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if you donate money to ao3 but refuse to bother with gazans' gfms you should be aware of the fact that you're a walking talking piece of shit

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With the blockade imposed by Israel, it is extremely important to support grassroots organizations. They provide aid to multiple families on the ground. The Sameer Project is one organization. It is led by 4 Palestinians in the diaspora and Gazans are risking their lives while distributing the aid to ensure families are accommodated.

The Sameer Project provides food and shelter. As you know, the rainy season is persistent and many families have been displaced by the sea. The high tide has caused many to lose their tents, the only shelter they have. So please donate to the Sameer Project! With your support, they can branch out to families across the Strip!

Here is their Linktree, which also includes Venmo and PayPal.

South Gaza Aid:

Refaat Alareer Camp Aid:

North and Central Gaza Aid:

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They need more funds now and it's rather urgent

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You may remember me spotlighting the Mawasi Al-Qarara Mutual Aid Project (MAQMAP) in the past. MAQMAP is now Relief for Rafah (R4R), as the organisers and inhabitants of the camp return to their homes across Gaza.

Relief for Rafah needs funding to provide clean drinking water, food, and cash assistance to families in the Al-Genina District of Rafah. Despite the ceasefire, the aid entering the strip is not meeting the needs of the Palestinians in Rafah. Clean drinking water is desperately needed as well as edible food. Not to mention, the level of displacement remains high, with many families returning to piles of rubble. We aim to step in where the international aid organizations aren't. By donating, you are helping us sustain dignity, life, and love within the community. Your contributions will go to providing food, water, and basic life neccesities. Please help in rebuilding the lives that were destroyed by supporting and sharing our work.

I am personally organising bank transfers for this organisation and have been in personal contact with the organisers for some time. I can assure you that your donations are doing important work in Rafah.

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This holiday season, please consider supporting Dahnoun Mutual Aid’s campaign to provide winter clothes and blankets in Gaza. Dahnoun is a Gazawi-run grassroots initiative that has been providing thousands of people in multiple areas of Gaza with water, food, baby milk, diapers, tents, and other supplies since July. With your donations, they are able to buy blankets and clothes in bulk at a reduced price and give them out at no cost to people sheltering in displacement camps. Their Chuffed campaign is linked above, and you can find their Venmo and Paypal in addition to documentation of the past several months’ aid initiatives on Instagram. The blankets and clothes fundraiser is detailed in a recent post: instagram.com/dahnounmutualaid

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look this is getting nowhere how about we just agree to disa- *remembers I should exploit any possible situation to my advantage* if you don't take me to the Monterey bay aquarium I'm going to start screaming

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i have both "i said what i said" and "who said that" guiding me on each side of my shoulders at all times

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If you're also frustrated with how only people lucky enough to get traction on a tiny microblogging platform can afford to eat and reestablish their lives, then PLEASE donate to The Sameer Project. This is a legitimate, grassroots organization providing vital aid in the form of food, tents, money, medicine, diapers and baby supplies directly to as many Palestinians as possible, regardless of internet clout. They can buy supplies in bulk and give them systematically to those most in need. Right now, they're this much funded:

Let's please raise the full amount? https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need Apologies for tagging.

@anneemay @mesetacadre @molsno @zitongzi @timetravellingkitty @txttletale @killy @ajloun @tamamita @rin-tezuka @lambdadeltatankie @communist-ojou-sama @papasmoke @apas-95 @northgazaupdates @northgazaupdates2 @chexcastro @knxfesck @sylvia-on-the-run @alien-in-the-mirror @trans-lunarinjection @melody-magic @plaidos

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esims are low again. check out connecting humanity for more information on directly sending esims or for a linked to crips for esims for gaza's fundraising. you can also set up a recurring donation on chuffed for esims. i have a weekly donation here because being able to keep as many people as possible connected to the rest of the world is critical for documenting the situation and allowing individuals to continue their own grassroots fundraising/organizing

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getting “desire is the root of all suffering”, “it is what it is” and “it’s out of my control” tattooed onto my forehead

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Cute date idea

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goddddddd i feel so fucking stupid all the time i feel like that meme of the ogre reading joyce

