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[thoughtlessarse]

If you're reading this, I'm already over the Atlantic en route to Jamaica.

I'm off to spend Christmas with the family I only knew existed this year. It will be my first time in Jamaica.

Happy Holidays (just to piss off the conservatives), and I'll be back around 08/01/2025.

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All posts of the situation of 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 I saw today (Wed, Apr 17.):

https://www.tumblr.com/bearotonin-international/744492204561760256/bosco-is-sure-in-the-mood-for-some?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/linsaangs/747301036106104832/my-pixels-for-palestine-iron-on-patches-are-now?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/self-hating-zionist/748031664326852608/jews-should-take-note-what-is-being-done-under?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/fuckyeahillustrativeart/743636220416049153?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/soon-palestine/747592218087391232/google-contract-shows-deal-with-israel-defense?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/thenewgothictwice/744383360094322688/march-7-2024-this-is-my-brother-reads-the?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/samarajethwa/743841974071771136?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/27-moons/746740929726152704/happy-birthday-shireen-abu-akleh-your-legacy?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/palipunk/746157297902960640/fuck-it-posting-the-palestinian-fela7i?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/yeehawpim/746780140187549696/stickers-for-palestine-3usd-for-pair?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/self-hating-zionist/748032017574297600/this-is-fucked-up-israel-kidnapped-him-with-two?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/intersectionalpraxis/746512555890147328?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747593788061581312/donate-to-help-saving-a-gazan-doctors-and?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/lasttarrasque/742208280527519744?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/violottie/742754244787159040/icj-holds-hearing-on-legal-consequences-of-israeli?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/social-battery-low/748031445987147776/absolutely-disgusting-and-horrifying-this-is-not?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/junaart/747491230488936448/a-little-mock-postage-stamp-i-did-a-while-ago?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/totallynotcensorship/747725200554164224/dont-stop-talking-about-palestine?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747416227715170304?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sscarletvenus/746934545950064640/biden-could-have-called-for-a-ceasefire-months?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justtenderfury/745128275043631104/the-audacity-istgggg?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747865626161397760/donate-to-help-my-family-evacuate-from-gaza?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/stil-lindigo/747718027311824896/the-way-that-the-iranisrael-situation-has?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/stuckinapril/746391992977833984?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747414252063735808/against-the-magnitude-of-death-our-pens-feel?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/workersolidarity/747975857123000320?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747865924398432256/anger-among-israeli-bedouins-after-girl-wounded-in?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/thoughtlessarse/745882691005825024/organizing-aid-to-gaza-led-me-to-a-harsh-truth?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/fairuzfan/746885057394917376?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/fairuzfan/747450994651234304?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747866781675405312/leaked-nyt-gaza-memo-tells-journalists-to-avoid?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747228905366306816/tell-columbia-no-suspensions-or-evictions-for?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747352172239388672?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747868048886759424/come-out-you-animals-how-the-massacre-at?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747865560236294144/arab-jaffa-resident-shot-dead-by-off-duty-cop?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747865314060124160/israel-gaza-war-live-israel-war-cabinet-meets-as?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/tamarrud/747721255192526848/i-saw-a-tweet-that-said-something-like-for-the?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/ffiahh/743135314664669185/i-recently-saw-a-video-a-little-kid-saving-money?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747865012955168768/as-always?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747868048886759424/come-out-you-animals-how-the-massacre-at?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747865560236294144/arab-jaffa-resident-shot-dead-by-off-duty-cop?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747865314060124160/israel-gaza-war-live-israel-war-cabinet-meets-as?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/tamarrud/747721255192526848/i-saw-a-tweet-that-said-something-like-for-the?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/ffiahh/743135314664669185/i-recently-saw-a-video-a-little-kid-saving-money?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747865012955168768/as-always?source=share

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This campaign is shared by 90-ghost, #77 on the @/gazavetters vetted list!

Mohammed and his family desperately need these funds! They have to borrow money to buy anything, that's how short on funds they are! And food and other basic necessitivies are very expensive in Gaza right now! These funds are literally a lifeline for Mohammed and his 5 siblings!

€9,070 raised of €50,000 goal!

If you need even more incentive to donate, I'm hosting a freshwater pearl phone strap raffle for people in the UK. Click here to enter after you donated.

@some-other-number @grahamkennedy @kazzsbrekker @areyouafraid 

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@ahmed0khalil asked me to boost his family’s campaign with some art, so here it is !

