taxfraudcatboy:

hussyknee:

17/12/23 this masterlist has been completely, vetted, revamped and reformatted with free access to all reading and viewing material. It will be updated and edited periodically so please try and reblog the original post if you’re able.

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The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn’t Know

(Yes, it’s a lot. Just choose your preferred medium and then pick one.)

• Podcasts
• Backgrounders and Quick Facts
• Interactive Maps
• Teach-Out Resources
• Reading Material (free)
• Films and Documentaries (free)
• Non-Governmental Organizations
• Social Media
• How You Can Help

Podcasts

The Story of Palestine, Part 2: The Nakba

• Cocktails & Capitalism: The Story of Palestine Part 1, Part 3
• It Could Happen Here: The Cheapest Land is Bought with Blood, Part 2, The Balfour Declaration
• Citations Needed: Media narratives and consent manufacturing around Israel-Palestine and the Gaza Siege
• The Deprogram: Free Palestine, ft. decolonizatepalestine.com.

Backgrounders and Quick Facts

Home | Decolonize Palestine

• The Palestine Academy: Palestine 101
• Institute for Middle East Understanding: Explainers and Quick Facts

Keep reading

roach-works:

lasrina:

luimnigh:

Okay, here’s my idea:

The British should put a time limit on the Monarchy.

Not like declaring a republic tomorrow, but deciding on a date in the future that ends the British Monarchy.

And there’s a perfect date for it coming up!

October 14th, 2066.

A thousand years since the Battle of Hastings. A thousand years of this one specific bloodline ruling England.

Call time on the Monarchy after exactly one thousand years. Nice, and neat.

Even better: Charles isn’t living 44 years. He’ll be gone in about twenty. Now William? He’s what, 40? Yeah, he can live another 44 years. His great grandmother was over a hundred, his granny was 96, William can make it to 84 barring accident or assassination.

So on October 14th 2066, William the Last steps down a thousand years after William the First won the crown.

Nice, neat, and fair. William gets the crown he’s been waiting forty years for already, but ten-year-old George grows up without expectation of it.

Have a nice big abdication ceremony, even.

Plus, what an absolute baller move to announce your regnal name as William the Last.

the Final Bill

nitw:

nitw:

i just realized that tumblr allows multiple audio files in a row and they autoplay consecutively on mobile

what-even-is-thiss:

hansdown:

oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through

This is what it’s like having a sibling also

i-am-a-fish:

YOU ARE GORGEOUS

YOU ARE WORTHY OF PLATONIC AND/OR ROMANTIC LOVE

YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT ELSE YOU’RE WORTHY OF??

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

*throws a dollar at you*

THAT’S RIGHT.

fourteen dollar

hater-of-terfs:

vickytokio:

sputnik-laika:

roastedmoose:

aphroditestummyrolls:

aphroditestummyrolls:

Folks, friends, y’all…. esk*mo is a slur. I understand a lot of people don’t know that, I don’t want to be a dick about it, but I’ve been seeing it in fics. Wanna write “esk*mo kisses”? Just say “nuzzled noses” or something.

I’m not here to call anybody out, it’s been in multiple fics, I’m not vague posting. This is just a psa. 👍🏻

If you could help me spread awareness about this by reblogging, I’d really appreciate it.

I’ve had this post on insta saved for sometime ❤️

[Text Description: “Hey! Reminder: Eskimo is a slur. It means ‘snow eaters’ in Cree and is a slur against Inuit . Also don’t use ‘Eskimo kisses’. It’s called Kunik. It is a greeting mostly used for family… Kunik was how I’d greet my mom and grandmother as a small child.” /TD]

Rebloging for the awareness and especially for the alternative words

And so people who are just learning this now know the proper usage: “Inuit” is plural. The singular is “Inuk”, as in “he is an Inuk”

aeruihn:

catchymemes:

urhokarila:

Jesus christ, I wish to just one day be this pinnacle of wit, horniness, and sacrilege.

slyandthefamilybook:

hezekiahwakely:

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escuerzoresucitado:

mwagneto:

sorry idk but the way the world is so fast and the people in it still want it to be faster is sooo annoying to me. people groaning while standing in line for 3 minutes people being mad the train ride is gonna take 2 hours people complaining that the bus is a few minutes late people being angry that construction work is taking months even though it used to take decades. don’t you see the world is already so so so fast in every single aspect can’t you understand that being mad will do nothing and just make your mood worse. enjoy the moments of stillness you’re given. just stand in line and look at the people around you. sit on the train and watch the scenery. you’ll get there.

determinate-negation:

people refuse to see the violence it takes to maintain the status quo as such and instead fear the hypothetical violence it will take to destroy it. they see the current order of things as a state of stasis and inaction, instead of as a violent order upheld by constant action, which can be undone by action

cuteness–overload:

sana-kan:

thenyanguardparty:

gojurt:

this is the funniest possible reply on this post

paper-mario-wiki:

Reminder:

With reaction videos, you can experience someone’s first time listening to Weird Al Yankovic’s “Hardware Store” for the first time.

