“How did it feel for the man who built a home, only to watch it turn to the rubble? How does a farmer stand before the land he tended year after year, now lying barren—no scent of soil, no whisper of harvest? How does a father tell his son the school he loved is gone, that the garden where he played is now only a rumor in the rubble? How does a mother walk through the ghost of a playground, finding a small shoe, a torn notebook, a toy she once mended? How do neighbors look at one another, wordless, knowing the world they shared has vanished?
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I stood among the ruins, breath caught in my chest, searching for any trace of what once was. I felt the ache in every stone, every corner, every fragment of memory. But beneath it, I sensed something small and unbroken: my own heart, still beating. And a faint, stubborn light—a quiet voice within: I am still here. I can still walk. I can still love this life, despite everything.
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I am Aseel, a writer from Gaza, living amid genocide and famine. Your support can help my family survive.
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I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza.Chuffed
Two years had passed since my feet last touched the ground of Salah Al-Din...
Two years had passed since my feet last touched the ground of Salah Al-Din Street—the street I knew as well as the faces of my own family. It was once a quiet, familiar place, brimming with life: small houses leaning into one another, their windows open to the sound of children’s laughter, green fields stretching along its sides like a carpet of hope, and olive and palm trees that seemed to whisper, “Everything will remain.”Small, shimmering memories welled up inside me: laughter shared with friends under dappled shadows along the road, children chasing light-hearted dreams without fear, the scent of wild sage and warm za’atar manaqeesh drifting from open windows, and the call of the morning vendor, whose voice seemed to wake the street itself. I remembered the smell of lemon trees from hidden gardens, and summer evenings when families gathered outside their homes, sharing stories as dusk fell. Each of these details shone in my memory like a truth. A whole world lived here… a world that never imagined it could be uprooted.
The walk I imagined was short in distance but immense in weight—a journey not across a city, but across years of silence. Though I still lived within its orbit, the street itself had become a ghost limb: a part of me I could no longer feel, yet whose absence ached. With every step, I hoped to feel the familiar texture of memory return beneath my feet, to hear the faint pulse of the life that had once hummed there.
But when I finally arrived, the dream collapsed in a single moment. All that lay before me was rubble stripped of spirit, ash that had swallowed every color, a life erased by death. The houses were gone as if they had never been, the green fields ripped away, the trees torn out by their roots, and the earth that once promised hope had hardened into a silence that knew no mercy.
In the heart of the wreckage, names were written on the ruins—the names of martyrs buried without grace. Many of the rescue machines had been destroyed in the bombardment, leaving rescue teams with too few tools to reach those trapped beneath the rubble. Bodies remained beneath the debris, lives cut short, dreams left incomplete… And scattered among the stones: small shoes like broken butterflies, school notebooks open to sentences frozen mid-word, dolls torn without remorse. Everything here cried out mutely—a life interrupted, dreams shattered before their shape could be seen. The silence itself had grown loud, a scream of pain that no one else heard, every stone holding a story untold, a life un-lived. That silence felt heavier than death… heavier than any tear that could be shed.
How did it feel for the man who built a home, only to watch it turn to the rubble? How does a farmer stand before the land he tended year after year, now lying barren—no scent of soil, no whisper of harvest? How does a father tell his son the school he loved is gone, that the garden where he played is now only a rumor in the rubble? How does a mother walk through the ghost of a playground, finding a small shoe, a torn notebook, a toy she once mended? How do neighbors look at one another, wordless, knowing the world they shared has vanished?
And all of it wrapped in a thick, soundless vacuum—no laughter, no running feet, no vendor’s call, no fragrance of coffee greeting the dawn. Everything was quiet. Empty.
And yet—from within the ruin surrounding me, a fragile, honest question rose: After all this waiting… after all this breaking… can the soul survive? Can a heart that has seen such devastation ever beat lightly again? Can this street, even now, whisper: Come back. There is still a place for you here?
I stood among the ruins, breath caught in my chest, searching for any trace of what once was. I felt the ache in every stone, every corner, every fragment of memory. But beneath it, I sensed something small and unbroken: my own heart, still beating. And a faint, stubborn light—a quiet voice within: I am still here. I can still walk. I can still love this life, despite everything.
Perhaps the street will never return as it was. Perhaps the houses will not be rebuilt, nor the trees grow tall again. But I will go on. I will walk through the wreckage, carrying memory, carrying grief, carrying hope. I will look for signs that life persists—a child’s fleeting smile, an olive leaf pressed in dust, a ray of sun finding its way through broken walls. Just one thing matters—the quiet certainty that my heart still beats with this land, and that life, even now, is worth living.
