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one advantage of having mice is you'll always have perfect bait for wild mice on hand
a disadvantage is that you will often need that because wild mice will be tempted to enter your house quite often
but it's not all bad. You get to catch a mouse really fast (you have perfect bait). And you get to look at this cute little guy you caught before releasing them
#if you need tips on catching mice & my fav mouse traps and bait hmu. IMO most of the mouse traps youtubers recommend don't work very well#this one might have hitched a ride on my AC when i get it from storage downstairs. Timing wise this makes most sense. But it might not have#it's the third one in four years time#and we live on the 8th floor lol. So some serious acrobatics required for these little buddies#i admit every time i spot one i let out a big sigh#but by now i think i'm an expert trapper and i'm able to catch these guys really quickly#catching mice
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not sure if the overlap of ppl who read my stories and the people who will get this joke even exists, but I am so convinced that Daichi is afflicted by the markiplier "im not a masochist i just want to see if my body can handle it" curse.
#look suga may be the crazy one of the third years#but im pretty sure for every bad suga idea theres a daichi standing behind him wondering if he could pull it off#if left alone in a room with a shock button this man would shock himself a minimum of four times.#sawamura daichi
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lads it is mostly my fault (was sick, didn't tell healthcare until it was Dire, was sentenced to bed rest for the rest of my time at camp) that I literally can't say goodbye to these 100+ people I've come to love properly before I leave. I'm not permitted to participate in any singing, dancing, communal joy, any event that's remotely fun (that's nearly word for word what they said) here at camp. and I'm leaving EARLY, am still miserably sick, and have a four hour commute back home on top of that, because there's no one available to drive. literally cried my eyes out over everything just now and am This Close to crying my eyes out againnnnn
#not to list my woes again but today was Pretty Bad#the horrors: learned that one of the girls I'm working with is the cousin of the boy whom I was so torn up over last year (lol)#received a message from the second boy I was torn up over in the spring saying: do you want to live together? (LOL)#and was hit with the two-by-four of reality today about my own Delusions and such repeatedly over the head. over and over and over LOLLLL !#HOWEVER. the joys: tea. Bible reading time. lots of prayer. laughed a lot with my coworkers.#confided in a friend whom i know can hold secrets close. listened to another friend's voice message on loop. the rain made it not too hot.#i know joy cometh in the metaphorical morning but i wanted joy to come in the form of dancing and singing and worshipping together#and being able to tell each and every person goodbye properly and with the gravity and love they each deserve#i simply!!!!! cannae take this!!!!!! and yet I WILL :'))))))))) bear it with grace#(THAT'S dramatic)#sighhhh anyhow i'm currently mentally digging a little grave for the third disappointment in love i've experienced#since breaking up with my ex boyfriend. the ground is hard my hands are tired and the earth won't budge but i WILL dig that grave#and leave that little ill-formed ill-judged ill-managed love in it#dang i'm tired in all senses of the word!#and YET. there is still a part of me that is light and buoyant and determined to make the most of things#it is so hard to be miserable when the anneish part of you never dies.........sigh#healing girl era summer '24
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the mean girls of duel academia
#yugioh arc v#yugioh arc-v#arc-v#fusion four#fusion gang#idk i cant decide on their group name so i'll just use both#there's also the wip of them playing mahjong on twitter but its too unpolished to tack it on here#ahhhhhhhhhhh i need to draw them more i love this combination so much#they're all outcasts in a way in DA so i think they'd be really good not-friends... frenemies?? idk#what about grace and gloria i hear you say well theyre in their own non-student mean girls group with edo the third tyler sister#anyway time to infodump on these!!!!!#maids (and butlers) are from a long 20 page comic about DA opening up a maid cafe to earn money to pay for war reparations#i finished the storyboards and script 2 years ago but i just never got around to it again lol#i need to rework it anyway because shun and dennis were oddly cordial in that one for some reason#the standard uniforms ones are when they're sent to standard to pose as undercover students#i drafted some pages where yuri reveals himself to be from fusion in this sick costume change#it's pretty cool if i do say so myself (i do)#the comics centered around sora were also meant to be a multi paged project on how he gets closer to everyone from academia after the war#i just (gets emotional) want to see them all getting along theyre such interesting characters and even more so when interacting together#oh yeah character tags#sora#serena#yuri#dennis#edo#grace#gloria is not here
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ack. augh. ough. heard a new music and now I kinda want to write a little fourth part for the fucking some guy saga....
