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kim / late 20s / she & they australia / unceded meru land white / GMT+9.30 personal, rp inspo, tv, art, funnies, dnd, idfk?? etc talk to me about abba please im begging

[brittapcrrys]

oh btw, i told my sister then my brother and then my mum that im bi, hell yeah

[brittapcrrys]

[brittapcrrys]

sister is in hospital after a huge gate (to an animal enclosure/paddock...she works at a 'zoo') fell on her today. ended up only 1 fracture in her sacrum (in the hips) and she's gotta have surgery to secure it in place, she seems okay with it all esp now that our aunt and mum are with her, but she's gotta be moved from one hospital to another and apparently she's just been asking mum incessantly if IM okay dsfjjksjksjkd

[brittapcrrys]

300kg gate. Btw.

[brittapcrrys]

surgery went well

[brittapcrrys]

sister is in hospital after a huge gate (to an animal enclosure/paddock...she works at a 'zoo') fell on her today. ended up only 1 fracture in her sacrum (in the hips) and she's gotta have surgery to secure it in place, she seems okay with it all esp now that our aunt and mum are with her, but she's gotta be moved from one hospital to another and apparently she's just been asking mum incessantly if IM okay dsfjjksjksjkd

[brittapcrrys]

300kg gate. Btw.

[brittapcrrys]

sister is in hospital after a huge gate (to an animal enclosure/paddock...she works at a 'zoo') fell on her today. ended up only 1 fracture in her sacrum (in the hips) and she's gotta have surgery to secure it in place, she seems okay with it all esp now that our aunt and mum are with her, but she's gotta be moved from one hospital to another and apparently she's just been asking mum incessantly if IM okay dsfjjksjksjkd

[mythalism]

i know everyone is really excited for the oblivion remake because i was too. oblivion was the first real video game i ever played when i was a kid, and is literally the reason i am a gamer today, but BDS has called for a microsoft boycott, and that includes anything made by bethesda.

this isn't just a "oh they have some obscure business partnerships in isr*el" or "oh they donate to this or that lobby" sort of boycott either, although those are important too. my tone is not meant to be flippant about them, but rather i want to emphasize the gravity of how microsoft directly and deliberately contributes to the palestinian death toll daily, in a way that is uniquely cruel and complicit.

microsoft has had a $35 million dollar contract with the isr*eli military since 2002. they provide cloud storage for surveillance data of gazan civillians, and an artificial intelligence program called a "mass assassination factory" to assist in planning and targeting their attacks, many of which are on civilians or involve mass civilian casualties.

microsoft's service agreements with the isr*eli military also includes the CPU responsible for the military's tech infrastructure, military intelligence units that develop spy technology used against palestinians and lebanese, the maintenance of the palestinian population registry that tracks and (illegally) limits the movement of palestinains in the west bank and gaza, their air force targeting database, and much more. they work closely with isr*eli military intelligence agencies on surveillance systems used to monitor palestians, provide specialized consulting, technical and engineering support, hosts training software for the IOF, provide financial support to organizations based in the illegally occupied west bank, and have repeatedly invested in isr*eli start ups specializing in war technology.

in 2020, internal and external pressure forced microsoft to pull out of its 74 million dollar investment in an isr*eli company that violated international law due to its use of facial recognition technology for military surveillance.

in 2021, microsoft signed a new, 3-year contract with the isr*eli ministry of defense worth $133 million dollars. the isr*eli military is microsoft's second largest military customer. the first? the united states.

you can read more (w/ sources) about microsoft's complicity here.

BDS asks us to boycott microsoft products whenever possible.

microsoft is directly complicit in countless isr*eli war crimes, and the money you provide them will further proliferate this violence. i know the oblivion remake was exciting, but please, consider the lives of palestinians above your own nostalgia. no one is free until everyone is free.