I am Aseel, a writer from Gaza, living amid genocide and famine. Your support can help my family survive.chuffed.org/project/138285-hel…
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The Waterwitch sails dark waters
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The Waterwitch Sails Dark Waters
The Waterwitch, a regular sight on the Union Canal, available for group hires along the water, but here tucked up for bed on a winter nightFlickr
- No, yo paso de esas mierdas (50%, 2 votes)
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Ist das etwa ein Fischbild?
is that a picture of a fish
Photography Collage Selfie
Meister Jeder, Dadaist und Hǔter des Kunstfriedens von 1961
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San Diego Union-Tribune Full-Page Misprint Raises New Questions About Rapid Decline Of City's Once-Storied Newspaper
A placeholder text misprint in the Union-Tribune exposes deeper cracks in San Diego’s daily paper after layoffs, eviction, and censorship claims.www.sandiegoville.com
Cabal segna di testa su cross pennellato da Yildiz: la Juve torna da Bologna con 3 punti pesanti
https://www.lastampa.it/sport/2025/12/14/news/bologna_juve_gol_highlights-15434946/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Cabal segna di testa su cross pennellato da Yildiz: la Juve torna da Bologna con 3 punti pesanti
Nel primo tempo gol annullato a David per fuorigioco di McKennie e traversa di Zortea. Nella ripresa rosso ad Heggem per fallo su Openda dopo la rete del colom…La Stampa
Glimpses… at #Chester Cathedral.
#Photography #CityPhotography #UrbanPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5
Paulo Figueiredo Show - Ep. 223 - "Dosimetria aprovada. Entenda porque isso é bom." - Paulo Figueiredo
Torne-se meu apoiador: – https://paulofigueiredoshow.com/apoie/ USE O CUPOM 20%: PFIGUEIREDOSHOW Baixe o App Truth … sourcePaulo Figueiredo
#Cancer #News: Sunday Dec 14th- Good #News Spotlight kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/he…
#Kolata: "SIR brought to remove poor, backward, Da kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/ci…
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Real Clear #Politics: A #Town Hall with Erika Kirk kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/po…
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Mikrobi: Bondi Beach (Australien), 21:45 Uhr mikrobi.libralop.de/bondi-beac…
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Zwei Schützen. Zwölf Fünfzehn Tote. Dreißig Verletzte. Die Grausamkeit in den Herzen der Menschen zerbricht mich und alles um mich herum zu Schweigen.…Mikrobi
From Dan Rather to — Bari Weiss? How far CBS News has fallen
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From Dan Rather to — Bari Weiss? How far CBS News has fallen
The Tiffany Network has become a battlefield in the billionaires' war on journalismSophia Tesfaye (Salon.com)
@anarchia
Ascolta il collegamento Piemonte. Verso il ritorno dell’elettroshock? giovedì 11 dicembre 2025 Davide Zappalà di Fratelli d’Italia ha presentato un emendamento al piano sanitario che prevede il ritorno all’elettroshock in Piemonte. La più famigerata delle torture rivoluzioneanarchica.it/piemon…
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"Latest developments in Gaza over the past few hours:
■ Intensive hovering of Zionist drones over the east of Gaza City
■ Zionist artillery shelling targeting the east of Al-Bureij camp in the central Strip
■ Israeli special forces assassinate Ahmad Zamzam (49 years old) in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Strip
■ Israeli artillery shelling targeting Al-Shuja'iyya neighborhood near the Yellow Line east of Gaza City"
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#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com
Natale in SanFra: piazza San Francesco si accende di festa tra mercatini, musica e convivialità
Appuntamento domenica (14 dicembre) dalle 11 alle 19 per una giornata all'insegna del buon cibo, dell'artigianato e del vintage
Unfortunately, European countries are still filled with racists. This time, one of Finnish politicians made a gesture that is used to mock East Asians.
This is discriminatory and only shows that people are allowed to use racist gestures. More than that, they say "it's not racist" while it is.
Many times, I observed other examples of discrimination, mockery or even treating Asian people not like humans which is utterly disgusting and should never happen.
Europe is meant to be tolerant and accepting continent, yet we see racists and bigots.
No matter if discrimination targets LGBTQ people, Asians, Africans or other groups, we should stand against it.
Many Asians, especially from East Asia (China, Korea, Japan), face the same discrimination as LGBTQ people in many places.
Anti-Asian discrimination should not be treated like it doesn't exist. We need to talk about it, we need to act against it, we need to protest it. Let's not be silent. Let's act.
Asian people are people and we all are the same people. And as humans, we need to stand for people who face discrimination.
#Europe #EU #Europa #discrimination #Asia #Asian #AntiAsianDiscrimination #LGBTQ #LGBT #society #eupol #racism #fediverse #Asians #socialmedia
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⚡️🇺🇦Weekly Wrap Up: Trump accuses European Leaders Of Too Much Talk, Not Enough Resolve Or Production Over Ukraine (UATV VIDEO) #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #russiaUkraineWar
The Dec 12 print edition of the #SanDiegoUnionTribune contained a full page of placeholder (greeked or "Lorem Ipsum") text.
This is not The Onion.
