I was checking on someone from Gaza and I asked them “how’s the condition of the tent?” a question that really, really stung.
As Palestinians, whether or not we experienced living in tents and refugee camps first hand, tents have been a symbol of our initial displacement in 1948.
Finding myself asking this question to a Palestinian 76 years later really struck me.
Israel is a settler colonial entity, intent on disappearing Palestinians through massacres and displacement to make way for its expansionist project.
The fact that this is a question we are still having to ask is beyond heart-wrenching, but it also tells me that try as they might, we are rooted in this land and Israel’s attempts have never deterred us.
Despite how painful this is, the least we can do is actually ensure that these tents are adequate enough to withstand upcoming winter conditions as it approaches.
Siraj is looking to raise funds to secure an adequate living space for his family this winter. He’s currently only $842 away from reaching the target and you can donate here.
And for families who aren’t fundraising, the Sameer Project team is currently working to provide tents to displaced Palestinians in Gaza. You can donate to them via Chuffed / Venmo / PayPal. Just make sure you leave a note “tent” to specify which project you’re donating to.
“oh no we need to practice for our fake dating” is the funniest trope to me cause like. there are so many people who force themselves into a shitty relationship they hate just because of amatonormatiivity that it’s an ingrained part of popular culture to joke about hating your partner.
which is to say, oh my god you dont need to hold hands and go on fake dates, you don’t even need to agree on a single detail of your cover story beforehand. you can literally stand 6 feet apart at all times and look profoundly uncomfortable and all anyone will think is “yikes™. not my problem”
actually people should address this in fanfic more because “i know we could half-ass it, but i would never fake mistreat my fake husband, how dare you” is absolutely delightful
New trope: fake dating for spite.
“Look, my only goal here is for our pretend relationship to be demonstrably healthier than Aunt Rita and Uncle Carl’s fifteen year, three child marriage - which means the bar is so low we probably can’t fuck this up”
preserving @river-gale’s tags for posterity because yes. yes. this is it. you get it.
Effeminate dentist: You need to brush more on your gums– hold on why am I “effeminate?” What? I’m literally just a normal dentist. A masculine one, even.
Me: (struggling to speak through the dentist’s fingers) youw weren’t shupposhed to shee that
I know that a lot of you are banking on having little to do with your nephews/neices as children and then becoming their “cool aunt” once they become teenagers, but I think that you will find, upon analysis, that a random middle-aged woman stepping into a whole-ass teenager’s life and arbitrarily declaring herself to be a “cool aunt” is, in fact, the least cool thing it’s possible to do.
How to Actually Be a Cool Adult for a Kid:
Be a constant part of their life. Show up for birthdays and holidays. Babysit. Go on outings with the family.
Listen to them starting when they’re young. Show an interest in what they have to say, even if it’s incomprehensible toddler ramblings, or a ten minute monologue about Paw Patrol. Let them show you their favorite toys. Get excited if they show you art or crafts, and if they give you one, treat it like a museum piece.
Treat them like a person. Respect their preferences and bodily autonomy (no demanding hugs). Don’t make fun of them or embarrass them. Engage in actual conversation.
Set respectful boundaries, but give them room to explore.
Be willing to intervene if another adult is making their life unnecessarily difficult or if other kids are bothering them.
Respect the rules and boundaries their parents have set. Yeah, it’s easy to win kudos with kids by letting them have fun that their parents won’t, and yeah, the fact that this isn’t actually your kid means you can be more relaxed in some areas, and have different rules at your house than at home. But most of the time, you will be supporting your siblings in raising their kid, so like. Be respectful of that too.
Don’t be a snitch if you don’t have to. If you catch the kids playing a forbidden game, or teasing one of the niblings at Thanksgiving dinner, you don’t need to make it a big production. Be the adult and handle the situation, then let it go.
Keep confidence. Goes along with the previous one, but for older kids. If a kid or teen comes to you with a concern or looking for advice, respect their privacy. Don’t tell your sibling about it unless the kid gives you permission to.
Accept the fact that teenagers are contrary little shits who usually think grown ups are the most embarrassing entities in existence. They may not want to hang out with you. They may find it embarrassing if you share their interests.
Remember that even if you end up being the kid’s friend, you are still also one of their adults. You have responsibilities to a kid if you want to be a big part of their life, in a way you wouldn’t automatically have with another adult.
Don’t try to be the cool adult if you are doing it for your own gratification. Be the kid’s friend because you love them and care about their well-being.
agree with all of the above but think it’s worth saying: doing this is not because you are patiently waiting for the kids to turn into teens who will then be cool. kids ARE cool. they are entire people. they love stories and playing games and any kind of arts and crafts and even just going on a walk. they love to be given choices as easy as what movie to watch or whether they want pbj or mac and cheese. they tell corny jokes and ask great questions and they are cool little dudes with cool little interests if you pay enough attention to notice them.
they are just not cool in the same ways you are. so get over yourself. this one isn’t about you.
