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[newtdrawing]

i'm opening up emergency commissions to help pay for my cat Snowshoe's expenses after he's (hopefully!!!) recovered from a very nasty fever! i'll put more info on that under the cut.

these will be $15 per pet! please send me a message for commission inquiries and include reference images of your pet and a bit about them + their personality! i can also do any animal, not just dogs and cats!

on the 18th we noticed snowshoe wasnt feeling like himself, and wasnt eating or drinking. we took him to the vet on the 19th where we got a lot of testing done and got him antibiotics. by the 20th he could barely hold his head up and we rushed him to the emergency vet. we found out he had a UTI and a very high fever and needed to stay overnight at the emergency vet. he had to have a feeding tube placed, and iv fluids and antibiotics. he ended up having to stay another night after that due to his high fever and not eating. they finally released him to us on the 22nd, since he was seeming to do better and eating on his own, but in the next few days he quickly started to decline and refused to eat again. he still had his high fever, so he got some high dose injection antibiotics twice a day for the next few days, and finally started to improve! on monday of this week his fever was finally gone! after all of these treatments, we ended up paying over $7,000. we were already struggling with money before this, and luckily our family was able to help with most of it, but we've really exhausted our resources getting our boy back to mostly full health. and on top of that ive had to miss a lot of work to stay home with him or take him to appointments. we still have groceries, bills, other pets, and a few final checkups for snowshoe. i know everyone is struggling, but if you have anything to spare consider commissioning me, my partner @micdraws , or if youd just like to send money here's our info! thank you all so much for the help so far!

[ruhlare]

[bloglikeanegyptian]

It seems like calling it a 'general strike' is poor communication if it's just 'do whatever you can to not participate in the economy for 24 hours, even if it's on an individual level'. A general strike is a much more complex and difficult thing to pull off, and I think that's why so many people are saying it's unfeasible, but I keep seeing people act like it just means 'do whatever you can', which makes it sound like they don't know what a strike is. IDK, I'll do whatever I can as an individual but I'm confused here.

they beatin asses over this take on twitter

the short answer is that it IS a general strike in many arab countries who are used to participating in strikes and pulling together solidarity quickly, but afaik america has never pulled off a general strike in recent history anyway, so idk if you're american but the global perception of feasibility is not particularly useful. its general in the sense that all economic and media targets are included, and all actions are encouraged. its not general as in the expectations is that every single person will participate.

that's actually why i said think of it as individual disruption. you have to understand this was called for by palestinian journalists in palestine, and as things get increasingly desperate their calls for global disruption will also become more frequent. there are hundreds of thousands of people protesting on the streets in any given day. if they also participate in general strikes, in whatever capacity, this is pressure.

its better to think of it as a chain reaction, a constant pressure, than a world-stopping endeavor. i've seen some people act like having less effective strikes somehow 'ruins' things for a big one—the hypothetical big one that supposedly takes years to plan? that's kind of showing the limits of this kind of solidarity in time-sensitive and urgent events, like a genocide. these kind of people don't really have anything of value to contribute and are feeling the guilt of not being able to join in on the strike, so instead of being supportive in silence they are voicing criticism to soothe their frustration.

like on an imaginary level it would obviously be great if a coordinated general strike was possible, if the organizations and unions across the world had the kind of economic influence and the time to do such a thing. but they don't and we're all aware of it. so we're pushing what we do have, which is the ability to disrupt enough things enough times to make things deeply inconvenient for everyone. i also think, contrary to belief that smaller strikes somehow burn up people's ability to strike, that smaller strikes actually prepare populations for more coordinated action. it's a muscle that people are learning to flex.

[gayweeddaddy69]

hey, um, workers of the world? now would be a good time to unite. if its not too much trouble

[cephalopizza]

oh, but don't i have a lot to lose or something?

[gayweeddaddy69]

nah just your chains man

[iamnotlanuk]

there is no magic "the new generation will be more progressive as the old one dies" btw history has only had things get better because of people who didn't act like it was inevitable and acted like things needed to get better here and now and that will always be true

[iamnotlanuk]

there was a whole generation of boomers who fought for a better world, not as many of them survived as the ones who shaped a worse one. generation warfare is not real. they are not , and have never been your enemy for simply being born before you, and as you get older the youth will not be yours because the enemy has always been the ones holding power and abusing it

[paper-mario-wiki]

Regardless of whether or not its "legal" to criticize Israel and Zionism doesn't fuckin matter. With all of the massive organization in protests, strikes, and unions we've seen in the past year, we are experiencing unprecedented levels of "they cannot take us all" that we haven't seen in the public consciousness in decades.

They don't have enough government employees to monitor everyone.

They don't have enough police to arrest everyone.

They don't have enough prisons to lock up everyone.

They don't have the capacity for our continued anger, which is why the dickheads in powdered wigs are beginning to bark louder, because this kind of thing ramps up exponentially and they can see it beginning.

Don't listen to them, they are our enemies. All of them, not just the GOP. The results on the recent votes are reason enough to dissolve trust in the DNC for the rest of my life. The system will not create its own revolution. I hope you'll not forget this either.

