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currently doing peachtober for the first time in my hobonichi 5-year🍑 !! i've never been much of an artist but this is my best attempt.. i haven't done today's entry yet but yesterday, i went into the city to trim my bangs and explore union market 📚☕️
#sometimes i write the most mundane things in my 5-year because i feel stressed about using up all that space#but i feel like if i got a 5-year a6 then it'd be too little space#all my entries are like “i was hit with the sudden urge to use the bathroom” bc that was arguably the most interesting thing of the day LOL#im also still behind on my 5-year sigh#tea-tuesday#mine#journal#peachtober#peachtober24#journaling#hobonichi 5 year#hobonichi#studyblr#studyspo#washington dc#politics and prose#study study study#studying#study aesthetic#bookstore#books and reading#books#bookblr
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Not a Holiday Movie, but an amazing experience to see Angela Merkel in conversation with Barack Obama at the Anthem last night.
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You see I think they really fucked up by not giving that McDonald’s employee the money. If they had just given him the reward, it would’ve been encouragement for us to turn on each other, kick others down so we might get a leg up, to struggle another day in their system. Divide and conquer. But by not giving this person the sixty grand, (pennies to them), they have proven once and for all that betraying your class will not help you. They have proven that we have to unite to get anything done. Their greed brought them to the top, their greed let this desperation and anger fester, and their greed will be their downfall. I swear, I couldn’t write this shit better.
#this uhc situation has made the metaphor enjoyer in me very happy.#luigi mangione#uhc shooter#us politics#I’m not from America#I swear the world is just giving us perfect prose.#sorry for the political post but I just thought of this and it was too good to not say.
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Please Help my Innocent Children Survive the Cold in Gaza💔💔
Dear kind-hearted souls,
I ask you to read these words with your heart. You’ve likely seen many stories of suffering from Gaza, and while every story is a tragedy, I beg you not to become desensitized to the pain. Please, for my children, consider this with the utmost urgency.
I am reaching out after 15 months of unbearable hardship—months that have broken my spirit. In these 14 months, we’ve lost everything: our home, our livelihood, our safety. We’ve endured countless evacuations, bombings, hunger, and a lack of shelter. Now, with winter hitting us hard, it’s tearing me apart to see my children shivering in the freezing cold. They can’t sleep, and their little bodies have only thin clothing and blankets to protect them in a tent that offers no relief from the elements.
As a father, my heart is shattered to see them suffer. I’m asking you—please, see my children as your own. They deserve a chance at survival.
Please help us with the basics: food, clothing, and shelter. Your generosity can make all the difference in keeping my children safe and warm through this brutal winter.
https://gofund.me/ac467492
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i feel like tumblr NEEDS to know about Dr. Ally Louks, and the term "Olfactory Ethics"
(long post incoming)
storytime/timeline:
on november 27, 2024, an excited English Literature PhD recipient posted a picture of herself with her thesis, titled:
"Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose"
as you can see (on the bottom row, above), the tweet has been viewed over 119 MILLION times, and has received over 250k likes. unfortunately, within days (most of the replies dating december 1st), she had garnered what seems like every possible insecure man with a twitter account to post their vitriol and rage concerning the fact that a woman is clearly more well-researched than them. regardless, she tanked it ALL with kindness and with a smile:
AND I MEAN VITRIOL (queen of making boundaries clear):
(inserting reading break for the timeline's space's sake):
here's her abstract:
and in case the abstract wasn't clear, she has since (date: december 16th) taken the time to re-summarize her thesis for the layman (yes that is a link! click it! 3min read!)
she has repeatedly shown just the perfect amount of kindness and understanding for those who are simply Not Comprehending (mostly december 1st):
(the chatGPT hate in the next one is my favorite:)
has upheld an incredibly high moral standard of how she interacts with the situation (december 2nd):
ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS: regardless of this crap, she made it clear that as a professor, her FIRST priority at the end of the semester would be taking care of them (december 3rd)
(CAN SHE GET MORE BASEDDDDDDDDDD)
she stays both 1) educating the masses, and 2) engaging with pop culture as much as a normal person would (december 9th-17th):
she also supports a free palestine (WHO IS SURPRISED. NOT ME.) ((december 15th))
here's the BEST FREAKING THING ABOUT THIS. since this all has happened, RANDOM TWITTER USERS, UNKNOWINGLY, have REPEATEDLY proven her thesis to be true,
again,
and again,
AND AGAIN.
