A Tokyo Trini Tumbles

[midnightinthemagicmicagarden]

Seriously my friends and lovers...

I'm still alive, somehow but trying to avoid staying outside all night for the third time in 4 days.

I have $45 right now at 5:32am Friday June 12th. Last night was windy and freezing. I used a spare pair of pants as a shawl. It was embarrassing and didn't work well. I need help. I need people to care right now. I need sleep more than every other night. I especially need sleep now.

If 10 People put $50 deposits on paintings I could find something, even at weekend prices and eat.

Except for a humiliating 20 minutes in the lobby of a hotel whose junk fees increased the cost of a room beyond my means, I was out all night. I haven't slept. Everything hurts. Please help me never have another night like that.

It's nearly 3am, I'm cold, Exhausted, and couldn't pay for the hotel because of incidentals deposit. So now $50 short, I had to leave. I'm now in a worse area. Please help me get somewhere, please. Please.

Venmo: Kate-Havekost (8154 if they ask)

I guess I'm spending another night outside. Alone, outside, in the cold. I was generously given money for a sweater. I don't know where to buy one at 2:30am in Denver, though.

I'll let you have almost any painting I have in storage if you Venmo $300, name, address and top 3 painting choices. I can get it out of storage and ship almost anything tomorrow.

[tanuki-kimono]

[Cyber Effect] astonishing modern raden (mother of pearl inlay) by Terumasa Ikeda. A nice pun on the classic Ghost in the shell ;)

Raden is a very old decorative craft (see video below), usually used on lacquer bases with floral or traditional motifs. It’s so great to see it used this way!

[abdulrahman-family2]

My little nephew is dying; I feel like he's taking his last breaths. I will never forgive anyone who ignores this.

[abdulrahman-family2]

Please, we urgently need €850 for emergency surgery for my nephew. His health has deteriorated significantly; he is now in a coma and unconscious, suffering greatly. Time is running out, and every moment is crucial for him.

[abdulrahman-family2]

My nephew is his parents' only child. He lost his father in this genocide in the Gaza Strip and suffered multiple traumas during this war. He has already had one operation and now needs another. Please don't leave him alone. Donate towards his operation. I don't want to lose him like I lost my mother and brother. Please donate, donate!

Donate here - PayPal - Vetted#642

[abdulrahman-family2]

Guys, someone donated 10 euros, but we still need 840 euros for my nephew's urgent surgery. Please don't let me lose hope. I'm counting on you. Save us! Save my nephew before he dies! Please donate! Donate! Donate! Don't ignore me! I'm begging you! Donate, donate! 💔😭

[neechees]

Please save his nephew before anything bad happens to him. Donate, he is extremely ill right now. Donate, we can help him.

[abdulrahman-family2]

My friends, one of you has donated 15 euros, but we still need 825 euros. Please continue donating so we can get my nephew surgery quickly and without delay. Please, I beg you, don't let us lose hope. Save my nephew's life! Donate, donate!💔

[abdulrahman-family2]

Guys, two people have donated 60 euros, but we still need 765 euros for my nephew's urgent surgery. Please don't let me lose hope. I'm counting on you. Save us! Save my nephew before he dies! Please donate! Donate! Donate! Don't ignore me! I'm begging you! Donate! Donate!💔

[professionalmushroom]

Please donate if you can , they only need €765!! Any donation will help them!

[adamantebaconcooper]

Batman by Yoshitaka Amano

[malcolm-reeds-pineapple]

Sesame Street posting techniques for comforting children during traumatic world events feels so fucking dystopian but here are the slides they posted just in case you or a loved one has any little critters at home right now

No one is doing well right now, but being a little critter right now has got to be terrifying. This is such a crushing series of images, especially considering PBS’s funding got slashed. While I’m happy Sesame Street continues to keep the wellbeing and education of children as a major priority, there’s a certain amount of innocence that Sesame Street represents and this is giving me such a visceral feeling rn

[gunsandfireandshit]

I know it'll prolly be controversial on here but there's a big difference between being anti-psychiatry, not seeking to better ones-self, and also a difference between the third position of having a diagnosis and making that an identity and acting like that's something immutable.

[gunsandfireandshit]

Like, there are many roads to what I consider self-improvement but I think it behooves oneself to at least try.

[gunsandfireandshit]

I've been thru some pretty horrific shit but I decided long ago that I wouldn't punch my own card and now everything is soooo much better than it was 10, 5 or even 1 year ago.

Was it spite, was it love, was it wisdom?

Does it really matter what the balance was if I'm still here and everything is a billion times better?

