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[moxayesh]

Hello friends, I'm in financial distress and I want you by my side today Thursday 4/6/2026. I want to reach 5000 and this is a simple goal and your stand by my side will be easy to reach it. Just a simple donation and participation with family and friends. Every £100 makes a big difference every £5 helps to reach. Everyone here gets attention and this is a good thing. I don't show the bad side of my life a lot because this is not my nature. I spread positive energy with friends I know and those around me. I don't want to become one of the people who are marginalized and don't get attention. My wife was injured and a lot of things happened to us that I don't like to mention. I'm waiting for my son. This is a trip to reach 5k. Donation as much as you can. The least you can do is to participate. You can create a postIf you want to donate via PayPal, click here

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[moxayesh]

Hand in hand to reach the goal

[moxayesh]

1638/5000

[existentialplasticextra]

Please everyone, help Mohammed and his wife!!

This is yesterday's update on his gfm

His pregnant wife was SHOT IN THE CHEST, and is SERIOUSLY INJURED. She needs URGENT treatment and support to help both her and their unborn child.

The bullet is still lodged in her chest, so she needs URGENT surgery to remove it.

Please ACT NOW and help Mohammed’s wife get the URGENT treatment she needs.

DONATE as much as you can, SHARE their story as widely as possible, and REBLOG with tags to keep Mohammed’s posts in circulation!!

[communistojousama]

LMAO at this dirty zio rat larping as a "communist" אין מלחמה מלבד מלחמה מעמדות, إلا إذا لنا فرصة إسقاط قنابل على رؤوس أطفال غزة

[tamamita]

[thegreatyin]

ok see the problem with umineko is. hold on there's an image that explains this

[thegreatyin]

no beatrice.

[wizardpotions]

Goodbye white people no more cheeseboard

[agooodpuppydog]

[fjordojustice]

What have white people ever done to deserve this?

[sourcreammachine]

History - Wikipedia

History - Wikipedia

[halfwar-halfpeace]

[feluka]

[Image ID: A screenshot of a tweet by Mohammed El-Kurd (@/m7mdkurd) that reads: "What Israel is doing in Lebanon is unambiguously genocidal against Shias. And it is unambiguously an attempt to reoccupy and even annex a huge part of the country. It's infuriating that we're pretending that there's a ceasefire. And even more infuriating that Western media continues to turn a blind eye to Israel's endless colonial expansion and insatiable hunger for Arab land." /End ID.]

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[stonedeadforever]

Read this post yesterday and I have not been able to stop thinking about it since. I am on a whole different continent than the op and it is still the same here. We are taught american queer history in school and none of our own. US queer liberation is seen as universal, even on the other side of the globe. I don't think the americans angry about this post realise that their history has culturally replaced ours and that even when doing research in our own languages we have to sift through article after article about the united states, and when finding something about our own countries it tends to just be a timeline of when things were decriminalised/legalised with little footnotes about who signed the act. Even in queer spaces the people that should be our icons are still unheard of, the people who gave us our rights are rarely written about and even when they are those texts don't reach the larger queer communities. We all need to take steps to decenter the US in our lives

[wheelie-sick]

sometimes people experiencing psychosis and/or mania will come up to you on the street and talk in confusing or upsetting ways. your job is to either have a regular human-to-human conversation with that person or politely leave. your job is not to call 911. do not call 911. you might kill that person if you call 911.

[wheelie-sick]

I don't even have the energy to screenshot and respond to your tags- what the actual fuck is wrong with you? "the cops are scared and rightfully so" "mental health calls are the scariest for cops" OH so this isn't about the safety of psychotic & manic people this is about piggy feelings?

and no, actually, this is not USA specific and no, actually, people from other countries should not ignore this post. police violence and sanism weren't invented in the US and they are certainly not unique to here. if you (or anyone) thinks that this bullshit doesn't happen elsewhere then you are not listening.

[headspace-hotel]

cops r Some Guy with a Gun

do we want Some Guy with a Gun in this situation? answer is usually "NO"

[uncivilliberties]

This is legitimately useful reframing. A while ago I started replacing the word "cop" in my vocabulary with "a man with a gun." It really puts things into perspective.

This homeless person is making me uncomfortable. Should I call [a man with a gun]?

My neighbor is having a loud party. Should I get [a man with a gun] involved?

There are some teenagers skateboarding. Do you think [a man with a gun] would get rid of them for me?

