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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile I’m trying to remember how long division works

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 8h

Well this bodes well. My husband is a math prof & did French immersion 💅

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 8h

Well, after Grace… ethereal

Albumism @albumism.com · 9h

What's the first word that comes to mind when you think of this album? | Listen to the album + explore our tribute here: album.ink/JBGrace

Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 8h

We’re not beating the allegations here guys

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 17h

63% drop innsupport since the ceasefire. May the west burn

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

just 40 to go and then we start again. we have friends waiting to go back north. yes that costs money. We are down on support from last week by around 60%

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 9h

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 11h

The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 9h

Gunmen associated with Israel is a critical missing point in this headline.

Israel backs certain gangs in Gaza, this is a known thing and has been for a long time. The gang that killed this journalist is one such gang that is known to be associated with Israel

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 9h

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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Fathi Alhaj Family 🍉🤍🐈 @fathifam.bsky.social · 9h

Oct 12 Fathi update:

Fathi always 💭 about how he will get his 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 out of 🇵🇸. He needs our support, nobody knows if this 🛑🔥 will last 😢

🇮🇱 has stopped 💣 but the drones still fly overhead. Nutrient dense 🥘 still isn’t entering

$27,256/$50k

- N.

gofund.me/0afe1dcda

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveFathi

Alhamdullah two days now without boombs just the sound of drones
6:22 AM
Untill now we did not eat any thing from this list
Egg
Meat
Chicken
Fish Etc.
6:26 AM
Today we are making
Pasta with bachamel sauce
It's missing a lot like chicken or meat and it's missing many other ingredients as well, but as usual, we make do with what's available.
6:26 AM
Our thinking all the time now is finding way to travel just this is all our thinking yarab yarab can some one make our dream true so we can be ready sis i feel if the border open that i will be lost and not ready at all
yarab i can save my family this time from this life ya rab Nicola

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 9h

‼️Oct 12 Rana update:

I haven’t heard from her yet today, presumably bc she doesn’t have access to her cousin’s 📱

AFAIK her sitch is unchanged & her 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 is still starving

Her fundraiser is stalled & they have so many needs snowballing

- Nicola

gofund.me/64c4598

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

Note from fundraiser organizer: This is Cardinal, I am organizing this … Cardinal Alfonso needs your support for Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care

gofund.me

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 9h

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Fidaa Umar🎙🇵🇸 Inside Gaza 🎧 VERIFIED 📌 Voice Over 🔵 @fidaaumar.bsky.social · 10h

Have you entered Fidaa’s raffle yet?

It’s only $5 a ticket to support a single mom in Gaza & have a chance to win a beautiful collage made by @merryrobin.bsky.social

Click through for instructions 🥰

Fidaa Umar🎙🇵🇸 Inside Gaza 🎧 VERIFIED 📌 Voice Over 🔵 @fidaaumar.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 11 Fidaa update:

The raffle for Fidaa has officially launched!

Enter to win this beautiful collage made by @merryrobin.bsky.social 🥹

Fidaa needs our support more than ever, she is rebuilding from scratch as a single mom w 4 kids

- Nicola

bit.ly/save-fidaa

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveFidaa

A collage art making the flag of Palestine using little circles with different textures of red, black, white, and green.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 10h

Support the resistance.

Boycott Israel.

Liberate Palestine.

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Fidaa Umar🎙🇵🇸 Inside Gaza 🎧 VERIFIED 📌 Voice Over 🔵 @fidaaumar.bsky.social · 10h

Oct 12 Fidaa update:

This is actually from yesterday, I’m ashamed to say the 🕰️ slipped away & I forgot to do her 2nd update 😳

Fidaa needs our support as she rebuilds. Read in her own words below 👇🏻

& don’t forget to enter her raffle

- Nicola

bit.ly/save-fidaa

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveFidaa

Me:
What do you want me to put in your update for today?

Fidaa:
Maybe I would like you to tell them Even though the war is over, we still need their support Because we still have no homes to return to, children are without schools, and there are no places to work Everything is still at a standstill here
We will need a lot to be able to start our lives from scratch again
We are also still suffering from the lack of gas and we have to light a fire all the time to prepare food
The types of food are still very limited: no meat, no chicken, no eggs ,etc
2:54 PM
We need their support now more than ever to start our lives again after the occupation destroyed everything
2:54 PM

Fidaa’s eldest daughter Lana makes a peace sign & smiles while sitting at a counter

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 9h

Israel is finding ways to sustain a trickle of genocide during the ceasefire

They use their gangs & war profiteers & the sound of drones to intimidate, kill, & withhold aid from Palestinians

TELL PEOPLE

🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 10h

Palestinian journalists bid a heartbreaking farewell to their colleague Saleh Al-Jaafarawi, who was killed by Israeli-backed gangs in Gaza City today.

