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Therapy isn’t enough I need an Untitled Track to appear on my phone followed by Hatsune Miku pulling me into a whole separate plane of existence world thing born from my passion and feelings
WHY WE MASK: It's Not "Just A Cold": A Handy Scientific Guide to Surviving COVID-19 Together
Here, have a free science zine with a ridiculously long title! Endless thanks to my partner and fellow disabled artist, Kimball Anderson aka @earnestattempts, who helped through the entire year-long process with art edits and image descriptions (located in the alt text). Additional thanks to my friends Dupe and Caitlin, who gave me thorough copy-edits, and every friend who read drafts or listened to me rant about COVID-19.
Feel free to spread it far and wide! And hit me up if you're interested in printing &/or distributing free copies :D
Read WHY WE MASK with Endnotes - includes working URLS so you can read the scientific papers I cited for yourself. Plus links for all the other resources, and a full transcript.
Download WHY WE MASK - Free PDFs to read, print, and share! Any donations go towards print copies &/or local mask blocs.
Can't get enough free printable COVID zines? Check out @newlevant's excellent What's Up With COVID & How To Protect Yourself: 2024 Ed! It was a huge inspiration in the final stretch.
Extra pages under the cut:
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Acrylic on canvas, August 2024
Hi, I hope you're doing well. ❤️ I'm writing to you with a heavy heart and an urgent request for help. My family is in a very danger situation due to the ongoing war, and I've launched a GoFundMe campaign to save them. 😢 Could you please share my campaign post from my profile? Each share could be a lifeline for my family. 🙏 Feel free to share it in any other social media platform if you would like. Our campaign has been verified by operation olive branch, and is entry number 26 on their spreadsheet. From the bottom of my heart I want to thank you in advance for all of your support and kindness.
Dear Humanity, I'm Haya from Gaza , from a family of 8 people: my… Ahmed Alshawish needs your support for Emergency: Help Evacuate My Fa
by the way this is the procedure to get out of gaza
it costs 5k USD per adult and 2.5k USD per child
if you want to raise this money via GOFUNDME it has to be arranged by someone who is NOT living in Palestine because GFM does not release money to Palestine. GFM also verifies every detail so it has to be accurate so you need someone who is out of Palestine and also familiar with the bureaucracy.
once you raise the money one of your FIRST ORDER RELATIVES have to deposit this money IN CASH and IN PERSON at the Cairo offices of a company called hala. this person cannot be a Palestinian male under 40 because they are not allowed to be Egypt without a permit
once you pay the money you have to WAIT for your names to be published by Egyptian military at the Rafah crossing and the you have 24 hours to get out
it is a very long and convoluted process that is impossible for most Palestinians who do not have contacts in other counties. Please please donate to the GFMs you see floating around because they’ve been verified and this is only the first step in an arduous journey. Once in Cairo, Palestinians aren’t allowed to work so they need money for their support also.
DONATE TO GAZAFUNDS.COM
Find vetted fundraisers for Gaza here
I don't think you guys realize but as a latinoamerican I have never met a person with a dishwasher who wasn't rich so every time you talk about the dishwasher I'm like holy shit my mutual is fucking loaded
By the way just to get this out of the way I don't care if you rent and the dishwasher was already there just the fact that the apartment you rent comes with a dishwasher speaks of the life quality level the population of the place you rent have to the point where they'd see a dishwasher as an essential appliance instead of a luxury. WHICH I'M NOT SAYING IT'S EITHER that's not the point. The point is you are culturally wealthier as a society than my hometown and those of everyone who agreed with this post. I'm not calling you rich specifically for having a dishwasher however I do find it necessary to acknowledge, as was the intent of the post in the first place, that perceptions of wealth vary significantly depending on the socioeconomic context people are brought up in. For example the things a low class usamerican might have access to could classify them as middle and even upper class in other places with different conditions. Hope this helps!!
It betrays something infantile in how we get trained to think that there’s this urge to be defensive when told “you are wealthier than someone else.” The discomfort with objective reality is telling. They think admitting they’re wealthier than someone else costs them in some moral way. It would force them to nuance their understanding of themselves as people who may be disadvantaged by some aspects of the American empire while simultaneously benefitting from other aspects of it.
