#aid package

[charlie-artlie]

modern romance

[tapestryundone]

when the god was made in the image of a man who infiltrated the mind of said god and in doing so made himself intertwined with the form that god took while also being the cause of that form creating a infinite feedback loop of what caused the god and his creator to evoke the very image of the death the creator feared through the form of an animal representing that concept, and the god has faint, undeniably human characteristics given to him by his creator while his creator retained none of it. fuck

[favroitecrime]

UN passed a resolution for a ceasefire with a majority vote of 153 yes. 23 abstained. 10 voted no (any guesses?)

It’s non-binding though. Meaning israel is likely going to ignore it, especially with the US on its side. As much as it is wonderful to celebrate this public step forward, we gotta remember to keep marching and protesting and boycotting for a ceasefire AND a free Palestine. The fight is nowhere near over unfortunately but everything you’re doing is working. Keep pushing.

[mellotronmkll]

Literally happy 36th birthday to one of the most beautiful albums ever created

[ebonytails]

I finally finished the HxH stickers from a while back! They shall no longer plague my mind..

[thedupshadove]

A question for those among my followers who were alive and passably politically-aware in the 1980s; was there at all a sense that Reagan might try to stop the 1984 or 1988 elections from taking place?

[girlactionfigure]

A Gazan complains about the drop in aid and the quality of the food in the aid packages:

They concentrate us in a certain place and then drop the aid somewhere else, on the border or in the sea....

It's silly... and the dishes are silly... we'd prefer a drop of a kilo of flour. This is better than the whole box of aid... this food is not good for us, we are the Arab... Palestinian people.... it is cat food for us...

I exchanged the entire carton of aid with my brother in exchange for a kilo of flour.

We want better assistance than this.

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This is an excellent indication that there is no starvation in Gaza... the clients have become picky...

[triedpklove]

how the fuck do you just lose 4000 dollars

[cielosuerte]

so fucking busy the rest of the year. being alive is awesome :]

[boudicca]

the absolute gouging that egyptian border guards are pulling is so shockingly disgusting i really have no words for it. people are suffering through the indescribable horror of a literal genocide and people are forcing them to beg strangers to help them make up the cost of an ENTIRE HOUSE just to cross a border and not be living on a street corner once they do so

[stone-cold-groove]

New Band-Aid sheer bandages. Clear plastic with flesh-tone pattern practically disappears on your skin. Band-Aid bandages ad - 1958.

[sleevebuscemii]

there truly is something so sinister about the exorbitant amount of US dollars being sent to israel being labeled as an ‘aid package’ while israel is completely unscathed as it currently decimates two countries simultaneously

[favroitecrime]

Some of the aid that was airdropped is expired. We’re all in hell.

[totentnz]

whoever invented squeeze tubes should be flayed like im sure there is a reason for them beyond "big skincare wants you to throw away money" but i dont care!!! if you sell your product in a fucking tube im coming for you

[leahclearwaterdefensesquad]

i really shouldn't be surprised by how excited (i want to use a different word but can't really put my finger on which descriptor best fits the takes i have been seeing) people are now that kamala harris replaced biden. democrats talk with this renewed hope and vigor now that genocide joe is out of the race - not to mention that she's leaning hard into the prosecutor v. felon narrative and they're just eating it up...

[ceilidhtransing]

It never escapes my notice, as a glasses-wearer who is severely impaired without them, that the kind of people who come out of the woodwork to tell people who take medication, use disability aids, etc "are you sure you want to be dependent on drugs / aids / whatever for the rest of your life?" never come for people who need glasses.

I need glasses to live, and I know that I will probably be dependent on glasses for the rest of my life. It's a debated topic whether "terrible eyesight that's easily corrected with glasses" counts as a Disability™ or not, but I know that I am very disabled without glasses and I'm just as dependent on them to go about my life as, say, someone completely paralysed from the waist down is dependent on a wheelchair. Yet the weird ableist attitude about how "awful" and "life-ruining" it is to be "dependent on something" doesn't rear its head for glasses-wearers.

And this attitude always baffles me because not only is it not actually a shameful disaster to be "dependent on something for the rest of your life", as it's so often presented in abled society, but also because if you need something in order to live your life - a cane, a daily dose of medication, an accessibility adjustment, a hearing aid, a pair of glasses, or anything else - then you need it, and whether it would somehow be "preferable" not to be "dependent on that for the rest of your life" is a completely irrelevant question. That's not a choice you can make. "I had to choose between being dependent on glasses for the rest of my life, or simply Getting Good and not being shortsighted anymore" - like, what?????

If you need something for your disability, then whether you'd "rather not be dependent on it" is not the choice abled people seem to think it is. Hand-wringing about "but wouldn't you rather not be dependent on that?" [undertone: "shouldn't you be trying harder to not need that"] is completely tangential to the point: because if you need something, then either you have access to the thing that allows you to live a full(er) life, or you are denied access to that thing, but whether you have it or not you're still going to need it.

And if abled people are able (...no pun intended) to not be weird about people who will be dependent on glasses for the rest of their lives, they can sure as hell not be weird about people who are dependent on medication, aids, adjustments, or whatever else.