Israel-linked Daghmush militia executed journalist Saleh al-Jaafari with seven point-blank gunshots after holding him captive for several hours.

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 10h

Britt is in the lobby… what do they do if they can’t raise the funds for a room?

The hotel isn’t going to let them sleep there 😭

𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 10h

HELLO BEEN IN THE LOBBY FOR 3 HOURS

$237.95/$1267 SO FAR

$1029.05 STILL NEEDED NOW

That’s…
20 x $52
10 x $103
40 x $26
2 x $515

🍀🍀🍀

URGENT HELP NEEDED NOW: bit.ly/40vIt7S

NEEDS CHRONICALLY UNMET

#MutualAid #HelpSky
#KeepFolksAlive
#BIPOCMA 💸💕
#MAV #FundSky #MutualAidRequest #FundSky

Help Brittany Survive | Linktree

Trying to rebuild our lives, survive, and maybe even thrive. 🪻

bit.ly

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 22h

This is gut wrenching 😢

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 22h

The airstrikes may have stopped, but the real war in Gaza has just begun, a silent war of grief and shattered hearts.
Every night without those we lost, Gaza turns into one endless house of mourning.

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you so much to @weriseupagain.bsky.social for again adding me to her starter pack!

Rise is a very kind human. She never stopped masking bc she cares 🥹

bsky.app/starter-pack...

Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · Jun 16

Lots of new followers today bc of the lovely Rise 😷💪 TY Rise!

I talk about: ♿️ ⚖️, my families in 🇵🇸, trauma/therapy, capitalism, 📚 (mini reviews at #HaecReads2025), #animism, garbage TV like #LoveIsland, & 90s stuff bc I’m an old.

I believe in using bluesky for community, justice & kindness 🥰🤍✨

We Rise Up Again @weriseupagain.bsky.social · Jun 16

go.bsky.app/FTyAFFA

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🐺🕸 grrrsten [he/him] #StrikeForMutualAid @butchgeared.bsky.social · 1d

Pls save britt :( their life is in our hands regardless if you mean for them to be... all of us have privileges under racist america we must leverage

Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 1d

Britt is trying to go back to school in January, but for now they are struggling to remain sheltered. Please help them with their needs, they’ve slipped through the cracks as a multiply disabled nonbinary POC in a white supremacist capitalist system

𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 1d

I have to keep us relatively stable in order to do school. They’re aware that I am homeless and chronically ill but school is still school. I. Need. Help.

To help: bit.ly/40vIt7S
🩷🧡🤍

#MutualAid #HelpSky
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
#BIPOCMA 💸💕 #FundSky #MutualAidVoid 💕💸

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 1d

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

We took every personal, cultural, and institutional bias in our language and baked it into the foundation of this tech. I would say good luck with that, but they know damn well this is marketing

People don’t get that their output is derived from *us.* It’s not just biased, bias is in its genes

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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🐺🕸 grrrsten [he/him] #StrikeForMutualAid @butchgeared.bsky.social · 1d

Do y'all know the horrors homeless crowdfunders face needing their goals on a daily, HOURLY, scale?

It attracts harassment at the same time it DETERS support.

SO, I need to know where the fuck the rest of us stand when Britt's forced to re-open quotes to get any help whatsoever.

PLEASE.
AID.

𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone keep us alive? Sheltered? So that I can go to school in Jan? Can anyone *get me* to school to do new student tasks? Can anyone else feed us? We need support??

To help: bit.ly/40vIt7S
🩷🧡🤍

#MutualAid #HelpSky
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
#BIPOCMA 💸💕 #FundSky #MutualAidVoid 💕💸

Light blue text on a black background reads:
Compounding urgent needs:
• Shelter funds needed x 7 nights : $2002
• Food funds: any amount, ongoing
PLEASE
• Transportation: $60
• 2 bills: $260
Needed AS SOON AS TODAY
tysm (hot pink heart, orange heart, white heart)
—Britt

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 1d

I'm a big fan of the kraut/avocado combo! Creamy/tart.

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 1d

It’s perfection!

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 1d

‼️Oct 11 Rana update:

Nothing yet but still a high alert situation since they can’t access their 💸 yet & “aid” isn’t free

Raising enough for a 📱 opens the door to short-term credit

Rana ate ❌ yesterday, she said she’d try to find smth to eat today

- Nicola

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

Note from fundraiser organizer: This is Cardinal, I am organizing this … Cardinal Alfonso needs your support for Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care

gofund.me

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 1d

One day, Fidaa's updates will be, while having tea, someone saying she's five minutes late because she stopped at the market for candy for her little ones. I pray for this.

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