Most of us will never know the agony of being a parent that does everything to provide for their child, only to keep coming up empty. Of the immense suffering and self-loathing that comes with being responsible for this little life, and feeling like you're failing: to keep them safe, warm, sheltered, fed. Of holding your child, your toddler, your newborn, watching them slowly waste away from that relentless, gnawing hunger you can't stop (one that you feel yourself). Watching as they howl in pain, and the hollowness that comes when your child becomes too weak even to do that. All the while being totally helpless to stop it because it's not up to you.

Most of us will only see the aftermath of such a thing: a parent carrying the far-too-light shroud of their child, pictured under a headline that details how starvation has taken hold of some given population. Distant and removed from us.

Except that it isn't. There are so many desperate parents who've run out of options, for whom this isn't some abstraction, who are asking—begging—us for our help. Just so they'll be able to buy some of the shit canned food left from the last aid delivery, and a couple loaves of bread to feed their children with. Extortionately pricey because of scarcity, but it's enough to keep their children in a state of "acute malnutrition" rather than "catastrophic hunger", so they'll pay anything for it.

Attacks on NGOs & prevention of aid into Gaza puts every single person there at risk of a slow death due to starvation. Especially children, like Samah's newborn baby boy, her little 2 year-old girl, and their big sister (who's only 9). But we can help. What's pocket money for us, is an invaluable lifeline to parents like Samah right now. At a time when so many seem to have decided to live in an alternate universe in which deliberate starvation and mass slaughter of civilians is acceptable, we have to do what we can to oppose it. Not to push it away, to ignore it, to decide it's been going on so long we don't care or that it's hopeless so give up, but to grit our teeth, dig our heels in, and say "no, seriously, what the fuck are we doing here?"

tldr: donate to Samah so she can buy food for her kids so they don't starve to death. please. and thank you. :)

(vetted by association by @/bilal-salah0 (relatives), & Bilal was vetted here, #132)

The Matrix (1999) The Matrix Reloaded (2003) The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

Under communism all big mansions will be converted into big games of Clue

it’s crazy how men have like mobilized en masse against women’s rights and women are still arguing amongst ourselves about like whether we should be nicer to men. in a perfect world we would just start killing men for real.

the idea that women are inferior to men is like a metaphysical quality of knowledge. it’s not treated as a fact it’s basically equivalent to mythology, outside of the realm of contestation. like you don’t even need to personally hold hatred in your heart for women to participate in this mythology. the world is simply structured around venerating men. which doesn’t mean the world always produces enjoyable or pleasant outcomes for men, and the punishments for not living up to the image of Man is deeply violent, but the fact remains that they are the protagonists of reality (and reality is sometimes not fun). so when men complain about “the left” (by which they mean liberals) being mean to them, and even if we grant that a group of ‘man-hating’ feminists really did say a bunch of rude shit to them about being a dumb lazy man or whatever, they are simply encountering a single group of people who contest the mythology that women are subhuman and come away from that experience completely horrified. do these feminists not realise that I’m the main character of the universe? why am I not being given a prize for gracing them with my presence? this is why the right is so welcoming to people like me. and if you ever point out this behaviour you are told to check your misandry

EVIL DEAD II (1987) dir. Sam Raimi

I love learning about the gay firefighters solely third hand from my dash I hope I never see one minute of this actual show because it would ruin it. They all look identical and I’m not sure how many of them are actually involved at this point. All of their names are Brad. I’m happy for whatever occurred for them tonight.

Pink Flamingos (1972) - dir. John Waters

Interview With The Vampire – 2.05: Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape

SUCCESSION (2018-2023) I 3.09 Chiantishire

Love Lies Bleeding (2024) dir. Rose Glass

I think it’s so funny how we have to speak to men like preschoolers when it comes to having empathy for women. like hey buddy… I know you think girls are icky :( but remember your mommy? your mommy is a girl! and then they’re like ohhhh… mommy IS a girl.. and I do like mommy… this is starting to come together

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Urgent! Please help a father save his three young daughters from war

This family is very low on funds, with only €4,237 out of the €40,000 goal

I was reached out to by Ahed to make a post for his family. This fundraiser is vetted by Gazavetters, #229 on their spreadsheet

Ahed is a 33 year old father of three young girls with his wife Maisoon. Getting Ahed the funds to evacuate his family is very urgent because they have three children under the age of ten with them, who currently don’t have access to food, clean water, or medical treatment they need. They’re at risk of bombs, infectious illnesses, and starvation every day they remain in Gaza. every hour matters

Ahed’s daughters are the light of his life and his motivation to keep going, and he’s campaigning on here every day to keep them safe. In Ahed’s words, his daughter Fatima (9) is “the closest to my heart, and my little one.”, Iman (6) “The friendly, kind, and loving child who is loved by everyone”, and little Nour, only one year old: “Who did not live her life like other children, as she was born two months before the war”.

Imagine that you’ve just had a baby girl, and you look at her with so much love and imagine with excitement what a bright future she’ll have and how she’ll play with her siblings. And only two months later, your whole life is turned upside down, and you have to wonder every day how you’ll feed her and keep her safe.

This is what happened to Ahed and his wife when they should’ve been at their happiest with a newborn daughter, everything turned into a nightmare. Their apartment was destroyed in a bombing, they were displaced multiple times, and suddenly they were raising their beautiful daughters in a war zone.

Every hour in Gaza is dangerous. Please help get Ahed, Maisoon and their children to safety as soon as possible 🙏🏼 Every donation will bring them closer to a future where Fatima, Iman, and Nour can play together and go to school and rest and recover from what they’ve been through.

Please give Ahed and Maisoon peace where they don’t have to watch their children suffer from illness and malnutrition, the worst thing for a parent to experience.

Please let Nour experience what peace feels like.

Thank you for reading their story, if you’re not able to donate, please share so it can reach people who are able to.

Donate here to save their family

The arrow sign indicates the covers that we use to close the windows. When there are no windows, we use them to close these openings to protect our children from the bitter cold at night.This is what we can do to protect our children from the cold weather at night, despite the ineffectiveness of these covers, but this is what we have..

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€5,947 raised out of 40,000. only a little over 1,000 to get them to 7,000 ❤️ any donation helps!

In this town, murder’s a form of entertainment.

CHICAGO 2002 | dir. Rob Marshall

The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.

I’d just like to point out that every single thing that has happened in the 6 years since I created this post has only reinscribed its absolute moral correctness in my mind.

anybody paying attention saw the rise in conservatism among the youth over the last few years. the return of the r slur, modesty/ tradwife content, rampant fatphobia, misogynistic twitch streamers...the writing was on the wall