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The ongoing war has devastated my family. We’ve lost 25 family members—each one a beloved part of our lives, taken too soon. I miss them deeply—their laughter, their presence, their love. Every day is a reminder of this unimaginable loss.

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sayruq

Northern Gaza has been starving for 2 months now

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You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.

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r0zeclawz

i get so annoyed when people extend a word incorrectly. what do you mean you had a "hugeeeee" burger. dont you mean a huuuuge burger? are you saying "huge-eeeeeeeee" out loud huh??? you start buzzing like a damn mosquito? well i fucking kill those. so watch out

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Casting Native Hawai'ians' opposition to the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea as a contest between science and religion is a red herrin

At the time, writes Casumbal-Salazar, “there was no public consultation, no clear management process and little governmental oversight.” Environmentalists soon began opposing further construction on the mountain, arguing that the existing telescopes had contaminated local aquifers and destroyed the habitat of a rare bug found only on the mountain’s summit.

Native Hawaiians joined forces with environmentalists, arguing that any construction on the summit is desecration of a sacred mountain that is the site of spiritual and cultural practices. “Indeed,” Casumbal-Salazar, whose ancestry is partly native Hawaiian, writes, “Mauna a Wākea is more than just a list of physical attributes; it is our kin. As our kupuna [ancestors] are buried in the soil, our ancestors become the land that grows our food and the dust we breathe.” Soon, native Hawaiians were required to seek permission from the state for spiritual practice on the mountain.

[...] Swanner finds that for native Hawaiians, “science has effectively become an agent of colonisation”, “fundamentally indistinguishable from earlier colonisation activities”. [...]

James Cook, the British explorer who was the first European to establish contact with Hawai’i, was tasked with leading an expedition to Tahiti to observe the 1769 transit of Venus (to help determine the Earth-Sun distance). But he had also been given sealed orders to search for Australia, indicating “that astronomy and colonisation have been entwined in the Pacific since first contact.”

kurgy

wheres seasons greasons

kurgy

its that time of year again

theangriestlittleunicorn

It doesn’t have to be

kurgy

its not optional

girls--complex

The true meaning of christmas

#merry christmas everyone

batmanisagatewaydrug

it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

batmanisagatewaydrug

I'd say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn't the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I'm being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven't even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it

itsjellybone

Also crystals. Going to the Pride Celebration Market and seeing multiple tables of healing crystals is so demoralizing. Talking to an artist about how pretty their handmade earrings are and getting back a spiel about the healing power of rose quartz or whatever...

999nigga

I can’t yet put my finger on why those who are so against astrology for you know being fake are so annoying. Something about like stopping a group of happy larping people from enjoying themselves because it’s not real. Comparing astrology to biological determination is..hm. I promise you’re not being discriminated against in any meaningful way because of your sign.

humanfist

Astrology current isn't taken seriously enough in the west for it to cause much discrimination, but it does in societies where it is taken seriously. Which is why it is important to nip it in the bud before people start taking it seriously.

999nigga

ah the whiteness ..I see

the absolute reliance on western ideals of evidence based reasoning that is supposed to be able to objectively find the truth in everything

and the indignant consternation at the idea of being evaluated by something that you can’t change

it’s the whiteness that bothers me about these critiques of astrology

timetravellingkitty

"only white people believe evidence"

papenathys

There is this thing on Tumblr where people refuse to criticize pseudo science and socio-cultural practices, by masking it in the language of decolonization and new-wave feminism. Astrology isn't some tool of radical empowerment or cultural reclamation in the Global South. In India, it's a tool of Brahminical supremacy. Besides, not all things in non-white cultures are to be uncritically revered and worshipped. There is a world outside your online groups of Libra girls and Virgo moons.

girlwhocriedsupernova

"and the indignant consternation at the idea of being evaluated by something that you can’t change" but you can't figure out why it's being compared to biological determinism??

