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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed

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alien in the space opera 🌊🪐 asian american writer of sci-fi, poetry, fantasy, + horror @ Apex Magazine, The Offing, + Tram Editions 🐚🌱 https://linktr.ee/loismeien // http://gazafunds.com

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · Jul 27

ASTROLOGY FUNDRAISER FOR GAZA

Help those who provide urgent care to Gaza. Donate at least $25 to The Sameer Project and fill out the below form, and I'll send you an astrology mini-reading as a letter of affirmation 🍉🤝

Donate here: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Request form: forms.gle/LXFP126m3AhL...

forms.gle

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Akram Basil Abdulwahed @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social · 13h

Can we return to Gaza?
Or how long will it take for us to go back again?

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 1d

I carry the full responsibility for my family's needs.
No plans, no guarantees — only faith that there are kind hearts who won’t let us fall. 🕊️

Help us give our children a life without worry. 🧡

🙏Donate if you can / Share if you can't.

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely going to make my spring, going to go read one of Amal El-Mohtar's stories online now to celebrate in advance

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 1d

Lamis asks for funds for a tent to shelter her three very young children. Before being displaced by bombing, she was in her 3rd year of dental school. Now she's fighting to keep her family alive during a genocide. Please share and support her campaign:

gofund.me/7b79d792

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 2d

I see toxicity multiple times a day on here: every time @bsky.app deletes the account of a person in Gaza trying to build connection through this site. The erasure of Palestinian voices is dehumanizing to them, to us, and to you. There's nothing more toxic than the obvious reason behind this.

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 2d

Hi Lamis, I'm really sorry I can't open your messages. If you have email, I am [email protected], and I will make sure to follow you here and your campaign too

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t want to talk about this because I don’t want to be a target

But on just a human decency level the person tirelessly deleting Gazans just permabanned the guy who uses his thousands strong platform to boost the fundraisers of literally anyone who needs money or mutual aid every single Friday

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 3d

Ahmed couldn't keep up with Bluesky's deletion of Palestinian accounts, but still needs support caring for his family of 9. In his last update he shared utter exhaustion and fear for his family's hunger and medical needs. Please share and support if you can

www.gofundme.com/f/please-sup...

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 4d

Something that gets me here as people celebrate while the iof dropped 150 airstrikes on Gaza just today—this project was started during the 'ceasefire' because these families were starving to death in the street. Now the team can't help them anymore due to the occupation of the city

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 4d

Four hours left - 331/500 on today’s goal.

Today we’ve been highlighting a project that has one final ask: two tents for two families sleeping in the streets.

Our every duty is to Palestinian life & dignity. Ease this horror. Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...

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…

chuffed.org

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 4d

Survival funds & mutual aid work—from us on the outside, from these kind neighbors in Gaza—will be necessary for a LONG time even if tomorrow a lasting ceasefire were to be implemented. End the 18-year siege, restore Palestinian sovereignty, that's what would have to change.

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 4d

The planet-warming emissions generated from the first 60 days of Israel's bombing of Gaza exceeded the yearly carbon footprint of > 20 of the world's most climate-vulnerable nations combined. If we care about the present climate apocalypse, we must care for Gaza

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe

Exclusive: First months of conflict produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, study shows

www.theguardian.com

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 5d

THANK YOU GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA.

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 5d

Gaza fishermen able to fish for first time thanks to sumud flotilla distraction

they STILL FED MY PEOPLE. 🥹

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 5d

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the atonement that will be required of us?

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 6d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 7d

Still going, still funding!

Shares/reposts/signal boost deeply appreciated that’s one of the best ways to help! 🙏

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · Sep 1

For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are.

I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.

Donate to Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over, organized by F Theory

Short version first: I’m an undocumented freelancer/gig worker with no health insu… F Theory needs your support for Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over

www.gofundme.com

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Muslim Council of Britain @muslimcouncil.bsky.social · 7d

We are deeply concerned by reports of a violent attack at a synagogue in Manchester today. We unequivocally condemn this act of violence.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 7d

Laila always has a hard time reaching out

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 6d

Breaking | A new wave of ships is currently sailing in the Mediterranean, including 10 vessels that have departed from Italy five days ago.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 6d

8 hours left, please share! This giving circle is a partnership with six families & a camp. Current urgent needs:

- Tents & other supplies - MOST were just displaced
- Food - still a famine
- Medicine & disability needs

Extended - 653/800 by tonight.

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...

chuffed.org

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 6d

UPDATE: Mikeno has stopped contact and is assumed intercepted by Israel. Not a single delivery of baby formula will reach the shores of Gaza to try and save a single child's life.

Flotilla Tracker showing the only boat to break through Isreal's illegal kidnapping has now been assumed intercepted

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 6d

yes really, they are organizing a thousand ships, and there are application forms for sailors/legal/citizen/tech support

www.thousandmadleens.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 7d

Live-stream coverage and communications have been lost with several boats as Israel intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Live: Israel begins unlawful interception of Sumud Flotilla vessels

Meanwhile, Italy and Greece call on Israel not to hurt the Global Sumud Flotilla activists

www.middleeasteye.net

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 8d

Activists are throwing aid in floating buckets in case Israel arrests them, hoping it will reach the people of Gaza

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Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social · 8d

I was one of those written by your project, one of the names that resisted becoming just a number among the countless statistics of loss. In a time of genocide, the insistence on humanization becomes an act of resistance,

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve been going back and forth about if I should stop my Palestinian account every day project on the year anniversary next week or if I should do something else and I think I’ve settled on- I will do this as long as it remains useful

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Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social · 8d

because every story told refuses to let our existence be erased.
To be seen as a human, not a number, amid the obscenity of numbers, is a testament that we are still here, shouting life in the face of every attempt at erasure. Every name, every face, every life, is a continuous defiance of oblivion

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