EVEN CARDI B DO YOU HEAR MEEEEEEEE
COMBATING MISOGYNOIR WITH HER OWN BARE HANDSSSSS
oh she knows she's mother
here's some more she never saw/commented on (INCLUDING SOME FROM TODAY. IT IS STILL GOING ON. EVERY SINGLE DAY LIKE CLOCKWORK SOMEONE POSTS SOMETHING THAT PROVES HER POINTS ABOUT OLFACTORY ETHICS):
THE WICKED MOVIE REFERENCE HELLO
apparently, OTHER academics are mad at her for being so famous and influential, but she stays unbothered (december 16th, and TODAY, december 19th):
and she's partially getting her post-doc on how people's sense of smell has been altered (december 1st):
and the best part is!
all of these screenshots i've collected are only a SAMPLE, illustrating dr. louks' indomitably kind and ethical character.
anyway. i want ALL of y'all to start saying, out loud, "olfactory ethics", or even better, "dr. louks was RIGHT" (something something women's names are erased something) every time you see something that plays into her thesis. never let her influence die. THINK THROUGH what you're REALLY saying when you comment on the smell of something, or how your perception has been shaped by society. USE THIS PHOTO IF YOU HAVE TO:
follow her on twitter (@DrAllyLouks) or bluesky (idk her handle, if someone tells me i'll edit it in)
AND SAY HER NAME!! DR. ALLY LOUKS
#tl;dr - ONE WOMAN'S PHD THESIS HAS CHANGED TWITTER DISCOURSE FOR THE BETTER; EVEN CLOCKING A CARDI B TWEET BEFORE SHE TWEETED ITTTTTTTTT#she fielded the worst online vitriol imaginable with poise#she dumbed down her thesis so that the average dumbass on the internet could comprehend it (if they actually put in the effort to)#she HATES chatgpt and trump and israel's genocidal occupation of gaza and racists and bigots and everything evil#she engages with memes about herself and others in a normally humorous way#(people shipping her with luigi mangione laksdjflskjdflaskdjfa TWITTER IS SO FUNNYYYYY)#she shot from a nobody into LEGENDARY academic status with one simple tweet#SHE'S A TEACHER. LIKE.#AND THE BEST PART IS SHE'S LITERALLY ALWAYS RIGHTTTTTTT#most stannable woman of 2024 i'm not joking#btw cambridge and many other organizations have publicly made it known that they will protect her and also just think she's rad and stuff#DR. ALLY LOUKS 🗣🗣🗣#OLFACTORY ETHICS 🗣🗣🗣#guys one of those screenshots contains a quoted tweet that is now DELETED bc the guy got too scared ab his public predator status. I WONNNN#twitter discourse#the politics of smell in modern and contemporary prose#being shipped with luigi mangione must be an experience btw
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Naji al-Ali: The Artist Who Resisted with His Pen and Was Assassinated for His Stance
Naji al-Ali, the renowned Palestinian cartoonist, was one of the most prominent symbols of resistance art, using his drawings as a weapon to express the suffering of his people and to oppose occupation and corruption. Through his iconic character “Handala,” Naji embodied the voice of the oppressed and the pain of Palestinians, making him a memorable figure in Arab and global consciousness.
Born in 1938 in the village of al-Shajara, Palestine, Naji experienced the Nakba in 1948, when he was uprooted from his homeland—a trauma that profoundly influenced his work. Handala, introduced in 1969, depicted a 10-year-old boy with his back turned to the world and hands clasped, symbolizing silent resistance until justice was achieved and Palestine liberated. Naji himself stated that Handala would remain a child until Palestinians returned to their homeland.
