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The story of my father and mother who suffered from illness and lived under the wall of a tent
“The tent was their only shelter. Its winter wall was made of threadbare fabric that did not protect them from the cold or summer heat. Inside, they were lying on a thin mattress, two defeated bodies suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure. They woke up every day to the sound of chronic pain and dreams. That relaxes with every breath.
Dear mutuals and followers, sorry for the politics in your dashboard but in some homes today we cannot afford to "ignore the problems".
The country where I come from, Venezuela, has had an election for president that has resulted in fraud. Mr. Nicolás Maduro has proclaimed himself President although the votes have said the opposite. This regime has devastated the lives of its citizens, resorting to violence against those who opposed it. It has brought ruin to a nation once celebrated as a pioneer of Latin American independence, yet many choose to overlook its plight. Venezuela, a country that once extended support to immigrants and provided aid to others, is now dismissed as insignificant by many.
If you are an advocate who values the dignity and needs of individuals, we urge you to raise your voice alongside us. Don't ignore us because we are Latinos, this is also a war. It is a conflict against an individual who has controlled his armed forces, law enforcement, narcotics syndicates, and citizens, rendering any attempts at reform futile despite our vocal protests. I have family members who are unable to depart through legal means, and if they choose to leave unlawfully, they face harsh judgment from people of the outside.
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hi how do you put gifs in stamps? i cannot figure it out for some reason
I'll be happy to give you a hand! I've put most of this under the cut because I have two different methods of editing gif stamps, and I don't want to clog someone's dash LOL
I want to preface that I edit using a PC, so I'm not confident in giving advice/tips to anyone who is mobile-bound.
For the first method, and generally the easier one, I entirely use EZgif. It really is a lifesaver of a website... ^^
I start by cropping the gif I want to make a stamp of. Here’s the gif I’ll be using!
(Note: You can’t make stamps using gifv/webp files on EZgif, they will bug out. You can convert gifv files to gif by going to its URL and removing the “v,” and you can convert webp files to gif using this section of the website!)
[Photo ID: Gif of Shadow the Hedgehog.]
Sometimes you don't need to do this, but usually, I crop the gif to remove unnecessary background space and to put more focus on the character.
[Photo ID: Cropped gif to put more focus on Shadow and remove background space.]
Now, I resize the cropped gif. Set the width to “91″ and the height to “47.”
(Note: Sometimes after you size down the image, the gif gets corrupted. You can fix this by changing the resize method. I find Gifsicle works the best, though that isn't guaranteed.)
[Photo ID: Prior gif resized to 91 x 47.]
We’re almost done! All we have to do now is put the stamp border on through using the overlay section.
Note: If you want to use a different border, you'll likely have to find its area on your own to properly resize the gif again.
Once you are on the overlay page with your resized gif, you want to click this button once.
[Photo ID: Screenshot of Canvas Size button. Picture reads “Extend canvas size (use if overlay exceeds gif size).”]
After you do that, you want to insert the stamp border with this button.
[Photo ID: Screenshot of Choose File button. Picture reads “Select overlay image or watermark (PNG/GIF/JPG): Choose File: No file chosen. Upload Image!”]
Now that the border is inserted, change left to “41″ and top to “19,″ then click "Generate image!"
Note: You'll also have to find the left and top on your own if you're using a different stamp border. This is important because if you don't have the correct numbers, your gif will have a random sliver of transparency in it.
[Photo ID: Gif stamp with a noticeable amount of unnecessary transparent space.]
You should have something like this, but we aren’t done yet though. Do you notice all the transparent space we don’t need that’s around the stamp? We need to crop that out using this easy button!
[Photo ID: Screenshot of Autocrop button. Picture reads “Autocrop: trim transparent pixels around the image.”]
After you click "Autocrop," click "Generate image," and then you’re done!
[Photo ID: Completed gif stamp.]
