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Alexios Vrykolakas

@alexvrykolakas.bsky.social
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Biologist & hobby-writer with emphasis on horror, mythology, vampires, and fantasy. Aromantic asexual, queer, socialist, he/him. Opinions are my own, name is not. Writings: alexiosvrykolakas.medium.com

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Ommer Draven ($0 net today)⚒️🏳‍⚧♿ @ommerdraven.unitedsyncretic.org · 05/10/2026
Fighting the infestation in the tent as we get ready for the move has gotten expensive, but I think our efforts are starting to pay off. Eight days until we leave! Anything you can spare helps ease the journey! 💸 bit.ly/WDCshApp ☕ ko-fi.com/ommerdraven 🙏⚒️💕💸🏳‍⚧♿💜
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/10/2026
“They took me and they threw me [like] a sheep to the back of a military Hummer. After, they made their dog attack me and bite me, and they hit me,” says Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro, who was detained at a military base by Israeli soldiers for seven hours on Friday.
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t know what to do…💔 🆘Mahmoud is dying before my eyes. The sepsis is worsening rapidly. Sham is sick, in pain and crying, and needs her medications and an endoscopy. I’m crying now while Ariam, my daughter, is crying from hunger. I’m broken… Please, save my family😭 chuffed.org/project/omshamm
A girl lying in bed cryingA young girl, seated, crying, with her right hand on her face.Three sad girls sitting on a grey couch. The youngest in the middle is crying.Mahmoud asleep in a hospital bed with both his legs completely bandaged and stabilized with metal fixators
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
💔 Please don’t scroll past Ahmed’s post. This is him today. His abdomen is open and covered with gauze, an IV is in his hand, and spots cover his face. He cries from the pain all day. He urgently needs surgery. We are terrified of losing him. Please help us save him. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/mahm...
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Om jameel:After losing her tent in the shelling,she faced a critical health crisis;she suffers from a loose heart valve&has now developed a hemorrhage& a uterine wall tear She needs $200 for her surgery to stop bleeding The danger is extremely high Return her to her kids😭 chuffed.org/project/1839...
Om Jameel in a hospital bed wearing a hospital gown. A hand is caressing her cheek. Her face is blurred.Om Jameel sitting on a mattress inside a tent with her five children. She's wearing a white patterned abaya Om Jameel resting in a hospital bed after her preliminary surgery
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dani - the plot twist menace🌈| boost 📌 @midnight0wl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
our action matters. consistent support & visibility are vital to keeping people safe. whatever we can do makes a difference. step up & choose to be a lifeline - people are worth every effort. 💞 tinyurl.com/4fhz85n7
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Fundraiser by sharif alamoudi | Donate to save my innocent children please
sharif alamoudi Needs Your Help | Hello, I am Sharif Al-Amoudi from Gaza. I am married and have five-month-old twin boys, Hossam and Ahmed, who were conceived after four attempts at IVF. My w...
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Alexios Vrykolakas @alexvrykolakas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sam Altman should consider he’a a part of the world, and bad things can be focused on specific parts of
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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If your child were in my child Omar's place... would you leave him to face the pain alone? I am appealing to you with a heavy heart; my child Omar is suffering from severe malnutrition Every time he tried to walk, he fell to the ground He is innocent Please don't let him down tinyurl.com/4rdnwyzx
Omar sitting in a bucket of water as his mother Soad feeds him crackers. Black text between them reads 🚨 URGENT 🚨 Please Read ❤️ Help Soad and Omar
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Lilith Treah 🏳️‍⚧️ @handle.invalid · 03/10/2026
Will Die With No Helps Please Helps Me
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imagine your child crying from hunger—what would you do?😭💔 My dream is for someone to sponsor a monthly meal for my young orphans. My husband was killed in the war, and I have no one to support my children. Please donate and share.🙏😔 Please, do not leave us alone.🙏 ✅molly shah gofund.me/8db2db8db
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
MAGA stealing funds meant for scientific research…
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Alexios Vrykolakas @alexvrykolakas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reinstalled Skyrim and the Forsworn are so weirdly written. They feel like a halfhearted attempt to deconstruct colonial narratives around indigenous populations that cast the locals as “other”, but we (the players) experience the Forsworn’s indiscriminate violence firsthand.
