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Hello everyone,

Let's help my friend, Bilal Salah (@bilal-salah0)! He is a 22 year old Palestinian who is living in Germany. Unfortunately, his stay there has been nothing but awful. He has been evicted and terminated from his work as immigration revokes his visa. He finds himself getting deported! Since then, he has been searching for a lawyer, a place to stay, and work to do, while he raises funds for his family's evacuation. 

You can read more about it here. 

Now, things are looking up for him. He will no longer be deported, and he has found an apartment to live in! At the same time, I have been speaking to Bilal over the past week or so. He is such an incredible person. He has been telling me, along with showing me pictures, of how much time and effort he makes the best out of his situation. He is learning German, searching for a job, studying for his driver’s license, and has been teaching me how to speak Palestinian Arabic! And he is doing all of this at 22 years old! 

Despite it all, Bilal has informed me that his former employer has extorted €4,800, claiming that he still owes them money. This leaves Bilal with no other option but to withdraw funds from his campaign since he does not have income. He also has to pay for expensive transfer fees to send money to his family in Ghazzah!

Click here to read more about it. 

So please show him compassion and kindly give what you can. He works so hard, carrying so much on his shoulders, and it would be great if we could lift the burden! We need to raise the total amount of €110,000 by September 15th. Let’s try to achieve it before then!

As of writing this, €103,909 has been raised! 

There is only €6,091 left to go and 8 days remaining!

Verification (#132). / Click here to Donate!

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‏Today's vetted fundraisers

Reem’s family, including her husband Ragheb and their 5-year-old son Tim, are living under unimaginable conditions in northern Gaza. With skyrocketing prices and the constant threat of bombings everywhere, this family is struggling to survive. Every day presents a new challenge as the economic and security situation continues to deteriorate.

We are raising funds to support Reem’s family and give them a glimmer of hope in these difficult times. Your donation can make a significant difference in the lives of this small family facing overwhelming hardships.

@el-shab-hussein @nabulsi @irhabiya @wellwaterhysteria @stuckinapril @moayesh @sar-soor

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here is a handful of palestinian family fundraisers id like to boost. (these are all verified fundraisers & ones i have supported in the past.)

Low on Funds:

Mohammed Family - Farhat Family - Yasin Family Albaz Family - Ayyad Family - Hussein Family - Tashmali Family - Abumousa Family - Mekawi Family - Dawoud Family - Almoghrabi family - Yousef family

Halfway to Goal:

Al-Deeb Family - Balousha Family - Mahmoud Family - Alanqar Family

Close to Goal:

Ayyad Family - Aldeeb Family - Saftawi Family - Shahwan Family - Shaqqoura Family - Ahel Family - Alhajjar Family - Shehab family - Al-Sharif Family - Ahmed Family - Jamous Family - Al-Talouli Family - Maliha Family

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I really appreciate you being so openly against Gacha games. I have a history of addiction (not gambling) & various factors that make me susceptible to addictions in general.

It's really annoying when so many blogs I follow because they post gaming content are all posting about the latest Gacha that I cannot play, no matter how well made, no matter how good the story, no matter how good the gameplay.

Having someone with your kind of reach and popularity say "Actually no they suck, fuck Gacha." Is really refreshing and helps remind me that I'm not really missing out, despite the way I sometimes feel with everyone else positive posting about them.

Nowadays when I see a gacha game I just get angry that good artists and actors are being wasted on evil slop when they could be making stuff that's worthwhile. We used to be a real videogame industry

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‎‏I am mohammed ayyad of Gazans, living in very difficult conditions because of the war that the Gaza Strip is under. Since the outbreak of the war on the seventh of October we have been evacuating .

‎‏Then the journey of suffering and separation began,because my children were separated and evacuated from our home without covering or clothes., From here they became infected with diseases, and what increased our fatigue was the constant upbringing due to the different areas in which we were displaced, as we were displaced 9 times, and this was very expensive, the last of which was the 9th of this August from Hamad Town. In addition to that, we have lived in the summer season in a tent that did not exceed three meters, closed with nylon, so it is like an agricultural greenhouse atmosphere. It is very hot. All in all, we live difficult days that no human beings can afford

We have no work because of the war, and we do not have any kind of money and this is accompanied by a crazy and horrible rise in prices.

Although water is not suitable for drinking, this is the cause of many diseases

The last suffering is that we are out of Hamad without taking our purposes or our tents and now we are searching the earth in the roads and our children and our elderly parents are suffering..So we use direct donation including what they can or share links fully so people can know our tragedy and pain. Remember a small contribution can make a difference in the lives of many children who are dealing with their health condition all. Leave their details and make them happy with your generous contribution.

