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hi, don't scroll. i'm coming at you with a list of palestinian fundraisers who very, very urgently need our help. please donate if you can, and reblog to boost. thank you!

najah al-haila, vetted by gazavetters (#49), 4,192€/80,000€

youssef alaa al-yazji, vetted by gazavetters (#87), 20,839kr SEK/200,000kr (1$=10kr)

dima rashed al-dahdouh, unvetted but RIS is clean, 506€/30,000€

heba's family, vetted by association through safaabed8, 2,920€/40,000€

siraj abu dayyeh, #219 on the vetted gaza evacuation fundraiser list, $89,084 CAD/$150,000

ola's family, #205 on the vetted gaza evacuation fundraiser list, $57,887 USD/$85,000

nour alanqar, vetted by 90-ghost, 23,757€/40,000€

ola ferwana, vetted by gazavetters (#60), 10,782€/35,000€

belal salem, vetted by 90-ghost, $1,276 USD/$20,000

abood and his pregnant wife, vetted by mohiy-gaza, $22,314 USD/$40,000

youssef al-habil, whose son has recently been hospitalized on account of a respiratory illness, #406 on the butterfly project list, 23,774€/30,000€

abdulsalam al-anqar, vetted by gazavetters (#4), 8,228€/50,000€

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Long live the Amsterdam taxi drivers (mostly morrocan and turkish background) who came out tonight and drove around the empty industrial estate, where we were dumped by the cops, to give free rides to the hundreds of scattered Palestine protesters!

The protesters were detained en masse at the banned pro-Palestine demonstration on the Dam, and were dropped off in the middle of nowhere by the Amsterdam riot police to be chased and beaten, away from the media.

More and and more taxis kept showing up, sometimes flying Palestinian flags, to big cheers and applause from the protesters each time. They were praising us as they drove up but they were the real heroes of today and this whole week. Remember these taxi drivers started handing out the beatings to the far-right zionist Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans about a week ago. They really restored our hope after the fascist gaslighting spectacle being played out by the entire Dutch political and media class this past week.

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8 November 2024.

"This is actually a well-known Zionist tactic to provoke, to attack and then to play the victim"

Israelis supporting the Maccabi club chanted genocidal slogans, attacked pro-Palestine activists and destroyed Palestinian flags, Amsterdam City Councillor Jazie Veldhuyzen tells TRT World, adding that officials and the media coverage have been very "one-sided"

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It's antisemitic to defend yourself.

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*grabs your hands and speaks to you in a tone that is so gentle* they/them pronouns stop being universal once you learn a person's pronouns. Sometimes that person's pronouns will include they/them and in that specific case you are allowed to keep using those pronouns for that person. In any case where you learn a persons pronouns and that person doesn't use they/them, you should no longer use those pronouns for that person. If you continue to use they/them pronouns knowing that person doesn't use them, you are now misgendering that person. Kindly stop doing that please. Thank you, I love you.

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Additional resources to support the people of Palestine:

Demand a Ceasefire in Gaza

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

UNRWA

UNICEF

Gaza eSims

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Zionists love saying “if you think Israel shouldn’t exist that’s antisemitic because what about the United States?” Actually my realization Israel is a genocidal settler colony happened AFTER I realized the United States is a genocidal settler colony that should be violently overthrown. Them being allies made it clear to me that Israel was evil too. Considering the nonstop atrocities America is responsible for, america supporting your nation is a major red flag and not the cool kind.

I don’t exceptionalize Israel as uniquely evil, I think all imperialist nations and settler colonies have a similar, pedestrian form of evil. It’s only unique in the brutality of its advanced forms of genocidal warfare that it exports to other nations, otherwise Israel possesses a very mundane evil typical of European imperialist nations of the recent centuries.

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Twitch is gonna start kinda censoring queer people and it would be really helpful if you could read the next few sentences and then also go to a link and click the word vote.

They're implementing a new rule where if you discuss "sensitive social issues" at all you have to flag your streams as such, these issues include things like war and political unrest but also any lgbtq topics (once again our existence is political).

Essentially a streamer will have to choose between never ever mentioning anything queer (or even just discussing their own life if they're queer themselves) or flagging every stream with "sensitive social issues" and scaring away 90% of viewers.

If you have a twitch account you can go here and log in and click vote. They do listen. Please vote.

