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No, app on my phone, I don't want to edit it with AI. I don't want to generate with AI. I don't want to ask the AI. I don't want to make AI wallpapers. I don't want to rewrite with AI. I don't want t-

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as someone who has been involved in union organizing through my dad's union since i was literally in second grade, the way that people on tumblr think unions work drives me literally insane

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They killed my childhood friend this morning in a random bombing and I just bit his beard with my own hands. I can't believe it!!!!

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"WEAR IT AND BE SAFE"

My new 5-page collage comic about COVID solidarity with Palestine is out now, in Steel Transplant's COVID Cautious Queers Zine 2.

The main text and and art are posts Muhammad Smiry and Omar Hamad made from Palestine this past year, reproduced by hand with marker. The transparent scraps are printed quotations from news articles and medical journals about the occupation, the longest one from "Gaza, armed conflict, and child health", BMJ Paediatrics Open, Feb 2024.

To read the rest of my comic, download the enormous wonderful 125-page digital anthology yourself for FREE - any money goes to community mutual aid.

I also ask you to support Muhamad and Omar directly as they survive the USA/Israel's ongoing genocide, and keep masking up!

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Our dreams have been destroyed, and we have nothing left...😞

🫂You're our last hope in this life🫂

I'm Lama from Gaza, I'm 24 years old, and my husband is Mohammad... We got married in 2022 in a house full of love and happiness. Our house was beautiful, we chose everything in it carefully... We were waiting for the end of the day to go there after a tiring day of work, but the occupation did not leave us. 😔😭💔

This house was bombed with all hatred. Here we are after the genocide. We have nothing... We lost our house, our work, and our car.😭😞

We were displaced to Rafah in a tent that could not accommodate 5 people, and after the displacement from Rafah, we were displaced to Mawasi Khan Yunis again. It was a very difficult period... but now we are in Mawasi Khan Yunis in a tent that does not protect us from the cold of winter or the heat of summer.😞😭

This is our tent, its floor is made of cardboard, as you can see, and I suffer from severe eczema due to the pollution of the air and the materials used, and the medicine is very expensive.😭💔

Urgent: My husband needs a very necessary operation and medication. Please help my husband in order for his health to improve. He is in pain.😞😭🫂🙏🙏

Help us and donate to us. You are our last hope and the lifeline of this life. 🫂🙏

We need you...Donate to us and save what is left of us.😞🙏🙏

Link campaign ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️

https://gofund.me/8f634db2

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✅️Vetted✅️

@gazavetters

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just found out that there is a sudanfunds website! like gazafunds, it is a compilation of funds for people facing genocide

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Palestinian Fundraisers 🇵🇸

29/09/24 Please donate if you can!

Help Dr. Shahad and Farah complete their education

@farahmoo2 | Dr. Shahad & Farah Gofundme | verified | €6,050 / €20,000

Save the family of Salman Hellis from the Gaza Strip

@salman-1990 | Salman Hellis Gofundme | verified | €2,104 / €50,000

Help Jody and her family evacuate from Gaza

@omargaze2 | Ahmed Gofundme | verified | £11,005 / £20,000

Help Ahlam Rebuild Her Life and Dreams

@ahlam910 | Ahlam Gofundme | verified | $420 USD / $50,000

Help Evacuate Moamen's Family from Gaza to Safety

@momenalstaz | Moamen Gofundme | verified (line 125) | €24,377 / €70,000

Help Mohammed get food water and medicine for their little kids

@mohammedayyads-blog | Mohammed Ayyad Gofundme | verified | €2,987 / €35,000

Help Mohammed get food and safety for his family

@mohammedmatat | Mohammed Gofundme | verified | €1,460 / €15,000

Helping Ahmed's Family: Escaping War to a New Life

@anqarfamily | Ahmed Alanqar Gofundme | verified | €62,423 / €75,000

Help Mohammed's Uncle’s family

@yasermohammad | Mohammed Gofundme | verified | €24,188 / €35,000

Help Mahmoud and his family escape Gaza & continue education

@mahmoidsy | Mahmoud Jehad Gofundme | verified | $4,995 USD / $25,000

Family relief and survival from massacres

@malakaymans-blog | Ayman Al-Habil Gofundme | verified | €1,515 / €60,000

Amidst the Rubble and Hope:A Family's Search for Survival

@mennazarik | Mahmoud Gofundme | unverified but donation protected | €365 / €15,000