caydencrypted

a few days ago an irl told me about how the alphabet is on the wrong order on the doctor who wiki because in one episode a character recites the alphabet backwards but gets two letters the wrong way around and there has been no other representation of the full alphabet in any other dw media so technically there’s no proof that it isn’t canon and i’ve been thinking about that ever since

caydencrypted

not joking (U is supposed to come before V)

caydencrypted

actually it gets funnier. there are multiple instances of parts of the alphabet being spoken in episodes. the problem is absolutely none of these have spoken that specific section since the episode that got the order wrong.

alphabetcompletionist

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bloglikeanegyptian

let me talk abt this for the first and last time because i still see people repeating this everywhere and i think people miss a really significant aspect of what happened this past year

arab votes didn't actually swing to trump in any notable way despite trump openly appealing to and campaigning for the arab and muslim community. most people understood this was a cynical move, and the "leaders" he paraded around are people who would have voted for him anyway and he simply did not give them a reason not to. some people also wanted to curry favor with him because they would need favorable connections in the event that he did win (this is called the arab despot approach).

but i think people who aren't arab or muslim don't understand what the democratic party actually did here

kamala and her staff rejected repeated offers from arab leaders to campaign for the dems. they sidelined rashida tlaib, their only palestinian rep, who still held GOTV campaigns and encouraged people to vote dem without explicitly endorsing harris because the entire biden admin iced her out once her people started being genocided. they also refused to appear with arab leaders and even elected officials who did endorse harris. they simply did not want their campaign to be perceived as a campaign arab or palestinian voters would endorse.

this is because the democratic party understood that they were campaigning on murdering muslims and arabs, and being associated with them might give the impression to the neocons they were courting that they were soft. this wasn't an accident, this was a calculation they made. they wanted to spurn those communities in order to win the votes of those who hate them and those who profit from their deaths.

there's a reason they didn't let a palestinian onstage at the DNC, there's a reason they sent bill clinton and ritchie torres to michigan, and there's a reason kamala could not express sympathy for palestinians without being careful to say "the greatest tragedy was october 7th" first. all the charades about the ceasefire and the two-state solution are for israel's benefit before they were for electoral benefit, because from the outset the democrats had made the decision not just to ignore muslim and arab voters, but to campaign on their suppression.

this is what people scolding arab and muslim voters miss: the dems were hoping to gain votes by spurning these communities both domestically (when it came to crushing and defaming pro-palestine supporters, michigan arabs, americans killed in palestine, lebanese americans they left stranded in lebanon) and abroad (they were campaigning on a more lethal military and launched a regional war in the middle east). biden's decision to support israel's insane escalation was not just incidental and ideological, it was part of a cold calculation made by the biden admin after 2022 to tie american economy and political power to interventionism regardless of global consequences, even as the atrocities mounted.

this wasn't something kamala could've (or was willing) to stop once the ball was rolling. this is a bipartisan consensus that underwrites the logic of the US as a world power. trump probably can stop it because he has the kind of mandate that allows him to make unilateral decisions like that, but he won't because he's not interested in it, hates iran, and he's well-paid by zionist and arab leaders who both have an interest in "reshaping" the middle east, as jake sullivan put it.

in the most cynical view, kamala didn't need to campaign on it the way she did. the US war machine remains unchanged and is usually not championed by democrats in such stark neocon terms. but kamala, as a woman of color facing accusations of "woke" wanted to double down on it so people understood she meant it. in other words, she was vice-signalling. kamala campaigned on the strength of this war machine, and demonstrated that by not giving an inch to the ideological enemies of this war machine—arabs, muslims, palestinians and their allies. her campaign in and of itself was designed to target these communities, from the cynical "what has palestine done for black people?" khive campaigns to "i'm speaking" to "if you don't like it, go vote for trump and see how you like the muslim ban." and you know it worked because even when she lost her supporters continue to vilify them and are openly calling for further violence against them and identifying them as traitors, backstabbers, and enemies.

