Sobek's Refuge

blog of a somewhat unusual fellow.

[foundx]

I find myself in the unfortunate position of telling my brothers and sisters of Palestine that i can do almost nothing but reblog and boost their posts. I'm not American (thank God) and not in America. I live in the developing world. Under slightly different circumstances the US would have "liberated" us since the 60s.

Like most of the developing world our reserves are in USD. Forever bound to The Empire and complicit in all their crimes. Sending financial aid can been deemed funding terrorism even though it is simply providing funding for humanitarian aid. They have made it unreasonably difficult to help. So unfortunately my help can only come as moral support.

[frenchcurious]

Maserati 3500 Vignale Spyder Hardtop 1961. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[saywhat-politics]

After a GoFundMe was set up for ICE agent Jonathan Ross, billionaire Bill Ackman reportedly stepped in with $10,000…not for Renee Nicole Good’s family, but for the ICE agent who fatally shot her.

For those interested in reporting the GoFundMe:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-ice-officer-jonathan-ross

[cherylfair]

Resilience

"Resilience" 16inx24in by Cheryl Fair. This painting will be included in the "After the Rain" show at Gallery 1448, Baltimore MD from March 8th - 23rd 2025

[mysharona1987]

[mysharona1987]

”Wait, women in Gaza can be doctors and lawyers?”

Of course.

[mysharona1987]

Nobody knows enough about Gaza to understand this.

Palestinians are amongst the most educated people in the world.

Western world: “Then we destroy their education.”

Hey, the Palestinian kids are still learning. No matter what you do.

[prinnay]

Winter girl sketch :)

[nemernael40]

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[naturalhairhow101]

Imagine being so fragile that Black Peoples Hair, threatens you.

[onlytiktoks]

After military-style raid on South Shore apartments, Congress members rally around residents

Federal agents landed a helicopter on a building Wednesday morning, arrested 37 people and left behind cracked windows and broken doors. Law

[foundx]

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

my hetero married mom is turning 65 and I shit you not she’s being denied Medicare unless she changes her legal name back to her maiden name on her birth certificate

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

she’s been contacting attorneys and speaking to every possible office and administrator and I’m like mom you might want to go to the news tbh

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

she is a very mildly unusual case because she had to shorten her first name when getting married so that her name would fit on the license form in 1990 and so now she has to petition for a name change to undo both that and taking my father’s surname because MAGA hates trans people so much lmfao

[penrosesun]

This reminds me of a surreal experience I had in law school, when I learned that my law school had LITERALLY no way to change your name in the system or on your ID. I pointed out that I knew multiple people who had gotten married while in law school, and asked the person at the registrar's office what they did in those cases, and he said that he guessed that they'd just have to not legally change their name while in law school?? I asked him if this was perhaps because the law school had introduced this system back when they still expected to be able to keep women from attending indefinitely, and he got really silent for a bit and then told me that he was busy and I should leave unless I needed something else.

Btw, I've gotten a LOT of traction with conservative folks with this story when I've told it, to the point of some fairly right wing people even agreeing with the much stronger position of "yeah, and why the fuck should you need a court order just to change your name either?" It hits all the right notes of absurdity, and of the government and other institutions intrusively reaching into other people's lives, while also demonstrating that that overreach is a clear attack on people with traditional values too. I always present it as "Now, look, I know it's not as fashionable for a woman to take her husband's name anymore or whatever, but she should at least be able to if she wants to, right?" and I don't even get people trying to argue slippery slope about it, most folks we just jump all the way onto the "preferred names are an issue of freedom" train.

Which is all to say that yeah, your mom should absolutely go to the news about this.

[drizzian]

[lelif]

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[faheheheheem-deactivated2025100]

what doesn’t kill you sits on your chest at night and devours your whole existence

[mysharona1987]

But Al Pacino literally made a movie about how terrible an idea this was over 20 years ago.

Fun fact: S1mone is played by a very real actress (Rachel Roberts.)

The producers considered making her CGI, but the Screen Actors Guild said no because they were worried it would set a bad precedent.

[sarahmackattack]

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.