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Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: (877) 565-8860 (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564

Trevor Project: Call (866) 488-7386, text START to 678-678, or chat online.

Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

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While we continue to donate to personal evacuation funds, I think it is crucial to keep in mind that these individuals as well as millions more in Gaza are currently actively in need of basic necessities like food, water, shelter, and medical care. Keeping this in mind, and recognising that there is no way to know when the border crossing with Egypt will reopen, I think our attention should also be on raising funds for organisations currently on the ground who will have the widest impact on the lives of Palestinians who are still enduring the genocide in Gaza.

Below are some verified donation links of organisations that are currently providing assistance for the people in Gaza directly:

Food, water, and shelter

Taawon has launched a campaign to provide support in Gaza through food parcels, shopping vouchers, fresh produce, water bottles and shelter tents.

Watermelon Relief is a project initiated and implemented by a group of activists in Gaza, who work to provide aid to displaced families in Gaza through meals, support and activities.

World Food Programme (WFP) managed to provide assistance to more than 1 million people in Gaza in May by delivering food in shelters, makeshift camps and shops.

Life for Gaza is an initiative through which the Municipality of Gaza aims to provide basic necessities for the people of Gaza such as water projects, waste collection and the reconstruction of roads.

Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN) is working to plant farmlands in Gaza through their "Revive Gaza Farmlands" project, through which they had already started planting vegetables, fruits and leafy greens in Gaza.

Purchasing eSIMs is one of the only remaining ways to keep Gazans connected with the outside world, to get their stories out or even enable them to call for help after Israeli strikes.

The Sameer Project is a donation based aid initiative that provides tents, cash aid, diapers and formula for displaced families in Gaza.

Care For Gaza is an organisation that works to provide essential aid such as food packages and cash to deliver to displaced families in Gaza.

Palestine Children's Relief Fund, through their "Gaza Relief and Recovery" campaign, plan to provide essential medical supplies and treatments, as well as food and clean water.

The UNRWA has an Emergency Appeal for Gaza, where donations will provide families in Gaza with lifesaving food and water, winter kits and to repair UNRWA shelters.

Mutual Aid for the People of Gaza is a fundraiser managed by Mona in Gaza, who personally purchases and distributes basic supplies including food parcels to families in Gaza.

Help Gaza Children is another grassroots effort operating on the ground in Gaza to support families with food, water and clothing.

Medical care

Palestinian Red Crescent has been on the ground in Palestine since 1968 as part of the Red Cross & Crescent movement. They have had a continuous presence on the ground in Gaza as the main source of medical care and assistance.

Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP) provides medical supplies and supports healthcare services in Gaza.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provide medical and humanitarian aid in Palestine and have had their teams on the ground operating from MSF-supported health facilities across Gaza.

Gaza Wound Care is a medical team in a tent in Nuseirat, providing care to children and supporting pregnant women.

Children Not Numbers is an NGO dedicated to providing medical care for the children in Gaza including delivery of medical aid and medical evacuation for children.

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art by the.gauntlets

Dr. Huda Abu Khater's Instagram

gofundme to help them

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vetted fundraisers from today. as always, please please continue to share and donate in whatever capacities you can. these families need our help.

july 3rd:

Dina, her husband, and their three young children, including one sick with hepatitis and a newborn ($2,235 CAD/$20,000 CAD) - @dina179, verified by @/ibtisams

Mohammed Ismaeel, his two younger sisters, and their parents (€2,093/€25,000) - @m0hammed1, verified by @/ibtisams

Basel Ayyad and his family of eight, including his sick daughter who needs urgent treatment to preserve her eyesight (CHF2,004/CHF60,000) - @basel-1995, #214 on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi's spreadsheet

Mohammed Al Manasra, his wife, and their three little children (Mohammed needs treatment for chronic respiratory illness) (€9,914/€40,000) - @save-mohammad-family, #192 on @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein's spreadsheet

Wafaa Alnhal's family of 15, including four children and a newborn (the family has lost multiple members already, including Wafaa's young niece) (€23,442/€50,000) - @wafs-posts, #171 on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi's spreadsheet