@professorrivertam thank you, this is exactly what I was trying to get at:
#there’s also this urge in some circles to emphasize one’s own disadvantages especially resulting from demographic membership #because to be a member of a privileged group = immoral, if being a member of a marginalized group = noble #because we still can’t get away from the idea that suffering is noble and luxury is sin #so. we must disavow our privilege because if we are privileged on any axis then we are an oppressor and bad #and being called “wealthier than someone else” is the same as being accused of being evil
(I added one comma in there for clarity)
This thinking requires adopting rigidly fixed binary thinking. And obviously it would allow the people with more privilege to resolve their discomfort at having their Marvel movie worldview challenged by… simply ignoring the anything that challenged them. Because we have the privilege of doing so. So they never have to wrangle with the fact that they are not unilaterally oppressed and thereby ontologically Good and Free From Sin. And it invites questions about what else in their political views might be driven by emotions that reinforce only what is comfortable to their self-conception.
Igual cada vez que comento sobre las internas de la política yanki me siento asi:
what if miku.... was an angle
I’m joining the race
chuckling indulgently.. oh go on... i suppose a LITTLE bit of monica in my life wouldn't hurt
Link landscape - Nicolás Raurich Petre , 1900-01.
Catalan, 1871-1945
Oil on canvas , 68.20 x 45.20 cm.
A new gruesome massacre that Israel had committed in a displacement camp in Mawasi. If you're finding the name Mawasi too familiar, it is because just a few days ago, Palestinians in Gaza were sharing the orders they received from Israel to move to that area specifically in Khanyounis.
At least 100 Palestinians have been killed and the number is very likely going to rise, considering there is only one hospital in the area, Nasser hospital, which is barely functioning with no fuel to generate power, not enough beds or manpower. Even mortuary refrigerators are reportedly too full.
The massacre took place in the very early hours of the morning when families were still in their tents, before embarking on their daily search for food and water. Israel knows this and yet deliberately timed this attack as if to maximise the number of victims.
The makeshift tents, made from plastic and nylon, were attacked by three F16 airstrikes, 10 drone strikes, and followed by live ammunition fired from quadcopters. The magnitude of this massacre is so massive that many families were actually killed by being buried by mountains of sand as a result of the explosions, which you can see in this footage of the early moments of the attack. A woman testified to one of the correspondents that she had her 2 month old baby in her arm but he flew out of her arms due to the huge impact of the explosions and that she was still looking for him.
Mawasi is one of the most densely populated areas in Gaza with over one million people crammed in it. Israel's weaponry, including the drones and quadcopters that were used in this massacre, have the ability to detect who is in the area. We have seen this pattern repeatedly for the past 9 months, so make no mistake that this is an annihilation campaign against Palestinians done literally in broad daylight.
hey i just want to remind everyone all of utena is on youtube for free
here's the link
For all the people that need to watch some gay shit
Here is a list of all trigger warnings for Utena as well, since it deals with very heavy subjects
I feel like I'm going insane. Multiple massacres in Gaza right now and no one is paying attention.
^^^ Tonight alone, many people in Gaza are reporting carpet bombing that "rivals the first days of the war" and it has been going on for days now. Thousands are forcefully displaced. The thing every reporter is saying right now is that the streets are filled with people because "nobody knows where to go. No Place is safe"
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Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.
And it is a trap.
An ask like this has several purposes.
First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.
The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.
Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)
The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.
Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:
Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.
The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.
Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG
If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*
They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.
It's a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.
This is what bullying on social media can look like especially in left-leaning/social justice minded circles. This is how otherwise caring people get roped into participating in harassment campaigns.
my absolute favorite of this, a while back, was this ask which i can't find anymore, but someone sent jumpingjacktrash a note about how they liked his writing and wanted to recommend it to people and so on, but they weren't comfortable with it because of his continued reblogging of posts from the-real-seebs, a known homophobe, and they just felt like if he'd block me and stop reblogging my posts, they would be comfortable recommending his fanfic to people. and since jesse is a gay man, it stands to reason he would be shocked and horrified to find out he was associating with a known homophobe.
ultimately, i think, the thing that decided him on this question, and led to him accepting the possible loss of fame and fandom, was that we'd been married for over twenty years at this point.