all models are wrong, some models are useful

late 20s, he/ze/it

[txttletale]

it is beyond cruel that venezuela is now a US colony for all intents and purposes and the US still continues to wield sanctions against it to the detriment of the nation's poorest and most desperate people even in the aftermath of an earthquake that's killed thousands

[oliviacoy]

i didn’t see a single kink at pride discourse post this year good work team

[nedlittle]

1920s guy driving a model t with a "i bought this before ford went crazy" bumper sticker

[monstrous-femme]

as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.

[ardl]

[boatsthatfly]

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[evergreen-femme]

the instructor materials for college level BIO101 textbook btw

[evergreen-femme]

the heteronormativity in specifically the chapters dealing with genetics is literally obscene and anti-science

[circumgender-plaguedoctor]

relatedly - anthropomorphic cop/military white blood cells (I think the green B cell was supposed to be legally distinct James Bond?) from a premed immunology class

[hagiomoto]

Please consider setting up a recurring donation to Project Muhammad.

Help the people in Gaza

From the heart of besieged Gaza, where life has become a daily struggle for survival and childhood has lost all its basic protections, the E

[komsomolka]

i can't believe people are rereading thg at their big age and don't clock liberal anti communist narrative miss collins sneaked in at the end. aside from gale being villainized for becoming dedicated revolutionary, 13th district is literally dprk and describing it collins used up all deadbrained amerikkkan stereotypes including Evil Dictator which is killed by our Independent Individualist protag as some heroic act clearly meant to be celebrated by reader.

[komsomolka]

it was subtly but surely shown how the worst districts were more racialized (with black people in 11th and native americans in 12th) but you're telling me thee 13th district was all whites? collins didn't only make it into dprk caricature but also literally whitewashed it's people in her book surely to avoid some uncomfortable (racist) implications which are inherent to anti north korea propaganda to clear up her white liberal conscience.

[komsomolka]

also i hate how plutarch's character has no clear reasons to become rebels spy aside from the West media loved individualist narrative of #notallcapitalists (see schindler's list/sound of music/etc). how much better it would be if he was from 3rd district (which are responsible for the technology so it's logical the gamemaker would be from here) and climbed his way to the top in capitol. also i wish 3rd district was shown to be asian racialized as model minority allegory and they out of all districts would have the most chances to connect with 13th district by advanced radio signals so in that scenario plot twist with plutarch would make complete sense as him being undercover would mean the solidarity between districts as well as asian brotherhood (if 13th district wasn't whitewashed).

[komsomolka]

suzanne collins dad was korean (and vietnamese) war veteran?! it makes this so much worse 😃

[save-the-child-qais]

MY BABY QAIS IS SLOWLY DYING IN FRONT OF MY EYES.

I never imagined I would write these words about my own child, but this is the terrifying reality we are living today.

[save-the-child-qais]

This morning I woke up to find Qais’s wound bleeding again.

He looked at me with tired eyes and whispered, “Mama, please make the pain stop.”

[save-the-child-qais]

His fragile body is growing weaker every day from infection, exhaustion, and untreated injury.

Donate now. Your help could give him the surgery he desperately needs.

Gofundme - Vetted#679

[save-the-child-qais]

Please share this message. Silence and scrolling will not save him.

Even one donation today could be the reason my baby Qais survives instead of becoming another child lost too soon.

[save-the-child-qais]

Please, I am begging you as a desperate mother. Donate or share this post. Your kindness could still save my baby Qais.

[perfectsecretuprising]

l'am John a proudly Trans woman currently in Gorom Refugee settlement south Sudan.

I belong to the LGBTQ in GOROM Refugee settlement an onwards mover from kakuma refugee camp in kenya.

l m a LGBTQ leader of 289 Queer… as LGBTQIA we go through homophobic life, we are discriminated whenever we go,

We cant get free medication from the government and we always look for donation to pay for our medical bills and buying our own food,

We are attacked and beaten by fellow refugees who hates queer community,

I'm here to ask you wether you can please donate to us?

We have 18 sick members currently who needs urgently attention within LGBTQIA community in Gorom refugee camp,

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Donate to queer refugees in South Sudan

Hello! My name is Alfonzia, I'm fundraising money for a group of queer refugees in South Sudan. Ciara and her boyfriend John have been livin

Please Donate and share.

