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Ukrainian charity fund "Come Back Alive"

Ukrainian charity foundation of Serhiy Pritula

United24 - the official platform for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine

The Hospitallers - Ukrainian volunteer medical battalion, which provides first aid and evacuates wounded Ukrainian soldiers

These are the main platforms that most Ukrainians (myself included) regularly use to donate to support our armed forces. Ukraine needs military aid, because only through victory we can achieve peace. Russia's only goal is to destroy us. If Russia is not defeated, there will be no future for Ukraine.

These funds buy vehicles for the evacuation of the wounded, thermal imagers, body armor and everything else our defenders need to survive.

Why you should NOT donate to the Red Cross

You see emptiness here is the purported familiar and your house is endlessly familiar, endlessly repetitive. Hallways, corridors, rooms, over and over again. [Mark Z. Danielewski]

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i was going to make something serious for the new episode but i just made a bunch of bullshit instead

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He's unironically so hopecore... I'll miss you D3rlord3 searching for a world...

Lots of bad news, I know. But there is also some good news, thanks to you.

This fall we have been working together to deliver automobiles with drone-jamming equipment to the second corps of the Ukrainian National Guard, known as Khartiia. I know commanders and soldiers there and I have visited them on the front.

These drone-jamming vehicles (refitted trucks and vans) are necessary for the safe transport of medics and the wounded, who will otherwise be targeted and killed by Russian drones. The goal of this fundraiser was one million dollars. The good news is that we are 87% there, thanks to more than five thousand donors.

More than that: thanks to our great Estonian and Ukrainian partners, the vehicles are already being refitted, sent to Kyiv, and then on to the front. There have already been two deliveries — this is a photo of one of the handovers in Kyiv:

If you can, please help us finish the job. The button here will take you to the donation page.

In contributing to this fundraiser you are helping people stay alive, people who volunteered for military service, people who are defending their country against a criminal attack, people who who are taking terrible risks.

This is a time of year when many of us give gifts — this is a gift of life, but also a gift of dignity, reminding people that they are not alone. Thank you.

PS: If you are an American making a larger donation and want a tax deduction, follow these instructions (hit the link, scroll down, find the fundraiser with my name called “Freedom is Action”.)

PPS: Please share this post with others who might want to help:

PPPS: If you prefer to help the Ukrainian state directly, the presidential platform is United 24. They have several excellent fundraisers underway.

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Bonus Sketch Below!

hunted's two sides

opportunist

stubborn

smitten

paranoid

cheated

contrairian

broken

cold

hero

He is a stone. A constant, unyielding force. Capable of being changed, of course- sharpened into a weapon, stacked into the walls of a prison- but entirely inert.

She is a river. Ebbing and flowing, never retaining a constant shape. The waters can be cleared, deepened, displaced momentarily, but you will not change its course by plunging a hand or a blade into it. You will not still it.

The rock is what moves the stream.

The waters meet this unyielding surface and flow around it. Their path is altered ever so slightly, but it is altered. A well-placed rock can change the trajectory of a river's flow, can be shifted to allow the waters to flow in more directions or with more power, can block it off entirely until it stills to a stagnant pool.

And all the while, changes begin to happen. Things that couldn't, had the rock not been placed. The rock's edges are smoothed and its layers peeled back to reveal glimpses of its core, while imperceptibly tiny pieces of it join the river's flow. They understand each other just a little bit better, now.

Oh, you would like to hear what we're thinking, wouldn't you? He raises the blade above his head, dangling it by the handle in front of his eyes. But I think we hold the power right now.