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Palestine fundraisers with easily-achievable goals

By "easily-achievable", I mean in the 50-60K range and below. Once again, drawing from my pinned list of fundraisers, which have all been vetted by Palestinians on Tumblr (check that post for the proof next to each family name). I'll update this post just like the main list and the "under 1000 donations" list. Many of these are extremely close to completing their funding. Let's help get them there!

As always, donate if you can, reblog if you can't!

LAST UPDATED 9/2

10K range

Aya's family Goal: 15K 2/3 funded

The Saftawi family Goal: 16K 3147 TO GO!

20K range

The Sami family Goal: 20K Half funded

Zaen and Yehya Goal: 25K 1/4 funded

The Ismaeel family Goal: 25K 1/3 funded

Ashraf's family Goal: 25K 4019 TO GO!

30K range

Ahmed's family Goal: 30K 1/3 funded

The Alnabih family Goal: 30K 4434 TO GO!

The Khalaf family Goal: 30K 2875 TO GO!

Issam Aziz's mother Goal: 30K 4053 TO GO!

Amira's family Goal: 39K 2/3 funded

40K range

The Hor family Goal: 40K Under 1/5 funded

The Abushammaleh family Goal: 40K 1/3 funded

The Shaqoura family Goal: 45K Half funded

The Aburass family Goal: 45K 1/4 funded

Note: The Aburass campaign is in SEK, so the goal is technically 450K, but converted to USD it's closer to 45. Ultimately I decided to include this one since USD, CAD, GBP, and EUR will be more powerful here, and a huge chunk of the site's user base will pay with one of those currencies. The more hands on deck, the better.

50K range

Amal's family Goal: 50K Under 1/5 funded

Walaa's family Goal: 50K 1/5 funded

The Shorbaje family Goal: 50K 1/3 funded

The Aldeeb family Goal: 55K 2/3 funded

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watching @nanowrimo within a single hour:

make an awful, ill-conceived, sponsored post about "responsible"/"ethical" uses of ai in writing

immediately get ratio'd in a way i've never seen on tumblr with a small swarm of chastising-to-negative replies and no reblogs

start deleting replies

reply to their own post being like 'agree to disagree!!!' while saying that ai can TOTALLY be ethical because spellcheck exists!! (???) while in NO WAY responding to the criticisms of ai for its environmental impact OR the building of databases on material without author consent, ie, stolen material, OR the money laundering rampant in the industry

when called out on deleting replies, literally messaged me people who called them out to say "We don't have a problem with folks disagreeing with AI. It's the tone of the discourse." So. overtly stated tone policing.

get even MORE replies saying this is a Bad Look, and some reblogs now that people's replies are being deleted

DISABLE REBLOGS when people aren't saying what nano would prefer they say

im juust in literal awe of this fucking mess.

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since lists like these tend to gain more traction than if i just published the asks, i've once more compiled a list with palestinian survivors who've reached out to me. please donate if you can, and REBLOG FOR REACH. thank you!

ahmed al-nabih, #218 on the vetted gaza evacuation list, €25,526/€30,000

shaima and family, unvetted as of yet, $170/$30,000 (EXTREMELY LOW ON FUNDS)

abood and family, vetted by association through mohiy-gaza, $5,122/$40,000

youssef al-habeel's tragically ill son (URGENT!), #406 on the butterflyeffect project spreadsheet, €8,582/€20,000

muhammad al-shaer, vetted by el-shab-hussein, £13,762/£50,000

noureddine and family, vetted by roadimusprime, $13,095/$45,000

ahmed and family, vetted by 90-ghost, €13,672/€80,000

anas al-sharfa, unvetted as of yet, €1,062/€50,000

ahmed al zaeem, #129 on the vetted gaza evacuation fundraiser list, $24,706/$50,000

hazem shawish, vetted by association through samarsh97, €4,811/€50,000

rudaina and family, vetted by 90-ghost, €10,150/€30,000

aya almajdoub, vetted by roadimusprime, €437/€55,000 (EXTREMELY LOW ON FUNDS)

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Hey guys, I've added the google doc where me and Nairuz have been compiling the vetted fundraisers all on one list that can be easily updated and seen by everyone. I think it's faster than the system I had going before.

Go check it out, I've added 13 links in the past hour.

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No but we need to keep talking about Gaza online, on every platform possible, actively and relentlessly, or they will actually get away with criminalizing any mention of the genocide altogether and that would put the palestinian people, palestinian immigrants/refugees and the people who are still actively advocating for their rights to immense risk.

