Goblin moy...

Hi my name is Harry, I'm 22 years old and I have a BA and MA in Fine Art 

[erros429]

going to get a bit personal and a bit political here.

over a week ago, before hamas’s retaliation on israel, my jewish friend passed away. before their passing, they were always quite vocally pro-palestine and anti-apartheid.

before and after the attacks, i’ve mentioned my own pro-palestine stance on my personal social media accounts. but now ppl leverage my DEAD friend against me, saying nonsense like: “your friend just died and you’re defending the terrorists that would’ve wanted them dead???” and i just. the AUDACITY to fucking weaponize MY friend against me when they knew nothing about them.

it’s sickening. it’s outrageous. and my experience is TINY compared to the innocent lives that are trapped in a warzone. TINY compared to the family members of these victims who fear that they may never see their loved ones again. and yet?? people are using this tragedy as an excuse to spew antisemitism and islamophobia every which way, and it is repulsive to watch.

my point is, if you’re living in the western world and only watching this from the sidelines, through the lens of mainstream news sources, then i have a message for you: check your privilege, grow the fuck up, and educate yourselves before you open your damn mouths.

[tamarrud]

"4 day pause" perfectly positioned right around the weekend when most massive pro-Palestine rallies and protests are organised

They're banking on us quieting down.

But as a reminder to all, a few days of pausing the violence is NOT what we advocate for; we demand to cease all forms of violence, cease the genocide, cease the occupation, cease the apartheid system and most importantly seek justice.

A 4 day pause and then what?

[fairuzfan]

What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

We call on our supporters to strengthen our targeted boycott and divestment campaigns to maximize our impact!

Reminder that boycotting DOES work, there is historic proof! Don't let anyone discourage you otherwise!

The BDS movement uses the historically successful method of targeted boycotts inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the US Civil Rights movement, the Indian anti-colonial struggle, among others worldwide.

We must strategically focus on a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact. Companies that play a clear and direct role in Israel’s crimes and where there is real potential for winning, as was the case with, among others, G4S, Veolia, Orange, Ben & Jerry’s and Pillsbury. Compelling such huge, complicit companies, through strategic and context-sensitive boycott and divestment campaigns, to end their complicity in Israeli apartheid and war crimes against Palestinians sends a very powerful message to hundreds of other complicit companies that “your time will come, so get out before it’s too late!”

[fairuzfan]

Please reblog! Spread this! There is an effort by zionists to discourage people from boycotting! Don't let them trample your spirits and help us in the fight for a liberated Palestine!

[twofifthsofmaria]

Hundreds of thousands of people came out today in London to March for a Free Palestine. Hundreds of thousands of people disagreeing with the current government stance on the war. Don’t let the media fool you, people in the UK stand with Palestine.

[normal-thoughts-official]

Please stop seeing politics as an identity and start seeing it as a collective means for change

[rozentias-deactivated20240103]

in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

[charaznablescanontoyota]

cannot stress enough that donating to the internet archive to help them appeal this without going broke is the most important thing you can do right now. my day job revolves around fulfilling digital article and book scan requests at an academic library and a huge part of that is borrowing from other libraries that do controlled digital lending (incl. the internet archive!). copyright law is already hugely restrictive on what we can and can't lend, and we absolutely don't have the option to pirate anything for our patrons due to being a large academic institution. it's difficult to overstate just how bad this ruling could end up being for libraries that have digital lending programs, esp ones that rely on CDR for old/archival/hard-to-find texts.

[maswartz]

[frenchiefried]

Hi I want to let you kids know how effective these walk outs are: public schools are payed by attendance. Meaning if you’re not going to class the whole school isn’t getting payed their share. Now if it’s just like the normal kid has a sick day that’s normal.

But a class of 200? And you know who’s getting the blame? Administration. So kids continue to plan your walk outs in DROVES. Convince the kid with perfect attendance to join you, get your teacher involved by having them accept your homework at a later time.

You kids deserve a proper education and school experience. Don’t let these adults take that away from you.

[karlicartoons]

WALT DISNEY PRODUCTION WORKERS NEED YOUR HELP!

(Posted March 8, 2023) Hey fam! The Mouse is refusing to recognize the unionization efforts of its production workers. If you're not familiar with what PCs or PMs do, I'll outline it briefly. The tl;dr is that NO ANIMATION WOULD GET DONE WITHOUT PRODUCTION WORKERS. They are the glue holding together every single production of your very favorite cartoons!

They take notes in all the meetings with the artists.

They make sure the artists are meeting their deadlines (and showing up to the meetings in the first place).

They help us navigate studio servers to find the files we're looking for.

They send us our time cards, and make sure we get paid!