I will never feel guilty about enjoying reaction videos. Never for a second. You can’t make me. (full)

No but seriously imagine it:

hellsitegenetics:

blossomedsloth:

You’re seeing fall out boy on a concert. Everyone is having a great time. Fall out boy seem a little excited. “We have a surprise for you guys.” Partick says. All of a sudden P!ATD come out and start singing “this is gospel.” When Brendon gets to the chorus, someone else starts singing…
“When I was a young boy my father took me into the city to see a marching band.”
Lights flash everywhere, and you see FOB singing “this is gospel” along with P!ATD, while MCR is singing “Black parade”. Everyone in the crowd is going wild and crying. Then if things couldn’t get any better, Dan and Phil walk onto stage and kiss, holding the gay flag.

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Closest match: Fragum fragum genome assembly, chromosome: 11
Common name: White strawberry cockle

escuerzoresucitado:

fireflylies:

grimbonedaddy-deactivated202408:

That friend to fuckmeat pipeline is my favorite.

blushft:

dm'ing a mutual you’ve never interacted with one-on-one is so embarrassing like. hi…. im sorry. you can kill me if you want… can i have your discord….. if not.. feel free to shoot me down where i stand… im sorry.. i’ll leave..

seymour-butz-stuff:

fixing-bad-posts:

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please fucking vote

zrterria:

queer-as-city-folk:

jordanbolton:

To The Bus Driver - Jordan Bolton

Appreciate the workers on our busses and trains

As a former bus driver, I can say we do remember our regulars. Especially the nice ones, the kids we watch growing up, the business person who always gives us a $5 coffee card during the holidays, and that one person who just likes to chat. We drive because we like it, we stay driving because of passengers like those. And when we stop, those are the ones we miss. So, please do appreciate your transit operator, we appreciate you.

cuteness–overload:

margridarnauds:

llyfrenfys:

montyshistoryblog:

charaznablescanontoyota:

rozentias-deactivated20240103:

in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

1. boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.
2. learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.
3. get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.
4. donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

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cannot stress enough that donating to the internet archive to help them appeal this without going broke is the most important thing you can do right now. my day job revolves around fulfilling digital article and book scan requests at an academic library and a huge part of that is borrowing from other libraries that do controlled digital lending (incl. the internet archive!). copyright law is already hugely restrictive on what we can and can’t lend, and we absolutely don’t have the option to pirate anything for our patrons due to being a large academic institution. it’s difficult to overstate just how bad this ruling could end up being for libraries that have digital lending programs, esp ones that rely on CDR for old/archival/hard-to-find texts.

I’m incredibly fucking disappointed at the bootlickers in the comments claiming that the IA steals from small creators. Eliminating a valuable research, academic and cultural resource because you’ve bought into the fiction that “potential sales” are lost sales is exactly what these big corporations want. You aren’t saving small creators by swatting down a non-profit, you’re allowing ginormous publishing monopolies to consolidate even further while they smile a snake’s smile over independent creators.

The Internet Archive is absolutely vital for my work and research. Without it, a good chunk of Welsh LGBTQ+ history would be inaccessible. The Welsh books hosted on IA are indexed and searchable, meaning any Welsh LGBTQ+ terminology can be searched for. Otherwise, me sitting down to read every. single. Welsh book ever published *just in case* it contains one of the terms in my data is an impossible task (Welsh books have been published since 1546) . In fact, this is something I refer to in my methodology for this very reason.

I’m also broke as hell rn but when I get the chance I’m gonna donate. Without IA, you can kiss goodbye to a *massive* chunk of academia. My lecturers use IA. So not just like, undergrads and PhD students, but seasoned academics will lose access to a major resource if IA stopped existing.

