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Also if you give money to israeli orgs rn i hope you choke i am not kidding I think you deserve to eat dirt for the rest of your lives

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i want to reiterate i don't think israeli hostages have had the time of their lives and i don't think this ordeal was fun or easy for them but looking at how israeli hostages have been released by hamas and how palestinian hostages have been released by israel is a really dark-sided reality check on just how low the standards for israel have been to meet a basic threshold for humanity and yet it still failed

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fwiw while i am cynical abt the Propaganda (and it is propaganda of a fashion) i think it is interesting that palestinians and their supporters really really want the hostages to have been treated well, fed well and had good communication with their captors—possibly to the point of delusion—while by and large most zionists have shown no such inclination to defend the conditions of israeli detainment nor the reputation of their military and police, mostly sticking to "that teenage terrorist deserved it."

its very telling on how israelis view palestinians, and how little they consider that this treatment of palestinians may reflect on their cause, even though many israelis are reportedly "against the settlements" and "view many of these settlers as extremists" when confronted.

i have seen some israelis talk about how the idf is "bringing incubators and medical supplies to gaza's hospitals" but by and large the most moral army in the world façade does not seem to apply to the west bank, which shows that the propaganda israel is currently concerned about is its devastation of gaza (and particularly the highly publicized attacks on hospitals that have done little to deter the destruction of more hospitals) but it seems to have zero concerns that it will be held accountable for its settlements and crimes in the west bank

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Despite its public portrayal of itself, the ADL isn’t a civil rights group in any meaningful sense, but rather, a veiled pro-Israel lobbying organization that uses superficial language of inclusiveness and anti-racism to defend Israel from criticism from the left. The ADL has made it clear on a number of occasions that it considers the entire basis of the peaceful Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement — embraced by virtually all of Palestinian civil society — to be hate speech, specifically any claim that denies Israel’s ​“existence as a Jewish state” (e.g. its claim to ethnonational supremacy over non-Jews living in Palestine). The ADL’s website clearly states, ​“Anti-Israel activity crosses the line to anti-Semitism” with any statement that ​“Israel is denied the right to exist as a Jewish state,” and that ​“the founding goals of the BDS movement and many of the strategies used by BDS campaigns are anti-Semitic.” The ADL smearing Black activists who oppose Israel isn’t new. In the 1960s, the ADL harshly criticized the Black-led Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panthers for their criticisms of Israel, equating these ​“negro extremists” with the KKK and American Nazi Party. The ADL also worked with the Israeli government in the 1960s, ​‘70s and ​‘80s to spy on Arab groups, as well as leftwing anti-South African apartheid activists. As Pulitzer Prize-winning author Glenn Frankel noted in Foreign Policy magazine in 2010, ​“The Anti-Defamation League participated in a blatant propaganda campaign against Nelson Mandela and the ANC in the mid 1980s and employed an alleged ​‘fact-finder’ named Roy Bullock to spy on the anti-apartheid campaign in the United States — a service he was simultaneously performing for the South African government. The ADL defended the white regime’s purported constitutional reforms while denouncing the ANC as ​‘totalitarian anti-humane, anti-democratic, anti-Israel, and anti-American.’”

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Many of the freed palestinian prisoners were serving life sentences. They never thought to see their families again. Theres a reason why in their interviews they're thanking Gaza. Gaza is the center of our struggle

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new favorite YouTube comment just dropped

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do not raise a word against those crusty little white dogs in my presence. 1. they are some of the only breeds that were bred to live in a dumpy apartment not like a golden retriever who longs to swim and run and can’t even chill on your dumb couch cuz of the hair 2. You’ll be singing a different tune when the crusty little dog is a tiny little puppy and is the shade of a beautiful jasmine bloom… and you make fun of the old ladies for babying them when they’re crusty and old but someone will be taking care of YOU when you’re old and crusty and you will wish they love you as much as those old ladies love their crusty dogs….

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“Hello,” she said in a voice so husky it could pull a dogsled.

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“Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he’s got an answer: “536.” Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, “It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year,” says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past. A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and night—for 18 months. “For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year,” wrote Byzantine historian Procopius. Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years. Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved. The Irish chronicles record “a failure of bread from the years 536–539.” Then, in 541, bubonic plague struck the Roman port of Pelusium, in Egypt. What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire and hastening its collapse, McCormick says. Historians have long known that the middle of the sixth century was a dark hour in what used to be called the Dark Ages, but the source of the mysterious clouds has long been a puzzle. Now, an ultraprecise analysis of ice from a Swiss glacier by a team led by McCormick and glaciologist Paul Mayewski at the Climate Change Institute of The University of Maine (UM) in Orono has fingered a culprit. At a workshop at Harvard this week, the team reported that a cataclysmic volcanic eruption in Iceland spewed ash across the Northern Hemisphere early in 536. Two other massive eruptions followed, in 540 and 547. The repeated blows, followed by plague, plunged Europe into economic stagnation that lasted until 640, when another signal in the ice—a spike in airborne lead—marks a resurgence of silver mining, as the team reports in Antiquity this week.”

