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A landback legal primer for landowners - (credits on slides, not mine)
forever thinking about that girl at my uni orientation who, after being told to pour out her water bottle before entering an event, looked at me and said "they tell us to stay hydrated and then make us pour out our water, this is like totally kafkaesque" and then poured out what was very obviously an entire water bottle full of whiskey. hope she's doing well.
people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result
For years there was literally a giant pile of used car tires just casually sitting in one of Dallas' Black neighborhoods and the city kept refusing to come get them for so long that people started developing respiratory issues just from having to live near it. Those people will almost definitely go the rest of their lives w/ a heightened risk of developing specific cancers.
I met more <50y/o Black women who actively had, survived, or regained cancer, within a year of living in one of the poorest neighborhoods of DC, than I did the rest of my time in living in/around DC.
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A lot of criticism of delivery apps focuses on the fact that they offer convenience and variety, which I find much less compelling than criticizing the fact that the apps often send their contractors on fetch quests from Hell.
There are real labor problems here. Base pay is often insulting. Customer tips carry too much of the burden. Workers need better protections, more transparent algorithms, protection from arbitrary deactivation, and actual recourse when the app or a customer screws them over. Car-dependent delivery is also an environmental and infrastructural problem, though in a denser city I’d still be doing this work; I’d just be doing it by bike.
But when people talk about delivery work, I rarely see them talk to actual delivery workers. I see a lot of abstract arguments about convenience, consumer decadence, “hustle culture,” and internalized neoliberalism. Meanwhile, when I’m out working and waiting in restaurants for orders, the other Dashers I meet are usually people who only speak Spanish, people who read as neurodivergent, visibly physically disabled people, or some combination of the above.
I have not met this mythical Disco Elysium poor ultraliberal hustlegrinder-wannabe people seem to be arguing with. Maybe that archetype exists somewhere. If it exists among any kind of gig worker, it would probably be rideshare drivers. But most of what I see looks less like “rise and grind” and more like “this is one of the few forms of work available to people who need flexibility, low barriers to entry, limited managerial surveillance, or a way to work around language barriers, disability, burnout, chronic illnesses and injuries with symptoms that come and go unpredictably, caregiving, résumé gaps, or discrimination.”
That does not make the current system good. It means the current system is filling a real gap that a lot of supposedly better systems do not even acknowledge.
As a disabled person who is burnout-prone and demand-sensitive, contracting as a delivery driver has given me an unprecedented level of financial flexibility. I can work when I have capacity. I can stop when I’m deteriorating. I can build my day around my actual body instead of being trapped under a manager who thinks “reliable” means “able to perform the same way every day no matter what.” That matters. It does not cancel out the exploitation, but it is also not fake just because it is politically inconvenient.
And delivery itself is not some inherently decadent evil. Sometimes people live alone. Sometimes they are sick. Sometimes they are disabled, exhausted, overwhelmed, grieving, overloaded, or recovering from something else - perhaps the stress and fatigue induced by their own job. Sometimes they need medicine, groceries, or a meal that will actually unplug their sinuses instead of whatever generic community-care slop someone thinks they should be grateful for. Humans are allowed to need specificity. “Food” is not the same as “the food I can actually eat right now.”
A serious labor critique would ask how to make delivery work safer, better-paid, less tip-dependent, less car-dependent, less algorithmically punitive, and less precarious. It would ask what kinds of flexible, accessible work should exist for people who cannot thrive in conventional employment. It would ask how cities could support bike delivery, worker cooperatives, public infrastructure, and real protections without simply replacing one bad system with a moral sermon about how nobody should ever want takeout.
But a lot of the discourse does not do that. It treats convenience itself as suspicious. It treats wanting flexible work as false consciousness. It treats the needs of disabled people, immigrants, and other people who can't fit into traditional employment structures as details to be swept aside in favor of a cleaner political image.
I guess the opinions of delivery workers only count when they are politically convenient.
