[ID: Tweet by Mirna El Helbawi (@mirna_elhelbawi) on December 4, 2023 reading: “e-sims are needed on: gazaesims@gmail.com We are running low on: NOMAD, MOGO, HOLAFLY, SIMLY. Make sure you send a clear photo/screenshot of the QR code. Or forward the QR code. We do not press on any links. We do not use blurry QR codes. We do not use "receipts”. #ConnectingGaza
Tweet by Palestine Now (@PalestineNW) reading: “To everyone following me your humanity is needed. Communication is now completely cut off. @Mirna_elhelbawi has been [running] this initiative called #ConnectingGaza where she gathers QR codes for eSims and ensures that people in Gaza are able to activate and stay connected to their loved ones and also are able to share the truth. Please help in ensuring they are not silenced. Help their voices be heard! @Mirna_elhelbawi & her team already connected thousands of people in Gaza and it’s all documented on their page. They do not accept money donations and they get 0 money for what they are doing. This is completely only to support our people in Gaza.
Images in uploads are screenshots of instragram posts by @mirna_elhelbawi. They are headed with #ConnectingGaza and the phrase "led by @Mirna_ElHelbawi and @ConnectingHumanity_” and read as follows.
First, reminders:
Make sure you send a clear image of your QR code. Blurry images cannot be used.
DO NOT activate your purchased eSim or it cannot be used.
If you or anyone you know is currently in Gaza/Palestine and does not have access to the internet, send an email to @gazaesims@gmail.com and the @ConnectingHumanity_ team will get you and/or your loved ones connected.
Any data amount is helpful, but sources say >20GB is great, if possible. Plans range from $4-$60 USD.
If you did not receive a QR code, e-mail the carrier’s customer service and they will send you one.
Once your email is received, @ConnectingHumanity_ volunteer team will distribute to folks on the ground in Palestine.
DO NOT resend anything to the team.
PLEASE BE PATIENT while the team works with locals to activate your eSims. This process can take upwards of a month to activate. It can be a tricky digital process as local internet is spotty and any small mistake can lead to an insuccessful activation.
Credits:
Organizer: @Mirna_ElHelbawi
Volunteer Dispatch Team: @ConnectingHuamnity_
Step-By-Step Guides: @BintMeetsWorld, @Shintel
Information Consolidation & Design: @ElisaDoesStuff
NAVIGATING: MOGO
Get $3 OFF: NAZIRA2503
MOGO I Download on your App Store
Once in the app, do the following:
Tap on the “Store” button on the bottom menu bar
Next, in the Data Plan section, tap on the “eSIM” tab and select “Israel” (but we know it’s Occupied Palestine)
Select your preferred data package.
Then, click “Submit” at the bottom of the page
Then, sign up or use a third-party login to continue. • Select your payment method, acknowledge all the terms, and Pay (you will need to link your purchase to your phone #)
Once completed, you can leave the app and wait for a confirmation email. Do NOT install the eSIM.
Once you receive your e-mail, it should contain a QR Code. If you did not receive a QR code, email customer support and they will send one.
Take a screenshot of the QR Code
Email it to gazaesimslulgmail.com with the subject line: [CARRIER] eSIM
NAVIGATING: AIRALO
Get $3 off: Ashley4027. Pay with PayPal.
AIRALO I Download on your App Store
Once in the app, do the following:
First, create an account
Tap on the “Regional eSIMs” tab at the top of the screen and select “Middle East and North Africa” (you can also use the search bar to find this) I, FOR COUNTRIES WITHOUT THIS OPTION, SELECT .GLOBAL’.
Next, select your preferred data package (through Menalink).
Then, scroll to the bottom of the page and click “buy now”
Select your payment method, acknowledge all the terms, and Pay
Once completed, click the “View Instructions” button
Then, tap on the “OR Code” tab at the top of the screen
Take a screenshot of the QR Code
Email it to gazaesims@gmail.com with the subject line: [CARRIER] eSIM
NAVIGATING: NOMAD
NOMAD I getnomad.app
Once in the app, do the following:
Click the Menu icon in the top right-hand side of the screen
Next, click “Shop Plans”
Then, click “Data”
Scroll down to the bottom and select “Middle East” I! FOR COUNTRIES WITHOUT THIS OPTION, SELECT “GLOBAL”
Select your preferred data amount, enter your card details, acknowledge the terms, and Pay
Once completed, you can leave the app and wait for a confirmation email. Do NOT install the eSIM.
