also be normal as in: real to your true self and caring and kind as your true self, I’m not good with wording but basically just treat her with love and care.
A woman named Lina reached out to help me platform her fundraiser.
Lina is married and has 5 children. She is a lawyer and everything she built for her children was taken from her and destroyed in the blink of an eye. She had her own practice and was building apartments for her children and setting up their futures.
ALT
(ID in Alt)
Unfortunately, the genocide has taken everything away and she is now fundraising to rebuild what they’ve lost. They’ve had to withstand many hardships since the beginning of the genocide including the famine in the north of Gaza and the stress and fear of having to evacuate from place to place under threat of bombardment and gunfire.
They’re asking for $15,000 to rebuild their lives in the face of all they’ve gone through. They’ve received very few donations so far. Please let’s help them reach their goal!
anyway i just think we should talk more about how pushy subs can get and how we collectively need to be more mindful of doms’ boundaries. personally i’m a switch and i almost always end up domming bc of how thoroughly bottom-y so much of the queer/t4t dating scene is. like once someone finds out i can dom it’s just expected of me and i’m fucking tired of it, i shouldn’t have to work so hard to make room for the concept that i might wanna sub sometimes too (which pretty much never gets followed up on), but that’s not even the part that bothers me the most
it bothers me that people don’t seem to realize it’s not only on the dom to assert their boundaries, it’s also on the sub to check in sometimes, to read body language, to read tone, to make an effort to cognitively empathize with the dom and what they’re going through bc domming can be really intense, psychologically and physically. i know so many people/posts romanticize the idea of being so deep in subspace that you can’t even think or talk and only the dom has to worry about anything and sure, that can happen w a lot of trust and consent and communication and be a good experience for both parties, but it’s so sinister to me that it seems to be the starting expectation so much of the time. it’s good in fantasy but in reality that is way too fucking much responsibility if you don’t already have well negotiated boundaries and deep trust. imo that expectation should never be the starting point
like sex and kink (can be) deeply intimate and intense things to share with other people and you should give a shit if you’re making someone uncomfortable!! subspace does not free you from the responsibility of how you’re treating the people you’re sharing those intimate dynamic/actions with!! subs should care about their doms’ boundaries and consent!! consent to be put in a dom position should never be assumed!! domming, just like subbing, should be something earned through trust!! i am so fucking tired
There was a source of income that we were living, thanks to God, first, then thanks to this work, we had a dream and we were working on, and it was to develop this factory and expand our field, but…
It was completely destroyed by the occupation forces, and now we have to start from scratch, but where are we! ; What do we do!!! We do not have the money to establish a new factory or at least open a simple project to continue our lives, to eat and drink, and there is something more difficult than that. I have two brother who are studying medicine in Egypt. They have only completed one year and have a long way to go. Don’t they have the right to achieve what they dream of? We are about to lose hope. It has become very difficult. Where can we pay for their university to complete this dream ! 😣
I say that and with deep regret, we have been destroyed 😔
But we decided to conquer the challenge and prosperity; we decided to be one of the hands that contribute to the reconstruction of Gaza, at least contribute to the restoration of what we were to complete our lives Because of it
If you think we deserve help, contribute for my family 🙏🏼
Thank you in advance whether you contributed or not 💔
*notices my ice cream has more sprinkles than yours* how’s it feel to be a sprinklet? idiot. dumbass *trips and drops my ice cream* can i have a lick of yours if you say no i’ll cry
Friends, enemies, whoever: there is a massive, money-soaked rightwing voter suppression effort targeting social media users who identify as progressive and/or are seen as potential Democratic supporters. Let’s all keep that in mind, okay? Let’s not make accidental unpaid operatives of ourselves, all right?
that episode of pokemon where team rocket joins a beach beauty contest and james participates in a tiny bikini and has giant boobs. what did they mean by that
there is a certain style of parenting that is very logistics focused, in which any conversation with the parent tends to revolve around whether the child has eaten, whether they are sick, whether they need a lift to get somewhere, etc. and these are all very important matters in life (even when the children are adults themselves) but they don’t address anything higher up the hierarchy of needs, like self-actualisation, or understanding who the child actually is as an independent person with their own interior life and emotions, hopes and fears, all the gooey stuff like that.
it’s a mode of interaction that is most commonly associated with dads in the popular culture – Telstra even had an ad campaign based on the premise of dads having nothing meaningful to say on the phone (!) – but mothers are prone to it too and of course it can occur in every other kind of relationship as well, between teachers and students or between coworkers or even romantic partners, it’s always easier to deal with the material concerns of life than relate to someone as a human being.
Whatever your sympathies on the Gaza situation, please stop using this as a justification for anything, because it’s not true.
most recent election in Palestine: 17 years ago in 2006
age of suffrage: 18
∴ minimum age now to have voted then: 17+18 = 35
Palestinian population: ~5 million (Gaza plus West Bank, per CIA World Factbook)
…of which, people under 35: ~3 million
∴ ~ 60% of current Palestinians could not possibly have voted for Hamas
And
in the last election, 44.45% voted for Hamas (who were then using the name “Change and Reform”)
turnout was 75% (per Palestine’s Central Elections Commission)
∴ 34% of voters voted for Hamas
ASSUMING that vote share was equal by age, AND that the age breakdown was similar in 2006, THEN 13% of the current population voted for Hamas
∴ 87% did not vote for Hamas
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I really hate even engaging with this argument because it almost gives it legitimacy. Israelis voted in a genocidal government - that doesn’t mean that they could be genocided.
