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The bombing has returned to Gaza.

Airstrikes are once again hitting many areas across the Gaza Strip. Homes are being destroyed. And every day, more civilians are killed — women, children, and men. The war is creeping back, slowly but brutally.

As Palestinians prepare for the holy month of Ramadan — a time meant for mercy, prayer, and peace — fear fills the nights instead. Time and again, these sacred days are met with bombs. Houses are targeted. Families are buried under the rubble. Innocent lives are taken.

Ramadan is supposed to bring light. For Gaza, it arrives under fire. Do not look away. Civilians are paying the price — again.

URGENT: August Is My Family's Last Chance to Escape Gaza and Reunite with Me in Ireland

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1. @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi # 151 on the spreadsheet of Vetted Gaza Fundraisers List]

Please Don't Let Me Lose My Family. August Is Our Last Chance

Thank you from the bottom of our broken hearts. For nearly three years, you have stood beside my family through this devastating war. Your kindness has helped me support them as they have endured life in tents, unimaginable hardship, and the constant fear of bombardment and death.

We will never forget your compassion or the hope you have given us.

Now, FINALLY!!!, There is HOPE ...

I have been informed that my family’s evacuation is expected to take place in August. However, the Irish Embassy and the Department of Justice require us to show sufficient funds in our bank account before family reunification visas can be issued for my wife and our four children.

Without these funds, we cannot complete the visa process, and my wife and children will remain in Gaza, where their lives are in constant danger from bombing, starvation, and the devastating conditions they face every day. Even worse, my elderly parents, siblings and their children entirely depend on funds I send them in the incredibly harsh conditions they live!

We lost our home and everything we had in this hellish war and all my wife and children have right now is a tent in the living hell of Gaza.

My Irish college is providing the necessary supporting documents, but we urgently need your help to meet the financial requirement for them to be able to start a new life in Ireland.

If you are able, please donate and share my GoFundMe with friends and others who may have compassionate hearts.

Your support could help save the lives of my wife and four children.

Please Donate if you can, reblog our life saving blog and share with your friends.

Your kindness and support is the only hope I have to save my family!

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Hello everyone!

Maryam Ayyad and her husband have lost all means to care for their 5 children under this accelerated genocide. They cannot feed their children, nor can their children attend school after all the infrastructure has been bombed, and after repeated displacement. Their newborn child Jenna is going hungry, and they fear for the future of their children.

Please consider helping Maryam Ayyad, her husband Baha, and their children.

By 2030 there will be people unironically using "coppunk" as a genre descriptor and the examples will include

- Disco Elysium

- Detroit: Become Human

- Zootopia 1-3

Help An Apartment Of Disabled Trans People Make It Safe

I've been cleaning up a lot lately and I've been noticing some issues we need to resolve for safety reasons (shower and kitchen related) as well as just some general cleaning things we're missing. Please help us out a bit more if you can. If it helps we're the people who take care of @rickybabyboy

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Venmo: AGIEF

Paypal: agieocean@gmail.com

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Sorry for being vague, basically it seems like we might need to replace two pans that got deeply scratched at some point and we need to get a bath mat to cover the problem areas where the shitty bathtub cracked so we don't cut our feet and potentially get infected while we try and figure out a better solution. The rest of it is we need some cleaning fluid appropriate for properly cleaning problem floor areas and a few more containers for organizing paperwork and various other things around the place

remaking bc the other died badly. pls pls help out a currently struggling disabled lesbian couple. we do not have a stable source of income atm; my wife was fired for being transgender & we apply to jobs daily to no avail. we need $ for food + meds. ty in advance & pls dont tag as anything.

pp / ca / vn

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Hello everyone!

Ratiba El-Shaer's family fundraiser has been verified at #449 on our vetted list.

Ratiba's family has been devastated by the loss of their home to bombing, the displacement, and the loss of her husband, the father of her four children. He was the main breadwinner, and his death has forced Ratiba into a difficult situation where she has to care for all their children on her own and with no means of income.

Please consider donating to help Ratiba El-Shaer and her children.

incredible pompeii book fact that i will think about forever:

Garum, a sort of Roman fish sauce, was everywhere in Rome and apparently Pompeii was particularly famous for their garum industry. There’s lots of sources both in and outside Pompeii, and several different manufacturers and sellers have been found in the city.

The part that I can’t stop thinking about: jars of garum have been found with labels advertising it as kosher.

I mean, of course you hear about the conflicts between the Romans and Jews. They were very much in one another’s orbits. But still, the fact that there was apparently enough of a market in Pompeii to specifically create and sell kosher fish sauce… you know?

Here is a source for this! See "stamps on jars of garum" at the bottom of the page.

(I wanted to link to a good source by a reliable archaeologist for this, because the first thing that comes up when you Google it is a site which also claims there is archaeological evidence for Noah's Ark, the seven plagues, and Young Earth Creationism - I don't want anyone to dismiss this verifiable and very important fact out of hand because some drongo is throwing it in with "strata prove evolution doesn't real")

i have for a while been using stepping on somebody's toes as a metaphor for misgendering. and i genuinely think that it's kind of a good one.

if you keep stepping on somebody's toes for a long time at minimum they're probably going to start really hating you and at maximum you might cause them lasting damage.

if you do it on purpose you're a dick. if it's on accident but you keep doing it that person is still going to be mad at you because you don't care enough to try not to step on their toes

if you give a grovelling begging apology after accidentally stepping on somebody's toes one time you're going to make the whole thing awkward, but not giving a quick "sorry" before moving on is still kind of rude.

