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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

16.11.2025 00:08 — 👍 1893    🔁 536    💬 7    📌 19

Tareq has a super informative fundraiser about his life in Gaza (including a video) that I recommend checking out

21.11.2025 10:49 — 👍 54    🔁 62    💬 7    📌 1

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Baraa. Baraa is the mother of 3 children Masa, 6, Ibrahim, 4 and Maha, 7 months. Tragically Maha was killed after a nearby bombing caused gasses to overwhelm her little lungs. Masa is in the hospital because of kidney issues from malnutrition.

04.10.2025 09:30 — 👍 138    🔁 192    💬 8    📌 20

Donate to help Ahmed and his family, organized by Yasmine Kara Hello, my name is Yasmine and I am fundraising in behalf of Ahmed to help him live in… Yasmine Kara needs your support for Donate to help Ahmed and his family

Ahmed can’t keep an account here but he’s in North Gaza and trying to evacuate with his family

27.09.2025 20:14 — 👍 55    🔁 66    💬 6    📌 9

Before the war Moaz wanted to be an architect or an engineer but after watching so many people die and get injured he wants to be a doctor- surely seems Gaza needs them and helping him seems like a good investment

27.09.2025 11:53 — 👍 63    🔁 70    💬 7    📌 1

Zenna is trying to escape the North

27.09.2025 20:35 — 👍 21    🔁 32    💬 3    📌 0

📢😭 Urgent!
My husband Abdul Karim and I need your help! Our son Siraj is very sick, suffering from fever, diarrhea, and chest infections.
🌐 The donation link is shared with our family and children: chuffed.org/project/1532...
💔 Any donation, even $4, helps! 🔁 Please share!

18.08.2025 17:56 — 👍 40    🔁 57    💬 6    📌 14

I really enjoyed this! Loved the characters and the page compositions are chef's kiss. I loved the ways that gender and family were conceived of, this is "The Future Liberals Want".

20.07.2025 12:20 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

honestly, you're one of the best to ever do it <3

30.05.2025 22:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

A highly textured digital illustration of Gerard Way, cropped close around their face which is making intense eye contact with the viewer.

A highly textured digital illustration of Chappell Roan closely cropped to her face, who is making a disgusted eye contact with the viewer.

A highly textured mixed media illustration of a wolf girls head, making a tense eye contact with the viewer

A heavily stylized digital illustration of Gerard Way, closely zoomed in on their face as they make wild eyed eye contact with the viewer.

🎨 I’m forever obsessed with the tension created when a work returns the gaze of the viewer. If I’m ever not doing that- assume I’ve been bodysnatched.

#Art #DigitalArt #GerardWay #ChappellRoan #Wolf #Illustration

04.11.2024 04:08 — 👍 28    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

if you haven't read Leaf Lace i HIGHLY recommend it

30.05.2025 16:14 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

I’m addressing this in a more comprehensive way later but right now I am going to share some lovely people from Gaza who are getting ignored because Bluesky wants a three ring circus to distract everyone from their reprehensible policies around the voices of Palestinians

30.05.2025 17:25 — 👍 662    🔁 365    💬 23    📌 14

Donate to Gaza Emergency Appeal Help My Family, organized by Ahmad Madhoun Hello everyone, I am Ahmed Nabil Al-Madhoun, 25 years old, studying for a Bachelor’… Ahmad Madhoun needs your support for Gaza Emergency Appeal Help My Family

it's so gutting to see ahmad and his family and all palestinians be denied space to ask for help. first the dehumanising torture of the occupation, then the added slight of armchair detectives accusing them of being scammers and bots. ahmad just wants to tell you his story gofund.me/554482a7

29.05.2025 18:28 — 👍 17    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza .رسالة مفتوحة إلى فريق بلوسكاي بشأن تعاملهم مع الفلسطينيين في غزة Please review the open letter here and include your name below (if you are better known on Bluesky by your handle you could use that or add it to your name.) Thank you so much for caring about this co...

