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If you've ever appreciated my posts about LGBTQ issues, this Pride month, as a favor to me, please do something to help my friend Fadel ( @fadel-dani ).

Fadel is multiply disabled. He has thalassemia, a blood disorder, which leaves him incredibly fatigued. The medication he needs costs €400 every month. He has also been in a very serious accident that left his leg paralyzed for a long time, and now he walks with great difficulty.

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Over 550 days ago, Fadel's family home was bombed and he was left with iron shrapnel embedded in his body. The medical infrastructure in Gaza has been decimated and he needs to get to a better-resourced hospital to get them surgically removed safely.

He cannot sleep at night because any movement while asleep causes the shrapnel in his body to move, and causes extremely severe pain. He suffers from PTSD, chronic pain, and insomnia from the bombing.

The people of Gaza, Fadel's family included, are going through a severe famine now. They struggle to afford food, let alone his medication. He urgently needs to raise funds for food, medication, travel costs to get to a hospital who can perform surgery, and ultimately for his family to escape this genocide.

Fadel has spent his very limited energy building relationships with strangers in the hopes that enough of us can help him to raise the money he needs. His campaign is vetted by @gazavetters list (#197), @90-ghost, and @a-shade-of-blue.

What you can do:

1. Donate any amount you can to his campaign
2. Make a post about Fadel to share his story and encourage others to donate
3. Share this post with your followers
4. Send him a kind message and offer your friendship

I hope all my friends share this post, and I hope all of you share it. Please donate and help me so I can buy my medication as soon as possible and travel and have my surgery as soon as possible. I need urgent surgery to remove the shrapnel stuck in my body.Please donate to me and my family.🤍

should i eat first or shower first *has phone in couch time for another 3 hours due to choice procrastination, a behavioral phenomenon observed in pigeons and rats as well*

i' m something of a pigeons and rats myself

backshots this, backshots that, i would like to be taken out back and shot

I do need to remind the pagan community, as a native Chinese: the majority (if not all) of the native practitioners of the ancient eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, folk religions, Shinto, shamanism, etc.) do not want to be referred to as pagans.

Many (if not most) Asians find it highly offensive when Asian religions get put under the paganism category.

In many parts of the world, "pagan" is a derogatory description that indicates "abnormal", and the people have never wanted to associate with the term.

Just like "witch", "pagan" is not universally reclaimable, and all of us need to simply accept and respect this.

It doesn't matter what the word "pagan" means from an English dictionary. You can argue about its definition until the cows go home, but the whole world doesn't go by what something means in English and you need to understand this.

The tiger

He is in a tube

yes

YES

The tiger can roam

It’s so nice of this zoo to add environmental enrichment for their human inhabitants, replicating the feeling of a big cat possibly being above your head.

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I don’t typically add things to reblogs, but please appreciate the lorg kitty bleppin from one of the last times I was at the Philadelphia Zoo

*meeeting a friend for coffee*

friend: how's work been?

me: oh you know *mimes putting a gun in my mouth but i moan a little and start sucking the barrel and pushing it deeper

Look man. Growing up in the early-2000's Hollister-era Aeropostale-era barely-post-heroin-chic-era was all, deeply, rotten and no good. But I'm glad I'm not 12 right now in this tiktok-infested clean-girl-rampant whatever-the-fucking-hell is going on right now because oh my god. oh my god...

I was burning out in school but I have just remembered Trump thrives on the uneducated

Locking in like never before

Education is punk

by margarida.sa.maia

Tatoosh Range, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington, USA by Chris Moore

See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.

And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.

So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.

REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))

read What is A Refugee for more history. Educate yourselves.

nobody better be posting about the met gala without mentioning the giant pro-palestine demonstration going on outside

some coverage of this year’s protest