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Hide and seek

I know that this is not possible, but i just want them to be happy kids... And playing children games... Am i asking too much?

dear rain world fans,

come on gimme things to sort. i'm so fucking good at sorting come on lemme sort

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Imagine spending the night under relentless bombing, unsure if you or your children will see the morning light. Imagine being told to flee—again—not knowing where safety lies.

Images: (Top) Hossam and his daughter Diana (Middle) Map of the evacuation notice given to about 80% of Khan Yunis residents (Bottom) A close up map of the evacuation area. Hossam's family is in square #111.

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Story written by @rumiandroses

Hossam Al-Qazzaz, his wife Hanan, and their four young children, are among the 80% of Khan Younis residents now ordered to evacuate toward the coast.

They are currently in Square 111, a region dangerously close to the so-called "evacuation zones" that are actively being bombed.

Hossam has shared that their area is expected to be targeted next—and they fear that when the next order comes, they will be forced to flee into even deadlier zones.

Last night (05/18/2025) was horrific. “We never imagined that we would be alive in the morning,” Hossam wrote. Now, with communications at risk of being cut off, Hossam has asked the world to share his message and pray for his family’s survival.

His hope is to find a path to safety, to protect his loved ones, and to stay alive long enough to rebuild.

Please, share this post, pray for Hossam and his family, and consider donating if you can, so that this precious family can continue to survive.

You can donate to Hossam's GoFundMe here:

gofundme.com

Donate to Support Hossam’s afflicted family to rebuild their lives., organized by nouraldin alqazzaz

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Hossam's campaign has been vetted by @gazavetters and is (#287) on their list of verified campaigns.

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Rain World - Original Pearl Writings

A short collection of pearls I wrote, read from the perspective of Looks to the Moon.

(Inspired by gr0mm.)

Pest Control

It's a deployment order confirmation from an agricultural pest control department, followed by a list of several dozen genome sequences.

This farm purchased a specialized virus to eliminate some kind of burrowing crustacean. However, most of the microbe specimens are for controlling the virus itself, to protect the other useful organisms that allow the farm to function.

My creators' technological dominance meant that the genetic arms race had arguably been won, but such a power had to be wielded with care. Industrial ecosystems were managed incredibly tightly, as the introduction or extinction of a single species could have catastrophic consequences without sufficient counterbalancing.

Outside of these carefully quarantined industrial ecosystems, the rest of the world was largely ignored, left to become wastelands of disease. Life prevailed, of course, even when my creators departed and all these ecosystems rapidly toppled...

...I can't imagine you cared for much of this. Sorry, little creature.

Rhino Pill

Amazing... this one is a neuro-spiritual stimulant. It records the experience of a moment where a monk lightly dips a finger into a stream of water, and then... his mind is flooded...

...with an astonishing...

...sense... of...

...enlightenment.

My apologies. The feeling is incredibly intense, even to me.

If I still had the equipment to allow you to read this pearl, you would share that same enlightenment. Experiences like these were impossibly rare, and maintaining the potency of the memory while exporting it into a mass-reproduceable pearl was incredibly difficult. The monk likely perished during that transfer process.

Still, the study of these pearls always led to breakthroughs in the karmic sciences, while public exposure to the enlightenment gave rise to...

...

Oh. The enlightening feeling has already worn off. This pearl's probably just the work of a con artist.

You

This one is a draft for an academic publication. It's probably a sham, as it seems to posit that the numerical accuracy of cusps in an epicycloidal model of karmic patterning correlates with dermal organization patterns. It is simply too unlikely that one's skin has anything to do with...

...This must bore you. Perhaps it would be more interesting to talk about you - the little critter in front of me!

With the life you live, I'm sure you're grimly aware that every animal is made of sacks of meat and circuitry. You, too, are no exception.

Like most of creatures around here, your skin emits surfactants to squeeze you through small spaces. Your brain is safely divided across tetrispheres in head, abdomen, and tail. Interestingly, I can see you have an incredibly hardy secondary gut, teeming with its very own ecosystem. Your body is supported by the help of many tiny, tiny bugs.

In fact - if you were to peer within yourself at a very, very small scale, you'd see that your whole body is a great swarm of simple little creatures, living and dying to make you possible.

I don't think your eyes have the ability to look that closely. Mine do, though - I'd say you're doing quite healthy for a wild animal!

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