The argument of “potential sales lost” also makes no sense from an author’s perspective. Published authors are usually paid an advance before publication. After that point, they would have to sell an obscene amount of books to qualify for extra pay from those sales, so many authors are unbothered by someone reading their book for free. Libraries allow people to read books for free and IA is essentially one giant library. It even has a feature where if you’re reading a book and “check it out” for an hour, no-one else can read the book your reading until the time runs out. Just like a normal library. Potential sales lost to the company is just like when companies claim to have lost millions at a start of the year when they haven’t actually lost any money at all. They just didn’t earn as much money as they were predicting.

IA provides a vital service and we should be fighting to ensure it isn’t lost.

Seconding all of the above – Since the IA lost its case, I’ve noticed a number of books have rapidly become inaccessible for me. The negative impact this has had on my work can’t be understated, as I’ve been left without a crucial resource for my research. I. don’t believe there’s a single article I’ve written that hasn’t been impacted by this, with me often having to scrambling to get access to sources that are rare and/or our of print. I have the advantage of a well-stocked uni library that is good at ILLs, but this is a taste of what’s going to come if this isn’t resolved in the Archive’s favor.

mercuryfountain-deactivated2024:

Public transportation is humbling, by which I don’t mean there’s anything lesser about it, but that it reminds you in the best possible way that you’re not the main character of the universe. Even in a world class public transportation system you’re occasionally going to encounter people begging, crying babies, people talking loudly or emoting, people wearing outfits you may consider weird, body odor, delays and inconveniences. I’m not saying you need to put up with straight up harassment or anything like that, but you need to accept that the world exists outside of you. If your entire world is your workplace, your car and your nuclear family, that is going to impact your politics and your perspective. It’s no wonder so much of the US is designed to this exact end, and how so many suburban Americans who value comfort and convenience over all else are losing their damn minds. The US is an international embarrassment when it comes to transit, but even in sophisticated networks you still have to share a space with other human beings and you need to act like an adult about it.

pharahsgf:

the bds movement has officially called for a boycott of eurovision 2024.

socialjusticeinamerica:

ph-cutie:

this image makes me emotional too if i look at it too long

certifiedlibraryposts:

tiktoks-we-like:

Certified Library Post

aurosoul:

OP made this post unrebloggable but me and my bf made this meme in a fit of obsession and it had to be shared

william-snekspeare:

This is so real

sometiktoksarevalid:

troythecatfish:

platycryptus:

Very cool find from last spring- a Florida vinegaroon (Mastigoproctus floridanus) that was hiding inside a rotting log.

despite her impressive size, this rarely encountered Florida endemic is actually the smallest of the 3 vinegaroons in the US, and some of the Mastigoproctus species from Mexico and southwards get even larger.

and yes they’re called vinegaroons (among other fun names) because they squirt concentrated vinegar from their butt as a chemical defense

(Florida, 4/17/23)

rslashrats:

me: man i wish dodos still existed so i could eat one

brain: there are many extant species of pigeons and doves still

me: hmmm is it morally right to eat a dove

brain: the morality of eating meat is not affected by the beast it originates. the idea that certain meats are “wrong” to eat is a societal expectation

me: okay what diseases do pigeons carry

brain: some but with proper preparation and with a disease-free specimen you will be okay

me: what is stopping me from eating a dove

brain: your cowardice. you fear social rejection and dread the idea of judgement. but, those who judge you are just as biased and imperfect as you are. you must accept that this is an inevitable part of life, but it should not hold you back. you are in charge of your own destiny

me: okay lala ^_^ *googles “dove resippy” for 4 hours and salivates so hard it floods my room and i drown*

rslashrats:

🪰 housefly734 Follow

just a reminder that flies rubbing their hands together =/= plotting a nasty scheme

🪰 r0tt1ngm3at Follow

FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT!! I HATE THE STEREOTYPE THAT US RUBBING OUR HANDS TOGETHER MEANS WE ARE PLANNING SOMETHING DUBIOUS!!

🪰 crane-fly-wives Follow

^^ Boosting! I constantly get non-flies giving me death glares whenever I wash my hands in the restroom. Like, that’s what you’re supposed to do after going to the bathroom! Sorry for being hygienic I guess 🙄

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Reasons why flies might be rubbing their hands together:

• It’s chilly out and they’re trying to warm up
• They just put hand sanitizer/lotion/hand cream on
• They’re rolling a ball of clay together

What you should do if you see a fly rubbing their hands together:

• Leave them alone! It’s none of your business
• Hope this helped! :)

🪰 flyhlghh Follow

people also forget that hand-rubbing is a very common stim!! neurodivergent flies constantly get stigmatized for showing any traits of their neurodivergencies in public!! please don’t forget that!!

