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Joy @joyfromghazza.blacksky.app · 20h

Sorry to the folks here that I didn't share my book “ By My Ben “published last month, due to BlueSky's obstinacy and its suspension of Palestinian accounts.
But I will share it with you here.❤️

I hope @mommunism.bsky.social will share it too.

#gaza #palestine #genocide

About the Author
My name is Joy. I'm a 22-year-old writer from Gaza, currently studying English Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, which has recently been bombed. I've lived most of my life through war, enduring five conflicts that have stolen my right to live in safety, peace, and love.
I write stories, reflections, and poems. Since I was young, I've been passionate about poetry and literature. Recently, I started my biggest project yet: writing a book documenting everything I've lived through during the ongoing genocide.
I currently live with my mother and four siblings in a shelter, seeking refuge from the constant threat of death due to the violent airstrikes shaking the ground around me. I am my mother's eldest daughter, her close friend, and her supporter (just as she supports me). My father hasn't been with us since we were young; we've always been under our mother's care. I've lost my beautiful, warm home. I've been displaced to over 17 different shelters and locations, each one worse than the last due to the lack of any safe place to go. We face countless struggles, most notably the starvation we endure as part of the siege and strangulation, designed to create a complete cycle of Nazi-like genocide against us.

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Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 6h

🆘💉 SOS 💉🆘
😥💊Please, my voice may not reach everyone 💔💉
But with your small contribution or by spreading this appeal, we can save a life.
We need 200 euros for Diabetes treatment. Even a dot (⚫) from you can support us.💉🔁

gofund.me/616ecf447

@mommunism.bsky.social ♥️🙏

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Mostafa 🍉 @mokqwe.bsky.social · 22h

Hello, I’m from Gaza.
We’re living through hell
homes destroyed,memories erased,loved ones gone. Even the innocence of our children has been shattered.
Every bit of help—even a small donation—could save a life or rekindle a flicker of hope.
👉 gofund.me/0fa0750c
Thank you for remembering Gaza 😢🙏

Donate to Help Mostafa and His Family Escape War and Rebuild Their Liv, organized by Mostafa Osama

Hello, my name is Mustafa. I’m 25 years old, and I’m writi… Mostafa Osama needs your support for Help Mostafa and His Family Escape War and Rebuild Their Liv

gofund.me

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Laugh. Cry. Another cracker from @thejuicemedia.com.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 20h

Living in a tent will not be safe for tiny Talia, or for Julia, as the stormy season worsens and Gaza moves into winter. If you can, please help Samaa to get the $800 she needs to move back to Gaza City and rent a room there. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social #SkyAid 🍉

A Palestinian woman cradles a baby against her shoulder and holds hands with a small girl as they stand in a rubble-strewn street beside a bus packed full of belongings.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 20h

redo w/correct link. pls share again!

‼️‼️‼️Sameer Project urgently needs our action. Can we do a $75/mattress-for-babies fundraiser today?

The situation:

From Sameer Project on on X: “The pediatric department at Nasser Hospital requested our help!!
Support: chuffed.org/project/1368...

Screenshot of video of babies who arrived at Nasser Hospital in need of urgent care. Go to Sameer Project on c to view

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fairshare.help @fairshare.help · 20h

Please contribute if you're able or share if you're not.

Directly asking people you know is most effective

Donate to Help Abdullah survive war, organized by Sandra D

Hello, my name is Sandra and I live in France. I am creating this fundraising for my friend Abdulla… Sandra D needs your support for Help Abdullah survive war

www.gofundme.com

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Khaled Ayman @eligeuno.bsky.social · 22h

It’s time to start planning our journey to continue chasing our dreams and finally see life beyond survival. My family and I deserve a chance to live, not just endure. ✊🏻

We’ve lost a lot, but hope keeps us going. Every step forward is part of our healing.

