You can donate to Alaaโs family here: chuffed.org/project/1591...
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You can donate to Alaaโs family here: chuffed.org/project/1591...
This is also what I look like while drinking a big glass of wine, tbf.
abolish the home office. salt the earth
For the next day, we'll match you!
You can and DO help these six families & a displacement camp every week with food, shelter, medicine, & more. As famine looms again, we must continue.
Pledge a coffeeโhit โweeklyโ if you canโthen act for their lives. chuffed.org/project/hope...
today is bandcamp Friday. a great day to support musicians because they don't take a cut of revenue and these streaming services do not care if we live or die
I have many compact discs available. I hear people like those these days and I have a bunch of rare ones
openmikeeagle.bandcamp.com/merch
Other ways to help:
โข Media kit: drive.proton.me/urls/PCRKBWF...
โข Reach out about organizing an event or other fundraising activity, send us a message: healmindsgaza@protonmail.com
Hoping prison abolitionists will bite and share this one: research-informed, Palestinian-led mental health support for nearly a hundred kids who suffered in occupation detention.
You support goes towards materials & facilitation. We have FOUR WEEKS: chuffed.org/project/hmg
The Economist, The
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Now as the grief starts to come and go in waves, itโs getting slowly replaced by rage so thatโs cool.
As ever this is the moderate position.
Itโs not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You donโt dispute this claim because itโs true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by โIranian state mediaโ
Iโm allowed to game through the grief, this is a very normal coping mechanism I think
Honestly though, kinda was the exact game I needed during this tough time. Congrats @alecrobbins.bsky.social!
Seeing @thelukeman.bsky.social near the end of High on Life 2 and reacting like it was a MCU end credits cameo.
A tortoiseshell cat looking rather angry at the camera.
Sorry I just need to repost this one photo of her that I think really summed her up nicely - politely filled with rage.
We are watching โJiro Dreams of Sushiโ tonight in her honour - because she loved human food and if we got a sushi takeaway sheโd be a total asshole trying to swipe our meals ๐ฎโ๐จ
Thanks everyone for the kind words about Violet โค๏ธ
Iโm so glad we did this at home, we had such a kind and compassionate vet who kept Violet so calm and comfortable throughout. Even the crematorium worker was so gentle and sympathetic, we were able to carry her out ourselves and it really helped with the closure.
Violet hated other cats and when she saw them, her tail would get all big and puffy.
The moment she died, her tail did exactly that - so we are taking that as proof that there is a cat heaven and Violet is there and sheโs fucking pissed lol.
A photo of a tortoiseshell cat stood on a dresser in front of a houseplant. The sunlight is hitting her face and she has her eye closed enjoying it.
We said goodbye to Miss Violet tonight. When we adopted her a few years ago, we werenโt sure how long our time would be together - she was already an elderly, dignified lady. But Iโm glad we were able to give her a few years of being spoiled and treated like the queen she was.
Congrats, Florence! โค๏ธ
Ooh those colours! Need to get my hands on some cinestill
Havenโt I been through enough.
A tortoiseshell cat curled up, with her big butt obscuring much of her face, although her eyes are visible above the curved backside.
She has drained all of my finances, stolen countless hours of sleep from me, given me multiple panic attacks - and I wouldnโt trade that time spent together for anything.
Love you, Violet. โค๏ธ
Sheโs been quite weak the past few days but has managed to jump up onto our bed to sit in the sunlight.
Just gonna spend the next few hours sat with her, I guess. Iโm gonna miss her so much.
Not long now. But Violetโs managed to perk up enough to eat a shit ton of roast chicken and some chicken bone broth (the whole damn house smells like chicken now, thanks Violet ๐ฎโ๐จ), and a bunch of her favourite chicken tube treats. Sheโll be going out completely filled with chicken, which feels right
Trans people are at risk because the UK have banned trans youth healthcare, and adult HRT pathways are unfit for purpose. If you want to stop DIY HRT or 'black market trans hormones' then lift the fucking ban and make all types of HRT free and accessible through NHS GPs. It's not rocket science.
what is it about bluesky devs constantly badmouthing users? why do they run this site if they hate us so much and say over & over their focus is the protocol?