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My family consists of a father, a mother and nine members. I need to raise money to restore a beautiful life and stability outside the Gaza Strip. All I can say leaves only a small glimpse of the suffering we are living. Here is a glimpse of the contrast between our lives before the aggression and the nightmare we have been living since its beginning. Thank you for your support and solidarity
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We in Gaza have been left to face death alone. My family and I live this reality every day. We don't receive enough food; we share what little we have, and it's never enough. We go to sleep wondering if we'll find anything to eat tomorrow. We have no shelter from the rain and cold. Our tent is flooded, and the ground beneath us is muddy and freezing.
We try to protect ourselves with what little we have… and we have nothing. We suffer from illness without medicine. We see our exhaustion worsen, but there are no hospitals capable of treating us, no available treatment. We feel helpless as we watch ourselves in pain. The crossings are closed, aid is blocked, and all we can do here is endure suffering and pain.
Please, friends, help us and donate so we can buy food to satisfy our hunger, blankets and new clothes to protect us from the cold, repair our torn tent, and buy medicine to treat our illnesses. Please help us by donating, friends.
please donate
Please help as much as you can!
With those “when you want to design a character but you don’t know color theory” posts flying around I thought this would be relevant again.
SLAMs THE REBLOG BUTTON
there’s also Coolors website that gives you randomized palettes!
Don’t forget ColourLovers, either! It’s a social media-esque site where you can browse tons of palettes and share your own.
You can browse the most popular ones or search for certain colors, themes, and even specific hex codes!
When you find one you like, you can download a wallpaper swatch of it and also select the specific colors it uses to look at more palettes that use those same ones.
ColourLovers is my go-to for when I’m having trouble coming up with a color scheme! It’s also been around for over a decade, so there’s plenty to browse through.
@color-palettes also has a lovely curated collection of palettes to work from!
Please stop what you're doing right now. Stop everything. If you're eating, put your hands down. If you're drinking, stop what you're buying. If you're playing, stop playing. If you're on a trip or at work, please just listen to me for a moment. Please don't ignore what I'm about to say.
What's happening here today is unbearable. Gaza is not well, even after what you call a ceasefire. We still can't return to our homes, and we pay exorbitant rents every month. We buy food at very high prices; we even have to pay for water. The war hasn't stopped. Every day there's shelling and gunfire. Please, don't let the Zionist media deceive you into thinking Gaza is living in luxury. We are suffering. There's no infrastructure, and there are none of the basic necessities of life.
Israel has spent $900,000 on media outlets to spread the false narrative that Gaza is doing well. This Zionist project, targeting pro-Zionist Western influencers, has been expanded to an estimated $3 million to conceal the truth from you. Please don't let them deceive you. We are not doing well here; we are suffering and need help. We need your donations. Please help us and donate to us.
My name is Motasem from Gaza 🇵🇸🍉,
a father to a small child who asks nothing from this world except the most basic needs for his family—milk for my baby and safety.🥺
Today, I am unemployed, living a harsh reality after our homes were destroyed and we were stripped of the simplest necessities of life.
My child urgently needs baby milk and diapers, and I am unable to provide them amid extreme prices, siege, and destruction.
Gaza can no longer endure this suffering, and its children are paying the heaviest price.
Any support, no matter how small, can make a real difference in the life of an innocent child.
From a heart weighed down with pain, I reach out my hand to you… hoping that compassion can still find its way to us.
✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #722 )✅️
Please help us. We need baby milk and diapers for our young child daily. 🥺
The goods are very expensive here due to the rocks, and I can't afford them. The family desperately needs your support. Please help us, even with a small donation. 💔
We are living one of the harshest winter nights, freezing cold under the ongoing bombardment of Gaza, while our children shiver in fear and cold with no shelter or safety… Your support and donations today could save lives,
please don’t leave us alone. 🥺💔
i know i am usually pretty hehe haha on this app and here to generally mess around and have fun about television however, the circumstances of the last few weeks in my city and state have been truly so dire that it feels impossible to even pretend like that is an option right now. and i like to help so here is what i know:
yesterday, january 12th, border patrol commander greg bovino gave a very weird interview to the minnesota CBS affiliate WCCO, in which he lied repeatedly but importantly noted that once they "[get] bad things off the streets, we're off to the next city." we have seen increased immigration enforcement since day 1 of the new trump administration with many cities pushing back against operations already but, as what has been highly reported, nothing as large as the scale of the current operation in MN. plus with the pushback they have received here, these freak individuals will certainly have new motivation to incite violence wherever they go. use this as a little cheat sheet to prepare yourself for when it is your turn or, to jump in to the action rn and help out our immigrant communities in MN.