[wingedtwilight]

hi y’all. with the oblivion remaster making waves i just wanted to post that microsoft and its game studios (including mojang and bethesda) are a primary bds boycott target owing to microsoft’s role in the ongoing genocide in gaza. don’t let them undermine that with the oblivion remaster. don’t buy it. don’t give them any money. don’t engage with their social media accounts or hype up the remake. you should probably cancel your eso membership if you have one. personally i’m not even going to post about tes or minecraft for the time being and will be leaving this account by the wayside for now.

palestine is more important than a video game. these are real people with families, hopes, and lives being slaughtered, dismembered, displaced, starved, kidnapped, tortured, subjected to disease, deprived of basic medical care and freedom of movement, raped and blockaded. this is no different than any other genocide. remember that.

free palestine.

[brittapcrrys]

"...or at least bisexual"

haven't seen that in a while. forgot how viscerally i react to reading/hearing the phrase

[fairuzfan]

https://x.com/translatingpal/status/1903418455430181271?t=lZ5kcTnHCLO0ZpmGoAkR2Q&s=19

[fairuzfan]

If you listen to this testimony you'll understand why documenting sexual violence against women in Palestinian society is not as heavily talked about as sexual violence against men. A lot of women are told/pressured not to say anything if they are sexually assaulted by Israelis because of the social implications against themselves and the male members of the family.

Sometimes women are not allowed to leave their villages without men in Palestine, like my grandmother couldn't leave without her dad or brother while she was in Palestine but outside it she freely came and went where ever. My other grandma left her village and studied as a nurse in Palestine but only because she was with her sisters and brother. Even in the 90's my mom, who freely went out of Amman and even dormed outside of Amman, where her parents lived, she had to go with her younger brother to visit Jerusalem (the only time she ever went to Palestine as an adult) because her family was so scared she would be in danger from Israelis.

Like it's an unspoken knowledge that Israelis can and will sexually assault you at checkpoints or just randomly and no one even cared for 75 years, which is why talking about how israelis face sexual assault from Palestinians is so bewildering because it's like a complete reversal of reality. Even my parents are worried to let me visit Palestine with an American passport because they dont want something to happen to me at a checkpoint. It's so shocking to me that no one cares about the sexual violence Palestinians face when it permeates literally every aspect of Palestinian society.

[boobieteriat]

We had to educate ourselves to fight Zionist lies but they can spew the most absurd nonsense about Arabs and Muslims, and people will still believe it. The world's hatred for Palestinians overrides any shred of logic. No amount of truth can override their will to dehumanise. This is maddening.

[halalchampagnesocialist]

I have been thinking about this a lot and I believe it’s in large part due to people, even well-meaning allies, internalising decades of unchallenged Israeli propaganda about Palestinians.

[alwayswasalwayswillbeourland]

and like only white people use the term 'outback' to begin with. Usually it's corporations trying to sell fishing gear and 4WDs.

Where I'm from it's usually 'out bush' (somewhere literally in the bush usually very close to where the speaker lives) or the name of a land or community. Like the framing of a portion of australia as far away and remote (and empty) plays into the colonisation. These places have names. everywhere you go in australia its a named country, with its own people and language.

[fairuzfan]

The reason the PACBI BDS statement on no other land is especially important is because of its production company that has been boycotted for years before the movie was even made. It's true the language and the ideas surrounding the film are iffy at best, equating the oppressed and oppressor in ways that further the narrative of genocide, but the most relevant issue is that NOL accepted money from a group called "Close Up", which is explicitly an Israeli project that aims to normalize apartheid and occupation.