What if a white child with cancer only had 3 weeks left to live and their last wish to the make a wish foundation was to be able pick every single berry and fruit in a several mile radius just once. Are you telling me its not okay for a white person to ignore indigenous knowledge that instance?
well my one wish to the make-a-wish foundation is to kill that white baby. what now huh
also like on the off chance this is somehow a genuine ask sent by the dumbest motherfucker alive, let me give an actual answer:
"Are you telling me its not okay for a white person to ignore indigenous knowledge-" yep! full stop end of sentence, you don't even need to finish the rest of that thought. it is never ok for settlers (since I reject the notion that white people are the only settlers, settlers of color very much exist and play a key role in settler society) to ignore indigenous knowledge. no nuance required.
because the average westerner's morality/code of ethics is fundamentally wretched. like when you boil it down to the bare essentials their judgement on whether something is good or bad kinda becomes just "the more suffering an individual goes through, the more heinous shit they should be allowed to get away with." so it's a perpetual race to the bottom of individual harms. Notice how the systemic (i.e. social class vs social class) issue (over-harvesting of resources by settlers as a class) is transformed into an interpersonal (i.e. individual vs individual) one (moribund white baby being told not to forage). They're not concerned with the harm done by others, only the harm they (or their hypothetical cancerous white baby in this case) do. Individualism brainrot.
Hold on I have a meme for this
I see we're starting a collection
omg that is hilariousssss i didnt know this was something multiple blogs got...
awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.
that’s not the whole flag, now is it
hey staff what the fuck
hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose
COME THE FUCK ON!
It seems that the Tumblr team has no other purpose than to delete, close, and attack the accounts of transgender people and Palestinians trying to survive genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Two days ago, I was shocked to find that my blog, abdalsalam2000, had been deleted without warning and without me having done anything wrong, simply because I was asking for help from the Tumblr community. That blog was our only source of income that kept us alive in Gaza, and unfortunately, it was deleted by Tumblr employees.
In Gaza, we need at least $300 a day just to survive. After Tumblr deleted our account, this blog is all I have left. I hope you will help me by sharing this post, donating, and following this blog. Please, please help us and donate now.
Gladio is the most insane thing you will ever learn about
hold on I have to look something up
TLDR: after WWII, the US took nazi war criminals and set them up in sleeper cells all over Europe, “activating” them whenever the “threat of communism” was deemed too much, like in the Years of Lead
oh my god?
Stay-behind - Wikipedia
they’re called stay-behind networks, here’s a list of a bunch. Technically, Gladio was the one that operated in Italy
“supporting neil gaiman isn’t as bad as supporting jk rowling because he isn’t using his money to hurt trans people and he doesn’t seem bigoted!” is a real take i’ve seen and i am going to blow a gasket. “he doesn’t seem bigoted” He raped and trafficked women. Paying for his works and engaging in fandom for them is giving him money and good publicity that he uses to curry good favor with the masses and silence his victims in ongoing legal battles. You are enabling a rapist and abuser.
just because he is not funding legislature to harm victims of sexual assault and trafficking en masse does not mean that there is no one harmed by him gaining publicity and money. show some compassion to the women he has hurt and disengage with his works. “just pirating” and “just writing/reading fanfic” is still engaging, especially if you are posting publicly about them. move on.
#and he gained access to his victims because he was rich and powerful and most of them were fans!!!!#upholding his fandom is upholding the structure he used to find victims#and continuing to uphold it is helping him get away with it and launder his public image#Do not give him money do not make his fandoms a place where his actions are dismissed do not give him a platform to return to
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there’s this term i coined in my friendgroup i call “the charizard effect” and it can apply to anything and everything, but it was born from me explaining my feelings about the pokemon charizard. the term is basically about how overexposure to something be it by corporate shilling or fandom prominence drives me away from really enjoying something bc i’m exposed to it so much against my will i become tired of it. it came to me bc i was ranting about how tpci does not, and cannot stop reinventing charizard, and how it is popular and obtusely included in almost every region, merch, etc in every way possible and it’s highly commodified.
i dont dislike the pokemon charizard, in fact i really like its X form, but i am exposed to so much charizard in my pokemon consumption that i cant be bothered to care for it in any more than in passing. this applies to a bunch of other stuff i’d otherwise be ok with, but i always just call this aversion phenomena “the charizard effect”
making this term has done numbers for me being able to concisely express how i feel abt something. like. its not charizard’s fault i feel this way, im sure i’d feel normal abt it if it was stripped of all this over commodification, but i cannot. hence the name
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Last Thursday, there was heavy rain in Gaza. Israelis bombed a residential block very near to where Mahrah and her parents are sheltered. Panic gripped her family.