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Vatted by association click here

Hello guys today I feel hopeless and frustrated my orphan girl is sick and suffering from viral infection in her stomach and she has Entamoeba histolytica worm infection due to water and food pollution and lack of vitamins she has weak immunity due to the lack of suitable food for her

so please help us any small donation may make a difference in our lives and save us from danger

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This is the most recent update from north Gaza tweeted less than two hours ago. There are practically no life-saving mechanisms left whilst Israel continues to carry out its extermination campaign in northern Gaza. Remember that next time Israeli propagandists tell you that "Israel is doing its best to reduce civilian casualties."

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Israel passed a law on Monday banning UNRWA from operating in the country, legislation that could impact the UN Palestinian refugee agency's work in war-torn Gaza. The lawmakers who drafted the law cited the alleged involvement of some UNRWA staffers in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, and that some UNRWA staffers were members of Hamas and other armed groups. The legislation has alarmed the United Nations and some of Israel's Western allies, who fear it would further worsen the already-dire humanitarian situation in Gaza after over a year of war. The ban does not refer to operations in the Palestinian territories or elsewhere.

Continue Reading.

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Something that pops up in my notes from time to time is folks thinking I'm being excessively kind in my criticisms of Dungeons & Dragons, and I'm going to spin this off into a separate thread to address that without putting anyone on the spot.

First, if your own critique of Dungeons & Dragons is rooted in the idea that it's the Worst Game Ever, that speaks more to the limits of your experience than it does to anything else. Dungeons & Dragons in any of its iterations far from the worst the tabletop roleplaying hobby has to offer – like, you have no fucking idea!

Second, I tend to be even-handed in my discussion of D&D's rules because, fundamentally, the rules are not the problem – or, at least, not the principal cause of the problem.

In many ways, the indie RPG sphere has never escaped the spectre of Ron Edwards, sternly pronouncing that the mechanical process of playing traditional RPGs causes actual, physical brain damage, and that this brain damage is responsible for the bad behaviour we often observe at the table. We don't say it that way anymore, but on some level a lot of us indie RPG designers still kind of believe it.

This is understandable. As game designers, we're naturally inclined to think of problems at the table as game design problems. When we see a problematic culture of play, our impulse is to frame it as something which emerges from the text of the game, and which can therefore be mitigated by repairing the text of the game.

Confronted with the obvious toxicity of certain facets of D&D's culture of play, we go combing through its text, looking for something – some formalism, some structure, some piece of rules technology – which we can point to and say: "this is it; this is where the brain-worms live."

The trouble is, this is not in fact where the brain-worms live. Certainly, the text of a game, particularly a very popular one, can have some influence on the game's surrounding culture of play, but that text is in turn a reflection of the culture of play in which it was written. The Player's Handbook isn't an SCP object, spewing infectious infohazards everywhere when you crack open the cover – hell, I'd go so far as to say that many of the problems of D&D's culture of play operate in spite of the game's text, not because of it!

Basically, what I'm saying is that I don't see any contradiction between being the sort of pretentious knob who writes one-page indie RPGs about gay catgirls talking about their feelings (which I am), and speaking favourably about this or that piece of rules tech from whatever flavour of Dungeons & Dragons is in favour this week (which I do), because I recognise that you can't game-design your way out of a problem you didn't game-design your way into.

The fact that one of the biggest problems facing the tabletop roleplaying hobby is something that can't be repaired by fucking around with dice-rolling procedures is a bitter pill to swallow for a lot of indie game designers, and I won't say I wasn't resistant to it myself, but it's something that's both useful and necessary to accept.

(None of this means that the text of Dungeons & Dragons in any of its incarnations is beyond criticism on other grounds, of course, and I've never been shy about highlighting those criticisms where they're warranted. The only way you're gonna arrive at the conclusion that I'm some sort of D&D apologist is if you're starting from the presumption that The Real Problem Is The Rules.)

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if anyone is trying to donate to help in Gaza through orgs, these ones were just banned by the Israeli government with no reason given and can no longer operate in Gaza (at least for now).

these are the orgs: Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association, Glia Project, Palestinian American Bridge, PalMed, Baitulmaal, FAJR, Palestinian American Medical Association, Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund

from what i’ve been told by people who have been working in/coordinating aid in Gaza, Palestinian Red Crescent Society, World Central Kitchen, and Anera are unaffected by this order, but everyone has been limited in what they can bring in. while the middle two aren’t medical orgs, they have been bringing in some medicine. PRCS is a red cross affiliate providing medical care.

(not trying to sway anyone’s donations but wanted to put this out there since PCRF has been the org i’ve recommended several people donate to previously.)

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