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I totally get the crusader kings fan thing now I think. Perfect game for a guy like me who loves strategy games and also insane drama

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If you want to help and make a difference to others today, why not donate to Ibrahim Aburakhia @aburakhiaibrahim and his family? They are a family of 28 people living in Ghazzah. They've lived through nearly two years of genocidal war. They are currently suffering from extreme hunger and are in danger of starvation.

Ibrahim and his family need funds to afford the high prices for food, but donations keep stopping, often for days on end. They can't afford for this to continue.

Please, share and donate, help the Aburakhias get food! By donating and sharing their campaign, you can help them survive!

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Donate to the Aburakhia's campaign here

Send them money more directly here

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I challenge you to see something like this before.⛔️🚨

I just want the price of a bag of flour.

I saw it with my own eyes and received no flour or aid.

Please save my children from death and hunger. Donate.😭🙏

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URGENT!! $900 NEEDED QUICK TO SAVE A BABY!!

@a00h3 are my friends. They live in Gaza, under the famine and genocide. Their baby has cancer; we need $900 before next week to pay for expensive medication to save his life. Please, I'm begging you, donate to help the baby live!!

Their account is vetted by @90-ghost , @gazavetters (#576) , and @bilal-salah0. Gofundme takes too long, you can dm @a00h3 if you want to confirm that paypal goes to them. Please help.

When you donate, please don't mention Raneen or Ahmed Hammad in the paypal message. PayPal is racially profiling and it is retaining all money that accompanies those names. PLEASE HELP MY FRIENDS SURVIVE THIS INJUSTICE!!

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Ceasefire in Gaza 🚫🤚❗

In a humble neighborhood, a family is struggling to meet their daily needs. 💔😭The father lost his source of income, and finding a new job has become a challenge in these difficult times. 💔😭The mother does her best to manage with what little they have, but resources are running low. Their young child needs food and diapers every day, making their situation even harder.😭

Vetted link

Please help my family

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samah @ammar-family24 was neighbours with an elderly man who was kind enough to provide her with transport in his car and share food that he bought with her and her baby, without asking for anything at all in return

unfortunately, this man was martyred just a few days ago and samah is now without anyone who is willing to help her with this

this is a big problem as ammar requires 4 cartons of milk and 1 pack of diapers per week. one carton of milk now costs $110 $150 in gaza, and 1 pack of diapers costs $170

this means altogether, ammar would need $610 $770 per week for these daily needs

this sounds like a relatively manageable amount, but unfortunately all merchants currently take all of payments in physical cash, and the people who change paypal money into physical cash demand a 48% 55% fee

between this, a 25% 30% paypal fee, and a 5% ko-fi fee, the end amount we end up needing to send to samah is $1623 $2079 $2401 $2577 instead. please do what you can to help keep ammar fed as well

samah’s original campaign and account are shared by 90-ghost, but it was shut down as her organiser’s bank account was deactivated

proof samah asked me to use my paypal / ko-fi account here - this is the second one i have made. i have also attached a screenshot proving that i checked with her that it'd be okay to use another ko-fi i made under the cut

$0 / $2577

1 carton of milk will require us to raise $297 $405 $468 $502 after fees 1 bag of diapers will require us to raise $459 $531 $569 after fees half a bag of diapers will require us to raise $230 $263 after fees

merchants no longer accept buying half a bag of diapers, only one full bag

please consider these as mid-way points or temporary goals for this

let me know for ping removal

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News: *A pressing incident is happening in a country*

Everyone: *Talks about it*

Someone (most likely a liberal): "What about this other country? Where is the energy for them? Aren't they suffering, too?"

Me: *Checks to see if they are advocating for so-and-so*

Someone: *Has one (1) or two (2) text post about it and a fundraiser*

Me: Oh. 🙂

I am seeing this kind of energy all the time now. Someone complains about a country does not any attention (and do you know why?), but they would do the bare minimum, or nothing at all. If you want people to know, then keep talking about it. Mobilize and organize. Nothing will be achieved if you sit down and whine.

In fact, did you know there is a genocide taking place in Democratic Republic of Congo? It is wealthy in natural resources, such as cobalt, a metal found in lithium batteries. It fuels our electronics. Rebels groups, such as M23 who are backed by Rwanda, are fighting over it in the East, violating ceasefire, and inflicting extreme violence as well as famine on the civilians! So please make some noise for DR Congo! Boycott the latest gadgets from tech companies, donate to fundraisers and organizations, and protest!

Consider helping out Barnabé! He is a student who is going through loss of his mother, his only family member, and he has been suffering from kidney failure over the past 3 years! He is all alone, and he needs a transplant as soon as soon possible! Please donate and share. You can match me. I have given €10, but you're more than welcome to contribute any amount!

Verification: His fundraiser is set up and vetted by Agissons Ensemble, a grassroots organization in Goma, DR Congo. They provide aid and support to displaced families on the ground. Check out their link.tree!

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i know people are tired of me & my situation, just by the fact of notes on my dono posts not leading to goals being met anymore. im sorry. i simply am trying to stay housed & keep everything somewhat afloat so i can eventually leave with more than just the clothes on my back & whatever fits in my bag. my situation is only getting more dangerous as my family take bills being not paid out on me. im exhausted & hurting all the time. ive been trying to get my cat vet care for fucking months. both rent & storage are past due. my mother is refusing to try & see if we qualify for snap again & the gov says she has to be the one to handle it. i physically cant do commissions fast enough to keep my head above water. especially during the heat & not having otc pain meds for flares. im so fucking stressed. my skin is peeling, my mouth is rotting, my hair is greying & falling out. i just want to survive. past rent due by 8/13 (8pm PST) & is $440. normal weekly rent due 8/14 & is $374. storage now $142. please.