On July 22, 1987, Naji al-Ali was assassinated in London outside the offices of Al-Qabas International newspaper. He was shot in the head, falling into a coma that lasted until his death on August 29 of the same year. Investigations suggested that his assassination was linked to his bold political positions, which not only criticized the Israeli occupation but also targeted Arab regimes he believed to be complicit or negligent in supporting the Palestinian cause.
Although the identity of the assassin remains unknown, suspicions have been directed at multiple entities, including the Israeli Mossad and certain Arab intelligence services. Despite his untimely death, Naji’s art remains an enduring legacy, a powerful cry against injustice and oppression.
Naji al-Ali’s voice lives on, for Handala still stands tall, watching the world with unyielding determination, bearing witness to the resilience of a people who refuse to forget.
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I hate how the single guardian interviewed for this segment lays out both the real problem and the solution, and yet Top Cop Kamala Harris insists that threatening poor parents with legal prosecution is the real solution.
Kids aren't truant because their parents don't care or are bad, they're truant because they literally can't get to school on time because of an utter lack of public transportation. Kamala Harris would run this country the same way she "served" California, by blaming individuals for systemic issues while making other systemic issues worse.
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i hope the women know that they can be angry and optimistic both. i hope they know that joy is militant and political too. please keep your spirits up and cheer up one another. they view us as one dimensional but we are not. we will hurt, cry, scream but also smile and laugh. we should remember that. today i saw girls younger than me hurting and hopeless and it broke my heart. they should not be able to snatch our faith. we should remember that the anger rooted in revenge dissipates over time and it'll be another one time story. we need joy we need faith we need perseverance. as this is not a revenge fight it's a moral and ideological battle that has to last generations. we might not see the end of it but hopefully the girls in the future will.
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Summer, 1966 The Diary of Anais Nin 1966-1974 [volume 7]
#absolutely true#the grace warmth kindness and unwavering politeness of the Japanese people are truly unparalleled ❤️#anais nin#japanese hospitality#elegance and kindness#summer#japan#july#日本#people#literature#words#quotes#academia#dark academia#quote#lit#books#books and libraries#reading#quote of the day#bookworm#book quotes#prose#booklr#bibliophile#excerpt#warmth
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The truth is, I started in a very different place than I am now. Perhaps I am the evidence of evolution, that a person can go from one side to the other in a matter of years. I have family and friends who still think the same way. They echo the same hurtful words. They babble the same disrespectful slogans.
Last week, while feeling scared, disappointed, and emotionally bruised, I had to explain why people like me felt like I did. I had to be the adult, take the slander, and share about why people like me who didn't agree, people who feared for their rights as a human, were angry and sad and upset.
To be fair, I grew up on the other side. I grew up listening to my dad rage against the "flaming liberals" and the "fema-nat-zees," listening to Rush Limbaugh, and conservative talk radio. And as I grew up, the information I was fed was consistent. I was surrounded by people of like minds, and it was very easy to agree. No one challenged me. No one asked me WHY I thought what I did. No one pointed out my racism, my hurtful words, or my prejudice.
I got married young to a man who enjoyed telling me how to think and what to believe. And perhaps that's when I started feeling the cracks in my belief system. I started having my own thoughts, secretly, of course. I started struggling with the things that didn't add up.
It's so easy to pick someone's motives if you don't know that person. It's so easy to "other" them if they don't fit into your tiny understanding of the world. But God has a sense of humor. He gave me a double dose of empathy and compassion. I started meeting people, and they didn't fit into my categories. I started meeting people who I couldn't make sense of. I started meeting people who I had been taught to hate. But I didn't hate them. They were just people who hoped, and loved, and lived just like me. In fact, I started seeing they were all just like me.
And then, I became the "other." With my divorce, 90% of the people I had called friends, left me. My church, who had been like a family to me, left me. I was the sinner. I was the outcast. And because I was a victim of abuse, I had been talked out of asking for child support, even though he made over three times what I did. Now, I was also the woman standing in line at the grocery store, using my EBT "food stamps." I was a "leech on society," as my dad would say.
Remember how I said God has a great sense of humor? Well, guess who were the ones to come around me and support me and love me and lift me up? That's right. It was the people who I used to "other." It was the single mom's, the LGBTQ, the "flaming liberals," the atheists, the women of color...
