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"Israel has continued its attacks across Gaza, including a strike near a school in Jabalia an-Nazla, killing at least five people.

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called on the government to begin annexing parts of Gaza if Hamas refuses to disarm, a proposal far beyond Israel’s planned Gaza City offensive, which the UN has condemned."

Meanwhile, the famine worsens, and children in Gaza are collecting dirty water from under vehicles to drink.

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WHAT

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Time Lapse of the Land Taken From Native Americans

via reddit

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The Hyun-Ju covered in blood stamps, as promised °ʚ(´꒳`)ɞ°

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🌸👶🩸

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I JUST WATCH SQUID GAME SEASON 3 IT'S MADE ME CRYING SHE GOT DEATH FROM PLAYER 333 KILL HER 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

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:(((

squid game rant

Hyun-ju related spoilers below cut:

When s2 came out, I was legitimately shedding tears on the daily about how beautiful a character Hyun-ju was and how unexpected and special and vital it was, in this era of vicious, dangerously normalized transphobia and conservatism, to have a shy and strong and complex trans woman leading the goddamn class rebellion in one of the world's most watched TV shows, to see her cherished and accepted, to see her be not just the rallying point for the elderly and for other women and for the marginalized but for EVERYONE - the protector, the source of hope and leadership and strategy - as real-world trans folks often are, without receiving their flowers for it. There is no way that having her present as a protector and friend for Jun-hee and Geum-ja 1) in the women's bathroom and 2) during literal childbirth, comforting the mother and holding the baby, was not also a conscious statement, a direct rebuke to the real-world people who fearmonger and deny and are trying to criminalize trans womanhood. It felt hopeful and positive, and yet at the same time it was also so moving but painful to see her defending these women with her bare hands, with her literal life, getting fucking stabbed for them as she fought men off with her bare hands: they accept and love her and yet for the most part there's this consistent thread (military background aside) that she's always going to be the sacrifice, that she simply has to be the one that steps up, that she keeps having to choose to be brave. I loved her for it and I hated it for her.

Anyways so to have her murdered by a fuckass worthless crypto boy (the ACTUAL danger to the cis woman and child in this situation, mind you) for nothing, for more money, because she dragged herself bleeding away from her own happy ending to go and get the other women she felt duty-bound to protect, feels both so violating and upsetting and also is exactly where the fuck I feel like the US and a lot of the world is right now (not to make this about us, but the parallels are just unmistakable). The tears and the pain in her eyes in that split second when she realizes that she's never making it out, that she's never making it to Thailand...that she doesn't get to live her dream, that she doesn't get to live to experience the tenderness and the gentleness that she deserves...anyways I know this is the Everyone Dies Show and literally everyone died by the end, but there was something so viscerally upsetting about that that I'm still thinking about it literally 12 hours after seeing it. I could have used a little bit more hope this week.

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Hyun-Ju x Jun-hee x Young-Mi polycule

hyun-ju x jun-hee nation are you out there

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Do dark, disturbing themes and graphic descriptions of toxic relationship dynamics offend your purity culture-addled sensibilities? If so, I STRONGLY suggest you steer clear of my Curious George fanworks.

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Hello to all of my followers. This is a break from my normal content, but one of my near and dear friends is homeless and needs help. Please donate to help a homeless trans woman in Texas.

https://gofund.me/63ab58f5

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The alt-right's foothold into Gen-Z is frustrating and I can see from over here how they're doing it.

You've got a generation of young-adults who are learning to be adults for the first time and for so many of them it sucks. It sucks to be in your first shitty apartment where things break, and to have your first shitty car that needs maintenance, and to be working a low-paying service or retail job where you get berated all day and barely scrape by. And you go home and you have taxes to figure out and electric bills to figure out and a screen on your phone to rot into to destress.

And this is men and women, equally, in this spot. But the alt-right messaging gets to tailor their approach to gender.

