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400+ people were killed in gaza last night.

my friend tarek has been doing some amazing community organizing in palestine — he’s been teaching classes for children with my other friend farah AND distributing water and providing iftar meals during ramadan throughout rafah! his brother just had a major orthopedic surgery he had to wait about a year for and since food and water is incredibly scarce he can’t properly recover. please donate to their efforts!!!

donate to tarek’s family

donate to provide iftar meals

donate to the water initiative

donate to the challenge classes

quick reminder: tarek isn’t just a word on your screen, he is my friend.

he’s 21, the same age as me. before the war he was studying to be a translator and he dreamt of voice acting, just like so many of you reading this. (he’s pretty good too actually.) he would probably not call himself a poet but every few days he posts something so beautifully worded that he might as well be a poet laureate. he recently wrote: “gaza is sick of being praised by anyone. gaza is tired that its image is on satellite tv. gaza is sick of its name in the sad poems. gaza is tired of the repeated endings.” the message is clear — sentiments are not enough, his people need HELP.

every day i tell him im doing everything i can. and it’s true, i am, but its barely anything, as i’m disabled and bedridden. i’ve kept that fact from him out of shame because i see what he has to endure each day, but i feel SO POWERLESS. every time an announcement breaks that more bombs have dropped in the night or more innocent people were gunned down in broad daylight, my heart sinks with terror and i wonder if i’ve lost my friend. it really would mean so much — not just to him, to me — if you could donate anything you can spare to tarek and his family. he deserves the whole world and more.

yesterday tarek almost got on a water distribution truck that was targeted with bombs. the day before his neighbors had their house bombed (during Eid) and that whole family died. please help my friend

Sam Reich, in multiple interviews and media in 2024: “I can’t invite my friends anywhere because they’re always suspicious it’s a surprise Game Changer episode.”

Meanwhile, he had THREE CAST MEMBERS in the middle of a YEAR-LONG GAME CHANGER EPISODE while he was saying this.

Drew Usagi on the plane ride to and from Minnesota to see the Sailor Moon: Super Live

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-1994) “Haven” (1.11)

True and valid

On April 8 we celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher, and remember all the lives she destroyed.

Antique sewing machine enthusiasts are doing the eroticism of the machine on a level your average robotfucker can't even comprehend.

.......... totally unprecedented, eh?

whooooooooops! it was already the de facto policy for Palestinians!

To The Painters of Pompeii - Jordan Bolton

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if you’ve never played a pokémon game you’re missing out on the insane things npcs will say to you unprompted. like you’ll be walking down a path and a total stranger will see you and immediately run up to you and trap you in place and say something like ‘the divorce is getting rough but me and my pokémon are getting tough!’ and then start a battle and after you beat their single rat they’ll be like ‘i wasn’t worthy of her…’ or something

(through gritted teeth) sometimes what's good for your mental health isn't another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what's good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it's not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that's what being nice to yourself is sometimes

Are you guys ok you’re all reblogging this post a lot

we're all ADHD and glad someone else said the quiet part out loud so we didn't have to.

god I could be so wealthy if I had no ethics. that's so fucking frustrating. I'm living paycheck to paycheck because I'm not grifting vulnerable idiots on TikTok. I feel like I have the ability to very easily scam people. I could make a killing with AI. but god. I have morals and ethics and so I get to be poor as shit. I hate this fucking world

I could have made a killing as a psychic, but noooo I have to feel bad about lying to people ugh

I think abt this all the time because the thing is, evil rich people truly believe that they’re geniuses who have discovered a way to make money that the rest of us dummies haven’t…but the truth is that they are just willing to do evil shit that everyone else would prefer to not to because we have standards

When I attended my graduate school job fair, Raytheon (unprompted, hearing me say my degree at the next table) offered me $230,000/yr to come work for them. That was their opening offer after hearing nothing more than my degree, in a city with a very low cost of living. The only catch was that the job was working on vision systems for missiles. (i.e. those 'targeted' missiles which kill a ton of civilians as collateral or intentional damage)

I ended up taking an $85,000/yr job as an optical research scientist at Corning instead.

It is an odd feeling, having a price put on your soul. I'd be a millionaire with a house by my mid-30s if I'd accepted that. And the offer is still open, in fact I'd have an even more generous one waiting for me with the skills I have now.

In all seriousness, if you have the right skillset, you can actually sell your soul. This very week. You will live in comfort and moderate luxury for all your days. Two of my family members did that work decades ago, until they couldn't stomach it any longer, and it set up the rest of their lives.

But I promise you, it's not worth it. It's been almost 50 years for one of them and it still haunts him. He says the worst part was the way they (him included) talked about human lives as things. Numbers on a spreadsheet, sterile corporate jargon in meetings. A lifetime later and you can still see it in his eyes when he talks about it.

You can't take it back, treating humans like things.

I'd happily be friends with someone who draws their Sona fatter than their actual body because they feel euphoric and hot over it than someone who polices people about their self expression and desires towards fat bodies.

"ohhhh but this might be fat fetish ough ough"

yeah! thank you for reinforcing the dehumanization of fat people by basically admitting that being attracted to non skinny bodies is inherently a fetish no matter what instead of like, a preference...

and even if someone did fetishize and fantasize over bodies like mine or bigger than absolutely good for them because I'm at least desirable in someone's eyes and not people who police my or others sexuality wrapped in liberal speak.

the amount of people who claim my art is fat fetish art covered up with body positivity speak and that I'm not truly fat is insane because they cannot grasp the idea of fat people being viewed as sexy and wanted for their body without pearl clutching.

they try to be advocates for fat people but in reality they are extremely performative and are disgusted by fat bodies because of their own dysmorphia and trauma or internalized bigotry/fatphobia.

ok last point that should be an important addition: I love kinksters and fat furries and people who have fetishes because like, I'm hating the way puritanism and sex/kink negativity is seeping and poisoning it's way into leftist and queer spaces.

being attracted to fat people and having a fetish for them are both different but also not mutually exclusive and honestly, I see it harmless if you're clear on consent and respecting humans as a living thing. not that hard to grasp.

you gotta clock in and go piss, dont piss and then clock in. never surrender! steal company time forever

and now i know embedded dailymotion videos play automatically as soon as they load on a page

lets ambush mama