Mutual Aid Fediverse Roundup 10/06/2026

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Hello

Some weeks it feels like we’ve done something significant with ourselves, like nothing big enough can change our resolve. Some weeks it feels like none of this matters. Like the roundup goes out, the requests sit there, and the world continues producing the same conditions that made the requests necessary in the first place. That feeling is rational; it is a system working exactly as intended.

We help not because we can, or because we want to, but because we must. The isolation is manufactured. Nation-state governments, imperial powers did not just create material deprivation; they created the feeling that nobody is coming, that we are each alone in it. We are not.

Below are the people who are not alone, as long as you are taking action accordingly after reading this.

Mutual Aid Roundup

@mousefriend @sassycassyshenanigans @Sbarry8520 @SomeRandomG33k @bun @pronounshe @LukeOrion @ginny @QuyetPawz @squirrellilly @kshernandez @soberaim

Palestinian Campaign Spotlight

Support Diyaa: A Home, a Future, and Hope Lost in Gaza

Diyaa’s surgery was left incomplete due to Gaza’s medical shortages. He risks losing his leg and is the sole provider for his 9-member family. Show up.
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@DiaaMahmoud097@ieji.de

REDISTRIBUTE

A Lifeline for My Family of 14 in Gaza – Urgent Evacuation & Safety Needed

Ramadan’s family of 14 in Gaza lives in a tent, struggling daily for food, water, and safety. Show up for them however you can.
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@Ramadan@ieji.de

REDISTRIBUTE

Gaza Verified Archive

Verified Palestinian campaigns under $200

These are verified Palestinian accounts whose campaigns received less than $200 in the past 7 days.

Nine of many. The archive holds the rest.

@karamgaza@mastodon.social @joudfamily@mastodon.social @hemaalshaer@mastodon.social @taqwasaied@mastodon.social @nourgaza@mastodon.social @reemmohammed@mastodon.social @Mohammedmorjan@mastodon.scot @shereengaza@mastodon.social @Jamal40@mastodon.social

Open the archive, find the campaign link on each account, give directly where possible, and share the campaign links that need movement.

View underfunded campaign list About Gaza Verified Campaigns

This week’s mutual aid roundup listed 12 requests, yes. This won’t happen often. Listing the first 10 direct requests under my weekly checkpoint is still the rule; it still applies. I’m unsure if I have any reasons or justifications other than I just felt like doing it, I just felt like listing them all. Maybe because they’re there, maybe because some weeks are harder than the rest, maybe because I can and don’t need any reason or justification to do something within my capacity, or maybe because this is the only thing I can do to help them.

This roundup exists because I keep showing up to put it together. If this work has reached you or helped you find a way to make a difference from the safety of your home, I am asking you to spare me a little to cover the total of my monthly essentials. It’s been stuck at $4.48 of $375, with a deadline of 16 June.

As a disabled multitalented cryptid gal™ whose birth month is this month, a $5 monthly support helps me and this work the most. One-off support through my ko-fi goal or my monthly support package also helps me greatly. Either way, any support is appreciated.

If you can’t or won’t help me—help them. Support them.

Support them within your capacity in the way that matters — materially, socially, however you can. If the past couple of days taught me anything, it is that it’s so easy to feel helpless, to feel like there is no end to this. But it is by design. It is engineered to isolate, corner, render you helpless, while the whole time gaslighting you into believing that your existence, your survival needs justification, normalising suspicions in the name of security and protection, when it is just surveillance and control in the language of care.

And it isn’t you as a person or you and your hard earned income whose security and safety needs protection; it’s your paradigm, your worldview, it is the very thing shaped by systemic conditioning that is later called common sense—that makes poverty, unemployment, being unhoused, late paying rent, overdue debt and bills, seem like an individual failure, and a state of economic safety of an individual seem like evidence of meritocracy.

After being stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of grieving, feeling helpless, enraged, one after another for the past few days and how it only got more intense within the last 24 hours, I realised that there is hope too. That anger, scathingly judging, holding grudge against the system and the obscenely rich, is a sign that apparently I have not abandoned hope. I have even devised a series of sick scenarios for revenge against the rich in my anger. Clearly, even in my helpless, grieving, enraged state, I still have a vision for the future, that I’m still planning to have a future.

Hope.

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