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Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 @paradis3gained.bsky.social · 20h
Om jameel:her health is deteriorating.Despite suffering from a heart valve condition,she has suffered uterine& tore wall hemorrhaging&urgently gather $300 surgery to stop the bleeding Her situation is dangerous Stop her tears kids by donating &returns to her kids embrace😭 chuffed.org/project/1839...
Om Jameel lies sick under a blanket.Om Jameel lies sick under a blanket, fed by another.Five children, young Palestinian siblings - Jude, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - plead for help in a tent shelter. A Palestinian woman, Om Jameel, sits with her five children - Jood, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - pleading for help in a tent shelter.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h
Viruses run rampant across Havana as water, power fails reut.rs/3VaLvPk
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Viruses run rampant across Havana as water, power fails
Cuban housewife Yuamilka Hechavarria was asleep last Tuesday when water rushed into the cistern of the crumbling tenement where she lives in old Havana.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6h
Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine.
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 6h
GUYS WE ARE 376 QUID AWAY FROM THE TARGET. IT WILL TAKE LESS THAN ONE IN A THOUSAND OF MY FOLLOWERS TO DONATE A QUID TO GET THERE. Tell you what, If we get to £9900, I'll donate the last 100 quid myself.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 5h
On this day 26 years ago I was a child watching another Palestinian child on tv, about my age, hide behind his dad & then get killed, because the soldiers shooting didnt value his life at all. His name was Mohammad al-Durra. 26 years later, the lives of Palestinian children matter even less.
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Marghoul @marghoul.bsky.social · 4h
I hate to ask but I haven't eaten in a day. Almost completely stuck in bed. Please help me order something. V: @marghoul CA: $helpmarghoul
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5h
Here's Backpack as a yearling in 2007, unable to put weight on the injured paw. Holly took her cub & moved upriver, away from aggressive bears who might harm him at Brooks Falls. Fishing was harder for the pair, and she risked both of them struggling or starving, but he was SAFE.
Backpack in 2007, nursing an injured paw that is turned under, so that he can't put any weight on it.  If you're wondering why they didn't provide vet care, it's their policy not to interfere when an injury is natural and not caused by human activity.

I think this photo is by David Kopshever, National Park Service?  It's on a blog linked below.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5h
She also adjusted her pace to ensure the injured cub could keep up. By 2008, he was observed hunting on his own & at the age of 20 is King of the Fat Bears, holding his own at the crowded Brook Falls. A story of a mother's love, sacrifice & a little cub who became a champion fat bear. 🥹
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How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack
Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.
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nyxi🐛 @nyxipuff.bsky.social · 3h
from ahmed: We hold on to a thin thread of hope. We only need 50$. 😭 Please, don't let us face hunger and fear alone. If you can help, even a small contribution means a lot. If you can't donate, please repost until this reaches someone who can. 🙏🏻 chuffed.org/project/help...
A picture of a child holding a handwritten sign that says "Please help us from famine"
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 3h
I have a very close friend in Gaza, a mother of three children, who has lost everything and is in dire need of donations for her family. 

 Please give if you can, and help others. No amount of donation is too small. There are many Gazans in need. 🙏💜 chuffed.org/project/1981...
My friend's three children.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 3h
Today, @wired.com is publishing Choke Points, an 18-month investigation into how Israel’s network of checkpoints, gates, and roadblocks is reshaping daily life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. A thread on the reporting, and what we found:
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 10h
HEY!!!! Someone broke days of stagnation!!! We have to ACT for Wolf & their kid's survival. They get help once or twice a week....?? I keep saying it: ANYTHING helps, especially if you click “weekly” or “monthly”: chuffed.org/project/1243...
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Help Single Parent While They Fight Two Year Long Employer Retaliation After Reporting Gender Pay Discrimination While They Try
Hello, my name is Meave Gallagher, and I'm sponsoring this fundraiser on behalf of my dear friend Wolf and their child, who have suddenly found themselves in dire financial straits. It is so easy to…
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 29/09/2026
My dear friend and her family in Gaza have lost everything; their home, livelihood, and security. This is the case for thousands of Gazans. 

