the queer is out there

fox. they / it / she. artist & archivist. late 20’s chronically online and hyper fixated. angry trans disabled leftist. white & tme. unapologetic transfeminist. art is tagged: foxstuckart consistently posting about: the x files, twin peaks, hannibal, star trek (tng, ds9, voy), drawfee, soulsbourne, and dragon age with some dropout, kneecap, and mcelroys thrown in

[karlmarxmaybe]

Resources for helping Gaza, Sudan and Congo

Donate to:

Gazafunds.com: a website that presents you with rotating verified fundraisers for Gazan people and prioritizes those most in need: gazafunds.com

Khartoum aid Kitchen: https://www.gofundme.com/f/fight-hunger-in-sudan-the-khartoum-kitchen-appeal, an initiative to feed people in the Sudanese state of Khartoum, affected by famine.

Amal For Women: https://www.gofundme.com/f/provide-shelter-and-supplies-for-sudanese-women, an initiative to provide aid, support and protection to Sudanese women fleeing the genocide.

Ele Elna Elak: https://eleelnaelak.org/, an operation on the ground that distributes food, water and aid in Gaza.

Care For Gaza: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ezkdc-help-families-in-need-overcome-unimaginable-hardship?lang=en_US, another organization that distributes food, water and aid in Gaza. https://x.com/CareForGaza

The Sameer Project: https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject, another organization that distributes food, water and medical aid in Gaza. https://www.instagram.com/thesameerproject/

Operation Olive Branch's (https://linktr.ee/opolivebranch) spreadsheet of verified fundraisers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vtMLLOzuc6GpkFySyVtKQOY2j-Vvg0UsChMCFst_WLA/edit?usp=drivesdk of people suffering the genocides of Gaza, Congo and Sudan.

@Nabulsi and @El-Shab-Hussein's list of verified fundraisers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yYkNp5U3ANwILl2MknJi9G7ArY4uVTEEQ1CVfzR8Ioo/edit?usp=drivesdk for Gaza and @El-Shab-Hussein's list of verified fundraisers from his direct contacts in Gaza and Sudan: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/748756401076207616/hey-guys-i-have-a-priority-fundraiser-rotation?source=share

Focus Congo: https://www.focuscongo.com/en/spende/, an ONG accepting donations to provide aid to the Congolese:

Friends of the Congo: https://friendsofthecongo.org/, another ONG that needs donations to help The Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Crips for esims: https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza initiative to buy esims for Esimsforgaza. If you don't have the financial stability to maintain an esim, it is recommended you donate here; the initiative will use that money to maintain esims steadily

Esimsforgaza: https://gazaesims.com/, an initiative to donate e-sims to provide the essential Internet acess to families in Gaza, so that they can receive donations, search information useful for survival and contact their relatives. Instructions in english for donating an esim: https://gazaesims.com/ and instructions in Spanish, translated by me: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DHHsHSAFJQrr3GPtZ5iG_5xUSGkIjVwpkpQy57XR3x8/edit?usp=drivesdk

Crips for esims: https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza initiative to buy esims for Esimsforgaza. If you don't have the financial stability to maintain an esim, it is recommended you donate here; the initiative will use that money to maintain esims steadily

Genocide is destroying millions of lives. Help the victims, be on the right side of history.

[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[innerchildabortionclinic]

mind palace that was formerly a palace until the ruling family was killed mercilessly for its crimes. and now it's the thinking woman's socialist republic.

[puppetstuffing]

you are the puppygirl in the essay.

LMAO

[puppetstuffing]

if you needed any more proof that literally all that essay was good for was giving the few disgustingly parasocial & ableist tgirls more of a go-ahead to harass disabled girls, here you go

[dark-spirit-tamamoland]

going above and beyond merely "dumping your puppygirl" to hunt disabled transfems down to attempt to murder them, not that that's anything new; they just have a shiny new transfem-backed excuse and acceptable target for the hate and murder they've always carried and wanted

[storyweavingspider]

Comrade they get tamamoland within 7 days at most usually. They got puppet twice today, usual is within 24 hours max. I think both of them have had bare minimum 40+ accounts at this point. Puppet is homeless and survives off of 100% tumblr donations.

The cruelty is the point.

[luminousporcelain]

They’ve gotten puppet five times today at this point I believe? It said four earlier if I remember and that blog has now been termed so…

[microraptorhours]

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

[nfatcheese]

"chell solving test chambers is like sex for glados" well known, basically canon with that bit in portal 2 where they established that glados's body has a built in pleasure response to completing test chambers

"chell solving test chambers is like sex for chell" groundbreaking, deeply fascinating implications about chell, opens up new and innovative forms of lesbian sex

[butchdeanjohn]

at home with john waters. dazed magazine, 2024

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[cykelops]

I have had a lot of evil people say to me that nothing taste as good as skinny feels and every time im like no im pretty sure food tastes really super good actually

[anti-parent]

alsoooo a big, big, big digital security lesson that you absolutely have to understand while making recommendations is that if your protocol is too complicated or inaccessible, even if it's somehow perfectly invulnerable, then people will start taking shortcuts that are way fucking worse.

ok, proton handed payment info over to swiss authorities, who then helped the fbi. if you start indiscriminately fearmongering about all proton services because of it (and implying that they can send more info than they have) then what are people switching to? people have to use email. not everyone is going to switch to tuta mail or whatever. but even if they did, they have paid plans too, which would likely be susceptible to the same issue. and if they decide, fuck it, there's no point, i'll just go back to using gmail instead, that puts everyone at way more risk than continuing to use protonmail.

it's also fine and good to say that people shouldn't be putting incriminating stuff in any emails. but we don't know that the fbi tracked them down through incriminating emails. they knew somehow that the account was associated with the stop cop city protestors, which could've very well been because their handle was stopcopcity at proton dot me or something. (i don't know if that was the case!) and then the payment information associated with that account was used to track someone down.

like the whole idea is that we have to break these cases down piece by piece and then come up with easily actionable recommendations that protect most people like 80-90% of the way, because that alone will make it much much harder for others to compromise them. and then there are various additional levels of precautions you can take based on the sensitivity & admin level of what you're working on. like. that's what digital security for orgs is.

[anti-parent]

and this is kind of a tangent but. you especially need to be prioritizing a risk mitigation approach because flock & ring cameras exist lmao. regardless of whether you use any consumer technologies at all, if you live in the US, these things are tagging your license plate & other visual attributes of your car. using facial recognition on drivers & passengers & pedestrians. aggregating all that data to track your movement like on a map. what are you going to do? not live in a city? not drive a car? not leave your house?

no. you have to be aware of what these security risks are and how to manage them depending on what actions you're taking.

[silverpolish]

aquarium outfit inspo

[woolieshubris]

i loved the vision so i thought id bring it to fruition.

[aleprouswitch]

Herbie Hancock trying to figure out how to fix a mixer, c. early 80s.

[babyboodle]

[nemuiro]

雨あがりの音を聴く

Sounds After the Rain

[2othcentury]

Pride, New York, June 1990

[diamondringsandgutterbones]

"do it scared" "do it alone" "do it bored" what about MY strategy. do it later

[strayknight]

watched a tiktok of a someone showing off a toyota celica (a very nice car i completely agree) but i kept getting distracted by the twingo parked next to it

i lov u twongi...

[tonymarias]

this is a joke I owe all jackass fanfic writers still writing in 2024 my fucking life

[tonymarias]

happy anniversary to why dave england da bus driver all of da sudden