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when I was in the hospital I had the tv on in my room to sleep to and christmas movies were on and they played Elf twice in a row so for a good half of the night I was drifting in and out of consciousness like this

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hi im over here now

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hey reminder that connecting humanity is extremely low on esims rn and desperately needs esim donations and also that there are a lot of cool things you can get in exchange for a donation

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People really do not give a fuck about Arab boys and men's lives. For more than a year now we've seen the constant dehumanization of Palestinian men and how their lives are deemed worthless.

I've been talking for a while now about my friend Mahmoud Jomaa (@mahmoudjumaa1238) and his difficulties fundraising for even a small goal. He has been at it since March and only recently reached his first goal after months of stagnation, but now we're back at a stage where he doesn't get anything for days on end.

And when I open his fundraiser to take a look at the progress and how little support he gets, I can't help thinking about how a french cop who killed a 17 years old Algerian boy was able to fundraise 1.6 million euros in around a week. A racist cop can become a millionaire by shooting point blank an Arab boy (named Nahel) in little more than a week but Mahmoud can't raise 20k in 7 months to survive a genocide.

Please let that sink in. Do you realize the violence this difference displays? How much villanization and dehumanization we fostered in the Global North to get here? And yes, it's not only the US, Europe has greatly contributed to the current climate of Anti-Arab hate, which in turns facilitate the current escalation of the genocide of Palestinian people.

That's why I can't believe I still have to come on here and ask people to donate to Mahmoud. Yet it makes sense : people just don't give a shit and that's it. They don't care that he already had to evacuate from the North of Gaza because of the constant attacks. They don't care that he is in an area that is currently very dangerous. They don't care that he lost his house, his university, his friends and family members, he is an Arab man. We shouldn't care, we should instead support the cop or the governments killing them right?

This has to stop, his life is worth that of any of you reading this post. I'm sick and tired of having to ask for people's help and constantly explain what he is going through when I shouldn't have to. He needs money to survive, that's it. That should be enough!

So please, help him. Share, donate and make your own posts to promote his fundraiser. He was supposed to reach 15k last month yet he has been stuck at around 12k for weeks. You CAN change that, so don't stay complacent please!

DONATE HERE

Vetted by @/gazafunds

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you guys hear about matt mullenweg being sued on allegations of wage theft and human trafficking

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It seems Tumblr is continuing with their mass deactivation of Palestinian blogs. This time they've gone after @nourfamily1989, a mother with five young children in Gaza. Please continue sharing and supporting her fundraiser while she tries to get her account back.

[Vetting info / Nour's most recent post]

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Hey guys... maybe I know why tumblr is so hellbent on accusing fundraisers for 3 Muslim-majority nationalities (Palestinian, Lebanese, and Sudanese) of being scams...

Maybe it was because Matt Mullenweg was alleged to have committed fraud through a shell company he and his mother used to run, along with islamophobic & sexual harassment and a swathe of other forms of racist harassment, including anti-blackness, specific racism and fetishism towards East Asian women, hatred of Mexicans, along with various slurs (.29). All this was revealed by former employee who was a Muslim woman who experienced racist and islamophobic, & sexual harassment by Mullenweg's mother and harassment specifically for her wearing hijab (.28).

Don't take it from me though! Take it from the lawsuit:

Reblog before tumblr deletes me :)

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"As of today, nearly 42,000 Palestinians—that we know of—have been killed, including over 20,000 children buried, disappeared, and detained. The names of those under the age of 1 fill the first 14 pages of a 649-page document attempting to memorialize the slain. So far, 902 entire families have been wiped off the civil registry. As a result of a deliberate program of starvation, disease, and the destruction of the conditions necessary for survival, The Lancet estimates that, by mid-June, the true death toll was 186,000 and will be as high as 335,500 by the end of the year.

And yet, even now, Israel is far from done." (source)

Fahed & Reem Shehab have been campaigning like crazy for their family since early May. They've survived a year of bombing, shelling and shooting, displacement after displacement, and are now faced with winter and the threats of environmental disaster that loom over all Palestinians in Gaza. Despite their indescribable exhaustion, grief, and terror, in spite of waning interest, they've persisted, risking their lives just for reliable internet connection, because their family of 13—a baby girl who's just 3 months to her 14 year old cousin to their 60 year old grandmother—are totally reliant on these funds, on them, to survive and evacuate.

They've finally made it to the final stretch of fundraising, with about 25% left to go!