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
💔 Please don’t scroll past Ahmed’s post. This is him today. His abdomen is open and covered with gauze, an IV is in his hand, and spots cover his face. He cries from the pain all day. He urgently needs surgery. We are terrified of losing him. Please help us save him. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/mahm...
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🆘 I am carrying my family on my shoulders, and I feel myself breaking. Mahmoud is fighting a life-threatening infection, Sham is sick, Umm Mahmoud needs medication, and my daughters are hungry. Please, don’t leave my family to die😭 Your support today is life for us💔 chuffed.org/project/omsh...
Three girls sitting on a grey couch, looking sad. The youngest one in the middle is crying.Mahmoud sleeping in a hospital bed, with both his legs completely bandaged and stabilized with metal fixatorsA young girl asleep on a hospital bed with a nebulizer device covering her nose and mouth. She has an IV access on her right forearm.An old person sitting on a grey couch, in front of a document which may be a medical order. Her face is out of the picture.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FA is being very up front about both the cost of hosting the site [it aint cheap] and how advertisers theyd been relying on prior are pushing all the same puritan bullshit weve been seeing other platforms push FA is one of very few Old Internet spaces around. Support em while we CAN
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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Samaa and her children in Gaza live between fear, hunger, and bombardment every single day. she tries to protect them while struggling to provide even the most basic needs. Any donation — even a small one — can make a real difference for them. 🙏💔 chuffed.org/project/1575...
Julia in the ruins oh her famiuly's houseSamaa and Julia in the ruins of their homeSamaa and julia outside in the sunJulia gives baby Talia a cuddle
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Spartan 0323 The Phoenix Shall Rise In Silver & Black @thejaklife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Imagine holding your own child as his last drop of sight fades forever. Gaza’s cruel reality stole Elias’s first eye, and now his final spark of light is dying.We are helpless,penniless, and broken.On my knees,I beg you:please save my little boy. Verified by: molly shah chuffed.org/project/196611
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Lilith Treah 🏳️‍⚧️ @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026
This be what I is overdraw friend who pay for my surgery take it back paypal will not do anything about it they did not send me to friend and family they send me like they buy something from me they did not buy nothing from me this same friend who took back moving money they lie on me to paypal
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🆘 MY CAMPAIGN IS AT ZERO 🆘 My little daughter is very sick and getting weaker every day 😭 I’m caring for 4 children and struggling to provide what they need My 6 month old baby needs milk and diapers 🍼 Please help my family survive 💔 10 people × €20 = €200 🙏 chuffed.org/project/2045...
A collage of 4 photos.
Top left: two boys holding a sheet of paper with handwriting "please brother Francis help my mother"
Top right: a sleeping girl face covered with little red spots next to a crying emoji 😭 
Bottom left: Alaa standing at the entrance of her tent with her two sons and daughter
Bottom right: Alaa holding her daughter in her arms with her two sons standing by her in the rain A newborn baby in a white blanket with her eyes open
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also Biden pioneered outdoor detention which was incredibly cruel and deadly for migrants and his party didn’t push back or even mention it in most cases.
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 Will you leave Mahmoud until he loses his legs? 💔 Sepsis is spreading through his body, his life is at risk, and he now faces the danger of losing his legs. He is a father, and his dream is to stay alive and hold his daughters, not lose his legs before their eyes. 🆘😭 chuffed.org/project/omsh...
Selfie of Mahmoud on his hospital bed, wearing a hospital gown with an IV access on his left handMahmoud asleep in a hospital bed with both his legs completely bandaged and stabilized with metal fixators Three sad girls on a grey couch. The youngest one in the middle is crying A young girl sitting on a couch, crying, with her right hand covering her face
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NY Manga @thenewyorkmanga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please help by giving what you can or pass around...
