Just A Reminder To COMPLETELY Boycott Eurovision This Year; Azerbaijan And Israel, Despite Committing

HELP RAISE LIFE-SAVING FUNDS FOR GAZAN FAMILY

@kahlilahmad420 // vetted here and here

I'm organizing a digital art raffle to collect funds for Yahya's family; Yahya is a Faculty of Pharmacy student from Gaza whose family is in urgent need of donations - their campaign is at €3,464 / €50,000 right now. They're also currently homeless & sleeping on the street after a storm destroyed their tent and are just about €600 short of being able to afford a new one.

TO ENTER:

Make a donation of at least €5 to Yahya's GoFundMe.

Forward the receipt email to mariamc.arts@gmail.com and I will count your entries; €5 = 1 entry into the raffle, so the more you donate the bigger your chance to win! You can enter as many times as you want. (Only donations made after this post went up count).

‼️Raffle will end in 1 month, on November 22nd, and winners will be contacted by email (the one they used for the receipt) during the 22-24th weekend to arrange the art commissions.

more examples of my art & general commission info (payment part obviously does not apply)

Please donate & share this post if you can - every donation can make a real difference.

gofundme.com

Donate to Support Gaza Family's Journey to Recovery, organized by Yahya Alhabil

Hello,,My name is Yahya from Gaza, I am 20 years old, a student in the Faculty… Yahya Alhabil needs your support for Support Gaza Family's J

Hey guys let me tell you about advance fee scams

I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.

About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.

My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)

And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.

This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.

I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.

And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.

trigger warning: genocide

see my pinned post.

ISRAEL IS FIRING MISSILES AT A HUMANITARIAN AREA IN RAFAH.

THERE ARE NUMEROUS CIVILIANS THAT HAVE DIED AND ARE DYING AS WE SPEAK. NUMEROUS CHILDREN ARE BEING BURNED ALIVE AND BEHEADED. NUMEROUS ADULTS ARE BEING DRAGGED OUT OF THE RUBBLE BURNED ALIVE.

TWEET. DONATE. PROTEST. KEEP EDUCATED. DONT STOP CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE. BOYCOTT. PRESSURE YOUR GOVERNMENT.

ALL EYES ON RAFAH. THIS IS NOT SELF-DEFENSE.

THIS IS GENOCIDE.

Edit:

Being against a mass slaughter of an entire ethnic group is NOT antisemitic. Palestine is not just made of the Jewish faith. Palestine has many people from many religious groups.

Being against genocide does not make anyone antisemitic.

The Jewish people have faced persecution since the beginning of time. This war doesn't give anyone the excuse to be antisemitic. This is NOT the Jewish people's fault.

Hamas did launch an airstrike, but the airstrike was intercepted with little damage. The IDF launched a strike back and MURDERED AND BEHEADED children. There are 50 reported dead and rising.

There is no where safe in Palestine left to go.

So no, speaking out is not being antisemitic.

This is about calling out power hungry politicians.

What's going on there is ETHNIC CLEANSING.

FREE. PALESTINE. 🍉🇵🇸

bots just simply adore me for some reason

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

Aaron Bushnell's final social media post before his self-immolation.

Please share far and wide. Do not give any of your time and money to these companies.

If you're going to do something similar you have to make sure the store knows you're targeting Israeli products specifically

the flour massacre is ongoing. it is everyday. it was not an isolated event. it was not even the first time israel shot at and killed palestinians going for aid (they do it whenever they allow aid through). in fact, they did the exact same thing yesterday morning. just because smaller-scale murders go under the radar for lack of shock factor doesn’t mean they’re not happening continuously.