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13/04/2025

4:04 am

Severe destruction hit the Aalma'madani Hospital in central Gaza after an Israeli airstrike, despite it being the only functioning hospital in the city with limited capacity.

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8th of April // 621$out of 100k and none donate for 2 days 💔💔Time is running out please reblog this and like 🙏‼️

Dear my kind donors!

The crossings boarders are closed again these days and war return in Gaza.

The crossing through which food enters has been closed for more than 30 days. We have nothing to eat, and even if we do, the prices are exorbitant. Some of the prices listed are:

1 kg of meat = $100

1 chicken = $70

1 kg of fish = $100

1 bag of flour = $200

1 kg of cooking gas = $150

1 kg of sugar = $15

1 kg of eggplant = $20

1 kg of tomatoes = $10

1 kg of onions = $25

Note to mention the other very expensive essential goods. I hope you will stand by me to get food.

Every donation from you saves us from hunger, no matter what your donation is. Don't be stingy with it.

We are currently facing an unimaginable and heartbreaking situation in Gaza. After receiving orders from the Israeli Forces to evacuate our area, we were forced to leave our tent, running for safety while bombs rained down around us. We fled with nothing, seeking refuge in another area that, unfortunately, is just as unsafe, leaving us exposed to constant danger.

Now, we are living in tent which needs new setting, enduring the cold, rain, and the constant fear of more attacks. The lack of basic necessities like food, clean water, and medical supplies is taking a heavy toll on us. Prices for essential goods have skyrocketed, and it’s becoming impossible to meet even the most basic needs for survival.

We are urgently asking for help. We need immediate support to provide food, shelter, medical aid, and funds to help us get through these difficult days. Without assistance, our survival is uncertain, and we are reaching out to anyone who can offer help in these desperate times.

If you are able to contribute, whether it’s through donations, sharing post, or offering any kind of support, it will make a life-saving difference. Your generosity can help us stay alive and find hope amidst this crisis.

Please, stand with us during this devastating time and help us survive the hardships we are facing. Every bit of support counts, and we are truly grateful for anything you can do.

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I'm Areej I was an English teacher and a creative writer at we are not numbers

before war and everything change after October 7. Also I'm a creative writer at we are not numbers.

Also I am a mother of three children. We have lived through the war for a year and a half, and we have lost everything we own. My husband is a man who did not work. Before the war, I did not have a breadwinner or any source of income. During the war I didn't give up to teach so I volunteered and had good chance to help some students to get engaged again with English in a very creative way.

Please Save those innocent kids from war 🥺‼️🙏🙏

We are in tents for almost two years‼️🥺

After our several evacuation from place to another.Now we don't have a house after it was destroyed by missiles. I now ask you to help me rebuild my house. And buy basics for the daily essentials for my children and I need money so that we can stand up again and start again.

This war wasn't easy at all it has taken many friends at work, students and some of my colleagues at the university. They are almost ten souls I won't never forget . Their laughter, their presence, their love… all of it is gone, leaving behind memories that are both precious and painful. Every day, I carry the weight of their loss, but I also carry their spirit, which gives me the strength to keep going.

Here’s what life in Gaza looks like for my family right now:

🏠 Safety: The uncertainty of tomorrow weighs heavily on us.

😢 Loss: The absence of my students and my friends is really hurts.

💔 Dreams on Hold: The future feels so far away when survival takes all our strength.

How You Can Help Us Cross the Finish Line

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No matter how bnha ends, I'm grateful that I became invested because it brought me joy, and it gifted me the euphoric experience of getting to know one of my favorite characters ever: Touya Todoroki, Dabi. I will always love him, and he will always have a special place in my heart. Nothing can change that or take that away from me. Shouto, too. The soba brothers are eternal to me.

It's so typical of me to be drawn to the mysterious, cold, brooding characters, haha. Shouto and Dabi immediately captured my attention when I first watched/read bnha with @fox-conscious. I took a break from following the series for a few years until November 2020, when I casually logged into Tumblr after months of not checking and saw chapter 290 Dabi's Dance leaks. It must have been fate. Suddenly, I was fully immersed in the manga again, excited that the obvious familial connection between my two favorites was officially confirmed. This reveal reignited my excitement and gave me something to focus on and look forward to during a challenging first semester in grad school, when I was on the cusp of realizing I needed professional help for my eating disorder.