islamophobia in the west is openly accepted, even hegemonic, and it's not potentially going to result in hate crimes, lynchings and deportations: it's already reached and passed that point long ago. but it also resulted in much worse. the US and the west have killed millions of muslims and arabs across the years. the US is currently carrying out a genocide of indigenous palestinians as we speak. i'm not speaking speculatively about the warnings of fascism, i'm speaking historically about the atrocities already committed against whole nations. hrw released the report of ethnic cleansing in gaza today and ohcr finally admitted israel's actions in gaza are consistent with genocide. this means the genocide has already been carried out for a while, which genocide conventions, US law, international humanitarian law, all the protestors since last october, and the international court of justice were supposed to prevent from happening ever again—but joe biden and his admin prevented any of that from stopping israel.

in this campaign in particular, kamala was running not only on the strength and triumph of the crimes previously committed against those people, but on the promise of crimes to be committed against those people, and the assurance that the domestic objection to those crimes will be thoroughly ignored. and she demonstrated that by ignoring that voting base. if they had tried to court them, it would have undermined her whole campaign. on the other hand, it undermined nothing for trump, who (for all of his flaws and open support for it) was not the one personally carrying out a genocide the past year.

once you understand this, you understand it wasn't a matter of "kamala promised a ceasefire and trump wanted to finish the job" or "vote blue no matter who." if you are not part of this community or the region that kamala was campaigning on destroying, you missed the point of her campaign. she wasn't trying to win their votes despite biden's genocide, she wasn't doing her best with things out of her control, and she wasn't making promises she wouldn't keep like trump. she was campaigning against us. for many other demographics, this was a campaign of faux joy and vague promises of protecting democracy. for the arab and muslim communities, this was a campaign where "protecting democracy" necessitated their families being slaughtered live on everyone's timelines and smearing the voters who had the audacity to ask for it to stop.

but to their credit, most of them still didn't vote for trump. they didn't believe him. they just sat it out. what else can you do? not only is the person running part of the admin killing your cousins, but they're also campaigning on excluding and vilifying you even if you want to vote for them.

i've said this before but a great majority of the people organizing for palestine were previous dem canvassers and local organizers. they arrested their own campaign infrastructure over the year and smeared them as hateful antisemites. they pretended they had only targeted arabs and muslims and 'hamas supporters' and kept the fact that most of those protestors were antizionist jews, students of color and regular kids out of mainstream media. their youth vote tanked but they still continue to pretend the genocide was not a factor in their loss.

despite that they make sure to stress that muslim and arab voters "voted for trump to punish harris" even though exit polls and election data show otherwise. this simply wasn't true, and she lost in all seven swing states. this is because she ran a campaign that vilified arabs and muslims, and the narrative now demands it. liberals want them perceived as having "punished" the american populace so the american populace punishes them while the US continues to massacre our region.

she lost, but her hateful campaign lingers. i think a lot of people find comfort in saying "you'll get what's coming to you" or "trump is gonna turn gaza into a parking lot" because violence against these communities is the status quo. they're scared of the uncertainty of what trump will do to america, but they're comfortable with what he might do to us. because that's some semblance of normality in an unstable time. america will change and trump will put your institutions to the test, but at least killing arabs will stay the same. and that was, in short, kamala harris's campaign pitch.

foxgnomesworld

This thread and especially the linked dissertation annoyed me so much that I decided to actually post on Tumblr for the first time.

I wanted to give this a fair shot and read the thread. While it acknowledges certain critiques of astrology, it concludes that astrology skeptics are ignorant of developments in the field and need to do more research. So, I went to the linked dissertation to learn more. Link

The problem is that the dissertation is bad. Now, it's clearly an undergraduate essay that has likely never been edited by anyone other than the author. Perhaps it is not fair to expect more. However, since it was linked as a resource, I feel critique is warranted.

First off, if you're hoping the essay addresses any of what was mentioned in the thread, you're out of luck. Notably, there is no mention of how astrologers are addressing the many concerns of skeptics.

The essay itself is poorly argued. There are many claims made with little evidence, e.g. that the practice of astrology has changed profoundly since the 70s. Obviously it's online now (just like everything else), but that doesn't prove there have been fundamental shifts in the field.

The author's claims are not explained and lack underlying logic, as in this section of the essay:

How exactly does astrology validate a person and their experiences? What if the chart contradicts a person's own perceptions? If the goal is to understand the self, why use astrology at all?

