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penguinbabeez

@penguinbabeez

My casual retreat and outlet for geekery.

GFM Links (UPDATED AS OF 10/6/25)

As time goes on, fundraisers may change their goals. So if I labelled one as being close to being fulfilled, but has its rating changed, that is why!

Help my family evacuate Gaza ($146,333/$150,000) ALMOST THERE!

Please Help Tahani save her children and husband ($20,411/$50,000) ALMOST HALFWAY THERE!

Help yomna and her family to survive in Gaza ($22,145/$55,000) ALMOST HALFWAY THERE!

Save Mohammad's family and children to escape from Gaza Genocide ($12,805 CAD/$65,000 CAD) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Evacuate Kareem & Carmen NOW from Gaza ($15,639/$50,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Helping Ahmed's Family: Escaping War to a New Life (€89,789/€100,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Help me and my family escape the war in Gaza (€46,700/€55,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Please help save my family (€19,435/€50,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Mahmoud's Family Overcome War Tragedy ($19,414/$60,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Save Ahmed Family From Gaza (€19,629/€50,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help my family survive famine and have secure life ($47,083 CAD/$60,000 CAD) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

From Gaza We Plead: Save My Baby Before He Is Born (€3,575/€25,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Urgent Help Appeal: exit the war of Gaza" ($8,669 CAD/$100,000 CAD) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Support me so I can get treatment (£1,680/£60,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Donate to Help Bisan and Her Family Survive in Gaza (£21,654/£25,000) ALMOST THERE!

Help jody and her family evacuate from Gaza (£19,408/£20,000) ALMOST THERE!

Basma's Family Call for your Support Amid Crisis ($7,087/$25,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Gaza's Young Children Stay Safe and Alive (€27,016/€82,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Nevin alserr family escape the war (€3,807/€50,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Helping the Ahmed Fathi family achieve a better future (€23,921/€80,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help my family survive and start a new life (€32,337/€45,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Help Eman and Her Children Escape Gaza ($37,615/$50,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Ola's Family Call for your Support Amid Crisis ($85,319/$100,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Save Ratiba and her family from war and live safely ($3,069/$25,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Amir and his family to leave Gaza (kr66,079/kr200,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Urgent aid! Help to fight starvation for an extended family (€19,165/€55,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Anas & Ahmed rebuild their future in Gaza (€65,257/€69,000) ALMOST THERE!

From the Ashes: A Call for Humanity to Rebuild the Life (€9,750/€30,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help a Mother and Child Escape War in Gaza ($11,386/$14,000) ALMOST THERE!

Mo'men Lost Everything in Gaza---Help Him Start Over ($1,131/$50,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help us to survive (€14,095/€80,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help my family to resist difficult circumstances (€1,940/€40,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Building a new life for my family and light in the darkness (€17,430/€30,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Support a Family's Journey to Safety and Peace ($851/$29,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Gazan Family to rebuild their life in Egypt (€125/€3,500) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Ayat Feed and Care for Her Family ($13,075/$20,000) ALMOST THERE!

Help my family evacuate from Gaza ($29,670/$50,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Donate to help Motaz and his family survive ($11,306/$30,000) ALMOST HALFWAY THERE!

Gaza Family Left With Nothing Help Them Start Again ($7,077/$20,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Support Nazmy Fight for Safety and Health (€2,078/€10,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Gaza Families Secure Essential Needs ($22,573/$40,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Support for Elieen - Thalassemia & Anemia patient (€798/€17,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help my family get food and medicine (€2,308/€10,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Yousef al-Habil and His Family ($11,730/$50,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help me evacuate my family and rebuild a new start (CHF 11,673/CHF 60,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Save Orphaned Children (£4,171/£40,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Mera ($10,566/$20,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Be the reason for rebuilding my pharmacy ($640/$4,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

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In Pride month, I think it's important to remind you of this iconic dialogue. You don't have to talk about who you are if you don't want to❤️

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So I follow N. D. Stevenson (comics writer and animator, most famous for Nimona and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and his husband Lee Ostertag (also a comics writer and animator) on Instagram. When I started following them, they were both publicly presenting as women, and then a few years ago N. D. came out as transmasc nonbinary, and then earlier this year Lee also came out as transmasc. Anyway this is all setup to say that Lee had the chance to make the funniest post of all time and he took it:

If you're in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military:

  • The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.
  • The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.
  • The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.
  • The recruiter will tell you you're special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They're lying.
  • The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won't. They're lying.
  • The recruiter may tell you you'll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They're lying.
  • The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They're lying.
  • Even "It's just four years!" is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.
  • The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don't care what happens to you.
  • If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.
  • You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you'll do them.
  • The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.
  • Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.
  • Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.
  • Veterans' benefits suck these days.
  • Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.
  • The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.
  • The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.
  • A lot can change in four years.

