i love re-consuming media i used to love when i was younger. like wow! child me still is in me i am holding her hand and keeping her safe and doing her favorite things with her!!!!

you could post just the word “bush” (kate? george w? hw? vegetation? pubic hair?) and someone will reply “well i shave because of sensory issues” regardless

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Cis men DO have sensory issues in relation to this. You don't hear about it because you haven't looked and you didn't listen. And plenty of cis men shave a bunch too. Have you SEEN swimmers??? The automatic assumption that a group goes not experience a thing because you 1. Haven't heard of it yet and 2. Assumed it only affected one group is a common issue in activism. Anyway, shaving isn't just something done so you "look nice". It's done in solidarity, it's done pre surgery, it's done by swimmers, pre tattoos, it's done for a plethora of reasons and I'm tired of pretending it's always just "I'm a girl so I have to shave". Get out of here with small minded perceptions like that

ok this i do have to point and laugh at sorry

being a queer person who really likes a m/f ship blows because the minute you step outside your painstakingly curated circle of t4t bisexuals you find out all the straight people are out here drawing your faves like this

*scrolling tumblr* hmmm. i agree with the sentiment of this post, but the phrasing feels off to me. it doesn’t really have that Reblog factor, you know? *scrolls* oh good, a post that just says “i jerk off till my penis scrweam” . i better reblog this

i want to go to everywhere and see everything. 0 dollars please

that’s a good one

This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation

Yeah, I am going to signal boost this rq

This map has since been updated, as of 26-8-2023 this is the most current version

Updated map for March 2025.

Israel is opening a concentration camp in Rafah if you didn't already know.

Gaza's population will be forced into a small area of land on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, and be removed from their homeland. This is ethnic cleansing and a war crime. According to an Israeli newspaper, anyone outside the strip will be labelled a 'Hamas terrorist' which somehow provides "legal justification for their elimination."

They call people moving from their land voluntary, but the people of Gaza are under so many coercive measures that no departure from the strip can be seen in legal terms as consensual.

People are being displaced all over the place, there is really no distinction between the 'safe zones' and the 'danger zones' - people are also being moved south because of a starvation and a lack of food.

The only aid hub (which massacres civillians, and has almost daily mass casualty incidents) in Central Gaza has been shut down on July 9th without prior notice. Now the only aid hubs are in Rafah, and area under military evacuation orders. People in Central or North Gaza have no other ways of accessing food, besides buying it for prices beyond the means of most.

"We hope Trump will pressure Netanyahu, God willing, it happens. For a week now, they've been saying today, tomorrow, Tuesday, Thursday, as if the talk about truce and the ceasefire isn't serious." - man in Gaza says.

"It's certain. Trump wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize. And for that, he needs a truce here and in other places. So he might put serious pressure on Netanyahu. Trump has served Netanyahu in other areas." - Another man in Gaza says.

"This is unnatural. This is impossible. We're not fish to be moved from one place to another. This is not possible." He follows.

"God forbid, we won't leave Gaza. Where would we go? Our homes have been destroyed. Where are we supposed to go? We accepted tents. But where do we go after that? To Rafah? We didn't go to Rafah in the first place. I stayed in the North." - a woman from Gaza.

James Elder, UNICEF global spokesperson talks about it in an interview;

"I was stunned to see how much worse it had got. I didn't think, you know, I would see a population put under that much more stress. Somehow we've gone from that level of a population, you know, a grave risk of starvation, children are starving - to water deprivation. Forced water deprivation. This is purely political, this is not logistical. You know, a child is being killed in Gaza every single hour since the horrors of October 7th. So I go in hospitals and I see that every single day."

When asked about famine, he says, "No. But I don't think it matters to Palestinians. If there is a famine that's too late. Famine means mass deaths. Starvation which is you know, a layer before is happening. And starvation means that a child's body, you know its immune system is collapsing. There's already cognitive decline which becomes irreversible in children. So children's bodies aren't waiting for some technical definition to occur. And that's what I think is so harrowing there."

When asked about Israel's claims that they are working with international organisations to get aid through, he says, "Firstly, you know we need international journalists on the ground. Secondly I don't from my own time - two decades as a humanitarian at what point you know, UNICEF or the voice of UN workers didn't isn't utterly impartial. And we know numerically that around 50 trucks of aid are allowed in. That's 10% of what is needed. That's 1% if you allow for the blockade beforehand. So, you know and Israel won't deny that."

