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Hello‼️ 🍉🍉🍉

I hope you are well.

Could you help me reblog the post my account and share my story with friends with a big heart and soul. I really need help in this fierce battle for Life in Gaza!,

I hope you can support for donating any amount you can and stand by me at the beginning in this difficult time. ♥️

Thank you for every kind gesture and thought of yours.🙏

Hi, It took a few seconds of searching, but I found the fundraiser campaign that you ripped off for your scam post.

I will be sharing Manuel Fajardo's fundraiser instead.

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Hi everyone

My name smeer

I have 3 sons one of thim in Cairo now he studies medicine

Inshallah he will be a doctor

Now I can't send money for him to complete his study

I live in north of gaza I don't need anything expect support my son

He maked campaign for him please help him for his study and his living 🙏

Thank you for everything ❤️

https://gofund.me/db622b3a

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Lovely supporter, I hope this message finds you and your family in good health and high spirits. This is Eman Zaqout a Biotechnologist and PhD student from Gaza. I've started a fundraising campaign and urgently need your help to spread it to the world, after losing my house and my job in the genocide in Gaza and living in a life that you can't bear watch it behind screens. I hope you can take a look at my campaign on the pinned post on my profile, and help us by donating or sharing our campaign to reach the largest number of supporters. Thank you for your continuous help for the Palestinian cause until freedom is achieved. Please know that our campaign is verified by @90-ghost, @aces-and-angels

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Hello there, 👋

I am Tamer Aldeeb, a dentist from Gaza.

We have suffered greatly from fear, displacement, and the destruction of our home and my clinic, and everything we literally own...

We want to save ourselves from what seems like an inevitable death.

I hope you can take a look at my campaign on the pinned post on my profile ,and help us by donating or sharing our campaign to reach the largest number of supporters.🌹🌹

Our campaign is verified by @90-ghost , @ibtisams , @el-shab-hussein , @nabulsi and @fairuzfan 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Thanks a lot in advance ❤️❤️❤️

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For this Disability Pride Month, I saw a post that was shittybad and it made me angry. So have this

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A general cane guide for writers and artists (from a cane user, writer, and artist!)

Disclaimer: Though I have been using a cane for 6 years, I am not a doctor, nor am I by any means an expert. This guide is true to my experience, but there are as many ways to use a cane as there are cane users!

This guide will not include: White canes for blindness, crutches, walkers, or wheelchairs as I have no personal experience with these.

This is meant to be a general guide to get you started and avoid some common mishaps/misconceptions, but you absolutely should continue to do your own research outside of this guide!

The biggest recurring problem I've seen is using the cane on the wrong side. The cane goes on the opposite side of the pain! If your character has even-sided pain or needs it for balance/weakness, then use the cane in the non-dominant hand to keep the dominant hand free. Some cane users also switch sides to give their arm a rest!

A cane takes about 20% of your weight off the opposite leg. It should fit within your natural gait and become something of an extension of your body. If you need more weight off than 20%, then crutches, a walker, or a wheelchair is needed.

Putting more pressure on the cane, using it on the wrong side, or having it at the wrong height will make it less effective, and can cause long term damage to your body from improper pressure and posture. (Hugh Laurie genuinely hurt his body from years of using a cane wrong on House!)

(an animated GIF of a cane matching the natural walking gait. It turns red when pressure is placed on it.)

When going up and down stairs, there is an ideal standard: You want to use the handrail and the cane at the same time, or prioritize the handrail if it's only on one side. When going up stairs you lead with your good leg and follow with the cane and hurt leg together. When going down stairs you lead with the cane, then the good leg, and THEN the leg that needs help.

Realistically though, many people don't move out of the way for cane users to access the railing, many stairs don't have railings, and many are wet, rusty, or generally not ideal to grip.

In these cases, if you have a friend nearby, holding on to them is a good idea. Or, take it one step at a time carefully if you're alone.

Now we come to a very common mistake I see... Using fashion canes for medical use!

(These are 4 broad shapes, but there is INCREDIBLE variation in cane handles. Research heavily what will be best for your character's specific needs!)

The handle is the contact point for all the weight you're putting on your cane, and that pressure is being put onto your hand, wrist, and shoulder. So the shape is very important for long term use!

Knob handles (and very decorative handles) are not used for medical use for this reason. It adds extra stress to the body and can damage your hand to put constant pressure onto these painful shapes.

The weight of a cane is also incredibly important, as a heavier cane will cause wear on your body much faster. When you're using it all day, it gets heavy fast! If your character struggles with weakness, then they won't want a heavy cane if they can help it!

