Free Palestine - ceasefire now!

There is currently a strike for Palestine taking place from February 18th, 2024, to February 25th, 2024. During this time, I will only be posting about Palestine on this account and doing what I can to spread awareness. If you are able, I highly recommend participating in the strike in whatever way you are able - something is always better than nothing. Staying home from work and/or school, not buying anything that isn't strictly necessary, using your social media platforms only to boost posts about Palestine, etc., are all ways to help the efforts!

Below are various links for ways you can help Palestine, including educational resources, petitions, fundraisers, etc. If you have any to add on, please do, these are just the ones I've found so far.

Bubbly Baryonyx boy

blacktip reef shark, 2023

my piece for 'swim on 9', a collaborative charity art zine you can get a digital copy here

The Most Screm

why is hideki naganuma insane. who is teaching a middle aged japanese man to say shit like this

Here’s the explanation:

he's FIFTY ONE YEARS OF AGE

i decided to check it out for myself

couldnt think of the word "hex code" so i just googled "colors" and stared at my screen for a couple minutes

when the necromancer expects you to be risen as soon as they cast the resurrection spell and doesn't even let you have half an hour for phone in grave

Kittyinva: 1920′s Czech Egyptian inspired chandelier earrings. Made from etched pink crystal drops and a large pink crystal stone. Metal appears to be antiqued brass. Pierced, French hooks. From Foxy Couture.

little strawberry thief!

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'The actors of Garth and Benny from Supernatural are getting married' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]

i CANNOT believe this is real

Painting of an abandoned garfield phone on a beach in France

I haven’t done realism in at least 5 months ugh

Reblogs appreciated lmao

THIS IS A FUCKING DRAWING???????????

People should use this text embellishment more

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Holy shit this is unicode???

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These are all Egyptian hieroglyphs.

This...

𓆝

...is a flathead mullet. The glyph is used for the animal (ꜥḏw), and apparently also as the biliteral sequence /ꜥḏ/, but only in the word for "country commissioner" (ꜥḏ-mr).

This...

𓆟

...is a petrocephalus bane. It was used for the biliteral sequence /bs/.

This...

𓆞

...is an elephant-snout fish. It was used for the animal (ẖꜣt) and also the biliteral sequence /ẖꜣ/.

But there are more!

Say hello to...

𓆜

...the barbel...

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...the tilapia...

𓆡

...the puffer...

𓆢

...and, somehow, the catfish.

I don't know why the catfish looks like Zoidberg as a fish. Maybe catfish were different in that place and time. But yeah, don't leave those feisty boys out when fish-posting!

official linguistics post

valuable scriptures

Nakba Day 2024

Do not donate to this account. It is a scammer who may possibly be Laura Deramas under a different PayPal account or using another friend for funding. This user is known to rapid pace change urls when called out so please keep an eye out for them. They do not have proof they’re legit and will block you. If you donated, they will continue to ask for more money with excuses.

Once again, this is a scammer under the name ‘Laura mae Noro’ please don’t give them any money and alert anyone who’s been contacted by them. They will almost always turn off reblogs when they see warnings posted.

The account is now took down but please keep an eye out for the PayPal name.

Scammer pretending to be Palestinian v4

The purpose of this post is to compile a quick list of accounts confirmed to be stealing their information off of legitimate fundraisers or otherwise are shown to be taking their posts off Facebook and using it themselves. This list is intended to be a quick access point so if searched someone will see info explaining why the blog they shared from is a scam. Before asking if a blog is a scam, please refer to this post for better details regarding these particular scams:

Please keep in mind this post isn’t to say all Palestinian blogs needing aid are scammers; Rather, the purpose of this post is just to keep track of the accounts that scammers are using. As it goes on for months on end, this post may update accordingly with new urls so please make sure you’re checking the original post if viewing a reblog. You can see a few sources here for commonly used content stolen by scammers. You can find the third version of this list here. For a list of other fundraisers to support, refer to this post.

As of 5/13/2024, here is the list of current scam accounts:

coolbreadchaos | kursheniheri | magnifiicenteaglebaraka | speedycheesecakething |

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Names below are associated with these scammers, and may appear across multiple accounts. This is an entirely new list as the other one may have names that no longer are used. These names often are from real people being impersonated. They are not linked,related to, or associated to the person they may claim to be.

Rawan Abu'M (this name is impersonating a real person from a legitimate GoFundMe.) | maryline Otieno | Nicholas Ochieng | Jeff Owino | Grahy Marwa | Taheera Abdallah | Gloria Naomi | Amisi Twaleh | Salima Abdallah | Aisha Mahmood | Remmy Cheptau | Newton ombogo | Godwin Okoth | AHMED SHIMBIR | Wafula Valentine | Rahwan AbdiMahady (same reason as the above; Impersonating a name from a legitimate GoFundMe.) | Nada'r Ab hussein | DIANA MUTENYO | Hakim Malfadho | Leila Rajab | Elizabeth Omasete | George Ochieng

Laura mae Noro (Name associated with a scam account) | Maureen jane Aloot (Name associated with a scam account)

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To report scam accounts: Report -> Something Else -> Illegal uses or Content -> Phishing (If possible)

What else to do: Alert anyone sharing the scam posts and show them it’s a scam by linking to any post that explains how.