[gunsandfireandshit]

[txttletale]

and i am just so disdainful towards these arguments because they don't deserve anything else, they are using climate injustice as an animating prop for their pet beefs about copyright law or societal degeneration, which you can tell by the consistent failure to recognise climate injustice as a broad and structural phenomenon present in all industry and resource extraction under the imperialist world system

[catsbeaversandducks]

By sin.xline

[dragon-in-a-fez]

if you want to see how fast something can change from a "right" to a "privilege" in people's minds, try suggesting it should be extended to children, immigrants, and prisoners

[transhuman-priestess]

You guys do know you're supposed to reblog things, right

[transhuman-priestess]

"well i like this post but i'm worried my followers might not" fuck your followers. The entire point of tumblr is to cause irreparable psychic damage to your followers. We are locked in mortal combat on the astral plane. You must win. You Must Win. You Must Destroy Them.

[blackjame]

Christians love doing stuff like this and making such a person the face of their religion then turn around and get mad when they're (correctly) seen as insufferable.

Some of the same people upset a Muslim man is poised to be the mayor of New York. But sure, they give AF about supposed "religious discrimination".

[blackjame]

Let my Black behind have thrown a fit like this and I'm sure the same crowd supporting this girl would be telling me to sit my DEI ass down.

[iwilleatyourenglish]

hey so i read part of the student's essay and i want to add a few things:

it was a 0 out of 25 points. that's not even a huge deal.

she only wrote 650 words.

the girl didn't do the actual assignment; she just wrote what she felt like and submitted it.

the class was a PSYCHOLOGY course yet her essay was about her religious beliefs and provided no citations or psychological basis. she simply insisted her argument was true because the bible supposedly says so.

her entire essay is a mindless rant about how strict gender roles must be upheld and trans people are "demonic"

her writing—and i cannot stress this enough—is on par with that of a child who doesn't want to do an assignment. it's so bad i genuinely thought i was reading a satire article.

the student is a fucking college JUNIOR writing like a 10-year-old. she is also a psychology MAJOR who thinks everything in the bible is literal and that her religion is the only source anyone needs. this is someone who intends to go into mental health care. she is dangerously bigoted and ignorant, and her professor saw this and was punished for grading accordingly.

here's a line from her essay:

"Women naturally want to do womanly things because God created us with those womanly desires in our hearts. The same goes for men. God created men in the image of His courage and strength, and He created women in the image of His beauty."

here's her teacher's reasoning for the grade:

“[I am] not deducting points because you have certain beliefs" but rather because the paper "does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class and is at times offensive."

the girl is a hate-filled bigot. she is a white christian girl who is now being championed by fox news and turning point usa while her professor sits on fucking forced leave. this is disgusting.

important edit: i have just learned the professor is trans. this hateful brat is actively trying to destroy a trans person's life.

[luckilyduckily]

A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life

Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work

[cardboardmoon]

You guys the art director has a hand ref sheet if anyone wants some good references

[lermisv4]

I'm kind of decent at simpler hands, I use my own for reference... it's body stances and proportions that are hell for me...

[kogarashi-art]

I recommend trying @adorkastock. I remember when they were getting started on Deviantart. Good pose refs.

[ahmedaldaniii]

We are in Gaza… living in a city that no longer resembles itself. The smoke that fills the sky every day makes the scene resemble Hiroshima, but the tragedy here continues, and the bombing knows no bounds.

[ahmedaldaniii]

And today—even with the so-called “ceasefire”—the occupation has returned to bomb new areas mercilessly, and we wait for the next explosions, trying only to find out: Where did they fall? Who was killed? Did we lose anyone else?

[closet-keys]

Please, friends, help my friend Ahmed so he can leave Gaza.

The situation there is getting more dangerous. The occupation is bombing many places near him and his family. It's terrifying.

Please help them by donating so they can leave Gaza and buy food and all their necessities.

Donate to Help Ahmed And His Family Live Safely., organized by Ahmad dany

My name is Ahmad Dany. I am writing to you from the heart of the daily suffering we … Ahmad dany needs your support for Help Ahmed And His F

Please help as soon as you can!

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi Christmas Gift Exchange by Ryoko Kui

Gifts Picked on the Left and who received on the right

After the exchange

Fun fact from Kui's blog: She had to swap Lycion and Fleki's gifts because they ended up getting themselves in the raffle everyone else was random

[closet-keys]

"Neutrality" is a tool of censorship

All forms of knowledge creation and meaning-making are shaped and crafted by power relations and the justification for those relations. A common way to shape knowledge and meaning is to reframe the denial of atrocity by those in power as a "debate." This tactic creates a rhetorical "Schrödinger's cat" in which the atrocity is simultaneously happening and not happening, according to who you ask. It turns the material reality of the situation into a hypothetical thought experiment that the audience is invited to debate forever, with any conclusion being cast as "biased."

For a well-known example, oil lobbyists tried to suppress the scientific consensus on climate change for decades, and a significant amount of media aided in this by shaping all reporting on climate crisis into a "controversy." Reporting construed economically motivated denial as another "point of view," and positioned their own journalism as being "neutral" and "objective" in presenting "both sides."

This "neutrality" constitutes a social reality in which, to be regarded as "neutral" one must never speak plainly about the facts of the atrocity. It is censorship through more subtle and manipulative means. It is a tool of power.

