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hate how the good parts of the episodes of wwdits are the shortest little blips ever
cherry pick
khartoum aid kitchen has 17 locations helping fight the catastrophic famine in sudan, pls consider supporting them!
VETTED CAMPAIGNS LOW ON FUNDS
all of these campaigns have been vetted by mohammed ayesh, who helps run @gaza-evacuation-funds. all of these campaigns are in dire need of our support; please consider donating to even one of them!
mohammed zaatar was severely injured by shrapnel last year, and is now displaced with his family and in need of our help to afford basic necessities. €458 / €30,000 GOFUNDME HERE * mohammed mabruk is in europe, separated from his family who are trapped in gaza and unable to reach them. he is trying to raise the funds necessary to evacuate them, but in the meantime your donation will allow them to buy daily necessities. €350 / €35,000 GOFUNDME HERE * reema and her husband ragheb and five year old son taim have been displaced more than six times and are struggling to provide themselves with their daily needs. your donation will help them as winter approaches, please consider contributing. €2,071 / €50,000 GOFUNDME HERE * eman has helped mohammed ayesh, who helps run gaza-evacuation-funds, by translating many posts into english for our benefit. she does this despite being displaced and living in unimaginably difficult conditions. please consider helping her and her family, as she does so much to help others. $6,700 CAD / $50,000 CAD GOFUNDME HERE * imad is raising funds for his family, who are displaced in gaza and living in woefully inadequate shelter. your donation will help them afford food, water, medicine and winter clothes and shelter. €1,319 / €30,000 GOFUNDME HERE * qusai atef and his family have been displaced from their home in northern gaza, and are now completely lacking in basic necessities. they need to purchase winter clothes and other supplies. please consider helping them. NO DONATIONS YET! GOFUNDME HERE * rania is a talented artist and a geographic information systems graduate. she is raising funds to support her and her family. because they are in northern gaza, they are in particular need of your donations to afford food and water, as we know supplies have been cut off for a long time, and people are facing starvation. please consider donating to rania's paypal, as this will allow her to access the funds she and her family needs more easily. €3,508 / €60,000 PAYPAL HERE GOFUNDME HERE please, please consider donating to at least one of these campaigns! it is important that we get momentum going, so please share and reblog. i hope we can all work together to help these families as much as we can!
i always had a small amount of tics that i kept down and masked away pretty much but it seems like i cannot stop them as i get older, mostly when im extremely stressed, or remember an embarassing thing. like it just happens way worse. and i know the difference between stimming to get the thought away and tics. much different. this is like an automatic unable to stop thing like im gonna have a sneeze fit. its getting much worse as i get older. :< luckily it still isnt at the level where its nonstop constantly all day, however its still enough that takes up a good portion of a day.
had a fun experience on the subway the other day
why do some restaurants carry decaf coffee but cant make the same drinks they have on the menu for regular coffee, with decaf. i dont get it
like "sorry we cant do that with decaf" like Huh
please reblog the fundraisers you see on your dash. please. if you claim to care about palestine, NOW is the time to prove it. everyone said gaza will be worse off if trump wins - well, now he has. the least anyone can do now is reblog and share and DONATE to as many fundraisers as possible. especially if you're american. you want harm reduction? this is harm reduction. help gazan families.
you can't decide where to start?
- gazafunds
- mohammad, nawal, and baby roaa
- yousef, khadija, and baby majd
- ahmed, his family, and their cat soso
pick a name. any name. read their story. realize that what you feel now, they feel everyday, a thousandfold. donate whatever you can. at the very least, reblog if you can't.
there is no excuse not to.
a+ to me
i poured boiling water on my hand because i tripped.
eat an entire can of sweetened condensed milk. you deserve it.
(sigh) okay... (CRUUEEENNNCH....) (SCREEEEEENCH...) owie.. (CRUUEEENCH)
this is one of the most rewarding things about posting self care tips on this site. witnessing people's lives getting better in real time. this is why I post
Daily "avoiding hopelessness" checklist
Hey, friends. I know I've been really struggling to look towards the future with any kind of hope, so here are some little things I've been trying to do every day that might help you, too.
- Accept that your productivity might look weird right now. Don't expect yourself to act as if nothing is wrong.
- Make art. I try to write something every day, even if I don't really feel like it, and I've found that once I get into it, I'm grateful I did.
- Do something to plan for the future. Doesn't have to be big. Even getting some ice cream you know future you will thank you for counts.
- Eat. Even if you're not hungry. I keep skipping meals because I don't feel like eating, and then I force myself to make something and realize I was absolutely starving.
- Clean up one thing in your space. If doing all the dishes and sweeping the floors and putting away laundry all feel too overwhelming, try just doing one of those things.
- Lean on your online and offline communities. I live in a county that voted trump by a margin of eighty percent. My world feels scary and hostile right now, and it's my communities that are helping me feel hopeful.
- Try to find one thing that feels normal. One thing that feels safe and normal and helps you feel a bit more grounded. My local grocery store just got their shipment of chocolate oranges in for the season. That's my thing.
- Try to find one thing to look forward to, no matter how small. My thing is checking my ao3 inbox for comments on my fics.
Love you all <3
ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help
Operation Olive Branch has a spreadsheet dedicated to mutual aid, local distro, community kitchens, etc. in Gaza.
This is a good place to start if seeking to donate to a community resilience action. Just contact the group(s) directly to make sure they are still active. Life in Gaza and Palestine is full of uncertainty.
Don't forget the very way the company is structured.
They're sending small groups of people in voyages that last more than a year with quarters that don't lock, and from their posters, the company seems to have a "if there's any trouble *everyone* gets punished" policy.