Champagne Bubble Girl

being presented with accoutrements and signs of social recognition that are legible to us in said societies as “female” due to their association with skeletons we’d parse as CAFAB in the same cultural tradition

and the take is “it’s a gay man”

And yet people don’t wanna listen when you point out that part of transmisogyny is assuming that trans women are just weird men

A persistent error runs through most public discussion of oil policy, especially in political circles. Oil is treated as if it were a single interchangeable commodity. In reality, crude oil exists, coarsely, on a two-axis spectrum defined by density and sulfur content, and refineries are built around narrow slices of that spectrum. Light, sweet crudes flow easily, contain little sulfur, and yield high proportions of gasoline, naphtha, and petrochemical feedstocks. Heavy, sour crudes are dense, sulfur rich, and yield larger fractions of diesel, residual fuels, and asphalt. These differences are not academic.

They determine where crude can go, what it can be turned into, and whether it is economic at all. Much of US policy still operates on a 1970s mental model of oil scarcity, when volume mattered more than quality and demand growth was assumed.

Venezuela is often described as having the world’s largest proven oil reserves at around 300 billion barrels, which would represent roughly 17% of the global total and easily exceed the reserves of the United States and Russia, but the simple fact of large reserves masks critical nuances about extraction and market value. Most of this oil is extra-heavy crude concentrated in the Orinoco Belt, buried deep underground and much more viscous and sulfur-rich than the light crude that dominates global trade, so producing it requires blending with lighter hydrocarbons, significant diluent imports, and more complex processing. All of this makes extraction costlier and slower compared with conventional light oil.

After surviving a coma and struggling to care for his elderly parents in a flooded, storm-ravaged tent, they still face the most immediate threat: he's had persistent hardships trying to afford very critical medication for his condition. As of now, he's been able to procure only 5 days-worth of meds, whilst still needing to afford basic groceries as well.

Due to the zionist siege and ensuing artificial scarcity, the price of his pills has skyrocketed beyond reach. Without them and proper medical care the occupation won't let him get in Gaza, doctors have warned his condition might further deteriorate. Every missed dose brings him closer to irreversible collapse.

His only path to survival is join his sister in Canada along with his parents, where they can finally access consistent healthcare, shelter, and safety. But right now, he cannot even afford the medicine that would keep him alive long enough to evacuate.

We helped him survive the coma and the storms. We cannot let him die waiting for pills. Please, help them get nurturing along with his meds.

Their GoFundMe campaign is now at just a wee over half their travel expenses:

And you can donate to them here:

PayPal, for daily and medical expenses

GoFundMe, to contribute to their travel expenses

Remember their campaign has been verified as #336 by @gaza-evacuation-funds

Please, donate what you can. Even small amounts add up to a dose. If you can't, please reblog this post, as exposure is their only supply line until Allāh ﷻ knows when.

Don't let a vulnerable person die from a treatable condition in plain sight. This is not just aid, it's a race against a blockade that prices people out of their own survival.

أَمِانِ ٱللَّٰه عَلَيْكُمْ وَالتَوْڢِيْكْ

If you'd be able to donate monthly, please consider helping Ibrahim!

Tagging below:

ibrahim’s emigration paperwork

1) gorey offering artwork @gorey

usuegorey offering artwork, tarot readings and more donation rewards offered for just this campaigngorey link to followup message

"Yes! I am offering tarot readings and custom artwork or other creative work (writing, music) with proof of donation $10 or greater to Ibrahim's campaign. If you need an incentive there is that! Please help my friend!"

2 ) More general list of artists offering: Art and other rewards being offered for those who have proof of donation (such as a screenshot of receipt, probably with personal information blacked out) to the well-known vetting lists and a few other. I have collected an up-to-date list here. There is also links to other lists: for such as flowerpawarts's spreadsheet, you should make sure they accept the vetting list or are not just funding for a specific family

PLEASE DO WHAT YOU CAN TO HELP. THIS SITUATION IS EXTREMELY URGENT, IBRAHIM AND HIS FAMILY NEED HELP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

“The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.”