[iamnotlanuk]

there is no magic "the new generation will be more progressive as the old one dies" btw history has only had things get better because of people who didn't act like it was inevitable and acted like things needed to get better here and now and that will always be true

[iamnotlanuk]

there was a whole generation of boomers who fought for a better world, not as many of them survived as the ones who shaped a worse one. generation warfare is not real. they are not , and have never been your enemy for simply being born before you, and as you get older the youth will not be yours because the enemy has always been the ones holding power and abusing it

[bloglikeanegyptian]

i want to reiterate i don't think israeli hostages have had the time of their lives and i don't think this ordeal was fun or easy for them but looking at how israeli hostages have been released by hamas and how palestinian hostages have been released by israel is a really dark-sided reality check on just how low the standards for israel have been to meet a basic threshold for humanity and yet it still failed

[viktorrotkiv]

The Palestinians being released aren't hostages... they're charged or convicted prisoners

[bloglikeanegyptian]

this is of course, not true. more than two-thirds of the prisoners released have not been convicted of any crime, and include those were not charged with anything at all.

even in the pdf released by the israeli government, compiled by journalist laura adkins, you can see most were arrested as minors and charges include "throwing stones" and "support for terrorism" and "threatened area security." Vox reports: "Since 1967, Israel has issued over 1,000 military orders that criminalize a range of activities in Palestinians’ daily lives, including waving political symbols like flags, being in certain areas without permits, and any kind of speech that can fit into a loosely defined charge of “incitement.” Citing decades of evidence, the Amnesty report outlined an “intentional Israeli policy to detain individuals, including prisoners of conscience, solely for the non-violent exercise of their right to freedom of expression and association, and punish them for their views.”

however, under israel's administrative detention even the more serious charges are held under "secret evidence" that israel does not allow many defendants nor their lawyers to access (when it allows them access to lawyers). in order to convict israel then holds trials in military courts without adequate representation, forces children who can't read hebrew to sign off on documents they don't understand and has a ~99% conviction rate. it extracts confessions under duress including torture of minors, withholds adequate treatment from injured detainees, often uses threats of arresting family members (particularly parents) to coerce confessions from children, without mentioning the habitual illegal use of punitive measures such as solitary confinement for years on end.

it is a separate legal system designed to strip palestinians of due process. israel is one of very few countries in the world to routinely charge minors and non-violent political prisoners in military courts. anyone remotely familiar with incarceration and remotely familiar with practices of administrative detention in the middle east knows exactly what kind of legal procedure this is, so this comment fully relies on the willful ignorance of outsiders. in layman terms, this is called a kangaroo court. here's a handy graphic that illustrates it:

and to help you visualize this on the ground, there is no shortage of images of how israeli occupation soldiers have treated palestinian children (on their own land, in their own supposed territory) across the years:

of course the argument goes "these children were terrorists" and so on and so forth but this 2015 report from amnesty highlights exactly how specious these accusations of "stabbing" and "attempted murder" can be under israeli occupation:

we've also seen the case of ahmed erakat, who was accused of trying to drive a car into a checkpoint and executed on the spot when forensic examination revealed otherwise. similarly, the case of israa jaabis who was accused of trying to detonate a bomb at an israeli checkpoint, while her family maintains that israeli forces firing indiscriminately at her car after an airbag malfunction caused a cooking gas tank to explode, leaving her disfigured after israeli soldiers left her to burn on the ground.

however, whether or not they charged or convicted actually doesn't matter. israel has no right nor authority to imprison or detain palestinians outside the occupied west bank under international humanitarian law. but it is israel's own high court of justice that gives it the legal pretext to do so under claims of security threat, which amnesty international and multiple other human rights groups have repeatedly found in violation of international humanitarian law. through legal loopholes such as expanding the territory and language of what constitutes "military zones" israeli soldiers in the west bank are given free reign to terrorize the population and simultaneously protect their illegal settlement expansion. there is some leeway for appeal that provides a veneer of legitimacy to this process, but it is overwhelmingly a fascist and unlawful system.

as many have pointed out, allowing real due process to palestinians who are accused of attacking occupation soldiers would then have to confront the legality of the occupation itself, which palestinians have the right to resist by any means necessary under international law (and under which soldiers and armed settlers are a credible and justified target.)

israel instead awards legal impunity to such armed settlers & soldiers in these settlements who provoke and kill palestinians constantly while palestinian prisoners are charged under an apartheid law, rendering all accusations, charges and convictions as null and void as convictions under syrian or north korean courts, for example.

finally, i leave you with this anecdote, which sums up just about everything illustrated above:

now the irony of it all is that even if these were convicted prisoners under some semblance of real due process, the manner in which israeli authorities have policed their release by pre-emptively arresting members of their family and community, forcibly removing the press, banning all celebrations, shooting live ammunition and killing people awaiting their release, and breaking the arms of teenagers and leaving them untreated for days before release is still unjustifiable, which was the purpose of this post lol.