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I dont know about you losers but i like to rub my hands together because i am planning the most heinous and villanous crimes in my head

🪰 crane-fly-wives Follow

Wow, most obvious troll I have ever seen in my life. Get a life, dude 🙄

🪰 compoundeyehaver Follow

> claims to be a real fly

> has bee as their profile pic

dude couldn even get the right insect for their shitty troll account LMFAOOOOO

🐝 iamrealflytrustme Follow

No i am real fly and i am plotting to land on someones pie rn and ruin it with all my real fly germs. rubbing my hands together as i do it too

🪰 crane-fly-wives Follow

Anyone wanna bet this guy is some amphibian from 4frog typing this nonsense from their lilypad right now? Just me? Okay-

🐝 iamrealflytrustme Follow

I am buzzing around people’s ears now

🪰 crane-fly-wives Follow

Yep, that pretty much confirms my theory. The nerve of some non-flies, I swear 🙄

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@venus-fly-trap-hater

🪰 venus-fly-trap-hater Follow

this post is so real!! tysm babe for sending it to me 💞 ilyy

🪰 batsianmimc Follow

ILY too sugar cube 😘

🐝 iamrealflytrustme Follow

Can you guys stop kissing on this post its ruining my evil scheme planning

🪰 crane-fly-wives Follow

Can’t believe this guy is still at it, honestly. @staff @tumblr Please take action against fake fly troll accounts such as these ones!

🐝 iamrealflytrustme Follow

Staff cant kill me i rubbed my hands on them too hard and they dieded sorry

🪰 crane-fly-wives Follow

🤣🤣🤣 Oh the excuses this fake is making, LOL! I haven’t been this entertained since the Bombylius major discourse last year!

🪰 compoundeyehaver Follow

why are you still arguing with the troll instead of just blocking

🪰 crane-fly-wives Follow

Just think it’s entertaining to see the lack of logic that bounces around in the brains of these non-flies sometimes 🤷‍♀️ Every response this so called “I am a real fly, trust me” user has given me has just made me crack up and flap my wings together.

🐝 iamrealflytrustme Follow

I am gonna rub my hands and plan more evil schemes involving you next

🪰 crane-fly-wives Follow

Heh, just try it, kid. Go on, I’ll wait. 🥱

🦗 chirpingboy Follow

things are getting heated in the fly community

🪰 crane-fly-wives Follow

Of course a Grasshopper has the nerve to comment something insensitive on this post. Honestly, just mind your business 🙄

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okayy

🦗 hopping-along-the-bank Follow

Hey, you can’t really preach for not discriminating against flies and then discriminate against a grasshopper, dude. Not cool.

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I think I certainty can, with my past experiences of Grasshoppers always finding the ways to say the most uneducated and baseless takes on my previous posts and discussions. Plus, after the Fly-Grasshopper War of 247 BC (in which my ancestors fought in, mind you) and the consequences that followed it, I think I am well within my rights. But go ahead, frame me as the bad guy here. 🤣

🦗 hopping-along-the-bank Follow

Yeah, you say this and conveniently ignore the socio-economic struggles that grasshoppers have been facing for the past century, many of these issues which were spearheaded by fly conservative politicians in office at the time.

So, yeah, it is rather hypocritical for you to pull out these cards when grasshoppers have also been punished and gotten the short end of the stick throughout bug history.

🪰 crane-fly-wives Follow

The implication that all flies are responsible for a few greedy politicians is quite comical, really. 🥱 Not to mention that many Grasshopper politicians in Bugland and Bugtopia have also had histories of introducing laws that have severely affected communities majorly made up of Flies. But sure, keep arguing with me about this, buddy. I got all day 🤣

🐝 iamrealflytrustme Follow

I am still rubbing my hands and planing schemes btw

🪰 flythatlovestogethigh Follow

anyone smoke bug weed in this thread

new-york-manga:

As the Global Boycott for Palestine is ending, we should not stop talking about the Genocide.

Continue Amplifying Palestinian Voices such as MoTaz & Bisan.

Continue Boycotting McDonald’s, Starbucks, KFC, Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, Marvel, etc…

The People of Palestine need your voice and support for a CEASEFIRE, An end to the Occupation, & To Rebuild.

And do not forget that Hawai'i, Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and more need their voices heard too.

dykesbat:

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