I DON'T REALLY KNOW

what I'm doing with my life

[furiousfinnstan]

Link to og vid

And heres the link to the gofundme if you wanna help a trans person this pride month

[hagiomoto]

Al-Jazeera should be held in contempt for this

[ainecdote-remade-deactivated202]

tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

[sloppity-bilepiper]

1. Europeans using Egyptian mummies as medicine

2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."

4. Zombies (which I would class as cannibals, since they were human and need to eat humans to live) have a root in Haitian folklore and represented enslavement.

[vintagedean]

adding that, if you can find it, cannibal culture by deborah root is about exactly this. the way the white western world is a hungry, destructive force that cannibalizes non-white cultures and creates wealth and status through the cannibal colonization of those cultures.

here's the intro

i almost think there's an essay in bell hooks' black looks about this too? yes! just checked, there's an essay called "eating the other"

[savee-baby]

SADLY, MY BABY QAIS'S HEART STOPPED TONIGHT, AND HIS LITTLE BODY BECAME COMPLETELY STILL.

There were no ambulances to save him, so I carried him on a wooden board toward the hospital, screaming through every street and begging my neighbors to help me carry my child before it was too late.

[savee-baby]

The doctors managed to bring baby Qais back, but they rushed him into intensive care and connected him to machines. They told me his wound had deepened by another three centimeters, and they could do little more until I found a way to secure the treatment he urgently needs.

[savee-baby]

I am begging you as a persecuted mother in Gaza, watching my baby bleed in front of me, unable to stop it. Please donate now and help me save his life before it’s too late.

Please donate now Gofundme

[savee-baby]

I have no words left to describe this nightmare. I am begging you with all the strength I have left—please help me buy the treatment and medicine Qais urgently needs. Every donation could help keep hope alive for my little boy.

[savee-baby]

SADLY, MY BABY QAIS'S HEART STOPPED TONIGHT, AND HIS LITTLE BODY BECAME COMPLETELY STILL.

There were no ambulances to save him, so I carried him on a wooden board toward the hospital, screaming through every street and begging my neighbors to help me carry my child before it was too late.

[savee-baby]

The doctors managed to bring baby Qais back, but they rushed him into intensive care and connected him to machines. They told me his wound had deepened by another three centimeters, and they could do little more until I found a way to secure the treatment he urgently needs.

[savee-baby]

I am begging you as a persecuted mother in Gaza, watching my baby bleed in front of me, unable to stop it. Please donate now and help me save his life before it’s too late.

Please donate now Gofundme

[savee-baby]

I have no words left to describe this nightmare. I am begging you with all the strength I have left—please help me buy the treatment and medicine Qais urgently needs. Every donation could help keep hope alive for my little boy.

[savee-baby]

SADLY, MY BABY QAIS'S HEART STOPPED TONIGHT, AND HIS LITTLE BODY BECAME COMPLETELY STILL.

There were no ambulances to save him, so I carried him on a wooden board toward the hospital, screaming through every street and begging my neighbors to help me carry my child before it was too late.

[savee-baby]

The doctors managed to bring baby Qais back, but they rushed him into intensive care and connected him to machines. They told me his wound had deepened by another three centimeters, and they could do little more until I found a way to secure the treatment he urgently needs.

[savee-baby]

I am begging you as a persecuted mother in Gaza, watching my baby bleed in front of me, unable to stop it. Please donate now and help me save his life before it’s too late.

Please donate now Gofundme

[savee-baby]

I have no words left to describe this nightmare. I am begging you with all the strength I have left—please help me buy the treatment and medicine Qais urgently needs. Every donation could help keep hope alive for my little boy.

[proustiansleep]

“I wrote a story called ‘The Intensive Care Unit’ about a world where people never meet. They simply make contact via TV. Marriage is conducted hundreds of miles apart. And in my story I visualise a man who actually decides to meet his wife and children in the flesh. Of course, it’s a disaster. They just cannot bear the sensory overload. On a mere neurological level, they can’t bear to be together - rather in the way that we can’t bear to be too close to strangers. So I can believe that, in the future, people won’t be able to bear to be in the same room as others. Or even on the same street.”

— J. G. Ballard, in interview, Extreme Metaphor : Selected Interviews 

[infectiouspiss]

kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3

[infectiouspiss]

you'll say something as simple as "no child deserves to be hit" and people will crawl out of the woodwork to explain why they should be allowed to beat a 6 year old for spilling some water

[infectiouspiss]

you'll say "i think it's weird that adults literally have control over when children are allowed to use the bathroom" and up pops a teacher to say that when they're not shouting at the kids they teach, they're trying to stop them from hiding in the bathrooms

you'll say "i think children shouldn't be forced to eat food they hate" and here comes someone who feeds their kids plain rice and boiled chicken (while eating a nicely seasoned stirfry) claiming that it's okay actually and kids shouldn't be allowed to taste things

you'll say "i think kids should have bodily autonomy" and in comes someone who pierced their babies ears before it was even 24 hours old, frothing at the mouth because their kid wanted a haircut and thats somehow an insult

[infectiouspiss]

children are an oppressed class and everyone should be looking back at their own childhoods and making sure they don't ever make a child feel the same way they felt.

[loveridden1999]

education minister dharmendra pradhan resigns!!!!!

[loveridden1999]

[baybelletrist]

Americans Are Cutting Down Flock Cameras. The Company Calls Them Terrorists.

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles.

