I love when people are like “I can’t believe you reblogged that despite their user name, icon, bio, and last twenty posts” bc to me my dash is the only part of this website and I’m not slowing down to look at urls you could all be the same person
Something I felt compelled to write about. Intersectionality through symbolism. For the unaware, we are black. and this fact has changed the way we view some things, statements, and movements. Particularly, with regards to Watermelon, and Palestine.
As many may know, it’s something of a common racist stereotype for black people to be portrayed with watermelon or as loving watermelon, what isn’t so well known is the origin, The Watermelon during the Civil War Era was the symbol of emancipation, of the freed black, and it was used proudly as a show of support by many free blacks in the south as a statement of that belief in black emancipation, the stereotype was created as a way of fighting back at this antiracist symbolism.
As many know, The Watermelon has comparatively recently taken on a different meaning, that being the standing for Gazan Freedom. The reason for this being simple, Color. Watermelons have green black red and white in them, the colors of the Palestinian Flag.
The people of Palestine have had their country brutally occupied and oppressed by apartheid Israeli settlers for what is now the better part of one hundred years. and in this time they have been banned from the usage of their own Flag, and from the display of its colors. in 1980 this came to a head, the IOF shut down a Ramallah Art Gallery stating that the usage of red green black and white by Palestinians was prohibited under all circumstances, even in something as simple as a painting of a watermelon.
So many freedoms have been robbed from the Palestinian people that to even paint a water melon is deemed a crime.
The use of Watermelon as a symbol by Palestinains is an act of defiance. an act of the refusal of the corrupt tyranny of those who deem them lesser or unworthy of the simple right to exist.
Much like the use of Watermelon by free blacks.
We share far far more in common then ever we have differences.
Black Americans understand how it is to be a second class citizen considered below human in their own place of origin.
And I’m yet to meet a black person informed of the history of the area who doesn’t throughly condemn the IOF and firmly support the freedom of Gaza and Palestine writ large.
Inshallah we shall a Free Palestine in all our lifetimes.
best-case scenario, this sets off a spy-vs-spy scenario with trump guys and biden guys trying to assassinate the other team’s geriatric idol through increasingly outlandish means until they both get killed on election night by elaborate rube goldberg machines
My contempt towards a brand is directly proportional to how often they interrupt my playlists.
My late father was the one who taught me to be cynical about advertising, for all that putting up ads was literally his whole job. He taught me from a very young age that advertising is expensive, and they tack that cost onto the price. That if something is heavily advertised, you can count on the fact that there’s an identical product out there, usually even manufactured in the same factory, that’s cheaper because they don’t spend all that money on advertising.
A German friend walked me through Lidl, turning over items to show the factories where the items were manufactured and what expensive brands they correspond to, we did taste tests on some of the more pricey food things later and they were the same product. learning about food manufacturing was a hobby for her.
European glasses and sunglasses are made in the same Italian factories that make the luxury ones, they have the same quality control and warranty. You are paying €100 for a logo.
Some things cost more because they are actually made with better quality materials and where the workers are properly compensated, others are the same product as the off brand version with the brand name markup. It takes a lifetime to learn the intricacies which is why consumer advocacy associations and legal protection by (truly) independent agencies is crucial.
It’s the baffled person in the background for me lol
DO NOT TRY TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR A CANDIDATE AT THE POLLS.
DO NOT ENGAGE IN ANY KIND OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE AT THE POLLS.
NO ELECTION IS EVER A SURE THING, EVEN IF YOU’RE IN THE BLUEST OR REDDEST OF STATES. IF SOMEONE TRIES TO TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN SIT THIS ONE OUT, THEY ARE EITHER IGNORANT OR MALICIOUS.
VOTE.
YOU CAN GET YOUR PHONE OUT IN THE POLLS
YOU CAN’T TAKE PICTURES
BUT YOU CAN LOOK UP WHATEVER YOU WANT
LOOK PEOPLE AND POSITIONS UP IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY STAND FOR, OR WHAT THE POSITION IS
She doesn’t have a P*yp*l account, so I use my account from my more active days as an artist and act as her proxy. Everything here will be sent to her ASAP.
Please do not tag this as d*nations or the like.
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Update as of 07/09/2024
She got out of the ER right after I posted that, but her bleeding has returned and urgently needs medication to stop the bleeding.
She is estranged from her family, and I won’t be seeing any income until next week, ontop of that there’s no local government units in her specific area that deals with mutual aid like this, and the hospital has a poor reputation for accounting and budgeting.
So, she doesn’t have a lot of options left.
Translation
Her: Good afternoon, [deadname]. I just got online since my phone was low on battery and I wasn’t able to charge it, that’s okay [deadname].
Her: Hoping that there are any changes in the funds, I rly need them now, I am out of meds and I need extra (funds) so I can eat
Her: I have starter bleeding again earlier and they might relocate me to the ER again if the bleeding is continuous
jigsaw voice in front of you is a delicious yummy. you have to eat the whole thing. you can take a few bites. you aren’t allergic to it. if you eat the whole hting i’ll give you another. i love you.
“shipping and blorbofication are not inherently at odds with understanding a story’s deep themes” and “some people can’t grasp the themes of a story because they never learned how to engage with stories outside of the lens of shipping and blorbofication” are two statements that can coexist
what if instead of writing a name in the death note you had to draw that person or creature as a drawing before it died but the more sentient and smart something is the more realistic the drawing had to be so you can doodle a fly and it would die but a person would have to be pretty realistic to work but one day you’re messing around and killing seagulls at the beach because you’re a freak i guess but you go to draw one of the seagulls and it doesn’t die so you shrug because maybe its smarter than the other ones so you do it more realistically but it still doesn’t die which is weird because it should have definitely bit the dust by now so you go home and study how to draw seagulls for days and you take pictures of that specific seagull for reference until you finally go back to the beach and you sit there and you draw the most realistic depiction of a seagull anyone’s ever done and its more realistic than your other drawings even of people and as the seagull falls out of the sky, ill gotten fry in its mouth you realize you’ve just killed the smartest and and most sentient creature on the planet. would that be fucked up or what
Hey look, it only took a month but my notifs went quiet again. I need to spark an argument uhhh @totally-bing how does it feel to know that the only people who use you are fictional
the same way i imagine you feel when people enjoy your ai feature. nothing, because it doesn’t happen
as an indian person, my favourite thing is seeing what people who aren’t from here have done with my food; i’ll go to an indian restaurant in a random corner of the world and they’re putting oregano in their palak paneer or a balsamic wash on their naan and it’s like “yes good tell me how you folded your culture into mine and came out with something new and lovely, we’re holding hands across oceans bestie”
supreme court just gave Dark Brandon the go to take out whoever he wants and the best were gonna get is a genuine “get well soon ol buddy ol pal” tweet after he wakes up from his nap. You want a blue wave? Cruise Missiles to trump’s current location NOW!!! read the room BOZO
When protesters marched in Washington after the killing of George Floyd, Donald Trump asked General Milley why the troops couldn’t just shoot them, suggesting maybe just “in the leg.”
Milley replied that he could not, because that would be illegal.
The Supreme Court has now ruled that it no longer will be, at least certainly not for the President to order it. And he can pardon the general that carries it out, and fire the ones that refuse.
If that doesn’t scare you, then I guess you can keep talking about stupid things like taking Biden off the ballot. If it does, then maybe focus on making sure it doesn’t happen, pressuring for Supreme Court reform, and saving this fucking country.
