[charlesoberonn]

It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.

Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real

There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations

Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that

The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.

There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)

The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.

Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.

Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.

[rivkann]

[toskarin]

adjacent advice: if you need more confidence, get a cool jacket or a haircut or something and think about how cool it makes you. this is loser advice, but we're all losers here. swallow your pride and roleplay as a cool guy and you'll become a cool guy.

[toskarin]

it might help to think of yourself as a character designer and also yourself as a character, which is again kind of insane person advice, but this is an insane-person-for-insane-person audience blog

[godlessondheimite]

I’m just thinking about how many times I’ve heard my dad on a long call with an obvious scammer and I’ll start begging him to get off the phone because I always think he’s a very easy mark and he’ll just keep going and then after a while he’ll say something like “I died 20 years ago” and hang up.

[godlessondheimite]

Virgin Millennial Daughter with 20 hrs of screentime a day: Dad! They’re scamming you! Dad! Stop! They will take your savings and your identity! Hang up before they SWAT you!

Chad Boomer dad with a flip phone he has not recharged since 2014: Well gee I wish I could give you my bank account number after you spent all this time on the phone explaining this car deal with me but I don’t have access to my finances because I am in Rikers for felony murder.

[mousemilf-deactivated20250508]

"zillennial" isnt enough i think we need to introduce three microgeneration labels for everyone born between 95 and 2005 based on how covid fucked them up because i really believe that being in your early 20s and trying to figure out how to pay rent in the pandemic, graduating highschool in 2020 and having to pause your transition to adulthood, and zoom highschool created wildly different types of traumatized people.

[mousemilf-deactivated20250508]

if u were under 25 and both ur stimmy checks went directly to rent, youre now aging really poorly and more pessimistic than even the worst millennials.

if you had to abandon your plans to move out/start working/go to college bcs of the pandemic, youre like one minor catastrophe away from domestic terrorism

if you attended more than a year of zoom highschool youre unsocialized like a feral kitten and probably mildly illiterate

[kastratorka]

"nooooo you cant compare other genocides to the holocaust" unfortunately for you we all exist in the mortifying context of history and jews arent magic space aliens whose history is wholly disconnected from every other group on the planet

[kastratorka]

like if we truly grapple with the fact that horrific genocides are a core part of modern history and not an aberration caused by Crazy People we can start to unravel the apocalyptic white supremacist nightmare we are currently in

the value system that dictates that entire groups of people can be treated like cattle, murdered, raped, torturted and experimented on is the same value system we have in place in modern liberal democracies that values property over people and which, if not stopped, will very soon turn our planet into an unliveable hellscape

the holocaust is as much a part of it as is the armenian genocide, as is the congo genocide, as is the namibian genocide, just to name a few

[tastefullyoffensive]

Bill Nye explains why he always wears bow ties. [video/image via jakealc1]

[lissanaria-deactivated20220607]

Lmfao.

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

free socially awkward men from automatic association with incels

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

ironically the idea of incels being "losers" is exactly what they want people to think. they're innocent victims of society because they're not stereotypical disney movie jocks, and that's why they have to...commit mass murder

[ceevee5]

[taykoutmccleod]

my dad took me to see brokeback mountain in theaters because it was not even a little bit promoted as a queer love story, so we had no idea. he was just like "cowboy movie! yeehaw" and then my dad realized what was going on before I did, and we watched people scream and throw food and walk out throwing tantrums, and my very undiagnosed anxiety disorder skyrocketed because of the crowd reaction. my dad asked if we needed to leave, I said the crowd was stressing me out but I was liking the movie. so he said "cool. let them leave and enjoy it in peace" which is what we did, and then I kept watching and I understood™️ and my anxiety did not get better, but on the drive home the only thing dad said was "well! they told a hell of a love story" and he said the nervous dad cackle, and at 14 I didn't get him very much at all, but I think he knew years before I knew and he was trying to figure out how to tell me it was okay.