#hm i should make an original post tag#i hid the third part some time ago but i unhid it while writing this post because this song is making me so. so so. so so so so tempted....#''i wonder if your mouth wants my mouth when it drinks from another person? if your hand looks for mine? because mine looks for you too#do you remember how good it feels to burn with me? do you remember how good it feels? and i know it's been a while since that time..''#<- it's so. so so tempting me to write. maul pining for obi-wan...#torn between wanting to see him again and telling himself it was a one time thing that won't happen again....#ough. haugh.#i have at least FOUR fics i'm actively writing i can't add another to the pile......#(song is terra by anavitoria) (it's not *new* new it was released years ago. but i've never listened to this album in full before)
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me desperately trying to get into the humanities classes i need to graduate as an engineering major (most of them are full and those that aren't still have major restrictions)
#like listen i get why humanities courses are necessary for engineering students#hell i encourage and support it#but im having so much trouble getting into the art classes for my âpathwayâ#because rpi couldn't just say âtake x electivesâ noooo#they all need to be related#but god im so tired of it ive been trying to get in#got off the waitlist for drawing once but that was a bad semester schedule#really regretting it now i shouldve just dropped thermo and taken drawing#cause of COURSE all of my pathway is locked behind basic drawing#and of course i got the wrong day for registration so it was completely full by the time i logged in#im like third on the waitlist so well see what happens#at least i hope im still on the waitlist bc the portal stopped showing my position#ugh#i really don't want to switch my pathway everything else has essays i hate essays#at least senior year will be 90% electives bc im a stubborn idiot and have been replacing actual electives with major related stuff#because after next semester i literally have TWO more major related classes#well at least senior year will be light#maybe they'll actually let me into an art class#hey a gal can dream#otherwise imma need four philosophy classes to make up for it#gotta love how im expected to sift through tons of daily newsletters and school store promos to find one bit of info#like bestie i am doing an internship i am not thinking about rpi#still don't even know if i have housing next semester they said end of november so who tf knows
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I think my mom doesnât understand that people grow apart sometimes and thatâs okay
#og#so thereâs this kid#shes my neighbor from before we moved#and I mean by that that her house was Nr 1 at the top of the hill and mine was Nr 14 at the bottom of the hill#(it was a cul de sac kind of street)#and when we moved there the people there had a daughter that was a year old so between me and my sister#so as new parents do our parents immediately befriended each other so we pretty much grew up with that kid as a third sibling#except that she got a sister that was three years younger than her#and from that day forward whenever we met up it was four of us#And my sister and the bigger girl would be paired up#And I had to hang out with the baby#which. It was not fun. For so many reasons#but especially because I was just so bored and this kid was clingy and difficult and overwhelming and you couldnât reallyâŚ.. play with her#and any time I tried to get the four of us to play together theyâd still do the teams thing#And obviously weâd lose and Iâd get blamed#so it goes on like that for about eight years which is when we moved away#And since then my mom has been prodding and pushing me to keep being friends with a person I was never friends with in the first place#MOM. SHES NOT MY FRIEND GOD DAMN IT#weâre in that awkward in between stage where I know her so I canât really ask any questions about her bc I know the answers#but I donât Know her so I donât have anything to talk to her about#And she just expects me to do the talking even though sheâs the one that wants to be friends#I would argue that itâs because sheâs a kid but I get on great with much younger kids all the time#fuck. Being in courses with people I donât know has shown that Iâm not that bad at socialising at all#It just makes no sense to me to try with this kid
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what am i supposed to do now. find another book to read???? wack
#WHY MUST IT END ON A CLIFFHANGER#its the first book in a series but the second book isnt coming out until NEXT YEAR???#this is the THIRD TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME#step one get super invested in a story#step two hyperfixate#step three finish story#step four run to google and realize that i have to wait for more books OR find out that any updates have dropped of the face of the earth#PLEASEEEE#for refrence i read âdaughter of the bone forestâ#daughter of the bone forest#reading#books#tipytalks