It's important to remember that part of the reason we even talk about these things is because Palestinians are so thoroughly disenfranchised to the point where we are expected to thank people for recognizing our humanity. Honestly, if you are not Palestinian and you consider yourself a genuine ally, you should sit this discussion out. Many, many Palestinians couch our language and demands when speaking to people about anything related to Palestine so you having a Palestinian friend who thinks BDS is stupid for doing this should realize that you definitely do not have the full context of the discussion and don't understand the nuances of how this affects us. The number of nonPalestinians who have commented on this to let people know they disagree (at best) with BDS is far too high. Some have even gone as far as to assert that BDS is racist against israelis (aka, "the Palestinians are doing reverse racism!"). If you want to read about "Close Up," you can find a written piece by BDS from 2019, following a letter signed by hundreds (!!!) of filmmakers insisting on denouncing the org.

https://bdsmovement.net/news/pacbi-welcomes-statement-more-500-filmmakers-against-close-initiative-normalizing-israeli

[OK to reblog but please do not comment if not Palestinian]

[akajustmerry]

And The Oscar Goes To... Zionism!

Hollywood's night of nights cannot be separated from the US' role in the genocide of Palestinians... and this year that was more blatant tha

"... While most of these films don’t bring up Israel’s occupation of Palestine directly, many of them normalise and even lionise Israel’s existence and Israeli identity. Others, like Dune Part Two and September 5 perpetuate anti-Arab racism and “terrorist” stereotyping. All of this lays an ideological groundwork in the mind of the viewer that justifies Israel’s so-called “right to exist”, and that Palestinian and Arab resistance to genocidal Israeli expansionism is, if not evil, then futile.

...On the same day that the Academy celebrated its big night, the Israeli Occupation Forces cut off aid to Gaza after the Zionist Israeli government refused to honour its end of the ceasefire agreement. As the media justice advocacy group Slow Factory pointed out on Instagram, Israel has a long history of timing escalated attacks with major US cultural events — like the Oscars — to limit media coverage of their actions. The Oscars don’t just normalise and lionise Zionism, but provide cultural cover for its violence.

It is not about when, how, or why these films were made or even who they were made by, but what these films say about Zionism, and how that benefits the West’s support of Israel. Even if zero of these films had won an Oscar, it doesn’t matter. Many still saw them, internalised them, and enjoyed them. The damage is done, and the brunt of it will be bared, as it always is, by Palestinians."

And The Oscar Goes To... Zionism! // by Merryana Salem via The Offcut.

[brittapcrrys]

not rly coming back to tumblr (...yet?) (although to be fair i didn't really make a specific decision to Stop using it much/at all in the first place) , but i logged on to check some stuff i'd saved as like memos in my drafts and on private pages attached to this blog and like....... just. seeing some ppl active on the dashboard as i pass over that page to get to what i came for, but they'd been inactive/away for months & months even before i stopped being on here much. ppl who've changed the purpose or the way they use their blogs. ppl being like yea fuck it actually this thing was fun im doing it again idc anymore. it's nothing it's something it's a weird jumble of feelings that are both so big and so small idk. hey.

[brittapcrrys]

weirdest add-on sensation to this is like..... KNOWING i know a blog/person ....... a name or the personal info in their desc or just the way they format and word things........ we have SOME sort of history, i know knew you somehow..... but my brain can't actually put the pieces together, can't match those details to the specific experiences/conversations i would've had with the person, like i planned to stitch all these patches together to make a quilt of a cohesive memory but i blinked and now all the individual parts are mixed up and strewn about and i can't see which ones are supposed to connect to each other, i can't remember the story they tell and it's sad and frustrating and a little scary !!!!

[brittapcrrys]

not rly coming back to tumblr (...yet?) (although to be fair i didn't really make a specific decision to Stop using it much/at all in the first place) , but i logged on to check some stuff i'd saved as like memos in my drafts and on private pages attached to this blog and like.......

just. seeing some ppl active on the dashboard as i pass over that page to get to what i came for, but they'd been inactive/away for months & months even before i stopped being on here much.

ppl who've changed the purpose or the way they use their blogs.

ppl being like yea fuck it actually this thing was fun im doing it again idc anymore.

it's nothing it's something it's a weird jumble of feelings that are both so big and so small idk. hey.

[polkadotmotmot]

Nabil Anani - Palestinian Folklore, 2020