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#journalism #newspapers #SanDiego
San Diego Union-Tribune Full-Page Misprint Raises New Questions About Rapid Decline Of City's Once-Storied Newspaper
A placeholder text misprint in the Union-Tribune exposes deeper cracks in San Diego’s daily paper after layoffs, eviction, and censorship claims.www.sandiegoville.com
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Volevo guardarmi Zootropolis, ma non avendo tempo ho dovuto metterlo alla lista, rimpiazzando "Lo schiaccianoci e i quattro regni".
Ed intanto ora ho due, anzi tre film in lista che non sono film natalizi. Zootropolis e i Guardiani della Galassia, come se fossero dei regali di natale avanzati in omaggio.
Ma dopo il 25 dicembre vorrei guardare uno di quei film nuovi di anni fa che ha riscosso un enorme successo, quello prodotto dalla A24, che si dice di essere un film di tanti generi...
Mesa shuts down credit card that rewarded cardholders for paying their mortgages
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/14/mesa-shuts-down-credit-card-that-rewarded-cardholders-for-paying-their-mortgages/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Mesa shuts down credit card that rewarded cardholders for paying their mortgages | TechCrunch
Fintech startup Mesa has shut down its Homeowners Card, which awarded points to cardholders for paying their mortgages.Anthony Ha (TechCrunch)
LHBTIQA+-discriminatie
Enquête Pointer en AD: LHBTIQA+-personen voelen zich het meest onveilig op straat
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Enquête Pointer en AD: LHBTIQA+-personen voelen zich het meest onveilig op straat
LHBTIQA+-personen voelen zich het meest onveilig op straat, in hetero uitgaansgelegenheden en in sportscholen en sportclubs. Dat blijkt uit een enquête van Pointer en het AD.||LHBTIQA+-personen voelen zich het meest onveilig op straat.Carli Kooijman (KRO-NCRV)
Juve, Spalletti non aspetta: a Bologna si rivede Bremer dopo due mesi di stop
https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Juventus/14-12-2025/bologna-juve-bremer-torna-in-campo-dopo-l-infortunio.shtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Juve, Spalletti non aspetta: a Bologna si rivede Bremer dopo due mesi di stop
Il tecnico alla vigilia aveva detto di voler essere ancora cauto, ma contro i rossoblù si è reso necessario l'ingresso del brasilianoGiovanni Albanese (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Congolese civilians arrive at a reception center in Gatumba, a police camp near the border post that temporarily shelters people who fled renewed tensions between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), in Gatumba, #Burundi. REUTERS/Evrard Ngendakumana
#photography
#DRC
#displaced
#children
"Large crowds in Gaza City bid farewell to the martyred leaders of the Qassam Brigades: Raed Saad, Yahya Al-Kayyali, Riyad Al-Lubban, and Abdul Hai Zqout, who were assassinated by the Israeli army by targeting them with a drone aircraft west of Gaza City yesterday."
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#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
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Coldheat: Phantome suchen coldheat.de/2025/12/phantome-s…
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Phantome suchen - coldheat.de
Mein Berlin-Trip ist vorbei. Ich bin gerade wieder nach Hause gekommen, ausgelaugt und emotional sehr angespannt: Es wird ein paar Tage benötigen, bis ich wieder aufgeladen bin.1Es gab zwei Weihnachtsfeiern, eine berufliche und eine private.www.coldheat.de
Ogden Point Breakwater
#photo #photography #yyj #Victoria #BC #JamesBay #DallasRdShoreline #NotAI #OgdenPoint
I always say I wont use social media to vent & complain about things then I immediately fail.
Anyway, here's some of my very amateur #photography from this year.
Vandaag groot in het nieuws dat Dick Schoof het geweld in Australie veroordeelde.
Wanneer had ik in mijn herinnering voor het laatst iets van de pensionado kleurloze Wilders marionet gehoord ?
Oh ja, maanden terug, op die Zondag van de Rode lijn demonstratie waar zo'n 250 duizend demonstranten waren, toen was er in het nieuws dat Dick Schoof samen met C. v/d Plas bij een evenement in een synagoge zat, en daarna over de Rode lijn demo weinig tot niets te melden had.
Intussen gaat de genocide in Gaza door maar daar hoor Dick Schoof nooit over tenzij een politicus er over begint.
En we zijn nog steeds op het punt dat kranten in Nederland het woord genocide nog steeds niet durven gebruiken. De kranten die de waakhonden van de democratie zouden moeten zijn.
Het is in feite corruptie van witteboorden criminelen wat mij betreft.
Je vraagt je of waarom Schoof, Wilders, v/d Plas, Yesilgoz en ook Rutte, allemaal medeplichtig, nog rustig kunnen slapen ?
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In de schiettent op de kermis in Volendam, Ed van der Elsken (attributed to), 1955 - 1956
#Volendam #EdvanderElsken #fotografie #photography #EdVanDerElsken #EdvanderElsken
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