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mayohnyo

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  • programming, sysadmin and other IT stuff background
  • journalism background
  • anarchist
  • cries at beautiful things
  • disability
  • completely deranged
  • [redacted[
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    not sure how shitty or good I am, but I try to do what's right

Into nice quotes, poetry, and other writing
also dark traits and other nasty parts/abuses of psychology and ways for resilience and healing against them

Boosting mainly the voices of Gaza Verified people, and anyone else trying to survive.

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@mayohnyo@infosec.exchange avatar mayohnyo , to random

Heya everyone! :blobcatwave:

This kitten tells me to kindly ask you to please consider donating to or sharing the campaigns of Gazans. :ablobcatnod:

The project in particular that I would like to draw attention to is Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org). Everyone is verified via video calls, and you may find a short introduction by the folks on their individual pages, as well as links to their Mastodon accounts and donation campaigns.

The situation is critical and catastrophic. Every bit helps.

Below I’ve added links to a few people from the project. (I cycle through everyone on the website in these daily posts).

Thank you very much and be well!
🙏 :teal_heart:

Abeer
@abeerabed22 /
https://gofund.me/f6e9cc9d

Salem Dawoud
@salemgaza
https://gofund.me/03d81d6e

Eslam
@eslamradwan1_D_5
https://gofund.me/5e802954

Aseel Sehwel
@Aseelsehwel
https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

Mohammed Shobair
@mohshbair
https://chuffed.org/project/mohshbairgaza

Orange kitten on a sofa, in front of an open Laptop with a speech bubble coming from its mouth, that reads "STOP THE FUCKING GENOCIDE".
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@mayohnyo@infosec.exchange avatar mayohnyo , to random

Good day everyone! :blobcatwave:

Daily toot toot kindly asking for your support for Gazans verified via video calls as part of of the Gaza Verified project (https://gaza-verified.org).

You may find links to their Mastodon profiles and campaigns on the website.

I’ll also share this hotpress piece, where a few of the folks share their experiences.

https://www.hotpress.com/opinion/can-you-hear-us-five-voices-from-gaza-23113207

Below you’ll find links for a few of the folks and their families.

Some more information: of course donations and sharing their campaigns is one of the most important things. But anything you can do to contribute to ending this genocide or providing relief is meaningful. Even a bit of kindness can go a long way. We're all just humans at the end of the day.

With that, thank you very much and I wish you all well! 🙏 :teal_heart:

Naeema
@naeemafamily
https://gofund.me/e8e853a83

Baraa
@baraa1998
https://gofund.me/74c01145

Eman
@emanahmed
https://chuffed.org/project/120774-urgent-help-for-imans-family-in-gaza

Sakher
@Sakhergaza13
https://gofund.me/f116bf44

Dr. Nadeen
@Dr_Nadeen98
https://gofund.me/bdca9bc4

@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , (edited ) to random

Folks, just a heads up, I’ve closed new verification sign ups on Gaza Verified for about two weeks.

We will restart scheduling folks for calls on November 14th with calls to resume on November 17th.

We’ve taken this decision to allow @joynewacc (who, as you know, is herself being forced to endure Israel’s genocide in Gaza) and me time to tend to the people and things we’ve both been neglecting in the past three months as we’ve rushed from one thing to another with Gaza Verified (setting up the site, the emergency campaign, the site redesign/automatic scheduling system, and verifying and interacting on a daily basis with 60 families to help boost their voices and protect their accounts on the Fediverse as well as provide them with technical support, etc., when we can).

We’re both on the verge of burnout and need this time to recharge so we can keep on helping.

We are also very lucky to have @casey and @aseelfromgz joining our team to help us out going forward. (Welcome to the team, both!)

I will personally be taking this time both to return to working on Kitten (which powers Gaza Verified) and the Small Web (which I need to launch next year) as well as improving the Gaza Verified web site to enable you to donate to their fundraisers without drowning in a sea of endless almost-identical aid request messages, enable us to work better as a team, and to reduce the load on any one person going forward.

