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i’ll blow myself up just to hold u again

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The Lady of the Lake sits by the fountain in Arroy, from The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle (1903)

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Yuichi Yokoyama, Earth Day 1-3, 2023.

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Guys please block @/javert and all the people on their posts accusing shahed and the palestinian bloggers putting together lists of vetted fundraisers of being scammers.

Shes only just gotten past the halfway point. Dont let this slow her down. She has to get to 80k within the next week

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emily jacir, from where we come from, 2001-2003

“if i could do anything for you, anywhere in palestine, what would it be?” this question was recently posed to palestinian exiles by palestinian-american artist emily jacir. taking advantage of her ability to move about relatively freely in israel with an american passport, jacir promised to realize the desires of those forbidden entry into their homeland. a series of texts, black lettering on white panels, describes the various requests. color photographs, presented by their side, document jacir’s actualization of them.  (sfmoma)

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today's bug thing is the bug carousel at the Bronx Zoo!

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1969 Cass Elliot Bubblegum, Lemonade, & … Something for Mama album cover (via: discogs)

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70s temporary tattoo PNGs.

(Source: peculiarmanicule.com)

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Ok so i got this reply on this post talking about how palestinian bloggers are getting their accounts deleted and banned by tumblrs automated moderation system, and listen i have no interest in putting this person on blast cause i genuinely Dont think this sentiment is coming from a malicious place.

But i do want to talk about this nonetheless because i dont think you guys are realising that the people making these accounts and reaching out to us are doing so in english for OUR benefit, so that they can be understood by the english speaking majority on this site.

A lot of the people (not all but quite a few probably) are just not comfortable speaking in english!!! They may be using google translate to reach out to us and understand what we say back, and we all know how janky those translations tend to be. On top being completely unfamiliar with Tumblr's posting etiquette (which i do recall a lot of people were all taking pride in for being SO different from other sites not too long ago), there's a very obvious language barrier too.

Of course their posts will not be "natural sounding" enough for you.

And that's fine. Good on you for staying vigilant etc etc.

All I'm asking of you is to understand what you are asking of people when you demand that they "sound more natural" so that you can find them "convincing". You are demanding them to be fluent in language and culture they are not familiar with, when theyre already here at all because theyre in the middle of a genocide and just trying to survive.

So if you do get messages from palestinian people who want to spread their campaign and want to call yourself an ally, please dont immediately report them. There are places you can check to see if they are legit or not, there are palestinian bloggers who are working really hard to make sure any money you donate are going to people who actually need it instead of disgusting scammers who are trying profit off their misery.

Literally all you have to do is type their url into the search bar, and most likely you will find out if theyre a scam or not. If there arent any results you can just ask someone. Just dont outright dismiss thats all i ask.

This is the least effort you can put in from your side

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Vetted by @90-ghost 🙏🌹🍉🍉🌹 link

Vetted by @northgazaupdates 🙏🌹🍉🍉🌹 link

Vetted by @caocao-caokie-blog 🙏🌹🍉🍉🌹 link

Vetted by @fairuzfan 🙏🌹🍉🍉🌹 link

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Help Save Wafaa's Niece Malak

Hi everyone, as you know Shaima and Muhammad are Wafaa's (@wafans-blog) sister and brother, who desperately hope to evacuate their youngest children with Wafaa's children as soon as the border crossing opens. They are verified by @el-shab-hussein's spreadsheet as family number 260.

Yesterday, Shaima and Muhammad's campaign was extremely slow, at times there would be hours of stagnation with no donations. Let's help their family get to $5,000 by the end of day today, so that they could secure the evacuation funds for Shaima's 8 year old daughter, Malak.

Malak loved drawing. Since she was little, she has had an extremely deep connection to art. She wasn't drawn to toys, and would never ask Shaima to buy any for her. Instead, she asked for art supplies. Slowly after years, she became ambitious about drawing nature and even her friends. She excelled at this in school, and began drawing about Palestine and famous things in Palestine. Wafaa says she is a beautiful child with a wonderful smile that could light up the room.