The Khalil family is a family of eight, many of whom are children, including Ahmed who is only 6 and barely started school when they had to flee from bombings. They currently reside in a UN center among many other families, but medical and hygiene care and proper accommodations are extremely difficult to find and keep in these conditions.

This campaign is very far from their goal, so please share and support where you can.

And remember your daily click.

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#5

943 notes - Posted October 12, 2022

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For the past couple of years, I’ve been working with researchers in northern Greece who are farming metal. In a remote, beautiful field, high in the Pindus mountains in Epirus, they are experimenting with a trio of shrubs known to scientists as “hyperaccumulators”: plants which have evolved the capacity to thrive in naturally metal-rich soils that are toxic to most other kinds of life. They do this by drawing the metal out of the ground and storing it in their leaves and stems, where it can be harvested like any other crop. As well as providing a source for rare metals – in this case nickel, although hyperaccumulators have been found for zinc, aluminium, cadmium and many other metals, including gold – these plants actively benefit the earth by remediating the soil, making it suitable for growing other crops, and by sequestering carbon in their roots. One day, they might supplant more destructive and polluting forms of mining.

The three plants being tested in Greece – part of a network of research plots across Europe – are endemic to the region. Alyssum murale, which grows in low bushes topped by bunches of yellow flowers, is native to Albania and northern Greece; Leptoplax emarginata – taller and spindlier, with clusters of green leaves and white petals – is found only in Greece; and Bornmuellera tymphaea, the most efficient of the three, which straggles across the ground in a dense layer of white blossom, is found only on the slopes of the Pindus (its name comes from Mount Tymfi, one of the highest peaks of the range).

What I have come to understand about these plants is that, by virtue of their evolutionary history and their close association with the soil, climate and wider ecosystem in which they have emerged, they embody a certain kind of knowledge: an understanding and accommodation with the places they have found themselves in. Humans have sought out deposits of rare metals for thousands of years, and developed ever-more violent ways of accessing them, but these plants have been around far longer, and have found more equitable and regenerative ways of doing much the same thing. Perhaps we have something to learn from them.

Hyperaccumulators are far from being the only non-humans that we might learn from, as scientific research in recent decades has shown us. Take slime moulds: strange, unicellular creatures somewhere between fungi and amoebae, which turn out to be very good at solving some very hard mathematical problems. Researchers at Lanzhou University in China have shown that Physarum polycephalum, a particularly lively slime mould, can solve the “travelling salesman” problem – a test for finding the shortest route between multiple cities – faster and more efficiently than any supercomputer humans have devised.

Cows, sheep, dogs and other animals have been shown to predict earthquakes in advance of tremors which register on seismographs. Squids and octopuses, we have learned, spread their neurons out through their bodies in ways that allow their limbs, and perhaps other faculties, to act independently of a centrally controlling mind. Spiders store information in their webs, using them as a kind of extended cognition: a mind outside the body entirely. A new conception of intelligence is emerging from scientific research: rather than human intelligence being unique or the peak of some graduated curve, there appear to be many different kinds of intelligence with their own strengths, competencies and suitabilities.

We’re also discovering all kinds of abilities which suggest whole worlds of being and awareness among non-humans we were previously unaware of. Plants, it turns out, hear and remember. In one experiment, they demonstrated the ability to respond with chemical defences to the particular sound of caterpillars munching on their leaves, even when it came from a tape recorder. In another, mimosa plants – which curl their leaves up when disturbed – learned to ignore being dropped a short distance when it proved harmless, and to react in the same way when tested days or weeks later, having in some way internalised this experience. Meanwhile, beneath the forest floor, we have become privy to the commerce and conversations of trees as they trade nutrients and information between families and species through the networks of fungi which connect their roots, in ways we are only just beginning to understand. These, too, are kinds of intelligence: and among other things, they are the way other species have learned to survive life-threatening events.

In the struggle to mitigate and adapt to climate breakdown – and all the other entangled crises we face – we are starting to recognise that other ways of knowing and acting on the world, from indigenous knowledge systems to changes in our own consumption and patterns of life, are vital to surviving and thriving on a hotter, wetter and more conflicted planet. We know too that this survival is dependent not only on our own abilities and inventions, but on the survival of the other species we share the planet with. The collapse of biodiversity which is already occurring makes it harder for us to hold back the collapse of whole ecosystems on which we too depend: for the pollination of crops, for disease resistance, for safe and sufficient food, for protection from fires and other natural disasters. We will flourish together, or not at all.

