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List of fundraisers that have reached out to me. I'll be updating with new ones, but won't be keeping track of goals. Please go through the list and donate to families throughout the list, as many still aren't at their goals or needed to increase them. Dates are to indicate when these fundraisers have been updated.
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1. mohammed2alwadiya | Verified, line 1013 on The ButterflyEffect Project
2. rewaida97 | Created September 2, 2024 | Line 35 on the GazaVetters List
3. tahseenkhazen | Created March 1, 2024 | Verified by northgazaupdates and others in their main post
4. ferass97 | Created September 22, 2024 | Vetted by association
5. mahmodsy1 | Created August 14, 2024 | #190 on beesandwatermelon and others on their main post
6. samarsh11 | Created April 24, 2024 | Vetted by several
7. khalid-sisters | Created March 15, 2024 | Vetted by several
8. valentina-leonardi | Created January 26, 2024 | Line #49 on the beesandwatermelon list, under the Food/Shelter/Evacuate tab
9. najahmeq2 | Created April 13, 2024 | #49 on the gazavetters list
10. hashemsamar | Created April 24, 2024 | Vetted by several
11. olasfamily | Created June 1, 2024 | Line 205 on the Vetted Gaza Evacuation List
12. deyaa-97 | Created April 23, 2024 | Verified by several
13. mahmoudayyads | Created July 24, 2024 | Vetted by 90-ghost
14. hanan-family55 | Created August 30, 2024 | #152 on the gazavetters list
15. saveloriafamily | Created August 12, 2024 | Vetted by 90-ghost and #52 on the gazavetters list
16. marymfamily | Created August 28, 2024 | #34 on gazavetters list
17. belalgaza2 | Created August 3, 2024 | Bilal is Mohammed's nephew
18. dodooomar1 | Vetted by 90-ghost
19. nisreen-suhail | Created April 7, 2024 | #75 on the GazaVetters list
20. shaimayasser | Created October 26, 2024 | #255 on the GazaVetters list
21. aboudalhajgaza | Shared by 90-ghost and vetted by association
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Razz's Rough Guide to Selecting Good Reference Photos for Darker Skin (and how to color pick without being Racist about it)
Say you're an artist, and you want to learn how to draw/paint and render darker skin. If you just type in 'dark skin reference' into your search engine, you're likely to get a range of photos that range from mid-toned skintones to some darker skintones, but notably a lot of the photos of those darker skinned individuals will... not exactly be the best photos in the world.
It's not as simple as just color-picking skin in a photograph and calling it a day. You need to do so with intention. And you need to be selective in what you gather for your reference materials, because color picking from a bad photo versus a good photo will make a world of difference.
Racism, Colorism, and Anti-Blackness are a big component to this discussion. Here's a quick example of good vs bad ref photo using the same model - Khoudia Diop.
The good reference photo (left): balanced neutral lighting, good exposure, good range of values across the model's face, nothing is overly washed out or under-exposed, the variance of undertones are visible, and the highlights don't overtake the rest of her skin.
The bad reference photo (right): the white balance is shifted to focus on her white outfit, and so her face is under-exposed. This flattens her face so that it appears muddied and de-saturated. Her face blends together into a flat dark blob (aside from the teeth shining as bright as the white outfit). This photo does this Black model a disservice, as the photographer and/or editor did not take the time and effort to re-balance the values.
If you want other resources that give tips and info about rendering and lighting on dark skin and how to avoid whitewashing and caricatures, I recommend looking at some of these various links to resources here. More under the read more.
Racism and Colorism are ingrained in everything, including art-forms like painting and photography. Photography has a history of colorism and anti-blackness. If you're interested in the history, there are a few articles and some videos I recommend as a taste tester about it. Here is a short video by Vox about the subject in regards to Kodak color film.
Even though technology has advanced to better accommodate varying skintones in photography, that doesn't mean that the long-standing racial bias has disappeared. The bias towards whiteness is deep, and often unconsciously perpetuated, so that even programs such as facial recognition software will struggle to identify a darker skinned person versus a lighter skinned person.
Modern day photography can still replicate the biased conditions of old film photography if the photographer is not mindful of their subject.
When looking for reference material, you will encounter both good and bad photos. Even if a photo by white standards has good lighting and technique, if the photographer or editor don't adjust the parameters to accommodate for darker skin, they can fall into many pitfalls.
