@noor-y-ashour , @amalashuor ‘s sister, is having a hard time getting her GoFundMe off the ground. (You might’ve also seen Nour through her first campaign blog @nourashoure44, which Nour iirc has been suspended from.)

Nour's campaign has been shared by @/90-ghost. She has also been verified by Amal, whose own campaign is #175 on the verified fundraiser list.

The campaign is moving very slowly. It's been up since July 18, but it's still sitting at only £517 out of £80,000. That's only .65% of their goal.

I've talked with Nour over this past week, and she's very worried for her family. Her 4-year-old son Muhammad was born with hypotonia and needs regular physical therapy -- which, obviously, has stopped after the Ashour family was displaced.

Muhammad's condition has since deteriorated, and the situation for the Ashour family -- Muhammad, Nour, her husband and her other child Nazmi -- has become dire. Opportunities to evacuate Gaza are spotty, and they need to do so as soon as possible so Muhammad can resume his therapy.

Please do what you can to help the Ashours. Give what you can & share.

£517/£80,000

£3,469/£80,000

We hit 3k! Let’s keep it going.

£3,622/£80,000

£3,972/£80,000

far from prudish but just got blazed porn of someone's pussy spread out so hard and up close like it's a map of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth and I'm king and grand duke sigismund II augustus inspecting his lands to plot defense against the swedes

idk why people photoshopped the crying cat meme on this pic when the unedited version is so powerful

I say shit like "If my memory serves me" knowing damn well it serves the dark lord

ok so these new tariffs are likely going to be primarily affecting red states. i want y’all to ignore the urge to respond by saying the people in those red states deserve it because of the political representation we have. not because some of us are progressives but because this is an opportunity. if conservatives from these states start complaining about higher prices and financial strain, do not respond with “well you voted for this!” this is your opportunity to pull them to the center. say “wow that is really awful. i’m sure this isn’t what you wanted when you voted last year. you deserve representatives that will have your best interests at heart, you should let them know how upset you are! you deserve to be heard!”

because listen to me. republican politicians don’t give a shit about what progressives in red states have to say. they aren’t gonna change their voting trends for us. but if a bunch of small town conservatives start to get restless and angry with their politicians, if they lose support from their most important demographics, that has a shot at changing things. so swallow your pride and disgust and have a conversation with that republican truck driver instead of taking the pot shot that’ll get you 10 minutes of dopamine. do the hard work.

Time to roll this image out for the conservatives for once.

Make them mad that they've been made fools of, because that right there is an out. A lot of them are going to dig their heels in because if they admit that they were making shit choices then what have they been doing all this time? The sunk-cost fallacy wouldn't allow it.

But! What if they were flat out lied to? There's the excuse to back out! They didn't sign up for this, didn't know that they were voting for a liar (🙃 I know. I KNOWWW). But aren't they pissed now? At the guy who fucking SCAMMED them out of their vote?

yup. the republican party’s big pull is that they’re very good at pointing the finger at xyz minority group to blame them for the country’s ills. people like to know who to blame. conservatives especially like to know who to blame because very often they are not educated enough to understand what the actual problems are, because conservative politicians do not prioritize education.

so with the trump administration doing such a phenomenally horrible job at everything, now is the time to give those conservatives a group to blame. gas prices skyrocketing? trump isn’t following through on his promise to lower gas prices and i’m pretty sure those tariffs he imposed are why! groceries getting way too expensive? trump promised to make them cheaper but he’s doing the opposite!

if their options are imploding with embarrassment and having their entire worldview fall apart or ignoring reality, they’ll choose ignoring reality. if they have a third option of getting mad and blaming someone, that is the one they have been trained to choose. use that.

Guys. This works.

I live in the fucking Bible Belt. This place is so atrociously red that I am the weirdest person that most of the people I know have ever met.

I’m not even the weirdest person I’ve ever met. But we are few and far between.

And I’m telling you, they are angry about the same exact things we are. They just have a different narrative.

Now, FINALLY, we are coming to a point where there won’t be anyone else to blame properly EXCEPT the people in power.

