Hi new followers. This is largely a fundraising account now for Gaza folks who are trying to survive. As many have already gleaned, the current situation can't last much longer, so when the people of Gaza are either all dead or free, this account will either retire or pivot again.
You know I’m as firmly against the genocide as anyone, but I don’t think these fundraisers help. Even if some of them are not scams, money cannot move food into Gaza through the genocidal blockade. Even if the funded family manages to buy rice from someone, someone else will go without.
I mean, in broad strokes, maybe I could say I am attempting to harvest money out of america and get it land somewhere into Gaza where it might help someone? Do I think this is effective? Minimally at best. But from actually talking to people as I've tried to make myself feel less useless? ;)
When funding lets people get food, they show us photos and videos of the food. When people started looking less photogenic the pictures became what they cooked with their flour. If it's all for the same resources anyway, which is a fair point, isn't the momey lubricating the distribution?
I strongly agree with you, but in Gaza we get food at exorbitant prices because of exploitation, so we resort to asking for donations from people who sympathize with us. My regards to you, all my love and appreciation to you.🌹🌹
Here is the latest pivot: My friend @tinkerspider.bsky.social has given me software he'd created and suggested I sell it to raise funds for Gaza families. DARK, a turn based dungeon crawler that I loved so much he started development again, found at tinkerspider.itch.io/dark
And of course, since he couldn't just give me the game, he also tightened up this software tool, and said, "Try to sell this too." @tinkerspider.bsky.social is my sworn elder brother from now on. tinkerspider.itch.io/disktraveller DiskTraveller is a 3d visualizer of your drive. Same plan.
I swear @tinkerspider.bsky.social gives me a new reason to love him évery síngle DAY.
Until then, I try to drop an interesting quip in English from time to time. I try to comment in Arabic whenever I think something might be of particular interest to Arabic speakers. I use google translate for English to Arabic and back, but plan to start actually studying Arabic soon.
Also, CTA, Farrah @gentlevoice19.bsky.social just contacted me asking for help with more funding. Her and her husband have been exhaustively verified, precisely because theirs isn't one of the big two programs. gogetfunding.com/rebuilding-a...
Hi, Ben; Thank you for all you do for Palestinians. Sadly, Farrah's account was suspended. This occurs with many Palestine accounts. #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #FromtheRivertotheSea 🍉
When she finds me again, I will link her new account to this post. We've been through this a few times now, and it thankfully doesn't infuriate quite as much as the first few times. The funding link is still verified and operating, and I'll accept that.
I am.glad they repaired your account, Farrah!!! @voices-unheard.bsky.social
They'd since updated their funding page to this cool link. Still alive and still trying desperately to survive. I don't really want to connect my radioactive account to their new one, but if you know, you know. She or her husband can easily authenticate on the back end. linktr.ee/OurSocialMed...
Amazing work. 👏 can I dm you about this?
Can you pls share my posts , I’m Maha, a widow from Gaza and mother of 7. Our home was destroyed, and we’ve been displaced many times. My daughter Israa just gave birth to my first grandchild in Gaza, where food and medicine are scarce. Please help us survive 🙏💔 chuffed.org/project/help...
Hello Im Ekhlas mother of 3 children I lost my home because the war and now we are living in extremely harsh conditions My children need you , you are our only hope Please dont let us down please donate and share 🔗 I kindly ask you to talk just a minutes to read my story on link 🙏 gofund.me/2d632a06
gofund.me/b796dbe3 Hi, how are you? Can you support me to help my family in Gaza, please? Share or donate if you can🍉💔😔
My problem is I would willingly donate but I don’t want to give a penny to criminal human vultures in Indian/Nigerian call centres reckoning to be Palestinians !
Well, fortunately people who are human and starving are more than happy to arrange selfies and videos to personally authenticate themselves. If you have this donation money with no place to put it, I invite you to look at any campaign I have shared recently and consider those.
I know but there is no depth that these scammers won't sink to ..but I will certainly take a look !
Oh hey, Rhona, do you have any existing contracts that might impact what you have to say here on social media? I have pretty thoroughly documented your interaction to discredit Gaza citizens as if they were frauds. Do you think anyone that you helped discredit has died?
I have never ever discredited the good people of Gaza ...I can't sleep at night for thinking about what is being inflicted on them I have discredited scammers pretending to be Palestinians !
And you didn't answer my question. So you got paid to make trouble. So, caught any scammers? Or is the only fraud here you?
Every dime you were paid, you owe to the people of Gaza. If you had any self-respect or integrity, you would donate immediately to any of the real people being slaughtered.
Scammers like these are the people I detest, the worst of the worst www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/tec...
You can't spin this. You came to my pinned post to "cool" it's reach. What you did is documented. You can't declare that you are not a paid influencer. You got people killed. Anything but your donation receipts is only going to make this worse.
Please help me 🌹 www.gofundme.com/f/helping-th...