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Kiki’s Delivery Service 魔女の宅急便 1989 | dir. Hayao Miyazaki.

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How much would you pay for bread if you were starving?

A kilogram of flour in Gaza costs 100 shekels (equivalent to 30 dollars or 26 euros) and counting. A couple hours ago I saw one account that said it was up to over 150. The cost keeps increasing as the artificially created scarcity allows merchants to raise prices to outrageous levels. Israel has designed this famine.

If families cannot afford these costs, they have two options:

Raise funds online and hope that people care enough to actually donate.

Risk their lives at aid distribution sites, which Israeli military uses as traps to massacre starving people.

This is designed, intentionally, as part of the genocide. I need you to understand this. It's not that the aid sites are safe unless the occupation happens to strike. It's that the United States and Israel have worked together to block all other aid so that Palestinians have no choice but to enter US funded and Israeli owned hubs where they can kill as many people as possible. Almost every single day since these GHF aid sites have been operating, Palestinians have been massacred at them.

This reality has been reported on even by news sources in countries that have extreme incentive toward zionist bias.

Time reports Jul 16, 2025, "The incident is the latest in a series of deadly events near aid hubs run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a U.S.-based organization operating with Israeli support...The death toll of Palestinians killed near GHF aid hubs has now reached nearly 700, according to United Nations figures released on Tuesday."

CBC reports Jun 25, 2025: "The scene Tuesday was the latest in nearly daily violent incidents near aid centres one month after distribution was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). The U.S.- and Israeli-backed GHF has drawn controversy since replacing UN-run relief operations in Gaza for using private American contractors and forcing people past Israel Defence Forces soldiers on the perimeter to reach these hubs... The Red Cross said the "vast majority" of patients who arrived at its Gaza field hospital during mass casualty incidents in the past month had reported that they were wounded while trying to access aid at or around distribution points."

AP News reports June 4, 2025: "Shootings have erupted nearly daily since last week in the Gaza Strip in the vicinity of new hubs where desperate Palestinians are being directed to collect food. Witnesses say nearby Israeli troops have opened fire... aid distribution hubs are being run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a newly formed group of mainly American contractors. Israel wants GHF to replace humanitarian groups in Gaza that distribute aid in coordination with the U.N."

PBS reports Jun 2, 2025: "Witnesses said Israeli forces fired toward the crowds just before dawn around a kilometer (about 1,100 yards) from an aid site run by an Israeli-backed foundation... The International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement its field hospital in Rafah received 179 casualties including women and children, 21 of them declared dead upon arrival, the majority with gunshot or shrapnel wounds."

More than just being reported on, this reality is being lived right now, by several of my friends. Two of these friends are Mahrah Balousha (@mahrahpalestine) and her brother Mahmoud (@palestinian95).

The money they can raise right now, this week is literally life or death. If they cannot raise this money, they either starve or are forced to enter a very literal death trap. This is serious. Please understand the gravity of what I'm writing here.

Their family fundraiser has been vetted by 90-ghost and shared by fairuzfan.

Donate. Please.

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Welcome to Preservation! we have nice people and even nicer murderbots.

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Charles Rosen (American, 1878-1950, b. Reagantown, PA, USA, d. Kingston, NY, USA) - Icebound River, c. 1915, Paintings: Oil on Canvas, Private Collection

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Yoink

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they're hiring me at the extra virgin olive oil factory as the oathsworn knight who protects the chastity of the olives

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Gripping my bathroom sink repeating I am not afraid to keep on living I am not afraid to walk this world alone

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Relja Penezić (Serbian, b. 1950, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, based Navarre, FL, USA) - Rear Window View #8, 2022, Paintings: Oil on Wood

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She would not fucking say that. Yes she said that in canon, but I perceive a greater truth unaffected by her writer's misogyny

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by dimda_

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ghost in the house: GET OUT. I WILL TAKE YOU-

real estate agent: chill, its me.

ghost: oh hey. have you sold it yet.

real estate agent: obviously NOT, idiot.

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A great magician...