They rely on us. Please give if you can. No amount of donation is too small. And help others. There are many Gazans in need. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1981...
My friend in the ruins of her city of Rafah.My friend's youngest daughter.
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 16h
In another world Israel's offensive in Gaza petered out in November/December 2023 as they expended their entire strategic stockpile of aerial bombs, as the US followed its own laws and moral obligations and did not provide new supply.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 18h
you are invited to her gallery opening
A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.
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Juniper @gravepixie.bsky.social · 12h
No heat in the house and rent is due in just about two days… we’re also low on food. I’m really low on energy after battling a really bad cold that’s been sitting in my chest. I’m trying to repost as much as I can but I’m extremely tired and out of it.
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Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio 🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 20h
Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.
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Donate to Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery, organized by Katra Ariello
Hi, my name is Katra, and I’ve just been notified that I’ll be let go of… Katra Ariello needs your support for Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery
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thebluemango.in @thebluemango.in · 8h
Now that the bread has rested overnight, here's a picture of the crumb. :D Lunch today: green bean sandwiches! #breadsky #lunch #sandwich #whatscooking #baking
A couple slices of bread kept in a white pasta dish. The soft white crumb can be seen clearly in the dissfused light. In the blurry background there is the remainder of the still substantial loaf, with white crumb and dark brown crust. A green bean patty with brown spots resting on the bread slice with brown crust. It's kept on a light brown wooden chopping board on the kitchen black kitchen counter.
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thebluemango.in @thebluemango.in · 22h
Probably the most gorgeous pain de mie I have made till now. Look at all the straight edges! 😍 #breadsky #baking #whatscooking
Photograph from the side of a freshly baked pullman loaf, resting on a metal grill for cooling. Same bread  photographed from the side to show the length of the loaf. You can see parallel line texture imprinted from the pan it was baked in. It's resting on a metal grill on a dark stone slab.
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gob-1.bsky.social @gob-1.bsky.social · 8h
I have a very small footprint on social media, but for those that see this could you take a look at this please and respond of you wish to. Google (former motto "Don't be evil") want to build a data center on an Essex wildlife reserve. action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/200909/...
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Defend wildlife in Thurrock from a data centre
The Thurrock Local Plan is the perfect tool to ensure development does not damage nature.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 18h
If you appreciate our frontline coverage from Gaza, please consider supporting UR contributor Mohamed el Saife to get his family out of Gaza >> tinyurl.com/supportmo <<
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Help Get Journalist's Family Out of Gaza
Help Mohamed get his family out of Gaza! Mohamed el Saife is a journalist who's risked his life for many years covering the Israeli occupation of Palestine and siege on Gaza. His family and him have b...
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22h
for anyone who followed my episodes about the Drug User Liberation Front, and their canadian supreme court challenge... well, good news
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 19h
honestly crying about this. been a long time since i've read good political news. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23h
yes when i think of the people in my life I've watched weep in despair for lack of affordable childcare options i think "urban, affluent voters"
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23h
this kind of policy is going to primarily help single parents. single parents, particularly single moms, can use more help than almost any other category of people I can name. it's an inconceivably demanding job and i would love if my tax dollars helped make it easier.
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Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints @moralconstraints.bsky.social · 22h
These types of people are the real stumbling block to protecting women and stopping rape being so universal and normalised
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mohawkemotions @mohawkemotions.bsky.social · 23h
Spent all weekend travelling to different Indigenous language immersion schools, seeing the frontlines of saving our languages. The most impactful programs have no funding, are community driven, and started with a parent quitting their job. Languages are saved when even one family decides
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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 23h
If you saw this post before, let's just say if I ever meet the person who thought it was a good idea to make autocorrect change words you typed 10+ seconds after you typed them, when you are on the next sentence, I will go to prison for what I do.
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Jonny Deane @jondeane.io · 23/09/2026
Potential flatmate changed plans, so pushing this again.
m.spareroom.co.uk
Excellent double room. Clapham and Brixton.