The deep knowledge that is possessed by animals, plants and others – their intelligence, we should begin to say – is another reason why we must preserve and protect them. But more than this: we should be listening to them, learning from them and working with them. The hyperaccumulator plants, for example, show us there are other ways of getting what we need from the planet; they also remind us that there are limits to what we should extract, as to turn them into another agroindustrial resource like soya beans or palm oil would be just as damaging. The knowledge that there are other ways of being intelligent on this planet should force us to reassess the centrality and usefulness of our own. Other worlds are not only possible, they have been growing around us all along.

1,013 notes - Posted April 26, 2022

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The Hanford nuclear site was established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project, and over the next four decades produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the US’s nuclear weapons supply, including the bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

During its lifespan, hundreds of billions of gallons of liquid waste were dumped in underground storage tanks or simply straight into the ground. After the site’s nine nuclear reactors were shut down by 1987, about 56m gallons of radioactive waste were left behind in 177 large underground tanks – two of which are currently leaking – alongside a deeply scarred landscape.

In the decades since, the Yakama Nation has been one of four local Indigenous communities dedicated to the cleanup of this historic landscape. For the Yakama Nation, that has meant tireless environmental and cultural oversight, advocacy and outreach with the hope that one day the site will be restored to its natural state, opening the doors to a long-awaited, unencumbered homecoming.

Today, their outreach work has reached a fever pitch. There are few Yakama Nation elders still alive who remember the area before its transformation, and there are likely decades to go before cleanup is complete. So members are racing to pass on the site’s history to the next generation, in the hopes they can one day take over.

Yakama Nation history on the Hanford site dates back to pre-colonization, when people would spend the winter here fishing for sturgeon, salmon and lamprey in the Columbia River, as well as gathering and trading with other families. In 1855, the Nation ceded over 11m acres of land to the US, which included the Hanford area, and signed a treaty that relegated them to a reservation while allowing the right to continue fishing, hunting, and gathering roots and berries at “all usual and accustomed places”.

But in the 1940’s, the situation shifted dramatically when the area was cleared out to make room for the construction of nuclear reactors.

LaRena Sohappy, 83, vice-chairwoman for Yakama Nation General Council, whose father was a well-known medicine man, grew up in Wapato, about 40 miles from Hanford. She said she remembers the strawberry fields that lined the Hanford site, her family gathering Skolkol, a root and daily food, and traveling to the area for ceremonies.

Her cousin’s family who lived close to Hanford were woken in the middle of the night and forced to leave to make way for the nuclear site, she recalled

“They didn’t have time to pack up anything,” said Sohappy. “They just had to leave and they were never told why and how long they were going to be gone.”

The effort to give Indigenous people a voice in Hanford’s fate was forged in part by Russell Jim, a member of Yakama Nation’s council, whose work has been credited with helping to keep Hanford from becoming a permanent “deep geologic repository”, a place where high-level nuclear waste from this site and others across the country would be stored.

“From time immemorial we have known a special relationship with Mother Earth,” Jim, who died in 2018, said in a statement to the US Senate in 1980. “We have a religious and moral duty to help protect Mother Earth from acts which may be a detriment to generations of all mankind.”

Today, the ER/WM program, which was founded in the early 1980’s with Jim at the helm, includes such staff as a biologist, ecologist and archeologist. It’s funded by the US Department of Energy (DoE), which operates the Hanford site and leads the cleanup process under an agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Washington state department of ecology.

The Yakama Nation program’s focus is on accelerating a thorough cleanup of the site, protecting culturally significant resources and assessing the threats to wildlife and water.

1,087 notes - Posted October 3, 2022

#2

This upstanding gentleman?? This pillar of the community??

4,263 notes - Posted July 10, 2022

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Vetted! shared by 90-ghost, #77 on the @/gazavetters vetted list! Also shared by @/gaza-evacuation-funds!

€17,711 raised of €50K target!

Mohammed told me that one of his brothers, the brother who is blind, had to go to the hospital yesterday! On the way there the paramedics were also very busy transporting the injured and the martyrs because of a violent explosion that happened nearby! The situation in Gaza is so dire and I cannot imagine the pressure Mohammed and his family must be facing!

tagging for reacch

@areyouafraid @lesbiansagainsttheatre @the-arachnocommunist @schmata

@allluckrunsdry

 @rou-latte @acumennationyuri  @tamiisnthere  @fancy-strawberry-beard @thoughtlessarse 

@imgladyourehereholdme @saturngalore @poetrylesbian  @rainingincale  @dykenanaosaki

