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reminder that gazafunds is a great website.

each time you load the site, it shows one randomly selected, verified fundraiser that's low on funds.

extremely straightforward, & an easy to remember url. it's my go-to when I'm able to give; removes any room for procrastination or overthinking.

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'you wouldn't pirate a-' i would steal anything from any company. anything in the world. i dont even want it i just hate you

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Adriana Smith’s neonate was delivered today, 3 months early (around 28 weeks).

She will finally be allowed to rest and taken off of life support.

Her family’s fundraiser is nowhere near its goal, and now they have tremendous NICU costs to look forward to based on how her son was able (or unable) to develop under the duress of all those life saving drugs they pumped his mom full of.

Please allow this mother’s spirit to rest and support their family as they’re finally allowed to grieve poor Adriana being used as an incubator for the state.

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creating a book series called "big fear shakespeare" where i expect you to know every reference and definition and instead there are comments in the margins saying things like "what kind of idiot wouldn't know this?"

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faithful depiction of the yugioh card that i saw in my dream last night

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cats are little household celebrities

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You really, really don't need to be cheerleading Disney and Universal here. It honestly doesn't matter how much you dislike AI art — if the court rules in favor of the corporations, the implicit expansion of copyright law will do a million times more harm to the arts than fucking Midjourney ever could.

Like. There is no definition of copyright that does not permit AI training, but does permit fanworks. The latter is much more clearly derivative than the former. You do fanart? Fanfic? Disney's pointing a gun squarely at your head and you're cheering because it might hit the AI artists behind you too.

And beyond that, do you know what happens to AI generation if Disney/Universal win this? They aren't opposed to the technology in principle! They'll be able to use their exclusive rights to a vast corpus of art to make their own AI, for their own purposes. Who does this help? Companies who want to reduce employment costs and disenfranchise the working artist. Who does this hurt? Well, it hurts independent AI users. Congrats, your anxiety over commission prices is gone now, not that it was well-founded to begin with. It also hurts anyone who wants to make use of fair use doctrine forever, so I hope none of what you were selling was fanart of copyrighted characters.

I've never made a secret of being rather more open to generative AI as a technology than most people in these online spheres. But for fuck's sake, you really don't need to like AI to realize that this lawsuit's success would be a terrible thing to happen to art! If you've found yourself on the same side as Disney, that should be a clue that you might wanna review your thinking!

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You really, really don't need to be cheerleading Disney and Universal here. It honestly doesn't matter how much you dislike AI art — if the court rules in favor of the corporations, the implicit expansion of copyright law will do a million times more harm to the arts than fucking Midjourney ever could.

Like. There is no definition of copyright that does not permit AI training, but does permit fanworks. The latter is much more clearly derivative than the former. You do fanart? Fanfic? Disney's pointing a gun squarely at your head and you're cheering because it might hit the AI artists behind you too.

And beyond that, do you know what happens to AI generation if Disney/Universal win this? They aren't opposed to the technology in principle! They'll be able to use their exclusive rights to a vast corpus of art to make their own AI, for their own purposes. Who does this help? Companies who want to reduce employment costs and disenfranchise the working artist. Who does this hurt? Well, it hurts independent AI users. Congrats, your anxiety over commission prices is gone now, not that it was well-founded to begin with. It also hurts anyone who wants to make use of fair use doctrine forever, so I hope none of what you were selling was fanart of copyrighted characters.

I've never made a secret of being rather more open to generative AI as a technology than most people in these online spheres. But for fuck's sake, you really don't need to like AI to realize that this lawsuit's success would be a terrible thing to happen to art! If you've found yourself on the same side as Disney, that should be a clue that you might wanna review your thinking!

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Our school day almost turned into our funeral.

We were walking home from school — me, my three siblings, and my father — taking the usual 12-kilometer journey under the sun, through rubble and danger.

Suddenly… an explosion.

A missile hit a tent right in front of us.

Adam and Sarah screamed. I froze.

My father shouted, “Run!”

I grabbed my siblings’ hands and we ran through smoke and blood, tripping over stones… and body parts.

We made it home in silence.

My father sat alone.

He didn’t speak, but we knew something inside him had collapsed.

Just a month ago, he made a decision:

We wouldn’t stay in a dirty tent waiting for sympathy.

He said to my mother, “We’ll rent a house. We’ll live with dignity... even if no one hears us.”

He sent us to school — in war, under bombs, with no food — just so we could have a future.

And now…

He stays up every night trying to get our voice to reach you. (you can read more about it here & here)

He doesn’t tell us how hard it is. But we can see it.

In his silence.

In his tired eyes.

In how he still wakes up after an hour of sleep to walk us back and forth from school.

We haven't paid the rent. The school is asking for fees. There’s no flour. No water. No peace.

That’s why I’m the one writing now.

I’m his daughter. This is my message.

Maybe someone will hear me. Maybe someone’s heart will move.

Please… help my father, even with something small.

So he doesn't fall while trying to keep us standing.

So we can live with dignity — — not despair.

GoFundMe for the children's schooling: GazaVetters #644 .

Donation link

— Layan❤️‍🩹

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EDIT: UPDATED LINK URGENT SUPPORT REQUIRED

PLEASE READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH—UPDATED 31 May 2025

Due to outrageously high processing fees, the family seven-year-old Omar still has not raised enough funds to do Omar’s complete skin graft.

Now, they are trapped near Jabaliya by IOF attack. They need to arrange transportation out of the area NOW to avoid being killed by IOF death squads! They cannot move by foot due to their injuries, they NEED transportation out of the area NOW!!!**

Current: $55 usd

New temporary goal: $1,500 usd

Need to raise: $1,445 usd

More information in this thread (do NOT click link to GFM—only the Chuffed link now goes to the family).

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today is friday the 13th just like the movies

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Let’s be real. The struggle for justice in this country has always been led by people of color. From civil rights to labor organizing to immigration justice, our movements are rooted in the lived experience of navigating systems built to oppress us. We don’t have the luxury of abstract theory or aesthetic rebellion. We organize because we have to — because our lives, our families, our neighborhoods depend on it. But too often, we find ourselves pushed to the margins of our own movements by white “allies” who want to lead without listening, critique without context, and burn bridges in the name of ideological purity. They enter spaces demanding revolution while ignoring the incremental work required to keep people alive. They shout louder than the folks who have been doing the work for decades, then accuse others of selling out when they push for policy reforms instead of collapse. What’s worse — and needs to be named — is how often these people are not just misguided, but actively colonizing the politics of justice. They take up space, control narratives, and dominate decision-making in movements that were never meant to be centered on them. They are not trying to liberate us; they are trying to liberate themselves from their own guilt. And no one asked them to.

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It will never not baffle me how hard society tries to insist that fatness is an abnormality. The average western woman wears plus size clothing. One of the smallest garments on the scale is called a medium. Most people with anorexia are in the overweight bmi category, yet somehow that's known as "atypical anorexia". Fatness is often labeled the cause of a number of diseases, but there are literally no diseases exclusive to fat bodies. Looking at movies and television, you'd think the world was 98% thin people. It's not.

My point isn't that if it was pretty rare to be fat, fatphobia would be okay. Of course not.

My point is that we're surrounded by all these artificial indicators that fatness is unnatural and uncommon and it's just not true?? Humans are not always thin and we've never all been thin and we're not all meant to be thin. Fat humans are a normal type of human. Fatness is a feature, not a bug.

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I love that frisk is in the same situation as Kris but theyre a baby so they don't care like "YAH is fine heart tells me what to do I do it -_- "

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