Ahmed Saad, a Palestinian man who had to jump through an insane amount of loops to get the funds necessary for escaping Gaza, is asking us all to donate to his friend’s family fund.
Mohamed is a hemophilia patient who needs access to medicine and to do surgery on his knees, his 11-year-old daughter also needs thigh surgery (she was supposed to do it outside Gaza in November but couldn't travel due to the border issues). Mohammed’s condition is worsening rapidly and, with Israel destroying the last functional hospital in Gaza, things are looking dire.
Please donate generously!
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[feministly] women need to start doing more emotional caregiving for men
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love that fabian and riz were originally designed to be the quintessential preppy jock and outcast nerd stereotypes, but with each new season riz is more of a cool guy while fabian becomes increasingly lamer <3
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Anna Williams did not run through miles of forest nor face off with an infected with literally only a switchblade and sheer desperation all while fucking IN LABOR, then cut her daughter's umbilical cord with her own hands, clean her up, name her, love her, and hold her for hours even as she knew and felt that she was dying, prepared to stab herself with that same switchblade to save her baby, then beg her lifelong friend to take her girl somewhere safe where she could grow up happy and protected only for Marlene to fuckin sacrifice that girl, that baby she swore to her dying friend to take care of, for a shoddy at best chance to save an already irrevocably shattered world. Both the Williams ladies deserved better than that.
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Elon Musk's twitter meltdown is so fascinating to watch. It's like seeing the class clown become the principal and then implode in real time.
It's like he hyped himself up on this platform of "No more school rules! All the dumb teachers are getting fired! Recess forever!" and now that he's bumblingly stumblingly found himself in the principal's chair he's trying overly hard to double-down on all his asinine promises in a desperate bid to maintain the approval of all the burnouts he fostered favor with all while he's slowly being crushed beneath the mounting pressure of learning test scores dictate funding and half of those stupid dumb fired teachers were pivotal to keeping the system running
and now the fire is slowly spreading and his liberated lackeys are tearing down the halls and smashing displays and pulling the alarm while Elon tries desperately to assure the super-intendent that nothing's changed and test scores will be just the same as always while in the same breath doing everything in his power to maintain his Cool Guy Runs the Cool School persona to the delinquent actively spray-painting the super-intendent's shoes.
By which I mean he's having the WORST time and wants nothing more than to go back to his smart-ass class clown role where he could opine and whine about all the ways HE'D run this better without needing to face the reality of hemorrhaging $1 billion a year in pure interest on his massive loan (never mind that actual unprofitability of Twitter and its massive revenue losses) at the helm of a project he's chosen to capsize with ideas so blitheringly stupid that only a man surrounded by 1 million sycophantic yes-man could have ever even considered following through on.
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breaking my silence we as a fandom (collective) need to have a quick meeting. now look, we love praising fan artists and giving them lots of love which, hey they deserve it cuz they’re amazing and incredible and talented and should be revered but!! i think we need to give an equated amount of love to fanfic writers. these mfs are a) putting their time and effort into A NON PROFIT PIECE OF MEDIA entirely for their and our benefit just because they want to b) going through life threatening situations to get their chapters out c) using their talents to feed our delusions and desires d) making OUR LITTLE DUMB HEADCANONS COME TO LIFE!! THEY MAKE IT HAPPEN!! THEY MAKE IT REAL!! i will literally forever be indebted to fanfic writers bc no matter if their work gets 10000 hits 10 hits or stays in their notes app they STILL!! WROTE IT!! still took the time to carefully craft and mend their masterpiece!! made someone’s day even if it was their own!!! the fact that some of them come up with LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF WORDS OF FIC feels kinda undermined to me??? like mf they DID THAT AND NO ONE ASKED THEM TO? (mean that positively) LIKE THEY JUST DID? not to mention the research and genuine care that goes into some fics I’ve seen. and the fact that some try to make their fics accessible by writing it so anyone who isn’t even in the fandom understands the story?? anyway. fanfic writers all around not just mutuals (tho i love u guys) truly, you’re amazing. kindergarten teacher voice everyone say thank you fanfic writers. <3333333333
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