Thanks again yours JOHN

[lamah0urani]

Ramadan has arrived, but the suffering continue‼️

Help Lama's family to rebuild her life

Hello, I'm Lama from Gaza, I'm 24 years old, and my husband Mohammed is 30 years old, we got married in 2022 in a beautiful, warm and quiet

Hello, I hope everyone is well... Ramadan has arrived, but the suffering of the people of Gaza continues in every way... For over two years, we haven't felt anything; everything is destroyed, dreams have vanished, we've lost relatives, our homes, and our jobs. Nothing remains... And here comes Ramadan for the third time, and we are neither in our homes nor at our jobs. We lack even the most basic necessities.😔

Things are more difficult than you expect. We are not at home or at our jobs. We wish we could have these beautiful moments like before. We see food, clothes, and everything else, but we cannot buy anything because everything is expensive and we have no income. Ramadan has come and its requirements are very numerous, including suhoor and iftar.

I hope you will support me so that I can provide food for my family during Ramadan. We need $50 every day for Suhoor and Iftar. Every donation from you, no matter how small, will help us to buy food. Together we can raise the amount. 🙏😔😔

You never know which 10, 25, or 50$ will feed a fasting person, and they will pray for you. And the reward for prayers is great in the blessed month of Ramadan.🙏

Please donate, share the campaign link so our voice reaches everyone.

[sea-changed]

The Tatter Textile Library in New York put out a call for volunteers to stitch the names of the 146 garment workers who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911. They sewed all the names into a banner, which was placed on the site of the fire in commemoration. On Instagram the Library wrote:

In this alarming era of callous governmental deregulation at home, continued abuses against textile workers globally, and rampant anti-immigrant sentiment, our community has found potent meaning and purpose in this collective project and is excited to unfurl our banner at this year’s commemoration.

[romancenjoyer]

there were communist movements that were militant and communist movements that were nonviolent as a deliberate political strategy, and much in between. it did not matter in the end to usamerican imperialists and their allies. there was no acceptable way to be non-aligned with us interests. people should understand that by now

[elbiotipo]

Last post I will do about this for a while (but I have a feeling we will be talking about this for a long time) but also notice that all the charges against Maduro are for drugs and whatever else. None of them are about human rights. If the US truly cared about human rights and was willing to use force about it, it would have toppled Saudi Arabia or Israel. None of this is about democracy, human rights, or a better future for Venezuela. If you think otherwise you are deluding yourself. The US will destroy your country and leave it to the dogs.

[endykelopaedia]

forgot how white this website is and expected there to be more uproar about the US bombing my home country, nigeria, on christmas day. my mistake!

[endykelopaedia]

Sokoto state, a majority Muslim state in north-west Nigeria was bombed on Christmas day. It is still unclear how many bombs were dropped and where. Confirmed is a bomb dropped on a Mosque in Jabo, killing 5 people.

Trump has claimed that this is in retaliation of the "Christian genocide" happening in Nigeria, committed by "radical Islamists" of the ISIL (ISIS), and the specific choosing of Christmas day was to reify that this is a religious based retaliation.

This Christmas, I am in Nigeria. My family is majority Christian. We are without fear of being persecuted on the basis of our religion. So, what is going on?

There is no Christian genocide in Nigeria. Nigeria is a complex country that faces a lot of violence, exploitation and subsequent neglect from our government. But it is not Christians being targeted in our country. This insidious piece of misinformation has been dutifully organised by US officials for months and gained steam on platforms like X and Truth Social.

I do not believe though, that this action was done to fight Islamic terrorists or protect Nigerian Christians. The reason being:

Sokoto state is not a state with ISIL activity.

This is another display of US throwing its weight around, conveniently, onto the most oil-rich country in Africa.

Do not believe everything the US tells you about its foreign affairs. The US will gladly spill blood on the flimsiest of justifications just to continue gorging its empire.

Please keep love in your hearts for the Nigerian people.

[schoolhater]

the co-founder of 'crips for esims for gaza' and disability advocate, alice wong, has died according to her twitter account.

alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:

We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]

since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.

in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

[krisonthefrontporchwithabeer]

Please, call me Frankenstein. Frankenstein was my father, but stealing his name and overriding his presence in the dominant cultural consciousness has been really, really satisfying