The model's skin can be underexposed, flat, over-exposed, or washed out and gray. The photographer could over-emphasize the contrast so that the skin has overly bright reflections and shadows that swallow the rest of their face. They could be flattened so that only one or two hues of their skintone show through, while the rest disappear. They could be de-saturated so that all the richness and depth of their undertones are lost, and the model's skin becomes charcoal-like and ashy.
Often photographers will do grayscale photos of darker skinned subjects, as if to avoid having to deal with the problem of color adjustment in the first place. Sure, the grayscale can better capture the values of their skin, but it can still fall into the pitfalls of underexposure or washing them out.
So, given this knowledge that photography is susceptible to racial bias and can be done badly, how do we determine 'good' photos versus 'bad' photos of a darker skinned person (at least when it comes to looking for photo references)? What makes a good and bad photo is subjective, but these are my takes.
I'll take an example of a dark skinned model - in this case Khoudia Diop - and present some examples of what a 'bad' photograph of her can look like. These would be the types of photos to avoid using as reference for what darker skin actually looks like.
The first example ie the top left image of her is balanced to show the white detail of her outfit, but not at all balanced to show the detail of her face and skintone, and so her face and skin and hair are totally underexposed and flattened. The reflection of light on her face overly pops out like a bright light in a sea of under-exposed dark muddied features that blend into each other.
The second example in the top row completely de-saturates her face, giving her a gray-ish ashy charcoal-like tone to her skin, completely obscuring whatever undertones she may have. It looks deliberate, in contrast to the noticeable yellowed tone of her light colored outfit.
The third example in the top row places her in a white patterned outfit in front of a stark white background, that completely flattens her features into one or two hues, while the highlights and whites of her teeth stand out starkly as if in a void of under-detailed flattened brown.
The fourth example uses contrast to its detriment, leading to the shadows becoming too dark so that her features blend into the shadows; the corners of her mouth just fade into the darkness with hard to see boundaries. The highlights and reflections of light on her face give an almost ashy appearance.
The fifth example has her standing in a bikini, and while the lighting is not bad, the white lighting and editing drains away the variance of depth in her skin, making it all look like the same undertone almost as if painted on, when in reality bodies can greatly vary in undertone and depth of richness from one part of the body to another.
The sixth and last example of a 'bad' photo has her in a stark white outfit in front of black background, and whatever the hell is going on with the lighting on her face makes her look washed out and ashy.
Okay, so those are all examples of 'bad' photos. So what does a 'good' photo for photo reference look like?
Here are some examples I picked, of the same model, that I would consider 'good' photos to use as reference when you're trying to effectively depict darker skintones.
All four of these photos are nicely exposed and balanced so that none of her features are overly flattened or washed out. The undertone and depth of her skintone is on display in multiple locations, and the whites of her eyes and highlights of her skin are not so stark as to overtake the rest of her face. The reflectiveness of her skin is used to emphasize her facial structure without completely washing out the rest of her skintone. The white lighting used utilizes the reflective nature of her skin without overly coloring it reflect the environment.
These are good photos to use as photo reference. They have the model in neutral lighting, so that the skintone is not distorted by vibrant colors reflecting off the skin. Vibrant lighting can be useful, but if you want a more objective view of skintone, it is best to use neutral lighting.
Okay, so we have a metric of what a decent reference photo can look like, now how do we use the reference photo to color pick a skintone?
There are good ways to do it, and bad ways to do it. The bad ways are often done maliciously by people who want to whitewash on purpose. Let's start with the bad.
Say this image below is our photo reference. Pretty decent, right? The lighting is neutral white, nothing is over or under-exposed, the variance of her undertones are on display, and the reflections of the lighting on her face isn't too glaring. How could someone possibly muck up using this for reference?
I shall show you some of the ways someone may take an ostensibly good reference photo, and color pick ignorantly or maliciously from it.
So if those are the ways you SHOULDN'T color pick for a dark skinned ref image, how SHOULD you do it instead? Here's how!
If you put all these tips into practice, you'll likely have a much better time picking good reference material and color picking from aforementioned reference material.
But what if the artwork you're doing has dramatic lighting? How would that affect darker skin? I'm glad you asked!
Dark skin is reflective! Light bounces off dark skin in beautiful ways! Check out how vibrant lighting bounces off the skin of these models from the Afro Hair Index!
Whatever tones and hues the skin usually has will get tinted to reflect whatever lighting hits that skin. If you shine a blue light, all the highlights will be blue.
When it comes to studying how light interacts with skin, photos like these are great! They are not exactly good metrics for determining the base skin color outside of that dramatic lighting, however. If you want to render skin that's not affected by tinted lighting, it is best to use reference photos in neutral/white lighting.