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I love how the tumblr app becomes practically unusable when you have a post getting a lot of notes
#canât use the notifs tab#anytime I try to click something near the bottom I accidentally click one of notifications#so it takes me four years to make a post because I keep accidentally leaving to go look at the notif#and tumblr doesnât automatically save it or anything#third time makimg this post#hannah talks sometimes
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Sometimes I remember the fact that one time during camp me & four other girls got sent to live in a cabin meant for 25+ people by ourselves and during the three weeks we spent there had the biggest amounts of horror experiences I've ever experienced in a single camp trip and I just think to myself, what the fuck
#oh also there was a creepy sixth girl who wasn't from the camp but just. occasionally stayed in our room#we had a counselor living with us because you can't let 5 (6?) 10-11 year olds live by themselves & it did little to stop the shenanigans#mostly because it's much less stressful for her to be dealing with 5 (6?) kids than managing a whole ass 25 of them so she was more lax#I think what led to it is that the cabin was VERY isolatedâ the windows we had only opening to this forest of pine trees#so you had this creepy ass atmosphere + the solitude + the lack of internet access + the fact that all of us where into creepy stuff#but like. Either all of us had collective phycosis or there really WAS something up with the cabin because unexplained things did happen#istg I have been there four times and every single one the amount of shenanigans happening was obnoxious#first time we had a mixed age group so there was like a five year difference between the oldest and youngest in the group#second time was this creepy shitâ third time I managed to accidentally aquire a harem of 5 dudes at age 12â and fourth was my gay awakening#I've got more core memories related to that camp than to my last school lmao
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okay i've finished rewatching pride now i will stop having feelings all over your dash
#this film is just. god. it means so much to me#it's such a well-made film but also it came out when i was 18 and like. idk.#i saw it 3 times the first year it came out#the third of them at a screening with one of the original members of LGSM doing a talk afterwards#i saw it at a time when i was just moving out of my conservative hometown and discovering queer community for myself#so it's like. formative. you know???#this is My Queer Movie#i have now seen some other Iconic Queer Movies thanks to undergrad queer film nights and stuff#things like But I'm A Cheerleader etc#but this one. this is mine.#i think because it's a queer movie about friendship and solidarity#it's about community rather than about romance even though it's about being queer#and for me as an aspec person that speaks to me in a way that romance-focused stories don't#so it resonates on a deeper level#to use a quaker phrase: it speaks to my condition#i wish i had more energy and could be more active in organising though#it's really hard to protest and be political when you're disabled and barely coping with life as it is#i can't go on a march because i won't be able to walk for four days afterwards due to pain yunno. so i feel useless a lot#ah well. i know there are things i can do they're just not glamorous#i do need to write to my MP some time soon about. everything.#personal
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The question of when Hanai and Tajima will get together. Iâve seen it put that Hanai is a fairly normal well-mannered person and Tajime is open as a book, so thereâs no earthly reason to engage in Abe and Mihashiâs struggle for proximity. Iâve also seen it said that their friendship is too much based on their inferiority complexes and that to meet on even terms theyâd have to reboot their friendship and built it independent from the game.
Iâd raise the third option of: Hanaiâs sensible and Tajimaâs empathetic. No way is Hanai going to go out with Tajima without a long term plan. Itâs too important a friendship to squander on a few failed dates and itâs also too weird of a friendship to transition without some serious thought to what itâs going to look like being exposed to Tajima 7 days a week forever. No way would he ask him out or accept a date before second-year uni at the earliest. Now, Hanai is restrained in his signals and Tajima often reads him like a book despite that. Just as Hanai wouldnât date him without serious commitment in mind, I wager that Tajima picks up on the weâll-cross-that-bridge vibes and maintains a friendly level of flirt. He wouldnât be too keen on being rejected.