This is also part of why sword canes aren't usually very viable for medical use (along with them usually being knob handles) is that swords are extra weight!

However, a small knife or perhaps a retractable blade hidden within the base might be viable even for weak characters.

Bases have a lot of variability as well, and the modern standard is generally adjustable bases. Adjustable canes are very handy if your character regularly changes shoe height, for instance (gotta keep the height at your hip!)

Canes help on most terrain with their standard base and structure. But for some terrain, you might want a different base, or to forego the cane entirely! This article covers it pretty well.

Many cane users decorate their canes! Stickers are incredibly common, and painting canes is relatively common as well! You'll also see people replacing the standard wrist strap with a personalized one, or even adding a small charm to the ring the strap connects to. (nothing too large, or it gets annoying as the cane is swinging around everywhere)

(my canes, for reference)

If your character uses a cane full time, then they might also have multiple canes that look different aesthetically to match their outfits!

When it comes to practical things outside of the cane, you reasonably only have one hand available while it's being used. Many people will hook their cane onto their arm or let it dangle on the strap (if they have one) while using their cane arm, but it's often significantly less convenient than 2 hands. But, if you need 2 hands, then it's either setting the cane down or letting it hang!

For this reason, optimizing one handed use is ideal! Keeping bags/items on the side of your free hand helps keep your items accessible.

When sitting, the cane either leans against a wall or table, goes under the chair, or hooks onto the back of the chair. (It often falls when hanging off of a chair, in my experience)

When getting up, the user will either use their cane to help them balance/support as they stand, or get up and then grab their cane. This depends on what it's being used for (balance vs pain when walking, for instance!)

That's everything I can think of for now. Thank you for reading my long-but-absolutely-not-comprehensive list of things to keep in mind when writing or drawing a cane user!

Happy disability pride month! Go forth and make more characters use canes!!!

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HAPPY PRIDE!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

How much more IRL poker face do I have left in me?? Find out on the next episode of dragonball

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it's facial equality week with changing faces because obviously no such thing exists anywhere else. nonetheless, i have a lot of thoughts

growing up i did not know i looked different. i didn't understand the way the other kids bullied me, i didn't know what it meant when they hit their hands against their chests, or that they were making fun of the way i walked. i didn't even realize until yesterday when the thoughts "someone thinks peter falk's eye makes him look menacing" "i always get treated like i'm norman bates" and "the other kids called me demon and said i looked like a serial killer" all crossed my mind at the same time and i connected it to a selfie i recently took where my eyes are shadowed, because they're sunken, and my right eye is partially rolled back, which makes me look like i'm glaring

my childhood friend recently said "you just always look sad", and i think when my mouth is slack, and especially when both of my eyes cross, i look dazed. when i saw myself in a mask in the bathroom, for some reason it made me look like i was mocking. this is just my face but nobody thinks that, so

then, yesterday i was thinking about how my parents have x symptoms like i do, and in fact they're much louder with their cruelty and insensitivity and anger, they make fun of everyone, but i'm the only one who's treated like i'm deceitful, manipulative, and "superficially charming" by authority figures. and then i remembered that my eyes shadow and my eye rolls back, and i have flat affect, and my face is potentially partially paralyzed on the left side, because i often only blink my right eye and talk out of the right corner of my mouth. oh. they treat me like that because i'm visibly different. i don't express emotions. i stammer. my body language is either flat or nervous, even though i'm not nervous, abled people just think shaking your leg or rocking back and forth means you're guilty. what are you guilty of? uh, everything. lying about vulnerability, emotions, trauma. they think you're completely empty and you just want people to think you're a compassionate, polite person so you can roll them around in your hand like clay. patrick bateman norman bates hannibal lecter

i think about all the adults when i was little who thought i was a mustache twirling villain who was only pretending to be frail and sickly to take everything all the hard working able bodied people deserved more than me. i don't really understand how you can look at a child and just think the absolute worst of them, yet i had so many fucking adults do it to me. they don't see me as a person. they see me as an npc who only exists to make their life harder. they're the hero, i'm the villain

interestingly i never really saw genuine superhero comic villains in media who looked or moved like me, it was mostly in crime shows, namely criminal minds. i don't care how autistic reid is. i absolutely cannot stand how many stammering, eye contact averting, wrist drop having mostly fat people the show turned into either a stalker or an actual serial killer, and then on top of that the cops who interrogated them would often do so until they had like an actual meltdown and it was supposed to make you even more suspicious of them and lmao didn't i fucking see that from my teachers when they harassed either me or some other visibly disabled kid in school. it was like, no matter what, we can only have ill intentions. we're not real people

also saw a fucking weird amount of antagonists in power chairs growing up to the point i am afraid to use one because if abled people already treat me like i have everyone wrapped around my finger, then how are they going to treat me if i'm rolling around in what they see as a throne and not someone's fucking legs

because visible difference has historically been seen as a punishment for internal evil, or as a marker for it, which is why my FACE and my body are a kick me sign to abled people and there's nothing i can do about it

there's a lot more i can say about this. there's so so so fucking much more i could say about this. but my brain just scrubbed itself, so whatever