The milder the general public's outrage gets, the more pressing the danger.

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"The first modern attempt at transferring a uterus from one human to another occurred at the turn of the millennium. But surgeons had to remove the organ, which had become necrotic, 99 days later. The first successful transplant was performed in 2011 — but even then, the recipient wasn’t immediately able to get pregnant and deliver a baby. It took three more years for the first person in the world with a transplanted uterus to give birth. 

More than 70 such babies have been born globally in the decade since. “It’s a complete new world,” said Giuliano Testa, chief of abdominal transplant at Baylor University Medical Center.

Almost a third of those babies — 22 and counting — have been born in Dallas at Baylor. On Thursday, Testa and his team published a major cohort study in JAMA analyzing the results from the program’s first 20 patients. All women were of reproductive age and had no uterus (most having been born without one), but had at least one functioning ovary. Most of the uteri came from living donors, but two came from deceased donors.

Fourteen women had successful transplants, all of whom were able to have at least one baby.  

“That success rate is extraordinary, and I want that to get out there,” said Liza Johannesson, the medical director of uterus transplants at Baylor, who works with Testa and co-authored the study. “We want this to be an option for all women out there that need it.”

Six patients had transplant failures, all within two weeks of the procedure. Part of the problem may have been a learning curve: The study initially included only 10 patients, and five of the six with failed transplants were in that first group. These were “technical” failures, Testa said, involving aspects of the surgery such as how surgeons connected the organ’s blood vessels, what material was used for sutures, and selecting a uterus that would work well in a transplant. 

The team saw only one transplant fail in the second group of 10 people, the researchers said. All 20 transplants took place between September 2016 and August 2019.

Only one other cohort study has previously been published on uterus transplants, in 2022. A Swedish team, which included Johannesson before she moved to Baylor, performed seven successful transplants out of nine attempts. Six women, including the first transplant recipient to ever deliver a baby back in 2014, gave birth.

“It’s hard to extract data from that, because they were the first ones that did it,” Johannesson said. “This is the first time we can actually see the safety and efficacy of this procedure properly.”

So far, the signs are good: High success rates for transplants and live births, safe and healthy children so far, and early signs that immunosuppressants — typically given to transplant recipients so their bodies don’t reject the new organ — may not cause long-term harm, the researchers said. (The uterine transplants are removed after recipients no longer need them to deliver children.) And the Baylor team has figured out how to identify the right uterus for transfer: It should be from a donor who has had a baby before, is premenopausal, and, of course, who matches the blood type of the recipient, Testa said...

“They’ve really embraced the idea of practicing improvement as you go along, to understand how to make this safer or more effective. And that’s reflected in the results,” said Jessica Walter, an assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who co-authored an editorial on the research in JAMA...

Walter was a skeptic herself when she first learned about uterine transplants. The procedure seemed invasive and complicated. But she did her fellowship training at Penn Medicine, home to one of just four programs in the U.S. doing uterine transplants. 

“The firsts — the first time the patient received a transplant, the first time she got her period after the transplant, the positive pregnancy test,” Walter said. “Immersing myself in the science, the patients, the practitioners, and researchers — it really changed my opinion that this is science, and this is an innovation like anything else.” ...

Many transgender women are hopeful that uterine transplants might someday be available for them, but it’s likely a far-off possibility. Scientists need to rewind and do animal studies on how a uterus might fare in a different “hormonal milieu” before doing any clinical trials of the procedure with trans people, Wagner said.

Among cisgender women, more long-term research is still needed on the donors, recipients, and the children they have, experts said.

“We want other centers to start up,” Johannesson said. “Our main goal is to publish all of our data, as much as we can.”"

-via Stat, August 16, 2024

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Attention !! To Who Care About Gazans 🚨

This happiness that overwhelms me is not for the team that I support, or winning the lottery, it is for the sake of obtaining clean, drinkable water for my family after we were deprived of it for a long period during which we were drinking salty, polluted, unsuitable water. It is truly overwhelming joy 💔

The simplest rights have become dreams and wishes that we seek 😔 Did you imagine that?! Do you think there is really nothing you can't do !!

Please Help / Support Us

I ask you with all the meanings of humanity and what remains of it inside you 😢

I walked a long way in the middle of the day and in the heat of the bright sun just to reach water, but I were somewhat late, as I only filled 2 gallons because the quantity ran out, but thanking God is better than nothing. She deserves this joy 🙏💔

You Are Reading And Seeing Our Suffering Now 💔

Is this the life we ​​deserve, or do my sick parents or my young nieces deserve, or Eileen and Celine who are trying to recover from what made them sick from unhealthy and contaminated food?