#kelsey liveblogs oofuri#their mutual rivalry thing is fun! what does the man want who has everything? the answer is apparently six inches of height#Abe and Mihashi subtextually implicitly undeniably a romance while Tajima and Hanai still lurk in the grey area#while still having enough bits and pieces that the romance reading isssss the intended one#âIâll be the girlâ and âIâm glad Iâm tallâ and all.#the true endgame is abe and mihashi remain in limbo forever and tajima and hanai understand one another within four months of meeting#but they both start dating around the same time (like. third or fourth year I want to say. maybe later)
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"The first modern attempt at transferring a uterus from one human to another occurred at the turn of the millennium. But surgeons had to remove the organ, which had become necrotic, 99 days later. The first successful transplant was performed in 2011 â but even then, the recipient wasnât immediately able to get pregnant and deliver a baby. It took three more years for the first person in the world with a transplanted uterus to give birth.Â
More than 70 such babies have been born globally in the decade since. âItâs a complete new world,â said Giuliano Testa, chief of abdominal transplant at Baylor University Medical Center.
Almost a third of those babies â 22 and counting â have been born in Dallas at Baylor. On Thursday, Testa and his team published a major cohort study in JAMA analyzing the results from the programâs first 20 patients. All women were of reproductive age and had no uterus (most having been born without one), but had at least one functioning ovary. Most of the uteri came from living donors, but two came from deceased donors.
Fourteen women had successful transplants, all of whom were able to have at least one baby. Â
âThat success rate is extraordinary, and I want that to get out there,â said Liza Johannesson, the medical director of uterus transplants at Baylor, who works with Testa and co-authored the study. âWe want this to be an option for all women out there that need it.â
Six patients had transplant failures, all within two weeks of the procedure. Part of the problem may have been a learning curve: The study initially included only 10 patients, and five of the six with failed transplants were in that first group. These were âtechnicalâ failures, Testa said, involving aspects of the surgery such as how surgeons connected the organâs blood vessels, what material was used for sutures, and selecting a uterus that would work well in a transplant.Â
The team saw only one transplant fail in the second group of 10 people, the researchers said. All 20 transplants took place between September 2016 and August 2019.
Only one other cohort study has previously been published on uterus transplants, in 2022. A Swedish team, which included Johannesson before she moved to Baylor, performed seven successful transplants out of nine attempts. Six women, including the first transplant recipient to ever deliver a baby back in 2014, gave birth.
âItâs hard to extract data from that, because they were the first ones that did it,â Johannesson said. âThis is the first time we can actually see the safety and efficacy of this procedure properly.â
So far, the signs are good: High success rates for transplants and live births, safe and healthy children so far, and early signs that immunosuppressants â typically given to transplant recipients so their bodies donât reject the new organ â may not cause long-term harm, the researchers said. (The uterine transplants are removed after recipients no longer need them to deliver children.) And the Baylor team has figured out how to identify the right uterus for transfer: It should be from a donor who has had a baby before, is premenopausal, and, of course, who matches the blood type of the recipient, Testa said...
âTheyâve really embraced the idea of practicing improvement as you go along, to understand how to make this safer or more effective. And thatâs reflected in the results,â said Jessica Walter, an assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who co-authored an editorial on the research in JAMA...
Walter was a skeptic herself when she first learned about uterine transplants. The procedure seemed invasive and complicated. But she did her fellowship training at Penn Medicine, home to one of just four programs in the U.S. doing uterine transplants.Â
âThe firsts â the first time the patient received a transplant, the first time she got her period after the transplant, the positive pregnancy test,â Walter said. âImmersing myself in the science, the patients, the practitioners, and researchers â it really changed my opinion that this is science, and this is an innovation like anything else.â ...
