[nativenews]

[sir-josh-of-art-deactivated2024]

READ:

That's enough money to give every homeless American 24 THOUSAND DOLLARS

That's enough money to give 43 dollars to the ENTIRE U.S. POPULATION.

That's enough to fully treat ~95,000 Cancer Patients for FREE.

This is where your tax dollars go.

NOT schools.

NOT Protection.

NOT Healthcare.

NOT Homes and shelter.

NOT Science and Medicine.

NOT the potholes in your roads.

NOT your retirement or your future.

You are being made to pay for Genocide while your own people die.

[ladychlo]

Keep in mind please, all these journalists in gaza and Palestinians who communicate what's happening in Gaza are communicating in English for a reason, accessibility. Us arab speaking and arabs and people in the Mena region understand all of it, know all of it, grew up with all of it unfolding, we know... They need you to know, they are speaking your language and accessible language for you to hear and share. It's easy to communicate through numbers and dehumanising reporting but storytelling and reporting is important and appealing to you through your language is another privilege you have yet to acknowledge.

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

They are risking their lives every day to provide you with what's happening. So there is no excuse for you to remain silent or to say you don't know enough to form an opinion. If journalists in gaza can go on delivering the news even after Israel wipes out their entire families, you can take minutes of your day to seek information. There is no neutrality in genocide.

[bloglikeanegyptian]

i don't really know how to relay the horrors that palestinians are describing first-hand, if you can speak arabic and follow people from gaza online there are some phrases i don't think anyone will forget, some things for the arabic-speaking world will scar for life just like muhammed al-durra scarred me as a child. at least five of the people i followed since last week (journalists, photographers, students, artists, tiktokers) are dead now. it's becoming terrifying to follow someone from gaza, because you don't know if they're going to be alive tomorrow. i don't really know how to describe this feeling? what is it to follow some kid on tiktok who's making jokes while planes drop bombs around him and think "i hope he stays alive?"

[bloglikeanegyptian]

for those of you who don't speak arabic, there are many many palestinians in gaza posting updates in english:

many of them are also translating other posts from arabic. you can follow them on twitter.

there are also many gazans reporting from gaza and recording vlogs in english for an international audience that you can follow on instagram

(yara eid is the only one who is not physically present in gaza, but her family is and recently lost her best friend, the photojournalist Ibraheem Lafi in the strikes. she has lots of good and informative videos & interviews on the situation)

please note that these are people living through an actual siege and genocide, experiencing hell on earth for the past fifteen days with no relief and risking their lives to even get these occasional messages through. the content they share is not easy to watch and even more difficult to forget.

[acti-veg]

Some infographics to provide context on the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Note that data is based on statistics as of 2021.

Source

[lemuenic]

Please listen to the latest Chapo Trap House episode, the guest is a journalist from Gaza and it's harrowing.

The Israelis once calculated the total calories of food going into Gaza so that the populace would be just above starvation levels, but not enough to do anything more. It's fucking insane. It's beyond inhumane, it's completely depraved.

You cannot argue that Gaza is not a concentration camp. In every sense of the word.

Edit: Link to the episode

[shutyourmoustache]

So long, Solidarity Summer! Helloooooo, Fuck You Pay Me Fall!

[shutyourmoustache]

Don’t you just love Kiss My Ass Autumn?

[soberscientistlife]

[liberalsarecool]

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

[wonderingwhereiam]

[larvalform]

my dear darling friend Jae is fundraising for surgery that NHS doctors admit is necessary, but they are withholding treatment on account of their weight. there is no medical reason to refuse someone lifechanging, necessary care because they're fat.

disabled people shouldn't have to go private to access care, but this is increasingly a reality in the UK for those of us with chronic conditions. i also have endo+adeno, nowhere near the scale that Jae has, and it's agony.

please donate if you can, share if you can't, thank you for reading this

[porkue-deactivated20230306]

I'm gonna be thinking about this all day

[acybernetickiwi]

If you deadname someone in the death note it kills you

[jin-ei]

In one of the Death Note live action movies (I think it was Light Up the New World), a man changes his name after harboring guilt about past crimes and trying to atone (not even answering to that name). He's only killed after his new name gets put in the book, since he shed his old name.