I encourage anyone that wants to get better at rendering skin to do some studies of good photos, figure out how that light interacts with the skin, how the shadows and highlights bounce around the image, how different lighting and exposure affects the flatness or variance of values of the skin. It's a great way to level up your understanding as an artist!
It is up to our discernment and personal tastes what we decide as 'good' or 'bad' reference photos, but ultimately I hope this can help people find better material to work with instead of settling for the first image they find even if it's less than ideal.
(Thank you to my friends who helped me as I made this guide! Much love to @pleasantvoidphantom especially)
This video came up in my recommendations this evening and I thought I should share. The memeification of Black pain is so prevalent and it's crazy how many people dont even realize it.
Oh yeah I saw a post about this one! Yeah... Yeah... The "My Shayla" thing was extremely weird to me, as an example. Felt a tad sadistic. Tyrese might be corny sometimes, but he was genuinely hurt that he might not see his daughter, and people just... Started saying it like it was funny. I'm convinced that most people did it the way they do everything else involving Black culture on the internet, which is quoting something out of context they don't understand.
Or the "saxophones coming", even though that one is fiction, how many people know the actual SOURCE of the soundbyte? They just say things because it's "trendy" but don't really... Care about the people behind it.
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did you know common viruses are linked to serious health problems?
my new theory: covid had to become 'just a cold' culturally because more research is coming out all the time about how you don't wanna get sick in general, it can absolutely fuck up your life, and people realizing that will inevitably result in people demanding changes to the way things work.
the thing that they don't want you to know is that these acute sicknesses, common viruses and colds, can either cause direct damage or create the circumstances that lead to long term, often complex health problems down the road. by 'they', i mean the people who have a vested interest in putting all our bodies through the meat grinder of late stage capitalism 'business as usual', no matter the circumstances.
i don't have a lot of spoons to write about this today and i'm brain foggy so i'm not gonna be the most eloquent but
think about the implications if your boss making you come in sick can lead to your coworker developing parkinsons or ms or heart damage or cancer. if people knew these things, they would absolutely not take the business as usual shit we're doing right now. people would demand paid time off. people would demand universal healthcare. people would demand so much more.
for example, just saw this recently.
A new study shows how the body’s response to severe influenza can kill heart muscle cells, a discovery that could pave the way for drugs to
but it's also not just this. conditions like MS and parkinsons, even cancers, among others have been linked to viruses, like for one, epstein barr. (epstein barr is mono, by the way).
Infection of the brain with HPgV, an otherwise harmless virus, may trigger Parkinson’s, particularly in those with LRRK2 mutations, a study
The vast majority of diseases do not have a single cause; rather, multiple factors combine to cause a disease. Growing evidence sugge
cancer, y'all. certain viruses, including covid, increase your likelihood of getting cancer.
Several viruses are linked with cancer in humans. Find out what we know about viruses and cancer risk here.
if we all really understood this, i believe more of us would be masking up. i don't want this for any of us and it's important to know these things.
i don't think that there is necessarily a global conspiracy to keep this from us, obviously donald trump and joe biden have gotten covid a billion times and are suffering because of it, obviously some of it is just plain ignorance but it is true that the powers that be have a vested interest in us not understanding this.
and if you aren't familiar with the long term damage covid causes:
Detailed information and resources on the long-term health consequences of COVID-19 infection and the broad social impacts of the COVID-19 p
💚Atomite era: Bunny after leaving DC and cleaning her hands of the mess there, she decided to move to the Commonwealth. There she met a couple of Atomites, filled with guilt after blowing up Megaton, Bunny joins them. Learning why Atom means so much to them. A starch contrast when she first heard of Church of the Children of Atom. She used all her researches and knowledge working with Moira to write and produce a book called "Adam vs Atom."
👖Travelling Outfit: The sweater was a gift from Amata, its her favorite thing in the whole wasteland, hands down! Bunny and Amata had a very um, very personal relationship before she left. She did not come back to help Vault 101 in Trouble on the Homefront on the account she shot and killed the overseer.
♥️Vault 101 Suit: Bittersweet, but helps if she needs a disguise or to let someone's guard down.
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I don’t know if anyone will read this… or if my voice will disappear like everything else we lost.
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.
Share, donate now, and don’t let silence steal her minutes. Your kindness can save her today.
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a mother of 5 children, living with my family in a tent after the war destroyed ou
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.
Please watch our story and consider supporting our family. Your donation can help us buy food, water, medicine, and other essential needs. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings hope and helps us survive these extremely difficult circumstances.