Her brother Mahmoud posted about this on tumblr from the account they share, and then staff immediately banned their blog as part of a broader racist campaign against Palestinians.
Mahrah and Mahmoud are now using the blog @palestinian95. Please donate if you can afford to do so, and share this post to help them to reconnect with their followers!
Mahrah family's sole source of income is their fundraiser vetted by 90-ghost and shared by fairuzfan. Unfortunately, they have not received as many donations lately. This makes affording food and healthcare difficult, because prices continue to increase.
Any money you can spare will be the entirety of their grocery budget for the week. Please send them enough to survive. I can personally promise anything you send will make it to them. My wife @cannilyuncanny hosts the campaign and transfers donations directly to Mahrah.
These may be my last words or the last time I write a post about my family, so I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and does not support me with a single word and ignores me.
Days of complete silence have passed, and I'm terrified. I check the campaign link daily, but the amount hasn't changed. Not a single euro. It feels like the world has moved on, but my nephew's pain remains. His surgery is urgent, and so are his medical needs. We're close to closing the gap, but I can't bear this alone anymore. If you have ten or twenty dollars to spare, please help us today. If you don't, your contribution is our only lifeline to reach someone who can help. Please don't ignore someone desperately seeking a lifeline for my orphaned nephew.
We need 700 euros for my nephew's surgery. The operation is in a sensitive area of his body and cannot be delayed. The surgery will determine his future ability to have children, and it must be done as soon as possible while he is still young, before he grows older and suffers greatly, and may also be unable to have children. Please don't leave us alone. Help us! Donate to us!
My nephew is his parents' only child. He lost his father in this genocide in the Gaza Strip and has suffered many traumas in this war. Please don't leave him alone. Donate for his operation. Please donate, donate! 💔😭
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If anything bad happens to me or I lose contact with you, please remember that I begged you to donate, even a small amount, or to share my post. I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and doesn't support me with a single word or a small donation, and ignores me.
Guys, someone donated 15 euros, but we still need 685 euros for my nephew's surgery amidst this genocide. I hope everyone who reads my message will donate. Please don't let us down. 💔
Today I will tell you what happened to me, hoping it will move you to help. I went to the vendor in front of my house—a small stall where he sells things for children. I bought some things for my sick nephew to make him happy, and then I quickly went home. Behind me, the entire area was targeted, and many children were injured, some even killed. I was very close to death; I swear he was only a few meters away. Please, how long will we continue like this? Please donate. I almost died today, and no one would have saved my nephew. Please, we still need 675 euros so we can pay for his operation.
Now, just tell me, if I died or anything bad happened to me, would anyone help my nephew get his surgery? Just tell me. I'm begging you, with a very tired and exhausted heart. I haven't forgotten what happened to my mother and brother. Please, I can't bear any more loss. Please donate here. 💔😭
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We still need 600 euros for my nephew's surgery. Please, someone help us. Our goal is small compared to what others might think. We need 24 people. If each person donated 25 euros, I could get my nephew's surgery now. Please don't let us down. Donate. I haven't forgotten what happened yesterday; I almost died. Please save us and donate.
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Please donate what you can to save his nephew !! Any donation will help, but do not let the campaign go stagnant !!!