We’ve rescheduled all existing calls that we were not able to take for technical or other reasons (sometimes people just can’t make it/their Internet goes down/there is an emergency, etc.) for today and tomorrow and, once these seven calls are done, there will be no more for two weeks.

I also want to take this chance to reiterate that just because we have not talked to someone from Gaza at Gaza Verified, it does not mean that they are a scammer. It just means we haven’t had a chance to talk to them yet. Please remember that Gaza Verified exists to protect our friends in Gaza from scammers on Mastodon and that we’ve not had one person who has shown up for an interview not turn out to be a Palestinian from Gaza.

If you want to help, please take a moment to follow the accounts of our existing members and contribute to their fundraisers if you can. Or just send them a few words of support. And share their posts.

And please let our friends and families in Gaza know that Mastodon and the fediverse is a welcoming and safe space for them.

Thank you!

💕

https://gaza-verified.org

mayohnyo ,
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@aral @joynewacc @casey @aseelfromgz

Thank you for everything you've done and are doing! I wish you a great break and fortune in everything you do. :teal_heart:

@indivisibleteam@mastodon.social avatar indivisibleteam , to random

Do you use Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: https://indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=mastodon

(between images of the Spotify logo that have been crossed out) DON’T STREAM FASCISM Spotify is treating ICE recruitment like just another ad. But when you turn family separation into a marketing pitch, you're not a platform — you're spreading propaganda. • Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify removes all ICE ads • Demand Spotify immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts. • Urge artists and podcasters to speak out.
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mayohnyo ,
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@indivisibleteam

Anyone looking to switch, this reddit thread has some more information.

It was useful for me, because I switched to Tidal about a year ago, when I compared how much they give artists. But now I see other shittiness about them. Personally, I think the only ethical move is to pirate and buy as directly as possible from artists. Regardless what you do, I think this information is still useful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottIsrael/comments/1bi8cnq/music_apps_that_are_not_on_the_boycott_list/

@rzeta0@mas.to avatar rzeta0 , to random

Fuck Israel.

fuck Israel
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mayohnyo ,
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

I just read this message from @ruaa (sharing it with her permission):

“I was just coming back with some food for my family I’m in Al-Mawasi, near the sea when suddenly, boats started firing all at once, one strike after another. I ran for 30 minutes straight, without stopping, and finally made it back to the tent terrified.

Thinking the tent would somehow shield me from the bullets and shrapnel.

I think genocide back again :(

Its not stop at all”

I don’t know what more there is left to say. If humanity refuses even to stop genocide what good is there in its existence?

mayohnyo ,
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@aral @ruaa

I don't know. It's just entirely horrendous.

But what's stronger for me is that every good thing anyone does is one more light against the darkness and joins that of everyone else.
And eventually, a time where I am most certainly long dead, I have hope that the good that humanity is capable of will flower over this planet.

It's a quote from a damn emperor and popularised through the famous blockbuster movie, but I believe in the sentiment. "What we do in life echoes in eternity"

@mayohnyo@infosec.exchange avatar mayohnyo , to random

Heya! :blobcatwave:

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is still catastrophic. Here, I would like to kindly ask you to consider donating to or sharing the campaigns of Gazans who have been verified via video calls on the Gaza Verified project (https://gaza-verified.org).

The website has short introductions by the folks, links to their mastodon accounts and donation campaigns.

Every bit helps, and can mean a meal, a step towards a bigger goal, and provides hope.

Here are links for some of the folks.

Thank you very much and be well 🙏 :teal_heart:

Alaa
@alaa123
https://gofund.me/733469e9

Salem Thabet
@Salem_family
https://steunactie.nl/fundraiser/help-salem-and-his-family-for-survival-during-an-unfortunate-displacement/-48698

Abdullah Rasmi
@Abdullahawwad
https://gofund.me/d01c555b

Mohamed Al Qadi
@gazalive123
https://gofund.me/820fcb905

Usama
@usama971
https://gofund.me/edee2aeb