To survive and rebuild our life and home

@classydelusionbread | Nareman Mohammed Gofundme | unverified but donation protected | €242 / €40,000

Rebuilding Hope: A Gaza Family in Need of Your Help

@majedalgherbawi | Majed Gofundme | unverified but donation protected | $6,212 USD / $70,000

Help Lana trough these dark days in Gaza

@lana288 | Lana Chuffed Campaign | unverified | 542 € / 10,000 €

Help Ayman and his family restore Their lives in Gaza

@aymam22 | Ayman Gofundme | unverified but donation protected | €15 / €30,000

Support Hala's Family Seeking Safety in Egypt

@hala123sposts | Hala Gofundme | unverified but donation protected | $601 USD / $35,000

Support Hamdi Ali Ayyad

@joyfultidalwaveobject | Hamdi Ayyad Gofundme | unverified but donation protected | €1,732 / €25,000

Save Maryam's family from war

@safemaryamsfamilysblog | Maryam Gofundme | unverified but donation protected | €2,083 / €20,000

From Gaza, help Farah to study and follow their dream

@farahmohamed2005 | Farah Areef Gofundme | unverified but donation protected | €277 / €8,000

If any campaign has since been verified or has been incorrectly labled, please let me know. Thank you. From the river to the sea Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

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so fucked up that spongebob squarepants is a children's show that can't feature alcohol because squidward would look right at home cuntily swirling a glass of red wine

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Both devastating and terrifying how we all know what redlines Israel had erased in Gaza in order to make way for new war crimes in other places, and witness Lebanon be the first applied example. The really tough part for me is seeing the first days of Gaza's 2023 genocide being replicated in Lebanon, from the kind of attacks to the way they're reported. It's like reliving those days, but this time knowing exactly where things are likely heading unless Israel is stopped.

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Sudanese fundraisers that have yet to reach their goals:

Help Mohamed Evacuate & Finish Education

Sudan War, Help Asmaa's Family

Help Aalaa's Family Escape to Safety

Emergency Fund: Medical, Shelter, & Edu (Sudanese Refugees)

Support Sakina's Family's Journey to Safety

For Sudan: Help support families in Kassab IDP camp

Our home bombarded and destroyed

Evacuate a family from the war

Help Abudjana rebuild after war

One Million Sustainable Pads Campaign

Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khartoum Kitchen appeal

Help Randa's Family flee war in Sudan

Help my family escape Sudan's war

Sudan Emergency Medical Appeal- Help Children & War Victims

Join the effort to save Jameela and her family!

Help ThomaSerena recover from war

Escaping Hell: A Family's Fight For Survival

CAIRO SUDAN AID

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DO YOU THINK IT'S EASY TO HAVE YOUR FAMILY'S SURVIVAL RELY ON SOME FOREIGNERS' PITY?

read their story linked below before you go around spouting harmful scam allegations.

the atallah family do not deserve this. palestinian families are entitled to a life of dignity just like everybody else. donations are already so slow and they still have a long way to go. our €5 and reblogs are essential to them. it gives them hope. so don't go around discouraging empathetic outsiders. ffs.

you don’t have to answer an ask from a palestinian trying to raise fund for their family’s needs if the only thing you would do is to mock them and smear their campaign. my gosh. the notes. everybody is so fucking inappropriate and callous. have some shame, people.

don't be a fucking piece of shit who regurgitates misinformation just because the desperate begging annoys you personally. they are using google translate to communicate with us. stop discrediting the story without even fucking learning the simple facts. you are literate enough to do some research before ruining somebody's reputation.

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there’s a thunderstorm over my house right now. as loud as the lightning is, it and the rainfall are ultimately set dressing, and i’m warm and dry inside.

there was a storm over palestine today, too. for marah, a college student like me, the rain meant a flooded tent, waterlogged flour. mud and wet feet and chill. no shelves to protect precious belongings from the damage.

here’s my post linking to the baalou family’s fund. please spread this around— conditions become critical as quickly as a storm comes.