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles. Perched above public streets, they are birdlike things, weatherproof, and they photograph every passing car and file it in a searchable national database. Somebody cut two of them in half at Washington Avenue and Westcott in Houston, spray-painted the wreckage, and left an American flag on one of them. Police were notified on the morning of the Fourth of July. Somebody severed a camera in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. The police department posted the photograph itself and collected more than twenty thousand comments. “Not all heroes wear capes.” “Give them a medal.” Here is what the cameras do when nobody cuts them down. Cops use them to hunt immigrants and to follow ICE targets across state lines and to find women who ended pregnancies in states where that is a crime and to watch exes and to watch women they want, without a warrant and without a judge. A cop types a reason in a box and the box does not check. A man in Burleson, Texas, told deputies his girlfriend had taken abortion pills. He showed them the photographs, the FedEx envelope, the instructions. Deputies opened a death investigation into a non-viable fetus, and the district attorney told them the state could not charge her, and they searched anyway: 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks, a month of everywhere she had been. The reason they typed was had an abortion, search for female. The search reached Illinois and Washington, where what she did was legal. They found her in Dallas. She came into the sheriff’s office a week later, and they thought she had come to explain the fetus, and she had come to report that the man who called them had put a gun to her head. A sheriff in Jerome County, Idaho ran his wife’s plate more than seven hundred times in three months. He typed the same reason every time. Test. The attorney general found nothing to charge him with. He retired in April. The Institute for Justice counts at least twenty-two officers who used the system to track people they were romantically interested in, and calls that almost certainly an undercount. And the cameras keep falling.

Become ungovernable.

[memewhore]

[bananahomo]

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

[minakittengaming]

This is huge. Sharing for my US friendos.

[zillyblog]

Hospitals like to hide these policies under a lot of successive links in obscure places, so if you don't see anything right away, keep looking! Get friends to help! Make it a scavenger hunt. A game where you're assassins sent to slit capitalism's throat

[fuckthisshit-ugh]

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

[butterfly-sapphic]

Link to post

[proustiansleep]

“I wrote a story called ‘The Intensive Care Unit’ about a world where people never meet. They simply make contact via TV. Marriage is conducted hundreds of miles apart. And in my story I visualise a man who actually decides to meet his wife and children in the flesh. Of course, it’s a disaster. They just cannot bear the sensory overload. On a mere neurological level, they can’t bear to be together - rather in the way that we can’t bear to be too close to strangers. So I can believe that, in the future, people won’t be able to bear to be in the same room as others. Or even on the same street.”

— J. G. Ballard, in interview, Extreme Metaphor : Selected Interviews 

[hihereami]

You are decended from escaped Nazi's though let's get that point straight.

This is exceedingly funny because I, Aimee, descend from a jewish Holocaust survivor. My great grandpa Berco, paternal grandfather to my mom. He's the only surviving member of his family after they were invaded and murdered by nazis on 1930s Romania.

I know more people descending from jewish, muslim or indigenous people than people with german ancestry. The only people with german ancestry I've met are jewish.

[hihereami]

The claim "Argentina is a nazi country" affects first and foremost jewish argentinians, not the fascists.

"Argentina is a white country" affects the brown, black and indigenous argentinians, not the racists.

"Argentina is an evil country aligned to the US and Israel" completely misses the point we're a third world country in Latin America under imperialist attack.

Milei's goverment is trying to pass laws that allow foreign goverments and corporations to buy our land. He's gifted them our water, lithium and scientific resources.

WE are the first victims of what's happening.

It's indigenous people whose land is about to be sold in this foreign takeover.

The victims of Argentinian racism are my brown friends who get stopped by the police.

The victims of the fascist state is my own fucking family, my 90 year old uncle with AIDS got his medication cut because they want him dead.

"Argentina chose its president, they must think like him" but Milei has support from foreign entities and rose to power thanks to the media painting him as "an economist" who would solve our terrible inflation problem. People were made to feel they had no other choice. We are a third world country with no global power whatsoever. We are the USA ans Israel's victim, not its ally.

So yeah, very funny, we descend from nazis. We have wiped all people who aren't white. We're zionists colonizers who threaten the UK. Yes, sure.

[viralfrog]

[chingaderita]

TRANS GIRL IN NEED OF URGENT SURGERY!!!

Our last post isn't helping

There's so much shit happening but I'll try to be brief.

I'm trans nonbinary, I have two trans kids and my youngest daughter is trans, we've been facing transphobic attacks from my father-in-law which has made our housing situation unsafe.

Aside from that she had a surgery last year but turns out the diagnosis was wrong and the problem is back and worse, she needs another surgery URGENTLY!!! She is in a lot of pain and at risk of urinary, kidney and bladder infections.

I can provide proof with the doctor prescriptions and the surgery papers once we can pay it of course.

We had to find a trans friendly urologist for her safety but it is very VERY expensive :C

We're dealing with unemployment, a house full of mold and rust in the water while fighting with our chronic illnesses and disabling pain while caring for my elderly in-laws and our kids.

My friend and mutual is offering commissions to help us raise funds for the surgery, check it out!!!

PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!!

$125/$3,500

paypal kofi throne

**will edit later when im a bit more rested and in less pain

[chingaderita]

When I say trans girl I mean she is a literal kid, she just turned 8 last week and can't even go to the bathroom without crying, please, anything.

[hagiomoto]

Israeli banks are planning to end services to Palestinian banks in the West Bank. They are the only means by which Palestinians in the West Bank can receive and transfer money internationally, and they also provide the system through which many Palestinians are paid. This is a disaster in the making.

Israeli banks to cut ties with Palestinian counterparts: Officials

Israeli banks have informed their Palestinian counterparts that they intend to end critical banking services within weeks, Israeli and Pales