Clapham North : £1,100 pcm (inc bills). Excellent double room available 1st November. Convenient for Clapham and Brixton amenities and transport...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Lastly, this has been the toughest month of my career for subscription cancellations. I know money is tight for everyone right now, but I couldn't continue my career without reader support. If you have $5/mo or $50/year (or $10/$100), now would be a great time to subscribe. bsky.app/profile/kate...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
This is a formal request to SCOTUS to forcefully detransition dozens of incarcerated trans people and to subject them to medical experimentation. That's what this is.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
E is a young artist who managed to escape Israel's genocidal siege of Gaza. She had 4.5k followers here, which gave her reach she used to keep her family, still trapped there, alive. Then Bsky deleted her. Now, people have turned away. You don't have to. She's terrified for her family. Share/donate:
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No One Should Starve for Being Born Here
My name is Eslam Mohammad, I’m 24 years old, and I’m from Gaza.  Over the past year, I’ve lived through unimaginable horror.  I lost my home, my work as a photographer and artist, my friends, and the ...
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Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Alaa is one of my favourite people here, if we'd listened to her and other we'd all be free. You can't envision that. We can. tiny.cc/alaatwins
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Help me to save my family and escape from Gaza to Eygpt
My name is Alaa, and I hold a Master’s degree in Architectural Engineering.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really important thread.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lots of talk about defending "Western civilization" these days, so here's Richard Wright on what it means to be Western:
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
NB this is not just a UK thing. Here's what UBC was teaching medical students up until mid 2024 (when they removed 👉the explanation only👈 after I let them know how badly out of date they were). The apprenticeship model cannot process science that conflicts with received wisdom from senior docs.
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The negligent, outdated beliefs of medicine's management class (everywhere; from the UK inquiry here) contrasted with well-understood science from 👉1934👈. If you got sick after being told that COVID falls to the ground within 3 feet and N95/FFP2/FFP3 respirators aren't needed, 👉it was their fault.👈
The focus on handwashing over ventilation  12.32. As 2020 progressed, it was increasingly understood that airborne transmission of Covid-19 was a substantial risk and, by 23 July 2020, SAGE had endorsed the importance of good ventilation.ON AIR-BORNE INFECTION.*  STUDY II. DROPLETS AND DROPLET NUCLEI.  BY  W. F. WELLS, t  (Beceived for publication June 14, 1934.)  The infective range of droplets expelled from the nose or mouth depends primarily upon the time interval spent in the atmosphere. The unresisted falling time from mouth to ground can be readily shown by Newton's Law to be less than a second. Air resistance becomes a negligible factor in determining the time of fall of droplets larger than a tenth millimeter through the height of a man. As droplets decrease in diameter the volume and weight, or gravitational pull, decrease more rapidly than the surface area which determines the resistance to fall through air. Particles smaller than a tenth millimeter diameter soon reach a velocity which remains constant. This fact is expressed by Stokes' Law % which says that the velocity is proportional to the surface area of the droplet or to the square of its diameter.droplets would reach the ground in less than ten seconds (table 1). Whether droplets falling two meters obey Stokes' law or Newton's law, therefore, the time they spend in the air would be small, and their radius of spread would be limited to a few feet. Infection caused by such droplets would therefore appear to be limited both in time and space to the immediate vicinity of the source.  TABLE 1.  Settling of water droplets in saturated air.  Diameter of droplet Falling velocity Time in seconds of Millimeters Centimeters per second falling two meters > 1.0 981 X time in seconds .6 .1 30. 6. .01 .3 600. = 10 minutes .001 .003 60,000. = 16.6 hours  It would be incorrect to conclude merely from this, however, that air receiving infected droplets cannot convey such infection long distances. To do so would be to neglect a most important characteristic of liquid droplets, namely their tendency to evaporate. Evaporation causes the volume of water droplets to change, and this change becomes more rapid as the droplet decreases in size. Careful determination of the rate of evaporation has proved that at constant temperature and humidity the rate of change of surface is constant. The life of droplets in unsaturated air is therefore proportional to the square of their diameter. It becomes quite short for small droplets, in fact much shorter than their time of fall if they settled without evaporation. Approximate evaporation times for droplets of different sizes are tabulated below. We find, therefore, that minute droplets settle slowly and evapoTABLE 2.  Evaporation time of water droplets in unsaturated air at 18° C*  Diameter of droplet Evaporation time Millimeters Seconds 2 660. 1 165. .5 41. .2 6.6 .1 1.7 .05 4  * Computed from data given in chapt. 15, "Evaporation of Droplets." Smoke: A Study of Aerial Disperse Systems; R. Whytlaw-Gray and H. S. Patterson, page 176 Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1932.A chart from Wells (1934) showing that particles smaller than 100 microns shrink (via evaporation) to a size small enough to remain airborne indefinitely before they have time to fall to the ground.

