Please help Mohammed get his son treatment for his vision loss. His family's gone through the ordeal of nearly losing Elias to Israel's ongoing genocidal famine, & you all helped him survive. He needs your help again:

As easily as you have sworn off Harry Potter pish, you can stop buying games from Microsoft or Microsoft owned studios. This is such a small ask and low bar to clear, there are thousands of other games available at any moment, but the impact can be huge.

Even if you follow me, you likely can't see my last repost: a Palestinian gamedev working on the lovely Dreams on a Pillow launched a promised follow-up crowdfunding campaign. But @moderation.bsky.app labeled him spam for daring to be Palestinian, so you can't see reposts, repost him, or tag him.

I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't   you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write —W.S. Merwin, from “Berryman”

grief-stricken and raging. disappointed that the world cares so little about us--but not surprised, because cis people in India don't care either.

The bill passed both houses, no surprise, & India is degraded once more. 'Trans men, trans non binary persons and trans women who are not kinner-hijra will NOT be legally recognised as trans anymore! Bill passed without community or NCTP consultation. Calls to differ to select committee ignored.'

terrified and grieving (preemptively?). the trans bill might be passed today.

If you're in India: This site lets you email your Lok Sabha member very easily. Once you click on ‘send email’ it will either open your email app or let you copy paste the details—all customised to you. webionite.com/reject-trans...

"We don’t reconcile with something that drags us backwards,” Nadika says. “We fight it.”https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/this-bill-is-nothing-but-erasure-how-indias-new-trans-amendment-could-undo-decades-of-rights

Not a lot of Indians on here to talk about this, but here's a petition opposing the Indian governments move 'to redefine the term “transgender person” & remove the principle of self-identified gender identity from the law [and reverse] the constitutional progress achieved in recent years.'

Please help Mahmoud's family survive Israel's genocide. Mahmoud is caring for his sister's orphaned children, who are starving, sick, & in urgent need, especially Ahmed whose life is in danger from a severe viral infection:

Ryan from The OC going hard on how crypto is a scam is the wildest silver lining in this timeline

Ahmed is 17 and needs help to keep his family alive through Israel's genocide:

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Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving & homeless in winter under renewed bombing. His mother needs urgent treatment for retinal disease. The crossings are closed again & they desperately need help:

Please help Alaa's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving, sick, & homeless under renewed siege & bombardment. Bluesky ruthlessly deletes & blocks her, so she's unable to get the reach she needs. Please help her keep her little children alive:

Welcome back to another year of the Trans Rights Readathon! This year’s readathon will take place from March 17 to March 31. If you want to officially sign up, fill out the form on our 🕸️site to join the fun! #TransRightsReadathon #trr26 #TransBooks

Almost three hundred folks have made weekly/monthly recurring pledges that cover 78% of the weekly needs for SIX families AND a camp. Reliable support for food, shelter, more…! I'm trying to get us to 100%. And prices are going up yall. Pledge a coffee: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Please help Mohammed get his son treatment for his vision loss. His family's gone through the ordeal of nearly losing Elias to starvation, & you all helped him survive. He needs your help again.

'We are living through very difficult days… My father is sick and urgently needs treatment. Hunger is exhausting my family every single day. The rain has flooded our tent, and we no longer have safe shelter. Please, help us in any way you can — our lives are at stake. 🙏'

Nabil here— War survivor, Software Engineer from Gaza Palestinian tech founder in Cairo. I survived the war in Gaza. Now I need urgent spine surgery (neck + lower back) to avoid permanent disability. Donate / repost: chuffed.org/project/urgent-nabil-medical #MutualAid #MedicalFundraiser

'I’ve already said goodbye to my two little girls😭.❤️‍🩹 Ibrahim is all I have left. I cant let him fade away in this tent. I just want him to live,to breathe, to be safe.🙏🫂 Please,don’t let me be a mother who only has memories😔 Help me save my only son. Every second counts🥺💔'

'Ahumanitarian appeal on brink death Myfamily 15 person,Myfather suffering heart disease condition critical Mybaby condition critical needs anebulizer device Myfamily freezing Weurgent need 500£ Dont letus down,saveus before its too late🥺🙏🏾 verified @mommunism.bsky.social '

Occasionally we get tiny Goldcrests in the garden, hunting for insects amongst the evergreens. They’re resident in Britain, but some Goldcrests cross the North Sea to escape the harsher continental winters; people used to believe they rode on the backs of migrating Woodcocks. (watercolour) 🐡🪶

'We are so cold🥶💔 We are so cold🥶💔 We are so cold🥶💔 Rain and cold drown our nights 🥶💔 My children shiver, blankets soaked 💔🥶 No work. No income. Donations have stopped 💔 I urgently need $200 for a tent 🙏 Any help may save my children 💔'

so wonderful, thanks @ronita.bsky.social

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

Four books. One grand prize. Five days left until voting ends. 2025 was the year of the transfeminine contemporary novel, and the four novels shortlisted for Best Transfeminine Fiction are leading the charge. If you haven't voted yet, now is the time. Voting closes Dec. 26th at 11:59pm EST 🩷

Just don’t talk about people’s food choices at all unless they volunteer, I for instance absolutely hate being asked to explain why I don’t eat meat (shut up is why)

Epstein met with Chomsky more than once, usually with disgraced sex pest Lawrence Krauss in tow. Chomsky's responses to the inane and brain-dead questions often posed by Epstein were friendly. Chomsky was in touch with Epstein until right before the latter man died in prison.

that's aptly named it does look like a misspelled disaster

I have a lifetime to think about what a world without Alice in embodied form looks like. To have loved and been loved by her was one of the greatest privileges of my life. I will carry her spirit with me always.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

wait do you see my pronouns on my bio or do you see the completely useless label "1 label has been placed on this account" that I'm seeing?

perimenopause has me weepy today too but in a good way like @nileshb.bsky.social and I have been together 20 years today can you believe it and he's at work but hopefully we'll hang out in the evening :') :') <3

I’m living a ghost of a life. I may never eat normally again. And it makes it so hard to watch people expose themselves to Covid over and over knowing that THIS could be not even the outcome, but some kind of midpoint. Please do not get this disease, and please do not give it to anyone else.

TERFs are "feminist" in the same way the Nazis were "socialist": As a cover for stupid rubes. And gender criticals in general have fascist personality traits: Petty middle-class revanchism, obsession with hierarchy & order, seeing "others" not as indviduals but projections of their grievances etc.

Today is Intersex Day of Solidarity and Remembrance. It's an opportunity to highlight the continued struggles faced by intersex people globally, from unnecessary medical intervention or stigma. We all deserve to be treated with dignity, and live a life free from discrimination.

Pages just changed cishet into cashew cashew man

Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠 Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy. 📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S

doing an AMA in less than two hours (7pm India time) if anyone wants to come hang out forms.gle/EFJjfGVkoR3r...

in case anyone here wants to learn writing characters from me, I'm doing a four-session course soon, online and conveniently timed to work across time zones (i mean, depending on where you are) champaca.in/products/cha...

A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

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