#especially not with a knee

[angelsonthesideline]

Two of my favourite things ☺️

[hinamie]

morning glory

[ziggystqrdust]

they danced

[hussyknee]

People seem to think this is fake because it's written in English. Apart from the racism in believing that Arab doctors and nurses aren't fluent in English (a second or official language for half of Asia), Palestinians have deliberately been addressing their audience in English on every social media, from journalists to children, because they know speaking English to Westerners immediately makes people more human in their eyes. Because language is one of the ways the imperial cultural hegemony conditions us (yes, everyone in the world) to see who qualifies as "people" and who are simply a mass of bodies who were always made to suffer and die. Gazans know this deeply, which is why they have been using English to beg and plead through social media, "We're not numbers! We're not numbers! We're people like you, we speak your language, we deserve to live!" all the while they're systematically slaughtered.

Israeli forces also encircled Al Shifa Hospital yesterday and bombed it for several hours while shooting dead anyone trying to flee including medical staff moving between buildings. Not sure whether it's still continuing because WHO lost all communications with its staff there a few hours after. The last new report said that thirty-nine babies had been removed from the incubators before the power went out. It's extremely unlikely they will survive.

Please understand that these atrocities depend on the war of attrition between governments and public attention. The momentum of public outcry is difficult to sustain through repeated stonewalling and bureaucratic intractability. When we're flooded with these reports and a sense of futility and despair replaces the anger, it allows compassion fatigue to set in and the violence to become normalized. Massacring hospitals, killing sick children and openly targeting humanitarian aid workers (Netanyahu just declared the UNRWA is in league with Hamas) will become simply more news articles that fade into the background, and open genocides will soon become part of the "lesser evil".

Take care of yourselves how you can, take distance where needed, but please never tune out and give up on the two million people for whom we are the only witness and hope. Never stop boosting and sharing the news and posts you find, never stop getting out there and joining every protest you can, however small. Anger burns out, which is why activism must depend on an immovable sense of justice and uncompromising value for human life. It's not just about Gaza, it's about the kind of evil our generation will be coerced into accepting as unchangeable and inevitable hereafter.

[styxxsyringe]

TRIXIETRAXX 200X 🎧☠️💙

[itadooori]

I LOVE SEONG GI-HUN

[neosatsuma]

hey gang. reader of Posts here.

you see how the ALT button obscures the text? This is what every post with this setup looks like on mobile; on desktop, the button is more see-through until you hover over it, but not so on phone! While you can tap to open the image, it's an extra step (and then the image has to load...) and it's frustrating to do for, say, every single image in a web weaving post. What you as the post author can do instead...

BAM! Now the text is legible from the get-go, and still has ALT text for accessibility. All I did was added a little white space in the bottom left corner. and it only took about 2 minutes on my phone! I am. gently begging people to do this

[Image ID: two screenshots of tags that read, "#and I'd rather be doing something I enjoy than giving myself a repetitive stress injury scrubbing the shower". In the first image, the alt button largely obscures the words "than" and "scrubbing." In the second image, the text is the same, but the alt button now sits below it, so the entire passage is legible. /end ID]

[demi-pixellated]

spotted some crows today

[liltaireissocute]

[PERC'ILDAN]

so recently we've got an unusual amount of snow in the city I live in (and by this I mean an apocalyptic amount of snow: public transport, taxis and even delivery stopped working for couple of days, everything is still covered in snow and I had snow up to my knees at one point like wtf there is no snow here in winter usually) so there are Percy and Vax kissing in snowfall (which is very romantic)

[letgomypartypiece]

i love tight shirts

[microwavablefork]

nikto’s voice is actually so calming sorry, there’s just something about it that makes him sound like a big rumbly kitten… or maybe a big bear

[elbiotipo]

I'm sorry, I have to get a little technopositivist sometimes because this past month I've seen people sending violent death threats about AI memes, a godawful anarchist poem about we're going to "die on Earth and that's beautiful" and more gifs of that fucking Ian Malcom quote that I can count. I'm a little tired of living in the boo hiss fire is scary world.

[nocterish]

The red door.

[PRINTS]

Working on this was such a fun thing cause dark colors with lighting and having the cover be on loop is what came out of that

[batbabydamian]

🕊️/ why do you think you like damian?

i can write a whole essay but i think one lil factor is that he lines up with my holy trinity of character defining blorbos

i will not elaborate...simply because it will turn into another essay LOL

[avastyetwats]

"Sure, but watch the flow."

Stede Bonnet in Our Flag Means Death 2.05 "The Curse of the Seafaring Life."

[end0r4]

Not a man ever born ever could resist

A well-turned calf, a slender wrist,

A silhouette as airy as the morning mist,

And a dainty dimpled knee.

PATTI LUPONE in Candide