*when Sean makes an appearance on tumblr after 4 years*
Hello, My name is Mosab Elderawi, and I live in Gaza with my family. Life here has become harder than I ever imagined, and Iām writing this with hope in my heart that you might hear our story.
The ongoing war has devastated my family. Weāve lost 25 family membersāeach one a beloved part of our lives, taken too soon. I miss them deeplyātheir laughter, their presence, their love. Every day is a reminder of this unimaginable loss.
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We are now facing daily challenges to surviveāthings that most people take for granted, like food, clean water, and a safe place to sleep. The harsh realities of life here have replaced our dreams with the constant fight for survival.
š Lost Stability: The war has left us without work or a stable source of income. š Basic Needs: Food and water are becoming harder to afford with rising prices and scarce resources. š Dreams on Hold: Like so many here, my familyās dreams have been replaced by the need to simply survive. š¢ Unimaginable Loss: Losing 25 loved ones has left a void that can never be filled.
Iām sharing our story with the hope that someone out there might care. Even $5 can make a big difference for us, and if youāre unable to donate, just reblogging this post can help spread the word.
Your kindness, no matter how small, is something weāll never forget.
Your support is not about changing our entire situationāitās about giving us a little relief, a little hope, and a way to keep going. We are not asking for much, and we understand if you canāt donate. Sharing our story is just as valuable to us as a donation.
Thank you for reading this far. It means the world to us to know that someone is listening. Your kindness gives us strength and helps us believe in a better tomorrow.
With all our gratitude, Mosab Elderawi and Family ā¤ļø
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just like itās impossible to survive a bullet through the heart.Ā
Nope now itās at the point that iām shocked that people off tt donāt know whatās going down. I have no reach but iāll sum it up anyway.
SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.
SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!
Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?
SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we donāt like how users are communicating with each other, itās making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)
Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i donāt want to lose this community what should we do? We donāt want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok
A few users: what about xiaohongshu? Itās the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but itās primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)
16 hours later:
Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.
My fyp is a mix of āi would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reelsā and āi will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anywayā and āim just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!ā etc.
So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh itās adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.
This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. Thatās pretty damn cool.
Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.
Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.
I donāt want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it š
Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.
nothing compares to the calendar on this site. flat fuck friday. the halloween post that always shows up mid july. you see four anime girls and immediately know what day of the week it is. on the ides of march we all wake up and clown on some guy who got stabbed two thousand years ago. last week we celebrated down with cis day. I canāt wait for ever given and nov 5th anniversary memes. anyways have a lovely neil banging out the tunes day
some unrelated facts you might want to know for no reason at all:
the new email address for reporting trans people to the US government Office of Personnel Management is defendingwomen@opm.gov
since most of the people running the current government purges seem to be completely incompetent, it's entirely possible they haven't set up normal spam protections for that address
the website anonymousemail.me can send an email that appears to come from a nonexistent address and can't be easily traced back to the actual sender
you can get a copy of the Bee Movie script that's been fucked up by repeated machine translation here
Sanaa reached out to me to help share her fundraiser! Her family is suffering from medical issues, and have no income, while prices in Gaza have skyrocketed.
If you donate, reminder I am drawing for those who donate to Gaza fundraisers or donated esims! Donate and get some art! (more info on the post linked here)
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I am Ahmed Matar from the Gaza Strip. I decided to emigrate from the Gaza Strip a month before the war. The war came and left my family alone in Gaza. Our house was destroyed and my family was displaced from one place to another. They had nothing left.my father and my mother are ill,and no one can help them. Help us to save them from hunger and death.l want to see my family again to meet and smell them again .
Please.comment,like,share
https://gofund.me/cd41b610
i would've fucked so hard as a court jester in ye olde i would've jangled my balls and done a little dance and sang my silly tunes i'd be so good at my job. alas i have to be on tumblr instead which is like a poor imitation of it