the land the sea and this guy👉👉

Yumna Al-Arashi, Axis of Evil (Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq), 2020

in Leica Fotografie International (LFI) magazine:

I didn't get to choose how I was raised. My upbringing was hauling rocks and digging holes, cutting grass and hanging drywall. I was beat frequently and severely. I now have the unenviable skill of being able to dismiss all of my body's complaints until a job is done. These other girls talk about being "failures" of men and I can't relate. I was too good at being a "man" in the sense that a man can be broken into being a workhorse. I understand the How's and the Why's of the current association of trans femininity with the shut-in neurotic, but that experience is completely alien to me. Even my mother held down a job and helped out with the manual labor in addition to raising four children, there were no illusions of simple domesticity in our house.

Among my friends, I'm always one of strongest, mechanically-minded, capable, practical, and bull-headed of them. I was helping friends move over the weekend and one of them quipped that "Oh thank goodness, a real butch has arrived." Lately it just feels like another box I need to get out of. As if my identity is somehow stored in sneakers and cargo shorts. No matter how much estrogen I take, people take one look at my work knife and loudly proclaim "This woman is masculine".

"Oh I don't normally use AI, I just wanted it to plan my trip"

You lived on this planet for decades, you know what you like, there are hundreds of websites where you can type into any search engine " things to do in [area]" and have at least a hundred different options.

"Oh I only use it so I can figure out what to make during the week with what I have"

The most popular website as you type in "recipes" into google have sections where you click dinner- quick and easy and those usually rely on staples + 1 or 2 items. I found 30 recipes on chicken alone.

"I had a writing idea, so I typed a few sentences into Chat GPT and I was able to write 20 pages with it."

a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.

i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.

the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)

and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.

an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th:

https://www.re3data.org

There are over 3500 respectable data repositories on one respectable global registry; to a researcher there’s no point in data existing if not findable; if you’re trying to find a new home for your dataset, start there

My name is Suhaila, a mother of five children.

My daughter Mira is in a very critical condition, and every passing moment brings us closer to losing her if help does not arrive in time.

I hold her small hand, watch her struggle to breathe, and pray for one more chance for her life.

Please… act now. Silence is taking her away from me. Every moment without help brings us closer to losing her. I beg you from my heart, don’t scroll past—help us before it’s too late.

Every second matters. Any small donation can help save her life. Please don’t ignore us. Share this message, donate if you can. Your kindness could give my daughter a chance to live and see tomorrow

Every second now is precious, and every act of kindness could be the reason she survives.

I am not asking for anything impossible—just a chance for my daughter to live, to stay with her siblings, and to have a tomorrow.

Please do not ignore this message.

If you cannot donate, please share it.

Your compassion might be the reason Mira lives.

I beg you with all my heart, stop here – donate, share, choose compassion before this silence becomes my daughter’s end.

Thank you for listeningMy daughter is on the edge of death. Every passing second could cost her life.

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My children are searching for their clothes under the rubble. This is my destroyed home Please help my orphaned children in Palestine. Help them

Help us. Save us. We are slowly dying. 😭💔🙏

I am a mother of five children, and today we are living through one of the most terrifying moments of our lives.

The army has ordered the evacuation of the areas around us. People are running in fear, carrying their children and whatever little they have left. I recorded a video so the world can see the suffering we are going through and the fear surrounding us every second.

We have no money to leave, no safe place to go, and nowhere to protect my children. Every moment feels like danger is getting closer to us. My children are terrified, and I do not know how to keep them safe anymore.

Please, I beg you, help us before it is too late. Help us before we are bombed and disappear like so many others. Any support, donation, or share could save the lives of my children.

Please do not ignore our cries for help.

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I have documented a video showing military boats detaining fishermen in the Gaza Sea. My husband is a fisherman, and every time he goes out to sea, we live in constant fear for his life. During the war, he was injured and faced great danger from military boats, yet he is still forced to risk his life because our family has no other source of income.

"Look at the fishermen of Gaza. They go to sea not in search of wealth, but in search of survival. Yet even there, they live in fear. We have all seen fishermen intercepted and taken away by warships while trying to earn a living.

My husband is unemployed. He was once a fisherman, but now every trip to the sea carries the risk of detention, violence, or death. As a wife and mother, I am terrified of losing him, yet our family is struggling to survive without income.

Today, we face impossible choices: hunger or danger, poverty or risk. We need help to get through these difficult days.

I am asking for your compassion and support. Any donation, no matter the amount, will help us provide food, basic necessities, and a measure of stability for our family while we navigate this crisis.

Please consider donating and sharing our story. Your kindness can help protect a family that is simply trying to survive.

Thank you for standing with us and with the people of Gaza."

We are living in a torn tent, struggling to find food and clean water. I suffer from severe iron deficiency and poor health, while my children face hunger and uncertainty every day. We cannot afford even the most basic necessities, and each day has become a fight for survival.

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Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

Mother’s Day passed in many parts of the world, and people celebrated all over. However, over Mother’s Day weekend Hamza’s family’s fundraiser was taken down by gofundme. They now have to start from square one all over again.

Hamza has several young nieces who are all suffering from malnutrition. Please, if you have the means, donate to their family. It would mean a lot to them.

In fragile tents and broken shelters, we fight to survive the biting cold and the devastation that surrounds us. The rain seeps through, the wind cuts deep, and yet, somehow, we cling to hope.

You are our last lifeline—don’t leave us to face this nightmare alone. Your kindness can be the light that breaks through this darkness and the warmth that saves us from despair.

Even a small donation—€5 or €10—could mean food for a child, warmth for a family, or a glimpse of safety in this endless fear.

Please, don’t turn away. Help us. Your support is the only thing standing between us and the abyss

€18,200 raised of €50K target

A common raven (Corvus corax) perches on a wall in Scotland, UK