An underlying tension in the essay is the unwillingness to engage with the question of whether astrology is "real." Do the planets actually have an impact on behavior? This is critical to address. After all, why should astrology be embraced if it is based on falsehoods and might make people more willing to believe in other pseudo-scientific ideas? Self-understanding and validation are valuable. However, there are ways of attaining them that do not rely on pseudoscience.

Instead, the author fails to understand criticism, or to engage with it in good faith, as you can see here:

1) Evaluating whether people "believe" in a field is entirely separate from the question of whether or not it is empirically valid.

2) Whether a skeptic believes in astrology or not is irrelevant. The question is how the practitioners conceptualize their own field. Surely, the people who position themselves as astrological experts should be able to communicate their thoughts on how the field functions, and why their practice can reveal truth!

This leads to the most troubling part of the essay. One of the claims in the thread is that astrologers have been addressing critiques about the dangers of astrology. Fake promises of good health were given as a specific example.

Yet in the essay, the author takes a very different stance. A critic who is concerned about the growing popularity of various pseudosciences and how this might affect scientific literacy is treated with scorn and mockery.

Read that highlighted section. Do the quotes provided say anything about "doom" and "irremediable societal downfall"? No, not at all. The author's defensiveness toward criticism of astrology is on full display. There is no genuine engagement with the topic: the danger of a population that doesn't value science or critical thinking.

Instead, the critic is mischaracterized, and the author gives incredibly weak defenses. She states that astrology never negatively affected society in the past (a claim she doesn't even try to defend). Worse, she writes that people make irrational decisions anyway, so what does it matter if they believe pseudoscience?

Finally, there is this: "Never mind […] that correlation does not equal causation."

This quote is damning. It is nonsense. It showcases the scientific illiteracy of the author. In the critique given, there are simply no mentions of correlations, or claims of causation. This cute line is meant to convince you that the author understands science, but it actually betrays her lack of statistical reasoning.

Such a phrase has an actual meaning and utility. It can be employed when a researcher tries to assert a causal connection between two pieces of data that mathematically correlate, yet lacks evidence to prove one trend drives another. In this context, though, it means nothing, because the reader has been shown no statistical claims.

Frankly, I am disappointed. I did not expect the essay would change my mind about astrology as a whole. However, I had hoped from the thread that it would shed some light on why people find it compelling, and how astrologers are addressing potential problems and criticisms. Neither is true. The essay gives the obvious answer about astrology's popularity: life sucks now, so people (often marginalized) turn to things that promise them truth.

However, that alone does not mean that the rise of astrology is positive or even neutral. Rather, to someone like me, this shows that it is indeed a field that targets the most vulnerable. It convinces them to dedicate their time and energy to a practice that relies on magical thinking and might lead them to believe further pseudoscience.

Finally, if you need proof that astrology is still used to judge and insult others, look no further than the quote tweets on the post:

The original critic of astrology is unfairly labeled as someone who just hates her astrological sign, and insinuated to be a "sensitive crybaby." All of her thoughtful commentary is dismissed by these strangers in favor of making assumptions about her character and motivations based solely on her sun sign.

The most damning evidence against astrology as a liberatory practice is to simply look at the attitudes and behaviors of people who believe in it.

apas-95

If your boss could, they would work you to death and dump your body behind your workplace without the police caring. If they cannot do this to you right now, that is historically contingent - they used to be able to do this to you, they currently can do this to other people, and in the future they will likely be able to do this to you again. The only thing that has ever prevented them from doing so is worker organisation and violent resistance against violence. You are livestock to the ruling class. Never trick yourself into thinking that these people will not slaughter you as soon as it benefits them, and do not avert your eyes from the slaughter now.

twiststreet

The right-wing liberals all ran “a better world isn’t possible” campaign and are now spending the morning telling us it was a flawless gem betrayed.

