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Öykü Koç
@oykukoc.bsky.social
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Geodesist or dr of gravity, one might say. You know, to track changes in total water storage etc. / a bird nerd / here, you will find things from climate to social justice, anti-imperialism / so yes, views are my own.

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Öykü Koç @oykukoc.bsky.social · Sep 4
This is your reminder that your scientific society is complicit in genocide:

Platforming genocidal tools of Israel (control of the Palestinian land, nature, natural resources) was not enough for @agu.org so they had sponsorship with Lockheed Martin to help IOF to commit genocide.
divyampersaud.com Dr. Divya 🇵🇸 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · Jul 24
The CEO of AGU made $548,612 in 2023 while the 2024 meeting was sponsored by Lockheed Martin, which provides the following to the IOF to commit genocide in #Gaza:

Attack helicopter parts
Cargo aircraft
F-35s
F-16s
Multiple launch rocket systems
Hellfire missiles
Armored vehicles
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mommunism.bsky.social
Like hard to sell yourself as the better alternative while you’ve spent 2 years banning genocide victims
February 6, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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minniesmum.bsky.social
64/815. Your small change could offer a family the security of knowing their rent is covered. Click ‘weekly’ or ‘monthly’ on a coffee & help keep Maha & family housed. 💕💸🍉 chuffed.org/project/savi...
February 7, 2026 at 7:03 AM
oykukoc.bsky.social
If you want to help many families but don't know which ones, here is Keep Hope Alive that helps six families. It helps with covering rent, food, medicine, clothing. Basic needs to survive. Regular donations help the most.

chuffed.org/project/hope...
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 the...
chuffed.org
February 7, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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divyampersaud.com
Oops, I'm back, because we have some generous matchers in line ready to double your contributions. Baseline needs for these six families and a camp of fifteen more: food, medicine, winter supplies.

Click "weekly" or "monthly" on a coffee, and be doubled: chuffed.org/project/hope...
A banner with a black ink sketch of a perched falcon. Title: Keep hope alive: a Gaza giving circle. At the top is large text that says “new year match!” and the bottom: “£800 ($1,100) will be matched! tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”
February 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
oykukoc.bsky.social
I ran out of words to tell you that life stopped in Gaza, people lost their lives. You know this already. Now the choice is yours. Would you like to help out a family in Gaza so that they could survive? Or you choose to do nothing about it?

Help Samaa and her family

chuffed.org/project/157569
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
chuffed.org
February 7, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Caring for a baby is incredibly challenging under the best of circumstances. I cannot imagine the strain of doing it in the midst of genocide, with a toddler to boot. Please give what you can to help my friend Sama'a.

tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
February 6, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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mamatried.bsky.social
I am not a beggar. I am a human being who had everything stolen—my home, my safety, and my children’s peace.

When I ask for help, I am claiming my right to live with dignity, not to be buried alive under poverty, cold, and silence.

- Sama’a 🤍

chuffed.org/project/157569
Sama’a standing atop the rubble of her home after it was bombed by Israel. She is wearing a black hijab, a black and white hooded sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse, denim pants, smiling and holding a peace sign. Sama’a standing in a bombed out building surrounded by rubble and dirt, holding her 5 month old daughter, Talia. She is wearing a Black hijab, a white sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse, and black pants. Baby Talia is swaddled in a white blanket, and wearing a white headband with a bow. Sama’a taking a selfie in front of a red sheeted wall. She is smiling, wearing a black hijab and a white Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, holding baby Talia in her arm, who is swaddled in a white blanket and wearing a white headband with a bow. At her hip is 3 year old Julia, wearing a green and blue plaid dress with a white collar, smiling with her dark hair pulled up into pigtails. Sama’a stands on a road amid bombed out buildings, rubble, and trash, holding the hand of her three year old daughter Julia. Sama’a is wearing an all black hijab and pantsuit. Julia is wearing a denim dress and a blue puffy coat.
February 3, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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divyampersaud.com
My friendship with H isn’t the point. In fact, his family relies on us getting them dignified help that honors their privacy. Because this is our obligation to Palestinians.

