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Please share & give to help Ahmad's family of 11 survive the aftermath of 2 years of Israel's genocidal famine & destruction of Gaza. They've been with nothing, & are in urgent need of funds to return home & rebuild their lives:

Please help the Nashwan family survive the aftermath of 2 years of Israel's genocidal famine & destruction of Gaza by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, shelter, they're starving & exhausted. Bluesky torments them with constant deletions:

My grandfather passed away because of hunger and lack of food… 💔
We’re living through unbearable days, and my family is struggling to survive.
Please, help us get out of this place we just want to live with dignity and have enough to eat. 🕊️🇵🇸
gofund.me/edee2aeb

Please share & give to help MIthqal's family survive the aftermath of 2 yrs of Israel's genocidal famine & destruction of Gaza. They're starving, homeless, & have nothing, & are in urgent need of funds for food, supplies, healthcare, shelter, his son Firas needs treatment:

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 their...

As the world’s leaders debate what should be done to Palestine, our duty hasn’t ended—to redistribute resources directly into the hands of Palestinians, & use every creative means to end the long Nakba.

Give, then act. Six families’ survival fund. 6 hours left. 822/1000

A copy of Blackheart Man, by Nalo Hopkinson, sits on a black shelf against a white wall next to a vase holding a spray of greenery and berries.

“Books get stolen. Get lost. Get burned. When Ymisen came to the lands of Ilife forebears to wage war ’pon them and take them into slavery, they first burned the books. So much knowledge lost! But the song of this book going to live down the generations of the chantwell line that have it memorized. Each person in the line have a different piece of it; melody, harmony, diagrams. Each will pass it down to their generations. It will last forever.” from Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟

Layered with history, culture, and folklore, Nalo Hopkinson’s novel about griot-in-training Veycosi is a lush, adventurous feast of possibility and wit.

‘Our daily life is like hell’: A look into the struggles faced by the Al-Madhoun family in Gaza The Al-Madhoun family in Gaza are struggling to stay alive, and really need our help

Heba’s family was featured in a UK publication. They need a lot of support and haven’t yet raised much.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-a...

ICYMI, my horror short 'You Will Survive This Night' (1st pub COME JOIN US BY THE FIRE s2, Nightfire), now free to read as a reprint. A woman in her 30s is dragged to a late night winter house party in the poshest part of Kolkata & regrets it even more than expected. Here be monsters, mundane & not:

Andrea Hairston (@andreahairston.bsky.social) introduces and reads from her novel Archangels of Funk, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Fw TICKS a year ago:

THE KILLING (1956) is no more than a good tense thriller, but it has movement, and dialogue that doesn't sound as if it were written by the IBM machine that's been processing most recent film speech. (1967)

hardly her biggest fan, but credit where it's due for saying "your film was written by chat GPT" in 1967

As one unreasonably harassed by mosquitoes, I felt some connection to the outlandish plight of MOSQUITO's cast of characters.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Pair this and TICKS with MIMIC to make a 90s bugfest triple-bill.

While the bombings have stopped, our friends' hardships have not: please keep helping Samaa and her family 💕💸🍉

PS. MOSQUITO (1994) is great fun, the low-budget grimy cousin to TICKS (1993) (also v fun). Big old practically crafted mutant mosquitoes harassing charmingly amateurish performers having a ball, the lost art of beautiful low-budget lighting, Gunnar Hansen's real face (possibly my first glimpse?).

Yup, this was my fw, love stuff like this--pure comfort food for me.

Shot from the film Mosquito, showing Gunnar Hansen aka Leatherface, a big, beefy white man in a silver ponytail and beard, wearing camo, facing down a younger, smaller (but still jock-ish) white man by a forest at night. Subtitle text (the younger man): You know, if I didn't feel so shitty right now, I'd kick your ass.'

Me to late capitalist global fascism every day:

priest ◾

Not a single mention of the Palestinians and this is who Europe chooses to represent them. This world has gone to hell under leadership that is so corrupt it cannot acknowledge the humanity of an entire people.

Please share & give to help 19 yo Hosam's family survive the aftermath of 2 yrs of Israel's genocidal famine & destruction of Gaza. They're starving, homeless, & have nothing, & are in urgent need of funds for food, supplies, healthcare, shelter (no donations for 5 days):

I forgot about my novelette 'Breaking Water', which was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Awards in 2016, and follows a journalist and a cook who becomes a 'dead charmer' as they grapple with the spiritual fallout of an epidemic of the undead in Kolkata:

ICYMI, my horror short 'You Will Survive This Night' (1st pub COME JOIN US BY THE FIRE s2, Nightfire), now free to read as a reprint. A woman in her 30s is dragged to a late night winter house party in the poshest part of Kolkata & regrets it even more than expected. Here be monsters, mundane & not:

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-514

Can not believe its already almost a year since i painted this. Probably my personal favourite work and it was whipped up in like an hour without much thought, how the hell do I tap into this again.

Palestinian children like 8 yo Islam, injured by shrapnel, have been forced to endure hell for 2 yrs of Israel's genocide. Islam's family's lost contact with his father, & Islam & his mother take care of his little siblings. Please help by sharing & donating ($50 raised, no donations for 5 days):

Ruba is very desperate, & has asked that I share this video of her destroyed home again, so people can understand what Israel has left most Palestinians with--rubble and devastation. Please share & give if you can, her family's starving, exhausted, & needs funds to rebuild. No donations for 5 days:

Instincts: FFC Interviews Crispin Glover - FILM FREAK CENTRAL by Walter Chaw I love Crispin Glover because he is always only Crispin Glover. He is a singular artist, driven by instinct and a desire to speak truth to power as both an actor and a filmmaker. He is ...

FFC interviews actor/filmmaker Crispin Glover, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/10/inst...

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Khansa is a young pregnant mother in Gaza

„My child is suffering from painful
burns and an infected wound.
I urgently need $250 for antibiotic
cream and pain relief.
Please donate — or simply share
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