txttletale

"you, specifically, are a bad and evil person that all my posts are written to condemn" this is not what i said. i'm sorry for not being clearer. i just feel like everyone in this space, not just you, look down on people who live in the first world as people who willingly don't change anything about how the world works when it's just not that simple. i know you all love to combat this and say otherwise but it will never change the simple reality that for some people it really is very hard, if not impossible, to do anything politically, for a variety of reasons. i'm disabled, i live in a remote part of the country, and i'm bad at talking to people. i don't have the money to just move to a population center or get lessons on how to speak to people. i can't do anything and i feel like every time you or one of the other communists on tumblr talks about the imperial core, i feel like i, personally, am being held to an unreasonable standard that i would not hold anyone else to, if i were in one of your situations. obviously i want things to change. i don't want genocide to be a thing that's constantly happening, i don't want my country to have its tendrils dug into every other country, i want socialism and eventually global communism, and if i could do anything meaningful-- anything at all-- to achieve those goals i would be working on that. but right now that just is not the case for me, and i feel like i'm not alone in that either. i just wish you had like a smidgen of empathy for some of the people living here who don't fit into your stereotype of what a member of the imperial core looks like-- i'm not even trying to say that sarcastically, it genuinely feels like you all don't see us as human. like nyanguard especially seems to think of us as incapable of saving ourselves, and one of the reblogs to my first ask just said they "like to imagine that (i'm) crying as i type this". how am i supposed to react to that? is this how all of you feel about people like me? would your feelings about me change if i lived in another country, or would you find some other excuse to talk down to me? is it really just the country i live in that's the problem, here? i'm not trying to accuse you, i'm asking this question genuinely.

i know it's tempting to respond to this with a snarky comment but please just try to understand where i am coming from. i really am willing to help if i can.

i don't think any marxist seriously has a political theory of imperialism that amounts to "citizens of the imperial core simply choose not to do anything because they are all individually bad people". i mean the whole point of marxism is that economic relations are the ultimate drivers of historical change, not abstract psychological or moral qualities of people.

i'm sympathetic to your situation! the imperial core is a very atomizing place to live, and there are places and situations where there's just no practical path to getting organized and taking meaningful political action in the near future. however, your problem here is:

i feel like i, personally, am being held to an unreasonable standard that i would not hold anyone else to

nobody is posting about you, personally. like at the end of the day you have to learn to either not take posts like that personally or just block everyone who makes them to manage your own time on the computer vis a vis niceness--i don't think it's the responsibility of me or any other communist to constantly provide asterisks and carveouts that we're not talking about the Good Ones Who Have Extenuating Circumstances when we talk about the usa and its material political base.

& in the same way that you ask for empathy for your situation i would ask you to extend a level of understanding to people whose homelands and countrymen and communities have been devastated by US coups and sanctions and invasions, that they have as much a right to express the rage and fury and hurt of that cultural legacy as you do to express your own sadness about your own situation. imagine, for example, how you would feel if your grandparents could not reliably get medicine because of us sanctions. & of course the correct target for these feelings are not random usamericans--but these posts are also not serious politcal platforms, they are venting from people who live their lives under the weight of empire.

if you think what they're saying is unfair to you, then you need to develop the ability to say 'well, i understand why they would feel that way' and move on. like i understand why you are upset, and i don't say this to be dismissive, but as real advice: it is not fair (especially to bloggers from the global south) to essentially rest your happiness and self-worth at their feet and demand that they validate you.

genuinely, i hope this helps. it's all i really have to say on the matter.

afloweroutofstone

I know writers who take the time to edit their rants before publishing them, and they're all cowards. Fresh off the print, here's my longform view on some of the major takeaways from this presidential election

So, what happened?

Shortened, my argument is:

Inflation is the primary explanation for Trump's victory

Joe Biden's initial insistence on running is also important

Third party and write-in voters did not decide this election

The Democrats should stop taking voters of color for granted

"Never Trump Republicans" are not a real voting bloc

afloweroutofstone

I added two paragraphs to this, one on thesis five to to note the absurdity of blaming the party's left for this election in particular, and another on thesis one to note that incumbent parties are doing terribly this year, and in fact Harris did better than many incumbents in similar countries:

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