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Save a child please 🙏

My brother is dying in the tent

Donate and save an innocent child

Please everyone, my brother who is suffering from a chest disease 🤢 who can't breathe very well and we need money to save his life

Donation here please 👇👇

https://gofund.me/0c794400

https://gofund.me/0c794400

Life in tents is very difficult. We suffer from diseases, insects and sewage water. I hope you all donate. Even a little To save the life of an innocent human being and child

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An Urgent Cry for Help

Help Dr. Osama's family survive death in Gaza

I am Aya Osama Al-Dahdooh, 13 years old. I send you greetings from Gaza City, where I currently live amid a very harsh war. Before the current war on Gaza, my family and I had beautiful dreams, like the dreams of birds and flowers, but the war has destroyed them. My family has lost all the necessities of life.

My family consists of my father, whose name is Osama. He is a doctoral researcher at Leeds American Academy. He owned a professional training center and an accounting office, both of which have been completely destroyed by the war. Throughout his training journey, my father trained thousands of people in Gaza. But today, he has lost his job, his center, and even the house we lived in.

My mother is a nurse named Noura, and I have three siblings: Farah, who is 15, Ubaida, who is 17, and Mohammed, who is 6 years old. Today, we are suffering from intense fear because of the bombing and missiles. We have been displaced from our home 15 times. The war has killed about 200 of my friends, neighbors, and schoolmates. We suffer from chronic illnesses due to malnutrition. The voice of my childhood asks: Why are we exposed to death, hunger, and disease every day?

Our home has been severely damaged and is no longer fit to live in because it’s located in an area with intense firefights. Life in Gaza has become almost impossible, as we are exposed to death, hunger, and disease. For this reason, we wish to leave Gaza and move to a safe country. My family wants to build a new future; we want to learn, dream, play, think, and share in the joys of others.

Time is running out, the war is getting fiercer, and death surrounds us from all sides. We still have hope that you will help us. We hope you will donate to us so we can leave Gaza because travel expenses are very high. My father will re-establish his training center and accounting office as soon as we reach a new location. We will be able to buy healthy food, clean clothes, safe water, and medicine to treat

No donation is too small.

There are noble human actions.

With all our love. 

Aya and her family from Gaza City.

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I feel so sad because every day Ahed @ahedfamily has to share pictures of his children and private details about his family to make people care about his story and save his children. And even when he does this, and it gets shared widely, they still often go many hours or days without donations. And all he wants to do is save his children, he shouldn’t have to sacrifice their family’s privacy for this. He has been fundraising for a long time and they still haven’t even reached €9,000, and the situation is getting even scarier because of the rising prices in Gaza but I see my posts getting fewer notes, please don’t forget about them 🇵🇸💔

DONATE HERE + VETTING (#229)

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every time i see someone call kirk and spock the oldest ship, i'm filled with the urge to go "hmm actually the holmes and watson girlies have been here for a hundred years now", and i refrain because i know the natural conclusion of this game is gilgamesh and enkidu

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Please take a look at my story.🇵🇸💔

!! My children and I are in great danger!! Dear, I know you are receiving a lot of messages, but I really need your help 😭😭😭

Hello, I am Hanan Mahmoud from Gaza and my children lost everything from our home, our work and our car💔💔💔 Donate 30 euros

I need to buy medicine for my children, expensive diapers and some treatments

Everything is expensive, food, medicine and all the necessities of life are expensive💔⁉️⁉️💔

We are suffering from severe famine in Gaza, there is no food or healthy water to drink, we live in very cold winter conditions, and we live under terrifying bombing 💔

Please help us, we have nothing but ourselves 🙏🙏

Please donate to us, your donation will make a difference to us 💔💔

Your donation will give us hope to continue living 🙏🙏🙏Your donation will contribute to rebuilding our lives and securing travel costs to get out of Gaza from Yes to protect my children ✅️ My number on the list has been verified by @gazavetters (#270) ✅️

https://gofund.me/0ddcba1c

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I just started grad school this fall after a few years away from school and man I did not realize how dire the AI/LLM situation is in universities now. In the past few weeks:

I chatted with a classmate about how it was going to be a tight timeline on a project for a programming class. He responded "Yeah, at least if we run short on time, we can just ask chatGPT to finish it for us"

One of my professors pulled up chatGPT on the screen to show us how it can sometimes do our homework problems for us and showed how she thanks it after asking it questions "in case it takes over some day."

I asked one of my TAs in a math class to explain how a piece of code he had written worked in an assignment. He looked at it for about 15 seconds then went "I don't know, ask chatGPT"

A student in my math group insisted he was right on an answer to a problem. When I asked where he got that info, he sent me a screenshot of Google gemini giving just blatantly wrong info. He still insisted he was right when I pointed this out and refused to click into any of the actual web pages.