You're free to add whatever aesthetic changes you like using the "Effects" section, though I usually tend to lay off that since I see it as a hassle.
Now, for the second, and more tedious method, that I have been using recently!
Starting off, we are going to find and crop our gif using EZgif again, so just copy the first two steps from the last method.
[Photo ID: Gif of Shadow the Hedgehog.]
[Photo ID: Cropped gif to put more focus on Shadow and remove background space.]
Now that's done, we need to resize the gif to fit the same stamp border I used before! But instead of using the prior numbers, we're going to use new ones.
Resize your gif by using the width “101″ and the height “57.”
Note: If you're using a different border, you can easily find these numbers because they'll be the same as your border's, as long as it doesn't have any background space. If your border does, please crop it out.
[Photo ID: Prior gif resized to 101 x 57.]
Now, here's where things get different. We're going to use the website "Photopea," which is basically just online Photoshop.
Click "File" on the top left corner of the website and then click "Open," then insert the resized gif.
[Photo ID: Photopea editing software with stamp opened.]
You should now have something like this! It's important to keep in mind that all of those layers are the frames of your gif.
Now, insert the stamp below, which is just the same border from earlier except with the stamp part colored in, onto the gif by clicking "File," and then clicking "Open & Place."
[Photo ID: Filled in downloadable stamp border, edges are still transparent.]
It will automatically paste onto a new layer at the top of the folder layer list. You need to move it down so that it's on the bottom of the folder, not the layer list. You can do this by simply dragging and dropping.
[Photo ID: Two images. One shows the filled-in stamp on top of the folder layer list. The other shows the filled-in stamp on the bottom of the folder.]
Here's the tedious part. You now need to set ALL of the gif's frames to "Clipping group," not including the filled-in stamp. This can conveniently be done by clicking each frame while holding down "Ctrl" and "Alt" on your keyboard. This process can either last a few seconds or up to a full minute depending on how many frames the gif has. Sorry...
[Photo ID: Example of the gif's frames all set to "clipping group." You can tell this has been done successfully because the frames have a small arrow pointing downward on the left side of the layer preview image.]
Don't forget to double-check in case you missed any frames! You should now have something like this at the center of your screen.
[Photo ID: Screenshot of the gif at the center of the screen, now looking stamp-shaped.]
We're not done yet! We still need to add a light stamp border and a dark stamp outline. We can do this by pasting the images below.
[Photo ID: Two photos. One is a transparent downloadable outline of a stamp. The other is a transparent downloader border of a stamp.]
Paste the light one first, and then the dark one last on top of the folder's layer list.
[Photo ID: Previous screenshot after the templates have been pasted.]
Click on "File," and then click "Save," and now you're done!
[Photo ID: Completed gif stamp made in Photopea.]
This part is optional, but if you want, you can mess around with the layers and add some aesthetical changes! Here's an example of the previous stamp after I edited it like I normally do!
[Photo ID: Completed gif stamp made in Photopea with effects.]
That's all for now! If you have any questions or need more help, don't be afraid to ask! :D
i promise you that person on fent bent over + swaying in rags is having a worse couple hours than you've ever had in your entire life. i promise you that person begging for money on the subway is going throughs something 1000% worse than you having to avoid their eyes while going to a restaurant. i swear on my life that person talking to themselves in public isn't evil or the devil or going to kill you. i think you need to get the fuck over yourself and stop acting like you're suuuchhh an NYC native and being afraid of all drug-heavy areas and posting videos of people on the trains like "only in the city! lol!". i think you should learn how to either have some compassion or shut the fuck up
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.