Please do something and Help my family get out of these bad conditions we are living in, to get the decent life we ​​deserve, to survive, to live, to feel a life 🙏😔

Vetted By @90-ghost

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Please, I need your support & Boost Campaign 🙏💕

@hametsukaishi @malcriada @brutaliakhoa @feluka @appsa @aces-and-angels @buttercuparry @three-croissants @akajustmerry @wellwaterhysteria @rhubarbspring @schoolhater @magnus-rhymes-with-swagness @journalsforpalestine @pcktknife @transmutationisms @sawasawako @timetravellingkitty

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What the shit????

Microsoft truly wants a dumbed down populace that cannot control the products they buy

If they do this then my dumb ass will find a way to install Linux or something

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Article | Paywall Free

"The Food and Drug Administration approved new mRNA coronavirus vaccines Thursday [August 22, 2024], clearing the way for shots manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna to start hitting pharmacy shelves and doctor’s offices within a week.

Health officials encourage annual vaccination against the coronavirus, similar to yearly flu shots. Everyone 6 months and older should receive a new vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends.

The FDA has yet to approve an updated vaccine from Novavax, which uses a more conventional vaccine development method but has faced financial challenges.

Our scientific understanding of coronavirus vaccines has evolved since they debuted in late 2020. Here’s what to know about the new vaccines.

Why are there new vaccines?

The coronavirus keeps evolving to overcome our immune defenses, and the shield offered by vaccines weakens over time. That’s why federal health officials want people to get an annual updated coronavirus vaccine designed to target the latest variants. They approve them for release in late summer or early fall to coincide with flu shots that Americans are already used to getting.

The underlying vaccine technology and manufacturing process are the same, but components change to account for how the virus morphs. The new vaccines target the KP.2 variant because most recent covid cases are caused by that strain or closely related ones...

Do the vaccines prevent infection?

You probably know by now that vaccinated people can still get covid. But the shots do offer some protection against infection, just not the kind of protection you get from highly effective vaccines for other diseases such as measles.

The 2023-2024 vaccine provided 54 percent increased protection against symptomatic covid infections, according to a CDC study of people who tested for the coronavirus at pharmacies during the first four months after that year’s shot was released...

A nasal vaccine could be better at stopping infections outright by increasing immunity where they take hold, and one is being studied in a trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.

If you really want to dodge covid, don’t rely on the vaccine alone and take other precautions such as masking or avoiding crowds...

Do the vaccines help prevent transmission?

You may remember from early coverage of coronavirus vaccines that it was unclear whether shots would reduce transmission. Now, scientists say the answer is yes — even if you’re actively shedding virus.

That’s because the vaccine creates antibodies that reduce the amount of virus entering your cells, limiting how much the virus can replicate and make you even sicker. When vaccination prevents symptoms such as coughing and sneezing, people expel fewer respiratory droplets carrying the virus. When it reduces the viral load in an infected person, people become less contagious.

That’s why Peter Hotez, a physician and co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, said he feels more comfortable in a crowded medical conference, where attendees are probably up to date on their vaccines, than in a crowded airport.

“By having so many vaccinated people, it’s decreasing the number of days you are shedding virus if you get a breakthrough infection, and it decreases the amount of virus you are shedding,” Hotez said.

Do vaccines prevent long covid?

While the threat of acute serious respiratory covid disease has faded, developing the lingering symptoms of “long covid” remains a concern for people who have had even mild cases. The CDC says vaccination is the “best available tool” to reduce the risk of long covid in children and adults. The exact mechanism is unclear, but experts theorize that vaccines help by reducing the severity of illness, which is a major risk factor for long covid.

When is the best time to get a new coronavirus vaccine?

It depends on your circumstances, including risk factors for severe disease, when you were last infected or vaccinated, and plans for the months ahead. It’s best to talk these issues through with a doctor.

If you are at high risk and have not recently been vaccinated or infected, you may want to get a shot as soon as possible while cases remain high. The summer wave has shown signs of peaking, but cases can still be elevated and take weeks to return to low levels. It’s hard to predict when a winter wave will begin....

Where do I find vaccines?

CVS said its expects to start administering them within days, and Walgreens said that it would start scheduling appointments to receive shots after Sept. 6 and that customers can walk in before then.

Availability at doctor’s offices might take longer. Finding shots for infants and toddlers could be more difficult because many pharmacies do not administer them and not every pediatrician’s office will stock them given low demand and limited storage space.

