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Ah yes, the three numbers: 0, 1, and a lot

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lets go no contact with mama

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help ahmed feed the refugee camp! (may 2025)

good evening everyone! we folk of kfsf have been working for a few months to help ahmed from gaza plan larger-scale campaigns with his colleagues that aid a local refugee camp. previously, we have raised money to help plan for large meals to feed the entire refugee camp, assisted when ahmed and his team worked to rebuild their shelters after storms destroyed them in the winter, and have also assisted in buying solar panels for the camp.

we are returning in may of 2025 to help ahmed provide a large meal for the people of the refugee camp. as you may know, gaza has been completely closed off from food and other necessities by the israeli government. this began within the holy month of ramadan, and continues to now. food has almost entirely stopped entering gaza by now and what is allowed to enter is extremely expensive - entirely too expensive for the average person living in gaza to afford.

we are hoping to help ahmed raise $1200 by the middle of may in order to provide a decent meal for the people of the refugee camp, and we would appreciate your support!

if you are able, the easiest way to donate would be through our paypal link:

(alternatively, you can use paypal.me/qquwq or via simk’s P/P email: kuuhaiyu@gmail.com. you do not need a paypal account to donate to this campaign!)

how it works:

per ahmed’s request, simk and i are collecting money on his behalf. we will be using the same method to transfer money to him that we have used for previous campaigns. the money that is collected will be sent via wire transfer to ahmed, and it generally takes 3-5 days to arrive.

once the money arrives, ahmed will take videos and photos to document the process of buying and cooking food for everyone. i will share selected videos and photos on my blog so that you all can see what we can do with our collective efforts!

a small note here: to preserve the privacy and dignity of the displaced, and to avoid issues with the tumblr staff, i will be careful with what i choose to show publicly. ahmed will also refrain from publishing his own photos on social media for this same reason. if you have any other specific requests you would like to see as proof of your donation going to good use, please DM me.

if you can, we would appreciate any donation you can spare for our campaign. if you are unable to donate at this time, don't worry - you can still help us by reblogging this post and spreading this campaign around as far as it can go. thank you all for your previous support - we couldn't do what we do without you all.

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Israel bombed the ship and literally impersonated the crew members to try and stop people from saving them so they all die.

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Zionists are Nazis.

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paako no

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From a conversation with @/laquilasse

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PLEASE DON’T SCROLL BY!!

We are in desperate need of help. We are a family of ten trying to survive in northern Gaza. Our landlord keeps increasing our rent, and we will be at the mercy of the drones and the tanks if we have to leave, on top of having to leave behind all of our belongings. Every kind of food at the market now costs a fortune and there are no jobs available due to the dangerous situation outside, so we have to fully rely on this campaign.

Starvation is making people around us more and more desperate and I’m scared. Robbers have attacked the families living next to our building. If we get kicked out, we will know the same fate. We can only count on ourselves and the kind souls who have money to spare for us. I swear I just want a miracle to put an end to this crazy situation, I want my life back…

Please help, I swear I’ll be thankful for anything. Share at least if you can’t afford to donate.

✅Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #347 )✅

DONATE HERE

Please don’t abandon us, this is our only lifeline 😭

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Help Lina afford food for her children 🍉

Hey everyone! Upon Lina's request, I've set up a new Paypal campaign for her. These will be smaller, regular campaigns to help her afford food and supplies for her children.

I think we all know the situation in Gaza right now, so I'll keep this short. Food is extremely expensive, resources are scarce, and Lina, her husband, and their two very young children need your help to survive.

Even if we don't meet our goal, every bit helps.

✅ Find Lina's original vetting here.

📸 Previous fundraising posts for Lina with photos, details, proof of donations received, etc.

Lina is frequently being deleted by Tumblr, but her current account is @linoomk. Please don't hesitate to reach out to her if you have any questions or if you just want to talk or send some messages of support. She's extremely kind and responsive.

As always: thank you for each and every donation.

I will be covering fees for this campaign myself.

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its just something to think about like you can just force children under your care to wear shit that makes them cry and hate themselves and feel humiliated and feel severely distressed and everyone will think its normal & they need to suck it up. and the only thing people will immediately see as abuse relating clothes is a child who was coercively assigned male wearing something considered feminine

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tbf I was doing alcohol x sleeping pill x 75 mg Benadryl x 40 mg melatonin so I think this is like. baby vs hydrogen bomb compared to that. probably

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well tonights dayvigo is definitely hitting like a fuckinf truck ..