The Al Zaeem family of seven, including four children and their severely ill grandfather ($18,485 CAD/$50,000 CAD) - @malkzaeem, @yosofzaeem, verified by @/nabulsi

Firas Muhaisen's family of six (including three children), as well as he and his sister's medical education ($1,642 CAD/$82,000 CAD) - @hashemmuhesin, @firasmuhaisenn, @nisreenameen, verified by @/90-ghost

Muhammad Al-Habil, his chronically ill parents, his wife who also needs medical treatment, and their three young children (€8,220/€50,000) - @mohammedfamily11, @mohammedfamily123, verified by @/nabulsi

Alaa, her husband, and their two young children (Alaa is pregnant and urgently needs prenatal care; her daughter needs treatment for hepatitis) (€2,613/€20,000) - @alaakh9, verified by @/ibtisams

Siraj Abudayeh, his wife, and their three young children ($2,861 CAD/$82,000 CAD) - @siraj2024, #219 on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi's spreadsheet

not yet vetted:

Salahaldin Hor, his wife Sundus, and their three young daughters (€50/€40,000) - @salahaldinahmad

Mahmoud Al-Sharif, his pregnant wife Soha, and their three children ($157/$60,000) - @mahmoud-sharif

Mahmoud Nasr and his family of ten, including several children (€25/€3,000) - @mahmoudnaser98

just a few seconds or minutes taken on your end can make an immeasurably valuable difference. even if it doesn't feel like your contribution matters, do it anyway. whatever you can give is needed.

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A thread of Fundraiser of Congo and Sudan

Gfm to support Congolese non profits like focus Congo and Friends of the Congo

Help @/Godlessdyke's family escape Genocide

Another Gfm that supports friends of the Congo to help Congolese people and Children!

Help Leon, a Congolese refugee and his family

Help 4 Sudanese families

Support Rasheed's family journey to safety

Help Hiba's family

Support Isra's education in Egypt

Support for Sudanese Refugees in Cairo

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arab.org - clicks generate funds that go to gaza

gazaesims.com - purchase e-sim cards for gazans without internet

gofundme.com/f/careforgaza - sends funds to displaced families in gaza

piousprojects.org/campaign/2712 - provides hygiene kits for women/girls in gaza

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the regret has set in-

deleted all my cc (before)

will post my after, when i've collected enough or get tired

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deleted all my cc (before)

will post my after, when i've collected enough or get tired

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About this Blog: 🫒🍉

This blog's purpose is to engage in the conversation around the use of curseforge in the sims modding community and the company's support of Israel and the IDF. This is not a hate-blog, or meant to "cancel" creators. It is an open conversation and call-to-action for popular creators to remove their content from curseforge.

Curseforge, owned by the Israeli company Overwolf, posted a crowdfunding campaign for the IDF at the beginning of the siege on Gaza. They quickly removed it, but there is no reason to believe that they do not continue to support the IDF. The organization they partnered with to raise money for the victims of Oct 8th has Zionism as one of their core values. And in April they hosted the organization, Gvahim, who integrates new settlers into Israel's workforce. An active part of the ongoing colonization of Palestine.

Even besides all of this, the baseline of leaving curseforge is to divest in the Israeli economy while the war on Gaza rages on. An estimated 37,000 Palestinians have been cruelly murdered by Israel. (May, 2024) The number is predicted to be much higher.

Popular creators generate traffic and revenue for the site and contribute a large portion to the nearly 1 billion downloads in the Sims 4 category. Their choices do make a difference.

Providing alternative downloads is a good step, but it is not enough. If you are a modder or custom content creator, I urge you to take part in the mission to leave curseforge as a whole.

Actions: You may tag this blog, link this post, and respectfully request creators remove their content from curseforge on their posts. Don't download from curseforge. Threats, harassment, and antisemitism are not welcome on this blog and with this message. You are not helping by doing so.