To deal with the stress and have fun, I turned to reading and writing meta, and trying to make friends to share the experience with. That's the most important thing that has come from following this series... I've met so many incredible people who mean a lot to me:

@haleigh-sloth has become a really dear and close friend of mine. We met because of this manga and bonded over crepes, breakfast foods, pasta or ramen dinners, shopping at the mall, swimming in the river, walking her dogs, sleepovers, traveling, and road trips because of our shared love of the characters and story. We are basically the same person and constantly say the same things at the same time. Through the ups and downs of school, work, moving, and even now, we've always had each other's backs and shared countless moments of laughter and ugly cackling because we can't take shit seriously, ever. She's one of my best friends for life and I can't imagine NOT having her around!

@todomitoukei was one of the first friends I made in this fandom. I can always count on her to make the funniest jokes I've ever heard, especially during a completely serious conversation, and I'm astounded how smart, quick-witted, and talented she is. Truly an inspiration. I always look forward to seeing notifications that she messaged me because she brightens my day <3

I've had the great pleasure of meeting and hugging @hamliet TWICE! She has a generous heart and an inviting, calm aura. Her kindness and intelligence are remarkable. I genuinely enjoy discussing all sorts of topics with her, both silly and serious: life, hopes and dreams, fears and daily struggles, funny memes, reading and writing. I also love seeing her pet photos and can't wait to meet them in the future.

@transhawks is truly my most insane friend, and I say that lovingly and in the most ironic way because he's level-headed, creative, articulate, and self-aware. I'm always learning from him. I can talk to him for hours and never run out of things to say, and I always look forward to his insightful commentary about anything and everything.

And of course, I'm grateful for all the discord shenanigans with my friends: watching the anime together, voice calls, memes, sharing ideas, etc. @chocolate-biscuit who always pops into the chat with funny one-liners that leave me cackling for days when they flash in my head randomly, @bootlickerhawks who is the bestest horse person ever and I get excited to see on my dash, @helga-grinduil who is the saltiest and funniest person on this hellsite and also happens to make the best bnhaedits in this entire fandom, @jecook who is one of the sweetest people I've ever met and can't wait to read fix-it fics from, @mettywiththenotes who sends cute dog pictures and makes the most hilarious memes. Together we are all unhinged, and I love it. Despite living in different time zones, different counties, we've all create a fun space to cohabitate, and I think that's really cool and beautiful.

Hmm. Looks like the real treasure was the friends I made along the way, and the shared trauma of having our favorite characters mishandled by their creator was worth it. Can't wait to keep writing fics, making memes, and making new friends like @shortstrawberryshake because of this manga. And, I can't wait to keep loving Touya and Shouto Todoroki, of course <3

Blue Lock unapologetically uses the "everything revolves around the main character everyone's development is associated with the main character everyone is influenced by the main character and the main character is influenced by everyone around him" and it does it WELL and GOOD

There are some characters where this has yet to be deeply explored due to it not being time for it yet, but for the ones where it's happening right now in real time it's pushing this story forward quickly (despite how long the NEL arc is taking lol)

Episode Nagi (side manga of bllk told primarily from Nagi's POV but still tells other POVs also) just had a new chapter and it basically copied a major scene from the main manga in its CURRENT ARC. It tells me a lot about the surrounding cast in regards to Isagi and also tells me a lot (reinforces previous thinking/predicting) about where the story is going.

Rin was about to score a goal here and even the score between Germany and France. He stopped because his brother's phantom popped up (obviously, this is Rin's perception of what his brother would deem a worthy goal or not). This was a very clear copy of Isagi in chapter 1 when he decided that he had to "go after the strongest" if he was going to change. It was a painfully obvious moment connecting Rin and Isagi in their mentalities.

In EPISODE NAGI:

I mean, obviously. It's the same. (but different)

It's the same! (but different)

Nagi and Barou are hearing things Isagi said to them during previous matches they played. They're using Isagi to fire them up. Isagi's influence pushed them to find their egos and explore different ways of playing soccer. For Barou that's passing the ball, for Nagi it was literally feeling anything at all while playing.

I have too many images so there will be a part two lmao.

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Teens Win 2025 Earth Prize for Refrigerator That Runs on Salt – 200 are Headed to Hospitals to Preserve Medicine

Because salt molecules dissolve in water, the charged ions that make up the salt molecules break apart, taking up heat from the water.

"Calling it “a fridge to bridge the world,” the Thermavault can use different combinations of salts to keep the contents at temperatures just above freezing or below it. Some vaccines require regular kitchen fridge temps, while others, or even transplant organs, need to be kept below freezing, meaning this versatility is a big advantage for the product’s overall market demand.