This year’s updated coronavirus vaccines are supposed to have a longer shelf life, which eases the financial pressures of stocking them.

The CDC plans to relaunch its vaccine locator when the new vaccines are widely available, and similar services are offered by Moderna and Pfizer."

-via The Washington Post, August 22, 2024

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Do you have any headcanons abt what Ganondorf was like in his youth.. any formative moments that might've contributed to him going down a dark path? I've been obsessed with him having once been small and cute but possibly sinister and I'm curiouabout your takes!!

I have plenty of thoughts about Ganondorf in his youth. I can definitely share my personal headcanons about what it may have been like. For the most part, when I try to think of what kind of child he may have been, I try to think of what we see in canon and how that could have been a result of his upbringing. Because he is born male, and he is an exceptionally rare occurrence, it is very likely that he may have been heavily sheltered growing up. All we know from the lore when it comes to a Gerudo male really is that he is granted the status of king upon birth, and that most Gerudo will obey and follow his lead without question. To me, this indicates that he holds a status of reverence amongst the Gerudo, similar to how Zelda holds reverence for having the blood of Hyila within the Royal Family and Hyrule at large. Thus, it is entirely possible that, just like it was done to Zelda, the hope and prosperity of the Gerudo was placed on Ganondorf's shoulders to lead his people into an age of glory. All's that to say that I don't think he would have had as much freedom or opportunity to intermingle and socialize amongst peers of his own age since his focus would be on becoming the legendary king he was born to be. This could absolutely contribute to why he has so much self-entitlement, that he believes himself to be the one that must rule the world because he has been born with the right of a king, blessed in a way no one previously has been.

I also think that he may have not had any friends growing up because of reduced opportunities to socialize and because of his elevated status. It would explain why he seems to be unable to form any sort of meaningful bond with any other person, often shown to be in the company of monsters. That being said, I don't think that means that he never desired to form these sorts of bonds. He comes from a culture that places so much emphasis on finding the right partner for marriage. On two ocassions, he has engraved the names of his mothers on his weapons. He is shown to show particular care for his horses. So, I think as a child, while he may have not had chances to form bonds with his people at large, he would have formed them with the people he had available to him aka his mothers and his steed, and formed a bond that became so important to him that he would revere them.

There is also the matter of being make in an all-female society. While he is revered, and the hope of his people is placed on him, his society also has the tendency to think lowly of men. Many creeps come to Gerudo settlements in hopes of trying to sneak in to stare at women, and are dealt with swiftly. While marrying a man is seen as a lifegoal, men are not really seen as protectors or providers, simply companions to a Gerudo woman who would carve her own way in this world. Young Gerudo women are told not to look at men for fear of being cursed. So, receiving such conflicting messaging as a young boy, I believe, would have had an effect on Ganondorf. I am sure he would question what it means to be a man. Is a Gerudo man simply different from other men in general? I think it would have fuelled his need to be the best at whatever he did, just to prove that he is Gerudo through and through.

So, tldr, I think that Ganondorf as a child would probably be very entitled, where he would develop an inflated sense of self that could be off-putting. I think he would grow a preference for being alone to focus on his interests and skills as he is groomed into becoming the perfect Gerudo king. I think he would have some anxiety around what everyone expects from him, especially since men in general aren't regarded as useful as women are, which would in turn propel him to perfecting whatever he does. I also think he is attached to the people that he holds in high regard, and looks up to them. In many ways, he is a lot like Zelda, if you think about it. They both have the crushing weight of expectations to meet, both born into positions that are revered as almost god-like. We were able to have a glimpse of what Zelda was like when the expectations were crushing her, where she was being pressured to cast aside her personhood to unlock her power. At the end, she was able to do it, at the very last second, sparing Link and what remained of Hyrule from the Calamity's destruction. I could see the same happening to Ganondorf, with the mounting pressure he faced with a kingdom that demanded the subservience of his people, with his people turning to him with that thought: "Aren't you our god? Our hero? The king we waited one hundred years for? Will we have to bend the knee to someone else?" In Ocarina of Time, this would be compounded with the fact that his land was suffering. There was no godly power that was coming in to save the day when he needed it most. He had to find it and take it himself, and become the god-like king he believes he was born to be.

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I know this site is like 99.9% usamericans so all of the political posts are focused on the US election but I think it's important for everyone to know that the Australian Liberal Party (which is actually the conservative party) straight up missed the deadline to put in the nominations for local elections, which means there are a stack of electorates where there is no nominee for the major conservative party and it's the funniest thing that's happened in years.