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13 lizards doing their best

@13lizardsinatrenchcoat

Trench. they/them (it/its if we're friends). I am over the age of 18. Icon by @toxinfox. This blog is a random assortment of things I find interesting or fun.
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List of Palestinian Evacuation Fundraisers

Last Update: 05/06/2024

All fundraisers have been looked into by me or vetted by others. If anyone notices issues in validity with any of the fundraisers listed please let me know. Funding updates daily!

Fadi Al-Sharif and family ($10,439/$62,500 goal)

Hayam Taha and family (€8,718/€30,000 goal)

Deyaa and family (€7,764/€20,000 goal)

Fatima Alshanti (kr5,085 SEK/kr150,000 goal)

Shahed Ghazi and family ($6,776 CAD/$94,838 goal)

Little Yusuf and family (€5,960/€85,000 goal)

Sara & Huda Hajjaj and family ($240/$15,000 goal)

Mohammed JH Shamia's family (kr20,168 SEK/kr250,000 goal)

Maram Ahmed and family (€1,032/€30,000 goal)

Hamza Almofty and family ($3,772/$35,000 goal)

Mahmoud Jomaa (€400/€10,000 goal)

Dr. Mohammed Shara ($445/$20,000 goal)

Abdulrahman Alshanti and family (kr137,402 SEK/kr350,000 goal)

Besan Almabhouh's family (€5,767/€25,000 goal)

Said Tanani and brothers (€30,935/€50,000 goal)

Donia Tanani and family (€67,538/€100,000 goal)

Mohammed Shamia and family ($15,020/$35,000 goal)

Amro Bakr & kids Bakir and Tala (€1,772/€15,000 goal)

Almadhoun family ($18,365/$80,000 goal)

Child Mohammed (€6,420/€10,000 goal)

Sana'a and family (£19,668/£50,000 goal)

Noha Ayyad and family ($23,050/$95,160 goal)

Nazmi Mwafi and family ($5,151/65,000 goal)

Hamdi Hejazi and family ($10,236/$25,000)

Mohammed and family ($7,620/$25,000)

Many of the families that have reached out to me, families on this list, are in Rafah or have family members in Rafah. It is imperative and EXTREMELY urgent we fill these fundraisers as swiftly as possible, the IOF is planning to invade any day. Please, I urge you, to donate whatever you can. People’s lives are at stake.

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etirabys

CS Lewis's explanation of why oral poetic epics cannot be mined for fanfiction titles is not going to stop me from mining Paradise Lost for fanfiction titles. But I respect the explanation

The misunderstanding of [narrative poetry] I have learned from looking into used copies of our great narrative poems. In them you find often enough a num­ber of not very remarkable lines underscored with pencil in the first two pages, and all the rest of the book virgin. It is easy to see what has happened. The unfortunate reader has set out expecting 'good lines' – little ebullient patches of delight­ such as he is accustomed to find in lyrics, and has thought he was finding them in things that took his fancy for accidental reasons during the first five minutes; after that, finding that the poem cannot really be read in this way, he has given it up. ... If anyone will make the experiment for a week or two of reading no poetry and hearing a good deal, he will soon find the explanation of the stock phrases. It is a prime necessity of oral poetry that the hearers should not be surprised too often, or too much. The unexpected tires us: it also takes us longer to understand and enjoy than the expected. A line which gives the listener pause is a disaster in oral poetry because it makes him lose the next line. And even ifhe does not lose the next, the rare and ebullient line is not worth making. In the sweep of recitation no individual line is going to count for very much. The pleasure which moderns chiefly desire from printed poetry is ruled out anyway. You cannot ponder over single lines and let them dissolve on the mind like lozenges. That is the wrong way of using this sort of poetry. It is not built up of isolated effects; the poetry is in the paragraph, or the whole episode. To look for single, 'good' lines is like looking for single 'good' stones in a cathedral.
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maxknightley

I think the most annoying thing about really strident "vote blue no matter who" posters is that they seem incapable of understanding the difference between A Call To Action and a personal statement of frustration and disaffection

me: I just feel like, with Biden acting as a cheerleader for genocide and suppression of protests & having completely fumbled the covid response, I personally (just me) (not necessarily you) (I live in a solid blue state anyway) (this post is about my feelings on the matter) (they're not positive feelings) (yes I regularly vote in state and municipal elections) (just how I feel on the matter) (i.e. frustrated and angry) would feel sick to my stomach voting for him even as a "practical" measure. and frankly I'm not especially convinced it would make a difference either way

some person I've never spoken to before: you know what? fuck this. fuck you. telling people NOT TO VOTE is how PUTIN WINS,

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tooies

when a pelican bites you there's no malice in their eyes. they aren't upset at you. they are just hungry and want to see if you fit in their mouths. and if you don't then it's no problem and everything is fine. and if you do then well i guess your fate is sealed but that's ok it's a beautiful animal

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I think tumblr is one of the places most saturated with people who will delight upon seeing any creature. I am very thankful for this website allowing me to indulge in delight at creatures.

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sneakyfeets

Absolutely obsessed with this thread of anons documenting and exposing a writer’s overwhelmingly blatant muscle fetish bleeding into everything he’s ever worked on

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zoobus

You can tell rightwing fearmongering about pedophilic boogeymen is winning by the sheer number of commenters who believe the thing they never noticed before is retroactively an active, insidious threat to childhood innocence.

Like this is funny to note well after the fact but it does not actually matter. Nobody was harmed by it. Even if this grosses you out, it’s critical to recognize that Timmy muscle growth did not endanger, psychologically traumatize, or groom you. You did not witness child porn and no one is helped by reframing your outlook to believe you did.