sisyphus... you made boulder choices on the runway this week, but we just need you to push a little more. i'm sorry my dear but you are up for elimination
Every day, I think about how much living through today feels like living through Nazi Germany. I watch my community members get disappeared, I watch as Gaza is bombed and seized under "ceasefire", I watch a corrupt government violate human rights with more than impunity-- with smug glee.
And every single day, I think about how, as a child learning about Nazi Germany, my first question was "Why didn't people do anything about it?". It was a question no one ever answered to my satisfaction. I couldn't comprehend a world where atrocities happened and people didn't do something.
Now, as an adult, I refuse to be a bystander. When I am old and looking back on what happened, will my grandchildren ask me, "Why didn't you do anything about it?" When I see a fundraiser, I wonder, will I be able to look back and say I gave these people as much support, as much money as I could? When I see a protest flyer, will I be able to proudly say I fought on the front lines, or that I stayed safely at home as others did my duty? When I see I.C.E., will I someday say that I cowered from them, or that I stood in front of my neighbors to protect them?
What kind of person are you in the face of adversity? Will you ignore the bombed, the deported, the disappeared, the murdered? Are you alright just letting these grave injustices pass you by? What are you going to do about it?
Start right now. You can help Gazan families survive.
Mohamed and Enas have four little children. They were recently displaced again, and now the 6 of them are in a cold tent in the middle of winter. They are hardworking, honest, incredible parents who are hoping to get their family out of Gaza when the Rafah crossing opens.
Aehed is trying to raise enough money to correct a deformity in his youngest daughter's legs that cause her constant pain. It's a complicated, expensive surgery. This little girl doesn't deserve a life of pain amidst a war, and her family doesn't deserve to live destitute. You may not be able to stop the war, but you can help stop her pain.
You know that Mr. Rogers thing of 'look for the helpers'? How many times has someone, facing the end, done something tiny and fragile and maybe hopeless just to try and help someone else? Whether it works or not. How many people went to their graves at least trying? That has to say something about us. As a people. As monstrous as we sometimes (perhaps often) are, so many times we were also
Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.
And sometimes you can't save one life, sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes there's no getting out of this for anyone, but... try anyway. Because it matters anyway. And maybe no one will ever know. But maybe also some day more than a century down the line, maybe some idiot will be crying into her coffee because of what you died trying
We live in a tent. The rain and cold are exhausting us, and Amir and Sarah are sick. We are trying to move from the tent into a simple rented home to protect our children. If you can help, the link is here.
Try anyway... please.
BREAKING: 21-year-old protester, Kaden Rummler, was shot point-blank in the face by ICE. he just spoke about how he’s blind for life and almost died:
“I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.”
What the hell is wrong with these people?
GoFundMe for Kaden Rummler, the young trans man blinded by ICE agents this week.
and i find it kinda yummy. i find it kinda snacks
i know it's the tierlist format but this isn't actually a ranking, just lighthearted observations about their fanart. of course this doesn't encompass them all it's just what i perceive as the majority
Francis Bacon, ‘Three Studies of the Human Head’, 1953
Twin Peaks 2.22 (1991)
Tishani Doshi, from A God at the Door; “Survival”
near life experience