WHAT MN IS DOING TO PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS
notes for VULNERABLE/UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE and their families
other general notes: they're arresting literally anyone in MN, citizen or not. they're harassing kids at school (minneapolis schools have allowed for children to learn from home until february 12th). they're arresting people at work. it does not matter. a lot of people here are carrying their passports and other documentation to avoid this. you don't have to give anyone your identification even when asked but unfortunately many who refuse have been met with violence. they're going into hospitals, homes, schools, businesses and they don't have warrants. of course know your rights but be aware they really don't give a fuck. they're arresting first and asking questions later.
most importantly people working for ICE and border patrol have something deeply wrong with them. they're disgusting, immoral people whose "work" will be a stain on their lives and this country until the end of time. and i can not stress this enough, they are so fucking stupid. they are not stronger than us. they are not smarter than us. they are not more righteous or justified in any of their actions and eventually the day will come that their most prized leader turns on them, dies, or both. they will never be forgiven.
with that i leave you with two videos of agents eating shit on the ice that i can't stop watching. fucking pussies.
love ya. be safe
sometimes I talk about disliking copyright/IP on here, and I always try to stress that the reason these conversations matter is because copyright law is used in real life to hurt real people. I want to highlight a current example of this happening which I haven't seen talked about on my dash yet.
Solar Being is a small business run by two natural hair sculpting artists. their art has gone viral online a few times, and one of their most recognizable creations are their shaped hair puffs:
recently, their business has been under attack by frivolous DMCA & copyright infringement complaints by a competing company. Solar Being has had to close pre-orders for their hair extensions and redirect the funding they raised through a kickstarter campaign into now building a legal defense fund, at the expense of their allocated labor and production budget. in the meantime, they can't even post uncensored photos of their star puffs to social media without facing copyright claims. this issue goes beyond just promotional materials and is also affecting any posts where they (or their customers!) have their hair puffs visible.
on Solar Being's legal defense page they say they "believe [geometric hairstyle] designs should remain free for others to use, reinterpret, and express through their creative and commercial endeavors". and if these copyright infringement complaints are held up, it will likely affect the rights of other natural hair sculpting artists to create designs like this.
if you'd like to support Solar Being's legal fund they're accepting donations now, and I'd recommend supporting them through social media as well. I'm not personally associated with Solar Being and am just repeating what they've already said through their website and social media.
lots of people around copyright/IP discussions like to talk about supporting artists, and if you want direct that supportive energy somewhere productive I feel this situation is one that deserves your attention.
i kinda don't like those posts that are like "it feels so good to be a hater in private instead of bullying people" because i don't think the only two options for negative opinions are Privacy or Bullying. being a hater in a public forum is perfectly fine, and even the most vitriolic negative opinions are not automatically bullying just because someone who might have their feelings hurt by them sees them. there's a difference between being negatively impacted by something you see and being actually targeted by negativity.
seeing someone drop an absolute dogshit off the mark screed against something you love that is not actually harmful in any real way but nevertheless activates the enrage phase of your boss battle and then learning to either just block them or keep scrolling without it ruining your day is a valuable skill. and i think we've all seen what spaces that demand constant positivity end up like. developing an inconsequential bullshit tolerance is necessary to be a well balanced member of a social species.
Sadly, in Gaza even basic wound disinfectants are unaffordable—if they exist at all. Today, Qais’s wound became infected, swelling larger and angrier. I will not forgive anyone who scrolls past and keeps browsing without sharing my post.
His wound is worsening, infection is spreading, and surgery is urgent. I am a mother in Gaza with no medicine and no answers, watching time steal my child piece by piece. Please donate to save Qais.
I refuse to let my baby fade quietly while the world scrolls past. If you are reading this, you are part of his story now. Share, help, donate now—be the reason Qais gets another tomorrow.
When Qais finally sleeps, I press my ear to his chest to make sure his heart is still fighting. No mother should fear silence like this. Please don’t let me lose him—donate now and save my child.
Please help save Qais and his family. Share, donate if you can. Do not let the crisis in Gaza continue to pass by unnoticed.
