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[marzipanflows]

My friend Tasneem and her family are still alive, and they're hoping to keep it that way!

This fundraiser is named for Tasneem's youngest daughter Alma, who is recovering from a horrific injury she had last year and needs funds for medical treatment.

So if you'd like to help Tasneem and her family, you can donate to their fundraiser on Chuffed:

Help Alma and her family

Hi,

If you're on IG, you can also follow Tasneem there for direct updates - her previous account was deleted as part of the ongoing purges of Palestinian accounts, and her new one is: tasneem.saif1993

Or, if you're on BlueSky, you can follow the filmmaker Alex Winter, who regularly posts updates from Tasneem: https://bsky.app/profile/alexwinter.com

Thanks for helping out - feel free to share her fundraiser with your friends and anyone you know who might be able to help Tasneem and her family in this time.

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silver part 4, from Dream 11 (2011)

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from Infinity (and other inventions) Magazine (2011)

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Angry! - "You're Alright" (2026)

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from Dogs Named Kannonball (2011)

[ecyayce]

computa make this summer a very lesbian one thank you

[loveridden1999]

for those unaware today india experienced one of its biggest protests in half a decade. there were protests all over the nation for various causes but the major one was in delhi. all we asked for was the resignation of the education minister because he's failed the students of this nation time & time again. but we were met with brutality, the police had barricaded the main site of protest (jantar mantar). metro stations were shutdown, the public was restrained from reaching the protest site and all the adjoining areas had signal jammers to make sure the crowd had no access to constant updates. they had us blocked from all the sides. they were lathi (baton) charging students from one side & releasing tear gas from the other. you couldn't walk 100 m on streets without having a tear gas shell thrown at you. there were many students, women & kids bleeding — some from their head. some couldn't walk anymore. the police had removed their nameplates, covered their faces & acted with full impunity to resort to unprecedented levels of violence. they were pelting stones at us, beating up people for no reason, forcefully detaining them and attacking us constantly with tear gas & rubber bullets. they wouldn't let you exit either. the crowd was peaceful & looking out for each other yet they were met with violence. i made a friend who was all alone & she asked to join me & my friend because a policeman wouldn't leave her alone. he constantly prodded her for personal info, invited her back to the jeep saying they have food there, wouldn't stop following her around. you couldn't call or ask anyone for help, we were left to fend for ourselves & be on a constant lookout if you did not want to be beaten up to death by police. all for what? asking a resignation? shame on this country.

[joyfulheartstrawberry]

I try not to be political on this blog, but all the protests going on in my place have made me realise that being able to say you are not political is a privilege. I was there at the protest in new delhi, it was awful! Women groped by the police, clothes torn, kids beaten, pregnant women beaten?? The media is sold out, the police is sold out, the government is nuts. I don't believe India is democratic anymore, we live in a totalitarian dystopia.

To everyone out there especially outside India, our country's media is in favour of the government. It would be great if you could spread awareness about India in your circles and reach out to me for it.

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from Stranger Dreams (2011)

[adolere]

Also "don't armchair diagnose" applies to autism too btw. Don't say a celebrity is autistic just because they flap their arms or something. Let them confirm or deny it themselves

[tokyoproxy]

京都 // Kyoto, Japan

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from Origin of the Black Squirrel (2009)

[pmamtraveller]

1970s canned goods label designs, from The Art of the Label by Robert Opie.

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So the other day I was picking something up from my favorite taquería in the part of México where my parents live, and this group of English speaking tourists had left the door to the drinks refrigerator wide open and sat themselves down right in front of it so no one could get past them to buy drinks until they finally left.

And while they were sitting there, they were talking so loudly that the whole place had to listen to their conversation, which was about how the tour guide who they'd hired that day was "definitely on the spectrum", because she was knowledgeable about her culture and taught them some things about it.

This was very enlightening to me because until then, I had not been aware that being competent at one's job was a symptom of being on the autism spectrum.

I just wish the tourists had also learned some other important cultural differences, maybe about how we like to keep our refrigerator doors closed here - my drink was so lukewarm and it was sad.

[i2-xmf]

Little Snowy

"I caught her just as she finally decided to come in."

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"Beautiful and terrifying 2026"

[calmdownzuza]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

there is something very sad and humiliating about having to desperately beg doctors and family members to understand that involuntary institutionalization does not in fact help your mental health, knowing your perspective will always be dismissed at the end of the day

it's such an awful existence to be a psychiatric patient as a teenager, there has to be another way to help aggressively suicidal teenagers, such as addressing the circumstances that make them want to die so much in the first place! you can stop suicide by locking someone up, sure, but they will not want to live

[doe-eyed-disaster]

it's awful that researchers are only now starting to take this perspective seriously, but there is a small but growing body of study supporting exactly what patients have been saying about psychiatric incarceration. one study in particular, from Allegheny county in Pennsylvania, offers a damning analysis of involuntary psychiatric commitments:

For individuals whose cases are judgment calls, where some physicians would hospitalize but others would not, we find that hospitalization nearly doubles both the probability of dying by suicide or overdose and also nearly doubles the probability of being charged with a violent crime in the three months after evaluation. We provide evidence of earnings and housing disruptions as potential mechanisms. Our results suggest that, on the margin, the system we study is not achieving the intended effects of the policy.