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FundsForGaza is a page of a rotating list of fundraisers for Gazans - individuals and families who are in Gaza right now and facing genocide.

It is explained in more detail in this post from the official instagram account, but to quickly summarise, six verified fundraisers are highlighted at a time, allowing you to provide direct support without being overwhelmed by the amount of fundraisers, worrying about outdated information, or falling for scams.

Sharing this link and, if you are able to, donating even one dollar to one of the fundraisers listed will make a direct difference.

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i think the worst thing about the whole “anti-woke” culture is how it’s not only dumbing down people (folks are literally forgetting pronouns are an actual word class, an inseperable part of grammar and everyday speech) but also praising meanness and insensibility above all. it has managed to make malice and unkindness synonymous with factfulness and reason as if intelligence didn’t stem from emotions. as if feelings weren’t the very core of human beings. as if knowledge wasn’t achieved through passion, sympathy, and open-mindedness. as if the whole crux of this entire anti-wokeness movement wasn’t rooted in pure unadulterated emotion of hatred and hostility.

#yep #it never fails to disappoint me when I come across peopl who seem so well intentioned turn out to be ‘anti-woke’ #even my parents are like this but it’s worse for them because they’re actually convinced that being ‘anti-woke’ is like #being a caring loving person who only wants what’s best for the person who they’re chastising without even realizing #and on top of that #they think not caring about coming off as rude makes them better or something #it’s so so strange #how anyone would even want to be a huge jerk is beyond me

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"Isn't it exhausting being someone you're not?"

"No! Isn't it exhausting being the same?"

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by the way, you guys need to reevaluate the way you act if you think a palestinian on tumblr is only valid if they have gone through some form of unspeakable tragedy.

if you only interact with our posts when we post about our trauma or the death of our family members or friends or something of that sort, please take a step back.

because we don’t have to adhere to your perfect victim narrative. and more importantly, none of us actually owe you that information. and you need to listen to us and the things we say, even if we don’t share our trauma online with a bunch of strangers, and even if we haven’t gone through some indescribable and horrible event

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The occupation announces the withdrawal of all its forces from the Gaza Strip, except for one brigade that controls the road separating the north and south of the Strip, in order to prevent the people of the north from returning to their homes, and also to prepare for a ground operation in the city of Rafah.

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Hey. Hey you. The person aimlessly scrolling, stuck in an immobilized standoff with your brain

It's not your fault. You won't be stuck forever. I know you're trying. I know you hate it. It's ok.

And tell the Mean Voice in your head that it's not helping. It knows as well as you do that you would get up and Just Start the task if you could. You're not doing this on purpose.

Take a deep breath. Relax your jaw. I see you trying so hard to break out of it, but you can't force it. You'll get Unstuck eventually. All you can do in the interim is be kind to yourself.

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Israel has deployed auto-firing quadcopters that emit the sounds of crying babies.

https://xtwitter.com/jam_etc_art/status/1780038184828608975

There is no possible reality where this is in any way capable of being passed off as self-defense. It was never self-defense. It is, and always has been, a genocide.

Crying babies. Crying babies. This is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, meant to draw out and kill civilians while also making it far more difficult to locate and aid children who are trapped or alone.

If you have money to spare, please consider donating to some of the fundraisers on Operation Olive Branch to help people escape this genocide.

End the occupation. Free Palestine.

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JULIE AND MONSTRUOS SIBLINGS !!!!

jk theyre probably very nice :3

CLOSE UPS:

#wah these are awesome! #I really adore the rendering and linework #very very good #welcome home #welcome home fanart #julie joyful #bea joyful #franny joyful #jonsey joyful #the joyful siblings #reblog

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was trying to find body positivity posts for trans guys that look like me and couldn’t. so here’s a post for all the trans guys with wide hips and dad bods. you are hot, you are desirable, and you are doing great

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I was avoiding my homework earlier so I ended up searching a bunch of info about ADHD and

Are the neurotypicals okay?

#I swear the more I read about ADHD the more I find myself relating to it #and I also deeply appreciate the call out on gender essentialism #I feel like people tend to target their anger towards the wrong people and/or thing and don’t stop to think what the root of the problem is #to add: I’m very used to seeing people blame gender for shitty behavior or an interaction going wrong in any way #so this was very refreshing to read #reblog

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happy lesbian visibility week! 🧡🤍🩷

#all the love to our trans lesbian bird Poppy ❤️ #welcome home #welcome home fanart #poppy partridge #welcome home poppy

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Hey everyone, please consider buying the 2024 itch.io Palestinian Relief Bundle- it's 373 games, game-making assets, tabletop roleplaying games, zines, and comics for a minimum of just 8 USD! They have a goal of 100,000 USD, and as of the time I'm writing this post, they have 8 more days to reach it.

Link will be in the reblog!

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If people were too mean to you when you were growing up, a newborn animal will materialize inside your brain and it’s so so scared and shivering and it will stay there for years. Decades, even. And whenever you say something kind of weird but true to your heart the animal will tell you “Noo! You can’t say that! If you say that, everyone will hate you!”. The animal means well. It’s so so small and everything is so scary for them and it’s just trying to protect you. But listen to me. Listen to me. Whenever this happens, you can’t do what the animal says. You can’t. If you do, you’ll become as scared as the animal. You have to keep saying weird shit. You have to keep doing things the animal wouldn’t approve of. If you do enough things that scare the animal, maybe one day it’ll go to sleep.

#never thought I needed to read this…

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When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

#I was raised by conservative Christians and thank goodness I was never pranked like this #unfortunately though I was taught at the age of five about the rapture #can concur that it fucks you up in the long run #I suffer from general anxiety and for years felt an extreme depression because of it without even realizing #because as a Christian you’re taught that if you have God in you then you already have true happiness #but oh no if you sin too many times God will spit you out of his mouth and never want anything to do with you ever again #so every single day was an anxiety induced day of questioning why there was clothes on the floor and jumping at the slightest sound #of a trumpet like noise #and even now loud noises like that give me a lot of anxiety #so yeah it’s definitely traumatic