You wrote about murder?? Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn’t even say ‘murder is bad’ at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can’t believe you condone murder, I can’t believe you’re pro murber, oh my fucking God don'ttalk to me when ou literally kill people, freak. I’m calling the cops, what the fuck, I’m shaking and crying.
Literally just a really good exercise to develop genuine empathy for the global south and have your antiimperialist sentiment more grounded and being aware of how you benefit from it is just. Holding a product in your hand and think about all of the people who made it possible. not only who harvested the coffee beans from your instant and who roasted them or who harvested the cotton from your shirt and who spun at and wove it, but also who made the paper, plastic, cardboard, inks of the packaging, who delivered the goods necessary from one place to another, all the way to your supermarket, store of your convenience, or even your home.
👉 I’m with you on all these things except instant coffee. For it there’s no raison d'être. Good slow strong coffee or nothing at all ☕☕
Couldn’t make up this response if I wanted. I recommend touching some grass. Once or twice a week for a month will do.
You wrote about murder?? Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn’t even say ‘murder is bad’ at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can’t believe you condone murder, I can’t believe you’re pro murber, oh my fucking God don'ttalk to me when ou literally kill people, freak. I’m calling the cops, what the fuck, I’m shaking and crying.
I was reading one of my childhood diaries the other day and there was a whole paragraph saying how hopeful I was that my writing will help the archeologists in the far future. Then it proceeded to describe my lunch that day and how my dog was probably secretly able to talk.
there is a fucking statue of a kid who lived sometime in the 1200s, around 800 fucking years ago, because we have pieces of his homework that he doodled on while learning how to write. this is one of his drawings:
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when I was googling him (because I couldn’t remember his name), I stumbled across this twitter thread about him, which includes a different doodle by an italian boy in the 1400s of knights besieging a castle:
I am a friend-of-a-friend of another Buffy actor, name not mentioned for privacy though those who know will know, and he is in the same boat of living in poverty and being entirely dependant on what scraps the residuals and con interviews can get him. He is very disabled and my ex trained his service dog for him as a handshake deal because he needed the dog but couldn’t afford anything else.
And knowing that made me realize that maybe these cushy actor jobs aren’t that cushy after all.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but please please please please please explore the settings. Of your phone, computer, of every app you use. Investigate the UI, toggle some things around and see what happens. You won’t break anything irreperably without a confirmation box asking you if you really mean to do that thing. And you can just look up what a setting will do before touching it if you’re really worried ok?
Worst case scenario you just have to change the settings back if you don’t like what happened but it is so so so important to explore the tools available to you and gain a better understanding for how the stuff you use works.
Even if you already know. Even if you’re comfortable with how you use it now. You don’t just have to accept whtever experience has been handed to you by default and it’s good for you to at least know what’s available to you.
Yeah. I’ve been “good at computers” since I was a kid and since I was a kid I’ve been telling people that all it is is a willingness to look at settings and push buttons.
Computers are good at “are you sure?” and “reset to defaults”. There’s a safety net. Go look at the options, and push ‘em if you’re not sure. That’s like 90% of being “good at computers” : not being scared to push buttons and fiddle with options when something is broken or you need to learn a new thing
this honestly just came out of left fucking field i would have never expected to hear anything like this in this show. consider me Pleasantly Surprised tbh
This was the autism episode
people seem to forget that house was a multiply disabled man, so it should be a given that he’d be against eugenics and eugenicist doctors
I pointed this out the last time this post started circulating, but House is explicitly disabled because Cuddy didn’t take him seriously about his pain until it was too late to save his leg muscle, and then she tried to convince him to cut it off so he could have a “normal” life with a prosthesis. He’s quite literally a walking display of what happens when doctors refuse to listen to patients who don’t communicate in a socially acceptable manner, and the reason he gets away with so much stuff is because Cuddy knows he doesn’t share her blind spot when it comes to putting the wellbeing of the patient above everything else, fuck protocol, fuck insurance, fuck liability, fuck the Hippocratic Oath, this person is in pain right now, everything else can go to hell until their pain stops.
I’m not sure that people who aren’t in academia know how disruptive the loss of Internet Archive is for us.
I’ve been working on a big project all week, and suddenly losing access to the dozens of out-of-print and out of date radio astronomy books that my library doesn’t have has thrown a massive wrench in the works. A lot of them are pretty hard to pirate, too! Most of what the IA has and does is stuff that most people will never have a reason to seek and nobody has a financial incentive to store, and that’s precisely why it’s so valuable.
Hey just adding from the comments, OP clarified IA is not GONE. It’s just down right now due to a malicious hacking incident. The information in the archives is still there, just inaccessible to the public right now.
The IA workers are currently slowly working to bring it back up, but are moving slow and cautious so as to avoid further issues, and hopefully implement security measures to make something like this less likely to happen again.
Do not despair, unless you have a current research project that is.
