today i learned how they vaccinate sheep and OH MJY TGOD
Why is this heat so hot š©
Reblog the fundraisers you mfs!!!!! I don't know why you all skip those to reblog some pic of a banner saying "FREE PALESTINE" or of news from Columbia University! Literally these people from Gaza have made an account on Tumblr and is writing in english to communicate what they need and you all are coming onto my blog or on the tag and not reblogging their posts. We have people both Palestinian and non Palestinian vetting the fundraisers! I mean more the reblogs, more the chance of the fundraisers gaining momemtum, the more there would be a chance of a donation. Please donate if you can and reblog!!! and follow them if it is possible.
@/mohammedayesh has posted about getting leaflets, telling them to evacuate Rafah. They are very low on funds. Go follow them and reblog their posts and donate if possible.
We have @/haneenatya too whose mother is suffering from eye stroke and need to evacuate. Please I have been following them for some days and it doesn't seem their own posts are getting much attention.
Follow them! They are on tumblr. Reblog their posts and donate. The protests in universities are being done on account of them. They should be our focus.
(EDIT: on re-reading my post it seems as if I am dismissing all that the students of universities are doing. I am not. I just meant, since all of it is to help Palestinians, we must not ignore them when they ask for help).
You see a post like this? Where OP might hurt/kill themselves? You hit that button that I circled
Hit that.
Click Suicide or Self-harm Concern
Yes.
Fill in the rest of it, and hit submit. The "content you reported" will fill itself in
Tumblr will follow up and help them.
This could SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.
I was just talking to Ahmed @90-ghost (alongside Av, who might be reading this, idk if theyād like to be part of this post tho). He has given me permission to write a post about our conversation.
This whole thing has gotten Ahmed to the point where he admits heās started to hate tumblr after 12 years of being on here. He has over 3k messages in his inbox and canāt handle it right now, his brother and other family members are still in Gaza and he himself doesnāt have the money to help them out. Iāve noticed that donations have slowed among palestinian fundraisers in general, before this whole debacle that a few individuals on this site started. this is anecdotal, but I know Ahmed gets like $30-$50 per week in donations at this point, and that barely makes a dent in his and his familyās needs. Remember that people in Gaza need to pay massively inflated prices for what basic necessities are available right now. I think things are looking pretty dire to the people who would like to flee Gaza but donāt have the money. It already was dire that Egyptian government, working in lockstep with Israel and the west, charges $5k+ to Ghazzawis. Hala Agency, Ibrahim Al-Argani, and the other scumbags running the Egyptian state are all demons and theyāve lined their pockets throughout this genocide. But I digressāit was dire already and now the enthusiastic aid that helped people like Ahmed seems to have run dry.
All that is to say: Ahmed canāt continue to verify peoplesā documents or promote their fundraisers at this stage. Heās privately talked to hundreds of Ghazzawis and looked at their IDs, and he was the only person doing it for a while (a very small handful of other Palestinian users on here were doing it, but theyāve also gotten overwhelmed and stopped). When he was in Gaza, Ahmed was displaced multiple times, left sleeping in tents or on the streets while in active physical danger, starving, forced to drink unsafe water, and often sick. Itās not an exaggeration to say that his body and mind have been pushed to the limit. When he told me heās depressed all day after doing this work while attracting a ton of negativity, I told him heās allowed to stop for the sake of his own health, because frankly he needs to focus on his physical recovery. Thereās nothing selfish about that, itās not sustainable for him to be doing this, particularly not when heās still under the immense stress of his brother and other relatives remaining in Gaza and relying on him for help.
Since I know people will ask: I currently donāt know of anyone on tumblr who still vets fundraisers. Everyone I know of who did has had to stop. I donāt know about the inner workings of Operation Olive Branch, but they seem to be one of a few collectives with enough members to distribute this work. It IS work, and those of us who have tried to do it have done so with a low failure rate (el-shab-hussein and nabulsiās spreadsheet had over 200 entries and they misidentified a scam as legitimate ONCE). I hope everyone will be more considerate towards the people at collectives like OOB.
This has always been a matter of personal discretion. The vetting process some users tried to implement on here is meant to help people who want to help and accept the risk of offering aid to strangers. If you donāt trust bloggers whoāve been proudly Palestinian on this site for years, thatās up to youāgenuinely, itās fair to think āI donāt know this person and I donāt know what standards theyāre operating on.ā In the future, anyone who has such concerns should consider asking good-faith questions to the people involved and to converse with them like adults before jumping to accusations, conspiratorial posts, etc.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BASIL!!
I didn't get his birthday wrong right
Basil is my favourite character in OMORI probably because I can relate to him so much š
RB to see how others think-- also, what territory you're from and version of English you speak! (this is to settle a thing I am pondering)
[ID: four screenshots of asks sent by four different tumblr users.
upper left image is from user joyfultyrantkoala. it reads: "Hello everyone, I am Valentine from Palestine. I am here to request for your support to help get my insulin, just an injection for today to save my life please I beg.I was diagnosized with Latent Autoimmune Diabetes and due to current situation in Gaza I'm unable to get my insulin injection as a result I'm here begging for little financial support to help me purchase insulin for this week. My donation link is attached in the pinned post, kindly donate and share to reach many people."
upper right image is from user almostbigkryptonite. it reads: "Hi, sorry for temporarily posting this message into your inbox, I am here to request for your support to help get my insulin (Humalog), just an injection for today to save my life please I beg.I was diagnosised with type 1 diabetes and due to current situation in Gaza I'm unable to get my insulin injection as a result I'm here begging for little financial support to help me purchase insulin for this week My donation link is available on my pinned post"
bottom left image is from user peacemakerpatroll. it reads: "Hello this a long shot call, am LEILA MOHAMMED RAJAB popularly known as TAHEERA a citizen of Palestine. I am here to request for your support to help get my insulin (Humalog), just an injection for today to save my life please I beg.I was diagnosised with type 1 diabetes and due to current situation in Gaza I'm unable to get my insulin injection as a result I'm here begging for little financial support to help me purchase insulin for this week"
bottom right image is from user delicatephilosophertiger. it reads: "Hello this a long shot call, am Elizabeth a citizen of Palestine. I am here to request for your support to help get my insulin (Humalog), I was diagnosised with type 1 diabetes and due to current situation in Gaza I'm unable to get my insulin injection as a result I'm here begging for little financial support to help me purchase insulin for this week. Any donation will mean world to me. You can donate using the link in my pinned post. Thank you š¤"
the images have been edited with a static filter. End of ID.]
If someone sent you this post, you likely needed convincing that you really were talking to a scammer. Now that you know better, kindly go to @el-shab-hussein 's blog, and choose a vetted fundraiser to donate to. If you are not planning on donating, reblog as many of the fundraisers he has posted as you can. Try to actually read and be familiar with what an actual Palestinian fundraiser looks like, so that you can differentiate the real ones from the scam ones. This is the LEAST amount of effort you can do for Palestinian families.
Hi ppl of tumblr i have decided to return to this platform!
here's my first attempt at a legitimate comic