Once you receive your confirmation email, take a screenshot the QR code. If you did not receive a QR code, email customer support and they will send one.
Email it to gazaesims@gmail.com with the subject line: [CARRIER] eSIM
NAVIGATING SIMLY
SIMLY I Download on your App Store
Once in the app, do the following:
First, create an account
Use the top search bar to find “Palestine” and click it
Next, select your preferred data package and click “Buy Now”
Then, review your details and click “Buy Now”
Select your payment method, acknowledge all the terms, and Pay
Once completed, you can leave the app and wait for a confirmation email. Do NOT install the eSIM.
Once you receive your confirmation email, take a screenshot the QR code. If you did not receive a QR code, email customer support and they will send one.
Email it to gazaesims@gmail.com with the subject line: [CARRIER] eSIM
NAVIGATING HOLAFLY
Pay With Paypal.
HOLAFLY I Download on your App Store
Once in the app, do the following:
Use the top search bar to find “Israel” and click it (but we know it’s Occupied Palestine)
Next, select your preferred data package
Then, click the “Checkout” button at the bottom of the screen
Enter your payment details, acknowledge all the terms, and Pay
Once completed, you can leave the app and wait for a confirmation email. Do NOT install the eSIM.
Once you receive your confirmation email, take a screenshot the QR code. If you did not receive a QR code, email customer support and they will send one.
Email it to gazaesimsPgmail.com with the subject line: [CARRIER] eSIM
Unpopular opinion but literally not one person in the world should have their human rights violated
If one person’s rights can be waved away, so can yours
yes, even those people.
Fuck it, adding on: This is why it’s frustrating to see criminal defense lawyers getting a bad rep.
The right to a fair trial is a human right. In practice, a fair trial necessitates a lawyer. This means that even if somebody committed the worst crimes you could possibly imagine, they still deserve a lawyer.
Somebody has to defend them as a matter of human rights. As one of my professors said, way back in my first semester at uni: “Everybody deserves to have somebody in their corner.”
nb the source of criminal defense attorneys getting a bad rep is always, always copaganda. same with the incredibly bullshit narrative of “if you didn’t do anything wrong then why do you need a lawyer?” the purpose of both these terrible stupid pro-cop arguments are to deny you your legal rights.
Someone else said it very well here on this website:
A government whose people lose their rights once they become criminals has a very vested interest in making their critics criminals.
forever and always insane about the fact that haunting means “heimsuchen” in german which literally translates to “homeseeking”. a haunting is a search for a home you can never return to
nearly all libraries have a ghost, but medical libraries frequently have a ghost and a skeleton
i’ve been reminded that most people don’t know about the ghost
‘ghost reading’ means collecting usage stats for books which are used within the library, without being checked out (which would automatically generate usage data).
This is often done by checking out the book to a dummy user account belonging to The Library Ghost before it’s reshelved. (After being returned ofc. Ghosts read very fast.)
Due to ghost reading, most libraries ask that you do not return books to the shelves yourself, even if you’re confident of where they go - there will instead be somewhere they’ll ask you to leave them (or just leave them out on a surface somewhere) so they can be collected and ghost read.
I wonder how many people realize that we wouldn’t have most of the genres of electronic music we have today without black people, and what it says about that when you consider how much various electronic musical disciplines are more often associated with white people.
If it weren’t for funk, jazz, soul, disco, dub, dancehall, and more, we wouldn’t have house, techno, drum and bass, UK garage, even most forms of industrial dance music.
If you’ve ever enjoyed a song by Machine Girl you are morally obligated to listen to the entirety of Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Once a little boy went to school. One morning The teacher said: “Today we are going to make a picture.” “Good!” thought the little boy. He liked to make all kinds; Lions and tigers, Chickens and cows, Trains and boats; And he took out his box of crayons And began to draw.