Help a multiply disabled lesbian from the global south currently between jobs

I quit my soul crushing suicidality inducing job in early June. I've been looking since (and actually from even before, I'd been wanting out for years), but it's tough now where I live even for entry level positions with Kast's and Quiroz's buffoonery (in summary, we were recently VERY fucked with a new reform and I'm trying hard not to think about it much 🤪).

I'd appreciate help just to stay on top of my bills, please.

Ok, this is turning urgent. 😅

I'm currently in debt for about 300 USD due to medical expenses + unemployment. I don't have as much. Yes, this is after the help I've already gotten, I'm so sorry.

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Nothing yet since that update.

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minos was such a pussy. if my wife gave birth to an epic minotaur baby i wouldn't have locked him in a labyrinth. i would have taken him to the mcdonalds play place (athens) every day and let him eat as many stray mcnuggets (athenians) off the floor as he wanted. i love you hungry son

(pulling a painted vase out of my wallet) and this is my youngest at his first nose ring fitting. isn't he handsome

okay so. officially starting a ko-fi goal to help with moving costs (shipping my stuff, physically getting me there, covering a bit of rent) so i can live with my wife . goal is at $3k which i know is a lot to ask for help with but hopefully i shouldn't have to ask tumblr for help like this again barring some catastrophe

Hi chat this has become a bit more urgent, like "I need to move ideally in early/mid September, October at the latest" kind of urgent. Gonna be more annoying about reblogging this post

62% of the way there already, holy shit, thank you again so much to everyone who has helped out

I often think the writer she had the most in common with was Vladimir Nabokov, another notoriously difficult insider-outsider and artist-reader who now, in an unlikely turn, sits close to the center of the American canon. Each evinced a snobbery that wasn't defensive but inborn, and cut with a dry sense of humor. Morrison liked to say she grew up feeling superior, "like an aristocrat," and she read canonical literature for filth in her criticism and speeches. Nabokov was born a literal aristocrat and his interviews and lectures are spiked with acerbic dismissals of other writers.
Morrison's titles are softer—Beloved, Love, Paradise, A Mercy—but her novels. like Nabokov's, brim with cruelty. A father rapes his daughter. A mother lights her son on fire. A woman poisons her boss. Most people don't know that Toni Morrison wrote horror novels. But she was more invested in genre fiction than you might imagine. She and Nabokov were equally fascinated by Edgar Allan Poe, for example, and flirted with melodrama, the fantastic, the Gothic.
At the same time, both writers willfully sometimes irrepressibly, penned rather difficult prose. I'm a full professor of English with tenure at Harvard University, and I'm not ashamed to admit that it took me at least three readings to comprehend Beloved at even a basic level. There are passages in Morrison's works that no reader I've ever met understands on the first go. But this literary difficulty was neither aesthetically coy nor glibly aspirational. It was an ethos.
Morrison's insistence on making us puzzle things out was an attempt to effect, she said, an "egalitarianism that places us all (reader, the novel's population, the narrator's voice) on the same footing." This democratic orientation to the work doesn't pander. Morrison doesn't condescend to your level; she challenges you to rise to hers. "My writing expects, demands participatory reading," she said. "My language has to have holes and spaces so that the reader can come into it.'
In other words, this ambiguity has a purpose. The point is that we cannot know, we cannot judge—and sometimes the point is that there are ways of doing both that allow contradictions to coexist. Morrison believed that literary form could instantiate philosophical ideas of this kind. As she said of William Faulkner: "The structure is the argument." As she wrote of Mark Twain: "The brilliance of Huckleberry Finn is that it is the argument it raises."
I should note that Morrison may well have reiected these comparisons to white male writers, too: "I am not like James Joyce: I am not like Thomas Hardy: I am not like Faulkner," she insisted. "I am not like in that sense." She knew she was their equal, but she felt that this critical shortcut of analyzing her in relation to them relegated her to the minor (read: minority) status of the acolyte or the copycat.On one hand, she refused to be subsumed by and whitewashed into canonical neutrality. Or the other hand. she refused for her work to be reduced solely to her race and her gender, or to be forced to fit the expectations foisted upon it as a result. As she once lamented, "I'm already discredited, I'm already politicized, before I get out of the gate." This double bind proved both a crux and a crucible for Morrison's creative difficulty.

Namwali Serpell, On Morrison

last post is losing traction so remaking once again, sister is still unemployed and needs help making ends meet I got paid a short check for having to miss work because of the crazy ass weather last week and we've both got bills due. please share and help if you can 💫

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sis is overdrawn and needs at least $96 in her account tonight (9 PM CST) please help if you can 🙏🏾

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Pets are out a food and I'm sick again, could really use some help today

got paid a short check and I gotta pay these off by tomorrow

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we really need to get some groceries in the house, please help if you can

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Hey I just got charged a $210 credit card re-payment and practically all of my money is gone and I have other bills due tomorrow and Friday. Please please help if you can.

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Could use some help I need $65 for my cell bill and my cat cece is out of food

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my sis has credit and dental bills due by tomorrow, she needs at least $300 total. please help if you can.

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sis is overdrawn and needs at least $60 to get out of the red. Please help if you can. 🙏🏾

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