[palipunk-deactivated20260328]

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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (book)

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Nakba Day: What happened in Palestine in 1948? (Article)

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A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine

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Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean

The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948

Captive Revolution - Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of The Palestinians 1876-1948

The Battle for Justice in Palestine Paperback

Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom

Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre

The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

A Land Without a People: Israel, Transfer, and the Palestinians 1949-1996

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples

Where Now for Palestine?: The Demise of the Two-State Solution

Terrorist Assemblages - Homonationalism in Queer Times

Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East

The one-state solution: A breakthrough for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians

The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine

Ten myths about Israel

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

Israel and its Palestinian Citizens - Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State

Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

Palestine Hijacked 

Palestinian Culture:

Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture

Palestinian Costume

Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution

Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora

Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing (Oriental Institute Museum Publications)

The Palestinian Table (Authentic Palestinian Recipes)

Falastin: A Cookbook

Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen

Palestinian Social Customs and Traditions

Palestinian Culture before the Nakba

Tatreez & Tea (Website)

The Traditional Clothing of Palestine

The Palestinian thobe: A creative expression of national identity

Embroidering Identities:A Century of Palestinian Clothing

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Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, v5: Volume 5: Central and Southwest Asia

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Last Shepherds of the Valley

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Wael Al dahdouh

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Plestia Alaqad

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Mariam Barghouti

Omar Ghraieb

Steven Salaita

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Artists for Palestine UK 

Eye on Palestine 

[soberscientistlife]

Awesome growing trend

[ms-cellanies]

SOME VERY GOOD NEWS

[ralfmaximus]

Yes, very good news!

But the headline is a little misleading, as by "Investors" they really mean the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, a NFP based in Denver that has been doing good things for decades.

The investment here is in people, not a profit-making pyramid scheme that rich assholes buy into then cash out later for $profit$.

Also, all of this happened in early 2020, as COVID terror was first stirring in the US. Good timing.

Anyway, found the article.

[jesncin]

"Who Is Superman? A Private Interview with Lois Lane" a fancomic about hope and connection. I've had this story in mind for so long and I'm very excited to be able to share it at last. Thank you for reading, and happy Lunar New Year!

[glorious-spoon]

every genius who thinks mandatory two-factor authentication is a good idea should be forced to do tech support for a public library that serves a lot of elderly poor people

[glorious-spoon]

way too many people are interpreting this as 'old people are too ignorant to understand technology' instead of 'poor people, especially elderly poor people, often do not have reliable access to a cell phone'.

i know 2fa is more secure. everyone knows that 2fa is more secure. the problem is, when you make your very secure 2fa reliant on a cell phone, people who do not have cell phones can no longer use your service. when the service in question includes every major email provider, and you are required to have an email to access many basic kinds of assistance, people without cell phones are cut off from accessing those things.

and this is a fucking problem.

[stuckinapril]

having short-term memory is like. this book profoundly affected me. that show bared my soul. i don’t remember a single thing about it. but it did

[spectreship]

Yea, for I was copying the Bible. And it came to pass that I wrote "gaudius", or joy, when the intended word was "gladius" or sword. And all of the other monks did mock me with cruel words and jests. And when I did recite the Scripture at dinner, I coughed, and Brother Abelard did ask if I had meant to say "gaudius". And on the way to the dormitories I did tell of my encounter with the fearsome black hen of Cheshire, and Brother William asketh of me why I had not slain it with my gladius. And so it came to pass that I took a vow of silence and ceased to speak with all worldly men. Amen.

[boosergol]

[zoesupreme]

Toby Keith dying is kinda funny I have to admit

[zoesupreme]

like imagine writing this song in response to 9/11 and ruining the entire genre of country music for an entire generation and then your country loses to the taliban 20 years later anyways and then you die. huge L.

[zoesupreme]

holy shit lol

[catchymemes]

[eviltransnecoarc-deactivated202]

Finland’s debate over Indigenous identity and rights turns ugly

This story was produced with the funding support of the Pulitzer Center. Janne Hirvasvuopio got his first Valentine’s Day card early this ye

Can we please stop woobifying Finland and the Nordic countries in general like they aren't settler colonies as well.

[someoneyoudontreallyknow]

one of the worst things that ever happened in a history of humankind is diabetes being turned into "gross fat slob disease"