Here’s a direct link to the form to sign

24.05.2025 18:59 — 👍 417    🔁 273    💬 10    📌 31

Donate to Gaza Emergency Appeal Help My Family, organized by Ahmad Madhoun Hello everyone, I am Ahmed Nabil Al-Madhoun, 25 years old, studying for a Bachelor’… Ahmad Madhoun needs your support for Gaza Emergency Appeal Help My Family

my dear friend Ahmad has been banned again. ahmad is a caretaker for his family, who are in desperate need of food and medicine as famine persists, and the the IOF comes to surround them, destroying blocks and threatening displacement. if you're able to help/share, please do 💔
gofund.me/8dcaf8d3

22.05.2025 13:07 — 👍 43    🔁 50    💬 2    📌 1

Also because likely this letter is going to bring out a lot of people with questions about accounts from Gaza, here is a link to my FAQ about these accounts, this and much more information can be found in my pinned post. I also am more than willing to answer any good faith questions you may have.

24.05.2025 18:45 — 👍 299    🔁 119    💬 2    📌 1

[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter] النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه. Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza. These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform. Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay …

Gazans have also been aggressively targeted and unfairly reported by bad actors. Many accounts openly encourage the reporting and targeting of any Palestinian. Several groups exist for the express purpose of looking for Palestinian accounts to report. We believe Bluesky owes Gazans, and the entire community who benefits from their voices, a greater duty of care especially in the context of the horrors they are enduring. We ask Bluesky to implement the following changes: Provide information on all Bluesky-affiliated websites in Arabic that explains the rules and expectations of the site in clear language. Investigate the accounts that are mass-reporting Palestinians on Bluesky. The mass reporting of Palestinians on Bluesky is a group effort to render the platform a hostile place for a community based on their ethnicity. As such, it is racism, and should be understood as such. Reports against Palestinians who have broken no community guidelines must be understood as racism, and the accounts that submit those reports should be disregarded in the future. Many Bluesky users encourage Gazans to tag or reply to them, and this is not always understood as unwelcome behavior. If an account is reported as Spam for tagging or replying to others, treat only reports from the tagged/mentioned account as legitimate, seeing as they were the only ones who received a notification. Send emails regarding disciplinary action every time it is taken. Gazans do not always get an email explaining what they did wrong, and those that do are required to parse a language they do not speak in order to understand their violation. Have these emails contain an easily visible link to information about their violations in Arabic. Respond to appeals in a timely fashion, many Gazans simply never hear back from Bluesky after they appeal a decision. In addition to removing Gazans for alleged spam behavior, Bluesky has also sometimes indicated that they are deleting an account for being a scam or …

End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community. We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard. We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future. We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community. [To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

24.05.2025 18:45 — 👍 3833    🔁 3018    💬 104    📌 447

A photo of little smiling Maryam standing in front of some yard greenery, holding a cute doll and her school portrait.

Another photo of Maryam standing before a pile of pipes and rubble, holding a hand-written sign that reads, "I am Maryam in Gaza. I need help me. Share and donate. Thanks. Free P/alestine."

A photo of little Malak coloring in her coloring book, a huge grin on her cute face.

Another photo of Malak, sitting outside at night and holding a hand-written sign that reads, "My name is Malak from Gaza."

Moutaz has been spam-labeled so I've duplicated his post:

"My family needs your help to provide their most basic rights, which are food & drink. The high prices have affected my family’s ability to buy food due to the lack of a steady income. Maryam suffers from malnutrition."

🍉 gofund.me/50b99530

20.05.2025 18:59 — 👍 9    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

It’s 11 PM, and I’m packing my things in preparation for evacuation.
I don’t have the time to express how much I need you right now.
Transportation, food, and camping supplies have become a heavy burden—too much to bear... 1/2⬇️Continue reading.
🌀↪ gofund.me/5689fe54

19.05.2025 20:40 — 👍 52    🔁 56    💬 6    📌 12

they aren't spam!!! i don't know what else people want from them :( they are just kids. they deserve better than the world has given them, which is, to be clear, hell!

21.05.2025 21:12 — 👍 58    🔁 31    💬 1    📌 0

last night was terrifying. when i spoke to ahmad, the occupation army's tanks were only half a km away. all i can do from here is help amplify his words and beyond that, just hope. if you can spare any support, his family needs it to cover a number of expenses 💔 gofund.me/1cfc767c

18.05.2025 19:03 — 👍 31    🔁 35    💬 0    📌 1