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I saw a white woman call another white woman "habibi" [sic] recently which feels like a pretty fundamental disturbance in the force to me
ww1: I lost my virginity in a basement to an Arab man who hardly spoke any English
ww2: ...why? you know that was optional, right? like, you know you didn't have to do that?
ww1: because he was pretty, habibi
me: *frantically taking notes* they're evolving...
I saw a white woman call another white woman "habibi" [sic] recently which feels like a pretty fundamental disturbance in the force to me
Residential buildings in Gaza are being bombed by the Israeli occupation army multiple times every day. The violence is only increasing as many in the West believe the lie about a ceasefire and turn their eyes away. Mohammed Abu Alwan is raising three young children in Gaza. The money the family of five needs for food, water, and medicine is about $200 USD per day; but Israel's destruction of infrastructure in Gaza means that Mohammed is entirely reliant on donations for the basic necessities of life.
You can help this family stay alive through genocide by donating via:
GoFundMe
Or via:
venmo (@gothhabiba) paypal (paypal.me/Najia) Cashapp ($NajiaK)
all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"
$0 / $200 (Aug 3)
QNN: Lebanese Health Ministry - 4,333 martyrs and 12,250 wounded as a result of the Israeli aggression against Lebanon since 2 March. #Lebanon
August 2, 2026 at 07:09PM UTC
🚨 Terror today, Sunday August 2, in Gaza. Times local. 18 martyrs and dozens wounded since dawn.
12am – 6am local time, August 2 🚨
🚨 Bombing of a residential apartment near the Palestine Mosque in Gaza City - 1 wounded
🚨 An apartment in the Al-Sousi Tower in Gaza City was bombed. The martyrs:
Abdullah Adnan Abu Al-Tayef
Abeer Kamal Kazem Anan (his wife)
Azzam Abdullah Abu Al-Tayef (his child)
Unborn fetus
🚨 A house in Deir al-Balah was bombed. The martyrs:
Sheikh Kamal Abu Muailiq (Abu Nabhan)
His wife
They join their three sons.
🚨 An apartment in the Al-Mawasi area of Al-Qarara, northwest of Khan Younis, was bombed. The martyrs:
Writer Mahmoud Zaki Al-Hams
His wife, Fatima Bahloul
Their son, the child Ahmed Mahmoud Al-Hams
Artillery shelling near Dar Al Salam in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip
Firing from Israeli vehicles towards the eastern areas of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City
6am – 8pm local time, August 2 🚨
08:15 - Quds Feed - Israeli artillery targets the eastern part of Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip
🚨 09:30 - Alam 24, Al Masirah - A citizen was wounded by occupation bullets as heavy gunfire from Israeli enemy vehicles southwest of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip
🚨 10:00 - Palinfo, Alam 24 - The body of a fetus was found under the rubble of an apartment in Al Sousi Tower in Gaza City, which was targeted this morning, bringing the number of martyrs of the bombing to 4 (see above).
The intensity of the bombing tore a pregnant woman's body apart, and the fetus was later found among the debris.
🚨 10:45 - QNN - Muhammad Hani Hussein was martyred and 1 wounded in a drone strike near Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital, Jablia camp, northern Gaza Strip.
