the Gattica style shit currently engaged in by dudes like Elon Musk and these freaks

(for those who don't recognize them, these are weird pro-natalist yuppies who claim they've done shit like genetically engineer their kids for high IQs, a scentifically impossible thing. they are, unsurprisingly, very racist but in a SoCal-Berkeley way.)

becoming so normalized in society that we effectively engineer out the majority of "defects." Everybody starts off with a happy healthy life as defined not through accommodation and infinite diversity in infinite combinations, but through the elimination of variation that would necessitate different cultural practices, different architecture, different understandings of life worthy of life, blah blah blah.

It's not "in the brilliant shining future nobody has to be disabled," it's "in the brilliant shining future the disabled aren't allowed to exist, and we don't have to think about them" lol.

But! Geordi LaForge!

Well, Geordi is born blind in a context where blindness can be perfectly accommodated, debatably even cured, via his wundervisor and / or surgically implanted eyes. In fact, in the movies, which do not exist sorry, Geordi gets them eyes stuck in and in so doing even loses the cultural signifier of his blindness, as well as situational considerations of blindness.

Further, Geordi is in this unfortunate weird space a lot of disabled characters in science fiction are, where his prosthesis is considered cool enough that it passes some kind of ableist vibe check wherein the character is no longer necessarily received as "disabled" by the audience. It's a cool cyberpunk thing, and thus loses its audience association with disability in many ways, ala Adam Jensen's sword arms or the unexplored nature of voluntarily cutting off one's limbs to replace them with robot parts in Cyberpunk 2077.

Geordi "can do things," he just "has to do things a little differently." The "a little differently" here is defined as "wearing a thing on his face" and not a different process or method. We never see how Geordi lays out his quarters or prepares his uniform, tools, whatever in a way that makes it all more accessible for him; he readily assume the first thing he does in the morning is plug his visor in. Glasses.

It's a fun cosplay idea in a way a wheelchair isn't.

The thing is, when Geordi is without his visor, he's fucked.

I don't just mean the episode where he's trapped in a island with a Cardassian or whatever, I mean on the fucking Enterprise. Say they're in a crisis, he falls over, wangs his noggin on a console and breaks his visor. Look at the open layouts with no handrails leading anywhere, no braille or layout signage posted, nothin'.

How the fuck is he going to find his way to the turbolift?

These are not accessible environments for a blind bloke. These are accessible environments for a sighted bloke wearing glasses.

The thing to consider as well is, we know Geordi's blindness is absolute. Blindness in real life is pretty diverse, actually, and many blind people do have some vision. Not Geordi. So, all the lights that communicate where to go in a crisis mean fuck all to him.

And, considering how often the Enterprise is in crisis, crew members are cut off from each other or the ship, the practical realities Geordi has to deal with on away missions that are simply never accommodated - it becomes apparent that Geordi is considered effectively the same as any sighted crew member.

His disability accommodation is individual and his responsibility. Nothing is provided by Starfleet except, perhaps, new visors and free visits to Beverly.

The same criticism exists for my man Hemmer,

who is played by blind actor Bruce Horak, yes, but who exists in a similar state to Geordi. I doubt they considered Mr. Horak a consultant on blindness and how a blind crew member would work in their series, because again, his blindness is accommodated for by magical future thing that doesn't fucking exist. In this case, psychic senses or something (idk I've never watched nuTrek sober).

If you look at the environments he's in, or the situations he deals with on away missions, sans those Daredevilian supersenses he'd be shit out of luck.

They're so adverse to giving blind characters so much as a cane.

I'm not saying the inclusion of blind characters is bad or that we should not engage in these fantasies of disabled characters being able to live and work equally to able-bodied characters without the need for accommodation, necessarily. I'm certainly not saying every blind character should have a sighted support following them around or a dog or whatever. My criticism is not of the blind characters' individual accommodations not being up to my arbitrary standard as a sighted viewer lol.

What I am instead attempting to hightlight here is that the shows seem adverse to engaging in disabled / accommodative environmental design or in the more complex, social realities of disability, and that's something that the episode "Melora," the wheelchair user episode this post is about lol, addresses in depth.

Julian is a future space doctor who doesn't know how to comfortably talk to someone in a chair. That only happens in a universe where doctors don't encounter wheelchairs in their professional lives. That's a reality brought about specifically by the comfortable eugenicist realities of the future, where although due to a war the Federation draws the line at "enhanced" individuals, it obviously voluntarily engages in liberal eugenics to the effect of eliminating disabled life in many meaningful forms. Its society, where doctors seem to need an aide like this to do their jobs properly:

And idk! I think that's neat. I think that's a powerful flaw in the utopic vision of the future that Roddenberry and the others probably didn't intend originally, and that DS9, commendably, attempts to explore.

Especially because Julian was a lil autistic boy who was forcibly cured through similar treatment, and correctly identifies that this means the him who existed before was drastically altered for his parents' fear of actually accommodating him.

anyway this post was brought out of me by some dickhead saying Melora "breaks the setting" for them lol. bro they fought a eugenics war, they definitely didn't come out of that culturally unchanged. you're just scared of wheelchairs. fuck u

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At this point, we can't say we didn't know, that we didn't have the opportunity to do anything. You knew, you did have the chance, and you made a choice! Make today the time you choose to help 🙏🏾 Anything is better than nothing.

@aburakhiaibrahim and his family haven't eaten for five days. When you get yourself something to eat today- which is something you can still do!- maybe consider dropping $5 towards his family as well to raise funds for the bare necessities.

This fundraiser is vetted by @gaza-evacuation-funds , #336 on vetted fundraiser list by el-shab-hussein, nabulsi, and MohAyesh, #802 on Butterfly Effect Project vetted list!

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Our fates are sealed. But I think we have one move left.

We can try.

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Hello everyone, if you can please share and donate to the Shehab family’s campaign to support them through displacement and famine. Sahar, her family of eight (five of whom are children), and extended family (three are children) need funds to survive as food, water, formula and baby products become more and more scarce and expensive. All donations will go towards evacuation funds, and to help them recover afterwards and build towards a brighter future once more. Please keep this family in your hearts and minds, and show them your kindness through sharing and donating, thank you. @danashehab is one of the accounts for the family who contacted and asked me to make this post for them.

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