When asked about the starving people being shot at the GHF 'aid' points, he says; "I found it so harrowing, I met a little boy who, I mean this little guy - he's a 13 year old boy, Abed Al-Rakman, he was given money by his parents, their only money, to go and buy bread. He goes out into the street and he saw large numbers of people moving to one of these sites. They are militarised sites. He went, there was firing. He ran, he didn't - he left without a box. He left without any food aid at all. There was a tank shell fired. When I met this little guy he had shrapnel in his stomach. He had shrapnel in his pancreas. His mum wanted a video for social media because they had a medical evacuation form. He sat up, he help onto my arm in immense pain. This was two in the afternoon. He'd had 5mls of painkillers earlier that morning because there's a grave lack of painkillers for children. His father was in tears because this little boy was saying "I just wanted to get some food for my family." And on the final day that I left Gaza, again in this two week period, he died of his injuries. Everyone hospital bedroom you're in has got three or four children with the wounds of war. And they're all utterly grotesque."

He goes on to talk about 11 year old girls having their legs amputated and being paralysed from the waste down. And that's only one room, and one day that we was bearing witness to.

When asked about a peace deal, he says; "I have to go with everyday people on the ground who are so desperate, who litterally would say to me, "We hope, but hope is not a strategy." Who saw their hope blown up a dozen times in 2024."

Read. Watch. Don't look away from what's happening in Gaza.

And without further or do, please donate to some people who reached out to me on tiktok.

Naseem, (@drnaseem59 on tiktok) is 24 years old, he never got to finish his education, and can no longer volunteer at the hospital due to it being destroyed. Please help him provide for his family. 47% of the goal has been raised, their goal of 10k is very achievable.

Amir, (@helpmyameer on tiktok) needs out help to restore basic dignity to his family and hopefully evacuate Gaza. Through this linktree, you can donate via PayPal or the gofundme, but also through USD, GBP, and EUR - there is pretty much no excuse not to donate, most options are available.

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Books on Libby have started disappearing.

My friend pointed it out first, and then I started noticing too. Why would books that multiple libraries definitely, 100% had digital access to a couple of months/weeks/days ago disappear?

Amazon is invoking exclusive rights to them.*

Ebooks that the public library once had digital copies of are now only available through Amazon. Audible boasts on their covers about Audible-exclusive audiobooks that did not used to be Audible-exclusive. Entire series and collections are disappearing overnight.

Keep your eyes on the privatization of media and your libraries.

*earlier versions said "getting"; Amazon has likely always had these rights, but in the face of boycotts they're tightening the leash, so to say

**librarians in the notes have also noted that, in addition to Amazon often refusing to sell to libraries/increasing their number of exclusive/privatized titles, libraries have to repurchase eBooks/audiobooks every eight uses, so cuts to library funding have reduced their access to media as well

Wake up hoe!!!!! no one connected to Jeffrey Epstein got exposed for trafficking all those girls and none of them will see any punishment for it, P. Diddy not guilty, Brad Pitt image rehabilitated by the media, American president is a known rapist, roe vs. wade taken away last year, female corpses kept on life-support just so they can be used to incubate babies, Active campaign to restrict women from voting - it all sounds too heavy handed 

I sent my inner child to work at a steel cable plant to make some extra cash and it got mangled in an industrial accident and died in the hospital so I really don't have to protect it or whatever anymore. good luck with your self care stuff though

i had the idea for this last tdov but it didnt come together until now 🥖🍷 though i'm not religious, this quote is beloved to me

“Quarantine, day 14. Me and my boyfriend spent the whole day setting up an art gallery for our gerbil.“

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it’s like this.

if you only have one person in your life that you trust, you probably are always going to turn to that person when something shit happens. as well as whenever something good happens. or anything else. this is not inherently a bad thing, and it’s really beautiful to have someone in your life that you trust so much

but if that person is suddenly busy or going through something difficult themselves or doesn’t have emotional capacity for a while, suddenly there’s a problem. not necessarily through any fault of your own, you don’t have anyone to turn to with as much regularity as you did before

this is true of any kind of relationship. this is true of any kind of coping mechanism, also. the problem is not that you trust that person. the problem is not that you use that coping mechanism. the problem is not even that there’s something wrong with you and that it’s all your fault. the problem is that nothing can be everything

the solution is not to cut off your one trusted person or to cut yourself off from your one trusted coping mechanism. the solution is to do the difficult work of diversifying your life as much as it’s possible for you to do. which is why it sucks so much when external factors prevent you from being able to live a truly diverse life. okay that’s all have a good one