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I have never understood this obsession. Am now almost 56 years old (gasp!) and have never had any negative encounter with a trans woman. Plenty of very very negative encounters with cis men though.

A tour in South Lebanon after the ceasefire YouTube video by Al Mayadeen English

"Al Mayadeen English correspondent Ali Jezzini takes us on a tour of South Lebanon, documenting the return of residents to Nabatieh, Debbin, and Khiam."

m.youtube.com/watch?v=RBHB...

If you can, please help.

The theme for this anthology is “A Long Way From Home”. The theme can be taken literally or metaphorically. The forced migration and displacement of people, but also voluntary migration for work reasons, for love. Why some people are called expats and others migrants. The migration of birds. A person that feels like home. A country, a place, a language, a body that doesn´t. Submissions are open from 10th April until 10th May, midnight CET.

We`re looking forward to reading your work! www.sidhe-press.eu/submissions/...

Needed by noon today, let´s get going!

I owe you helpers truly everything 🙏🏾 I can’t share for you, but I can make materials for the families you help. I also have a big folder of free art for you to make your own, if you’d prefer. I can help set up toolkits and edit video. Just ping me below.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Our support, with our actions, with our hope still matter!!!

Six families, plus fifteen more families in a displacement camp: every little bit helps them survive today as hunger escalates. Click "weekly" if you can. Then act for their tomorrow. chuffed.org/project/hope...

A banner that is light green. In the background is a painted texture, with a black ink drawing of a hudhud. The title is dark green and says, "Help survivor Ahmed start his degree." In the bottom corner are some green paint strokes, over which the text reads, "Give: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF. Accountability: tiny.cc/HelpAhmed.”

I have to send this tomorrow! Ahmed researches ways to treat the trauma of children in Gaza. He's gone on a 2-year journey to continue developing this work: statelessness in Egypt, & now no support for living costs in Europe.

111/387 by Tuesday will cover his next month: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF

Please help 16-year-old Retaj. You can help by donating, yes- but also by sharing (looking at you, big accounts) and raising awareness. Please do what you can.

The latest update is utterly devastating, and support stopped.

16-year-old Retaj has bullet fragments in her brain after being shot, and they’ve maxed out the bit of care they can get in Gaza in the collapsed medical system. She is losing her faculties. They are exhausted and need help.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

"Everyday we have fire and attacks"

This is what someone in the giving circle wrote two nights ago. We have to support their livelihoods today—the occupation is escalating its engineered famine, HELLO—and take REAL action for their EXISTENCE.

Help 21 families: chuffed.org/project/hope...

A banner that is light green. In the background is a painted texture, with a black ink drawing of a hooded crow. The title is dark green and says, "Help survivor Ahmed start his degree." In the bottom corner are some green paint strokes, over which the text reads, "Give: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF. Accountability: tiny.cc/HelpAhmed.”

I genuinely don't know how to do this. We have one day to help a children's therapist from Gaza with living expenses for the next month. State violence + more mean that genocide hasn't ended for Ahmed while he studies abroad.

Vetted a zillion ways. 33/387 by Tuesday. tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF

This is so wonderful!

Mohamed has continuously inspired me and my family to care for a little garden, which gave us lots of delicious home grown peppers and squash last summer. 💚

bit.ly/help-mohamed

They can't stop us helping, they can't stop you reaching out to a family, creating connections, supporting them in the way they wish. Once you give a family that lifeline they have something that ensures they aren't forgotten.

#Moth Launch Night with Eleanor Holmes & Special Guests Join Eleanor Holmes for the launch of her new hybrid mini-book #Moth (available to pre-order from Ethel Zine) alongside guest readers.

Tonight 19.30 U.K. time is the launch of my hybrid mini-book #moth published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social get your FREE tickets here 👇 many special guest readers & music🪉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moth-launc...

Amazing

Neat little technofascist manifesto.

What could possibly go wrong granting a company access to militaries and police forces around the world that talks of "regressive" cultures and reclaiming national values, the need for militarization and a new age of AI weapons that they will bring about.

Deutsche Bahn - Chefin Palla hält Wiedereinführung des 9-Euro-Tickets für nicht finanzierbar Bahn-Chefin Palla hält eine Rückkehr des 9-Euro-Tickets für ausgeschlossen.

Palla will Bahnhöfe für 20 Mrd sanieren, aber 9-Euro Ticket sei nicht finanzierbar.
Mir wäre ja lieber, dass alle Menschen mit der Bahn fahren können, statt schöne Fassaden zu haben.
Würde auch Autofahrten reduzieren, Ölabhämgigkeit brechen = Sicherheit

www.deutschlandfunk.de/chefin-palla...

Just what I needed. Thank you.

As a father, the weight is heavy — trying to provide for my family from nothing, rebuilding life piece by piece after losing everything.!!!!

Every support means warmth, food, and safety to our little ones.💔

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Genocide continues...every day a new massacre or three...will we continue? Always. One link, 21 families, needs under famine, bombardment, epidemics, displacement.

The BEST way to help is if you click "weekly/monthly" on something small! It sustains literal survival. chuffed.org/project/hope...

Suad and Omar laughing.

Suad and Omar, both looking tired, sitting

Suad and Omar making victory signs

Suad: "I am Suad and this is my child Omar
We are the only survivors of our family after a brutal war that stole everything from us… safety, home, and even loved ones. We have nothing left.

Please consider my child as your own. 💔🙏🏻

Suad 🤍🙏🏻"

chuffed.org/project/soad

Help displaced families in Mawasi Make a great change for the better: help relieve the suffering of displaced families in Mawasi, Gaza, who are facing hunger, thirst, and heat.

chuffed.org/project/mawa...

Still raising funds for these families. Help is still needed. Please donate if you can, share either way. Thank you!

Please support Ritaj! This is not over, we can still help. And we should.

This word has been watered down so much in the last 3 years that it hardly means anything anymore. The real and most dangerous antisemitism, at least in Germany, still comes from the far right. Making this word devoid of meaning is not helping anyone.

Hard not to note the absence of Molly Shah significantly reduces the level of awareness of the ongoing needs and utter calamity Palestinians are still facing.
Some of you were just waiting for this moment

metaphysics question: what is karma? answer: there is a wheel and it is turning. Lucille Clifton

Yes. The brain doesn’t work like AI. It’s not a computer. We use metaphors for it from technology b/c it’s really hard to understand how the brain works and we don’t entirely understand how a pile of electrified jello does all this. But it’s definitely much cooler than AI.