transforming

fatin, 22. currently trying to balance heart and mind and see where it takes me.

[littlestpersimmon]

Full letter signed by 99 U.S. medical professionals who have volunteered.

[shopcat]

do you want to see the best trail cam photo ever

[shopcat]

let it be known he is chilling like crazy

[zegalba]

Fruit-Shaped Bus Stops (1990) Location: Nagasaki, Japan

[edwordsmyth]

Columbia University students at the Gaza solidarity encampment reading Wisam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals and Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine (ph. Ian Bartlett).

[heavensickness]

Being a young adult is so strange. You enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to a new city for university and she feels so alone. That 27 year old guy over there works a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it. That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections. The 26 year old barista couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family. The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother. That couple (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant. The 29 year old writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over. We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[freakshows199]

I just wanna thank the person who put this across my dash cause I’m sad as hell but I still laughed a little

[knitmeapony]

WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY

[d-archive1948-deactivated202303]

Dec. 1, 2015 | Gaza City, Palestine

Palestinian schoolgirls walk in front of a rainbow illuminating the sky over Gaza City’s shore.

[lost-boy-into-the-upper-heavenl]

One of the best shots of the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024

A clear view of the corona sun.

JWST ● Hubble ● NASA Missions & Astronomical Discoveries.

[feluka]

Please, please constantly challenge and reject the narrative that any region is naturally more prone to war than any other, like that's a characteristic inherent to its make-up, like that's geographically assigned risk the same way an area can be earthquake-prone or hurricane-prone.

There has never been a utopia on Earth and nowhere is entirely free of conflict, but this disastrous scale of violence inflicted upon the SWANA region is a deliberate and calculated effort of destabilization by Western powers who want to bleed the region dry. It's not an immutable part of the contour of the land that its people must adapt to and live with. It can be stopped and should be stopped. These people were once free and can be freed again.

Every time you see someone hand-waving a crisis at this scale as "conflict in the Middle East" it is an abominable tool to dehumanize Arabs to the point where nobody bats an eye at the death of their children.

Examine what that phrase means. What is a "conflict in the Middle East"? What happens in Yemen isn't what happens in Morocco isn't what happens in Palestine isn't what happens in Iraq, but this catch-all term is meant to translate in your mind into "problems are happening where problems are always happening", because of course they are! Conflict in the Middle East? What else is new, clouds in the sky? Fish in the sea? It lulls you into apathy; Arabs are dying - but that's what they do, don't they?

And so three goals of the perpetrators of this violence are achieved. First, they wash their hands from it; they didn't set the place on fire, it was already like this when they got there! Second, does it even matter whose fault it is? Who cares about a dead brown child anyway? Who's counting the death toll? Third, since this is an unchangeable quality of their region, and has nothing to do with the West, why protest it? Why fight for them? Why demand anything out of Western leaders?

[insomniac-arrest]

whatever our souls are made of, you and me are going to end up stuck in the same ice hole

[insomniac-arrest]

[fnhfal-deactivated20180216]

A man plays piano in one of the palaces of ousted Iraq President Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad

[jazbina]

A Bosnian soldier plays the piano in a destroyed music school during the war. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992.

[stricatul]

sometimes ur only closure is knowing that u had a good intentions & a good heart

[soulflowrss]

source @soulflowrss ☁️

[el-shab-hussein]

Obligatory "it is not failing it is working exactly as intended".

[sayruq]

[determinate-negation]

american aid and american bombs

[penflicks]

They don't want us to call what's happening in Gaza a genocide not because there's not been an official ruling but because these things don't get set in people's minds via official ruling. Instead it is the oral history that sets an event into place in mass consciousness.

Us calling it what it is - a genocide - means they can't wriggle out of it in years to come. They can't continue to call it a conflict or a war if we cement it in public consciousness as a genocide.

So don't tone down your language. Call it what it is. Make sure the history books know what happened and the genocides that took place in Palestine, Sudan, Congo.

[picocoon]

Park in the snow night