Many transgender women are hopeful that uterine transplants might someday be available for them, but itâs likely a far-off possibility. Scientists need to rewind and do animal studies on how a uterus might fare in a different âhormonal milieuâ before doing any clinical trials of the procedure with trans people, Wagner said.
Among cisgender women, more long-term research is still needed on the donors, recipients, and the children they have, experts said.
âWe want other centers to start up,â Johannesson said. âOur main goal is to publish all of our data, as much as we can.â"
-via Stat, August 16, 2024
#infertility#uterus#organ transplant#reproductive health#public health#medical news#childbirth#good news#hope#pregnancy#cw pregnancy
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The discussions around whether or not to vote for Kamala keep being dominated by very loud voices shouting that anyone who advocates for her âjust doesn't care about Palestine!â and âis willing to overlook genocide!â and âhas no moral backbone at all!â And while some of these voices will be bots, trolls, psyops - we know that this happens; we know that trying to persuade progressives to split the vote or not vote at all is a strategy employed by hostile actors - of course many of them won't be. But what this rhetoric does is continually force the âyou should vote for herâ crowd onto the back foot of having to go to great lengths writing entire essays justifying their choice, while the âdon't vote/vote third partyâ crowd is basically never asked to justify their choice. It frames voting for Kamala as a deeply morally compromised position that requires extensive justification while framing not voting or voting third party as the neutral and morally clean stance.
So here's another way of looking at it. How much are you willing to accept in order to feel like you're not compromising your morals on one issue?
Are you willing to accept the 24% rise in maternal deaths - and 39% increase for Black women - that is expected under a federal abortion ban, according to the Centre for American Progress? Those percentages represent real people who are alive now who would die if the folks behind Project 2025 get their way with reproductive healthcare.
Are you willing to accept the massive acceleration of climate change that would result from the scrapping of all climate legislation? We don't have time to fuck around with the environment. A gutting of climate policy and a prioritisation of fossil fuel profits, which is explicitly promised by Trump, would set the entire world back years - years that we don't have.
Are you willing to accept the classification of transgender visibility as inherently âpornographicâ and thus the removal of trans people from public life? Are you willing to accept the total elimination of legal routes for gender-affirming care? The people behind the Trump campaign want to drive queer and trans people back underground, back into the closet, back into âcriminalityâ. This will kill people. And it's maddening that caring about this gets called âprioritising white gays over brown people abroadâ as if it's not BIPOC queer and trans Americans who will suffer the most from legislative queer- and transphobia, as they always do.
Are you willing to accept the domestic deployment of the military to crack down on protests and enforce racist immigration policy? I'm sure it's going to be very easy to convince huge numbers of normal people to turn up to protests and get involved in political organising when doing so may well involve facing down an army deployed by a hardcore authoritarian operating under the precedent that nothing he does as president can ever be illegal.
Are you willing to accept a president who openly talks about wanting to be a dictator, plans on massively expanding presidential powers, dehumanises his political enemies and wants the DOJ to âgo after themâ, and assures his supporters they won't have to vote again? If you can't see the danger of this staring you right in the face, I don't know what to tell you. Allowing a wannabe dictator to take control of the most powerful country on earth would be absolutely disastrous for the entire world.
Are you willing to accept an enormous uptick in fascism and far-right authoritarianism worldwide? The far right in America has huge influence over an entire international network of âanti-globalistsâ, hardcore anti-immigrant xenophobes, transphobic extremists, and straight-up fascists. Success in America aids and emboldens these people everywhere.
Are you willing to accept an enormous number of preventable deaths if America faces a crisis in the next four years: a public health emergency, a natural disaster, an ecological catastrophe? We all saw how Trump handled Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. We all saw how Trump handled Covid-19. He fanned the flames of disaster with a constant flow of medical misinformation and an unspeakably dangerous undermining of public health experts. It's estimated that 40% of US pandemic deaths could have been avoided if the death rates had corresponded to those in other high-income countries. That amounts to nearly half a million people. One study from January 2021 estimated between around 4,200 and 12,200 preventable deaths attributable purely to Trump's statements about masks. We're highly unlikely to face another global pandemic in the next few years but who knows what crises are coming down the pipeline?