Look at these pictures. How long will this continue? Yesterday I narrowly escaped death, and today a residential block near my home was targeted, and we miraculously survived again. How long will this silence last? It will kill me and my family. Please help me. Donate to us. Donate to my nephew to save him from death and get him the surgery he needs. I'm afraid if anything happens to me, no one will be able to save my nephew. Please, please donate before we die. Donate! 😭💔
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We still need 580 euros for my nephew's surgery. Please donate now! Don't let us down! Please, before anything bad happens to my nephew. Tomorrow is the last day for his surgery. We only have a few hours left and we still haven't reached our goal. Please donate! 😭💔
Guys, we still need 435 euros for my nephew's surgery, and the last appointment is in 18 hours. Please don't let us down. Donate now! I will never forgive anyone who sees this and ignores me. I don't want anything bad to happen to my nephew or for him to miss his surgery. Donate! Donate! 💔😭
Guys, there are only 14 hours left until my nephew's surgery, and we desperately need your help. Please, please don't leave me alone. Please save me! Donate, donate! Don't leave me alone in this world suffering from this genocide. Please stand by me! Please donate, donate! 😭💔
There are only 12 hours left until my nephew's surgery, and I desperately need your help. I'm counting the hours and minutes. I hope you can help me save my nephew's life. Please, please don't let my nephew lose his life. This surgery is crucial for him. Please donate, please donate! Don't let us down! Please donate! 😭💔
Oh my God, time is flying by and we still haven't reached our goal. Please, please, we still need 335 euros so we can get my nephew the surgery. Please don't let us down. I can't sleep, I can't. I just keep thinking about whether I'll be able to get my nephew the surgery or not. Please, I don't want to lose him. Donate, donate! 😭💔
Please donate to save his nephew!!! Anything you can give right now can help!!! Please do what you can to help in this difficult time!! Even if you can’t donate please keep sharing!!!
Unfortunately, we couldn't perform the surgery on my nephew today, and it has been postponed until tomorrow. We still need 300 euros to be able to perform the surgery. Please, my nephew's condition is very serious. Please, please donate. Don't let me down. Please donate, donate! 😭😭💔
Guys, I'm saying it again, my nephew's surgery is in 14 hours, and we desperately need your help. Please, please don't leave me alone. Please save me! Donate, donate! Don't leave me alone in this world suffering from this genocide. Please support me! Please donate, donate!
Oh God, oh God, time is flying by and we still need 280 euros. Please, please stand by me, don't ignore me. Tell me the world still stands by me, helps me survive, and gives me hope despite the genocide we're living through. Please, all I ask is to save my nephew. Please donate, donate! 💔😭
Guys, time is running out! Someone donated 5 euros, and we still need 275 euros for the operation. We only have 10 hours left. Please stand by me. I beg everyone who sees my words to donate, even a little. I want to save my nephew. Please donate, donate! I don't want him to die or anything bad to happen to him. 😭😭💔
I’m sorry I can’t help but I hope this reaches someone who can
I really, really hope, my friend, that my message reaches someone who can help. I desperately hope so. Please, please save me! I only have 9 hours left. Please donate, please donate! 😭💔
Please there is still a bit of time to help!!! Donate what you can!!! Keep sharing!!! Anything you can do right now can help get his nephew the care he needs!!!
Guys, we still need you, we desperately need you. Please donate, don't let us down. We still need 250 euros. Save my nephew. Don't let anything bad happen to him. Please understand my situation. Donate, donate. 💔😭
Guys, someone donated 5 euros, but we still need 245 euros. Please, please don't let me down. Donate, please! I don't want to lose hope. Please stand by me to save my nephew. Please, I don't want anything bad to happen to him. Time is running out. Please donate, donate! 😭😭💔
Guys, time is running out! We still need €245 for the operation. We only have 12 hours left. Please help me. I'm begging you all to donate, even a little. I want to save my nephew. Donate, donate! I don't want him to die or be harmed in any way.💔😭
Only 10 hours separate us from saving my nephew for his surgery, or his condition will worsen, and that's what I fear most—that something bad will happen to him. I swear I can't bear it. I can't endure losing another member of my family. Please, please save me! I'm clinging to you and begging you to save my nephew. Please, please donate! 💔😭
MY LITTLE SISTER IS DYING.
I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THOSE WHO IGNORE THIS.
After severe burns to her body, she fell into a coma. The doctor told me this is a very dangerous sign.
There are no proper services in the hospital. Please donate so she can receive treatment in a private hospital.
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Recently I've been thinking why people are often more empathetic towards animals that people
It's racism first and foremost, obviously
But people also often think of animals as innocent beings incapable of wrongdoing, and people in distress or poverty as somehow "bringing it upon themselves"
We see this in the intense racism against people living in countries that suffer greatly from pollution, and those countries or regions somehow always just happen to be ex-colonies
People blame those people for littering or "fucking up their own ecology" which in their eyes justifies the suffering and health consequences they go through
Humans basically can never be innocent, their suffering is always somehow deserved, or their own fault, or we can just do nothing about it
It's basically "humans are the real disease" to conceal the fundamental inequalities and racism of the global economy