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@argeleznimameow
Was thinking abt how i wish to be taken back to the blissful times of my childhood when i discovered melted cheese but. I can have melted cheese now. More than when I was a kid in fact. Have it whenever I want, however I want, maybe the present isn't so bad after all
Saw someone microwave their food on the department microwave for FOUR minutes. What are you trying to achieve. Do you want to eat plasma? Do people normally do this? What's the point?
eduroam get your shit together I need to browse
when you feel like you're at fault for not doing things you don't have to do and promised no one to do, remind yourself this happens *because you're a good person who cares*
i want to reiterate i don't think israeli hostages have had the time of their lives and i don't think this ordeal was fun or easy for them but looking at how israeli hostages have been released by hamas and how palestinian hostages have been released by israel is a really dark-sided reality check on just how low the standards for israel have been to meet a basic threshold for humanity and yet it still failed
The Palestinians being released aren't hostages... they're charged or convicted prisoners
this is of course, not true. more than two-thirds of the prisoners released have not been convicted of any crime, and include those were not charged with anything at all.
even in the pdf released by the israeli government, compiled by journalist laura adkins, you can see most were arrested as minors and charges include "throwing stones" and "support for terrorism" and "threatened area security." Vox reports: "Since 1967, Israel has issued over 1,000 military orders that criminalize a range of activities in Palestinians’ daily lives, including waving political symbols like flags, being in certain areas without permits, and any kind of speech that can fit into a loosely defined charge of “incitement.” Citing decades of evidence, the Amnesty report outlined an “intentional Israeli policy to detain individuals, including prisoners of conscience, solely for the non-violent exercise of their right to freedom of expression and association, and punish them for their views.”
however, under israel's administrative detention even the more serious charges are held under "secret evidence" that israel does not allow many defendants nor their lawyers to access (when it allows them access to lawyers). in order to convict israel then holds trials in military courts without adequate representation, forces children who can't read hebrew to sign off on documents they don't understand and has a ~99% conviction rate. it extracts confessions under duress including torture of minors, withholds adequate treatment from injured detainees, often uses threats of arresting family members (particularly parents) to coerce confessions from children, without mentioning the habitual illegal use of punitive measures such as solitary confinement for years on end.
it is a separate legal system designed to strip palestinians of due process. israel is one of very few countries in the world to routinely charge minors and non-violent political prisoners in military courts. anyone remotely familiar with incarceration and remotely familiar with practices of administrative detention in the middle east knows exactly what kind of legal procedure this is, so this comment fully relies on the willful ignorance of outsiders. in layman terms, this is called a kangaroo court. here's a handy graphic that illustrates it:
and to help you visualize this on the ground, there is no shortage of images of how israeli occupation soldiers have treated palestinian children (on their own land, in their own supposed territory) across the years:
of course the argument goes "these children were terrorists" and so on and so forth but this 2015 report from amnesty highlights exactly how specious these accusations of "stabbing" and "attempted murder" can be under israeli occupation:
we've also seen the case of ahmed erakat, who was accused of trying to drive a car into a checkpoint and executed on the spot when forensic examination revealed otherwise. similarly, the case of israa jaabis who was accused of trying to detonate a bomb at an israeli checkpoint, while her family maintains that israeli forces firing indiscriminately at her car after an airbag malfunction caused a cooking gas tank to explode, leaving her disfigured after israeli soldiers left her to burn on the ground.
however, whether or not they charged or convicted actually doesn't matter. israel has no right nor authority to imprison or detain palestinians outside the occupied west bank under international humanitarian law. but it is israel's own high court of justice that gives it the legal pretext to do so under claims of security threat, which amnesty international and multiple other human rights groups have repeatedly found in violation of international humanitarian law. through legal loopholes such as expanding the territory and language of what constitutes "military zones" israeli soldiers in the west bank are given free reign to terrorize the population and simultaneously protect their illegal settlement expansion. there is some leeway for appeal that provides a veneer of legitimacy to this process, but it is overwhelmingly a fascist and unlawful system.
as one report points out, allowing real due process to palestinians who are accused of attacking occupation soldiers would then have to confront the legality of the occupation itself, which palestinians have the right to resist by any means necessary under international law (and under which soldiers and armed settlers are a credible and justified target.)
israel instead awards legal impunity to such armed settlers & soldiers in these settlements who provoke and kill palestinians constantly while palestinian prisoners are charged under an apartheid law, rendering all accusations, charges and convictions as null and void as convictions under syrian or north korean courts, for example.
finally, i leave you with this anecdote, which sums up just about everything illustrated above:
now the irony of it all is that even if these were convicted prisoners under some semblance of real due process, the manner in which israeli authorities have policed their release by pre-emptively arresting members of their family and community, forcibly removing the press, banning all celebrations, shooting live ammunition and killing people awaiting their release, and breaking the arms of teenagers and leaving them untreated for days before release is still unjustifiable, which was the purpose of this post lol.
the fact that palestinians in the west bank (INCLUDING children) continue to be detained at a rate equal to (and surpassing if you include hostages taken in gaza such as mos'ab abu toha) those who are freed while all released detainees have spoken of deteriorating conditions in israeli prisons since oct 7th, with multiple prisoners being beaten to death, the rest crammed into cells, fed smaller rations, exposed to the elements and other abuses
and yet the entire world will focus on the israeli hostages because every opponent of armed resistance has not yet figured out the answer to "the eyes of the world turn to us only when we commit violence, not when violence is committed against us"
this isn't in support of violence or in dismissal of the hostages by the way but rather an indictment of every process that lacks realistic solutions for palestinians who are daily on the receiving end of the kind of violence that the world has judged 15,000-20,000 lives to be an adequate and just payment for.