Are you willing to accept the attempted deportation of millions - millions - of undocumented people? This is ârounding people up and throwing them into camps where no one ever hears from them againâ territory. That's a blueprint for genocide right there and it's a core tenet of both Trump's personal policy and Project 2025. And of course they wouldn't be going after white people. They most likely wouldn't even restrict their tyranny to people who are actually undocumented. Anyone racially othered as an âimmigrantâ would be at risk from this.
Are you willing to accept not just the continuation of the current situation in Palestine, but the absolute annihilation of Gaza and the obliteration of any hope for imminent peace? There is no way that Trump and the people behind him would not be catastrophically worse for Gaza than Kamala or even Biden. Only recently he was telling donors behind closed doors that he wanted to âset the [Palestinian] movement back 25 or 30 yearsâ and that âany student that protests, I throw them out of the countryâ. This is not a man who can be pushed in a direction more conducive to peace and justice. This is a man who listens to his wealthy donors, his Christian nationalist Republican allies, and himself.
Are you willing to accept a much heightened risk of nuclear war? Obviously this is hardly a Trump policy promise. But I can't think of a single president since the Cold War who is more likely to deploy nuclear weapons, given how casually he talks about wanting to use them and how erratic and unstable he can be in his dealings with foreign leaders. To quote Foreign Policy only this year, âTrump told a crowd in January that one of the reasons he needed immunity was so that he couldnât be indicted for using nuclear weapons on a city.â That's reassuring. I'm not even in the US and I remember four years of constant background low-level terror that Trump would take offence at something some foreign leader said or think that he needs to personally intervene in some military situation to âsort it outâ and decide to launch the entire world into nuclear war. No one sane on earth wants the most powerful person on the planet to be as trigger-happy and careless with human life as he is, especially if he's running the White House like a dictator with no one ever telling him no. But depending on what Americans do in November, he may well be inflicted again on all of us, and I guess we'll all just have to hope that he doesn't do the worst thing imaginable.
âBut I don't want those things! Stop accusing me of supporting things I don't support!â Yes, of course you don't want those things. None of us does. No one's saying that you actively support them. No one's accusing you of wanting Black women to die from ectopic pregnancies or of wanting to throw Hispanic people in immigrant detention centres or of wanting trans people to be outlawed (unlike, I must point out, the extremely emotive and personal accusations that get thrown around about âwanting Palestinian children to dieâ if you encourage people to vote for Kamala).
But if you're advocating against voting for Kamala, you are clearly willing to accept them as possible consequences of your actions. That is the deal you're making. If a terrible thing happening is the clear and easily foreseeable outcome of your action (or in the case of not voting, inaction), in a way that could have been prevented by taking a different and just as easy action, you are partly responsible for that consequence. (And no, it's not âa fear campaignâ to warn people about things he's said, things he wants to do, and plans drawn up by his close allies. This is not âoooh the Democrats are trying to bully you into voting for them by making him out to be really bad so you'll feel scared and vote for Kamala!â He is really bad, in obvious and documented and irrefutable ways.)
And if you believe that âboth parties are the same on Gazaâ (which, you know, they really aren't, but let's just pretend that they are) then presumably you accept that the horrors being committed there will continue, in the immediate term anyway, regardless of who wins the presidency. Because there really isn't some third option that will appear and do everything we want. It's going to be one of those two. And we can talk all day about wanting a better system or how unfair it is that every presidential election only ever has two viable candidates and how small the Overton window is and all that but hell, we are less than eighty days out from the election; none of that is going to get fixed between now and November. Electoral reform is a long-term (but important!) goal, not something that can be effected in the span of a couple of months by telling people online to vote third party. There is no âinstant ceasefire and peace negotiationâ button that we're callously overlooking by encouraging people to vote for Kamala. (My god, if there was, we would all be pressing it.)