[closet-keys]

At time of writing, the opening sentence of the Wikipedia page defines the Gaza genocide aptly as "the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war."

In response, the Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales locked the page and made this statement: “At present, the lede and the overall presentation state, in Wikipedia’s voice, that Israel is committing genocide, although that claim is highly contested. This is a violation of [Wikipedia Neutral Point of View] that requires immediate correction." See how the tool of neutrality works to facilitate genocide denial? He reduces evidence and global consensus to a "claim" that is "contested." He insists that anyone speaking plainly about the facts of genocide in Gaza "requires immediate correction."

What are Gazans to do with this? What does it mean when your own life is called a "violation of neutrality" and if anyone listens to you they can no longer be trusted as "unbiased"?

Donate to Help Fadel And His Family Live Safely., organized by Fadel Aldane

My name is Fadel Al-Dane, a Palestinian from Gaza, my age 23-year-old third-year I… Fadel Aldane needs your support for Help Fadel And His F

We must reject neutrality and support our fellow human beings who are surviving this genocide right now.

[closet-keys]

My dear friend Fadel (@fadel-danii) is one of the people enduring the Gaza genocide as we speak. His campaign was verified and shared by @90-ghost and @a-shade-of-blue, and was vetted by @gazavetters (#197 on the gazavetters spreadsheet).

Fadel's life is not an abstract hypothetical to be debated. He is a son, a brother, a student, a community member, and a friend. He is generous and thoughtful and a good listener. He struggles with chronic pain from his injuries and dizziness and fatigue from his disability.

He needs surgery after surviving the bombing of his home. He needs funds to afford his monthly medication as soon as possible.

Donations also help his family to afford the wildly fluctuating cost of food and clean water. His family endured extreme hunger for much of this year due to blockades. Donations were sustaining some recovery from malnutrition for a little while, but the previous deletion of his GoFundMe set him very far back.

He's had to restart funding from scratch, and his family has been without clean water and enough calories for days now.

Please donate what you can so he can survive this genocide.

[fadel-danii]

I Am a person like all those who were martyred in the war, but thanks to you all and , my friend @closet-keys , and my other friends, I am still alive. You are the reason I am alive because you helped me buy my monthly medications, food, and drink.

However, I am now very tired because there are metal shrapnels stuck in my body from when our house was bombed while we were inside. These shrapnels need to be removed as soon as possible through surgery, which is very expensive. Therefore, I ask you to stand by me and help me by donating so that I can have my surgery as soon as possible. Please donate.

[closet-keys]

Please sit with Fadel's words for a moment.

Your donations make a real, tangible difference in his life. You have the ability to share food, water, medicine, and care with him.

Please take that ability seriously.

[fadel-danii]

Guys, donations are very low, and I desperately need money to buy my monthly medication as soon as possible and to have my surgery.

Unfortunately, over 1180 people have shared my post, but I haven't been able to raise enough for my monthly medication yet. I don't understand why there's so much neglect. Please support me and help me buy my medication as soon as possible, and help me have my surgery as soon as possible, please donate.

[hbbisenieks]

normal people in SF are fucking sick of every billboard being for AI slop

[closet-keys]

[Image description: Photo of Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad. She is a young woman in the foreground and behind her city buildings which have been bombed are visible. She is quoted, "The thing is, the first seven years of your life, your experiences, it shapes who you are as a person, and then Gaza children are not allowed to be children. Right now, kids in Gaza are growing up afraid of the sky because when they look at the sky, there's either bomb, leaflets killing you to evacuate and even when there is clouds, you look at them and you can't differentiate, are these clouds or are these smoke from a bombing?"]

[closet-keys]

My friend Ahmed (@ahmedaldaniii) is a disabled teenager in Gaza. His lifelong disability was caused by exposure to gas from a phosphorus bomb before his mother gave birth to him. He has lived his entire life under the Israeli occupation.

Donate to Help Ahmed and his family live safely., organized by Ahmed Aldany

My name is Ahmad Aldany. I am reaching out to you from the heart of the daily suff… Ahmed Aldany needs your support for Help Ahmed and his f

Ahmed's campaign is #198 on the @gazavetters list.

[closet-keys]

[Image description: three photos of Ahmed a couple years ago: in a suit, with his family, and holding a cat]

Two years ago Israel bombed his home. The tent in which his family now lives was also damaged in bombings, which means that insects and small animals can get in.

His family was recently displaced from Gaza City to Deir al-Balah. They struggle to afford food, clean water, medicine, and the materials to repair their tent.

Please donate what you can.

[ahmedaldaniii]

Please friends help us the occupation has not stopped bombing our area and the neighboring areas for several days we feel that our end is approaching because of the hunger, diseases, cold and drinking polluted water and because the bombing is close to us and because the genocide does not stop please help us by donating so that we can buy food, medicine and water and provide for all our needs and get out of Gaza before it is too late please donate 🤍🥺