Wish I could turn off the kneejerk thought of "I want to die" everytime I do something that makes me uncomfortable, nervous or embarrassed. Get off me impulse, you are NOT helping
you don't have to prove your worth but you deserve others to see it
But if it's *because* santa knows whether you've been bad or good that you decide to be good, you're not being good for goodness' sake
Things just feel weird today
Same, Felipe. Same.
(Translation:
First panel: (I must pay attention, without losing any detail, about what the teacher is explaining.)
Second panel: "...And use all my senses to not distract me"
Third panel: "...And concentrate all my attention to be concentrated"
Fourth panel: "...and..." "Did you understand, children?"
Fifth panel: "YES, MISS.")
Felipe is the most relatable man on this planet
People are showing off their spotify wrapped, no better time to shit on spotify.
Wrapped is a really cool feature, seeing stats is so much fun! BUT, it is NOTHING more than basic statistics any software could do.
How have we come to accept a service that has unskippable, long as fuck, intrusive, extraordinarily loud, uncomfortable ads, and then turns around and tells you can't even listen to the song you want? With its repulsive rationing of the "skip track" feature? It's paywalling BASIC FUNCTIONS, and ad revenue should cover basic functions.
Premium isn't premium service, it's *the* service. The normal service is just one that shits all over you constantly, it exists to make sure you update to premium. When I pay for a premium service, it shouldn't be to unlock basic features.
(Yes, this problem doesn't exist on desktop, but mobile is exactly where I want to use a music streaming service that runs on background, plus without also loading an entire video to save data.)
Not even tapping into how it is a subscription based service, which has full control over your entire library at all times, etc etc.
Love love looooove preparing gifts. Choosing pretty paper, writing cards and letters, wrapping boxes, making origami envelopes for small presents and writing silly poems inside them, adding stickers, confetti, pressed flowers - random bits and pieces that remind me of the receiver, including an explanation of the gift choice/making process, and finally actually handing the present and watch it be discovered, layer by layer
So far:
Bella Hadid — Palestinian American model, said: "There have been so many brands that have stopped working with me. A lot of friends have also turned their backs on me," because of her support of Palestine and how she's talked about the genocide of her own people.
Nemahsis — Palestinian Canadian singer, got dropped by her label 11 Acres for her posts about Palestine and the genocide of her own people.
Melissa Barrera — Mexican actress, fired from American film franchise Scream because of her posts about Palestine and specifically for a pro-Palestine article she shared by a Jewish anti-Zionist journalist and professor in Holocaust and genocide studies. Spyglass Media Group called this journalist and his article anti-Semitic. Spyglass's CEO Gary Barber is a white South African who supports apartheid and Zionism.
Mia Khalifa — Lebanese American media personality, lost her podcast deal with Playboy because of her posts about Palestine. Playboy's CEO Ben Kohn is a Zionist who tweeted "I hope no one calls for Israel to show restraint today or in the future" on Oct 7.
Anwar El Ghazi — Moroccan Dutch football player, fired from German football team Mainz over his posts in support of Palestine. Other players for Mainz have posted in support of "Israel" and Zionism and have faced zero consequences.
Susan Sarandon — white American actress, dropped from her talent agency, United Talent, for her posts in support of Palestine. United Talent's CEO Jeremy Zimmer is a Zionist.
Guz Khan — Pakistani Punjabi British actor, fired from Our Fl*g Means Death specifically because of his support of Palestine. The show's executive producer Taika Waititi is a Zionist (And before any freaks show up in my mentions: he signed the letter in support of "Israel," saying NO to a ceasefire, and encouraging the US military to send more money and weapons to "Israel" + he liked posts about "Israel's" "military rights")
Maha Dakhil — Libyan American talent agent, was almost fired from CAA (one of the biggest talent agencies on the planet) over her posts in support of Palestine, but wasn't fired because some of her very famous clients (apparently including Tom Cruise?) stepped in and protected her. CAA's CEO Bryan Lourd is a Zionist.
Let me know if I missed any 🥴
Meanwhile, just a few examples:
Noah Schnapp — white American. Said "You either stand with Israel or you stand with terrorism." Has not faced any consequences.
Sarah Silverman — white American. Said that “Israel” has no reason to allow food or water into Gaza, and that Palestinians should be "grateful" they were ever “given” water from “Israel” in the past. Has not faced any consequences.
Jerry Seinfeld — white American. Went to the "Israeli" military base/"fantasy camp" nicknamed "Camp Shoot-a-Palestinian" and played target practice with the soldiers, where the targets are pictures of Palestinian human beings. Has not faced any consequences.
Con O'Neill — white British dude from Our Fl*g Means Death. Liked, replied complimenting, and shared an article by far-right racist Zionist terf Eve Barlow, all about how "coming out as a Zionist is harder than coming out as gay." Has not faced any consequences.
Amy Schumer — white American. Made a post that said "Gazans are rapists" (not even Hamas, but all Gazans). Has not faced any consequences.
James Woods — white American (voice actor of Hades in D*sney's Hercules, executive producer of Oppenheimer). Said "Bomb the savages who did this back to the Stone Age. There are no grey areas. Kill them all. Every Hamas savage and every Hamas supporter on earth. Bury them with the entrails of pigs." Has not faced any consequences.
