nettlewool

26/she/bi

[lewishamil10n]

i've seen many of you on my dash reblog fundraisers and campaigns from palestinians, especially those that have been vetted and verified. it's a massive help for those families. but today i want to talk about the person behind the verification: mohammed ayesh @moxayesh who has done the legwork to make sure these campaigns are legit.

unfortunately his own campaign is struggling. as many of you may know, mohammed has recently gotten married! he and his wife farah are trying their best to start a new life with a fresh start. their campaign goal is $10k, of which they currently have $3211. you can donate to them on chuffed here.

i also want to mention mohammed's little brother, yaser @yaseergaza. yaser is hard of hearing and has a cochlear implant. however due to the situation in gaza, he often struggles to keep his cochlear implant charged, and he has also had to discontinue his speech therapy sessions. he is trying to raise funds so that he can continue looking after his health, and currently has $695 out of a total goal of $10k. you can donate to him on chuffed here.

mohammed has done so much for so many families in gaza. i do not want his own needs to be sidelined. if you can donate anything, please do. and even if you cannot, please do share this post so that it reaches someone who can help. thank you.

[moxayesh]

I want everyone who knows me to do as my friend did, a post of my own on your page of your words that urge you to donate. I hope this post will reap its fruition.

[gaza-evacuation-funds]

Your donation and participation will not lose much, but they help me a lot

[anohisreph]

made some master and margarita and yoshitaka amano inspired works

[genderoutlaws]

Marchers at the Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco. The focal point is a woman wearing a cape and a leotard with “Gay Power” emblazoned on the front in glittery cursive. She is carrying a shield depicting an outline of a labrys and the words “FIGHT BACK”

ph: Elaine Gay Jarvis | 1978

[driflloon]

kavita shetty styled by astrid chu

[blondebrainpowered]

The Owls Club was a black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939.

[petulantpony]

i’ve said it before but i wish vaginas didn’t cost money

[petulantpony]

you literally can not have a vagina without paying for it. vaginoplasty for some, period products for others, if you want to stop buying period products that’s gonna be expensive medicine or an expensive procedure, recovery from surgery requires time off work and vaginoplasty specifically requires money spent on dilators. our bodies shouldnt cost us this much on baseline. having a vagina shouldnt have such a hefty tax on it. it makes me feel like i’m in a fictional dystopia written for middle school classrooms when i think about it.

[cherrychouchou]

embroidered ceramic vessel by caroline harrius

[rosieandthemoon]

by bagiecha

[prideflagpink]

[ID: A person in glasses, copy says "If your boyself wears glasses your girlself needs them too. Give her the consideration a lady deserves get her a pair of beautiful feminine glasses. We offer complete optical service at reasonable prices. Over 300 styles. Call for an appointment. Ask for Elliot and say that you are a friend of Virginia. We have private fitting rooms that are understanding of the needs of TVs. No embarassment or complications." /End ID]

Ad from Transvestia, Vol. 08, No. 47 (October 1967)

[cosmicanger]

105 Years old Madam Omo Ogbewe-Lyawe, a Benin Centenarian, ph. Kaya Maghan

[terefah]

unfortunately if a tattoo artist (or jeweller for that matter) uses cross imagery too much in their work i lose interest, even if they’re extremely talented and otherwise i love their style. it’s like how once i had a lace shirt that was patterned kinda like a rug with some vaguely cross-shaped motifs and when my grandfather saw it he was like WHY ARE YOU WEARING CROSSES. that moment lives in my mind at all times. even like, four-point stars i’m hesitant about. these are my brain worms unfortunately

[vincekris]

Max Dupain - Doll’s head and goat’s skull . 1937

[perriaeyjeve]

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[grozat]

it frightens me

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

graffiti discourse is so stupid why the hell would I give a shit if people spraypaint their names or do some cool paintings under a bridge

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

sorry didn't realize the bridge has to be plain beige concrete. that was a load bearing plain beige concrete if anyone tags it the whole bridge collapses

[roseillith]

DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (1991) dir JULIE DASH