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on the prowl

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Man that famous author was right about that bullies are nothing but Bull and Lies.... at the center of Industry is Dust... the difference between robots and humans is that humans can think for themselves.. Also robots are made out of metal, whereas Man is made out of Skin...

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The sixth house is here and owns my entire soul.

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answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.

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corporate nightmare 😍

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i am fine so long as i don’t remember i’m alive & a person

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Happy birthday lesbians

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cw: suicide/death

an “existentialist romance” (in the words of cronenberg) is where characters are exploring having control over their own reality in a world where "there's a certain point past which survival is a liability for those who remain". in effect, they stop letting reality just happen to them and try to shape it themselves:

there’s daniel, who has all these thoughts of death and suicide, and he’s crashing and bumping up into everything in life in an effort to transform through death-- maybe in effort or thought that something will change, but masking it through some veiled sentiment about living life to the extreme. combine that with armand, who is forever stuck in a body that’s been abused, and passed back and forth between abusers, and who has maybe no concept of autonomy at all. he's been a vampire twice as long as most characters on the show, and even his means of death are entirely reliant on others. the sun doesn’t affect him any more, so he can’t do what louis does when he runs outside into the sun. he is stuck in life, literally and metaphorically (shoutout to this post i think about it often) . so, a human death is maybe the most beautiful gift armand thinks he can give to daniel in the moment towards the end of season 2 ep 5: an assisted suicide that (he thinks) lets daniel lay some emotional claim over his own end (even as armand coaxes him towards it)—because he (armand) has no claim over his own life. what could be more beautiful than reclaiming your own life through death?

and it doesn’t even happen, and daniel lives, and then gets turned eventually as an older man. maybe it’s spite; it’s also a little death (orgasm or ecstasy), a stomachable one, wherein there is transformation through death but also an embalming and preservation through fire, or amber. you’re destroyed, and reborn, but somehow you’ve never changed at all. you're hated, and loved, but you're seen for exactly who you are. it's everything he could have ever wanted; one drug for another, the comfort of an old t-shirt, a high like no other. always in control. 

crash ends with deborah kara unger’s character getting into a car wreck. she lives through it, tearfully remarking, “i think i’m alright”. james spader’s character says “maybe the next one darling”, and they have sex. it’s romantic, it's bleak; it's beautiful, it's upsetting. did she succeed or fail? does she weep because she wanted to die and missed her chance to change, or because she wanted to live, and got to rub death against her nose like the ear of a dog? 

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a remake of crash (1996) but for people who use public transportation We need representation for the ones who don't know how to drive We are perverts too

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yuri devil's minion

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- September 22, 1917

- The diaries of Franz Kafka, 1914-1923

[ID: September 22. Nothing. End ID]

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This tweet made me chuckle because i had never considered that THIS is what Armand was suggesting their wall should look like, which then led me to two thoughts:

1. Armand is into bright colours for decorations (at the very least, a lot of yellow), so i take it as even further confirmation that, as many assumed, the dark grey, muted, minimalist look was mostly Louis' doing, which makes sense as an external representation of his state of mind and his depression.

2. Ai Weiwei is a highly political artist, with many works about freedom of speech. This show is never subtle about the art they mention, and this case is nothing less: when you zoom in, the wallpaper consists of beautiful compositions of...surveillance cameras.

So many details for a piece of art they didn't even include. I love this show.

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interview with the vampire if it was published in the 70s—wait

inspo under the cut

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bong joon-ho back in press junkets times i used to dream of

Here’s the trailer for Mickey 17

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more bits from 'a world of plenty'. gay cyborg sex forever and ever

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i genuinely don’t think the haitians eating pets lie is something that should be laughed off bc the rhetoric literally rooted in some of the worst acts of colonial violence known to man but i just know liberals are going to try and meme it away. this isn’t a funny haha republicans are so stupid thing this is a hey they are trying to justify a resurgence of specific atrocities against this specific group of people