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if you are unable to donate financially to help palestine, you can donate your time by protesting, boycotting, and putting up posters!
if all you have is your device and internet access, you can put your clicks to good use on arab.org. they use the advertising revenue generated by your clicks to help good causes.
and i would urge those able to spare a few dollars to donate to one or more of the following organizations:
Original Post: Keith Porter was tragically taken from us by an off-duty ice agent, and his family is seeking justice during this difficult time. Every donation can help support their fight for truth and accountability. Please consider clicking the link below to contribute or share it with others who might want to help. Thank you for your support! https://gofund.me/530afb61e
The OP Gofundme is down, I haven't been able to find another link, but hopefully there will be one up soon.
do you have at least one openly queer family member? (not including yourself?
Ahmed has been using his Tumblr accounts, @mazen-fmaily and @ahmmad-mazen78 to reach people who could help him afford his father's medical treatment. Ahmed has unfortunately lost access to both these accounts and the messages he had with the kind people who had been helping him and his father.
I'm making this post to try and help reach people who can help them while Ahmed tries to get a new account set up. Due to the internet issues in Gaza, this may take time. Time is something his father doesn't have.
Right now Ahmed needs $350 to afford medicine for his father. This is the price after transaction fees.
In the past, Ahmed has used both paypal and Chuffed, but for now he has asked me to only link his Chuffed campaign. Please donate here to help him and his dad:
The link will also be posted to my bio for the time being.
Here is a link to vetting information. Proof of Ahmed's request to only share the chuffed can be found under the cut.
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I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and ignores us.
I am writing these words with tears streaming down my face. I can no longer bear this pain. My wife is suffering from a severe deficiency in vitamins, especially vitamin D, and she urgently needs surgery to save her life. Her body is growing weaker day by day, malnutrition is stealing her strength, and I stand helpless watching her suffer.
All I wish for is to see her alive and healthy. Please help us provide healthy food, her medications, and fund the surgery that could save her life.
Trying to understand time signatures...
There's this FNF song from this mod, right, and the time signature is all over the place. Mind you, this is how I learned abt the term itself. Cus all my non-musical brain knows is the song is complex. If you'd asked me before I tasted the fruit of knowledge, I woulda said it has a funky tempo. But the technical term is time signature. Time sig for short cus I can't be arsed to type the whole thing. So, the time sig goes from 5/4 to 4/4 to 7/4 to 9/4 back to 5/4 then 7/4. If that means anything to you: congratulations. It means nothing to me. Still trying to figure out why it's so common for time sigs to end in 4 or generally in even numbers (unless they're "irrational." wtv tf that means). I'm listening to the audios on Wiki, trying to get familiar w 4/4 and 3/4 and fkg 12/8...
I don't get none of it. There is so much shit out there that makes sense to someone ppl, is technically correct and all, but means fuck-all to me...
Still trying tho.
the fundraiser for Renée Macklin Good’s family has well surpassed its goal and is now closed — if you want to help Minneapolis residents as the city is terrorized by ICE raids, please turn your attention toward this fundraiser for local families, as well as Adelina Olivarez Cardona and Arturo Sanchez Chinos, both of whom are currently being detained.
Hey uhh… men actually aren’t demonized for being men. There isn’t a “problem in the queer community of anti-masculinity.” And no, bigotry against gnc and butch women is not actually rooted in a hatred of masculinity. It’s rooted in gender policing. Come on people
your PC is at risk!
A bunch of people in like 2021: "If long covid were the threat it really was, we'd be seeing [list of bad things] and we're not!"
2026: This article drops
A bunch of people in 2026: "What could be causing all this [list of bad things]!?!?!"
Tweet by Richard Siken that says, "I watched Pluribus instead. I already know about gay desire. Yesterday someone asked me about a piece I wrote a while ago. She was floored at how well it captured gay desire. The piece was about editing a magazine."
This is retweeted by preet @ terhideewani, who says, "Mr Richard Siken is watching Pluribus!!!"
This leads to a brief back-and-forth between them. Richaid: "I also ate a sandwich. You guys are so fucking creepy."
Preet: "With all due respect, I was excited that one of my favourite poets was watching the same show as me." Richard: "That's the creepy part. It doesn't mean we share anything. We also both poop. Your excitement makes me uncomfortable." Preet: "The only thing we share right now is discomfort, then."
my daily affirmation as an author
[ID: Author's notes of a work on Archive of Our Own. It reads, "this may be shit, but at least i didn't use AI" End iD]
i find some people really do not understand grief (end post) but specifically grief for really old people who die of natural causes there is this idea that it doesn't make sense to mourn them because they lived a long life and they passed peacefully and their time was simply over and all of those things are true, but a good and quiet death after a long and happy life is not something that removes or lessens grief. it is the ideal grief, yes, it makes it less complicated, but even the most uncomplicated grief is still death and still has the potential to be a life-changing loss. every death of a loved one sits in me like a ring in a tree trunk. this notion incorrectly identifies grief as 'this person died when they should not have' when you can know in your bones that someone died at the right time, that they were ready and wanted to go, and still grieve intensely for them. grief is the knowledge that they are not coming back, that everything you shared exists only now in your memories. even if a person died well - when you have lost people to 'bad' deaths you really appreciate a 'good' death - they are still never coming back, and that is still something you must carry with you for the rest of your life. there is no manner of dying or age of the person who died when that becomes less painful. people want to believe there is a way to lose someone forever that won't break your heart and that is just not true.
