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birds have truly mastered feathers like what do you Mean they can be shiny. how fucking cool is that

#birds #q

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In the one hundred fifty days after October 7, Israel killed thirty-one thousand Palestinians, injured seventy-two thousand, displaced 1.7 million, and razed or damaged more than half of Gaza’s buildings. Joe Biden sent over one hundred weapons shipments to Israel during the same stretch. In a recent classified briefing, US officials told members of Congress that the Biden administration approved and delivered more than one hundred separate weapons sales to Israel in the one hundred fifty days after October 7, “amounting to thousands of precision-guided munitions, small diameter bombs, bunker busters, small arms and other lethal aid,” the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. That works out to one new arms deal every thirty-six hours, on average.

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incredible work from writers, journalists and historians coming together to critique the new york times' (and essentially all mainstream american media) coverage of the genocide in gaza.

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Citrus trees swirl on the hillsides of Huelva, Spain. The climate here is ideal for this growth with an average temperature of 17.8° C (64° F) and a relative humidity between 60% and 80%.

See more here: https://bit.ly/2ZNrgXj

37.241139°, -7.294472°

Source imagery: Maxar

#green

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Al-Jazeera: “Ramadan Maqluba in ‘War’”... Abu Elias is a man from Gaza who wanted to make his family happy, so he made maqluba for them under the conditions of war, the difficulty of life, and the poverty of resources”

الجزيرة: "مقلوبة رمضان في "الحر��".. أبو إلياس رجل من غزة أراد إسعاد عائلته، فصنع لهم مقلوبة في ظل ظروف الحرب، وصعوبة الحياة، وفقر الموارد."

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URGENT: Help Rescue the Mortaja Family

Hani is organizing this fundraiser to help his brother (Ahmed) and their family safely cross the border into Egypt. Please donate and share. This is the link to the fundraising page.

The Family’s Situation in Ahmed’s Words (from GoFundMe)

“Five months into the war, I've come to realise that we need more than just one heart to bear all this devastation and more than one set of eyes to cry and mourn without restraint. Since the war began, disasters have continuously befallen us without respite.”

“We (my parents, myself, my brothers Mohammed, Salah and Mahdi, my sisters Shimaa and Walaa, my niece Mariam and my nephews Mahdi and Mohammed) have been displaced over thirteen times if my memory serves me right in recounting these instances. But my memory is even more adept at recalling the nights filled with cold and fear, fleeing from death, and emerging from the rubble with my family over and over again.”

“And each time that we miraculously survived, we lost a part of us, a piece of our hearts.”

“My mother, who lost her sister, nephews, and nieces, experienced a shocking blow. On the same day, she lost more than forty martyrs from her brothers' children and their offspring.”

“The latest loss was my cousin, an esteemed teacher and mentor to many. Amid the severe crisis and famine here in the north, he went in search of flour to feed his children and family but never returned, meeting his demise instead.”

“All of these losses didn't give us a chance to grieve properly or look at everything with a hopeful eye.”

“My father's health was already deteriorating due to chronic illnesses and recurrent strokes before the war. During the conflict, his condition worsened, having memory loss more often, and I suspect he has suffered another stroke (though we can't diagnose it due to the lack of medical staff in Gaza and overall lack of proper healthcare services). In war, cases are evaluated based on the priority of preserving life, without considering that the case being evaluated is a father with children who have big dreams.”

“My sister Shimaa, who has two little moons in the form of children, and a third born amid the war in harsh conditions that are beyond imagination, named Mohammad, symbolising our relatives and friends. This third child was born displaced from his home, in the biting cold, and now, two and a half months later, he still hasn't received the appropriate vaccinations like normal children do.”

“Those speaking to you now were not born as superheroes; they are ordinary humans. We go to our jobs, others go to learn, and we gather in the evening to talk about what the ordinary days bring us.”

“During the war, the universities where my siblings study and my father works were destroyed, and the jobs of my other siblings, who work in information technology, vanished into thin air.”