[ID: A collection of Reddit posts by u/takeyourmedsbro. They’re under r/MtF, and the first is marked as a discussion titled “To all of you ladies, from a cis man.” It reads:
I hope it isn’t totally out of order for me to post here, as a man I don’t want to take up your spaces so I’ll try and keep this as short as possible. Tw genital mention
I have full permission from my partner to post this and she’s read it all. There is a misconception that the only men a straight trans women can get with, is a chaser. It is very sad that many of you feel that way, and I’m sorry for how men treat you, but that’s not how it has to be. I met my girlfriend when I was 15. She was living as a boy then and was 13. I used to push her around when we played football at school. I thought she was one of the lads. Time goes on, I was never that close to her and we lost touch. Next thing is I meet her again on a fine art course. I didn’t recognise her at all and with her name change and generic surname I never made the connection. I developed quite the crush, we would go on dates and I’d sort of play them off as just hanging out with a friend. I was so giddy around her and I was terrified to tell her I liked her. One day we were going to the movies and I told myself ‘today is the day I ask her to be my girlfriend, and try to kiss her’ We ended up skipping the movie to go on a walk in the local forest. I held her hand and she squeezed mine - my heart was beating so damn fast. We finally kissed and it was like fireworks. I told her I liked her but she cut me off. She told me to stop talking because she needs to tell me something. Now in my mind I’m panicking thinking she’s in a relationship, but she says ‘l used to be a boy. I was at school with you, please don’t be mad I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you ‘and then to my absolute horror she said ‘please don’t hurt me’ She genuinely thought that there was a danger of me attacking her after finding out. This broke my fucking heart. I had my moment of being like wtf - mainly because I’d known this girl for almost 10 years and hadn’t pieced the 2 people together - but then we kissed again, and then again and again and we kissed so much my face hurt by the end. That was 5 years ago and boy this has been a learning curve. I’ve only ever dated cis women before. I am 100% straight and I had to unlearn some internalized shit for maybe a day or so, until I thought what the fuck does it matter who she used to be? Damn I used to be a baby, people change. But I love her the way she is now. I love her smile I love her eyes I love her body her curves her hands her hair and you know what? I love her penis too. I love it because it’s hers. and it gives her pleasure, and there isn’t anything wrong with it. I don’t have a fetish. I just fell in love with a woman and that means I fell in love with the whole package. I’m planning to propose to her on new years eve. I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I want to raise kids with her and I want her to lose all of these insecurities. Just because you can’t carry them, doesn’t mean you won’t be the mother of my children. There is hope, you’re not broken or unlovable or nothing but a kink. You’re a powerful woman.
The second post is titled “Update from the cis guy that proposed.“ It reads:
Hey ladies. I’ve been asked by a few of you to share an update. Here is my previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/e95hgx/to_all_of_you_ladies_from_a_cis_man/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
And here is your official soppy post warning - beware…
Soooo on exactly 00:00 new years (ok I was probably out by a couple minutes but I did try to time it) I proposed to my beautiful girlfriend (who also happens to be trans, hence why I’m posting on here) and she said YES
I don’t know if I can fully articulate how happy I am. I wanted to keep it lowkey and between the 2 of us so she didn’t feel any pressure, so I cooked her favourite meal ever (I would have liked to cook something fancy and elegant but honestly she would much rather eat spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread and then a loaded ice cream sundae for dessert ANY day of the week) we ate, played board games and did a competition to see who could make the best vehicle out of old egg cartons and toilet roll tubes. Then we decided to make cupcakes which were fucking vile because we forgot to add the sugar of all things. Not typical romantic evening but I felt all the love and when I dropped down on one knee she just wept. I didn’t even know I had a yes at first because she was crying so much. I actually got really scared I’d freaked her out so I stood up and hugged her and said I’m sorry and she finally told me yes yes yes and explained that she was crying because it was always beyond her wildest dreams as a youngster that she would ever be able to be a wife. This is not something I can relate to, but I think I do understand, as best as i can as a cis man. We literally just held each other for a bit before we both realized she hadn’t seen the ring yet! I’m not a wealthy guy at all so I was afraid she would be disappointed in my grandmothers wedding ring as her engagement ring (I will buy her a new ring for the wedding) but I did want her to have it as my grandmother always told me she wanted my future wife to wear it. Luck was on my side though people because the ring made her cry all over again, happy tears, because she said it made her feel like the fairytale she told herself as a child has finally come true. I think there maybe was something affirming about the fact that this ring was left from my grandma for me to give to the woman I want to spend my life with.