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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mahmoud is struggling to afford medicine and dressings for little Ahmed, who has a serious skin disease. Specialist help is unavailable in #Gaza so the family is desperately trying to keep him alive at home. They also need food. Can you help? chuffed.org/project/1905... 🍉
A small Palestinian boy lies on cushions. There is a canula attached to a tube going into his bandaged right wrist, he has injuries on his face and an elastplast on his chin. His eyes are bruised from crying.
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Death @insatiableone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🆘 We are begging you, please save Mahmoud. His condition is rapidly deteriorating, sepsis is spreading. Please don’t let Mahmoud die. He urgently needs medication and surgery to save his legs & his life. His daughters need their father. Help Mahmoud survive. 😭💔 🆘🔁 chuffed.org/project/omsh...
Mahmoud is wearing a hospital gown and lying in bed with an IV in his handAnother view of Mahmoud showing his bandaged legs with braces in the hospital bed
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Kokoro @livelyprancing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ahmed's 💌 (1/2): Hello, I'm Ahmed from Gaza. I created a donation campaign after life narrowed us, I am the only breadwinner of my family, but unfortunately we have not received any donations so far. chuffed.org/project/1696...
A photo of Ahmed sitting in a chair next to a bag of fortified wheat that has a hole at the botyom. An unsealed stack of concrete(?) blocks is behind him.
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Lexi Bee (475-1000 left for car! ) @lexibee69.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the final amount I need to make so I can sell my car and get one that actually works consistently. Anyone whos able to throw even 20 is appreciated
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Ommer Draven ($0 net today)⚒️🏳‍⚧♿ @ommerdraven.unitedsyncretic.org · 25/09/2026
After a relatively long string of expensive crises our accounts are nearly empty! We've got 2 1/2 weeks until our train leaves to survive, and traveling on empty is never fun. Anything you can spare helps! 💸 bit.ly/WDCshApp ☕ ko-fi.com/ommerdraven 🙏⚒️💕💸🏳‍⚧♿💜
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Spartan 0323 The Phoenix Shall Rise In Silver & Black @thejaklife.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can you endure just 60 seconds of total darkness? My brother Fouad lives this reality every day after the war robbed him of his sight. We don't even have the money to buy the necessary eye drops. I implore you, people of compassion please hear our urgent plea and support us chuffed.org/project/moh01
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨 PLEASE DON’T SCROLL PAST AHMED 🚨 Ahmed’s fever is 41°C. His body is covered with painful spots and sores, and he’s crying in pain. 💔 He still hasn’t received his medicine since yesterday. I urgently need $200 tonight for treatment. Please help me get his medicine. 🙏💔 chuffed.org/project/mahm...
Ahmed lying on a red blanket, crying, with red bruises and sores on his arm and face. He's got an IV drip connected to his right forearm.
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Ommer Draven ($0 net today)⚒️🏳‍⚧♿ @ommerdraven.unitedsyncretic.org · 26/09/2026
No donations in ages, flat broke, out of my allergen-safe foods, and I just realized today that the "lice" I've been fighting are actually scabies when I saw one crawl out of my skin. It's Friday, my doctor didn't return my call, and I have no money for urgent care. Not a good day. 🙏⚒️💕💸🏳‍⚧♿💜
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Alexios Vrykolakas @alexvrykolakas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/geor... What kind of bastard do you have to be to flag an account as requiring a “Content Warning” for asking for help surviving a genocide?! Bluesky moderators are absolutely disgusting monsters
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nyxi🐛 @nyxipuff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today is Reem’s 21st birthday. 🎂🥹🤍 All she wishes for today is a little joy and a small reminder that she is not alone. 🥹🎁 Please share her post, and if you can, make a small donation as a birthday gift for her. 🤍🙏🏻1/2 chuffed.org/project/help...
A picture of Reem when she was a baby, blowing out four candles on a birthday cake.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 25/09/2026
Women in Gaza who lost their husbands in the genocide are caught between the need to work and the pain of leaving their children alone, susceptible to Israeli violence. According to the UN, these women now represent 1 in 4 households in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/in-g... #Palestine #Israel
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The genocide is ongoing. It is painful when your entire existence becomes an endless struggle just to keep your kids fed, healthy, and educated. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Help when you can, how you can. Continue to share Please 🫂🧡 Vetted by Molly Shah ✅ tinyurl.com/2etna36k
A collage of three photos showing Ziyad, a young boy on his first at the educational tent, looking proud. On the bottom right photo, it's him with his little sister, Mirna, smiling, both sitting on a couch.