It makes it very clear what you're saying. I can call a man with a gun to threaten or hurt someone mildly inconveniencing me. You're not calling the cops, you're calling A MAN WITH A GUN into a situation that does not warrant a firearm handled by a volatile lunatic who will not be held accountable for his actions.

[headspace-hotel]

^ ^ ^

[cheaphalloweencostume]

*asks a question* *gets an answer* “im not reading that”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i didn’t have to stalk your page, these are comments you left on my post? and this isn’t harassment, it’s another post on my own blog?

[depsidase]

[queerveganarchist]

GET OFF OUR LAND AND STOP FUCKING WITH THE ECOSYSTEM UGH

[creekfiend]

although if we ARE talking about passive aggression my technique is generally (and I have had a LOT OF PRACTICE developing it lmao) is to interpret what I think they're implying and then say "are you asking me to (x)?" in a very polite tone with a friendly (sincere! not mocking!) smile. I find that this often 1. ceases the tiresome cycle of ignoring passive aggressive behavior -> behavior escalates -> ignore it -> it escalates, and on and on that you get if you simply ignore it, 2. lets the person know that in the future they can just fucking ask you directly for god's sake, and very importantly 3. although I strive not to sound condescending when I do this, it is inescapably and obviously something that I learned to say when talking to toddlers. the people I use this with the most (mostly older female relatives but not infrequently on men as well) will often catch a hint of that and sort of realize that their method of approaching me was childish, not in a derogatory sense, but in the sense that they don't need to try to get me to do stuff in the way they got used to working in the past. they can do it differently.

obviously how effective this is varies wildly based on the relationship, or lack thereof, that you have with the other person. but I find it effective with people who are In Your Life but don't meaningfully have any control over you. quite often it DOES result in increased directness in the future, especially if it's something I end up doing fairly often. and it's not rude; I'm just politely seeking clarification about what is being communicated. it makes the person have to think about what effect they were expecting their behavior to have on my behavior, and then just... tell me straightforwardly. but without escalating the situation or making the person feel 'called out' most of the time.

its very simple but I so much more often see people say "always ignore passive aggressive communication" and while I think that's absolutely a good approach much of the time, especially especially from strangers. it is not especially EFFECTIVE at helping them change how they're approaching communicating with you in the future. in my experience. so. I prefer to use my method when I determine that it might be effective.

[gayofgaymark2]

I use this technique on my grandmother a lot.

She frequently makes requests by telling me what I want, eg "oh wouldn't you like to.." "don't you think it's be nice if..."

It used to drive me up the wall, but now as an adult with better understanding of what's happening I say "Actually I'm fine with x, but I'd be happy to do y if that's what you want?"

One day she actually asked me, "Why is it so important to you that I say that y is what I want?"

and i got to say "Well I don't like being told what I want. I have enough life experience to know my own desires and limitations, and I can advocate for them when I need to. However your opinions do matter to me and I want to take them into account. It's much less stressful for me to do so when I'm not guessing what's in your mind."

And folks, she Actually Listened.

Later that day she wanted something that ended up not being possible, but because she said so directly I was able to help her find a different way to achieve the same goal!

She still slips up, of course, but it was so good to see her Understand.

[creekfiend]

I love thissssss. yes I have had similar experiences modeling this behavior for older female relatives. I think a lot of them got real used to having to be indirect to get their needs met and it becomes maladaptive but they get stuck.

[creekfiend]

sometimes kind and effective are the same thing when it comes to social interactions. sometimes people get mad bc they interpret stuff i am saying like "be kind to people who do x because they deserve it" when what I'm really saying is "approaching this kindly in this specific way will make the other person more able to hear your feedback without becoming defensive and thus hopefully improve your communication with them and thus the relationship"

I'm not responding gently to my terrible grandmother's passive aggressive bids for attention because it's kind and she deserves it. I'm doing it because responding gently to her passive aggressive bids for attention is the more effective method of getting the outcome I want in my interactions with her in the future. 🤷 I know sometimes I make this sound like supervillain shit, but like honest to god. we HAVE to admit that sometimes the emotional impulse IS TO PUNISH, bc punishment feels good. it feels good to pretend I have no idea what she means and watch her dig herself into a deeper and deeper hole getting more and more frustrated trying to escalate her passive aggression until she gets a reaction! but it's not effective at accomplishing anything. I don't want to have visits with her wherein I spend hours pretending I am unable to pick up on her increasingly angry bullshit. that's the nightmare scenario. if I can cut it off and redirect her by politely inquiring clarification about what she is trying to say to me, I vastly prefer the outcome of that option. it has the additional benefit of her interpreting it as a kindness that I am showing her. this makes her feel positively towards me and decreases chances of antagonist behavior at future visits.

idk. people are like "well that's not my responsibility it's her responsibility" sure. okay. but I'm not doing it because I think it's my responsibility to compensate for her poor communication skills. I'm doing it as part of my sinister strategy to experience less aversive grandmother visits. its not actually more emotional labor than the ignoring method for me. 🤷

[universeleads]

I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby

[universeleads]

English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son

[overwhelmedfernfrond]

I explained the “x before gta6” meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named Gică Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: “This happened and Gică Petrescu hasn’t even died yet?!?”

