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[venus-is-in-bloom]

Please help Bisan!

Last week I made a post to raise awareness my friend Bisan Salah, who I've been speaking with for some time. She is trapped in Gaza with her family facing immense hardship due to the destruction of her home and life, the onset of winter, and the continual threat of violence. Originally, she made fundraiser primarily to buy a new tent to replace the one her family currently lives in, which is damaged by the elements and unsuited to protect them from the coming cold.

However, since then, the situation has become more urgent. Bisan, who has been working day and night to try and find food and water for her family, was hospitalised with malnutrition just this week. Her life is in danger. Her situation is unsustainable without outside help—help that we can provide.

Bisan needs £8,000 both to buy the tent her family needs and also help pay for vital necessities such as food and medicine. This is not something that can wait a long time. Currently, she is only at £1,774 of that goal. Compared to other fundraisers this is very achievable. Just this week I was able to dedicate the spare money from my paycheck to her campaign, and I know that a lot of you also have steady paychecks and cash to spare. You may not think it's a lot, but donations add up. If you can't donate, please share so that this can reach more people!

Donate to Donate to Help Bisan and Her Family Survive In Gaza, organized by Ceri L

Hello everyone, Over the past few months I have become close friends with B… Ceri L needs your support for Donate to Help Bisan and Her Fami

Bisan's campaign is verified, and listed at #351 on the vetted fundraiser spreadsheet.

[venus-is-in-bloom]

£8,756 / £12,000!

Bisan's campaign has finally broken £8,000, which means that she has the money to buy a tent. However, I spoke to her again, and she is currently too sick to move around. With the money she's raised being reserved, she still cannot afford medicine or even blankets. We need to keep pushing so that we can help her afford the necessities to recover.

[probuccalfat]

so it has

[knuckle]

My best guess is the spammer makes their AI speak in a funny Irish accent for entertainment and forgot to ask it to stop before drafting extortion emails.

[knuckle]

joe biden: i am giving billions of dollars to israel to commit a genocide that i am a soft yes on (a hard yes on) i hate the poors i hate the sick i hate my constituents i love clarence thomas and i especially hate being a leader please give me money

[knuckle]

remember who we thought we could win this one after our party's president did this boys

[knuckle]

every day i think about the intense and insane hypocritical reaction people have to vegans on social media. like do you also go lecture people who have a community solar grid to note the environmental benefits are not real due to the detriments of rare earth metals?

The counterarguments about how veganism is less less environmentally friendly are most often pure pseudoscience. It's as embarrassing as people who believe in young earth creationism grasping at an Answers in Genesis funded study

Most scalable environmental progress has drawbacks, but I think it's just a matter of facts that as a #society, humans will need to move toward eating vegan much more often for the benefit of the environment.

And also the meat that we as a #society eat to be sustainable wouldn't be large scale grass fed pastures of lovingly treated pet farm animals before being slaughtered but would be eating wild game i.e. overpopulated nuisance animals like deer, rabbits, even cats. You can see why that would also involve us eating less meat for a lot of people, even just psychologically.

Even fish would generally need to be eaten less considering the overfishing in many parts of the world

[aahedandfamily]

I write these words with tears streaming down my face. My daughter Nour, not yet three years old, is withering away before our eyes. The accursed malnutrition is turning her small body into a mere shadow of what it once was, and I stand helpless before her grieving mother's cries, her tears ceaseless as she watches him slip further and further from her sight.

[aahedandfamily]

This is a struggle for survival. Poverty is trying to steal what's most precious to us, and your silence could cost her her life. I'm not asking for much; all I ask is that you give Nour a chance to experience her childhood again, to play and laugh together.

[aahedandfamily]

Life shouldn't be measured in price, yet my daughter's life depends on your help. Save her from the clutches of loss. Don't let poverty steal her away forever.

Vetted #624

Donate to I lost everything in Gaza, but I won’t lose my daughter Iman, organized by Aahed Alanqar

"Our home in Gaza wasn't just walls and a roof; it was the pl… Aahed Alanqar needs your support for I lost everything in Gaza, but I won’t l

[voiceofaboud]

I almost died. My breathing stopped from severe malnutrition and anemia, and there is no real treatment for me in Gaza.

[voiceofaboud]

A patient gave me their spare oxygen tank. That single act is the only reason I’m still alive. Please donate so I can buy my own oxygen tank for this week before I lose my breath again.

Chuffed – PayPal – Verified

[joeyclaire]

please help aboud any way you can

[knuckle]

it’s honestly really funny to me that like nobody really has a problem with recognizing that oil companies are like evil and that renewable energy sources, while not perfect nor pushed by wholly “good” companies, are better, despite the fact that many people rely on oil and gas for their day to day and can’t or won’t change those dependences. but when this environmental approach is applied to, say, the meat industry, everyone starts like yelling about the crazy vegans. like…

[byjove]

I do not agree with veganism as a moral standard. If it is your personal moral stance, that is fine. If you think humans eating meat is inherently immoral, I don’t want to deal with you, you’re hopeless. Vegan ideology behaves more like a sect of evangelical Christianity than a dietary choice.

