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im curious since people usually use card/apple pay where i work :-) sad cause they miss out on the little barks our card reader makes :<

WHILE I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION !

please direct your attention to this gofundme for Em Ali Al-Habil (@ameeraayman2) in Gaza. she is a mother of 10 and has asthma. help her get her family to safety! her gfm is at 4% (€2,426 / €60K goal)

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PLEASE REBLOG, LIKES DO NOTHING

there are really no words to describe the injustice of what is happening, other than genocide. do what you can. donate, be educated. thank you for your time. free palestine

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The Indigenous people of the Wet’suwet’en, Canada.

Via Noureddine Salhi

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Will I die like them? Like my uncle, my other uncle, my cousin, my 10-year-old cousin, my cousin’s daughter, my other cousin, and also my 7-year-old cousin?I don’t want to be one of them. Please, donate to me before this happens.

Donate to me, please, just five euros.

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sitcom

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Thank you for your generosity and loyalty. My sincere appreciation to all of you. I created a donation campaign on Gofundme several months ago and your support has been great in helping my family, but what we are used to from all governments is fighting the Palestinians and depriving us of life, the transfers from Govendme have stopped and I have been deprived of money until this moment

A new campaign was created by my friend and the campaign was created on the Covid website because it publicly supports the Palestinian cause. Therefore, So now I am asking for your support and I need you more than ever because of the deliberate starvation policy that my family is going through the occupation, and we hope that we will be able to evacuate them as soon as the crossing opens . Your support brings us back to life.

Support link here please help

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Also by the way, I appreciate when people defend me when I get harassment, but automatically diving towards "oh, this person is a TERF" when in fact a majority of them have been transfems is just othering. If you insist that any transfem that disagrees with me on an opinion is a TERF, you're guarding off transfemininity as a "morally upright" thing to be and anyone else HAS to be a transphobic radfem. Being transgender is completely neutral. It is a morally neutral identity to have. It does not automatically make you just or evil. It is just an identity. Gating off being transfem behind "you have to agree with some internet girl's opinion" just makes it harder to internalize that people of ANY group can cause harm to ANYONE.

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Howdy y'all! My amazing friend and creative partner Eli is running into a lot of trouble. Rent is due in two days and she also has to deal with this lil dude needing his first vet appointment + neutering, so it would genuinely mean a lot to me if you could help them out in some way, whether that be donating anything as little as a dollar or sharing the word. Thank you so much!! ;w;

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the level of censorship around this man is ridiculous, what happened to free speech? It’s just his name.

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Hi, I'm genuinely looking for an explanation here and not looking for an argument /srs

Can you explain how calling a transfem a TERF for spreading ideology that I genuinely assumed was included in the definition of TERFism is othering ? Not to be that guy, but I'm autistic and I'm having a very hard time connecting the points you're making, and I genuinely want to learn and understand what you're saying /gen

Again, I do hope this doesn't come off as hostile, I am genuinely trying to learn and understand better, and I want to be able to fix misconceptions about what a TERF is in my own mind, and I haven't seen anyone bring this point up before /gen

You absolutely do not have to answer this, but I hope you have a fabulous rest of your day, and I do apologize for what I said, as it wasn't necessary for me to comment on the situation.

Yeah totally! Okay, I got a lot of this from Ibram X. Kendi's "How to be Antiracist"* where he talks about describing "racist" as an identity means that hardly anyone is going to ever "identify" with it, even if they are a racist. It's much more helpful to talk about actions being racist or anti-racist. Someone committing racist acts speaks far more to the vulnerability of anyone to cause harm, rather than it being something ONLY reserved for someone with the identity of "racist". For example, Clarence Thomas, a black man, has done untold amounts of harm to the black population in the US. If we subscribe to the "oh, (X) can't be racist, they are (a minority)" train of thought, it means people are less likely to understand that Clarence Thomas commits racist acts. In the same way, describing yourself as an anti-racist is not enough, as it can let people be comfortable with racist actions because they think "oh, I'm an anti-racist, I can't commit acts of racial harm." That's why it's more helpful to describe acts as racist and anti-racist rather than framing them as identities.

In a similar way, describing someone as the label of "TERF" can have a similar effect. Because it's specifically a label centered around being anti-trans, transgender people of all kinds will easily assume they cannot be transphobic, because the label of TERF is ideologically opposed to their existence. It invites ridicule rather than introspection. By saying actions can be transphobic, I think it helps a lot more because it's easier to understand that trans people can be transphobic. For example, Blaire White is right there. Despite being a trans woman, she is actively doing transphobic acts. By calling out an action as transphobic rather than describing someone as a "TERF", it helps fight back against the idea that being trans means you cannot be transphobic. For a super duper simple example, I can step on my dogs tail, but it doesn't mean I hate dogs, it means I committed an act of harm against my dog. Describing me as a dog-hater when I LOVE dogs would invite ridicule more than it would a tendency to watch my step when my dog is in the house. I hope this makes sense!

*I'm not trying to say the Black and Trans experience is exactly the same, just that like any oppressed group, there is a lot of overlap in tactics and thinking, especially for people who are Black and Trans. Reading about other groups can really give you a ton of helpful insight on how to work within your own identity!

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Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free

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An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

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we all need to do our part to outlive j k rowling. we Must™.

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idk where to start with this. recently at work I fainted. a workers compensation was filed but my claim was denied because nothing at work caused me to faint, it was my own unresolved health issues. I have a billion appointments I have to attend to maybe figure out what is wrong with me. they will not let me back to work until I can "work without restrictions".

because of this I will be without money to cover my February rent. I need help. my roommates are already struggling.

https://www.paypal.me/awc0816

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idk where to start with this. recently at work I fainted. a workers compensation was filed but my claim was denied because nothing at work caused me to faint, it was my own unresolved health issues. I have a billion appointments I have to attend to maybe figure out what is wrong with me. they will not let me back to work until I can "work without restrictions".

because of this I will be without money to cover my February rent. I need help. my roommates are already struggling.

https://www.paypal.me/awc0816

0/400