I Would Die For These Funky Little Siblings

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How it should have been.

Close up on his face at the bottom. He has a snake ear cuff :3

Help Dr. Shadi and his family in Gaza

Dr. Shadi is the head of the Bronchoscopic Department in Al-Shifa hospital.

From his GoFundMe:

My name is Dr. Shady Awad from Gaza (Palestine), I´m a doctor , I am writing this after lots of thoughts and hesitation. But the urgency and need to rescue my family is greater than my resilience. I am desperately seeking your generous support to help me evacuate my family (my wife and 6 children) from Gaza.

I worked in Al-Shifa Hospital as a mergency doctor and I was among the last ones to evacuate it, I’ve been volunteering in the different remaining hospitals since then in Khan Yunis and Rafah. I am dedicated to stay here and save lives in Gaza, but now I’ve come to a point where I’m desperate and I URGENTLY and humbly ask you to help me save my family’s life by getting them out of Gaza since there’s no SAFE place in Gaza due to slow deaths by hunger, dehydration, displacement, the spreading of illnesses and and the ongoing bombings. Choosing to leave is a very painful decision to make, but the situation has become untenable.

on October 7, the escalation of hostilities and subsequent Israeli military directives forced my family and me into multiple relocations, resulting in the loss of our home and displacement from the north to the south of Gaza. Each move has been marked by life-threatening experiences and heart-wrenching losses in our community.

Our once peaceful home has been reduced to rubble, taking away not only our shelter but also the cherished possessions and memories we held dear, including those of our. The loss is immeasurable, and the daily struggle for survival has become increasingly difficult.

my neighborhood after October 7.

We are desperately seeking financial assistance to evacuate from the dangerous situation in Gaza. Our immediate goal is to flees to a safe place for our family, away from the ongoing conflict, where we can begin the process of rebuilding our shattered lives. The funds will be used for essential needs such as temporary housing, food, medical care, and for urgent travel through the Rafah border crossing to Egypt, requiring a hefty $8,000-10000 travel fee per individual.

I am reaching out to you, dear friends, family, and compassionate strangers, to ask for your support in funding our evacuation. The funds raised will be used to cover transportation costs, temporary shelter, and basic necessities for our family until we can establish a more stable situation.

Here's a breakdown of the estimated costs:

-Passport fees: 120 euro per person (a total of 600 euro for five family members).

-Evacuation Fee/Egyptian Coordination: 8000 euro per adult person and 4000 for one child (Considering current evacuation fees and coordination expenses at the Egyptian border).

-Transportation to Rafah Crossing: 1000 euro.

Your support, no matter how small, can make a significant difference in helping us escape the cycle of violence and uncertainty. By contributing to this campaign, you are providing a lifeline for my family to rebuild, heal, and start anew.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for considering our plea. Your kindness and generosity will make a profound difference in our lives.

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

Nightshade your photo posts now.

Even if you don’t post your own art anymore, go back to your old stuff and watermark it.

Do it ASAP, before the deal goes through and the scraping begins.

This will not only protect your art, but has the opportunity to fuck over this deal on a pretty large scale. The more of these posts that are glazed or poisoned, the less valuable this deal becomes for tumblr and midjourney.

Operation Olive Branch is a continuously updating spreadsheet of Palestinian escape funds where progress towards their goals is being tracked. As of right now, there are over 100 funds listed there.

Any amount of money can make a difference. With their recent decision to bomb Rafah, the only remaining “safe” territory in Gaza, Israel has forced Palestinians into a corner by giving them nowhere else to go. The international community has given Israel the ability to act with impunity - it is long past the point in time to rely on those in power to hold Israel to any standard of compassion.

Today, I want you to look at this document, choose a fund, contribute to it, and share it. The people in Rafah are living on borrowed time. Free Palestine.

First i drew this on my tablet:

Then printed it out, oleanderified it in my journal, and scanned it! :) and then I also did some touchups in procreate afterward.

You can read my fanfic here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52511047/chapters/132837622