The (hopefully temporary) loss of the Internet Archive has negatively affected my daily life. There is music on there I can’t find anywhere else, books and films and radio broadcasts that simply don’t exist elsewhere online. There are research materials there that I need for my wip and it will be a lesser work without access to that information. It’s a crucial keystone of the online ecosystem and its absence is real and noticeable
hey you. indie creator. get rid of the corporate execs and the imaginary writers room in your brain. the cynical youtube reviewers and disney fans who want sanitized uwu gays probably are never even gonna be even slightly aware of your existence. write those unrelatable blorbos and those messy themes and that weirdly sexy violence. you have no one to answer to but yourself. give yourself what you want and maybe some day, some 3 random lesbians from the internet whose interests you have somehow exactly hit will look at your thing and think its pretty cool, and in the end thats all you ever needed
I NEVER NOTICED THIS POST TOOK OFF everyone who said they rly needed to hear this, we r in this together babe we will get it, eye of the tiger lets go
“if we get another (this weeks problematic media) because of this fucking post im gonna kill you” you saw a post like this thats meant to encourage people to work on their art and that was your first thought? sounds like someone hasnt killed the cynical youtube critic in their brain <3 also im blocking you
hey you. indie creator. get rid of the corporate execs and the imaginary writers room in your brain. the cynical youtube reviewers and disney fans who want sanitized uwu gays probably are never even gonna be even slightly aware of your existence. write those unrelatable blorbos and those messy themes and that weirdly sexy violence. you have no one to answer to but yourself. give yourself what you want and maybe some day, some 3 random lesbians from the internet whose interests you have somehow exactly hit will look at your thing and think its pretty cool, and in the end thats all you ever needed
I NEVER NOTICED THIS POST TOOK OFF everyone who said they rly needed to hear this, we r in this together babe we will get it, eye of the tiger lets go
“if we get another (this weeks problematic media) because of this fucking post im gonna kill you” you saw a post like this thats meant to encourage people to work on their art and that was your first thought? sounds like someone hasnt killed the cynical youtube critic in their brain <3 also im blocking you
some of the best writing advice I’ve ever received: always put the punch line at the end of the sentence.
it doesn’t have to be a “punch line” as in the end of a joke. It could be the part that punches you in the gut. The most exciting, juicy, shocking info goes at the end of the sentence. Two different examples that show the difference it makes:
doing it wrong:
She saw her brother’s dead body when she caught the smell of something rotting, thought it was coming from the fridge, and followed it into the kitchen.
doing it right:
Catching the smell of something rotten wafting from the kitchen—probably from the fridge, she thought—she followed the smell into the kitchen, and saw her brother’s dead body.
Periods are where you stop to process the sentence. Put the dead body at the start of the sentence and by the time you reach the end of the sentence, you’ve piled a whole kitchen and a weird fridge smell on top of it, and THEN you have to process the body, and it’s buried so much it barely has an impact. Put the dead body at the end, and it’s like an emotional exclamation point. Everything’s normal and then BAM, her brother’s dead.
This rule doesn’t just apply to sentences: structuring lists or paragraphs like this, by putting the important info at the end, increases their punch too. It’s why in tropes like Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking or Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, the odd item out comes at the end of the list.
Subverting this rule can also be used to manipulate reader’s emotional reactions or tell them how shocking they SHOULD find a piece of information in the context of a story. For example, a more conventional sentence that follows this rule:
She opened the pantry door, looking for a jar of grape jelly, but the view of the shelves was blocked by a ghost.
Oh! There’s a ghost! That’s shocking! Probably the character in our sentence doesn’t even care about the jelly anymore because the spirit of a dead person has suddenly appeared inside her pantry, and that’s obviously a much higher priority. But, subvert the rule:
She opened the pantry door, found a ghost blocking her view of the shelves, and couldn’t see past it to where the grape jelly was supposed to be.
Because the ghost is in the middle of the sentence, it’s presented like it’s a mere shelf-blocking pest, and thus less important than the REAL goal of this sentence: the grape jelly. The ghost is diminished, and now you get the impression that the character is probably not too surprised by ghosts in her pantry. Maybe it lives there. Maybe she sees a dozen ghosts a day. In any case, it’s not a big deal. Even though both sentences convey the exact same information, they set up the reader to regard the presence of ghosts very differently in this story.
A bread is one of the most vulnerable animals on earth of all time. It can die in a number of different ways, which include being smashed, being old, being rottened, being crumpled up, getting too hot, having water put on it, and having water not on it but being in the air a lot (the water (mist)). The bread’s favorite way to die is being eaten, but the world is a complicated place, and it does not care for what the bread wants, and so it dies in a variety of ways which are not the preference of the bread.
Humans are considered the bread’s natural predator, and also, are the bread’s mommy (make/give birth to the bread). Humans are a large species of ant or plant or ele phant with two grasping appendages which they use to give birth to the bread. They also have one hole which eats the bread, and some other holes, which the bread is not allowed near, generally.
Some bread can go in the fridge. Some bread has fruit in it. Scientists don’t know why, as putting fruit in the bread is considered yucky, and scientists have difficulty imagining an organism that likes yucky things.
There is the anteater, which is an organism that likes yucky things, but scientists do not need to imagine it, because it is real.
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