#a victory

[vivaciouscynner]

kosa is dead

You know there will be some other "think about the children" bill that will attempt to pass under your noses. Stay vigilant

[igottatho]

Breaking News! UC Davis Breaks from Israel!

Link to video full of cheering HERE.

Original tweet is by user @CocktCapitalism , an anticapitalist podcast “that pairs crafted beverages with stories distilled from our capitalist hellscape.”

I’m looking for more sources to help us understand what UCD is and how divestment works and why this is significant, will add as I find them :)

ETA: some recent info about this protest movement can be found here via the UC campus newspaper “the Daily Bruin��.

ETA 2: Define “Divestment”- “the act of selling off a business or businesses, or of no longer investing money in something: a campaign to encourage divestment from fossil fuels” source

ETA 3: Some relevant Background on UCD’s divestment from Fossil Fuels (and how that hasn’t been perfect) c. 2020 can be found in the Guardian here.

ETA 4: this is hella old (1986) but relevant for how UCD’s divestment impacted the South African apartheid and its subsequent ending, can be found via WaPo here.

Text description beneath cut for the comrades who use it.

A tweet from @CocktCapitalism, which reads:

BREAKING: UC Davis has divested from apartheid Israel. The bill prevents the ASUCD’s $20 mill budget from being spent “on companies complicit in the occupation and genocide.”

This is huge. University divestment efforts played a massive role in ending South African apartheid.”

Two images are included, one is a still of people cheering (link above) and the other a protest poster/ flier which proclaims UCD Has Divested, with red and green Palestinian colors.

[southsideofchicago]

LMAO I JUST TRIED TO TYPE ISTG BUT ENDED UP TYPING AFTG I CANNOT MAKE THIS UP-

I also saw my gym teacher holding a lacrosse racket and ended up tweaking about it for like 10 minutes.

[vintagepunk]

remember* how i said once i’m on stimmies** it’s all over for you bitches***? well guess which executive-dysfunctional girlie just worked a 6.5 hour workday****

*did not say this on tumblr at any point i don’t think

**not on stimmies, actually on an SNRI

***“you bitches” being my prospectus/dissertation

****with more to come!

[spooksier]

these will be colored later but in the meantime, ily 2010s cartoons 5ever

[captainsaltypear]

IS ANYONE ELSE GONNA TALK ABOUT THIS OR

[fantasyinallforms]

Tonight, we remember one who lent his enormous talent to telling the story we have all come to love. Hail, the victorious dead!

May the Simbelmynë cover his tomb as it did the tomb of the one he so accurately portrayed.

Bernard Hill Dec 17, 1944 - May 5, 2024

[cloversugar]

successfully talked my mom out of reading it ends with us

[runawaymarbles]

The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn't have peaceful epilogues.

Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I'm sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn't. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it's so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn't put in all that work for nothing, and you aren't, either. You can't save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There's no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.

[nipuni]

Time Lord Victorious my beloved 😌

[dirt-goth]

As much as I want to be a wholly joyous about the fact that Henry Kissinger is finally fucking dead, as he deserves... There's a lot of me that can't help being upset with. With the fact that he lived to 100 years old. He got better medical care, better housing, and a better, more stable life for those 100 years than billions on this planet ever going to see and he did it specifically through exploitation, state sanctioned murder, and lies. He lived to 100 years comfortably on a legacy of violence that rarely threatened his personal comfort. I want to be joyous that he's finally dead, because the world IS better with him dead, but the reality is he won a long time ago.

[egophiliac]

still rolling around on the ground over the contrast between Jack and Mal. it's so...🤌🤌🤌

[rookanisstuff]

Rook got her dance

[sashthesloth]

I love the little squad of shades who follow Mel around the Crossroads when she gets back from a win

[jupiter-suggestion]

consider the sperm whale and the squid. an ancient rivalry that dates back millions of years. we know the whales eat the squids. we know the squids do not make it easy for them. we know this because of the scars the whales carry, scars on the outside of their body, and on the inside as well. how badly must you want something to endure wounds inside your mouth? inside your gut?

consider the whale, who is harmed by what sustains her. consider the squid, whose flesh is soft and delicious but refuses to go down easy.