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this started pissing me off so im calling it done. woe. post canon dabi be upon ye

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Anti-fatness has always been about white supremacy.

The ideal thin body was constructed as a marker of whiteness and “purity” before any of this was ever made to be about health. Dr. Sabrina Strings has spent her career studying this history. In her book, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Dr. Strings discusses how constructions of race led to the thin ideal.

“Over the decades, the rise in biracial children would break down the way that slave owners saw Blackness and whiteness. To combat the hypocrisy they created, owners invented new ways to dehumanize the enslaved population. They made a calculated decision to start putting more value on white physiques versus Black ones. In her research, Strings found that Black women’s bodies were otherized even more than Black males. For colonizers who hadn’t seen diverse body types before, they quickly categorized the Black female figure as ‘deviant,’ ‘greedy,’ and ‘overtly sexual.’ The fact that we still use these terms to describe fat bodies today is all the evidence we need to understand that fatphobia is directly linked to racism, not health. This mindset was also strengthened by Protestantism. Slave owners looked for any way to prove their power over the enslaved people, and they frequently used religion as ‘proof’ of their racist superiority. Additionally, Protestant belief encouraged various ways to become closer to God, which included eating as little as possible. This would resonate the most with white women. They had as much to do with perpetuating fatphobia as their husbands. White women were desperate to show their own power against Black women on the plantation, and the difference between their bodies was the perfect rift. And so began the centuries-old belief that thinness is beautiful, and fatness is ugly” (Sassenrath, 2023).

The BMI was created in the 1800s by a statistician named Adolphe Quetelet, who did not study medicine, to gather statistics of the average height and weight of specifically white, European, upper-middle-class men to assist the government in allocating resources. It was never intended as a measure of individual body fat, build, or health (Karasu, 2016). Quetelet is also credited with founding the field of anthropometry, including the racist pseudoscience of phrenology. Quetelet’s L’homme Moyen would be used as a measurement of fitness to inspire, and as a scientific justification, for eugenics (Eugenics archive).

Now Trump is launching a new private health AI tracking system to "help the nation lose weight."

"Your body belongs to the nation! Your body belongs to the Führer! You have the duty to be healthy! Food is not a private matter!"

These were Nazi slogans (referenced in The Nazi War on Cancer, Robert N. Proctor, p 120).

If you want to fight against fascism, you must get behind fat liberation.

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‼️‼️EXTREMELY URGENT UPDATE‼️‼️

Mohammed Al-Habil has been severely injured by IOF tank fire! His hand was struck by a tank round and there is shrapnel in his chest!! He is at Al-Shifa Hospital and URGENTLY NEEDS €2000 EUR FOR LIFE-SAVING SURGERY!!

His family is terrified of losing yet another loved one!! Please help them save his life!!

Current: €23,047 out of €25,047 EUR

Need to raise: €2000 EUR (about $2,340)

Find Mohammed’s full story here

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Please buy my prints 🥺

I have three jobs that are all unstable. I live in complete poverty as a sole provider to a family of three in the global south. I am on maintenance medicine for hypocalcemia, type II diabetes and hypothyroidism for the rest of my life. My mother is a full time wheelchair user with very low movement, my father is managing a chronic kidney disease, and my sister is autistic with a low frustration threshold. I am their sole provider, and now dealing with nerve damage post surgery- a quarter of my face, and nearly my entire neck has not healed properly- its numb and painful and makes it hard to work for me as it limits my own movement somewhat. If you've ever taken joy from my art or little posts, I would love your help. I am grateful for this second chance at life, I would like to stay healthy and keep living. Thank you so much!

More than 400 exclusive / early access drawings on my patreon!

If you would like for me to bypass the immense fees on inprnt and patreon and would just like to send me a direct tip, It would mean the whole entire world to me!!

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I was having fun yesterday, just last night, with my mom and sister, and now everything is absolute hell. My mom almost died. She was completely unresponsive; I had to try to give her CPR until the EMTs arrived, and when they did, we all had to see a group of them trying their best to keep her alive, to keep her heart beating. Now, here we are in the hospital waiting to see if she's gonna be okay. I don't know what I'll do if she doesn't make it.

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Urgent relocation for the Balla family!

Current progress: $381/680 AUD

Vetting information: shared by Sara (bsonblast) and was promoted by Jin (jinforjustice) on ig

Adel Balla and his family were displaced from their home in Khartoum and are now trapped in Omdurman, where their situation has become dire. They live under intense shelling in the crossfire of the SAF and RSF with limited access to electricity, food, and water. They have been trying to gather the resources to afford travel to relocate to a safer area since late January, but they still do not have the funds they need.

$299 is needed to achieve the short term goal for their relocation. Please share and donate if you can so they can finally get someplace safer. The family's campaign has been stagnant for 4 days now, and that is time they do not have.

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The rate of extraction from the global south is truly enormous

Bananas grow by the millions of pounds, farmed by people paid cents on the hour, transported on trucks whose drivers are paid the same, loaded onto boats whose crews are paid in dollars per day, unloaded at an american port and driven by a rent-to-own trucker to a distribution center where a minimum wage worker labels and ships them to a store where another minimum wage worker stocks them for a dollar a pound. This is imperialism at work on a scale you can visibly see at every produce section at every grocery store in the usa

If you add up all the costs, the highest is first world labor. The labor of the toiling masses which happen before reaching american shores are nearly imperceptible compared to the wages paid to the american warehouse worker or grocery store worker. And yet, even those wages are nothing compared to the total profit extracted from this trade.

This same pattern repeats itself over and over again in every industry. These commodities end up in the first world to prop up their highly constructed and built by genocide and blood political-economy.

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Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

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You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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