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im not using twitter rn but i have to express this somewhere. what the fuck is wrong with stormblood

#personal #i'm in post-stormblood rn so please no spoilers i'm serious #but i genuinely did not think it could get worse #and somehow it just has not failed to surprise me! #sorry if you like it and i'm here being a hater but my god

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Barana Hanabneiho Organisation (BHO)

Darfur Women Action Group (DWAG)

Hadhreen (7adhreen)

Nas Al Sudan

Sadagaat Charity Organisation

Sudanese American Medical Association (SAMA)

Sudanese American Physicians Association (SAPA)

Sudanese Diaspora Network (SDN)

Sudan Tarada Initiative and Save Al Geneina Initiative by Sadiea

Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS)

Sudan Solidarity Collective (SSC)

Takaful Organisation

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CONTEXT: the gaza freedom flotilla coalition aims to bring emergency aid (food, medical supplies, etc) to a starving and besieged gaza. activists and journalists from all over the world (including diaspora palestinians like dylan) will be participating, and they know the risk — in 2010 turkish activists attempting a similar mission had their flagship raided by israeli forces, who murdered 10 activists aboard (9 died on site and another died later from critical injuries).

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Hello this is urgent if you have ANY spare money could you please donate to my friend Leo @lifted2002 he is in urgent need of money it is an emergency, he is in an extremely abusive situation and needs money to escape as soon as possible please pp is [email protected] please it is urgent

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Another aspect of the Gaza Genocide that I want to talk about is the complicity of Internet banking and crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe.

I have seen multiple Gazans raise enough money to leave for Egypt, but the banks and the crowdfunding websites freeze their money or cancel their funds for "suspicious activity" or whatever. Every day that passes in Gaza supplies get more scarce, conditions get more deadly, and the price to cross into Egypt gets more expensive. I've seen people, like ghost-90 here on Tumblr, raise the full amount to get their entire family out of Gaza, but their money gets frozen for so long that the original goal is only a fraction of the price now needed to cross the boarder.

These financial institutions should not be allowed to get away with contributing to the death toll in Gaza. They are intentionally keeping people trapped in a kill zone by withholding money that is rightfully theirs.

I'm so pissed and angry that every avenue for relief for Palestinians is being cut of left and right. It is vile that Gazans are being extorted for 10s of thousands of dollars by the Egyptian gov just to save their family's lives, but even when they play by this corrupt game, the world still finds a way to make them suffer.

My heart is with every Palestinian for the rest of time, from river to sea you will all be free. 🇵🇸❤️

#god

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angel haircut

#art #original #this one was a wip from 2022 #edited something i need to start waiting before i post

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It’s feels so insignificant to have this struggle but I’m getting my period soon and there’s no place to buy cotton/pads or the specific painkillers I get and it’s so so cold my pre cramps are already killing me. It makes me feel so helpless. [@/ Dicktator117 on X. 12/28/23.]

“Periods Don't Stop for Conflict” I remember this headline addressing women's health in Ukraine. Not a peep out of those same agencies about Sudanese & Palestinian women struggling in war/conflict zones.

#KeepEyesOnSudan [@/ RightUpMyAlley on X.]

I created a link for a gofundme happening right now to ensure Period Care reaches folks who need it in Sudan, and I will re-post this here for folks who can share and/or support:

This link here will lead you to this post of where you can support/send funds so that period care reaches those who need it in [Palestine] and other areas as well.

One Million Sustainable Pads Campaign [Sudan]

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how do you feel about the end of heavensward btw ❤️

the end of heavensward i really liked! although i did think it was kind of coming fast at you all of a sudden but that was kind of cool in its own way like the urgency of it?? idk it was still pretty good i actually kind of liked how

it shifted away from the dragons to focus on the corruption of the church bc surprisingly ff did a better job re centuries of religious war than i was expecting. like the determination everyone had to atone for their history by uprooting everything they've ever known was cool. i was extremely suspicious of artoirel for a bit bc they kept highlighting him at the most random moments (to me) and i am extremely suspicious of this game, but it was all fine in the end and actually he's been one of the most interesting characters to me in the game since he was introduced. his withering self-doubt is really interesting to me lol. the focus on saving your friends i think is also really fun to me, esp w a character like alphinaud who i found a bit callous in arr (which i liked a lot about him btw) its funny how they kind of soften him up as the game goes along

but if you meant end of heavesnward as in post-heavensward then you know... i dunno.. i feel like weirdly enough its not as compact as post-arr was to me (i really like post-arr) but it was still good. i feel like somehow i like the specific moments of it more than i like it as a whole, it might be bc certain things felt so sudden. i think that might just be how post-expansions are considering they have to set up other things. but focusing on navigating the consequences of what happens in heavensward esp re aymeric's new duties, dealing with nidhogg once and for all, the warriors of darkness etc..... that was all really interesting to me. i think i liked most that moment in post-post heavensward where everyone talks to minfilia-hydaelyn for one last time bc before that only you were really communicating with hydaelyn so everyone being there in that moment and realising where it was they were was really cool

sorry if that's not what you were asking about. my thoughts on post-hvw are actually kind of too scattered right now?? so i put off answering this for a bit