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So y’all know the classic edge trope of “my blade cannot be sheathed until it has tasted blood”? What if a magic sword that has that requirement, except it’s sort of inverted. A sword that, instead of being inhabited by an evil spirit which once awakened cannot be lulled back to sleep except by blood sacrifice, was inhabited by a benevolent spirit who would not allow the sword to be drawn unless bloodshed were the only possible solution. A sword whose power could never be misused because it would only allow itself to be used in situations where it was justified. What about a Paladin who spends their entire journey fighting with a sheathed sword, incapacitating but never killing or maiming. The party believes that the Paladin has taken an oath of no killing, until they face the big villain. And it is in that moment, and that moment alone, that the sword will allow itself to be drawn.

Idk, this image set my mindwheels a-turning.

But do y’all see the vision?

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While we spent the last week watching horrors unfold in Lebanon, Israeli newspapers are shamelessly publishing articles claiming parts of Lebanese territory. If you think their only aim is to fight “terrorism” you are a bloody fool.

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we shouldn't have to feel grateful for so much of this, man. as valuable a virtue as gratitude is, i don't want the world we've made to be one in which my prayer of thanks for anesthesia at the dentist is anything more than a novel acknowledgement, rather than resultant of seeing so many people lack that "privilege." i'm a senior at a polytechnic rn; i don't want to be grateful for the continued existence of the school, the fact of its concrete walls still standing. i don't want to be aware of the fact that the toddlers in my family are in one piece; i don't want a contrary example of limbless infants to live in my mind. the softly-suffered deaths i've mourned have provided more than enough suffering on their own!

but such is the world we've built. while some well-fed mouths in the imperial core shut their eyes and cover their ears and make crude jokes and question whether such suffering really is realistic at all, the virtuous of us, those interested in good, refuse to look away until we've changed it. part of exercising that continued gaze is providence. if your life has ever been happier on account of a living sibling or a standing university or a cat sleeping on your stomach or a warm home, see whether you can't provide for miriam baalou, who, like me, has a tumblr account-- @freepaleatine95 -- and who, younger than i am, has had all of these things taken away as collateral for the continued comfort of the imperial core.

in this empire, whose current is an evil one, even to remain in one place requires discipline, labor, capital. to do good requires even more. but let us work heartily against the worst selfishnesses of our worst ancestors.

the baalous’ campaign has been vetted by 90-ghost, who's work in making palestinian campaigns more legible to outsiders i am grateful beyond words for.

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man i don't know how to say this but gazans here are risking their lives to make posts asking for help. they are asking for you to contribute a small amount of money to buy food or medicines or get shelter.

whether we like it or not, we are complicit in this genocide. either because of our silence, or because our tax money if being used to bomb them. i thought that people would be more eager to help gazans, trying to 'reverse' the damage somehow.

contrary to what i thought, people are moving on. they're moving on from the al-shifa hospital strike, they're moving on from refugee camp massacres and from school bombings, they're moving on from dead children and orphaned children.

please don't be indifferent. help my friend alaa amsse [ @alaakh998 ]. she urgently needs money to buy a new tent. she needs medicine for her sick son. her tent was flooded and she needs to buy supplies. please please help her if you have the means to. her fundraiser has been verified by 90-ghost and the butterfly project (#307).

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Please don't skip

Hello my friends it is me Alaa an engineer from gaza, it is 1:00 am now and it have passed

348 days That means 3600 hours That means 12,960,000 seconds From death, hunger, humiliation, cold, hot, disease and disgust

I was a daughter, sister,, and . I had my own home and work, and I lived in love and warmth with my family.

But in one moment, everything was destroyed, and I lost my home and my job, and my family lost their home and their work, and we fled with one bag to escape the bombing and death🍉😭

After 7 months of this hard, horrible and continues war i was able to escape with my children, but my family which consists of 10 people, 2 of them are elderly my mum and dad they need to have medication still at gaza under war

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