a series of small victories

arden. 32 / chinese / nb lesbian.

[ot3]

i'm not going to sit here and call anyone a bad person for not sharing fundraisers on their tumblr blog because i don't think anyone is obligated even a little bit to use social media as the avenue by which they attempt to do good in the world. but something i do think is incredibly crass is the amount of blogs i see who insist on having long bios or pinned posts telling you they will never ever do this and block anyone who asks them to. you know you can just keep your mouth shut and quietly proceed with your regular blogging right? you don't have to announce you are going to block anyone who asks you to help. you don't need to talk about how really you just have too many problems to be able to be concerned with the suffering of people objectively much worse off than you. you don't need to subtly or not-so-subtly perpetuate the unsubstantiated dehumanizing racist talking points about how these people are probably all spambots anyway. you can just choose not to make yourself look like a complete asshole yknow?

[spacebeyonce]

The Rise of AI Is Making Life Even Harder for Real People in Gaza

Gizmodo spoke with desperate Palestinians who were accused of being AI creations.

a great article that I know some people on here definitely need to read 😌

[andyet-i-fish]

campaigns listed in the article (as verified)

Saeed Ismail - currently 8.055k Sahar AlAjrami - currently 26.477k Sahar's brother Ahmed - currently 1.942k Hany Abu Hilal - currently 4.638k

[borrelia]

racist as fuck post do NOT put this shit on my dash we already KNOW why messages are the same (useful templates, many palestinians are not native english speakers) and we KNOW why theyre anonymous (bypass the ten asks per hour limit) we KNOW why someone would run multiple accounts (you've seen how fast palestinian fundraising blogs get termed!) and you can GO to these blogs linked in the asks and see they are VETTED CAMPAIGNS:

Donate to Help Mosab saving who's left of his family

My name is Mosab Elderawi, and I am a survivor of the war in Gaza. Life as I knew it has been completely destroyed. I have lost my home, my

(Vetted number 309, with a strike for spamming requests, something gazavetters discourages to shut up idiots like the above op)

Help Abdelmajed Escape Gaza and Rebuild His Life

My name is Abdelmajed, and I am a survivor of the war in Gaza. Everything I once knew has been taken away—my home, my safety, and the people

(Vetted number 537)

if this dumb cunt couldnt even bother to CHECK. THE BLOGS. WHY ARE YOU REBLOGGING THESE ACCUSATIONS?? oh because youre mad you got some anons? you got some comments? boo fucking hoo. people are dying. theyre allowed to be a little "rude" and desperate to send you messages.

[feluka]

every couple of days someone makes a post on here that's basically "watch out for those scamming palestinians! they're really annoying and i don't like them, which disproves the extensive vetting efforts, because my discomfort is the most important thing in the universe" and everyone in the reblogs is like "thank god someone finally said something! i knew it! i had an inclination in my heart that those palestinians are dirty scammers all along and i was waiting for someone to confirm it! and now that you said you find them annoying that finally confirms it! wait shit that sounds racist i mean uhhhh it's so tragic that those scammers are taking advantage of a tragedy :( pretending to be real palestinians :( we all know real palestinians don't know how to use the internet :( thank you for talking about these fakers :(" i hope you all die

[feluka]

of course you're uncomfortable. you'd better be uncomfortable. seeing people desperately pleading for their lives trying to survive a genocide is heartbreaking. nobody should be comfortable seeing starving and injured children. none of this is normal. you'd rather believe it isn't happening. but it is, no matter how much you want to pretend it isn't.

you can look past your own discomfort and understand that taking action is more important, or if you absolutely can't move past your discomfort, you can block and move on. but making posts telling everyone else to stay away and decrying people as scammers without evidence makes you scum.

[feluka]

Anyway, the pet scams and the other scams weren't known to be scams because they "seemed like scams" or because they "looked weird". They were known to be scams because if you reverse-searched the images, you found them stolen from different social media platforms with conflicting stories.

The same is done extensively with every Gazan gofundme, and the ones that don't hold up to scrutiny aren't vetted. (For starters, the vetting process is much more involved than reverse image search.)