@purefanta-sea @time-was-over @arianimates @scully1998  @nerdninjaash

 @thecolorsfucked @tadpoledyke @fellhellion @no-passaran @thelittlestspider

@martyrbat @misterradio  @shurale @hungergameswho  @i-spilled-my-soup

@apocalyptic-dancehall @silenceismychoir  @catnapdreams

please think of the disabled people of gaza. please think of the diabetic people of gaza. please think of the neurodivergent people of gaza. please think of those whose lives are relying on medicine that has either stopped coming in due to the blockade, or is available in such scarcity that its price has skyrocketed.

we're approaching winter. on top of the challenge of securing waterproof tents and sufficiently warm clothing, some diabetic people in gaza have stopped taking their insulin as they can no longer afford it. those who are able to acquire it for now know every shot may be their last.

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Here’s what our stats looked like @ the end o’ June, meaning that comradai6, jennypearseed, and bastardnumber12 were the winners of our 6th anniverary contest!  Congrats you three, prize packs will be going out in the mail shortly (comradai6 & jennypearseed: DM us your t-shirt sizes!) Thanks to all who participated & special shout-out to thoughtlessarse for letting some other folks win this year!  If you weren’t one of the winners, there’s always next June...

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My condolences for your loss.

thank you, man of importance!

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“Got my prize in the same week that my shirt arrived. Gord Hill’s Antifa Comic Book will be going to my young nieces and nephews since you’re never too young to learn about Antifa. - Thoughtlessarse” The winner of our 5th anniversary contest, representin’ hard!  Looks like we’ll have to do it again next year, huh? (btw, that “This Hammer Smashes Fascists” shirt is still available here if you’re so inclined)

[thoughtlessarse]

Normal service will resume tomorrow.

For now, enjoy these pics of my half-sister and I. I met her for the first time on Saturday. I still have several half brothers and sisters to meet, but they're either in Jamaica or the UK.

[thoughtlessarse]

From April. Most of the flowers have withered. I’m still here though.

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Ahmed's campaign is promoted and vetted by @/gaza-evacuation-funds, promoted by Bilal-Salah0, and also vetted by association!

€11,616 raised of €55K goal Last donation was 16 hours ago!

Ahmed has 12 family members in Gaza, including 6 children! His little brother is only 4 years old!! His cousin was killed while fetching water for his 3 children. They now have to cook with flour filled with insects, animal feed and wild grasses because of the lack of money and the lack of food in Gaza! Please help them! Your donation will help 12 people!!

I'm also hosting a freshwater pearl phone strap raffle to raise funds for this campaign (UK only)! Click here to enter after you donated!

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@areyouafraid @lesbiansagainsttheatre @the-arachnocommunist @schmata

@allluckrunsdry @rou-latte @acumennationyuri  @tamiisnthere  @fancy-strawberry-beard @thoughtlessarse @imgladyourehereholdme @saturngalore @poetrylesbian  @rainingincale  @dykenanaosaki @purefanta-sea @time-was-over @arianimates@scully1998  @nerdninjaash @thecolorsfucked @tadpoledyke @fellhellion @no-passaran @thelittlestspider @martyrbat @misterradio  @shurale @hungergameswho  @i-spilled-my-soup @apocalyptic-dancehall @silenceismychoir  @catnapdreams

while i am very scared for my american friends, especially my trans, immigrant, and muslim friends, i can't help but remember that the genocide in gaza is still happening. they are already facing the worst case scenario that we will only get a short glimpse of while trump is in office. and he promises to do worse, hard to fathom as it is.

i never had any faith in the democratic party but with the federal government now entirely run by republicans i hope we can all wake up to the fact that we cannot trust it to help anyone. we have to care for each other ourselves.

which is why i'm asking you guys to donate to palestinian, lebanese, sudanese, and congolese fundraisers whenever possible. this post will center on my friend @ahmedpalestine. he's a close childhood friend of hazem khalil, who i also posted for in the past, but his campaign isn't receiving even a fraction of the support. he's vetted by @bilal-salah0 and gaza-evacuation-funds and he's a diaspora palestinian who immigrated to europe for college.

ahmed's cousin was martyred in september. they're stuck in al-maghazi camp on the coast of gaza, where there is a tank invasion and intense bombing. he told me he is now struggling to focus on school because every waking moment is spent worrying about his family. franky it's insulting that has to continuously beg online. he has no time for this. we have to do it for him

donate here.

his instagram

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You haven’t seen my ugly mug for a bit. There appear to be a tendril of wisteria emerging from my mouth.

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Bed beard versus washed ‘n oiled.

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Liath joins me for forty winks.