Man wasn't trans, but if the logic applied to him, logic should apply to trans people too!

[randomgermancupcake]

This rule implies that birth names are not necessarily the names given to you at birth.

That means you can change your name or consider yourself to have a new name and the death note recognizes it.

Death Note is an ally.

[gordon-freeman-official]

Diversity win! this Death Note kills trans people but doesn’t deadname them!

[hotvampireadjacent]

[bananaquilava]

[actuallypsychology]

antimaskers be like “I did my research” and don’t even know what a doi is

[aliveburs-deactivated20230829]

i really like memes like this. they are truthful, and there is a cat involved. just a big fan all around.

[aliveburs-deactivated20230829]

here’s some more i’ve gathered since making this post btw.

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

[is-the-post-reliable]

requested by anonymous:

RATING: RELIABLE

The above is from this article from The Guardian.  The images are from MYA Network. The caption on their website reads:

Source: ‘When a sperm and egg get together, the body creates tissue in order to support the developing pregnancy.  Here are photos of that tissue from 5-9 week pregnancies.  This is called the gestational sac, and it’s like the “house” for the pregnancy. Inside this sac there are cells that have the potential to become a fetus but there is no visible embryo at this stage. We rinsed off the blood and menstrual lining (decidua) for these photographs.’

The published images sparked a lot of debate, leading to the story being picked up by other news outlets. For example:

Source: ‘Last week, the Guardian published images of pregnancy tissue after abortions in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. The small size and appearance of the tissue were shocking to many. We have all absorbed, knowingly and unknowingly, the pervasive anti-abortion narrative that a pregnancy resembles a tiny baby starting in the earliest weeks. Though an early embryo can be seen under the magnification of ultrasound, it can take months for it to be perceptible to the naked eye.’

Source: ‘People have responded in disbelief, citing the (magnified) images they’ve seen on ultrasounds. […] ”Think of the illustrations on pregnancy and medical websites. The Mayo Clinic, one of the preeminent medical organizations in the country, shows week-by-week illustrations of embryonic and fetal development without any context of scale, like the rulers in the MYA photos.’

As stated in the article, whilst people talk about a ‘heartbeat’ at 6 weeks, there is no heart developed at this stage - only a group of cells that will become part of the heart.

Source: ‘But what exactly do we mean when we talk about a “fetal heartbeat” at six weeks of pregnancy? Although some people might picture a heart-shaped organ beating inside a fetus, this is not the case. Rather, at six weeks of pregnancy, an ultrasound can detect “a little flutter in the area that will become the future heart of the baby,” said Dr. Saima Aftab, medical director of the Fetal Care Center at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami. This flutter happens because the group of cells that will become the future “pacemaker” of the heart gain the capacity to fire electrical signals, she said.’

It should also be noted that the images show an embryo, not a fetus, until the 9th week.

Source: ‘In human pregnancies, a baby-to-be isn’t considered a fetus until the 9th week after conception, or week 11 after your last menstrual period (LMP).’

The co-founders of the MYA Network responded in a New York Times article.

Source: ‘Many people, even those who support abortion rights, did not believe the photos were accurate. Some insisted we had deliberately removed the embryos before taking the photos. The images weren’t consistent with those often seen in embryological textbooks, magnified on ultrasounds or used in anti-abortion propaganda; these enlarged images are not what you see with the naked eye after an abortion. A Stanford gynecologic pathologist has validated our photos, but many people could not believe the pictures were presented unaltered.

[tabathasfinsta]

they get it

[o-the-mts]

The hardest thing to believe about The Hunger Games is that an authoritarian government in North America would invest in high speed rail.

[thedankmemes]