Anything helps with their recurring medical needs & more, & hit “weekly”!
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 their...
chuffed.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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divyampersaud.com
Hi I’m your local space scientist here to say that this is nonsense spun up as an investment scam
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7d
Musk merges SpaceX and xAI firms, plans for space-based AI data centres https://aje.news/jm42h7
Musk merges SpaceX and xAI firms, plans for space-based AI data centres
February 3, 2026 at 5:15 AM
oykukoc.bsky.social
Samaa lost everything she has. Her two daughters, one is still a baby, only know the displacement, the occupation, the sounds of b*mbs, screams, cries. Yet, Samaa is trying her best to make them smile. Help a mother to cover basic needs like shelter, medicine, food

@mommunism.bsky.social
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
chuffed.org
February 3, 2026 at 8:35 AM
oykukoc.bsky.social
You can choose to help 7 families in Gaza and a mutual aid team serving a displacement camp of 15 more with food, water, shelter, medicine, and more. Click on weekly or monthly. Regular donations save lives

chuffed.org/project/hope...
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 the...
chuffed.org
February 3, 2026 at 8:30 AM
oykukoc.bsky.social
I didn't have any signal where I was. So I was absent. But I hope you all were still pushing for urgent needs to be covered. Spark Space still continues to provide space to students in Gaza to follow their studies. With your help, we can make sure that they can cover all the needs
🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!
In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken in...
chuffed.org
February 3, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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mamatried.bsky.social
I am a mother of two little girls, without a home or safety.

The war took everything, except my fear for them. Every night I lie awake wondering how to protect their childhood from this cruelty.

We are not asking for much…just a chance to live with dignity.

- Sama’a 🤍

chuffed.org/project/157569
Sama’a stands in a room with a white tile floor next to a table, decorated with a white lacy tablecloth, holding her four month old daughter, Talia. Sama’a is wearing a black hijab, a white sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, and black pants. Talia is wearing a fuzzy white footie pajamas, with a hood, and a white headband with a bow. Sama’a is holding a plastic bag with treats and snacks inside. Julia and baby Talia lying next to each other inside of a tent. Julia is wearing a beige t shirt, and she is turned over looking at her sister with love. Talia is wearing a lavender sweater and covered in a white muslin cloth with purple flowers. Sama’a kneeling in front of a table with her two daughters, Julia and Talia sitting in front of her. Sama’a is wearing a black hijab and makeup with burgundy lipstick and has a proud smile. Julia, three years old, is wearing a green and blue plaid dress with white stockings and white shoes with big rose gold flowers. her dark hair is pulled up into two pigtails. Talia, four months old, is wearing a fuzzy hooded white footie onesie. 3 year old Talia smiling big, standing with her legs spread wide on the concrete floor of an upper level apartment that is bombed out and has no walls. Her curly dark hair is pulled back and she is barefoot, wearing a matching purple sweatsuit with a unicorn on the front. Behind her is the ruins of Gaza city, collapsed buildings, rubble and debris.
February 2, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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divyampersaud.com
Spark Space is a crucial project of dignity and resilience, providing electricity, internet, & shelter to the community—including for hundreds of kids taking school exams—for a year.

Let's meet their commitment. Keep the lights on or print a flyer:
Spark Space | Linktree
A safe, fully-equipped workspace serving students & workers in Gaza.
linktr.ee
January 31, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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divyampersaud.com
Shelter, medicine, winter supplies. The needs have remained unchanged (or escalated) for these six families & a displacement camp of fifteen more.

Dozens of vulnerable people whom YOU help every week. Click “weekly” on a coffee to join in:
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 their...
chuffed.org
February 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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sakher1.bsky.social
We’re Sakher and Reem. We lost everything in the war.
Now we live in tents, with no jobs, no income — just pain and survival.
Reem needs surgery. My father needs medicine.
This is our only donation link. It helps us and our families.
Please donate or reshare. We need you. 🤍
tinyurl.com/4pyj5dmd
February 2, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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mamatried.bsky.social
I lost my home, my job, and my dreams. All I have left is my husband and young children, and hope in your kind hearts.

Your support today means a dignified life and safety for them after so much fear. For anyone who can help—your support is life for us