It's pitiful that people are crying "what happened to online safety and internet literacy?" and in the same breath saying "this is clearly a scam because they used emojis". That's the opposite of scam-busting.

By all means don't donate if you're nervous, but don't start claims of a "scam-ring" or that these are the same as the pet scammers because "the wording is off".

I don't have the words to describe to you how painful it is that my close friends whom I chat with in our mother tongue (in which they are much more eloquent than the asks that are machine translated for YOUR benefit) and fear for their lives constantly and cry at the footage they share with me - only for someone to slander them because, I don't know, you didn't like the tone of their messages.

[that-butch-archivist]

"Pearls" by Morgan Gwenwald

source: The Femme Mystique, edited by Lesléa Newman

[service-dogbutch]

ID. a scanned black and white close-cropped photo of a butch/femme couple. the femme is standing, wearing a slip, and the butch is kneeling in front of her in a leather jacket, face held against her thigh by the femme's manicured hand on her head. there is a string of pearls looped loosely around the butch's neck, and the femme holds the end of it in her hand like a leash. End ID.

[lillie-garden]

it's also like. people hearing public sex and immediately jumping to "people will be PERVERTS fucking in front of CHILDREN!!!!" is, in fact, just the result of anti-homeless, racist, homophobic, and transphobic (specifically transmisogynist) propaganda and legislation going back Decades upon Decades upon Decades.

The phrase "public sex" has historically been used to criminalize sex work and homelessness, at increasing rates for people who are multiply marginalized.

If you've ever had sex in your car? You technically "belong", legally speaking, on the sex offenders registry. This includes alleys, abandoned buildings, forests, and more!

If you can't see how this framing has been pushed over time to make you have an incredibly reactionary response to the concept, immediately jumping to "public sex is for PERVERT DEGENERATES" then like. You're beyond saving at that point.

[letmebegaytodd]

[durbikins]

[feferi]

like heaving laughing please help me

[sa2ha]

Recognising lesbian couples in art gives me a warm feeling. paintings by Joseph Lorusso.

[magnetolurgy]

then other day after that nintendo direct with the kirby mouthful mode footage i started thinking philosophically about the Metaphysical Nature of Pink Fictional Beings

[mymangotree-deactivated20160622]

[emi1y]

the most important part of online is understanding that all behavior is annoying when its people i don’t like but its funny when my friends do it and all interests are cringe when i don’t like them but they are immaculate when i do like them. when i talk about hating things its because i have good taste and i love talking shit but when other people talk about hating things that i like they are a loser who doesn’t know how to have a good time unless they are my friend in which case they get a pass. this is the law of the land

[iiwaken]

flowers flowers flowers ✿❁❀

[littleclouds]

i think the last two years of pandemmie has really cemented for me how much i value reciprocity in my friendships & relationships. like, i used to spend a lot of time worrying if that was unaccommodating or selfish etc bc i guess i thought it was high maintenance?

but after years of habitually being the one to initiate connection, ruminate on how to address conflict and problem solve, feeling like i'm overcommunicating, it is so so nice to have ppl just... matching my energy lol.

for them to be like, i see that this is how you show love, so i am doing it back to you, because i love you. want to talk abt our feelings? i am meeting you in our garden to plant things and watch them grow. i am texting you 17 times in a row. look at this thing i added to our watch together youtube playlist. list of songs that make me think of you. poems that make me think of you. describing food i'm having in detail bc i want us both to eat well. when speaking of people i love, i talked at length abt you.

like that sounds so lame but it's really crazy to me to not have to feel like i need to remind ppl that i'm there, because they already notice when i'm not around (!) and they reach for me (!!!) and make sure i know they are alongside me (!!!!!) and to feel with certainty, they carry my heart in their heart (!!!!!!!!!!)

i think i'm starting to get the point where i'm just finally okay with that being something i openly want and cultivate. and at peace with ppl who aren't interested in that and focusing on those who are

anyway. turning 29 be like

[preschooldr0pout]