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[starlightseraph]

🍉 as easy as it might be for some to forget that people you see on your phone, in the news, or on television are real people, you should absolutely be reminding yourself of that every day. you are not special, you are not more important, you are not worth more than a palestinian. they are human just as you are, they are exactly the same as you. their lives are as full of memories and habits and hopes and love and joy and jokes as any one life in the first world. don’t be fooled by the ease with which you can click away from a video or ignore a fundraiser, your discomfort is their death.

🔻organisations and individual campaigns below!

if you’re overwhelmed and unsure of which cause to donate to, just click a random one. no matter who you give to, your generosity will not be in vain.

posts including a lot of resources: one 🇵🇸, two 🇸🇩, three 🇱🇧

🇵🇸 orgs:

revive gaza’s farmland

ele elna elak

the palestine red crescent society (PRCS)

the sameer project

dahnoun mutual aid

water is life gaza

cruelty-free kitchen/camp gaza

the palestine children’s relief fund (PCRF)

the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees in the near east (UNRWA)

🇱🇧 orgs:

lebanese red cross (LRC)

lebanese food bank

egna legna besidet

other orgs:

🇸🇩 khartoum aid kitchen

🇮🇷 iranian red crescent society (IRCS // RCSIRI)

🇵🇸 individual gaza campaigns:

@freegazas-posts @areejfamil @abedmajeed2 @mosabsdr @nasr-daher @hamodfamily @nadinfamily @reemanan @jehadkhaled @rolafamily @supportmykids @yousefjehads-blog @abdulrahman-family @nad-78 @kareman-dohaan @painfullyluckychangeling @sami-onley12 @aboodgaza0 @ahmadwaleed55 @mosabahmad1 @save-the-child-qais @mahrahpalestine @drdarine @aburakhiaibrahim @wolfer-aid @nooralanqar3 @mosabahmad1 @danashehab @siraj0 @shamsgaza0014

🍊 watching a live streamed genocide is difficult and traumatising. but yknow what’s infinitely worse? living in the heart of that genocide, and having to broadcast the worst moments of your life in a desperate attempt to convince the world to see you as a human being. don’t look away. that’s how oppressors get even more powerful. it’s hard, i know. it’s painful. it’s tiring. it’s also nothing at all compared to what palestinians are going through.

do not look away.

[updated regularly with new campaigns, resources, and links. if you tag/message me and i don’t respond or add you here, i probably missed it because my notifications are messed up on mobile. don’t hesitate to try again! i’ll donate once i can, there might be some delay, but i’ll leave the account linked here to remind me and others. <3]

[stalinita]

[stalinita]

It is July 26. I miss you Fidel Castro

[cloudswamp]

that time in the 90's where dennis rodman married himself while declaring he was bisexual.

[carlosmarcosapproved]

[offslime]

Fidel Castro giving a speech in Havana, following victory over Batista, has a dove land on his shoulder. from Estela Bravo's Fidel: The Untold Story

[europe-abolitionist]

I'm fine w being bullied. I'm fine w bald people. but being bullied by a bald person is too much

[nongunktional]

when i first heard about the male loneliness epidemic i was like oh yeah close camaraderie and bonding between men is often discouraged in favor of competition or, if not discouraged, at least filtered through a lens of individualism that precludes deep connections. and then i learned what people meant by it (men arent getting laid) to which i say skill issue

[base-and-superstructure]

Kinda love this photo of "two friends" (USSR, 1930s/40s? Let me know if you know), via sovietvisuals. The first rule of firearm safety is to have fun with it ig

[goodfortuneforever-deactivated2]

My 5 year plan .. being dope .. having fun .. chilling .. smiling

[dechuis]

do any of ye remember when part of the official online oxford dictionary definition of hiberno english was "a dialect of english spoken by the lesser educated in ireland" 😐. I think they might have changed it because I cant find it anymore but it was that way up until like 2023 for sure

[dechuis]

found a screenshot. just so brazenly ignorant insulting and incorrect lmfao. whatever.

I love hiberno english. I love how we talk I love saying banjaxed and gowl and foostering and bockety and yoke, yer man yer wan that gobshite, I love the habitual be I love saying t and d instead of th I love not saying the g in ing, I love hearing my granny say he has no meas for the place and sure he's only plámásing her and shes pure flaithiúlach anyway, I love when its fierce baltic but yerra sure we'll be grand anyway and wisha ye wouldn't bother yeer backsides to help and himself making a hames of it, i love jackeens shoneens gombeens sleevens amadáns ludramáns óinseachs cailíns waggons gurriers yokes bowsies culchies boggers beours feens and all in between I love us <3 and I especially love how we talk

[dechuis]

OMG THAT SCREENSHOT WAS FROM 2022 I DIDNT EVEN CHECK IF IT WAS STILL UP it still says less educated speakers 💀💀

genuinely quite upsetting hahaha I hate english people

[dushanbabe]

absolutely appalling how upon searching up narodnyi tyl, many summaries focus on their "humanitarian work", completely leave out the fact that they are the actual founders of myrotvorets, a massive database of around 5,000,000 people (incl approximately 400 actual children, as young as 2) which has been used as a kind of hitlist to target and kill people on several occasions - such as mp o. kalashnikov and journalist o. buzina, both of whom were killed in april 2015, less than two days after their info was published on myrotvorets. both of these assassinations were praised by the myrotvorets team

[dushanbabe]

alongside the "main database", they also operate identigraf, which i think is underdiscussed. its a facial recognition software linked to the main database, comparing any face you scan (and anyone in kyiv-controlled territory with a ukrainian sim card can scan, for free, up to 25 times per day per phone) to the people listed in the database, and if the percentage is high enough then they may also be reported to the authorities. they have also encouraged employers, law enforcement, etc to use this tool

[dushanbabe]

several months after the assassinations, in july 2015, h. tuka (the main founder of myrotvorets and a co-fohnder of narodnyi tyl) was personally appointed by poroshenko to be the governor of luhansk oblast. is this the kievan way of "caring about donbass"?

[dragon-in-a-fez]

keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it's immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like "yeah so this is going to happen to the internet" and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don't even get paid for it

[bloodyspector]

[bobbs]

[punkrtown]

this is so old but here’s some crumbs

[jnadvich]

I dotm want it to be august

[rohie-deactivated20191102]

“Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”

— I Know What You Think of Me, Tim Kreider for the New York Times

[owlmylove]

after YEARS of seeing this quote online and finding it to be the most deeply and resoundingly profound writing i finally found the source article and absolutely nothing could prepare me for this opening paragraph

[bi-icon]

Okay but the whole article is really interesting and also contains this quote which I’ve never heard before but really like:

“Anyone worth knowing is inevitably also going to be exasperating”