- Sama’a 🤍

chuffed.org/project/157569
Sama’a stands with her two daughters in front of the market on a dirt road. Sam is wearing a black hijab, a white sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, black pants, and is holding baby Talia in her arms who is swaddled in a white blanket, and wearing a headband at her hip is three year-old Julia, who is wearing a blue and green plaid dress with a white collar and white shoes with big gold flowers on them. Her dark hair is pulled back into two pigtails. Three year old Julia and 4 month old Talia sleeping together under an orange blanket. They are cuddled and facing each other. Julia is on the left wearing a purple fleece sweater, her dark curly hair in pigtails. Talia is wearing a brown sweater with a white turtleneck underneath, her hair short and curly, her face very chubby. Sama’a kneeling in front of a table with her two daughters, Julia and Talia sitting in front of her. Sama’a is wearing a black hijab and makeup with burgundy lipstick and has a proud smile. Julia, three years old, is wearing a green and blue plaid dress with white stockings and white shoes with big rose gold flowers. her dark hair is pulled up into two pigtails. Talia, four months old, is wearing a fuzzy hooded white footie onesie. Samaa’s husband Baha’a kneeling in a tent with his daughters, four month old Talia, and three-year-old Julia. Baha’a is has light brown skin and dark hair, a beard and mustache, and is wearing a black matching Puma tracksuit. he is smiling holding his baby daughter Talia, wearing fuzzy brown pajamas, looking over at her sister Julia. Julia is smiling, wearing pale pink sweats and her dark hair is pulled back into pigtail buns.
January 26, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
Last Palestine Action-linked hunger striker to launch ‘thirst strike’ - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/last-palestine-action-linked-hunger-striker-launch-thirst-strike
Last Palestine Action-linked hunger striker to launch ‘thirst strike’
Muhammad Umer Khalid had to halt a previous hunger strike as his health deteriorated rapidly due to a rare genetic disorder
www.middleeasteye.net
January 23, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
Two Palestinian children killed in Israeli drone strike in northern Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/two-palestinian-children-killed-israeli-drone-strike-northern-gaza
Two Palestinian children killed in Israeli drone strike in northern Gaza
The teenage cousins were killed while gathering firewood near Kamal Adwan Hospital, bringing the number of people killed since the ceasefire to 483
www.middleeasteye.net
January 24, 2026 at 6:41 PM
oykukoc.bsky.social
I honestly ran out of words to convince you people. A mother, trying everything to make her daughters smile under bombardment and occupation, needs your help to make sure they are sheltered, clothed, and healthy. Help my dear friend Sama to achieve this

chuffed.org/project/157569
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
chuffed.org
January 25, 2026 at 11:11 AM
oykukoc.bsky.social
They keep deleting Sakher and Reem's accounts. Save their fundraising links so we can cover for them when deletion happens

tinyurl.com/4bb9mhf9
January 25, 2026 at 11:09 AM
oykukoc.bsky.social
Rent deadline is 29 January. Maja is a single mother with two boys and a girl. Additional to rent, they need to cover food, medicine, clothing. Let's make sure that this family is not evacuated.

chuffed.org/project/savi...
Saving lives on the frontline in Palestine - help Maha
My name is Louisa and I'm raising money for my dear friend Maha and her family in Gaza.
chuffed.org
January 25, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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divyampersaud.com
We are all failing, and there is no “winning” formula—no correct way to post, or game algorithms, or anything, EXCEPT what is just and dignified for families—so you might as well try!! Just experiment and see!!! Don’t waste time moaning!!!! Be serious!!!!!
divyampersaud.com Dr. Divya 🇵🇸 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 17d
the work will ask more from us than we have because it requires sacrifice. But then i think folks (myself included) maybe… don’t always realize or center that so they think that if they personally can’t wave a wand to fix something, someone else must be able to. But no one can! It takes all of us
January 23, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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mamatried.bsky.social
A mother of two children under 3.

Our home was destroyed by the occupation’s bombs. I have no income, and donations are slow.

My children urgently need milk, medicine, and basic necessities. Your support saves my daughters’ childhood and brings us hope.

- Sama’a 🤍

chuffed.org/project/157569
Sama’a and three year old Julia standing in front of their home, totally collapsed from the bombs. Julia is in the front, facing left, holding onto a large gray fallen pole of some sort, wearing a pink puffy coat, denim pants and blue sneakers. Sama’a is wearing an oversized white shirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, with a black hooded shirt underneath that is pulled over her head, a black open zip up jacket, and jeans. She is looking into the camera with a meek smile and has her right hand in a peace sign, and holding hands with Julia, who is looking down but toward her mother. She wearing a pink puffy coat, denim pants and blue sneakers Sama’a standing in a bombed out building surrounded by rubble and dirt, holding her 4month old daughter, Talia. She is wearing a Black hijab, a white sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse, and black pants. Baby Talia is swaddled in a white blanket, and wearing a white headband with a bow. Sama’a taking a selfie in front of a red sheeted wall. She is smiling, wearing a black hijab and a white Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, holding baby Talia in her arm, who is swaddled in a white blanket and wearing a white headband with a bow. At her hip is 3 year old Julia, wearing a green and blue plaid dress with a white collar, smiling with her dark hair pulled up into pigtails. Baby Talia and 3 year old Julia lying on their backs on a beige mattress. Talia is wearing fuzzy white hooded footie pajamas with a little bear embroidered on the chest. She looks like she is crying. Julia is next to her, holding her hand and smiling. She is wearing a purple velour sweater with Marie from Aristocats on the front. Her dark brown hair is in two buns.
January 25, 2026 at 6:29 AM