at the bottom of the lake

fuck twitter

fuck reddit

fuck tumblr

and fuck you

Gaza is under siege, and the price of staples has climbed tremendously. Community kitchens have been forced to close due to lack of supplies, and have been unable to afford to replenish their stocks.

Gaza Soup Kitchen is a grassroots organization that uses money from global donors to feed thousands of people every day. Their most recent campaign was to provide food parcels for Ramadan, and they are going to struggle to keep people fed in the midst of this new, horrifying war.

unfortunately his own campaign is struggling. as many of you may know, mohammed has recently gotten married! he and his wife farah are trying their best to start a new life with a fresh start. their campaign goal is $10k, of which they currently have $3211. you can donate to them on chuffed here.

i also want to mention mohammed's little brother, yaser @yaseergaza. yaser is hard of hearing and has a cochlear implant. however due to the situation in gaza, he often struggles to keep his cochlear implant charged, and he has also had to discontinue his speech therapy sessions. he is trying to raise funds so that he can continue looking after his health, and currently has $695 out of a total goal of $10k. you can donate to him on chuffed here.

Save the flyer above and post it on your socials. Donations have dropped significantly by 50 percent since the ‘ceasefire’ was announced, but the bombing hasn’t stopped and not enough aid has reached Gazans.

With winter here, the need for comfort is more pressing than ever.

"Who we are and what we do: Grassroots mutual aid led by Palestinians in diaspora. Provide shelter, cash, food, water, medical treatment to displaced Gazan families.

Current situation & Campaign: 90% homes destroyed. Third winter since genocide began. *Urgently* support our winter campaign: clear rubble, rebuild, provide bariers against *severe flooding*, warmth, and shelter.

Donation Impact Breakdown: Shelter (tent): $250-$500. Tarps (3-4): $200-$260. Blankets: $55-$60.

*Give Warmth to Gaza - Flooding Emergency!*

How to donate: Chuffed: https://chuffed.org/project/149178-sameer-project-x-mass-displacement-campaign

Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/qrcodes/p2pqrc/L9X7UQ7728FNL

Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=594101695152128306&created=1717638633

UPDATED COMMISSION SHEET... AGAIN... BECAUSE IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS...

The Sameer Project

Dahnoun Mutual Aid

Mona's Initiative

Hussein Team

if you want to help, you can buy a commission from me, or send a few bucks to my roommate rox to his PayPal or venmo:

pp: [email protected]

venmo: zawehzaweh

Khartoum Aid Kitchen

This is a project originally led by Miss Major herself and aims to provide political education, leadership development, re-entry resources following incarceration, and legal advocacy to Black and Brown members of the transgender, gender-variant, and intersex community.

The setting that prevents your work being used to train AI models is turned off by default! I had no idea about this until now! Artists, go to your settings, click “visibility”, and turn on this setting! Protect your work!

Go to your blog (you have to do this for each individual blog) and the visibility tab

It's this last option here

mutual aid means no hierarchy between givers and receivers

a new mutual aid org, Bridge of Solidarity, has been established in the gaza strip by 17 year old poet yazan mohammed in response to the exploitative practices conducted by some charities and encouraged by the existing charity-based model of fundraising for gaza. according to BoS: "the western attention economy and pity economy plays a large role in who lives or dies in gaza." essentially, people need to make themselves marketable in order to receive lifesaving aid; people who are not marketable die. yazan himself wrote about the damage this can do to one's self image, which you can read here.

after trying for a year to respect his own privacy, my friend siraj was also pressured into posting images of his son's emaciated body in order to gain sympathy from westerners.

we cannot keep forcing people to do this anymore.

here's a declaration of their values from bridge of solidarity's most recent post:

Our organization is against the Western gaze. We refuse to humiliate people. We refuse to force people to take photos. We refuse to force people to take photos with our flyer or logo. People will receive aid freely without being forced to pose. We will respect people's privacy completely. Our principles include autonomy, dignity, sovereignty, mutual respect, and mutual aid.

this org will prioritize giving aid to people without phones or social media, who do not speak english, and who do not have outside support or living parents. these are the people who are not palatable to westerners but who deserve to live with as much dignity as everyone else

as of five days ago, BoS are working on a water truck delivery

as always, my commissions are open (check my pinned post). if you want to help out, you can send donations to rox via his paypal (rent gets taken from his bank account so that's the fastest way to help):

[email protected]

venmo: zawehzaweh

we basically need the entire sum of our rent, which is approximately $1000, and cam doesn't get paid for another week.

thank you for the help, there are 3 of us, and both me and rox are disabled and cannot work (he is homebound and has seizures pretty often, i have extremely bad chronic pain and disability related to autism). it means a lot to us. our car will be paid off at the end of the year, so that'll help, and rox is still in the process of applying for disability benefits.

KOSA/the kids online safety act has been reintroduced into legislature after it passed Senate last year and then got snubbed. It is not unlike the bill that just passed in the UK a few weeks ago. If you don't want what happened in the UK to happen here, now would be a good time to vocally oppose it.

Here is a petition that can be signed by Americans. Attached to the petition is an easy tool that allows you to call and leave messages for your representatives. I have already done so. You can also email your representatives by searching for their name, most have message submission boards as well. This thing died once, it can die again.

The bill was reintroduced May 2025 by sen. Blumenthal.