11:45 - Palinfo - Israeli drone fires near Abu Hamid roundabout in the center of Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip
🚨 13:30 - Qadeyah - Young man Ahmed Wael Al-Khudari has died from injuries he sustained several days ago when he was targeted by an Israeli airstrike on Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City
🚨 13:30 - QNN, Palinfo, Quds Press - 5 people, including 3 children, wounded after an Israeli drone strike near Al-Ard Al-Tayyiba in Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip
🚨 13:45 - Mahmoud Al-Sharif, QNN - 2 brothers martyred after a car was targeted on Salah al-Din street in Deir al-Balah city, central Gaza Strip. The martyrs:
Hazem Atiya Jabr
Muhammad Atiya Jabr
🚨 15:00 - QNN, Alam 24 - A 3-year-old girl was wounded by a stray bullet from military vehicles in Halawa camp, Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip
🚨 15:30 - Al Mayadeen - A person was wounded by occupation gunfire in the Turkish slaughterhouse area, south of Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip
🚨 16:15 - QNN, RNN, Palinfo - 2 martyrs, including a child, and 6 wounded as a result of the occupation aircraft targeting a tent of displaced people opposite Al-Nour Mosque on Al-Thawra Street in Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City
16:30 - QNN - Israeli artillery shells areas in the northern Gaza Strip
🚨 17:00 - Mahmoud Al-Sharif, Quds Feed - 2 martyrs after a group of citizens were targeted around the Ali Mosque on Street 8 in Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City
🚨 17:45 - QNN, Mahmoud Al-Sharif, Quds Feed - 4 martyrs and others wounded after an airstrike targeted a car behind the Sharia Court in Rimal neighborhood, Gaza City
18:30 - Alam 24 - Occupation artillery shelling north of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip
19:00 - QNN - Occupation artillery shelling of areas east of Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City
🚨 19:15 - Alam 24 - Israeli vehicles advance east of Wadi Gaza bridge
10:00 - RNN - Artillery strikes east of Gaza City
10:00 - RNN - Tank fire eash of Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City
🚨 10:00 - QNN - Young man Ahmed Moamen Al-Najjar has died as a result of his wounds sustained by occupation bombing in Jabalia a few days ago
22:45 (ongoing) - QNN - Occupation drones and advanced vehicles fire towards the eastern areas of Tuffah and Zaytoun neighborhoods, east of Gaza City
23:45 - Palinfo - The occupation fires illumination bombs over Kissufim, east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip
*sees pop linguistics post on my dash*
*issues long, drawn-out, world-weary sigh*
the thing about copyright abolition is that. what makes theft bad is that something is taken away from its rightful owner. in this sense, copyright infringement is literally not theft, because making a copy of something doesn't tangibly cause the original owner to lose anything that they would otherwise have. copyright enforcement, on the other hand, does take away people's access to what should be theirs. anyone who makes art while employed by a corporation and is unable to sell their work because it does not belong to them, anyone who's been sued by a pop musician for making music that sounds vaguely similar if you don't allow the jury to listen to the actual songs, these people have far more in common with victims of theft than anyone whose copyright has been infringed
like the thing with the film rights to MLK's speeches being owned by spielberg / dreamworks, that's not actually an instance where copyright law failed to protect artists. that's the system working as intended. MLK's speeches were his intellectual property. when he died the rights to that intellectual property transfered to his family, and his family decided to sell those rights to dreamworks, thereby functionally preventing anyone else from legally using those speeches in a film for the next several decades. no crime was committed, nobody was tricked into anything, that's just how intellectual property rights work
the ideal chai latte is one of the most amazing things on this earth. it’s a shame that most cafes think they have to serve either a cup of grit or milk that they whispered the names of spices to
Your Honor, you're acting like you've never seen a woman who's a man before
The airstrikes, artillery bombardment, tank and gunfire, and ground incursions (with tanks and bulldozers) have been nonstop - since October 2025, but especially since March, and especially the last month, which by my estimates was the deadliest since the “ceasefire” went into effect, with many martyrs dying later from their wounds.
The airstrikes have been hourly (or more frequent) for two days straight (writing this on Saturday 1 August), coinciding with the rumored finalization of the second phase of the ceasefire deal.
I’m reflecting again on Frankenstein 2025 now that I’m reading the original novel, and it’s kind of astonishing how much del Toro seems to dislike monsters and stories about monsters. In the movie, the monster recites Ozymandias, which is obviously meant to be an epic reference to the guy married to Mary Shelley (who wrote Frankenstein if you didn’t know!). It’s also clearly meant to be part of del Toro’s interpretation of Frankenstein as a cultural object, casting Victor as an abusive pseudo-father to his creation, which goes on to outlive him and #heal from the trauma of having an evil dad. Frankenstein is a story about intergenerational trauma for del Toro, or at least that’s what the film argues.