And nothing, NOTHING, makes these guys listen closer than when you point out it was their special guy who did this to begin with and doesn’t that make you angry? This fucker lied to us!

Us. Not you. Us.

Because they did lie to us even if some of us didn’t buy it.

Make it us, the truck driver and the other guy next to him in the Kroger, against the evil dip shits in power.

That’s how they work.

Make them identify with YOU.

You may look different and like weird books instead of football and have a rainbow pin, but you’re here, in their community, dealing with the same grocery prices.

Make them see that.

And then point them in the right direction.

“Fucked up that the (insert policy) seems to be backfiring. I feel lied too. You?”

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

Mouse Armor by Jeff De Boer

I love his stated intention behind these projects, ‘Confuse historians’.

You might be frustrated by the library never having a complete manga collection on its shelves at any given time, but the 12 year old checking out 14 volumes of One Piece at once is vital to the library ecosystem. He's like the sea otter keeping the kelp forest from being devastated by an excess of sea urchins.

To those curious some other keystone library species include:

—the retirees who’ve read more murder mysteries than I’ve had hot meals

—the paperback romance girlies (gender neutral) who check out every single bodice ripper the second it hits the shelves

—the dads very slowly making their way through a ‘1001 movies to see before you die’ list

—the one-man criterion collection who checks out like, three movies per day and brings them back the next. (TV series are only a minor roadblock.)

—kids who like Minecraft

---The new parents checking out 47 picture books for their 7 month old baby who clearly has nothing going on in their head except the Wii Sports Resort theme song

Hello, I am Alaa Salama from Gaza, and this is what happened to me

Previously, I managed to raise

€2,600 through a GoFundMe campaign, but unfortunately, the account was closed before I could receive the funds. Now, with the war suddenly escalating again in Gaza on March 18th, I’ve

decided to start over because the need is even greater than before.I’ve launched a new fundraising campaign on GoGetFunding, and every contribution, no matter how small, makes a big difference and will reach those who need it, God willing.Here’s the link to the campaign: donate, share, and help us spread the word.Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

I am sure this is the new GoGetFunding link

I believe this campaign is vetted

Their original GoFundMe was #339 on this list by @/gazavetters (but that has since been deleted as explained in the original post)

(I am not a vetter, I am just passing on the information that I have found)

Last Donation was March 25th 2025 as of this reblog

(All vetting information is in my reblog chain)

I miss you blockbuster I miss you cds I miss you little buttons that played song previews in walmart I miss you vhs tapes I miss you blocky tv with rabbit ears that only had 10 channels I miss you scratched dvds from the library I miss you envelopes of developed photos from a film camera I miss you flip phones covered in stickers I miss you physical media

Hello my friend how are you I'm so sorry for not replying quickly I was very busy getting back up north

€65k/€75k

They’re 87% there. Let’s see if we can get them to 90% by the end of the week! That’s about €500.

Please spread & donate as much as you can.

I say shit like "If my memory serves me" knowing damn well it serves the dark lord

Hello my friend how are you I'm so sorry for not replying quickly I was very busy getting back up north

€65k/€75k

They’re 87% there. Let’s see if we can get them to 90% by the end of the week! That’s about €500.

Please spread & donate as much as you can.

fun fact one of the world champions in pepper-eating contests is a trans woman and she actually faced significant backlash because people somehow thought she had a biological advantage. to eating spicy pepper

update bc i went back and checked: her name is brianna “the chilli queen” skinner and she set a record in 2017 by slamming back 23 carolina reapers consecutively. she only stopped when told to by the referees, and the next year she stepped down out of boredom. queen

Here's a picture of her, by the way

And her super supportive wife

The championship, it should be noted, is unisex. Apparently being a trans woman gives you an innate biological advantage over both cis men and cis women.

The innate biological advantage of being cool as fuck

Hello my friend how are you I'm so sorry for not replying quickly I was very busy getting back up north

€65k/€75k

They’re 87% there. Let’s see if we can get them to 90% by the end of the week! That’s about €500.

Please spread & donate as much as you can.