All of this!

If you want an organization who WILL tell you the truth about your rights to conscientiously object, how to legally get out of the DEP (Delayed Entry Program) or about any of your other rights in the military (whether you’re enlisted, thinking about enlisting, or a family member or friend of someone enlisted (or thinking about enlisting)), who will do it confidentially & for free, you want the

GI Rights Hotline

run by NGOs & non-profits, which has been counseling folks for DECADES now:

Or by phone:

1-877-447-4487

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man having your life even a little bit together will really make you realize how chronically sleep-deprived and poorly fed and under-enriched everyone is and then when they turn to you to implicitly agree that that's just the natural state of existing you feel like the asshole for being like "actually I think you might benefit from eating breakfast regularly and picking up a new hobby"

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Look, I was an adult when ICE was created. A lot of people were against its creation, not once have I been aware of it providing any material benefit to anyone, and absolutely nothing of worth would be lost if it were gone. Government agencies have this patina of timelessness, but it just ain't so. Abolish ICE.

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The US is entering a true, documented measles outbreak under RFK Jr's guidance, and following his decision to remove decades old vaccine recommendations for newborns to receive hepatitis B vaccines (a choice he backed with faulty and medically inaccurate logic), there is finally a formal impeachment proceeding for him beginning in Congress. While the chances of these proceedings passing are slim, there are Republican congresspeople also signing and bringing to vote a formal rebuke of the Department of Health and Human Services under RFK Jr. His recent decisions, and the growing evidence of the consequences it is having, are putting pressure on legislators in Congress to take sides on this matter

Below, I will provide a call script that can double as an email template to demand your legislators support the articles of impeachment against RFK Jr, and to vocally reprimand his actions for endangering the children of America in the interest of his own personal gain

Script/Template:

[If calling] Hello, my name is [blank] and I am a constituent calling from [address]. [If you want to hear back from their office, you may also provide your email address. Not all offices will email you back]

I am reaching out today to demand that [Representative/Senator blank] join Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan in protecting the health and safety of our nation's children by voting in favor of her Articles of Impeachment against Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr. Medical professionals have been sounding the alarm about the dangerous, unscientific policies that RFK Jr is pushing since before he was confirmed for the position. Now, our country is seeing the results they warned of. Measles, an incredibly dangerous and highly contagious disease that was nearly extinct in our country just a handful of years ago, is seeing a full on epidemic among the children of our country. RFK Jr himself has said that he cannot be trusted to give medical advice, but he is giving advice for our entire country's health. The [Representative/Senator] can fix this mistake that never should have happened, and they can do it while only a few hundred children are hurt. Don't let them wait until it is thousands, or more.

[If calling] Thank you for your time and consideration. Have a good day.

End script.

Added to the Queue December 15th, 2025

I know this has been said so many times in so many words but it is never any less infuriating that we never seem to have basic social services money but we always have fucking war crime money

i think the most upsetting thing about american-flavor puritanism is how fucking patronizing it is. it's 2026 but the whole world still has to deal with a cultural hegemony grown from the gnarled vestiges of victorian-era paternalism. tax-paying adults with passports and the right to vote are treated like wayward children because of the antiquated idea that authorities must protect the weak minds of the unwashed masses from depravity and corruption. the average american can send a fellow citizen to the chair, but they can't piss in a ditch without being declared an outlaw. american entertainment media is saturated with sex, but you can't talk about it online without getting your account suspended. it's such blatant censorship at a universal scale, but because sexual content is framed as inherently dangerous, this restriction on basic adult autonomy, this blanket denial of moral and intellectual adulthood, can be reframed as protection, an expression of care, a moral duty. "won't someone think of the children!" I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN!

thank god that the video game that features slow motion animations of graphic gunshot wounds and is rated 18+ has a profanity filter in single player offline mode. thank you for protecting this 33 year old mind from the corrupting influence that is a horse named apple slut

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coolpup98

this is silly because if you look closely you can see that the tiger is not an actual tiger but a Beanie Baby, a popular childs toy.

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damedanbo

is that true?

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cryptonloids

i promise

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My three children could die from the cold

They are trapped in freezing conditions inside a tent that offers no protection—no heating, no proper blankets no safety.

Alma and Lama are burning with high fevers and suffering from severe illness caused by this unbearable life in the cold. I watch them shiver in front of me powerless while my heart breaks.

Every minute that passes puts their lives at greater risk.

If you cannot donate, please share—your share could be the reason my children survive.

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