And I think that’s a really stupid and boring interpretation, but more to the point, citing Ozymandias actively works against both del Toro’s interpretation and Frankenstein as a cultural object. Victor isn’t Ozymandias in the film. The monster survives him. Victor’s “colossal wreck” lives on, while he is the one who fades into obscurity. Like it’s a direct inversion of the poem lol. Which like, I guess you can do that…? But I don’t get the feeling that del Toro was doing an inversion. And Victor is trying to destroy his own creation! A substantial part of Ozymandias is about the folly of conquest and expansion. How do you account for the fact that Victor travelled to the ends of the earth to destroy his own “empire”? Are we to understand that his hubris is what drives his need to destroy the monster, much like Ozymandias’ ego led to his empire’s fall? Going even further, a fundamental part of empire and conquest is violence, but the monster is only ever violent in self defence in the film. Del Toro omits all of its “sins” it committed in the novel. But you cannot have it both ways - the monster cannot be a symbolic empire and then also be pure and sinless. Victor cannot be a conqueror and also actively trying to ruin his own conquest.
And on a broader cultural level, Victor also cannot be Ozymandias. His name has been permanently transferred to the monster in the cultural imagination - people call the monster “Frankenstein,” not Victor, whereas Ozymandias only has his name left (nothing beside remains). And, unlike kingdoms and empires, which have existed for so long that most of them have been completely forgotten (which is another element of the poem), Victor created a thing that has never existed before. The monster is not an empire or kingdom. It is impossible for Victor to fade into obscurity or for his works (ye mighty) to be forgotten, because he has permanently changed the world. A much better analog is the Soviet Union - it fell decades ago, but Sputnik remains and will always remain. It’s not something that can be forgotten. There was a humanity that existed prior to us sending an object into space, and a humanity that existed afterwards, and those are two distinct humanities. The monster is much the same.
And I think this vapid reading of Frankenstein the novel, Frankenstein the cultural object, and Ozymandias the poem all speaks to del Toro’s total lack of imagination wrt monsters, specifically Frankenstein’s monster. A monster is just an ugly thing created by ugly men with ugly ambitions, and those ambitions inevitably lead to self-destruction. Is that all Frankenstein is? The monster is kind of irrelevant in this configuration, it’s mostly just about Victor’s sins lol. And the only way to redeem the monster (and it must be redeemed, otherwise it is disgusting and unworthy of humanity) is to make it beautiful and free of sin, and the only reason it gets to be those things is because it’s the product of a virgin birth. It is a despicable vision of monstrosity, and it is also a very stupid movie
QNN: Significant damage was caused by the occupation's shelling of a warehouse containing medications and medical supplies belonging to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. #Gaza
August 1, 2026 at 03:25AM UTC
Emily Wilson has inadvertently created a fascinating new way to categorize basically any visual media ever made
image description: a cartesian plane with color-coded quadrants. the x-axis goes from 'sex scenes' to 'no sex scenes' and the y-axis goes from 'food looks good' to 'food looks horrible' /end description
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Airstikes today in Gaza - July 31
A group of citizens targeted on Al-Mukhabarat Street, northwest of Gaza City - 2 wounded
A citizen targeted near the Egyptian Committee’s barracks in Al-Zawaida, central Gaza Strip
A citizen targeted in the slaughterhouse area in Khan Yunis
A group of citizens targeted on Abu Arif Street in Deir al-Balah city - People wounded
A group of citizens targeted in Khalafa area, Jabalia camp
Several artillery attacks targeted eastern Jabalia
A house was targeted in Nuseirat camp, central Gaza Strip - 10 people wounded
A house targeted in Deir Al-Balah - casualties
A cyclist targeted in Sabra, Gaza City - 1 martyr
A new evacuation signal now in Al-Saftawi area
via local / Hanzala / QNN.
Reactionary sub: I'm literally biologically designed for you to use and abuse me. It's just my body doing what is natural.
Dialectical materialist sub: Historical trends in productive forces have produced a moment within the superstructure wherein I derive sexual satisfaction from roleplaying taboo subject matter.
Liberal sub: nobody knows why I get a funny feeling in my tummy when they call me their kid
RNN: Ground incursion in Al-Shakoush northwest of Rafah. #Gaza
July 31, 2026 at 08:37PM UTC