For the first time in my life, there was no judgment, just kindness. There were no impossible standards, no mistreatment for being different, no more expectations to conform. There was freedom.
I have since come to a place where all those things my dad used to insult people with are now true of me. And this past week, as my friend was talking about the "woke morons," I gently told her that I'm one of those.
The truth is, we're all just people. We all want safety and well-being for ourselves and our families. A lot of us want that for our communities, and some even want it for the world. Most of the people I've met on both sides are generally good-hearted people. We all have been taught to say hurtful things, to believe hurtful things, and sometimes to even do hurtful things to "others." But I believe that for most people, these are learned behaviors.
My dad used to quote the Bible and say, "believing that there's good in people is a lie. Everyone is evil if they're not a Christian." These days, I believe God made humans in his own image. And having kindness and love are the traits that everyone has inherited from him. These are the things I have seen in others. And so I continue to believe that everyone has the ability for great kindness, and if we all exercised that kindness more readily, this world will not be such a scary place for any of us. Even if we don't all agree on the politics.
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"It was something I could fix" Sevika Jinx brotp sooo real i need this i need them I need the "I’m gonna exterminate the family i have left" to include Sevika because of an accident during battle I want the girl Sevika always called a jinx to jinx her and for her to not even be mad, just tough as nails with even tougher love even in her dying breath.
#The poetry of Jinx’s prose…. Also love the mysterious lil scamp girl. ALSO. EVIL ROBOT JESUS????#Well not evil yet Viktor my sweet man but the like. Even the staff damnnnnn the religious imagery will be banger to look at#Gonna be the leader of a faction n now mel should go out to meet him for negotiations even more <3#I was also so pleased the green stuff was a scifi medical aid thing i loved that worldbuilding and then when we see it used again for the#Heart???? Peak#Love the politics so far love how both sides are in chaos and can’t agree to consolidate within each camp there’s infighting#And the solution is fascism. Sigh. Too real. I do find the political climate within which season 2 is releasing to be rlly interesting#As a contrast and parallel. Ok that’s enough from me#Sevika & jinx#Arcane#sevika#Spoilers
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Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
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Dear Supporter,
I hope this message finds you and your family in good health. My name is Eman Zaqout from Gaza. I am reaching you out to seek your urgent help in spreading the word about our fundraiser. I lost both my home and my job due to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and we are facing catastrophic living conditions. 💔
I kindly ask you to visit my campaign. Your support, whether through donating or sharing, will help us reach more people who can make a difference. Thank you for your continued support for the Palestinian cause. Your dedication brings us closer to freedom. 🙏🕊
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🙏Please don't skip me
I am a mother of seven children. To you, they may just be names: three are married, and then there’s Alaa, Mahmoud, Mohammed, and little Toleen. But to me, they are my entire life, the light of my eyes. I have dedicated every part of myself to raise them, to teach them, so they would grow up to be educated, kind, and contributing members of our community here in Gaza.
But now, the dreams I held for them—dreams built with so much hope and sacrifice—are fading before my eyes. The war has stripped them of every opportunity, leaving them without work, without hope, and most importantly, without stability or safety.
My life’s work and all my efforts lie in ruins. Now, we live in a small tent no larger than five meters, where eight of us are crowded together, clinging to one another in the hope of finding safety.
My husband, Ahmed, who suffers from a heart condition and back pain, needs a comfortable bed, but war does not distinguish between the weak and the sick. Every night, he struggles to find relief on the hard ground.
How you can help?
Donate any amount you can; every dollar makes a difference.
Share this campaign with your friends and family on social media.
Spread the word about our story.
Together, we can make a difference.
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#vida#ser feliz#frases#amor propio#realidad#citas#autoestima#escritura#soledad#olvido#recordatorio#mi amor#y punto#portrait#poetry#prose#post#politics#harry potter
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#poem#autumn#australia#poetry#quotes#english literature#dark academia#bookworm#love#bookish#light academia#spilled poetry#annotations#classic academia#classic#literature#sad poem#love poem#post#politics#photography#prose#prose poetry#verses#wisdom#poems on tumblr#art academia#artwork
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