ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help

Operation Olive Branch has a spreadsheet dedicated to mutual aid, local distro, community kitchens, etc. in Gaza.

This is a good place to start if seeking to donate to a community resilience action. Just contact the group(s) directly to make sure they are still active. Life in Gaza and Palestine is full of uncertainty.

^this is literally what op is saying isn't helpful though. there is scarcity and it is man-made. donating to a community kitchen in gaza will help that specific kitchen and take food away from other people. there is literally not enough because aid is not let in. money will not cause food to materialize in gaza

the best ways to help palestine are donating to organizations, political activism, social activism

also (this wouldn't matter if op wasn't right but considering that they are), the rise of posting fundraisers has killed all other palestine posting on this site. we don't see anything about current events or any other actions. the palestine tag is almost unusable

No actually it is exactly what i am saying that you should donate to community aid kitchens because then they buy at bulk for lower prices and stretch ingredients to distribute meals cooked at large scale for free instead of that same food only being available to a tiny number of people at extortionate prices. with big humanitarian aid programs rendered inoperable by the occuption, grassroots community kitchens are some of the ONLY social institutions left to try to serve people with any measure of equity. Donate to the Sameer Project here:

asking "hey is it fine if I smoke in here" and before you're able to answer I've already set up a full rack of salmon over a fire in your living room

my peanuts went sour

Im here for u if u are dapressed and need to be tenderley comforted for your dumb as fuck mistake

the polyamorous sadist would like you all to organize yourselves into a wack-a-mole type arrangement

new mychart message! aw damn....doc says my reality and existence lab work was wayyy off so she's referring me to an Ontologist

yes my son that's right. There was a time when the club was hot and we could even look up to that trinidadian lunatic. But those days are long gone. Now, "Starships were meant to fly" brings only melancholy

Sexting is just inherently cringe like there’s no way for it to sound serious and NOT cringe and if you’re going to do it you just have to let horny delirium take over and momentarily kill the part of your brain that cares about not being embarrassing

that's so true bunny knows something about how cringe I can be @totally-bunny

yeah but bunny likes cringe and puppy cringe is cute n makes me happy :)

This doesn’t have to happen here

took acid on new years as per tradition and me and my sister got really into the concept of an origami crane folded out of a pizza so precisely and beautifully that it "shames our hatred". like all acts of human cruelty are shamed by the perspective that its beauty provides. we called it pizza crane

hey you ever think about how the Cullen's love-bombing eventually replaced Bella's personality?

She mentions multiple times in the books that she despises expensive gifts, and the ones that actually leave an impact on are her Chevy and the wooden wolf bracelet Jacob gives her. The Chevy is second-hand from Billy, and the bracelet was carved by Jacob. They hold value to her because they have personality; they speak to her tastes and were given to her with those tastes in mind.

She loves her Chevy, but it is eventually replaced with a sleek, expensive designer car gifted to her by the Cullens. She adores the bracelet but Edward puts an designer charm on it to remind her of him.

Even her clothes, which she insists are fine and suit her, are replaced with branded sweaters, dresses and heels.

She hates the idea of any kind of marriage but Edward holds vampirism over her head to get what he wants. Even when she agrees to marry him (against her will) she wants to keep it simple, wanting to simply drive to Texas and get married via a drive thru- Alice begs Bella to allow her to plan the wedding and it's easily more ostentacious and expensive than her birthday party in New Moon, which she describes as "a hundred times worse than I'd imagined"

They get rid of her preferred aesthetics in hopes that their consumerist one will stick, and one of the last things they do to her is literally strip her of her humanity.

She becomes a cold, perfect creature and as a result, is no longer allowed to have ties to her father, mother, her best friend or the interests she had before. She's converted into a Cullen and this shit is supposed to be romantic.

#oh hey it really is mormon (via @quasi-normalcy)

Reblogging for consumerist Cullens.

do you think Wikipedia has a dead man's switch mechanism to replace every instance of "is" with "was" in the event of a planet-wide species-ending apocalypse

wild watching the rest of the us talk about ice invading their state or city and how they're doing this or that and its terrifying that our nation has descended to this and this is the biggest or worst or lowest or whatever other superlative....

and they're just describing what daily life has been like in el paso for upwards of twenty years. but no one cared when it happened here, because it was happening to the people its "supposed" to happen to; mexican immigrants, many undocumented.

just feels. fucked. that this city has been under the boot of ice for so fucking long. and i have never once seen it mentioned or talked about or acknowledged. i'll bet you money the vast majority of ice's arrests are still undocumented mexicans in texas.

but no one talks about that, because thats what is "supposed" to happen, and everyone decided over a decade ago when mexican kids were being put in cages outside our town and that made national news, that they were fine with it.

~Impulse ^Vic

a big part of the reason we have the fear of cops we (me and my systemmates) have is from growing up with ice sweeping where we lived. sometimes neighbors would disappear and we'd be like "where did my friend beto go?" and someone would say he and his family didn't have papers, so they got taken. just disappeared, and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

under the biden administration we saw ice taking people just about every month. just pulling over trucks and arresting everyone inside. no one cared then.

all of the ice activities that have been making national and international news trace their origins back here. el paso sent ice agents to chicago. and i don't say this to downplay the horror, everything ice is doing is absolutely terrible, but we were on tumblr in 2009 trying to get people to care and the only ones who did were overwhelmingly other latine people and a handful of Black bloggers.

people here are just really thoroughly defeated and broken. there are still protests every now and then, and at least one small activist group, but nothing has anywhere near the energy or presence other places have because we as a city and as communities have been crushed for decades. people here don't expect things to get better, they haven't in twenty years.

-- tocaya

*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

Dear video essay creators. A video analysis is when you analyze a piece of media. No no look at me. A summary, no matter how thorough, is not an analysis. An analysis requires you to draw conclusions about the media such as authorial intent, real-world parallels, discussion about themes/worldbuilding/character motivation, and so much more. You have to stop summarizing something and saying that’s analysis. The Gaylors are doing more critical analysis than you. Is that who you want to lose to? The gaylors?

DB Cooper mystery solved: he survived and used the money to start the film website "IMDb" (I am DB)

The US is lying about Iran. If you're helping them by spreading the false death figures conjured by the NED funded NGOs, you're a war-monger too

The misinformation coming out about Iran is so crazy.

CBS is just making up numbers for headlines and then backtracking later down in the article

Let's not get fooled and get on the same team as Zionazis who spent 2 years telling us that there is no genocide when the entire world was VERIFYING it.

Now these people are making up lies because they want the US to attack Iran. Just like they did last year. They don't actually care about Iranians or they wouldn't be asking Trump to bomb them.

And isn't CBS now run by Bari Weiss? She is a genocide denier and a propagandist for Israel. This is so easy to see right through

The source for the death toll is Iran International, a news channel that is owned by Saudi investors and has also received millions of dollars in funding by the Saudi Crown prince Muhammed bin Salman.

Many western sources, like the CBS quote them relatively often.

Nearly blocked someone for a vaguely annoying reply they made in 2017 then remembered 2017 was 9 years ago. They will live. We can change *opens their blog* nevermind they got worse. Guards