Ok I don’t want to bore you all to death with the ins and outs but I haven’t stopped smiling since she said yes. The fiancee (I love saying that, so exciting) has been obsessively wedding planning which is mighty convenient for me considering I have no clue on how to organize a wedding. It’s like the child in her has come out to play and its very endearing. She missed out on all the typical girly activities as a child so she’s making up for lost time. She ALREADY has a scrapbook for the wedding and she’s already browsing dresses!
I’m sorry for being all cliche and cringey. I know its insufferable to many and I do understand. I just feel drunk in love, and i did want to update and not leave people hanging! Other than my mother, my family does not know she is trans, because frankly it’s none of their business and my fiancee hasn’t wanted to open up to them about that part of her life. She confided in my mother because my mother knows a transgender boy and so it came up in conversation. As far as the rest of my family are concerned, it’s totally irrelevant to them and they will only ever know if she chooses to tell them. So I was wondering if incorporating rainbows anywhere in the theme at all would be too obviously lgbt pride themed? Or can I get away with some rainbow tokens and such just as a discreet acknowledgement of how far she’s come? Obviously I don’t want people to think of this wedding as anything other than what it is, a straight marriage between a man and a woman, so are rainbows risky? I’m just so damn proud of her and want to show that in some way. I was thinking of wearing rainbow cufflinks or something? Anyway sorry for the damn essay but I hope the new year goes well for you lovely ladies and sorry for being a cringe lord. I just can’t believe I’ve found my queen
in MtF by takeurmedsbro
Third is another post, which reads:
Also we have decided that on the big day, I will wear pink cufflinks and she will wear either blue eye makeup or a flower, and then the theme will be that classic white sorta theme. The colours of the trans flag, thanks to your suggestions. Like so subtle that only me and her will know it means anything at all. Hopefully that will work out tastefully but we also like the pink/blue/white elements of the cake idea. I showed her some of these comments and god damn it you lok she is now exploring sooo many more ideas and concepts, I didnt think she would expand past the scrapbook, but we now have a wedding ‘mood board’ of all things… takes up half the wall in our room. I proposed only 3 days ago! I love her enthusiasm but I’m finding it hard to rate all the dresses she shows me, when I cant tell the difference between any of them… a white dress is a white dress, but she says that’s typical male bullshit and she’s probably right there. But she can wear a bin bag to our wedding and still look perfect so I’m not worried about which compliments her body more, but then I do want her to put a dress on and have that feeling of ‘this is my dress’ and I have the feeling that could be a long process… anyway, the kindness means everything x. End ID]
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Even through all this destruction, the people of Gaza remain steadfast in their determination to stay in their homeland. They'll rebuild and rebuild a thousand times over no matter what the occupational army does to it.
Mahmoud Abusalama wants to make sure everyone outside of Gaza understands how steadfast the people are. Remember, even if all this happens, this is our homeland and Palestinians will not have their spirits broken! The colonial entity of 'Israel' will never take that away!
If you'd like to support the people of Gaza directly, you can donate to HelpGazaChildren through the link below.
HelpGazaChildren Notion Site || #helpgazachildren tag
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[ID: Mahmoud Abusalama sweeps away rubble in a room with walls missing as he speaks to the camera. The camera pans out and shows the complete and total destruction of Jabaliya refugee camp.]
this year while we all celebrate pride month and celebrate ourselves as well as those who came before us and paved the way for us to do so, we must also think of those in gaza, queer or not, who live every day under a brutal occupation and don’t have that same privilege. happy pride, and may we see a free palestine in this lifetime.
