Hi there, my name is Ella, and I have had a constant headache for 14 years. I am 26 years old. Painkillers do not work.

The pain is caused by a Pineal Cyst. Pineal cysts are relatively common, 1-2% of the population has one, but it is not common that they cause symptoms. Few doctors on this planet even believe they do cause symptoms.

I need Pineal Cyst Removal Surgery if I am ever to experience a pain free day again. The only hospital that offers this surgery in my country, England, is deciding whether it wants to bear the risk of offering this surgery after I was on the waiting list for 6 months. I have found two European surgeons who can perform this surgery and believe I am a good candidate for it.

Needless to say, I, being a disabled unemployed person, cannot afford the surgery. I should be able to have it free on the NHS but it is not routinely offered so they won't fund me getting it abroad.

I am suicidally depressed because of my chronic pain. Doctors don't care about this cyst because it's not a threat to my life. Anti-depressants can only dull the pain so much.

Can people please reblog this, no matter how small your blog is, so that it can get traction?

Russian civilians in Belgorod obediently waiting in a traffic jam until their army's BM-21 artillery system is done launching missiles at the neighboring country, right in the middle of the road.

HELLO! MY COUNTRY IS DESCENDING INTO AUTHORITARIANISM! PLEASE READ!

I'm too angry to formulate how many lines the government has crossed and how dangerous the situation has gotten… please read, and know the truth.

You know how they say that cats in the house keep mice away? It's also believed that mice will not settle in a house where rats live.

Welp, guess what. We have two cats, rats and a dog in the house. We also live on the second floor. And we have a mouse living in our kitchen wall. Assuming it's only one mouse, which is unlikely, I know.

I named the mouse Gronk. Gronk loves living on the edge. They made a hole in the wall directly by the cat's food bowl. I observed how Gronk came out of the hole, went to the bowl, most likely took some food and calmly returned to back the hole. He (she?) is beautiful, grey and tiny. If you know anything about me, I have an unhealthy obsession with rodents. My poor heart could barely handle the cuteness.

The problem is - our cat discovered Gronk first. He now knows there's mice and from time to time tries to find them. I don't want him to injure Gronk and leave him to die a painful death. We ordered some humane traps, but it will take days to get here. We used to have one, but I gave it to Savita… After that, every day she would send me photos of the mice caught in the house she was staying, untill the mice infestation on the frontlines became so bad that she got sick of trying to save them.

Anyway. I tried setting up a trap with a bucket and peanut butter. But Gronk is smarter than that. Hopefully Gronk doesn't give birth to twenty more baby Gronks in our walls while we wait for those traps…

I see likes and reblogs because of the mention of Savita, so here are some of those mice photos she sent me. Yes, that's the kind of person she was. She was fighting a war, sacrificing everything for the cause, living in hell, yet still she tried to save lives whenever she could. Even the smallest, most insifnificant lives. She was an angel. She tried her best. Forever in my memory.

russia is making advances in the Kharkiv region which was already liberated from russian occupation back in 2022. Situation in the east of Ukraine is also dire. People are losing their lives and homes every day.

Please consider donating to Hospitallers, they're a volunteer organization of paramedics that work on the frontlines. Even 1$ is a good donation.

http://hospitallers.life

Yeah, about the "Eurovision banned Russia immediately" line, this is extremely not true.

They literally introduced anti-booing technology in 2015 because in 2014 the Tolmachevy Sisters (Russia's act for that year) got booed to hell and back (possibly because of Crimea, possibly because of Putin's anti-LGBT law, possibly both). They specifically introduced that element EXCLUSIVELY for Russia, because they had no issue with the crowd booing every time the Greek and Cypriot juries exchanged high points. They are most likely gonna use the same technology for Eden Golan's performance this year.

When the Ukrainian broadcaster protested Russia's participation in 2022, the EBU most certainly did not "ban them immediately" and they said they were allowed to participate just fine.

It was only after six other broadcasters (I think it was Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia, Sweden and someone else?) that they banned them. They gave the fact that the russian broadcaster was spreading misinformation and propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine as the official excuse but this is clearly either not their actual motive or they cherry pick when that's an issue because they now INSIST that the Israeli broadcaster is not doing the exact same thing the Russian one did. They claim that the Israeli broadcaster is not like the Russian or Belarusian one and is not directly being manipulated by the Israeli government so it therefore doesn't breach their rules.

So no, the EBU most certainly did not ban Russia immediately, they didn't do it because of the annexation of Crimea or the full-scale invasion of Ukraine (or Georgia, for that matter, they were even allowed to host in 2009 and Georgia was forced out because of their song that year) they only did it because six other broadcasters threatened to leave and take their money with them, something the same or other broadcasters, unfortunately, refused to do this time.

It is honesty really hurtful to see this being spread everywhere, it shows how little people know about russian aggression before 2022. Since 2014 russia not only continued to participate in esc, but was in fact quite succsesfull.

Tolmachevy Sisters 2014 - 7th place in the final Polina Gagarina 2015 - second place, with a score of whopping 303 points Sergey Lazarev 2016 - third place, he was really a fan favorite that year and a lot of fans were angry he didn't won Sergey Lazarev again in 2019 - third place again

All these years russia waged its war againts Ukraine. Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions were annexed, pro-Ukrainian activists were imprisoned, tortured or killed. Russia has been killing both military and civilians in Ukraine, often in false flag attacks. No one in the ESC gave a shit. They wouldn't have banned russia in 2022 either, if it weren't for the threat of the withdrawal of a bunch of other countries.

By the way, all the afforementioned russian eurovision artists now support putin and the war. I keep seeing comments like "they are probably threatened / they are afraid for their families/ etc." No, they are just like this. Nothing bad happened to those artists (or their families) who did not support the war and simply left the country. Those who stayed don't care if their money from daddy putin is soaked in the blood of Ukrainians.

Your assistance, please!

Hi everyone,

I've mostly finished collecting almost everything Savita wrote since the invasion began (250,000 words!), and now I'm trying to figure out the best way to tell her story.

I could just push ahead with my own ideas for how to structure, build, publish and market the book, but I'd feel a LOT better getting advice and help from an actual expert in the industry (nonfiction book publishing). At the end of the day, I want her story to be compelling to an otherwise neutral reader (hopefully also people who can exert political pressure), and I've only got one shot at this.

So if any of you have professional contacts in the industry, please message me!

The more I re-read, the more I realize how important and unique her perspective was in so many ways…

God I miss her so much…

Music is not beyond politics

It's astonishing and surreal to hear about apoliticality in contests where people represent a certain country….

Cruel humor. But I almost choked on my tea. I also see this as more of a chemical attack. Meanwhile, the russians are having fun…

They are proud of their crimes and shout about it at the top of their lungs. But the world is indifferent.

We need so much support right now when Russia is planning to take away even more territories and Ukrainians' lives. Don't quite our voice. Especially on a platform like that. Yes, it's entertaining competition but our reality in war is definitely not fun to live. We keep crying out to the world in every possible way.

Also, that very year, in 2009, Sakartvelo (also known as Georgia the country) was disqualified from participating because their song "We Don't Wanna Put In" was deemed "too political".

At some point your actual everyday life is considered to be "politics" and invalidated on those grounds by those privileged enough.