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ALANNAH GRANT will purchase a telemetry set & conduct research/outreach about urban Eastern gray squirrel ecophysiology & adaptations. The set will be lent to other systemically minoritized communities to assist in diversifying urban ecology.

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gated community bullshit

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...

anyways, 7+ fams in gaza vetted by @divyampersaud.com here so if you trust them, you can trust this will get to families in need chuffed.org/project/hope...

there's always going to be people who take advantage of chaotic situations.

there'll always be scammers on multiple ends.

the point remains that money sent directly to individuals is more helpful than money sent to aid organizations that aren't even in the fucking area

really easy to figure this out:

someone is asking you for money on the street. they could be about to go spend it on drugs or they could use it to feed their kids. you cannot ask them what they're going to do with it.

do you give them the money.

my answer is yes. yours might differ. whatever

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there's like, nothing by South Africans on here and it's real lonely

and we're not even in a war-zone or a disaster area that requires community awareness, or anything

the absolute dearth of qts mentioning that certain global topics--Palestine, Congo, Sudan, etc.--are underrepresented here compared to twitter is sorta

indicative of how america-centered this app is

yall have somehow turned which website/app you log into to microblog into a culture war

like yall dont even have the people here to tell you the important shit you missing because they missing

you're in the social media equivalent of the unknown unknowns category

I keep feeling puzzled by the dissonance of people 'fighting Nazis' by creating a small echo chamber of mostly white voices, but I think that's the reason

they haven't even noticed the lack of diversity on here, that much of the world is simply missing

bsky.app/profile/calm...

like yall dont even have the people here to tell you the important shit you missing because they missing

you're in the social media equivalent of the unknown unknowns category

the absolute dearth of qts mentioning that certain global topics--Palestine, Congo, Sudan, etc.--are underrepresented here compared to twitter is sorta

indicative of how america-centered this app is

yall have somehow turned which website/app you log into to microblog into a culture war

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...

anyways

🚨SUPPORT 7+ PALESTINIAN FAMS🚨

This campaign helps 30+ people across Gaza!

We've updated the goal for this week to 2000. We're currently at 1780/2000!

RECURRING donation = AWESOME. 5/10/15s = PERFECT! SHARING = FREE! chuffed.org/project/hope...

Instead, to access cash, even people who have funds in their accounts or receive cash assistance from NGOs, crowdfunded donations, or salaries have to navigate an opaque system of money brokers who take substantial cuts of 20% to 40% in exchange for bills.

crazy what you can learn if you google! www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

yall know that people can still receive money from tellers in gaza and that all the food that's already in the place doesn't just POOF disappear when a blockade occurs, right?

in fact, what happens is the food already there becomes even more expensive! because there's a blockade!

amazing aint it

thats weird. mine is filled with stuff on the congo, palestine, sudan, and squidgame. sounds like a skill issue

bsky.app/profile/nhas...

very much same. im still sitting on it but im not feeling it here

I'm so glad it's not just me. I feel bad for posting updates about Sudan here because it feels like I'm "harshing the vibe" (and being new with very limited reach is frustrating). I'm not sure if it's worth being here...

here. i dont think its worth it for me to be here. this place upsets me.

going to sit on it like all my therapy has suggested but i think im going to delete my account

is this place just tumblr? because i already have a tumblr account. i dont need two of them

A large carpenter bee on my finger looking directly at the viewer. It is mostly black with orange fur and a light yellow face

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A debt to repay #art