— “Why 536 was the worst year to be alive” from Science magazine (via principleofplenitude)

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The threat was loud and clear: Report your so-called “DEI” employees or else. What exactly “DEIA or similar ideologies” means is up in the air, but the message was out there. And so was the email address of the DEIA snitching hotline. Fake emails quickly started to roll in. ‘I don’t care, fuck these McCarthyite bastards,” one BlueSky user said, with an screenshot attached of an email to the hotline where he ironically reported Donald Trump and JD Vance for being “put in their positions solely because of their race and/or gender despite the fact that they are wholly unqualified for their jobs and, in some cases, have criminal records.” “Anyone have a script to fire off a billion e-mails an hour??” another user asked in the replies. “Anyone can email anything of any size even if it crashes the site,” one X user noted. The scope and effectiveness of this latest phase of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade remains to be seen.

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Urgent: Help a family of 27 evacuate Gaza

Verified by @/90-ghost

The Iwais Family's campaign is currently at kr677,941 out of kr800,000.

This post has a list of posts detailing the hardships they are now facing in Gaza. Please help this family of 27 survive this genocide and evacuate from Gaza by donating and spreading their campaign!!

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🚨 Urgent Appeal 🚨

My dear husband was seriously injured during the war and we lost many loved ones

The doctors told us that he needs an emergency surgery to get him back on his feet

I came to you, sorry and desperate, to ask you to support and donate to my husband to undergo an operation that costs approximately 3000£ to 5000£

We need to undergo an operation during this month before 25-1-2025

Donate - no matter how small the amount, every pound helps💔🙏

With love and gratitude - Rima

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I'm always kinda down on myself for not reading enough books instead of doomscrolling, especially given how unemployed I am. (Although one of the reasons I'm unemployed is that my brain is a soup of trauma, fog, ADHD and burnout.) But I just took a tally and I've actually read about one hundred books and 18 novellas over the last year. None of them are exactly award-winning brain food, but seven of Jacqueline Carey's epic tomes, KJ Charles's and Joanna Chambers's entire bodies of work, Cecilia Grant's criminally underrated trilogy, and a whole bunch of Agatha Christie novels isn't just mindless pulp either. I've been hyperfixating on hockey MM romances the last few months and forgot I read anything but ripped dudes banging.

(Okay so Carey is kinda pulpy. It's 750 pages per book, there had to be some pulp in so much dead tree. And I would classify Cat Sebastian as a guilty pleasure if any but four books had been pleasurable. I'm too OCD to DNF books so I want the hours of my life I toiled through the Sedgewicks and the first Turners novel back. I forgive her only because I love Page & Sommers.)

I still don't feel like Reader™ though. I feel like I have to read more diversely and more literary and non-fiction books to be a Reader™ again. It's not like when I was a kid in school and would just shove whatever I found into my brain whole like a whale swallowing silverfish without noticing a difference between Beloved and Nancy Drew. I dunno. All those mega-tons of fanfiction has made it necessary for me to find a delineation between reading as a numbing activity and reading as a cerebral activity. It's hard to make my brain Work when it just wants the equivalent of shooting heroine into my eyeballs to forget I exist.

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A message from Mohammed Abu Alwan:

Today God has honored me by returning me to my city, Rafah, the fortress of steadfastness, after we escaped certain death due to Israel’s breach of the truce. We went to Rafah, and I was filled with sadness and tears that never left my eyes. It is a very strange and sad feeling to stand on the rubble of your home. It is not only the house that has gone, but the memories, dreams, and ambitions have gone, even the joy has gone and will not return.

Mohammed needs help paying for medical treatment for his wife and young son, as well as transportation and food. Your assistance is really vital as this family fight to restart their lives.

Venmo: gothhabiba Paypal: paypal.me/Najia Cashapp: $NajiaK

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

$46 / $1,000

I'm doing tatreez commissions for donations over $75.

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Edit: Please note, the first and original Toker is from INDONESIA 🇮🇩, not Thailand. Sincere apologies for the mistake.

I loved this TikTok trend. The resurgence of San Sananana from Asoka (2001) jumpscared me at first because when it first came out all the radio stations were playing it every hour until we heard it in our dreams and nightmares. But this time makeup artists all over the world artists were absolutely popping off with it— the dance moves, the emotiveness, the absolute seamless transitions, the artistry, the costumes, the reveals—just absolutely amazing! I love when Bollywood brings its international audience together.

Here's a compilation of the Top 5 most viewed Tiktoks from the trend with their respective countries of origin. They've independently reported it took them an average of 12 hours per video, except for the last guy who had (and justifiably needed!) a whole team to help pull all the costumes off!

Direct links to the TikToks:

Sita Suwarnadwipa - Indonesia (original)

Lenie Aycardo-Alejandro - Philippines

Camila Pudim - Brazil

Chang Nugyen - Vietnam

Qyùnh Thi - Vietnam

Valentino Lazaroh - Columbia

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