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In the studio watching Dick in a Box play before the live crowd, with Akiva and Paul Thomas Anderson. #mySNLdays x

Of all the pictures Mike Shoemaker posted today, this is definitely one of my favorites.

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If you've ever appreciated my posts about LGBTQ issues, this Pride month, as a favor to me, please do something to help my friend Fadel ( @fadel-dani ).

Fadel is multiply disabled.

A very serious accident left his leg paralyzed for a long time, and now he walks with great difficulty. He also has thalassemia, a blood disorder, which leaves him incredibly fatigued. The medication he needs costs €400 every month. He needs to buy medication as soon as possible, because he has not been able to afford it so far this month. He suffers from dizziness and nausea all the time because he has not been able to buy his medication yet.

Fadel needs urgent surgery

Over 550 days ago, Fadel's family home was bombed and he was left with iron shrapnel embedded in his body. The medical infrastructure in Gaza has been decimated and he URGENTLY needs to get to a better-resourced hospital to get this shrapnel surgically removed safely.

Fadel's family is starving

Israel has created and maintained famine in Gaza as a genocidal tactic. Not only do they prevent food aid from entering, but they target crowds of Palestinians waiting for the distribution of aid.

Fadel and his brothers recently traveled together to an aid site, hungry and desperate for food, only to be met with Israeli snipers.

He recounted, "I saw many martyrs die in front of my eyes. Unfortunately we fled and were not able to take any food or anything. Now we have nothing to eat. A bag of flour costs 800 euros, a kilo of sugar costs 100 euros, a kilo of tomatoes costs 50 euros, and a liter of milk costs 80 euros. What's worse is that my medication is about to run out. I don't know what to do. Should I spend my surgery money to buy medicine and food to eat, or what?"

He told me today that for the last two days his family has been rationing their remaining supplies so that they have only been able to eat once a day. They are always hungry.

Fadel's campaign is vetted

His campaign has been vetted by @gazavetters (#197) and 90-ghost.

Earlier this year he raised nearly 50% of his goal, but on April 25th, 2025, GoFundMe cruelly deleted his fundraiser with no warning or explanation (something this company has done to many Palestinians trying to survive genocide) and he was forced to start over with a new campaign.

Despite GoFundMe's deletion of his first campaign automatically returning all donations to the donors, most people who previously donated have not taken the time to send that money back to him.

Today as I write this (June 22, 2025), he has has raised 39% of his goal, still over €3,000 below the amount he had raised back in April.

He has escaped death so many times, and he needs our help to survive long enough to get to a hospital who can treat his injuries.

What you can do:

Donate any amount you can to his campaign

Make a post about Fadel to share his story and encourage others to donate

Share this post with your followers

Send him a kind message at @fadel-dani and offer your friendship

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hey yall! amidst the newest chaos, i wanted to direct some attention to sami’s campaign :-) he and his family have been displaced several times on foot and been raising funds on here for some time now. any participation or donation would be greatly appreciated since, as we all know, gaza is still under heavy bombardment

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why has anyone bothered to write a kissing scene after annie proulx wrote this in 1997

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why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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23 Jun 25

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how it feels to know youre being annoying but not being able to stop

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JESUS CHRIST, IS FINALLY HERE!!!! 😭😭😭

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tryna push an agenda here

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there’s something so beautifully sisyphean about following a sports team. each season is a cycle of pushing a boulder up a hill, and every time you think, maybe this is the time we’ll get it to the top of the hill. we just need to keep pushing that boulder. then when it rolls down again, you think, okay, maybe this time is different. maybe if we’re sufficiently hopeful and lucky and hardworking we can push that boulder to the top of the hill. and then it rolls down again. and then you decide to keep pushing the boulder —

and it’s maddening. but it’s also kind of nice…because there’s always the next season, and there’s always the same boulder, so you start to almost feel fond of the boulder. and wouldn’t it feel amazing if you did get it to the top of the hill one day? and wasn’t it kind of fun to push the boulder, even if it was painful in real time? anyway, one must imagine sports fans happy

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Would you rather have a Phineas and Ferb summer or a Gravity Falls summer?

would you rather have endless fun forever or have satan attack you every day

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Unfortunately for Nader and his family, these futures have been taken from Gaza. Bullets fly all around them, and the occupation uses aid as a weapon while children starve. My friend Nader @abdalsalam2000 needs our support now to save his family and survive. His campaign is #4 on the gazavetters list, and the need is urgent! If you cannot donate, PLEASE share! https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-nader-alanqar-and-his-family-overcome-this-war-in-gaza

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i’m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of “content” is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if you’ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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getting farther into the book and feeling sick after reading this paragraph and realizing this is not a tale of something that happened just in the 1880s but an account of an event still happening today in angola prison, currently, as in right now the prison still host these events annually in which black prisoners participate in violent events because of the chance to get $500 dollars as a reward, as most only earn 2 cent per hour of work

70% of the prison population at angola is black, and angola prison is one of the largest “convict leasing” prisons in america, as it was formerly a plantation, every liscense plate in louisiana is made by angola prisoners, louisiana also has the highest rates of wrongful conviction in america, with 78% of those wrongful convictions being found to be due to police not giving truthful information during ongoing cases, almost all of the money raised by visitors and tourist to see these events or go to the angola gift shop never even get touched by the prison population, shareholders still pushing convict leasing keep the money for themselves, a literal live minstrel show and factory still running just as it did from its creation, where only the owners and correctional team (which is 80% white) see profit

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