When the Nazi government was voted into Germany and started their genocide if France in retaliation had decided to genocide all Germans that wouldn’t be acceptable either.
It doesn’t matter who voted for what, it doesn’t matter who was old enough at the time. What matters is that it is Never Ever acceptable to mass kill families, children, civilians, destroy infrastructure and carpet bomb homes.
Let’s stop engaging with these manufacturing consent arguments and start calling them out for what they are: justifications for genocide.
this is a good point, well made.
My thinking was: factual rebuttals are faster than ethical rebuttals. “They voted for Hamas!” “No, that’s false.” There’s no comeback to that.
Ethical rebuttals are a better way, because they help people learn how to be a better person. But they’re difficult and some people mentally filter them out, automatically.
(The Germans didn’t vote in the Nazis either, by the way.)
if all you have is your device and internet access, you can put your clicks to good use on arab.org. they use the advertising revenue generated by your clicks to help good causes.
and i would urge those able to spare a few dollars to donate to one or more of the following organizations:
Now more than ever, as there are people trying to drive a wedge between us, we must stay strong together and support each other as much as we can. All our LGBTQIA+ siblings deserve love, safety and the same rights.
Found these tags on my last hand-drawn post inspiring:
I’m so good at art.
This doodle made me laugh too much so now this is the Fred this week
THE ONE PIZZA…!
THE ONE PIZZA IS REAL!!!!!!
A scan of the old Friday Fred expansion from the GUYS system. I don’t think this is Friday Fred’s first appearance, but I could be wrong. It’s definitely an off-model design.
Fred is Going Corporate
He can’t stay this small forever…
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬Nu är vi här Fred♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬CaramelDansen♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
We need you to roll up a most radical Friday, Prince.
OK this week I am doing a roundup of the Freds which got lost in the shuffle.
“its friday!!!1!! fuck yeah!!!1!11!!!!! dumping out all of my old markers just so i could find a blue one that looked kinda like the shade of blue of freds hat and also wasn’t missing its cap and dried out was totally worth it!!!1!!!!5!!”
“I drew this on the whiteboard at my scool it took forever becase i couldnt find any other pink or magenta markers.”
Found these tags on my last hand-drawn post inspiring:
I’m so good at art.
This doodle made me laugh too much so now this is the Fred this week
THE ONE PIZZA…!
THE ONE PIZZA IS REAL!!!!!!
A scan of the old Friday Fred expansion from the GUYS system. I don’t think this is Friday Fred’s first appearance, but I could be wrong. It’s definitely an off-model design.
Fred is Going Corporate
He can’t stay this small forever…
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬Nu är vi här Fred♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬CaramelDansen♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
We need you to roll up a most radical Friday, Prince.
OK this week I am doing a roundup of the Freds which got lost in the shuffle.
“its friday!!!1!! fuck yeah!!!1!11!!!!! dumping out all of my old markers just so i could find a blue one that looked kinda like the shade of blue of freds hat and also wasn’t missing its cap and dried out was totally worth it!!!1!!!!5!!”
“I drew this on the whiteboard at my scool it took forever becase i couldnt find any other pink or magenta markers.”
Story of my life people. You know what’s real ? The struggle.
Happy Pride Month ♥
this right here is why ‘queer’ is an identity, not a slur
QUEER IS AN IDENTITY, NOT A SLUR
PuttheQbackinLGBTQ+
it’s not pride month but i will reblog the SHIT out of this any time. queer pride babeyyyyy
we’re here, we’re queer, and too confused to pick one of those other labels so you better fucking get used to us because we’re not gonna get less messy, bitches.
kids are so fucking funny. we made pride flags with the elementary schoolers and a fifth grader added a gray stripe to the progress pride flag and when i asked him what it was for he said “for the emos”
It’s gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.
Naturally everybody will think it’s fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it’s real
There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable “don’t speak ill of the dead” discourse about those celebrations
Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that
The Republicans (after they’re done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They’ll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.
There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won’t, he was a traitor insurrectionist)
The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.
Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.
Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.
When I see people sharing so much of their kids’ lives, I think about that one time my child told a joke, I shared that joke with ONE FRIEND in a private conversation, and my child said “can you please ask me next time, before you tell people something about me?”
And, yes, I absolutely should. So I apologized, and now I ask.
“I love that video of you, can I show it to a friend?”
“Can I tell a friend about how clever you were just now?”
“Can I share this in the family group chat?”
“Can I show your art to grandma and grandpa?”
And it’s not like my kids don’t like when I share their jokes and puns and fun moments. They love it! But they want to have control over what I share with people. Even without their faces or their names. Even people we know and trust.
whish they told us this in school, all they did was say “feel for lumps, you will know when you feel it”
This is important, even if it doesn’t work with your blog theme REBLOG IT!!!!
Women need to know this, not all of us have ever been told what we need to look out for!
yeah reblogging especially for my transmasc fellows who (like me) might be real uncomfortable with their chests and not know what to watch out for because we try to avoid this kind of thing (just me? okay)
Cis Men need to know it too. They can get breast cancer even though the odds are lower.
Palestinian banks could be cut off from the Israeli banking system starting next week following a decision by Israel’s finance minister to cease dealings between the two financial institutions, according to a report on Thursday by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has two days to convene a cabinet meeting to discuss reversing plans by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to isolate Palestinian banks from both the Israeli and international banking systems.
The Palestinian economy is based on the Israeli currency, the shekel, making it reliant on ties to Israel and its financial dealings with the rest of the world must go through the Bank of Israel and Israeli banks.