i'm not going to sit here and call anyone a bad person for not sharing fundraisers on their tumblr blog because i don't think anyone is obligated even a little bit to use social media as the avenue by which they attempt to do good in the world. but something i do think is incredibly crass is the amount of blogs i see who insist on having long bios or pinned posts telling you they will never ever do this and block anyone who asks them to. you know you can just keep your mouth shut and quietly proceed with your regular blogging right? you don't have to announce you are going to block anyone who asks you to help. you don't need to talk about how really you just have too many problems to be able to be concerned with the suffering of people objectively much worse off than you. you don't need to subtly or not-so-subtly perpetuate the unsubstantiated dehumanizing racist talking points about how these people are probably all spambots anyway. you can just choose not to make yourself look like a complete asshole yknow?

I don’t think I have anything in my blog about this so I’m not really your target? But are these not just spam bots which actually don’t have any real backing? These are all in my dms in like the last week. Some of them are identical messages.

IMO, the real work gets done by established aid organizations. The ones Israel is blocking from access. This stuff won’t do anyone any good.

"But are these not just spam bots which actually don’t have any real backing?" why don't we take a few minutes to actually look into this and see if we can find out instead of just guessing. All of the information I am about to provide is immediately very accessible within the bio and first post or two on the first page of each account.

the first one links to Abdullah Salem Abdullah's campaign and claims to be vetted by the gazavetters team. the gazavetters are a grassroots team here on tumblr who have been assisting to verify the legitimacy of peoples' campaigns for quite awhile now. you can see in their pinned post, written in both arabic and english, what exactly their standards and process are for verifying a campaign and decide if it's rigorous enough for you. Abdullah's post says his post is number #641 - let's go see what that number says in the gazevetters master spreadsheet

it looks like this campaign is no longer being backed by the gazavetters due to spam behavior.

that next message is for Shaima's campaign, which is #62.

i believe this means they have not heard back when asking for updates regarding this campaign, which tracks with the account not having been updated since the end of september. The fourth account is also one of Shaima's providing the same information and linking to the same campaign, and, similarly, has not posted since the end of september.

The third one is Mohammed Yousef's campaign. This one is #88

They give it the okay. The campaign linked on the blog matches the link on the spreadsheet. This campaign was also shared by 90-ghost, a longterm tumblr user who is a gazan palestinian who has been helping platform fundraisers since the beginning of the war. there's no reason to believe this is not a legitimate fundraiser.

So that's where this stands: one spammer, one ambiguous situation, and one very real person asking for help.

If you think about the fact that most of these people are communicating in a language they might either speak without full fluency or not at all, the fact that some of them are using identical templates might start to make a big more sense.

Now, here's a question I have for you: If the established aid organizations are having their entry blocked by Israel, how are they getting "real" work done? These things can not both be true at the same time. You don't have to give your money to anyone you don't want to, but if you're going to call people bots you might want to do the smallest amount of due diligence before making that claim publicly. You don't have to speak on a subject you have done zero work to acquire information about. Like i said before, you're free to just keep your mouth shut and quietly proceed with your regular blogging.

If you would prefer to donate to aid groups rather than individual families, here are some legitimate operations doing important work that could use your support.

The Sameer Project

Dahnoun Mutual Aid

Mona's Initiatives

Hussein Team

I want to add to this that if a campaign is noted as spam/bot or scam on the gazavetters list, this does not mean that they are not real people in Gaza. If the campaign is on the gazavetters list, it is a real family in Gaza.

For more information on this see here.

Gazavetters discourages that sort of behaviour, but it doesn't make the campaign illegitimate!

I understand that people who have joined Tumblr only in the last few months, as the person who responded has, don't know anything about verification and especially the verifiers that have been working on Tumblr exclusively. I do find it unlikely that they haven't encountered Gazans asking for help, though, if they've been on any social media at all. Still, I suppose it is possible. But what OP says is also true: the information is out there, and if you really want to find it, you can find it.

You can even speak to Gazans who get in touch with you.

If you don't want to do any of that, it is within your rights to ignore them, and even to block them. But please do not report these people as spam. They are real people who need help and there are those of us who are trying to help them as much as we can. Do not try to take that away from them!

All my notes I wrote about the Ed’s to make an educated guess on whether or not they are intended to be read as abuse victims…

Ed is a note on all the toxic things said about his parents or Sarah, plus other bits that indicate abuse to modern audiences.

Edd is just a list of (almost) everything he’s said about his parents to see if he mentions them significantly less.

Eddy is everything about his brother from before the movie to guess if him being abusive was the intent from the beginning.

[Day 365]

One year ago, I posted the first Daily Capochin drawing on this blog. The cycles persist!

hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to "in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?", respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn't pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.

watch out for the trap! there's ONE QUESTION where the last option *isn't* the max 'no AI' option, read each part carefully to be sure

oh boy self indulgence again

"at least venezuela lost a dictator" "the good thing about trump's invasion" "maduro deserved it" oh my god some of you are dangerously susceptible to fascist propaganda.

unfriendly and honestly hostile reminder that trump isn't invading venezuela because maduro is a dictator, or because of drug cartels. he's doing it only and exclusively because they have desirable oil reserves and no other reason. reminder that venezuela is a comparatively poor country that will never financially recover from this. reminder that venezuelans are suffering with the bombing and the air strikes. reminder that trump did it to steal from them and no one did anything. reminder that this sets a dangerous precedent and now all trump has to do to invade another country is claim they're in a dictatorship. reminder that trump is a fascist dictator.

this will only be bad, for venezuelans and for all of latin america (and possibly the whole world) in the long run. trump did this not to help the venezuelans or their country, but to steal their petrol and get away with it. and he will. because that's what dictators do.

for those wanting to help venezuelans affected by the bombings through donations, these are currently the best ways to go. will add more links as more is set up

cruz roja (red cross)

doctors without borders

mmm touchin face

there are too many stripes in this picture but you know what who am I to deny a family their brand.

the notion of saving lives at all costs prevents suicidal people from speaking about their experiences in a candid way, knowing they will be decentered (e.g. “your family/friends will be devastated if you die”), subject to moral arguments (e.g. “suicide is a selfish act”), referred to someone else, often someone who has a hefty paywall behind their listening ear (e.g. “are you seeing a therapist about this?”), or incarcerated against their will. because of this, voices of suicidal people are left out from conversations about suicide, even paradoxically in campaigns encouraging suicidal people to reach out for support.

in order to break the stigma around suicidality, we have to break away from the prevention-no-matter-what script and honor suicidal people’s autonomy, allowing them to speak freely about their lived experience even in the face of personal discomfort for nonsuicidal people. in our current society, nonsuicidal people wield power/privilege over suicidal people. if your immediate reaction to hearing about a marginalized person’s pain is to shut them down in some way, you need to evaluate why you are centering your own comfort above another person who is confiding in you.

"The mannequin stares ominously at you, limbs raised defensively. It does not speak, and never looks straight at you. What is its deal?" Meet my "cursedsona" or whatever you guys call this. My first Look Outside OC, whose name is Poser!

i cannot keep doing 6-8 episodes shows anymore guys. she's gone as soon i get to know her

underrated friendship stage is the "testing the waters to see how much of a freak you are" stage. let me microdose being feral to see how you react. i have one large eye on you at all times waiting for you to give me Secret Permission to be a pervert or a weirdo. when will the shameless whore dam break. The Freak Rituals are sacred and time honoured and their importance cannot be overstated