Ailish

[Ailish @1ailish1]

Rahul from Bake Off is actually Eeyore in human form #GBBO

[Ailish @1ailish1]

@Bluefuckboi Not sure why but she looks like a Trinket, cute little thing with big sentimental value 🐱

[Ailish @1ailish1]

@kippukii We have a Crumpet too!

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“My whole life people have said to me: ‘You are too kind, too sensitive.’ When I interviewed for a schoolteacher position, the principal told me: ‘You will never be able to control the students.’ Because of this I built in my mind that I’m not a very strong person, you know? I decided to focus on my house, my family, my children. When the war started I was working as a data encoder; I spent all day on the laptop. But Doctors Without Borders said to me: ‘Kholoud, there is no one left to ask. We need you to help organize our operations in the North.’ And I’ve done it. I organized a network of people on the ground. Everyone in the organization knows me now, respects me. And I’ve done all of this while raising four children, and another four children who lost their parents. In December we spent fifteen days on the street because there were too many bombs. Nobody could sleep safely inside. I ate nothing during this time, zero. I just drank some water every two days. We were sheltering in a small corridor inside a school yard. My husband left us to look for food, and that’s when the bomb fell. When it falls close to you, you don’t hear anything. You just see the body parts flying through the air: the hand of someone, the leg of someone, the head of someone. My son comes to me and his face is blood. My daughter comes to me and she is clutching her chest. My other two children are holding their legs; I can’t tell how they are injured. There was no hospital left in Gaza City, so I brought them back to our house. Our neighbor is a doctor, so I asked him to come over. We discovered that one of my children had shrapnel in the head. The other three in the leg. There was no anesthesia, no stitches. We put something in the children’s mouth, and I held them down while he removed the shrapnel with the kitchen knife. You cannot imagine how the children were screaming. But we removed the shrapnel. And when we finished, I took the knife, and removed the shrapnel from my own leg. ‘Too kind, too sensitive.’ I heard this my entire life. But I can tell you: another person lives inside you. And if the world forces you, you will find her.”
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Kholoud’s story is part of a series of stories I am currently doing on the Palestinian Staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days.

From @MSF_USA : Kholoud Al-Sedawi has been with MSF (Doctors Without Borders) since 2019, progressing from Data Entry Operator to her current coordination support role. When most humanitarian workers withdrew from northern Gaza, Kholoud stayed and helped restart MSF's operations amid some of the genocide's most severe conditions. Her work focuses on restoring basic healthcare services where hospitals have been damaged or destroyed and organizing mobile clinics. While the situation remains dire, Kholoud's persistence has enabled MSF to maintain a presence in northern Gaza when most organizations could not.

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

Tonight I learned something I’ve always suspected. Most people will support a rapist over a woman.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Andrew Garfield talks to Elmo about missing his mother after she recently passed away.

“When I miss her I remember it’s because she made me so happy, I can celebrate her & miss her at the same time”

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.

[Russ Cook @hardestgeezer]

Gaining some big momentum in the last couple days. £20k in the last 12 hours. Massive thank you to everyone who has donated big or small.

The money raised is going directly to @Running_Charity & @sandblastarts who I will continue to work with long after the run is finished in 9 days time. These donations will make a MASSIVE difference to these charities and I’m excited to share with you all the impact your donations have over the coming years.

[TheBossRoss 🇪🇺 🧶 ❄ 📷 6x💉 @BettinaSRoss1]

Over 1,000 private jets flew to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl and I recycle yoghurt cup lids.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Hour long documentary this evening about the street dogs with @Benfogle at 9pm on Channel 5 in the UK.

Got offered to do so many things last year but this was the one that felt most authentic and best way to explain the story of the dogs and the mission

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[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

Here's to a greener, kinder and more loving year 💚

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

Macklemore just posted his FULL, UNCUT poem for Palestine on his Instagram!

♥️🇵🇸

[Tom Garry @TomJGarry]

The #BBCSPOTY winner comes from women's football for the second year in a row as Mary Earps wins the public vote. It's the third consecutive year that a female athlete has claimed this prize, which hadn't happened since 1964.

[Rob Boulton @boulton1977_rob]

Never meet your heroes they say, well my little girl just met hers and she will never forget it.

Thanks so much Mary Earps ❤️

[🇵🇸 @sadiafarooq7861]

This

[shitscaredmum @shitscaredmum]

I don’t do TikTok but my amazing Gracie did this to raise awareness & it’s been seen by almost 10 million people.
The comments are just heartbreaking & I’m so shocked at how many other lives have been devastated by this awful disease.
#BeMoreLaura
https://t.co/QqyIvISDgs

[Rami Jarrah @RamiJarrah]

Doctor breaks down while reading an emergency message on behalf of the Director of the Major Trauma Hospital in Gaza.

Healthcare workers gathered in front of the PM's office in London, raising placards with the names of 200+ physicians who have been killed so far.