Join me and divest from curseforge. PLEASE REBLOG THIS POST. #divest from curseforge

Large creators still on curseforge as of June, 12th, 2024 (incomplete): @lotharihoe @littlemssam @deaderpoolmc @twistedmexi @plumlace @mizoreyukii @pandasamacc @brazenlotus @icemunmun-spicy-scalpel @somik-severinka @andirz-mods @simrealist @northernsiberiawinds @bosseladytv @littlbowbub plus others not on Tumblr: @basemental @kuttoe @lot51 @turbodriver @lumpinou

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Donate to victims of Brazil floods from abroad

Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, a state the size of Ecuador, has been devastated by historic floods, with most of its 497 municipalities in a state of public calamity. Authorities have described the crisis as “war-like” and consider it the state’s worst crisis caused by natural disasters ever.

Roughly 200,000 people were forced out of their homes, according to state officials. The death toll, which has been growing fast, is inching closer to the mark of 100 — and there are still more than 130 people missing.

A series of public and private initiatives are collecting donations in order to mitigate the devastating effects of the crisis. Post offices in the states of São Paulo and Paraná, as well as some in Rio Grande do Sul, for example, offered to collect and transport donations free of charge.

Continue reading.

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Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul is currently flooded

I don't make these kinds of posts, but Rio Grande do Sul (a brazilian estate) is going through its worst natural catastrophe in recorded history and I need everyone to know about this. Its currently looking like this:

What is going on

Most of Brazil suffers from yearly floods during the rain season. These floods most of the time aren't bad, with water going away a few hours later. Sometimes they are a nightmare, with people losing their homes and most if not all belongings. But this?

This is not fucking normal.

Currently (May 6th, 2024) there's +80 confirmed deaths and 873 thousand people are being affected by these historical floods. Eight hundred and seventy three THOUSAND people. Once again: THIS. IS. NOT. NORMAL.

Rio Grande has 496 cities, and currently, 364 are reporting problems related to this. It's almost the entirety of Rio Grande - and you know how big Rio Grande is? If you're from the USA, its just a bit bigger than Colorado, and just a bit smaller than Nevada. If you are European, Rio Grande is bigger than the United Kingdom. Can you imagine if almost the entirety of the UK was underwater? Because I sure fucking can just by watching brazilian news!

Rio Grande expects floods. It rains a lot in Brazil. What no one expect is having to deal with 2,30 meters - 7'7 feet for reference - ABOVE the expected flooding level, which is 3 meters (9'10 feet). This means that there were 5,26 meters (17'3 ft) of water. Chart for comparison:

I live in São Paulo, which is completely unaffected by what is going on over there, but I need people to be aware of this. Why?

How YOU can help

A single US dollar is almost five reais. One euro is around 5,50. This may not be much to a lot of people reading this, but literally anything helps. If you donate U$10, it's R$50 for us. If it's euros, then it's R$55,00.

If you can't donate, please just reblog this post.

INTERNATIONAL DONATIONS INFO

If you use euros, here's the donation info:

Standard Chartered Bank Frankfurt Bank

Swift: SCBLDEFX

Bank Account: 007358304

If you use dollars, here's the donation info:

Standard Chartered Bank New York Bank

Swift: SCBLUS33

Bank Account: 3544032986001

You need to inform this in order to donate:

IBAN Code: BR5392702067001000645423206C1

Name: Associação dos Bancos no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul

CNPJ: 92.958.800/0001-38

NATIONAL DONATIONS INFO

If you're brazilian, oi, aqui tá o Pix do canal SOS Rio Grande do Sul para você ajudar:

Pix: CNPJ: 92.958.800/0001-38 Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul ou Associação dos Bancos no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul

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just an angsty vampire

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hello! 

i’m prim (she/her) im not really new, ive been lurking for years collecting cc so ive finally decided to do an introduction. i will mostly be posting cas stuff, edits of my sims, and maybe some casual gameplay. i’m mostly maxis match and i do have a cc finds tumblr and some other socials in case you wanna follow me there. 

if you want to be mutuals feel free to like/reblog :)