Please keep donating and sharing, let's get them the rest of the way as quickly as possible

(vetted here & by the ButterflyEffect Project, #764)

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i don't think most people realize how bad things in rafah have truly gotten. we all already know israel has desecrated its own vow that rafah would be the "safe zone" in every way imaginable, but i can't describe how gut-wrenching it is to read about 12 iof soldiers infiltrating the rafah crossing under the guise of an aid truck just a day or so ago. again--they entered rafah with the pretense that they would be supplying starved, displaced people food

this is just now breaking, but i can't fathom how many palestinians got lured out w the promise of feeding their families--only to massacred then and there, never to be heard from again. likely their bodies won't ever be returned to the families. how can anyone read this and not be absolutely horrified

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i'll keep this brief to spare your dash:

27 person family, trapped in gaza

injured and sick members, young kids, and elderly

displaced 8 times, currently separated & sleeping on the streets

less than $1k USD to reach their goal

verified / donate here

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I think that people think that opposition to stuff like incest kink and incest jokes is all about disgust. But honestly, for me at least, it's the fact that it's so fucking pervasive. It's like it's all you wanna talk about to "shock the prudes." All day every day, y'all normalize and sexualize familial sexual abuse to the point where it's damn near inescapable. It's the punchline on everybody's lips. It's what have to remind the world you beat off to every five seconds. It's what you forget to tell your friend about in the shows/books/movies you recommend to them because it's "not a big deal. It's what you call "salacious and taboo" even though it's so mundane and commonplace that you most likely know someone who has survived it. Can you imagine what it's like to be a survivor who doesn't want to engage with that shit in a world where people won't shut the fuck up about how hot and or funny they think it is?

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DONATIONS URGENTLY NEEDED

I would like to bring Khaled’s ( @khaled-eltaban ) fundraiser to your attention. Donations to his campaign have slowed down considerably in recent days, and he critically needs funds in order to evacuate. He has reached out to me from Deir al-Balah in Central Gaza, which has been the subject of constant, brutal, and devastating attacks by the IOF throughout this genocidal war.

His campaign has been verified by @/90-ghost.

£2,816 / £10,000

I have 3,400 followers. If every one of my followers donated just $5, we could easily help Khaled reach his goal. Please contribute and/or share!

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First of all, Al hamduliallah for everything. I would like to tell you that my mother needs to have an eye surgery. We went to two doctors and they told us that it needs to be done. The cost is high, reaching 3 thousand dollars. Check my pinned post if you would like to help us. My sister paypal🙏

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There's this idea, fairly common in society, that mental illness is for teens and up. Children are happy little creatures, generally, right? Sometimes they're abused and the trauma can make them mentally ill, but that's not common.

There are two fundamental problems with this attitude. One, it's incorrect to assume that trauma is the only reason a young kid can be mentally ill. Two, trauma is more common than people think. I'll be covering the first problem in this post through the lens of my particular experience.

Where I live, you can be diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 18 years old. You cannot be diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a minor. This poses a problem because my age of onset was in first grade, roughly six years old. Because of the fact that I was very young and new to the world, this was also the age of my first suicide attempt. Thinking I wouldn't be able to pass a spelling test genuinely felt like something worth trying to die over. So, I ate some hemlock, since I'd read about Socrates being killed with it. Luckily, I ate western hemlock, an unrelated species, and just felt kind of sick.

I'm not recounting that for fun or pity. I'm recounting it because children with mental illness are in genuine danger because they have little to no experience with managing their emotions, have little to no concept of the idea that their life can change and improve, and are dismissed by adults. I told a teacher that the test made me want to die, though not that I'd attempted to, and it was brushed off as little kid hyperbole. If I had used a method that was effective rather than one I thought would be, I would have been dead at six years old.

I would not receive medication that worked even a bit for another two years. I would not receive treatment for bipolar disorder specifically for ten years, and that required my PCP fudging the reason for the medication because she was afraid I would die if she didn't, and diagnosis was still two years off at minimum. I received a formal diagnosis at age 19, thirteen years after onset.

But surely that's uncommon, right? This story is a huge edge case, right? I actually have no idea, because age of onset and age of diagnosis are massively conflated for most disabilities. Policies like the one in my area that restricted bipolar diagnoses by age can artificially raise the age of "onset", in my case by thirteen years. The general idea that children are somehow immune to mental illness can also delay diagnosis by several years, perpetuating the idea that young children can't be mentally ill. The data on when people start experiencing mental illness is inherently skewed upwards, and I frankly don't have a good estimate on how bad that skew is. If anyone does have that data, please chime in.

Listen to children. If they're saying they're sad all the time, that they don't care about anything, that they don't see a future for themselves, those are signs of depressive symptoms. If they say that tests make them feel sick, that they can't do anything because they're scared, that they can't breathe and freeze up, those are signs of anxious symptoms. Many children talk about imaginary things, and that's just fine, but slip in a question or two about them to make sure that the kid is just playing, and not experiencing psychosis.

Children are new to the world and vulnerable, and they don't know what's normal and what isn't. They need people who are more experienced watching out for problems they might be having, and listening when they talk about having problems. If you can, try to be the person who perceives them, and tells them that things can be better.

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I totally forgot till just now but one time a new therapist handed me a pad of paper and said "draw me a picture of how you feel" and after spending like five whole minutes of dead silence scribbling a teeny tiny pitch black dot in the middle of the pad that dug a hole straight through like 15 pages I gave it back to see him staring back at me like

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