So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid

[closet-keys]

Wonderful news! My dear friend Fadel (@fadel-dani) was able to present his graduation project at his university and received his Bachelor's degree in Information Technology! Anyone who would like to congratulate and bless Fadel can do so by donating so that he can get medical treatment and study for his master's and doctorate in a safer place.

[closet-keys]

Fadel's project was about creating an integrated system for managing the water desalination plant in Gaza electronically. This is an incredibly important project, because Israel has systematically destroyed Gaza's water treatment infrastructure, blocked repairs in countless ways, and targeted workers. It is extremely brave to be working on this project. Please donate so that Fadel can one day lend his skill to rebuilding Gaza. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

[closet-keys]

While Fadel shared this happy news with friends, he was interrupted by Israeli helicopters bombing nearby. There were four strikes on Gaza City last night and at least ten people were martyred. As we text today, @fadel-dani is still in the hospital receiving treatment. To maintain hope in the future, he must survive the present. Please donate so he can afford his hospital bills and medication costs.

[fadell-aldany]

Thank you so much to everyone who congratulated me and shared in my joy. I hope to be able to travel soon and have my surgery as soon as possible to be free from my pain, and to be able to complete my master's degree. So, my friends, you are our last hope. Please help me and be by our side before it's too late. Please donate and stand by me.

[gritsandbrits]

Animation Is Cinema

[handweavers]

one of the many problems with 'listen to x voices' rhetoric is that in order to be in the diaspora & gain citizenship in the first place your family often has to conform, to some degree, to western policy regarding our home countries & then those are the most plentiful voices in the west who talk about our countries. they will try to convince you that this is "the true voice" of the people of that country but they will gleefully advocate for foreign interventions that result in the widespread destruction and looting of their home country + they will position themselves as the greatest victims in all of this. but they clearly do not view the people back home with any kind of genuine solidarity or kinship only as pawns in their own personal narrative (revenge for an imagined alternative life back home, one where you still owned land or a held position of power there) and an opportunity to seize power for themselves. & then people in the diaspora develop a complex when people back home don't like them and don't agree with them & start claiming that everyone in the home country is brainwashed and the only way to free them is by invading and bombing everyone. they don't even view their cousins and family back home as real people, in this type of person's mindset simply by coming to west you are made real in a way that the rest of the world is not, it's sickening. and i know this song and dance very well like i'm in the western diaspora and the amount of ppl i meet who position themselves as progressive people but on the topic of foreign policy re: the home country sound like they work for radio free asia and are on the cia's payroll and chomping at the bit begging canada and co to bomb their country of origin is completely insane & if you even try to push back against this you're socially ostracized. same people will do land acknowledgements and then shun you for not supporting our government warmongering overseas it's just maddening

[ringthembells]

god israel's destruction of tyre is like especially depressing tbh like thats one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. people have lived there since the bronze age. there is so, so so much history and world heritage there that's being blown up and destroyed forever because its existence doesn't fit israel's nationalist vision of history.

[ringthembells]

lots to say about israel's politicized and propagandized use of history and archaeology to further their narrative tbh. here's a good article about it.

'It comes with the territory': How Israel's archaeologists legitimize annexation

Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel's colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza's

[cheesetitan]

To add onto this, archaeology has been a tool for colonialism since it‘s foundation, and Palestine is only one example of this. Even now so called „Archaeologists“ claim Palestinian land and occupy it for „excavation projects“, which is nothing but land and cultural theft. A very notorious example of this specifically for Palestine and the Levantine region is so called „Biblical Archaeology“.

[what-if-i-just-did]

Tumblr as the loud, alt, gnc nerd with coloured hair, a ton of Pride pins, and lots of merch

Ao3 as the quiet, unassuming book nerd that's secretly freaky as fuck

Does anyone else see my vision

[strangestcase]

and they’re both racist

[mrhealyourgirl]

and they're both racist