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doctors sometimes dont know jackshit for instance I am taking a pulse dose of a medication that interacts with my sleeping pill and the doctor who prescribed it was just like meh everything interacts with this med which is why we pulse dose it … youll be fine probably. well i took it. let’s see if i survive till morning!

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I had a patient come in the other day because she wanted her IUD replaced. It was at the end of it's life and she loved having her IUD, this was her second one. My MA let me know that the patient was very anxious about getting the IUD replaced, she'd had painful experiences in the past with her other replacements and was dreading this visit for that reason.

I spoke with the patient and she was literally shaking with anxiety. I asked her to describe her prior experiences as well as what she liked about her IUD and what she didn't like. She said that she wished she didn't have to get it replaced so often, so I recommended we place a Mirena instead of just inserting a new Kyleena IUD. She was nervous about this because she didn't want an IUD that was big. I explained that the Mirena and Kyleena are essentially the same size but the Mirena lasts 3 years longer and would likely bridge her to menopause given her age whereas with the Kyleena she'd probably need another replacement to get there. She was okay with trying the Mirena.

I then talked to her about pain control during the procedure as this was what she was most worried about. I asked about her prior experiences and then laid out what I wanted to do to try and improve her experience during this procedure. I told her I planned to give her prescription strength ibuprofen, a heating pad, and a very dense anesthetic block in her cervix to hopefully make it a better experience. If she had had someone to drive her home I would've also given her an ativan because we have studies that show patients who report higher rates of anxiety surrounding a procedure also report higher rates of pain associated with it.

She was down for this plan. I gave her a very dense block, she only felt three small injections and then nothing else. She was shocked when I told her that her old IUD was out and the new one was in. She didn't believe me when I told her it was over.

I don't tell this story because I wanna brag about how amazing of a doctor I am because I'm not. I tell this story because this is the way IUD insertions SHOULD go and I want people to know that IUD insertions do not need to be traumatic. And I want other providers who may insert IUDs to know that a paracervical block should be your standard when it comes to IUD insertions.

When people find out I'm an OBGYN, complete strangers, acquaintances, etc. , the two things they like to tell me immediately are their horrible birth trauma story and their terrible IUD insertion story and I'm trying to at least make the latter one a little less common.

If you place IUDs and aren't doing a cervical block, you need to start. This should be the standard but over 90% of OBGYNs in the US aren't doing them and it's unacceptable. We are traumatizing people and it's entirely avoidable. We are scaring people away from one of the most effective and long lasting forms of birth control in a time when people are losing their ability to end unwanted pregnancies all for no justifiable reason.

"It takes too long:" No it doesn't, that visit took me 20 minutes with a highly anxious patient from start to finish.

"It's not worth it for such a short/small procedure." It's worth it for the patient.

"It's too expensive." You can do a paracervical block with just normal saline. You don't even need lidocaine if you use a generous amount of volume. And if you place Nexplanons I know you stock lidocaine in your office, stop being fucking cheap at the expense of women's pain.

"Patient's don't need it, they'll get over it." I'm telling you they do need it and they aren't getting over it as evidenced by literally everyone wanting to tell me about their terrible IUD insertion experience as soon as they find out I'm an OBGYN.

We should do better. The cervix has nerve endings, stop acting like it doesn't.

Make cervical blocks your standard of care, there's no excuse not to.

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Help Lina afford food for her children 🍉

Hey everyone! Upon Lina's request, I've set up a new Paypal campaign for her. These will be smaller, regular campaigns to help her afford food and supplies for her children.

I think we all know the situation in Gaza right now, so I'll keep this short. Food is extremely expensive, resources are scarce, and Lina, her husband, and their two very young children need your help to survive.

Even if we don't meet our goal, every bit helps.

✅ Find Lina's original vetting here.

📸 Previous fundraising posts for Lina with photos, details, proof of donations received, etc.

Lina is frequently being deleted by Tumblr, but her current account is @linoomk. Please don't hesitate to reach out to her if you have any questions or if you just want to talk or send some messages of support. She's extremely kind and responsive.

As always: thank you for each and every donation.

I will be covering fees for this campaign myself.

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