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"This is an important difference since it produces a complete change in state of small droplets in comparison with large drops. On chart 1 the curves of evaporation time and falling time (to fall two meters in saturated air) are seen to be almost similar in shape but opposite in direction. The point of intersection gives the size of droplets which would evaporate and particles which would fall two meters in the same time. Somewhere between .1 and .2 mm. lies the droplet size which identifies droplets of mouth spray that reach the ground within the life of the droplet as against droplets that evaporate and remain in the air as droplet nuclei with attached infection."
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.
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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza
A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
The settlement trade ban initiative has already proven to be more effective at shaping Israeli action than virtually anything else done by the West since 1956
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Israel's AG postpones West Bank E1 construction tender until after election
The attorney general's office said the deadline for bids on more than 2,100 housing units should be postponed by a month to prevent the internationally condemned project from being used for election c...
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
as a guy who decided to go inside the system because being outside it struck me as rather personally perilous, it appears i did not factor in exactly how incompetent everyone making decisions inside the system would turn out to be
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Liana @pontifux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we've gotten 2 deliveries so far but are currently sitting at $4.40 in available funds 😭
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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. My convertible bags can be worn as a backpack, crossbody bag, waist bag or on a mobility aid! They have custom lining & zipper pulls. They're on pre-order right now! Store: Bibipins.com
Sakura Angel Convertible Bag Pre-Order Text. With a convertible bag in pink and purple. With Sakura and sparkles in purple. With the Bibipins logo.
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🚨🚨My chronic migraine, pure terror,&total exhaustion are breaking my body. Over a week without support,& we face being evicted into the street.I need €400 for ground rent. Ibrahim is starving with no medicine.I am utterly terrified and helpless.Please don't let us fall.🥺💔🫂 chuffed.org/project/191450
Ibrahim sitting in the middle of a tent being set up, holding his bag against him Barata sitting next to her son on a hospital bed. She's wearing a beige scarf around her head and a black facemask Ibrahim lying down with a wet towel on his forehead. His hand against his throat indicating he's having problems breathing
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Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 @paradis3gained.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Om jameel:her health is deteriorating.Despite suffering from a heart valve condition,she has suffered uterine& tore wall hemorrhaging&urgently gather $300 surgery to stop the bleeding Her situation is dangerous Stop her tears kids by donating &returns to her kids embrace😭 chuffed.org/project/1839...
Om Jameel lies sick under a blanket.Om Jameel lies sick under a blanket, fed by another.five Palestinian children lie on dirty mattresses outside A Palestinian man and woman, Mohammed and Om Jameel, sit with their five children - Jood, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - pleading for help.
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Om Amir has a serious retinal disease and can now see only with one eye Until the crossing opens for her surgery outside Gaza we rely on wekly medicines to ease her pain and protect her vision We need $150 for treatment Every dollar goes to her medicines and medical needs chuffed.org/project/help...
Selfie of Amir wearing a black Tshirt, with his mother sleeping in the background. She's wearing a patch on her left* eye and she has an IV drip connected to her left* wrist. (*With the selfie flip effect, it must be her actual right eye and wrist. The text on Amir's Tshirt "IMPORT" is flipped)A nurse in green scrubs inspecting hospital beds, covered with debris and rubble. Peeling walls and scattered wreckage suggest a recent bombing on this hospital ward .
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This pisses me off so much. If shut off, it will be decades before we can collect comparable data.
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