Unmana

wrote about life and editing, serendipity and grittiness
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Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving & homeless in winter under renewed bombing. His mother needs urgent treatment for retinal disease. The crossings are closed again & they desperately need help:

Please help Alaa's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving, sick, & homeless under renewed siege & bombardment. Bluesky ruthlessly deletes & blocks her, so she's unable to get the reach she needs. Please help her keep her little children alive:

Abood is a disabled 13 year old boy in Gaza, Palestine. He's in a lot of pain as he has broken his leg and needs urgent surgery.

Please share and donate now to help

💕💸🍉

#MutualAid #HelpSky #HelpFolksLive #LetGazaLive

Text reads: All about the 2026 Trans Rights Readathon! How to sign up, participate, dates, & more...

Header: 2026 Readathon Dates Text: Mark your calendars! This year the 4th annual Trans Rights Readathon will be Tuesday, March 17th through Tuesday, March 31st! This year is our longest year yet!

Header: What is the Trans Rights Readathon? Text: The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual decentralized call to action for readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st.

header: The #TRR isn’t just reading, it’s Action! Text: The Trans Rights Readathon encourages readers to seek out books by and about trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender noncomforming authors and characters, along with taking action on the mutual, local, and national level! Below are three boxes, saying uplift, amplify, and support (with a dollar sign for the S)

Welcome back to another year of the Trans Rights Readathon!

This year’s readathon will take place from March 17 to March 31. If you want to officially sign up, fill out the form on our 🕸️site to join the fun!

#TransRightsReadathon #trr26 #TransBooks

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Almost three hundred folks have made weekly/monthly recurring pledges that cover 78% of the weekly needs for SIX families AND a camp. Reliable support for food, shelter, more…!

I'm trying to get us to 100%. And prices are going up yall. Pledge a coffee: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Please help Mohammed get his son treatment for his vision loss. His family's gone through the ordeal of nearly losing Elias to starvation, & you all helped him survive. He needs your help again.

'We are living through very difficult days…
My father is sick and urgently needs treatment.
Hunger is exhausting my family every single day.
The rain has flooded our tent, and we no longer have safe shelter.
Please, help us in any way you can — our lives are at stake. 🙏'

Nabil here— War survivor, Software Engineer from Gaza Palestinian tech founder in Cairo. I survived the war in Gaza. Now I need urgent spine surgery (neck + lower back) to avoid permanent disability.

Donate / repost: chuffed.org/project/urgent-nabil-medical

#MutualAid #MedicalFundraiser

'I’ve already said goodbye to my two little girls😭.❤️‍🩹
Ibrahim is all I have left.
I cant let him fade away in this tent. I just want him to live,to breathe, to be safe.🙏🫂
Please,don’t let me be a mother who only has memories😔
Help me save my only son.
Every second counts🥺💔'

'Ahumanitarian appeal on brink death
Myfamily 15 person,Myfather suffering heart disease condition critical
Mybaby condition critical needs anebulizer device
Myfamily freezing Weurgent need 500£
Dont letus down,saveus before its too late🥺🙏🏾
verified
@mommunism.bsky.social '

Watercolour painting of three Goldcrests amongst ivy

Occasionally we get tiny Goldcrests in the garden, hunting for insects amongst the evergreens. They’re resident in Britain, but some Goldcrests cross the North Sea to escape the harsher continental winters; people used to believe they rode on the backs of migrating Woodcocks. (watercolour)
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'We are so cold🥶💔
We are so cold🥶💔
We are so cold🥶💔

Rain and cold drown our nights 🥶💔
My children shiver, blankets soaked 💔🥶

No work. No income.
Donations have stopped 💔

I urgently need $200 for a tent 🙏
Any help may save my children 💔'

so wonderful, thanks @ronita.bsky.social

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:

The 2025 Shortlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction (TFR Awards) Four books. One grand prize. Vote now in the 2025 TFR Awards, open until Dec. 26 at 11:59pm EST.

Four books. One grand prize. Five days left until voting ends.

2025 was the year of the transfeminine contemporary novel, and the four novels shortlisted for Best Transfeminine Fiction are leading the charge.

If you haven't voted yet, now is the time. Voting closes Dec. 26th at 11:59pm EST 🩷

Just don’t talk about people’s food choices at all unless they volunteer, I for instance absolutely hate being asked to explain why I don’t eat meat (shut up is why)

Mostly: if you have a good reason for going your way, stick to it. But also consider if some of their feedback might make the book better.

This is a hard process. Wish you lots of luck!

and see if you want to do something about the latter.
It can also be that their frame of reference is different from yours (they're a different demographic, are used to reading other genres, etc.) so their feedback may not be as useful.

it's very hard to reject feedback at this stage, from my own experience. I think it's useful to think about not the solutions that they're offering (e.g., change the ending to xx) but about the limitations they see in the book (e.g., maybe this subplot is not resolved at the end) +

It's definitely allowed to reject criticism that doesn't serve your work! If you're sure that those changes won't make your book better or will undermine what you're trying to do, don't do them. You want feedback that will make the book into more of what it is, not less.

Epstein met with Chomsky more than once, usually with disgraced sex pest Lawrence Krauss in tow. Chomsky's responses to the inane and brain-dead questions often posed by Epstein were friendly. Chomsky was in touch with Epstein until right before the latter man died in prison.

a product image of a watch, gold with bright white patterns on the face. text below says Diastar Original Automatic.

that's aptly named it does look like a misspelled disaster

I have a lifetime to think about what a world without Alice in embodied form looks like. To have loved and been loved by her was one of the greatest privileges of my life. I will carry her spirit with me always.

Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ... 423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

thank you

wait do you see my pronouns on my bio or do you see the completely useless label "1 label has been placed on this account" that I'm seeing?

that's a lovely amount of success I hope you get there soon <3

perimenopause has me weepy today too but in a good way like @nileshb.bsky.social and I have been together 20 years today can you believe it and he's at work but hopefully we'll hang out in the evening :') :') <3