Production workers do all this and more, often for minimum wage. The hardships that they suffer as a result--the long hours, the unpaid overtime, the abuses of power--are horrific.

You'd really think that they'd be compensated fairly for these jobs! Can you imagine trying to live in Los Angeles or New York on minimum wage with a job that definitely won't allow you time to pick up a second or third one??

This has to stop, and you can help.

All that Walt Disney Animation Studio's production workers ask is that you add your name to this petition! That's it.

This isn't some Change.org petition. It's not going to sell your email to spam companies. This is through IATSE (our union)'s website.

TELL DISNEY YOU STAND WITH PRODUCTION WORKERS!!!

[bonemeadows]

hello friends, i’d like to tell you a story about the beautiful place i call home. long post coming up. 

do you think climate change is bad but you know the responsibility of a solution does not rest on the individual or you’re just not sure what you can do?

do you like seeing birds and other animals around your home and where you live and think they deserve safe, undamaged habitats?

do you think we should do as much as possible to preserve our clean water sources?

do you think the military spending budget in the united states is way too much?

if you answered yes to any of these you might be interested in this story. 

i live on cape cod, in massachusetts. it’s a peninsula that reaches out into the atlantic ocean, so it’s surrounded by salt water. you might wonder how does such a place get fresh drinking water without having to pump it in from miles away?

we’re fortunate enough to have one of the most productive ground water systems in new england, but it’s highly permeable and susceptible to contamination within its watershed. [source]

this groundwater system has been designated as a sole-source aquifer. that means almost two hundred thousand people rely on this water source year round, and in the summer the population here literally doubles with tourism. 

wow it sure would be bad if something happened to it.

wait—something bad did happen. between 1989 and 2009 an area here was listed by the EPA as a superfund site. the national guard had contaminated their military base on cape cod with spilled chemicals and fuels, landfills, and munitions, including lead bullets and live explosives. [source]

let’s see where that military base is located. 

the military base is located on 22,000 acres of land directly above the largest part of the aquifer. unrelated to this specific issue, but don’t you think we could so something better with and for this land? i don’t know, just a thought, seems like the military doesn’t need 22k acres stolen from the wampanoag especially if they’re just going to pollute it. 

so here’s why i’m angry. they want to do this again. the national guard wants to spend $11 million to build an eight-lane machine gun firing range right above the water source. 

[source]

the national guard has been going forward with this plan without providing outside environmental review (they reviewed it themselves and said it was fine) and without engaging in dialogue with the community. 

also a fun note, the brigadier general-whatever-the-fuck that is of the national guard has threatened the local chamber of commerce and is quoted in the above linked source with some expectedly bad takes. 

so let’s review:

cutting down 170 acres of trees in a region that is essential habitat to hundreds of species of migratory birds, as well as other animals, is devastating 

cutting down 170 acres of trees that could remove and store carbon from our declining atmosphere for decades to come is irreversible damage

cutting down 170 acres of trees and shooting toxic ammunition over an area of 5,000 acres above a water source that hundreds of thousands of people rely on is just a really bad fucking idea

if you’re read this far, thank you. i’m going to tell you one way you can help. right now facing climate change as an individual feels hopeless, at least to me. the best tools we have to fight with are our voices, and they always have been. the association to preserve cape cod has created a form you can use to email appointed officials who have the power to stop this. you can also donate to the apcc, but i’m not asking you to. i’m just asking you for your voices. 

please reblog this post, because someone might come across it who lives here who doesn’t even know this is happening. i love this little spit of land with all my heart and i know others do too. 

[theplumtree]

Antique silver spice boxes 

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[blackwoolncrown]

Tweet by Dallas Goldtooth:

“Lakota land defenders have blocked access to the Trump rally at Mt Rushmore in the Ȟe Sapa, aka Black Hills! Nat'l guard on scene. Tear gas used. Arrests happening. 

Plz donate to bail. 

venmo: @westriverbailfund (6892 if asked to confirm phone) 

 PayPal to: westriverbailfund@gmail “

SIGNAL BOOST! DONAATE & REBLOG TO SUPPORT LAND DEFENDERS

[imgladyourehereholdme]

hello someone on instagram made a document with a ton of resources on the movement surrounding george floyds murder and how to help and educate yourself. its updated very frequently and is super comprehensive and well organized, i thought i could share it here

[imgladyourehereholdme]

it is NOT by the way NEARLY as detailed as this doc. ive seen this spread around a lot and it should be shared more than the one i shared, which is minneapolis-specific and not made by a black person. while the one i shared has compiled general tips, email templates, and links to helpful articles on how to be an ally, please share this one more, as it has all that as well as more drop off locations and contact info and more info for non-mpls protest help. rb this version