If we're suggesting people vote for her, it's not that we âare willing to overlook genocideâ or âdon't care about sacrificing brown people abroadâ or whatever. Nothing is being âoverlookedâ here. It's that we're simply not willing to accept everything else in this post and more on top of continued atrocities in Gaza. We're not willing to take Trump and his godawful far-right authoritarian agenda as an acceptable consequence of feeling like we have the moral high ground on Palestine. I cannot stress enough that if Kamala doesn't win, we - we all, in the whole world - get Trump. Are you willing to accept that?
And one more point to address: I've seen too many people act frighteningly flippant and naĂŻve about terrible things Trump or his campaign want to do, with the idea that people will simply be able to prevent all these bad things by âorganisingâ and âprotestingâ and âcollective actionâ. âI'm not willing to accept these things; that's why I'll fight them tooth and nail every day of their administrationâ - OK but if you're not even willing to cast a vote then I have doubts about your ability to form âthe Resistanceâ, which by the way would have to involve cooperation with people of lots of progressive political stripes in order to have the manpower to be effective, and if you're so committed to political purity that you view temporarily lending your support to Kamala at the ballot box as an untenable betrayal of everything you stand for then forgive me for also doubting your ability to productively cooperate with allies on the ground with whom you don't 100% agree. Plus, if the Trump campaign gets its way, American progressives would be kept so busy trying to put out about twenty different fires at once that you'd be able to accomplish very little. Maybe you get them to soften their stance on trans healthcare but oh shit, the climate policies are still in place. But more importantly, how many people do you think will protest for abortion rights if doing so means staring down a gun? Or organise to protect their neighbours from deportation if doing so means being thrown in prison yourself? And OK, maybe you're sure that you will, but history has shown us time and time again that most people won't. Most people aren't willing to face that kind of personal risk. And a tiny number of lefties willing to risk incarceration or death to protect undocumented people or trans people or whatever other groups are targeted is sadly not enough to prevent the horrors from happening. That is small fry compared to the full might of a determined state. Of course if the worst happens and Trump wins then you should do what you can to mitigate the harm; I'm not saying you shouldn't. But really the time to act is now. You have an opportunity right here to mitigate the harm and it's called ânot letting him get electedâ. Act now to prevent that kind of horrific authoritarian situation from developing in the first place; don't sit this one out under the naĂŻve belief that âwe'll be able to stop it if it happensâ. You won't.
#politics#us politics#american politics#us election#election 2024#2024 elections#2024 election#us elections#2024 presidential election#project 2025#agenda 47#antifascism#please vote#your vote matters#voting matters#harris#kamala#kamala harris#my posts
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After the hospital bombing, I finally heard back from my grandmother and confirmed that several of my relatives were murdered by Israeli bombing. Seven of them, to be precise. Three are still going, including her. We've been talking constantly ever since.
Asked if it was possible to head south, and was told they did but were also bombed there. So they decided to go back home, in Zeitoun. Their home was bombed and they were pulled out of the rumble, then driven by ambulances to the al-Ahli Arab Hospital. There were people in every corner. Gazans sheltering, sleeping on the floor. Gazans dying on the floor, waiting for beds.
Four were declared dead on arrival, three were in need of surgery and other three were just bandaged. Then, a bomb was dropped in the parking lot that made parts of the ceiling collapse, like Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah reported in that horrific conference/interview. Those in need of surgery died.
By the way, just in case you didn't know: the Church of Saint Porphyrius, the third oldest in history, bombed by Israel a few days back, was located near the hospital.
When looking for new shelter, they saw schools with signs hanging outside, "We can't take any more families." They met families, sympathetic but already sheltering too many people. They're now staying in an apartment building they found empty. Sleeping in the corner of the living room. If the family comes back, they'll apologize and leave.