[literallycrashingoutrn]

Veganism is better for the environment, but claiming that it's a morally superior choice ignores cultural and economic factors that make people eat animal products.

[byjove]

It is not inherently better for the environment. That is the thing. When you begin trying to explain that local, sustainably sourced animal protein is better for the environment than imported plant proteins that are farmed 3,500 miles away using slave labor, they start tuning you out. Down is better for the environment than polyester stuffing, leather is better for the environment than pleather. We should work on making animal agricultural practices more sustainable instead of trying to shame everyone into eating plant products that are also farmed unethically and unsustainably.

[igboalien]

This is false. Local, sustainably sourced animal protein still contributes more to GHG emissions than plant based protein shipped from thousands of miles away. The majority of the emissions from animal protein come from land use and the animals themselves, with only a tiny fraction coming from transport.

The assertion that vegan products are more susceptible to slave labour than animal products is strange. Everyone eats unethically farmed vegetables, not only vegans. You also assume that unethical labour practices are not endemic to the meat industry, including in the UK and the US. It would be impossible to provide the volume of meat consumed at such a low cost without exploiting vulnerable and precaritised workers. The fishing industry has similar issues.

This post makes the common mistake of attributing the popularity of petroleum-based fabric to vegans (1% of the global population) seeking alternatives, as opposed to understanding that this transition has been driven by fast fashion, not ethics. Most pleather and polyester is bought by non-vegans seeking cheap and fashionable clothing.

You might not realise this, but your framing echoes the framing of the meat industry to muddy the waters and promote their products in the face of increasingly unanimous scientific evidence of harm.

I'm fine with ethical disagreement but seeing so many people share false information is concerning. I'm happy to discuss more and/or provide pdfs – I've been vegan for years and I'm studying climate change and catastrophic risk.

[delicata-squash]

[byjove]

I do not agree with veganism as a moral standard. If it is your personal moral stance, that is fine. If you think humans eating meat is inherently immoral, I don’t want to deal with you, you’re hopeless. Vegan ideology behaves more like a sect of evangelical Christianity than a dietary choice.

[literallycrashingoutrn]

Veganism is better for the environment, but claiming that it's a morally superior choice ignores cultural and economic factors that make people eat animal products.

[byjove]

It is not inherently better for the environment. That is the thing. When you begin trying to explain that local, sustainably sourced animal protein is better for the environment than imported plant proteins that are farmed 3,500 miles away using slave labor, they start tuning you out. Down is better for the environment than polyester stuffing, leather is better for the environment than pleather. We should work on making animal agricultural practices more sustainable instead of trying to shame everyone into eating plant products that are also farmed unethically and unsustainably.

[knuckle]

Veganism is better for the environment. As a non-vegan, it puzzles me how I hear this often. It's of course possible to be a normal omnivore and be more environmental friendly than most vegans. But that's an incredibly individualistic solution and one that's a lot less practicsble for most people than going vegans.

Most people are ill-infoemed about the leather industry. The "byproduct" of the beef industry is part of why we have such a large and unfortunately greenhouse gas emitting beef industry. The scale of beef and low prices of beef couldn't exist without the subsidization that turning the skins into leather provides. Tanning leather also leeches incredibly toxic chemicals into the environment. And, contrary to popular idealistic belief, it still ends up in land fills as consumption of the upper class is increasing; the 1%'s idea of fast fashion doesn't care if a $200 leather bag is "made to last" if they're bored of it.

And the scale of industrial animal farming is far worse for the environment and involves just as bad if not worse unethical slave labor than plant agriculture. We should work on setting realistic expectations on what a reduction of meat, eggs, fish, and dairy consumption will look like for the environmental future and get everyone used to eating some vegan meals daily instead of trying to shame Vegans who do it for environmental reasons for being stupid or something.

[gothhabiba]

Heavy, freezing rain and flooding are causing a lot of suffering and destruction in Gaza this winter, but despite this crisis, everyday burden of hunger does not stop. The Abu Alwan children and their father have had their livelihood destroyed and need help purchasing food, water, and medicine. You can help via:

GoFundMe

Or via:

venmo (@gothhabiba) paypal (paypal.me/Najia) Cashapp ($NajiaK)

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

$0 / $200 (for Jan 12)

[gothhabiba]

🍓 $165 / $200 🍓

[knuckle]

one of the most amazing things about how autism has become the darling of trendy internet pop psychology is how routinely I see people (e.g. me) being punished for pretty bog standard autistic communication norms and treated like they're crazy, condescending, pedants for:

being literal

explaining context

correcting misinformation

not reacting to subtextual cues

distress at being misunderstood

clarifying intent

getting longer and more detailed when there's a misunderstanding,

etc.