Dhruv Chaudhary, Mithran Ladhania, and Mridul Jain are all children of physicians or medical field workers in the state of Indore. Seeing how difficult it was to keep COVID-19 vaccines viable en route to countryside villages hours outside city centers in tropical heat, they wanted to create a better, portable solution to keeping medical supplies cool.

Because salt molecules dissolve in water, the charged ions that make up the salt molecules break apart. However, this separation requires energy, which is taken in the form of heat from the water, cooling it down.

Though the teen team knew this, it remained a challenge to find which kind of salt would have the optimal set of characteristics. Though sodium chloride—our refined table salt—is what we think of when we hear the word “salt,” there are well over one-hundred different chemical compounds that classify as salt.

“While we did scour through the entire internet to find the best salt possible, we kind of just ended up back to our ninth-grade science textbook,” Chaudhary told Business Insider.

Indeed, the professors at the lab in the Indian Institutes of Technology where they were testing Thermavault’s prototype were experimenting with two different salts which ended up being the best available options, a discovery made after the three teens tested another 20, none of which proved viable.

These were barium hydroxide octahydrate and ammonium chloride. The ammonium chloride alone, when dissolved, cooled the water to between 2 and 6 degrees Celsius (about 35 to 43 degrees Fahrenheit) perfect for many vaccines, while a dash of barium hydroxide octahydrate dropped that temperature to below freezing.

“We have been able to keep the vaccines inside the Thermavault for almost 10 to 12 hours,” Dr. Pritesh Vyas, an orthopedic surgeon who tested the device at V One hospital in Indore, said in a video on the Thermavault website.

Designing a prototype, the teens have already tested it in local hospitals, and are in the process of assembling another 200 for the purpose of testing them in 120 hospitals around Indore to produce the best possible scope of use and utility data for a product launch.

Their ingenuity and imagination won them the 2025 Earth Prize, which came with a $12,500 reward needed for this mass testing phase."

-via Good News Network, April 22, 2025

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These people are trying to take over every aspect of our lives.

Facts about your body after you turn 25, AKA things I wish someone had told me:

you will get hair in fun new places. this is normal and fine.

these places include (but are not limited to) if you don't already have them: your asscrack, your back, your ears, and moles. it's fine.

some of you, dick or not, will also lose hair. this is normal, but also if you have ovaries maybe get this checked out for PCOS.

your acne will probably change. some people get better. some people get worse. it's fine.

your nails will probably get an infection or a fungus at least once in your life. this is fine. (but also let your doc know).

how you gain and lose fat and where you do so will change. this is fine.

how you smell will change. this is fine. (fishy or rotten smells mean doctor time though)

if you have a prostate: it gets harder to pee. prostates enlarge as you age (get this checked regularly). this is fine.

if you do not have a prostate: it gets easier to pee but not in a good way. as in as you get older, your pelvic floor muscles tend to lose some of their strength. this makes it harder to keep pee in. this is fine.

all breasts and pectorals eventually sag, with the rest of your body. this is fine.

a decent percent of the population will experience a cyst at least once. some of you will make up for the rest with multiple. this is fine, but keep them checked out by a doctor. (sometimes this is a condition! get checked for that too!)

almost half of everyone gets hemorrhoids. it's a good idea to just expect them since your chances of getting them get higher the older you are. your toilet will look like a murder scene. definitely get your booty checked out BUT this is almost always perfectly normal. just eat more fiber. "but I already-" eat more fiber. and maybe suck it up and buy some hemorrhoid cream, you'll thank me later.

yes, this means you will probably need to make an appointment for a doctor to see your butthole. it's okay. not only do they really not care but 1. they've seen weirder that day and 2. they'd far rather you see them now than later when it's been going on for forty years and now it might be colon cancer. it's okay. consider it a rite of passage.

adults need more sleep than children. don't believe the myth that you need less than they do. that is capitalist propaganda to make you give up more of your life to the work grind, comrade.

vitamins and medicine, something you are more likely to take as you get older, sometimes make the toilet turn weird colors. it's okay.

if you still have your tonsils and get those little stones and get sore throats more than once a year you should plan on getting those suckers out before the tonsils cause an infection and go septic. if you're getting stones at all you should get those reevaluated every year, especially if the stones are bigger than a needlehead (or get bigger over time). it's gross and yucky. I don't care. get them looked at before you end up in the hospital.

you'll probably need to add foot support to your shoes if you don't already do. this is fine.

your body changes. sometimes it can feel sorta weird and upsetting that it isn't what it used to be. that is okay, and it is okay to be upset. just know that this is normal, it's normal to be upset or not upset, but don't let it hinder your quality of life. trans or cis, there is a certain level of acceptance you just gotta give your body and forgive your body for as you get older. it's okay.

it's okay. I promise.