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you ever think about how in july 2022 the then-covid response coordinator ashish jha said "this virus is going to be with us forever" and white house press secretary karine jean-pierre said "almost everyone is going to get covid" but the main thing to remember is of course "we have the tools to ensure that people can go about their daily life and work" and then biden said in september 2022 that "the pandemic is over. we still have a problem with covid. we're still doing a lotta work on it. but the pandemic is over. if you notice, no one's wearing masks. everybody seems to be in pretty good shape" and then in january 2023 said about the over 1 million people who had died of covid at that point "i sometimes underestimate it because i stopped thinking about it, but i'm sure you don't" and then anthony fauci in august 2023 talked about how new spikes in cases should not cause too much alarm because only "the vulnerable will fall by the wayside, they'll get infected, they'll get hospitalized, and some will die" and most others will only get moderately ill (this is after the cdc director rochelle walensky said in january 2022 that "the overwhelming number of deaths … occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities, so really these are people who are unwell to begin with" and that is "really encouraging news"). and of course do you ever think about how now in 2024, the DNC this year turned into a superspreader event even as they boasted on the floor about how four years ago under trump this would have been a superspreader event but it's so great that the government's taking such great care of us and it's great to not need any precautions like masking anymore so everyone can breathe freely and see everyone's smiling faces, and the DNC "play[ed a] montage of Trump botching his COVID response, causing economic catastrophe and leading to over a million deaths" and the kamalahq twitter account only ever mentions covid to talk about how trump botched it and over a million americans died even though over 800,000 of the 1.2 million total deaths happened under biden (he led a memorial for the first 400k that died under trump the night before his inauguration) and her "issues" page that she finally put up on her website makes no mention of continued covid mitigation or public health wrt infectious disease at all, and all the dems care to say about it beyond trump's failures is not to claim that covid is no longer killing people (because that is objectively provably false) but that it "no longer controls our lives" because that's what matters. we believe it's over, we stop thinking about it, we no longer wear masks, we go to big raucous events with no mitigations in place (we get sick when we get home), so it must be over. it's over but it'll be with us forever. it's just going to be like this, forever. but it's okay, because it doesn't "control our lives" and the people who allow it to "control their lives" by killing or disabling them were mostly "unwell to begin with"

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Hello. I've seen some of your pists about Gaza. I'm unable to send money at the moment but I'd like to still help. How can I help? I was planning to reblog the link for the foundraiser but couldn't find it.

Thank you!

Hi! I am not sure which fundraiser you were trying to find so I will promote my friend Mohammed's. He has until Tuesday before his campaign organiser starts the next money transfer, so we're trying to raise as much as we can before then so it reaches his family ASAP!

As to your main question, I'm presuming you're asking specifically how to help with personal fundraisers (as opposed to, joining an organisation or activist group, which I would also recommend where possible). Here are a few ways you can help even when you are short on money yourself:

1. Boost and promote campaigns. Even having one person pay attention and post updates can help keep a campaign from entirely stagnating. Especially if you have a low follower count, you will want to use the tagging function to get some bigger blogs to reblog your posts and updates. It feels awkward but it can be a genuine lifeline for the person whose campaign might be going slowly or slipping through the cracks.

2. Consider 'spotlighting' a specific campaign. This is a great guide from @/feluka on how to do that. You might have seen me doing it with Mohammed's campaign and a few others. This involves keeping up with the campaign more closely and probably writing more of your own posts. It takes some time and effort but again, it can be invaluable for the person on the other end.

3. Even if you can't donate yourself, consider putting together a raffle, auction, or commission opportunity that can incentivise other people to donate. Visual art (digital or physical) is a common prize/commission I see offered on here; there are also raffles for handmade or rare items such as plushies, cross-stitch, hand-sewn clothing, knitted items, limited-edition books, fancy journals, writing requests, etc. Anything you can make, someone might be interested in. If you need help boosting a post about a raffle or commission, tag some users who reblog fundraisers! You can also send that kind of post to me and I will happily boost it for you :-)

4. Consider reaching out to anyone you see promoting a slow or stagnant campaign if you have the kinds of artistic or graphic design skills to create artwork or graphics for them to use. Visual aids, banners, etc can make a huge difference when you're trying to get people to read a post and click through to a donation link. Or, if you can't make graphics, could you learn how to write accessible image descriptions for any that you see, and offer to do that? It's easy for people promoting a campaign to get overwhelmed by alt text and image descriptions when a post might involve numerous visual elements, time-sensitive updates, and an urgent need for donations as soon as possible.

5. Some people contribute to Gazan fundraisers by raising the donation money through irl events like bakesales or charity drives. These may take a little more effort or upfront materials costs to set up, but they can also be a great opportunity to spread the word and connect with other people. If you have local activist groups or parties, this might be a good time to reach out to them and see if they can help facilitate such an event.

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I love how every week in post-episode interviews, jacob anderson is just chilling and pondering louis’ precarious psyche and being like ‘oh louis is so fucked up. that man is Not well, can you believe how unwell he is??’ while assad zaman kinda looks like he’s been up all night trying to absorb armand into his soul and he’s like ‘armand is a little scheming bitch, he’s always scheming and planning and also he’s lonely. but mostly scheming’ and then every once in a while a wild sam reid appears and he goes ��btw whatever they’re telling you about lestat, they’re lying and my close personal friend lestat de lioncourt is NOT happy about it’