Support: gofund.me/591c2ff8

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ahmedwaj120.bsky.social @ahmedwaj120.bsky.social · 1d

A ceasefire has been announced, but unfortunately our homes are destroyed, and our lives will remain in the streets, along with my children.
Link support 🙏
www.gofundme.com/f/from-a-hom...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Video shows rescuers pulling a Palestinian boy from the rubble of his home in Gaza City. Israeli forces attacked the house on Thursday after the approval of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

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Mx. Fee - BRING LINK BACK @mxfee.bsky.social · 18h

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NB 🖤 Princess Jade 🖤 @princessjade.bsky.social · 2d

hi! I’ve received $25/$248.51
Tysm 🙏🏾🙏🏾 only online to update 💕💸

cash.me/ikemi93
Venmo.com/jadedragon12

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 18h

This is the pettiest of complaints, but I’m sick of websites and apps removing “no” as an option. It’s been replaced by “maybe later” or “ask again later.”

I swear there is a direct line between anger about women’s consent and this and it WILL be what drives me to villainy.

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 18h

Today seems like a good day to repost this thread

Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Mar 31

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️
Join me in this time travel visibility thread 🧵

Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Jul 3

Roberta Elizabeth Marshall Cowell (1918 – 2011) was a British racing driver and Second World War fighter pilot.
She was the first known British trans woman to undergo gender-affirming care & surgery in 1951.
Here she is posing with racing car, with her father, and with friends. And happy!

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Mx. Fee - BRING LINK BACK @mxfee.bsky.social · 18h

💸💕 help Tami refill her pain meds. Nobody should have to sit in pain.

Tami @chronictami.bsky.social · 2d

Mutual Aid Needed for rent, bills, groceries, medical, and necessary household items. Paynames in image. QR codes and alt text added for accessibility. Any amount helps. Thanks in advance for any and all support.

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Mx. Fee - BRING LINK BACK @mxfee.bsky.social · 17h

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Aya Mother from Gaza 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @beautyworld2020.bsky.social · 1d

💔😩 My friends, I speak to you as a mother.
We’ve reached $200 out of $600 — your kindness kept my daughter Mona alive a little longer.
But her wound is still open, the infection spreading, and I’m terrified.
Please, don’t stop now — help me save her before it’s too late.

gofund.me/2f942387

Aya Mother from Gaza 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @beautyworld2020.bsky.social · 1d

💔Mona’s medicine has run out
Her wound still hasn’t healed,and since the bombing she wakes up screaming and trembling in fear

I take her to the hospital every other day for cleaning and care.
We urgently need $600 for medicine,bandages,and transport
Please,don’t leave us alone😭🙏

gofund.me/2f942387

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 22h

Hello bluesky! I'm Nora and I have a jewelry store focused on fused glass; I also have game tokens and worry stones.

Collage: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Cluster: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Worry stones: nora.jewelry/search?q=wor...
Earrings: nora.jewelry/collections/...

#bsnm

ad for the nora.jewelry collage collection, which consists of pieces made from patterned cane with some transparency piled on top of other different color canes and turned into a molded shape; the transparency creates a lot of depth in the final pieces, because you can see through the transparent bits to what is behind it. pictures are a pair of round green, white and purple cufflinks, a orange and yellow bolo tie, and a teardrop shaped pendant with a green/white design added to a pink design

ad for the cluster collection, a group of fused glass pendants (and a couple other things, but only pendants are pictured) made from placing glass cylinders on their ends in a group and melting them just enough to round them out but not enough to make them fully puddle like most of my designs. the result of this ends up looking a bit like fish eggs adhered to a flat surface, or a bundle of grapes. the ones pictured are a simple round aqua blue design with yellow middles, a purple design with distorted flowers (this one started out as regular flowers but rounded their petals in the kiln, blurring them) and a round tan design with brown and white middles.

worry stone collection: this one has an orange collage design worry stone in an abstract shape, a white and green one where the edges between the colors blur, and a round one in a bi pride pattern.

earring collection: this one shows a sparkly green aventurine pair of round earrings, one that's white/grey/clear with black spots (that one's made from spiral cane that I made flat and you can see the spiral in the final design) and one with swirling green, yellow and pink set in white.

all the backgrounds on all of these are an aventurine dragonskin sheet that i put at low transparency over white, so they have a lacy quality to them.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Azza. Before this Azza worked in a kindergarten and her husband owned a small coffee shop. They lost their home in the first two weeks of the war. They are trying to survive with their children Nisreen, 16, Layan, 14 and Ibrahim, 11.