Malak hopes to become an artist when she grows up and experiment with more art media, but now all she can do is waking up every morning to wait in line for hours to get enough water for her family. Please help secure Malak's evaucation fee so that she could reunite with her aunt Wafaa, and so she could resume drawing again.

We have not had a donation in 25 minutes. The campaign is severely stagnating, please help us get to $5,000 by the end of day, so that we can secure Malak's evacuation registration fee alongside Salem, her newborn cousin.

Currently $4,085 of the $5,000 daily goal as of July 31 morning, that's $915 more to raise!

Please donate what you can!! @terroristiraqi was kind to host a crocheted sweater raffle, enter before August 4 for a chance to win this handmade sweater for a $5 donation minimum. Details here

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I am salah from Gaza. I have two children, Youssef, 12 years old, and Nour, 7 years old. Because of the fierce war, we lost everything we owned, I’m lost everything made... and my children lost every beautiful thing in his life. We were displaced to the south of the Gaza Strip several times. We endured a lot of meager and contaminated food and drink, and we were exposed to close-up death in all its forms... and we survived it miraculously. I feel pain as I write to you...as I had to start this castle to save myself and my family from this humanitarian disaster... Save my family... I will post some pictures of my children and my home for you.

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gazafunds seeks to uplift stagnant or otherwise struggling fundraisers for gazans seeking evacuation or simple necessities. i know many of the images crossing your feeds today are harrowing and impossible to fathom, but those in the line of fire need your help, not your complacency. gazafunds also urges those who are able to adopt a fundraiser to amplify to do so (you can contact them via their twitter.)

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The more I am trying to help fundraisers reach a wide berth of people, the more I am realizing that tumblr is a very performative website. Posts which are detailing a fundraiser have very little interaction, as opposed to those that point out the injustice of it all and have a tone of anger. But anger is not sustainable...if you want us ( those who are actively monitoring the fundraisers ) to give you a cause to rally against, if that is the only thing what moves you to donate, then how long can this go on? What does it even say about how you view the lives of people who have been forced to fundraise? They are not tinder to keep stoking your fuel of righteousness.

Every fundraiser which I am personally monitoring seems to only crest when the tumblr community at large either feels that appropriate bit of "oh yeah look I am so cool for rallying behind the cause." Or if there is a tragedy, an unimaginable pain a person has been put through and thus can evoke enough empathy/sympathy in the masses....what is this? What can one even say to this?

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Palestine campaigns with under a thousand donations

Trying a new tactic with the fundraisers on my pinned list. These campaigns appear to gain a lot more traction when the number of donations hits a thousand, so here's a way to highlight those that could use more. Just like the main list, I'll keep you all updated with how things progress, and as always, if you can't donate, reblog.

LAST UPDATED 7/29

Under 100:

Under 300:

The Hor family @salahaldinhor

Amal's family @amlanqar

Aya's family @ayaalanqarsblog

Zaen and Yehya @mohammedshehab111

Under 500:

The Al Tibi family @mahmoudeltibi1

The Sharif family @amnehsharif10

Walaa's family @ahmed79ss

The Atalla family @mohammed-atallah

The Ismaeel family @m0hammed1

The Sami family @eyadeyadsblog

Under 700:

The Aburass family @sameraburass

The Abushammaleh family @bshaeromars-blog

The Saftawi family @nadasaftawi

Ahmed's family @ahmed-ziad

Under 900:

The Alostaz family @ahmed-ostaz

Ashraf's family @ashrafanqer

Nearing 1000:

The Khalaf family @mahmoudkhalafff

The Shorbaje family @tahanishorbaje2

The Alnabih family @ahmedalnabeeh11

1000 donations:

Amira's family @ameera-anq

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Berries.