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[ajloun]

what I wish people would understand about fundraising for gaza is that while everyone is desperate and I would never say not to fundraise for or donate to individual families-- I currently fundraise to support multiple friends' families-- the overwhelming narrative I see on Tumblr that the best and most ethical thing you can do is send money to individuals and there is no option for anything else is so so incredibly damaging and inadvertently lends support to the marginalization and distrust of any remaining communal social infrastructure. the sameer project, which you should donate to, talks about this in a recent video they put out. the situation in gaza is unimaginable and everyone is in need of a huge level of support, and yet this fundraising discourse by well-meaning people in the west that donating money to individuals is the only moral way reproduces societal divides wherein resources are directed to people who speak English, who have relationships with people outside of gaza, and who have internet access while hundreds of thousands are left behind.

there ARE non-ngo locally based grassroots initiatives working to meet those needs however they can, and your small donation goes a lot further with them because they are able to buy food/water/supplies in bulk at a reduced price and reach more people with less money. again I'm not saying people shouldn't fundraise for individuals because these initiatives are so limited and many people cannot access them -- but as an example, the group I fundraise with is currently serving people fleeing north gaza who are starving and have nothing, and when we fundraise enough to do cash aid distribution there's so much need that our partners can only distribute 100-200 per large family. and then I go online and see people who have absolutely no understanding of this context at all exclusively working towards raising tens of thousands for just a few people when evacuations haven't been possible for months. it's good to do whatever you can but please consider how this narrative being reproduced among westerners trying to help that there are no other options has the potential to damage groups working towards equity and wider reach however is still possible

[imdressinguplikeacat]

The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree

We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,

bigger link to get more eyes on it

[calamitys-child]

I always say that the thing which sets Sargent apart as a portrait artist is that he draws/paints literally every subject - no matter their gender, social position, life vs representational drawing etc - like he is right that minute realising he's desperately in love with them. And it rules every single time.

[calamitys-child]

Examples pulled just from his Wikipedia page most popular works. Absolutely devastating scenes for bisexuals for over a century

[shorthistorian]

Don't forget the ALLIGATORS. He loves them too.

[omenfan666]

[jellogram]

So anyway. If I had to describe The Bride! in summary. I'd say it's what Poor Things could have been, but also it's nothing like that at all. It's like someone took a Lady Gaga concert from 2009, a Halloween party, your local low-budget Rocky Horror shadow cast, and a 1930s mobster movie, dumped it all in the blender, garnished it with a dash of John Waters, and then snorted just enough cocaine to develop delusions of insane, unearned grandeur. It's a shitshow but it's my shitshow. It feels like some bizarre disgusting concoction that your older cousin feeds you as a hangover cure, and then it ends up actually working. I'm gonna go to my grave defending this fucking movie.

[sammy-bryant]

SHAWN HATOSY as JACK ABBOT The Pitt | 9:00 P.M. (1.15)

[unsuspectingfish]

Noah Wyle specifically setting out to make a show that humanizes medical workers, flaws and all, just for people to put half of them up on pedestals, treating them like they’re completely devoid of flaws and above the rest of us, while treating the other half like they’re evil and completely irredeemable and deserve to die.

WE’RE SUPPOSED TO SEE THE FLAWS. THE FLAWS ARE WHAT MAKE US HUMAN.

[martindykewood]

not to sound like a christian facebook mom but some of yall need to have grace in your hearts for the people in your lives or the people you pass once on the road and never see again like you literally need to stop assuming the worst of everyone and their intentions it is poisoning your brain. you can be careful and responsible without being a miserable person. it is possible i promise

[silentturtle]

This.

[calmdowngorgeous]

Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

[faxcollector]

the great thing about the pitt is that it's a show of infinite nuance where every character has moments in the right and in the wrong and no one is irredeemable but also no one is unassailable. the terrible thing about the pitt is that you have to watch people raised by the bad faith no nuance everything-contains-a-moral-failing social media landscape of the 2020s interact with it and enough of that will make you want to join robby and abbot on the roof

[man1cpixiedreampuppy]

my take on every pitt character btw

[amanitaphalloides]

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

[amanitaphalloides]

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

[localpubliclibrary]

Man no one even remembers laptop in bed. It was laptop in bed for years. Now it's just phone in bed. Maybe tablet. But usually phone. So much has changed

[despazito]

[dreamsy990]

[royalfig]

I’ve never felt more like a character than I do w her

[slow--spark]

just give dana some time to distract security

[baeckerei]

bridgerton is so scary. one by one the siblings are fetched away off into "their happy ending" only to turn into non-characters bearing innumerable children in the background of someone elses story. its like a zombie movie