But the teacher said, “Wait!” “It is not time to begin!” And she waited until everyone looked ready. “Now,” said the teacher, “We are going to make flowers.” “Good!” thought the little boy, He liked to make beautiful ones With his pink and orange and blue crayons. But the teacher said “Wait!” “And I will show you how.” And it was red, with a green stem. “There,” said the teacher, “Now you may begin.”
The little boy looked at his teacher’s flower Then he looked at his own flower. He liked his flower better than the teacher’s But he did not say this. He just turned his paper over, And made a flower like the teacher’s. It was red, with a green stem.
On another day The teacher said: “Today we are going to make something with clay.” “Good!” thought the little boy; He liked clay. He could make all kinds of things with clay: Snakes and snowmen, Elephants and mice, Cars and trucks And he began to pull and pinch His ball of clay.
But the teacher said, “Wait!” “It is not time to begin!” And she waited until everyone looked ready. “Now,” said the teacher, “We are going to make a dish.” “Good!” thought the little boy, He liked to make dishes. And he began to make some That were all shapes and sizes.
But the teacher said “Wait!” “And I will show you how.” And she showed everyone how to make One deep dish. “There,” said the teacher, “Now you may begin.”
The little boy looked at the teacher’s dish; Then he looked at his own. He liked his better than the teacher’s But he did not say this. He just rolled his clay into a big ball again And made a dish like the teacher’s. It was a deep dish.
And pretty soon The little boy learned to wait, And to watch And to make things just like the teacher. And pretty soon He didn’t make things of his own anymore.
Then it happened That the little boy and his family Moved to another house, In another city, And the little boy Had to go to another school.
The teacher said: “Today we are going to make a picture.” “Good!” thought the little boy. And he waited for the teacher To tell what to do. But the teacher didn’t say anything. She just walked around the room.
When she came to the little boy She asked, “Don’t you want to make a picture?” “Yes,” said the little boy. “What are we going to make?” “I don’t know until you make it,” said the teacher. “How shall I make it?” asked the little boy. “Why, anyway you like,” said the teacher. “And any color?” asked the little boy. “Any color,” said the teacher. And he began to make a red flower with a green stem.
~Helen Buckley, The Little Boy
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I hate that I hesitated to reblog this just because I expect people to think it’s pretentious or melodramatic when it’s seriously real as fuck and I’ve witnessed it
Fuck man
My mom likes to refrence a story she read
About a guy who escaped North Korea
He said living there was like living in a pot
And he grew up there, so he grew into the shape of the pot
But once he was out
And the pot was gone
He was still in the shape of the pot
And he had to work really hard to grow outside that shape
Obnoxious how most anti-infantilization activism in many low support-centric autistic communities seems to rely on arguing we don’t need support rather than reducing the stigma attatched to needing support.
Simply put, most anti-infantilization autistic activism I see is about how we don’t need to be talked to slowly, need 24/7 care, don’t need help with going to the toilet, don’t need help shopping, etc. because we ‘aren’t toddlers’.
Which is a bad kind of activism, because, uh, many of us DO need those things. This is a fact. Ignoring it won’t make it go away. And saying that only children need those things IS infantilization.
What we SHOULD be arguing is that adults who have medium to high support needs and who need help with or just can’t do basic tasks, can’t speak or can’t speak well, need to have things explained slowly/repeatedly, etc. are still adults and deserve to be respected as such. Having higher support needs isn’t childish.
No, people shouldn’t assume that all autistics have higher support needs. But autistics with lower support needs also shouldn’t erase those who do, when they are ALWAYS the ones most impacted by infantilization.
From the book Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD:
Putting a coat on the back of a chair by the door is fine, but if you prefer, use coat hooks and a large catch-all basket for dropping keys, hats, gloves.
Small bookcase end-table next to the couch to store craft projects, books, and other things being worked on for easy access.
Add a storage unit near the dining room table to transition between eating and working there.
Daily toiletry items should be stored in a basket that you can move easily
Extra toiletries and medicine cabinet items go in open shelf/basket storage so they can be seen and used easily. If items no longer fit, purge the excess. Don’t obscure the view!
If you disrobe in the bathroom, place a tall hamper in there.
Keep a set of cleaning supplies in each bathroom
Reblog and say what project you currently have spread on your dinner table in the tags
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