The heart of Blue Lock:

I'm gonna go on a long ass rant about Isagi, Bachira, and Rin. The whole idea of being "the heart of Blue Lock" was tossed around a couple of times in passing, but in the U20 match the title was given to Isagi. Isagi is the protag and has to be at the center of the story and the center of everything, so this title is appropriate in that obvious sense. But also Isagi is absolutely the heart of a lot of other characters' developments, both positive and negative. Isagi is definitely the heart of Blue Lock, the team. But as far as who the heart of the story as a whole is, it's Isagi, Bachira, and Rin. The relationship between these three, or rather the relationship Rin and Bachira each have with Isagi in their own respects, I think make up the entire emotional core of the manga.

Isagi is the driving force that pushes everything and everyone forward. Bachira and Rin exist within the story and are pushed forward by Isagi, but within the story they both have this mirror effect on Isagi that pushes both him and themselves forward. The bottom line though is that I think Rin's personal crisis is the core conflict and barrier in the manga, I think everything will come to fall back on his ability to change and heal or stay the same and drown. I think it's Isagi's barrier too, not in the sense that Isagi has to solve Rin's problems, or that he even has to actively help him solve his problems, but in the sense that because Rin has decided to make his obsession over Isagi his whole personality and make it Isagi's problem (on the soccer field), nothing will progress for the better on an emotional level until they both figure each other out---which involves Rin figuring himself out.

But starting from the beginning: Bachira

Isagi being the main character and all obviously has a ripple effect on everyone. Most of the characters use this effect to their benefit, like Chigiri who decides that worrying about his leg is pointless and he might as well play until he can't, or Barou who figured out how to play the way he wants while also maintaining some consideration for his team so he isn't the biggest loser on the field, or Nagi who was able to step away from Reo and actually figure out what it is about soccer that he likes so he can get better (and keep playing with Reo). And then there's Bachira.

Bachira and Isagi's relationship is the starting point to everything, it's Isagi's beginning in Blue Lock and his development as a soccer player. Their relationship is free of drama, it's the prime example of what supporting each other while also competing against each other is supposed to look like. It's a relationship full of love and care and independent admiration of each other. I think the way their relationship is portrayed is the ultimate goal of the Blue Lock project for every character.

It doesn't start off that way though, as Bachira does have some demons to fight off, but Isagi isn't aware of this because Bachira didn't spill his guts about how he felt about being with Isagi until after he'd already solved his own problems.

Bachira was kind of one-sidedly codependent on Isagi's presence on the soccer field. He grew up lonely because he was "weird" (boy is so neurodivergent coded lmao) and when he met Isagi he felt that he finally met someone who would play with him in a way that was fun for him. Granted he didn't really make this Isagi's problem (unlike some people), but it started to become a problem for Bachira when Rin came into the picture (more on that later). As a result Bachira had to be willing to accept that nobody may ever understand or play with him the way he wants in order to enjoy soccer, but that he'll be okay even if he's alone and has no friends.

BUT--

Love wins. Lol. In the panels before Bachira is explaining the conclusion he landed on.

This is the epitome of a healthy relationship. I can live without you, so I can safely say that I want you here with me. That's Bachira and where he landed, and ever since then they've been able to play together and compete against each other without their affection toward each other being impacted. Bachira undergoes his own salvation early on in the story, and it sets the tone for something that needs to occur later (that hasn't occurred yet). Bachira being able to problem solve on his own is the reason that he and Isagi can be the way they are and the reason Isagi can stay grounded (even when things are looking somewhat not great personality-wise in the current arc lol). They can play with and against each other, they can challenge and encourage each other and neither one of them spirals into despair or self-loathing. Now, I don't particularly care about fictional relationships being "healthy" as it usually doesn't make a difference imo, if relationships in media are toxic hellscapes it's usually for entertainment and angst purposes. But in the case of Blue Lock, Bachira's relationship with Isagi is directly compared to Isagi's relationship with Rin. Between Bachira and Rin, one is way better off than the other right now, so I do think the differences in positive relationship vs. negative relationship absolutely make a difference in this case.

In summary: Bachira fought off his inner monster and can now play soccer without craving someone else's acceptance/approval. But even with this realization, he decided that he wants Isagi in his world still. So Bachira is in a good spot, but he didn't get there without some help.

Which brings me to Rin and Isagi.

