This is probably the easiest international giving route for Lebanon and displaced families -- recommended and verified now by multiple friends.
www.chuffed.org/project/1719...
Built from the belief that the music industry no longer serves artists or listeners, Mirlo is pushing for a radical, federated, and decentralized reimagining of how music is shared online.
diyconspiracy.net/mirlo-interv...
🏺🫶🇵🇸 Potters for Palestine is currently having an online auction to support funding for mutual aid groups, on the ground in Gaza. Such amazing work to chose from...and for a great cause!
pottersforpalestine.com/collections/...
We recently shared the news that we're federating Mirlo. Check our blog this coming Monday (10th Nov) for more info on what we plan to do! 🖊️🐦⬛
mirlo.space/team/posts
There must be a space Where you keep everything And any forgotten nightcall Can be reclaimed Unaltered and warm There must be a place Surely, uneven and dented Where all of this remains And to link every sight From one shore to another Not a fear, not an error Unaltered and warm From the sea, to the river To the spring, to what's after
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The Gaza Skate Team is back 💚🤘support fun: shop.skatepal.co.uk?fbclid=PAb21...
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
Music is an ecosystem and no single space will ever solve the multitude of issues within the music industry, but we, along with lots of other friends making alternatives, have been building useful tools for musicians, labels and listeners since 2023. What exists beyond streaming? Let's find out. 🌕🐦⬛
One of the members of the Mikeno
The Sameer Project We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
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Mohammed Shobair, 22, from Gaza, posing before a flag of Palestine.
Some news from Mohammed Shobair!
He’s currently in Khan Yunis with his cousin, they’re gauging how the whole family could move there and pitch tents. Answer: it’s not really feasible, but there’s no choice.
If you got your August pay check and you’d like to help:
chuffed.org/project/mohs...
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I've been working on this with a group of leftist friends from all over the world. A more radical experiment and a militant take on what a truly independent grassroot music platform could be.
It's a long shot, it's an uphill battle, but we have to try.
Excuse us, coming through... 🎺🐸🐦⬛ #Music #OpenSource #Grassroots #Musicians #MusicCommunity #YourLiftIsHere #Coop #Coops #Frogs #Birds #Trumpets #BandcampAlternatives #Bands #Artists #SolidarityEconomy #DIYMusic #IndieMusic #Independent
If you’re buying music on Bandcamp Friday today, have a look at which artists are donating to the Palestinian Red Crescent. There are quite a few.
Like my girl Colleen colleencolleen.bandcamp.com/album/specia...
If you ask me what I would do if I survived the Gaza genocide, I tell you that I would have a room with all the musical instruments I love. I wake up, eat my breakfast, and then stay in this room until the end of the day.Then eat dinner and go sleep. No one understand me and my pain except this room
This story is updated. I stand by my reporting on this and throughout the past years. Our ability to make music depends on safe spaces.
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Free Palestine
So many of you asked, that we've now added an international shipping option for our t-shirts!
Also includes a download of our first fundraiser compilation. 📦🐦⬛
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#Music #Merch #Mirlo #Musicians #Birds
Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.
github.com/GhislainGir/BlenderGameToolsDoc/wiki
I’ve released a 150-page wiki for my Blender addon.
The addon is currently available in early access on my Patreon for a limited time, to gather feedback, fix bugs, and more :)
Saw your message just now! Not very present on here but glad to see more people are joining, hope you're doing ok 🙂
shahin_entezami 59 min 9 being born in the Middle East does not make it normal to be bombarded. Waking up wondering if your loved ones are alive is not normal. Having to check if your street still exists is not normal. So please, to my non-Iranian friends: Don't look at me as if l am used to this. And please, don't say: "At least you're here now. You're safe here." Seeing my own streets destroyed, my own city bombed- it'snot something anyone ever gets used to. It's not normal for me, and it's notnormal for any of us Every time it happens, it's new. It's painful. It's devastating.
Shahin Entezami, iranian musician.
O amirali_ofc x 4h Voir la traduction ... I want to make something very clear: most Iranians are not in support of this regime. We've been struggling under this government for years, with economic collapse, suppression, and fear. But what Netanyahu has done is put us in an impossible position. When our homeland is under attack, we're forced to back the very system we've been fighting against, just to protect our borders, our people, and our loved ones. This isn't a simple story of governments. This is about people, civilians, caught between two powers using them as pawns. Over 80 people are already reported dead. These Weren't military targets. These were human lives. I'm sharing this not to defend a regime I don't believe in, but to defend the humanity of my people. We're exhausted. We're grieving. And we deserve to be seen beyond headlines and politicS. People my age in Iran, we've grown up between protest and survival. We're tired of being crushed by our own government, and now we're being dragged into a war we didn't choose. We're not the enemy. We're stuck between two forces that don't speak for us. I've never felt this torn. l've spent years away from the country I hold so dear, like many of us, I left hoping for more freedom and possibility. But last night, all I could think about was my parents' safety. Everything else disappears when you hear bombs landing in the city you grew up in.
Amirali, iranian musician.
We've been thinking about how we can make it so that all the people who have been helping us along the way have a say in the project and the product we're building. Here's what we've come up with. 📋🐦⬛
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#Community #Coops #Music #Mirlo #Blog #Blogs
All of this strikes me as a truth we've unlearned: watching children film their own genocide in HD, watching those videos flash onto my screen — sharp, immediate, unbearable — reminds me how deeply false the smartphone narrative really is. The ruling classes — bourgeois, technophiles, pundits — like to see it as a luxury, a marvel, a tool of expression or emancipation. It’s not a luxury. It’s a concession. A high-tech handout hurled at the dispossessed, the global South, the unwanted — so we’ll shut up, so we’ll feel “equipped,” when in reality we’ve been stripped of everything. Children with no roof, with most of their loved ones already dead, no sleep, no future — but still a phone to record their own agony. The whole world can see — but doesn’t anymore. Because everything passes. Because everything is designed to circulate, dissolve, be forgotten. I hold a smartphone in my hand — or rather: a glowing coffin. A toxic offering from the world they’re leaving us. It’s neither a luxury nor a privilege. It’s a bone thrown at the defeated. The bombs fall. Families vanish between two Instagram stories. No more homes. No more water. No more society. No more pause. And yet, in the middle of the devastation, there are still those damn smartphones, gripped in the hands of the survivors — even children — who must, or choose to, film their own end. The smartphone isn’t a luxury: it’s the fetish of terminal capitalism. What it leaves us. What it throws at us. What it implants in us to make up for all it has destroyed.
Smartphone