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Mx. Fee - BRING LINK BACK @mxfee.bsky.social · 17h

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Josh 💛⚪💜♠️ @blackice397.bsky.social · 6d

Well, the goal for the bill never got cleared, but I'm just deciding to focus on groceries for the week. Goal of $170, any help is greatly appreciated. 💸💕

#BIPOCMA #SignalBoost #MutualAid #UrgentNeed #HelpSky #HelpFolksLive2025

Nighttime sky with a crescent moon, skyline of Philadelphia in the background.

Listed are Josh's paylinks:

CashApp: $blackice397
PayPal: @blackice397
Venmo: @blackice397

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harper🖍️💥🦕🦴 who attacked my pc??? @himbimboo.bsky.social · 22h

officially OUT of pads, please does anyone have just $12 so i can grab a big pack?? once ive used this one, im screwed🥲

cashapp, venmo, paypal (or chime) gets it to me immediately!!

#mutualaid #helpsky #bipocma #marequest #helpfolkslive2025 #transcrowdfund #signalboost #maboost 💕💸

harper🖍️💥🦕🦴 who attacked my pc??? @himbimboo.bsky.social · 4d

gonna leave these all pinned, so if anyone who likes my art and has a couple dollars to spare wants to toss it my way, you can💕

ko-fi.com/himbimboo

paypal.me/jestergender...

#mutualaid #helpsky #signalboost 💕💸

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Mx. Fee - BRING LINK BACK @mxfee.bsky.social · 17h

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harper🖍️💥🦕🦴 who attacked my pc??? @himbimboo.bsky.social · 4d

gonna leave these all pinned, so if anyone who likes my art and has a couple dollars to spare wants to toss it my way, you can💕

ko-fi.com/himbimboo

paypal.me/jestergender...

#mutualaid #helpsky #signalboost 💕💸

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Mx. Fee - BRING LINK BACK @mxfee.bsky.social · 17h

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Nunya Biznez ya stalker creeps. @pwdinpoverty.bsky.social · 2d

PayPal: paypal.me/HarleyQuinn420

Getting dizzy and having the shakes while having nothing to take my anti-seizure meds on is not something I want to be feeling. Especially when all I wanna do is SLEEP!!!

#Hungry #NeedFoodNow #Stress #AnxietySupport #CryingOnTheInside #Scoliosis #ChronicDisability

a woman is crying while talking to a man and the words `` just help me get through this '' are written above her .

ALT: a woman is crying while talking to a man and the words `` just help me get through this '' are written above her .

media.tenor.com

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Mx. Fee - BRING LINK BACK @mxfee.bsky.social · 17h

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ID: Photo taken looking over a tent city in Palestine. A few people are in the foreground staging, sitting, or walking past.

Khaled Ayman @eligeuno.bsky.social · 22h

It’s time to start planning our journey to continue chasing our dreams and finally see life beyond survival. My family and I deserve a chance to live, not just endure. ✊🏻

We’ve lost a lot, but hope keeps us going. Every step forward is part of our healing.

Support: gofund.me/591c2ff8

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Salem; Thermite Enjoyer @yurigf.pet · 2d

I've got a week to go until my paycheck and $1.47 in the bank. I'm down to beans and rice at home and can't afford my meds.

Pitch a couple bucks my way and I'll owe you a eternal debt of gratitude which can be exchanged at your local tractor supply co.
ko-fi.com/thermitenjoyer

Support Salem

ko-fi.com

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 1d

It really does say something when an article about reactions to a coal power plant continuing to operate says nothing about climate change, the existential threat it poses and the need to phase out oil, gas and coal.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Communities across Queensland have welcomed plans to keep coal and gas burning across the state, though some warn a lack of future planning could undermine short-term benefits.

Plan to extend life of coal-fired power stations sends 'mixed messages'

Communities across Queensland have welcomed plans to keep coal and gas burning across the state, though some warn a lack of future planning could undermine short-term benefits.

www.abc.net.au

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 17h

They are SO CLOSE to the halfway point! 🍂

Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 17h

We are in the fall spirit here! But more than anything else we're so grateful for all the donation to our winter hay drive. We are so close to the halfway point - can you help us reach it today!? ❄️ donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...

photo of a sign standing on a lawn, backlit by the evening sun. The signpost is decorated with dried corn stalks with pumpkins and flowers and halloween signs at the base. The sign says "merrymac farm sanctuary".

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