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My brother Marwan was seriously injured in the war and is at risk of partial paralysis if he does not receive medical care. We urgently need $180 to cover the costs of his critical surgery. For the sake of humanity, we appeal to you for help; we need your support.🇵🇸🤝🇵🇸 chuffed.org/project/moh01
A man asleep on a hospital bed wearing a blue hospital gown is being stabilized by two pairs of medics hands on his head and torsoMarwan sleeping in a hospital bed wearing a blue hospital gown.
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Kokoro @livelyprancing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
❤️‍🩹A message from Ahmed: Just $25 won't make you poor, but it could mean everything to me. Every donation helps me buy food and medicine. We need your help. You know I'm the sole provider for my family. If you see me, please leave a comment. chuffed.org/project/1696...
A photo of Ahmed standing in front of a destroyed building, making a peace sign.
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We are starving 💔😭 We are starving 💔😭 We are starving 💔😭 We are dying of hunger. My family has no food, and donations have stopped 💔😢 We urgently need $350 to buy food. Any help could save my family 🙏 Please don't ignore us, we have nothing left to live 💔🙏 chuffed.org/project/1634...
A boy standing barefoot on a green rug, holding a sheet of paper with handwriting "Don't skip I need Help 🍉"
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🆘 My girl is in pain… her father is fighting for his life. Sham is crying from pain, while Mahmoud fights a deadly infection. We need £200 for medicine. Sham needs her father, and I’m trying to save them. 💔😭 Please look at my family, and everything I’m carrying alone. chuffed.org/project/omsh...
A girl lying on a blue patterned blanket, sobbing.Mahmoud asleep on a hospital bed with both his legs strapped and stabilized with metal fixators
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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Waseem's mother urgently needs help to replace her broken glasses. Her sight is already very limited due to failed surgery & without them she can't get around safely in the dangerous environment that Gaza has become. Just a few more small donations would change everything. gofund.me/35fdca7d 🍉 #Gaza
An older Palestinian woman sits in a small room with a stone-flagged floor. She looks downcast. A hand reaches into the frame, holding a badly mangled pair of glasses.
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Spartan 0323 The Phoenix Shall Rise In Silver & Black @thejaklife.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My brother Fouad lives in darkness after a war injury. I am injured as well, yet I try my best to feed and care for him amidst severe hardship in Gaza. We humbly beg for aid. Your small donation brings us hope and needed medical treatment. Please help us Please my friend 😭😭 chuffed.org/project/moh01
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Kokoro @livelyprancing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
💔A message from Ahmed: Unfortunately, some of you care, while others no longer do. Frankly, we are hungry and need food and medicine.🙏💔 If you're browsing, please leave a comment. It's just a comment.😭😔 We need $25 chuffed.org/project/1696...
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nyxi🐛 @nyxipuff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
from ahmed: Our helplessness may force us to face my sister Simo and I cling to a small thread of hope. 😭💔 We need $25 to buy food. Please, don't let us suffer in silence. Your support can give us little hope today. 🙏🏻😭 chuffed.org/project/help...
A picture of a child who is starving.
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Alexios Vrykolakas @alexvrykolakas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If the rest of the party is not willing to protect people now, why should anyone ever believe them when they say they will protect people later? If trans people can be thrown under the bus, what should people of color expect? Women? Immigrants? Disabled people?
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
In the latest development among anti-trans wings of the Democratic Party, the Ohio Democratic Party is now deleting criticism from caucus members of Kaptur's anti-trans ad calling transgender people an "ideology." It appears any dissent over the ad is practically banned on caucus social media.
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The Ohio Democratic Party Is Silencing Its Pride Caucus Over Criticism Of Kaptur's "Transgender Ideology" Ad
The Ohio Democratic Party suppressed dissent from within its own Pride Caucus, activists said.
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