These two started off as pretty decent rivals, just competing to be the best. But someone had to go and ruin it.

In the U20 game they both are fixated on surpassing each other. It's normal, it's okay and acceptable because they're both trying to get better and they view the other as a way to improve. None of this is an issue. Although...

Rin has issues, unresolved issues that nobody can solve because it has nothing to do with anyone but himself and his brother. More on his brother later and back to him and Isagi.

During the U20 arc Rin enters a "flow" state and goes nuts on the soccer field, which is good for his soccer playing but bad for his wellbeing. What sends him into this state is so interesting though:

As I said, Rin has issues. His brother absolutely crushed and devastated him, and this is the main reason for why he's acting the way he is in the U20 arc and the NEL arc (current arc being written right now). During the U20 arc and therefore after, Rin diverts his attention from his brother to Isagi, and the normal rivalry dynamic he had with Isagi is no longer what it was in Rin's case. It's one-sided, kind of like it was with Bachira. However Rin lets it consume him and bring him to a really dark place in the NEL arc. Rin starts strongly associating Isagi's effect on him with his brother's effect on him:

**Which is just unfair to Isagi and inaccurate anyway, because objectively speaking Isagi has done nothing to Rin other than what everyone in Blue Lock is doing to each other--competing. But as shown in the U20 arc when Rin started to deteriorate, Isagi is a threat to Rin. Isagi can catch up to Rin's playstyle, Isagi can keep up with Rin on the soccer field. What Rin realized and what sent him over the edge, was that EVERYONE was keeping up with his play style because Isagi's own playstyle was giving everyone a pathway to do so. Again--this is not a bad thing and maybe could have continued being a somewhat normal rivalry after the U20 game, but Sae being a fucking asshole had to go and make everything ten times worse for Rin by going out of his way to crush his spirit and acknowledge Isagi (this had to have been done intentionally—he knew what he was doing).

**Kaiser does this too with Isagi, the common denominator being that both Kaiser and Rin made Isagi their whole personality because they both were already beyond fucked up before the story began

Now I can tie Rin and Bachira together and complete the triangle.

After this Rin wasn't the same, and Rin became a very dark version of Bachira, which is ironic because it was Rin's words that made Bachira realize that he needed to save himself from his codependency on Isagi:

In the current arc Rin is searching for someone with his soccer too, but he can't direct his own advice at himself. What's really good about this current arc is that Rin relives moments from both Isagi and Bachira earlier in the manga, further emphasizing the importance of these three relationships in the story's progression. But unfortunately for Rin these moments aren't as positively enlightening as they were for Bachira and Isagi.

Rin reenacts a moment from chapter 2, where Isagi decided that if he was going to improve he didn't need to go for the weakest link. Rin on the other hand reenacts this but rather than with a moment of mercy (like how Isagi didn't go for the one injured player in the room and spared him), Rin's moment is kind of bratty and entitled and negatively impacted his team:

There's a difference in the two situations. Isagi's development was positive, Rin's was not, simply because it was a shitty choice that only benefitted his ego. But also it's because of Rin's personal issues. Rin chose not to score because he's searching for someone with his soccer. His brother:

Sae is Rin’s “monster”. He's reliving Bachira's dilemma, and just like Bachira he's becoming desperate to find someone. They both even said they either let Isagi become their reason for existing or devoted their entire being to him:

TO BE CONTINUED--

the way shin soukoku is developing right now, i'm starting to believe in atsushi being the one who'll have to join the port mafia theory - it would be a really interesting narrative choice for where these two are headed, i think there could be a lot explored with it

What ppl don’t understand about Kabru (of Utaya) is that his natural state is not bitter hater. That’s Chilchuck. Kabru is only a bitter hater around Laios bc Laios has a unique talent for pissing other autistic ppl off. Kabru’s natural state is being a weird overly talkative charismatic freak who’s way too much in everyone’s business. He’s like a cheery yoga mom on 800mg of caffeine and no sleep.

📸 This is not just a newspaper cover. This is our reality in Gaza.

This powerful image was published by The Independent on May 11, 2025. It shows the faces of hungry and terrified Palestinian children — the result of a brutal blockade and forced starvation.

The headline reads: "For all their sakes, end the deafening silence on Gaza now." But the silence continues ........

💔 I am a father of three children. We live every day under the shadow of hunger and fear. There is no food, no clean water, no safe place — only the constant struggle to keep my children alive.

The siege has taken away our jobs, our homes, our futures. I am doing everything I can to find food for my kids, to give them something — anything — to eat.

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