“All these events have had a physical and psychological impact on the family. My mother lost weight alongside losing more than eighty people from her family, her sisters. My father lost his health and his sanity, overwhelmed by grief.”

“My brothers and sisters lost what they lost, alongside surviving various incidents during the war, and others from the starving predators on the streets.”

“Therefore, it takes more than one heart and mind to comprehend and endure what transpired during the war.”

Please donate. Every little bit helps. If you cannot donate, I urge you to share this.

https://gofund.me/48eb39fd

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if you're just joining us, george takei is having to educate jk rowling on holocaust denial

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this male northern cardinal is a bright yellow instead of the species’ typical red. this bird was spotted by amateur birdwatcher jeremiah vreeland in port st lucie, florida. this bird shows an example of xanthochromism, where a typically red pigment is muted and displays as yellow. it’s believed that this extremely rare mutation has very low odds, and this cardinal is probably one of less than 10-15 individuals on the planet with this appearance.

#birds #color mutations #xanthochromism

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Form is certainty. All nature knows this, and we have no greater adviser. Clouds have forms, porous and shape-shifting, bumptious, fleecy. They are what clouds need to be, to be clouds. See a flock of them come, on the sled of the wind, all kneeling above the blue sea. And in the blue water, see the dolphin built to leap, the sea mouse skittering; see the ropy kelp with its air-filled bladders tugging it upward; see the albatross floating day after day on its three-jointed wings. Each form sets a tone, enables a destiny, strikes a note in the universe unlike any other. How can we ever stop looking? How can we ever turn away?

Mary Oliver, Staying Alive

#mary oliver

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#birds

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UPDATE: Ramadan Kareem!

Thanks to all your donations, we were able to meet our goal of $25k for North Gaza in one week! Yay! You guys are AWESOME, please give yourselves a pat on the back for all your efforts in this campaign 💜 Visual receipts will be sent as soon as we receive them from Mahmoud! Literally cannot tell you how thankful I personally am for all your support.

Today starts the Month of Ramadan around the world, a month for fasting and religiosity for all Muslims. Hussam started a new goal of $50k for the month, which he will be using to provide necessities to more than 6000 refugees living in tents on his land. We will let you know what he plans specifically in the coming days.

Let's help him out with his mission by keeping up donations.

Thank you again for everything. Here’s a video of Ramadan decorations that they managed to make in preparation for today!!

HelpGazaChildren Notion Site || #helpgazachildren tag

Paypal Link || GoFundMe Link

ID: [Video of two large cardboard lanterns decorated in Islamic patterns with children surrounding them. We see a shot of children watching as a man climbs a poll to hang up the latern. The children are dancing to music and clapping.]

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Gofundme

C*sh*pp

V*nm*

This is a fundraiser from Palestine Asdiqa's linktree, so it has been verified. It is really urgent and has not raised a lot of funds so far (the gofundme is sitting at less than $500 raised as of March 10!) Please support and share.

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alright, i think ive found a place to go for cheap if they approve me so ill need help with the deposit and rent because im still job searching at the moment. got denied for a really good one today so im trying to make up for it with my current position. i have not used the other money from my last post that died but please help a black disabled trans person if you can, i have until the end of this month to figure shit out

v: avibb

c: $avibb

pp and z: please inbox me!

112/1700

PLEASE DONT TAG THIS POST AS A D*NO POST! PLEASE SHARE AND DONT JUST VOTE OR LIKE!

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A thread of Palestinian businesses to support!

Link to Sunbula

Link to Soap

Link to Hanmade Palestine

Link to Palbox

Link to Shop

Link to Paliroots

Link to Taita Leila LTD

Link to West Bank Apparel

Link to Kufiya

Link to Nōl Collective

Link to MEERA ADNAN

Link to Fyrouzi

Link to Tatreez on Tea

Link to Hilweh Market

Link to Darzah

#shopping

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