And hey women, yes you working a shitty job for shitty pay, overwhelmed by financial responsibilities and car repairs, what if you actually didn't need to do ANY of that? You don't need to. And you don't need to feel guilty about it. (You're not quitting, you're not being lazy), you actually are just embracing the chance to be exactly who an ideal woman should be. You should actually be beautiful, and demure, and barefoot in a sunny kitchen, glowing, pregnant, hearing the joyful sounds of your children while you bake a roast for your wonderful husband (strong, protective, loves you, handles the finances, handles the jobs, handles all the things you hate). OUR ancestors (don't mind the dogwhistle) did this for GENERATIONS, and modern society has failed you instead!

It's offering to break women out of all the parts of their real life that suck, and do it in a way that promises they're actually being better, being more admirable, more moral, more respectable, more correct, can feel good about, can feel proud about, as a Woman as Feminine as Mother as Goddess.

And the thing being promised does not need to actually reflect reality. It's a fantasy. It is not real. For every "beautiful demure barefoot" day, you'd be having another one covered in shit changing diapers of screaming infants with screaming children while your husband ignores you because it's Women's Work (take pride!) But that doesn't matter. It just needs to sound better than the reality they're living.

Then the men are targeted too. And it's the same in that it's getting to them by appealing to pride in their gender, but the messaging is different. It's "those finances are hard but ACTUALLY you're leveling up, you're grinding, you're finance maxing." It's hard but it's the kind of hard that is a challenge you can WIN at, boast about, post about, prove your manliness. Knowing cars, knowing home repairs, knowing taxes, that's your MAN pride, and you are so elite, you are so sigma, you are the envy of everyone, you are a masculine man. Women love you. Women will defer to you. Strong, respected, moral, loyal, unshakeable. Unlike those pansy men (mind the homophobic dogwhistling) who will whimper and cry like girls. You are better.

The shitty retail job is actually humble beginnings because you're minmaxing your way to financial success (bitcoin, crypto, investments). You can sleep with any woman you want as long as you're confident, and then you'll find one who understands how smart and confident and strong and protective you are and she will defer to you as her man. She will birth your children and teach them good morals and you will make it. Our ancestors lived this way for generations (dogwhistle) and modern society took it from you.

And with that messaging it makes it clear who the enemy in all this is - modern society that has convinced women to torture themselves with high education and terrible jobs, turned them Ugly with Ugly opinions and bad hair and nasty attitudes, yelping about "rights" and "equality" (pitting them against men! TAKING things from men!) All the while, society has been trying to emasculate men--replace them with women, make them soft and emotional, make them gay, make them WEAK. We've been made WEAK.

The naive women hearing this go "I'm not ugly! I don't hate men! I DO hate my job and my finances. I've been tricked. I'm actually rebelling by declaring my goal is to get a Perfect (White) (Christian) moral husband who will make all our decisions and protect me and our children." (And when she's financially trapped in an abusive marriage...? When she's suicidal with PPD but her husband won't touch that because it's Woman Hysteria...? And when her husband leaves her for someone who was as hot as she was 20 years ago and now she's figuring out finances, health care, taxes, bank accounts for the first time in her life...?)

And the men go "They've been TAKING things from us for too long! It's time to be men again! It's time to take pride! I am strong and confident. I am in charge! I never show weakness!" (And when he's got a gun to his head due to the depression he's never been allowed to talk about as Women Feelings...? And when he's financially ruined from a crypto scheme that stroked his ego and robbed him blind...? And when he's dead from alcohol poisoning and none of his adult children notice because no one's spoken to 'Dad' in 15 years...?)

And it's so hard to fight because you're arguing against a fantasy. How do you disprove their fantasy? It's so hard to explain to them, hey you're working a shitty job where you have no future because the rich bastards took it all from you. And now you're doing their work for them. You hate society because of what they've done to it and now you're doing their work. Now you're targeting groups who've never done anything to harm you and the guys responsible are laughing to the bank. How do you explain? How do you disprove fantasy?

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'because im nubby' pharell william's 'happy' 'nubby's number factory' song parity

I own nothing

all song/game belong to pharell william

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Dare I say this is very real

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How to spot signs and symptoms of Breast Cancer 

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Happy Valentine's Day! Here are some gay robots :3

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unironically what it must be like working with elon musk

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Just saw a comment section full of people shitting on fanart of a straight ship, #blessed