A different student in my math class told me he pays $20 per month for the "computational" version of chatGPT, which he uses for all of his classes and PhD research. The computational version is worth it, he says, because it is wrong "less often". He uses chatGPT for all his homework and can't figure out why he's struggling on exams.

There's a lot more, but it's really making me feel crazy. Even if it was right 100% of the time, why are you paying thousands of dollars to go to school and learn if you're just going to plug everything into a computer whenever you're asked to think??

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The average tumblr user is ostensibly in favor of multiculturalism and universal tolerance but also has the bone-deep certainty that there is one Correct set of etiquette to follow in all situations and anyone who doesn't understand and accept it should be viciously mocked like the unpopular kids in a 1980s teen comedy.

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Sonoran Desert Tortoises (Gopherus morafkai), family Testudinidae, Saguaro National Park, AZ, USA

Vulnerable

This species was separated from the Desert Tortoise, G. agassizii, in 2011, based on genetic evidence. The population of “Desert Tortoises” found east of the Colorado River are now Sonoran Desert Tortoises, and those west of the river are G. agassizii.

photographs: USFWS,: Andrew Pernick, US Bureau of Reclamation, K. Kristina Drake, USGS

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Girl dressed as Motanka - Oksana Onysko

The Motanka is a traditional doll used as an amulet in Ukrainian culture, dating back thousands of years possibly to the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture. It represents the unity between ones family and ancestors - once also believed to be a vessel of the ancestors of the person who possessed it. It was also viewed as a tool that helped protect a person from the evil eye and curses, and that the person creating it could project powers into it based on what they were thinking at the time. The Motanka is created faceless with a cross covering its head, as Ukrainian folk believe claimed that etching a face onto it could drain a living spirit into it.

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Zebra Sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum), family Stegostomatidae, order Orectolobiformes, off the coast of WA, Australia

ENDANGERED.

This shark gets its name from the appearance of the juveniles, which are striped.

In parts of its range, it is sometimes called the Leopard Shark. There is, however, another shark referred to commonly as the Leopard Shark. Triakis semifasciata, a kind of houndshark, that lives along the Pacific Coast of North America from Oregon to Mexico.

photograph by Brooke Pyke

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also ngl sometimes I see a super rancid post with a "pls get a job" comment and I'm like nah. as a certified unemployed disabled person believe me employment would not fix this. op needs divine intervention. or a power outage.

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Severely underfunded Palestinian fundraiser

This family is severely underfunded, with only 3% of their goal raised and are currently at €1,291. They have come to me saying that it is getting harder and harder to find food and water, and they barely have any funds to draw from as it is. If you'd like to help change that, and contribute to saving their lives, please think about donating (even a small amount) and/or reblogging this!

vetted and listed as #19 on this document.

and below as a thank you for taking the time to read this, here's a fun poll. Please reblog if you participate, I wanna see who helped build our beautiful snow man

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the concept and idea of “you can always start trying to be a better person” is extremely important to me both in media and irl and i continue to be deeply deeply disturbed by the trend on this site pushing that these ideas in media are bad writing or even morally reprehensible

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

it’s fucked up. 

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everything is truly so terrible but i just remembered doreen ketchens playing clarinet for her infant grandson and then i was kind of okay again for 36 seconds

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@jehanahmed9444 has been promoting her brother's campaign, but her family needs help as well. she lost her home and with it many important documents (like her diploma). she now lives in a tent in Rafah with her family, but it is not safe there either, not to mention they don't have proper access to basic necessities

Jehan's campaign hasn't been vetted yet, but pictures and text are unique and donations are protected. Jehan came to tumblr hoping it would be better for fundraising efforts, so please, if anyone can help her promote both her and her brother's campaigns, contact her either on tumblr or on X (link)

Jehan's campaign has raised $32,283 AUD out of $50K. that's 65% of the goal. please help this family raise the second half of their goal and evacuate!

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@jehanahmed9444 reached out to me to promote her brother's campaign, which is very low on funds. Mohammed's family has been displaced 9 times already. his son Mustafa was just born in May, so you can imagine it's been even more difficult to survive in Gaza. this family is now raising funds for basic necessities and to evacuate as soon as possible.

Mohammed's sister Jehan on X - (link)

Mohammed's own page on X - (link)

the campaign is, unfortunately, not vetted right now, but pictures and text are unique and donations are protected. Jehan came to tumblr hoping it would be better for fundraising efforts, so please, if anyone can help her promote both her and her brother's campaigns, contact her either here on tumblr or on X.

Mohammed's campaign has raised $5,876 USD out of $50K. that's 12% of the goal. please help his family get to safety in any way you can