like this isn't to #gatekeep but what is the point of the label when anyone can just claim to be autistic but then punish you by allistic communication norms and onlookers who also think they're autistic sit there like yep that bitch is evil

like there's well-established research on the typical difference in communication patterns between allistic and autistic neurotypes - even in the mutual empathy breakdown between them. maybe if you think someone is the rudest person alive for getting wordy, you might align more with the other

[knuckle]

Thinking about how Bly Manor is considered the worst of the Flanagan Flicks when it's actually the best for the Hannah time loop episode alone but also for everything else and also your hallucinatory guilt demon that appears when you get wasted and tells you to ignore your niblings* also not to be like that that but the lesbianisms too and okay the wedding chat framing of the story was a bit cringe but so was Steven Crane's monologue narration in hill house 😔

[orcboxer]

damn this bus stop is perfect. now if we could just find somebody to stand upwind of everybody and smoke a decrepit cigarette they found in a tomb

[bibleofficial]

bitching about outdoor second hand smoke while simultaneously being in or around a car pollution encased bus stop is wild when u consider for even a moment how much worse general car pollution impacts u compared to occasional second hand smoke like …. let’s pick ur battles

[orcboxer]

Picture this, you're at a bus stop on your way to work when suddenly through the dense fabric of your kn95 mask which you wear every single day like you have for the past 5 years you smell something evil. A scowling, rancorous smell like someone walked into the Paris catacombs and took a long drag off a femur that once belonged to the world's most hateful frenchman. You glance upwind and see a dude with a manbun puffing fat clouds of malice out of a ghoul's severed finger. You post about it on tumblr and it gets just enough traction to find the one person on the whole website brave enough to say, "You can't complain about that. Because cars cause pollution and you don't wear a mask."

[knuckle]

@white allies: because i see constant self-deprecation based on your whitness, here’s a detailed explanation of why it’s not helping us (or you).

if you continously go on about how horrible white people are, you may rot your own brain into thinking that these shortcomings are a natural state of being rather than a manufactured supremacist system which is simultaneously widespread, evil, and capable of being dismantled. 

recognizing that you have the same human compassion capabilities as everyone else, regardless of how alienated from them you have become, is the first step toward becoming a better person capabable of helping other people (of color).

don’t mirror the way that PoC talk about you as an oppressor class. the context is different, and the mindset that you develop from it is different.

don’t fall into a mindset where you (act as if you) are a morally compromised being for being white. the ultimate end of antiracism is to denaturalize racial hegemony, including virtuous moralization of the “oppressed”

evaluating your engagement in racism & the benefits you receive from white supremacy is only one piece of this process. the other piece is interacting with other people (of color) as if they are indeed the same species as you.

so instead of demoralizing yourself, look at your actions to determine if they are compassionate. academic stuff aside, this is often a good litmus test for racism; even the unintentional you will soon realize was often a failure to conceptualize how your actions would affect others- not a failure by some innate aspect of your race but by the normalized lack of consideration whiteness may afford you

[stories-i-guess]

So essentially the lesson here is that individuals can be bad but that is because of the things INSIDE their control, not outside like skin color or sexuality, and it’s always more harmful than helpful to categorize ANY group of people as something inherently bad just because of the actions of various INDIVIDUALS.

That’s also the lesson pretty much everywhere, I’m not sure how people aren’t getting the message yet.

[knuckle]

I mean the lesson here, essentially, is that this is still a structural issue. A class of people can have moral culpability for the structural issue so this isn't arguing that your morality is solely based in individual action. Rather, your individual morality is based on how you respond to the structural issue (white supremacy); do you view it as natural or something to interrogate and fight? The morality of the individual actions you take are contextualized by the hierarchy but your intrinsic morality is not detemined by where you were born in the proximate hierarchy.

[schoolhater]

the co-founder of 'crips for esims for gaza' and disability advocate, alice wong, has died according to her twitter account.

alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:

We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]

since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.

in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

[iustuspeccator]

When you are posting on tumblr, do not add your commentary to the text of the post, in case others disagree with you and the original poster may come and say to you, "Make your own post," and then you will be in disgrace. But when you post, add your commentary to the tags, so that when the original poster sees them, they may say to you, ‘Friend, do not hide this in the tags'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who blog with you.

[knuckle]

i honestly get pretty immersed in whatever i'm reading, or, rather, of trying to process the world of whatever it is, taking the author's conceit at face value, and let enough of the story unfold that i feel i have a grasp before i make strong judgments, so I truly don't very often think "wow this is such a self insert" when reading something but i do think, as it's happening, "wow this is very stupid. why would it take hours to wax your eyebrows why would this character do this. why is this character implausibly in love with the main character? why does everyone think they're impressive, quirky, etc.?"

this is all to say that my sister began reading iron widow for me so we could discuss it culturalamente, and, in much pain, she complained that i had warned her about a lot but not about how self-inserty it was to which i could only say that i just thought it was written badly and the characterization was poor and felt like lesser versions of x character in y media even though the author had openly said they related most to the main character lmao