Told me she was saving her phone battery for when the bombing stopped, and she had to ask for help to rebuilt the neighborhood. But she doesn't think it's gonna stop anymore. The ones still with her are mute most of the time, like they're saving energy, but she feels lonely and wanted to talk. There's no internet and to connect to WhatsApp, people are buying "a card from the supermarket, there's a password and username." Not sure what she meant. Still, the internet is inconsistent and won't load neither videos or images nor pages, so she doesn't know what's happening on the outside world.
Told her there were a lot of people protesting to stop the genocide, she replied, "The bombings are getting worse by the day." The bombing yesterday was the worst she ever witnessed. The entire neighborhood is infested with the smell of death, of decomposing bodies. Bodies are piling up in the streets and she's not sure if it's because they ran out of places to store them, but most of them are in bags. The smoke of the bombings hide the blue skyâshe hasn't seen the clouds for a while.
Asked if I could share their pictures, names and dreams with people and was told, of which I partly agree, "they're not entertainment." If anyone genuinely cared, they would be aliveâI'd argue there are people who do care, but I'm not gonna lecture her pain. And they don't deserve to be used to fulfill someone's sick fantasy. Told me to remember what some Israelis do with pictures of dead Palestinians. And I do.
For those of you who are not familiar, many times before settlers got together to celebrate the murder of Palestinians. For one, in 2015, Israeli settlers set a house in Duma, West Bank on fire. An 18-month old baby, Ali Dawbsheh, was burnt alive. Both parents later died of wounds and only a 5-year-old, Ahmad, survived, although severely injured.
Two celebrations of their murder are widely known, one at a wedding and others outside the court in which two were indicted for the terrorist attack. In the wedding, guests stabbed a photo of the toddler, Ali, while others waved guns, knives and Molotov cocktails. Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was present.
That's what happens in an apartheid. Palestinians are so abused by authorities that their "innocent civilians" come to accept the brutality as necessary or are desensitized by our suffering. After all, it's been 75 yearsâget used to it!
So I won't risk the image of my loved ones, in fear they are used in these kinds of depravity. I will say, though, the world lost a young footballer. Lost a female writer and an aspiring ballerina. Lost a kind father, who was also a great cook, and a loving mother that enjoyed sewing and other types of handicraft art. Lost a math teacher and a child that wanted to become one.
People think Israel is testing new weapons on them. There's civilians arriving at the hospital with severe burns, which they thought was from white phosphorus, but apparently the pattern is different from the one caused by white phosphorus. It's widely believed Israel tests weapons in Palestinians.
Jeff Halper, author of War Against the People, a book on Israel's arms and surveillance technology industries, said: "Israel has kept the occupation because it's a laboratory for weapons."
They've ran out of drinkable water and the "aid" Biden sent was only for the South of Gaza and no fuel, for hospitals, was allowed in. Many shelves in the supermarket are empty. She said many are convinced that if they don't die from the bombing, they'll die from starvation or dehydration, or whatever disease will develop from the dirty water they're drinking.
Told me all people do now is pray, cry and die. Told me she hopes West Bank is spared. Told her Israel bombed a mosque in West Bank and dozens of Palestinians in West Bank are being murdered by settlers, so she bided me goodbye.
#palestine#free palestine#gaza#free gaza#may allah protect them#may almighty allah see our pain#hopefully she'll message me tomorrow
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literally free falling through life at this stage
#me from five years ago would have a panic attack over my current day to day#I quite literally am that bitch that does everything last minute#am prepared for absolutely nothing all the time always#also have been doing third shift for about four months now so time and my sleep schedule is a joke#and with that dating is hard and mostly dumb bc no one really is interested in commitment these days it seems#guess I will settle for friends with benefits and just be in love with him from a distance hahaha đ#birthday is also soon so yay for persisting through the struggle for another year#took off work but do I have anything special planned?#absolutely not bc I have no friends and no goals other than survival#I heart being alive and feeling full of purpose#delete later when I am sober hahah#tw
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