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trans women are everywhere and are so eager to be seen and heard but only if they feel safe around you. if you hardly ever have trans women interacting with you, especially online, then consider there might be a reason for that and you should address it

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do you ever think some people would prefer a world where theyre insulated from all disagreement?

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Health

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lahore pigeons are some of the most visually appealing birds out there. like in terms of visual design. very minimalist, good contrast.

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“So, I’m on a plane today. Here’s what I did to prepare to fly as a very fat person. (Thread.)” by @yrfatfriend

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I brought my own seatbelt extender, so I wouldn’t have to ask for one. Sometimes my extender is confiscated by the TSA. Today it wasn’t. I’m not worried about the embarrassment of asking for a seatbelt extender. I know I’m fat. I’m worried that hearing me ask for an extender will prompt others to complain. If they do, it starts a domino effect of trouble for me. Passengers complaining to flight attendants will get me reseated, charged double, or escorted off the plane, stranded without a way home.

Over the last 2 yrs, about 50% of passengers in my row complained about me. So, my body is regularly discussed in my presence w/o my input. Some policies don’t include a refund or rebooking policy. So I could be out $1300 & still stranded. That’s a risk I take every time I fly. And no matter what happens, if someone complains, my body will be discussed loudly, with open revulsion, without regard for who hears it. As a very fat person on a plane, I am treated like luggage–a cumbersome, exasperating inconvenience. Inanimate & unfeeling.

I also checked my bag so I wouldn’t give any other passengers another reason to be irritated with me. I bought a first class tickets bc they’re a bit wider, but mostly because there are partitions between seats. So complaints are less likely.

Although I bought a first class ticket, and despite being ~60 lbs smaller than I used to be, the tray table doesn’t fit around me. Without a tray table, I can’t work for the full six hours. I also won’t be able to eat the first class meal that comes with the ticket. I also won’t request anything so the flight attendant doesn’t have to reach over me, again prompting my seat mate to complain.

So I’ll sit silently, arms crossed, so I don’t encroach on my neighbor’s space.

Today, I was lucky–I boarded & the flight took off without incident. I hope I’m so lucky on my return flight. No one likes flying. It’s not comfortable for anyone. But for some of us, it’s a major physical, financial & emotional risk.

And this isn’t about emotional fragility. I’m vulnerable, but I’m tough. This is about airline policies, and about what happens when others decide to make an issue of my body.

I was complained about for the first time about six years ago. I will never forget it. I was on an oversold flight, moved to a middle seat. The man sitting next to me became increasingly agitated. I said hello, asked how he was. He didn’t respond. He got up several times to talk to a flight attendant, pointing angrily back at me. My stomach sunk as I realized what was happening. When he returned, he gathered his things and said sharply, “this is for your comfort. It’ll be better for both of us.” The FA looked at him blankly and said “no it’s not. Someone else will be sitting here.” He scowled at her, then me, then moved to his new seat–directly in front of me.

I spent the rest of the flight with my arms & legs crossed, humiliated and alone. No one spoke to me or made eye contact. The flight attendant didn’t speak to me, but gave free food and drinks to the others in my row–rewards for tolerating my presence. No one said anything. No one interrupted him or reached out to me. I was invisible.

At the end of the flight, as we filed into the aisle, the man who asked to be reseated spoke to me. “I wouldn’t do that to someone who was pregnant or in a wheelchair,” he said. “I know,” I said. “That’s what makes this so awful.”

I didn’t fly for a year and a half after that. Refused travel for work, didn’t see my family, only traveled where I could drive.

I fly now because I love my family, who live about a thousand miles away. I don’t know what my life would be without my niece & nephew. I fly because I value my job, & I’m good at it. & bc advancing my career means traveling. People bigger than me may not have that option. I fly because my life is my own, and others’ preconceptions of me & my body won’t control it. But they can make it much, much harder.

If you learned something from this thread/think others might, please RT. It would genuinely help if others knew where their complaints lead.

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