[unending-sorceress]

Hey everynyan, I'm Vi. Some of you might know me and some might not, I wanted to tell you all that I've been dealing with a bunch of things that made me reach the end of my rope and make this post, even though I didn't want to.

As you might know if you're a follower, two sundays ago while working on a bus, the jack failed and the whole weight of the double decker bus fell on top of my dad, he got extremely lucky that day, leaving only with two broken ribs and a ruptured spleen. He immediately got medical attention and his spleen removed entirely, however the operation was complicated and he had to get five units of blood transfused to him during it and three more in the subsequent weeks. He's been in the ICU for two weeks now and there's still no signs of him waking up.

Until he recovers we have decided with my mom to suspend our business and dedicate ourselves to his care, but there have been complications as well, in these two weeks our water pump, water heater, and fridge broke down so we have been dealing with no water to drink or cook with, no water to wash ourselves with, and no place to cool out groceries and other foods and it's been eating into our savings a lot just to keep up.

I didn't want to reach this point but I'm asking y'all if you could help me repair or replace these three things so that I can go back to focus on my family until we can start working again, our goal is 500 usd for the whole trio and every bit you can send goes a long way, even just sharing this post. Thank you for reading this far and I hope you have a wonderful day.

P*YP*L: V3nusP

0/500

[unending-sorceress]

Thank you everyone for your help omg!!!!!! It means so much to me that you're all sharing and helping in any way you can, I can't even begin to put into words how grateful I am, every reblog and every share gets us a little bit closer and I just can't thank you all enough.

175/500

[void-official]

“Who could envy a martyr’s thorny path?”

[determinate-negation]

its crazy the whole angle everyone has been pushing is that this hamas attack against innocent festival goers was so barbaric and evil and the worst attack on jewish life since the holocaust so therefore israel has no option but to defend itself and now we find that israeli helicopters killed people at the festival, hamas didnt know about the festival beforehand, the army let the festival organizers extend it until saturday instead of ending friday (is israeli intelligence really this bad?), idf soldiers indiscriminately fired on kibbutzes and their own idf bases killing israelis in the process, theres been no evidence collected of beheaded babies or rape, a third of the names of the victims released are soldiers or police officers, and the death count is down to 1200 because 200 of the people they claimed were burned alive by hamas were actually hamas fighters burned alive by israel…

[unbleached666]

[anarcho-commeownism]

just got a second official warning for my use of "from the river to the sea, palestine will be free" on the OTW volunteer slack

people are also currently asking board to ban saying that the founding of israel was colonialism—equating this to saying racial slurs—and were complaining about my status back when it was "palestine will be free", too

suffice to say, fuck that place, don't give the OTW your money, and don't fucking volunteer there

(the second screenshot is from the warning I got a few days ago)

[donttalktomeimgone-deactivated2]

Megan Thee Stallion & Amber Heard & Angelina Jolie & Evan Rachel Wood and all other bisexual victims of abuse deserve justice and eternal happiness. Seeing society repeatedly rip them apart and benefit off of women’s pain is terrifying and disgusting. I hope they all find love and peace within their own lives.

[thelastwhimzy]

"thanksgiving" is tomorrow. as i've said in previous posts, i can't stop y'all from celebrating. i know that there's a lot of familial pressure surrounding this holiday even if you don't WANT to celebrate.

that being said, if you want to help make an afro-indigenous person's life a bit easier right now, i could really use the help! recently lost my housing and i have to move in with my abuser at the end of this month.

i am going to have to replace all my stuff because i have a bedbug infestation at my current place and am not allowed to bring it. this includes my mobility aids. i use a powerchair full-time outside of the house, meaning that ill be housebound at my abuser's until i can replace it. i also need to get a new rollator for inside of the house as well!

i need $2486 for the wheelchair and $224 for the rollator! i also have some important items on my amazon wishlist - most important right now are the pulse oximeter, face masks, lens cleaner + spray bottles, phone case, cat litter + box, and door lock!

& i still need another $150 for my moving truck!!! will be good for moving expenses after that ☺️

pypal

vmo

cshapp

amzon wshlist

i will post screenshots of the order confirmation when i purchase the powerchair and transport chair for accountability! thank you so much 🫶🏽

[thelastwhimzy]

$225/$2856‼️

[lino-nyangi]

i don't think people who aren't familiar with the geography of the middle east realize how small lebanon is. it's smaller than qatar. it's literally half of new jersey.

israel bombing the south of lebanon with white phosphorus is very very bad not only because of reasons mentioned here but also because of how WP propagates in the air. its main use in battle field (NOT urban areas where there is a high likelihood of hurting civilians) is to act as a smokescreen and when airburst, it's spread much wider than when groundburst. depending on weather conditions, that shit can propagate further into the country.

now look back to gaza. gaza is smaller than detroit. it's less than half of new york city. israeli forces have bombed areas so close to hospitals with WP, notably al shati refugee camp which is not far from al shifa hospital.

the ICC has yet to prosecute israel for any of its breaches of IHL, despite there being investigations by amnesty international and HRW, or to conduct its own, and the silence is deafening.

[nativenews]