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A guide to your favourite sofa sitting position ft a totally normal friend group

If your apology involves degrading yourself, calling yourself shit or insulting yourself, its not an apology, try again.

“and the universe said…”

Let’s finish July with a bang! Today’s comic: Supernova types!

https://www.space.com/31608-supernovas-star-explosions-infographic.html

Actually discovering that drawing in a 200x200 canvas is fun as hell??? This is like writing in comic sans fucking awesome

Actually discovering that drawing in a 200x200 canvas is fun as hell??? This is like writing in comic sans fucking awesome

Why do I always end up with 100+ videos on my watch later playlist

Situations keep happening to me

Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas dollar store version

What's up with ":3c" what is the c supposed to add

Sorry for the radio silence for quite a while! On top of the holidays, my visa interview at the embassy was a little while ago, so as you can imagine, I've been fairly busy preparing for it... But hey, it paid off!!

The past few years have had their fair share of trials and there's a few people who'll recognize themselves, who I wanna thank for all their patience and support. I also gotta apologize for everyone whose patience I've tested, and for all the buddies I'll get to see less often now because distance.

Overall though, I've had overwhelming support through this, more than I ever thought I'd get and more than I probably deserve, and it honestly helped a lot through what is overall a pretty damn difficult thing to get through. I'm so relieved right now and it's pretty great that that feeling is coming around for the festive season!

Now I'm off to enjoy that with my family while I'm close enough for it to be easy, and if anyone who knows me closely is reading this and wants to meet up before I leave France (which oughta be in April), hit me up ;)

me when the mutual is online : yayyyy the mutual is online the mutual is online yip yip :D

3 notes.

y'know what? let's hope into my other accounts' blogs and see how much has happened

Reblog, click the picture, and prepare for battle.

the holy trinity is trending

My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza by Maia Kobabe

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Full transcript below the cut:

Cover:

My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza 

Project organized by @ connectinghumanity_

by Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks 

Page 1 

In Fall 2023, I saw instructions on instagram for how to purchase an eSIM card and submit it to be distributed to someone in Gaza. 

Download an eSIM app-> Select Middle East as the region-> Purchase-> Screenshot the QR code-> Do not activate-> send to gazaesims@gmail.com 

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “That sounds easy, I’ll buy one.” 

I emailed an Airalo eSIM QR code to gazaesims on Nov 17 2023. 

Page 2

By January 2024, it hadn’t been activated yet. I bought a second one from Nomad and sent my new QR code and resubmitted my old one. 

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “How long does this usually take, I wonder?” 

By February neither had been activated, but Connecting Humanity kept posting about needing more. I bought a second Nomad and resubmitted all of them on February 15, 2024. 

Page 3

The Nomad eSIMs are much cheaper than Airalo, but what I didn’t realize is that they expire even if they haven’t been activated. At the end of February I decided to try a third company, Simly. Here’s a price comparison: 

AIRALO: $39 USD for 3GB, never expires 

SIMLY: $22 USD for 3GB, never expires 

NOMAD: $16 USD for 3GB, expires after 8 weeks even if unused, only offers in-app refunds 

Page 4

Connecting Humanity asks folks to wait at least 3 weeks before resending a QR code that hasn’t been activated yet. On March 7 Mirna Elhelbawi posted: 

We send EVERY esim we receive. Bear in  mind that we are dealing with people at a war zone. They might take it and get killed before activating it, they might take it and their phone gets lost or destroyed. They might take it and search for days for stable internet connection to activate it, and some of them activate it unsuccessfully due to lack of knowledge and the horrific situations they are in. ~Connecting Gaza 

By early April, my first Nomad eSIM expired unused. I resubmitted my three remaining eSIMs. 

Page 5

Suddenly, two of my eSIMs were activated on the same day! The Airalo I’d purchased 4.5 months earlier and my second Nomad. 

Image of Maia looking happy and surprised. 

Image of Maia looking very intensely at eir phone. “I have to make sure these don’t run out!” 

I began buying top-up packages immediately. 

Page 6

I felt like I had planted a seed in the fall and waited all winter for it to sprout. Seeing it activated was like watching the first new leaves break the soil. 

Image of Maia with a watering can labeled “data”, sprinkling water on two little sprouts. “Watering my eSIMs!” 

Sadly, only .07 GB of data was ever used on my Nomad. It was never used again after that first day. 

Page 7

But my Airalo has been in constant use for over a month now. I check on it every day. 

I will never know the person I am buying data for and they will never know me. But we are connected by the same strings of hope and grief that connect us all. 

Image of two hands holding a phone, which is connected to a flying kite. 

Page 8

On April 5, 2024 Connecting Humanity reported they had sent more than 250,000 eSIMs to Gaza, equivalent to approximately $6.3 million donated! You can visit gazaesims.com for more info, instructions, and discounts. Here are my referral codes: 

MAIA5367 for $3 off Airalo 

MB772 for $3 off Simly 

MAIA66GF for $3 off Nomad 

If you need more incentive, the Cartoonist Coop is doing art rewards. Visit cartoonist.coop/esims4gaza 

Page 9

Image of Maia, weighing two options. “Buying an eSIM is easy and can make a very direct impact. It can also take a lot of patience and could get expensive over time if you commit to keeping the eSIM topped up indefinitely.” 

If an immediate one time donation is more your speed, I recommend Operation Olive Branch and Gazafunds, two places to find Gofundmes aiding Palestinian families. 

gazafunds.com

@ operationolivebranch on insta

linktr.ee/opolivebranch 

-Maia Kobabe 2024 

Hope it all goes well next month, and that your bf recovers. :3

Bf might have covid so my surgery is postponed to the end of next month. I'll update with how I feel about this as soon as my brain deems it safe to render my emotions properly.

Biting someone is unironically one of my coping mechanisms /affectionate ways to show love

sorry he bit you. It’s his coping mechanism

Might i suggest:

k͡ǃǃ̃ʷʰ̃ and ʙ͡r͡ʀ͡ʜ (labialised nasalised aspirated retroflex click and the quadri-articulation of the Bilabial, alveolar, Uvular and Epiglottal trills)

I love the international phonetic alphabet

I also love one-off characters

I think it would be fun to see them draw themselves drawing, and see how they portray themselves differently (no pressure though)

WIP on a doodle I'm working on

both of the Ice Brothers know how to draw!

Have u ever fucking ate your couch?

Not mine, no

someone explain the jewish holidays to me like i'm 5 years old

KILL KILL KILL KILL (joking....)

My friend is going through my side account in public I want him dead

1. Very good fem voice

2. I dont þink your dad should've acted like ðat to you. Ðose are serious þreats to make, and he shouldn't have given you the ultimatim of "go to therapy or have divorced parents."

3. We are here to support you if you need, and remember to be strong!

Femme voice test + Mad World cover + General vent (vent below ðe read more)

WHY ÐE FUCK DID I DO ÐAT?! for context: we have to go to a psychologist on þursdays, but ðis week, we got a bit tired from a test at school and didn't wanna go to ðat psychologist, but ðat pushed our dad over ðe edge and he þreatened to divorce our mom or someþing. i got a bit angry too, but now ðat i've calmed down, have a cover of Mad World ðat i recorded on our phone a few minutes ago which also doubles as a femme voice test.

but why did i act like ðat?!