🙏 Please donate and help us survive. Thank you for your compassion, kindness, and support.
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hot take comments like "I hope I get cyclosporiasis I want to lose 10 lbs" are not only obvious fatphobia but also part of mass illness normalization that has been an ongoing effort since 2020 to minimize the dangers of disease and infections
They want to act like high levels of sickness whether it be airborne or foodborne are normal and not the responsibility of agencies like public health or food safety regulation so they can get away with dismantling them.
"No one's going to die," they say. Factually incorrect and honestly we don't have good data on what a society that's normalized explosive diarrhea looks like, but y'all have an idea what the cholera era looked like, right?
Mass disease is not normal and preventable. One of the number one causes is how large agricultural companies refuse to treat their employees like humans: people picking the food you eat don't have bathrooms, so when they get sick, they're left with a choice to shit their pants and get back to work or squat in the field and get back to work. I know which I'd choose in their shoes...
Mass illness isn't just a public health issue, it's a workers' rights issue and more!
Excerpt from Section 9: The Factory Acts. Sanitary and Educational Clauses of the same. Their General Extension in the Workplace.
“What could possibly show better the character of the capitalist mode of production, than the necessity that exists for forcing upon it, by Acts of Parliament, the simplest appliances for maintaining cleanliness and health? In the potteries the Factory Act of 1864 “has whitewashed and cleansed upwards of 200 workshops, after a period of abstinence from any such cleaning, in many cases of 20 years, and in some, entirely,” (this is the “abstinence” of the capitalist!) “in which were employed 27,800 artisans, hitherto breathing through protracted days and often nights of labour, a mephitic atmosphere, and which rendered an otherwise comparatively innocuous occupation, pregnant with disease and death. The Act has improved the ventilation very much.” [214]
At the same time, this portion of the Act strikingly shows that the capitalist mode of production, owing to its very nature, excludes all rational improvement beyond a certain point. It has been stated over and over again that the English doctors are unanimous in declaring that where the work is continuous, 500 cubic feet is the very least space that should be allowed for each person. Now, if the Factory Acts, owing to their compulsory provisions, indirectly hasten on the conversion of small workshops into factories, thus indirectly attacking the proprietary rights of the smaller capitalists, and assuring a monopoly to the great ones, so, if it were made obligatory to provide the proper space for each workman in every workshop, thousands of small employers would, at one full swoop, be expropriated directly!
The very root of the capitalist mode of production, i.e., the self-expansion of all capital, large or small, by means of the “free” purchase and consumption of labour-power, would be attacked. Factory legislation is therefore brought to a deadlock before these 500 cubic feet of breathing space. The sanitary officers, the industrial inquiry commissioners, the factory inspectors, all harp, over and over again, upon the necessity for those 500 cubic feet, and upon the impossibility of wringing them out of capital. They thus, in fact, declare that consumption and other lung diseases among the workpeople are necessary conditions to the existence of capital. [215]
hey boos, if y'all could help me with my bill I'd appreciate a lot because I haven't work and won't work this week because my mom is treating the pneumonia and I'm helping her 💜, my sis helped me in paying my wifi bill today tho, now I just have this and another one but it's at the end of the month the last one
Only $358 left… Please don’t let my mother’s hope end here 💔
We’ve fought so hard to get this far, and now only $358 stands between my mother and the urgent heart procedure she needs 😔
If just 14 kind people donate $25, my mother can finally get one step closer to the urgent heart procedure she needs
I keep refreshing the fundraiser, hoping to see another donation, but nothing changes. Meanwhile, I return to the hospital and see my mother still waiting, still in pain, still asking me with her eyes for hope that I struggle to give.💔😔
I’m begging you with all my heart , Please… don’t tell yourself, “Someone else will donate.” What if everyone thinks the same way?
Be one of those 14 people. Your $25 may feel small to you, but to me, it could mean one step closer to hearing the words, “Your mother can finally have her procedure.”
Please don’t let our hope fade when we are so close. If you can’t donate, please share our story. Every act of kindness brings my mother closer to the treatment she desperately needs. 💔🙏
Please… be the reason I can tell my mother, “You’re finally going to get your operation.” 💔
Life in Gaza is really tough. We are living in very difficult conditions, and every day feels like a struggle just to get through it.
My father is still very sick, and seeing him like this is breaking me. I wish I could do more for him, but I can’t.
I’m trying to stay strong for my family, but honestly I feel lost and tired.
Please, don’t leave us alone. Donate and share our story… it might help save my dad.
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You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.
Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?