[wtfisgoingonews]

IF YOU WANT BERNIE TO GET THE NOMINATION OVER BIDEN

Here’s what you need to do:

Vote for Bernie in your primary

There are still two-thirds of the possible delegates available so it’s not even close to being over yet. A lot of people think voting in the primary doesn’t matter but this is where you determine the direction you want to party to go & if you prefer Bernie over Biden then here’s the following schedule for the primaries:

“Democrats abroad” primary - (March 3rd to March 10th) If you are a democrat living outside of the United States this is your time to cast your vote. [website]

Idaho primary - March 10th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Michigan primary - March 10th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Mississippi primary - March 10th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Missouri primary - March 10th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Washington primary  - March 10th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

North Dakota caucus - March 10th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Northern Mariana Islands caucus - March 14th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Arizona primary - March 17th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Florida primary - March 17th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Illinois primary - March 17th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Ohio primary - March 17th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Georgia primary - March 24th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Puerto Rico primary - March 29th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Alaska Primary - April 4th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Hawaii primary - April 4th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Louisiana primary - April 4th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Wyoming caucus - April 4th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Wisconsin primary - April 7th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Connecticut primary - April 28th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Delaware primary - April 28th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Maryland primary - April 28th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

New York primary - April 28th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Pennsylvania primary - April 28th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Rhode Island primary - April 28th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Guam caucus - May 2nd [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Kansas primary - May 2nd - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Indiana primary - May 5th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Nebraska primary - May 12th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

West Virginia primary - May 12th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Kentucky primary - May 19th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Oregon primary - May 19th - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

District of Columbia primary - June 2nd - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Montana primary - June 2nd - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

New Jersey primary - June 2nd - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

New Mexico primary - June 2nd - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

South Dakota primary - June 2nd - [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

Virgin Islands caucus - June 6th- [Information on how/when to register by, what ID is accepted, polling locations, etc.]

What the expect & how to prepare

In 2016, there was major flaws with in-person voting in states like Arizona. This election is exactly the same, with states like Texas and California having people in line waiting past midnight LONG after polls were supposed to close. This is blatant voter suppression and is meant to discourage you from voting. If you don’t have mail-in ballot in your state MAKE SURE to prepare for the worst: wear comfortable clothes, bring water, bring snacks, and get ready for whatever fuckery they might try to pull so bring an extra ID. 

If you work on the day of your primary or caucus HERE IS A WEBSITE that allows you to check your state’s laws on time-off voting. This will tell you info on the following:

How long your job is required to give you?

What exceptions there might be?

Whether or not it’s paid time off.

If you have to give advance notice.

Do you need to show your employer proof of voting?

How to volunteer 

You can also phone bank, text bank, or canvas for Bernie. Even if you’re in a state that already voted you can still do all these things! You ARE allowed to canvas out of your home state. Check your area, there are events happening everywhere or you can host your own. ALSO!!! volunteer as a poll worker if you can

AND!! if you’re fluent in multiple languages you can really help to get the vote out in communities that often get overlooked by campaigns. 

[femmmedarling]

Can someone tell me how to help LGBTQ people in Brunei without just telling me to boycott luxury hotels I already don’t go to??

[piecesolvingapuzzle-deactivated]

Boycott Shell.

[piecesolvingapuzzle-deactivated]

Boycott Shell

[piecesolvingapuzzle-deactivated]

Boycott Shell. Idgaf if this is boring quit scrolling and rb

[strangegiraffesystem]

Brunei pretty much completely relies on import/export to function. Oil is pretty much the only thing they produce.

What I’m saying y'all who can should urge your politicians/representatives to stop trade with Brunei on grounds of human rights violations and send them a message they can’t ignore.

In addition you can help on the ground level by supporting Rainbow Railroad a charity that helps lgbtq+ people escape persecution: https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/

[sprmint-bkgsoda]

From the mouth of a One Percenter -

Abigail Disney

[mantaphase]

!!!!!!!!!!!

[marthawells-deactivated20181223]

“Yes, there is a superyachtinvestor.com. Go look at it and it will make you so angry, you could chew glass.”

[anarcho-smarmyism]

we stan class traitors on this blog

[marimopet]

[aksldhfgaajdshgaslg-deactivated]

Can we talk about this?!

[nonbinnyboots]

HEY remember in WWII when Jewish people were fleeing Germany and the USA put a quota on how many Jewish immigrants they would accept because they were worried there were too many Jewish people coming over to the USA???

Reminder that the USA has always been fucking garbage to immigrants and basic humanity

[homoxstuff-deactivated20171122]

Please spread I haven’t seen this in the news still! I’ve literally had to tell people about it and they didn’t believe me!