#asks #anonymous #ffxiv spoilers #heavensward spoilers #also spoilers for post-heavensward

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Feel free not to answer this ask so you dont have to step into this particular hornet's nest but do you have any thoughts about people sharing inaccurate science about COVID in order to push for more COVID regulations? I agree that COVID is being neglected and we need better policies but I'm also a biochemist so it pisses me off to see people cite research in a way that makes exaggerated and terrifying claims. Two years ago, I was warning my colleagues against this condescending "just trust the science" approach but now the same crowd pushing that has shifted to pushing "don't trust any of the positive science, only my catastrophic interpretations of it". Can't we mask without also trying to convince each other that COVID is a guaranteed one way ticket to death and permanent disability?

you must be new here haha i swing bats at this hornet's nest like once a month. yeah i think the current state of covid communication sucks a lot. i mean the truth is that "follow the science" is always a disingenuous sentiment; Science doesn't speak, and scientists disagree with one another. and it's naïve to pretend majority consensus is a reliable mechanism to identify truth—anyone who has followed the covid aerosolisation about-face will recall that although linsey marr was not the first researcher to challenge medical orthodoxy on airborne disease transmission, even well into the covid pandemic the idea of aerosol transmission was marginalised by global health authorities because it was politically inconvenient, out of favour with powerful established academics, and reminiscent to some of pre-pasteurian miasma theories of disease. those who would "follow the science" were not presented with a convenient dichotomy between reasonable evidence-backed expert consensus and fringe peddlers of heterodoxy; to evaluate these positions required actually, yknow, reading and evaluating the arguments and evidence from multiple competing positions, and deciding which had the greater explanatory power. which is good epistemological advice only insofar as it's so obvious as to be trite.

fundamentally a huge driving force of this situation is the social, political, and institutional forces that make expert knowledge (a generally good thing) all too often synonymous with inaccessible knowledge. i don't mean inaccessibility caused by knowledge being specialised; obviously this is inevitable to some extent simply as a result of the fact that no one person will grasp the entirety of human knowledge. but the fact that knowledge is specialised, specific, highly technical, and so forth doesn't automatically mean, for example, that it has to be monetarily gatekept from all but a select few with the resources to persevere through a highly punishing, nepotistic, hegemonic university system; this is a political problem, and one that additionally has the effect of enabling and sheltering low-quality work (see: replication crisis) behind the opaque walls of university bureaucracy and the imprimateur of the credentials it grants. in lieu of an ability to actually engage with, read, or challenge much of the academic research being generated on any given topic, the lay public is supposed to rely on signs of reliability like possession of a degree, or institutional reputation. what we in fact see again and again, and with particularly high stakes in the case of something like a pandemic, is that these measures are instruments of class stratification and professional jockeying that don't inherently ensure quality information: MDs can and do peddle anti-vaxx lies and covid / long-covid denialism; the CDC and WHO can and do perpetrate bad and outdated scientific advice, like that masks are unnecessary and isolation periods can be shortened for convenience. many of these are just blatant cases of kowtowing to political pressure, which arises from the capitalist logic that counterposes disease prevention to economic growth.

this all leaves us in a position where it is, in fact, smart and correct to evaluate the information coming from 'official' and credentialled sources with scepticism. the problem is that in its place, we get information coming out of the same capitalist state-sponsored scientific institutions, and the same colonialist universities; the idea that some chucklefuck on twitter is telling you the secret truth just because they correctly identified that the government sucks is plainly absurd. where covid specifically is concerned, the liberalism of academic and scientific institutions is on display in numerous ways, including the idealist assumption, which many 'covid communicators' make, that public health policy is primarily a matter of swaying public opinion, and therefore that it is always morally imperative to form and propagate the most alarmist possible interpretation of any study or empirical observation. this is not an attitude that encourages thoughtful or measured evaluation of The Science (eg, study methodology), nor is it one that actually produces the kind of political change that would be required to protect the populace writ large from what is, indeed, a dangerous and still rampant virus. instead, this form of communication mostly winds up generating social media Engagement and screenshots of headlines of summaries of studies.

meanwhile, actual public health policy (which is by and large determined at the mercy of capitalist state interests, and which by and large shapes public opinion of what mitigation measures are 'reasonable', despite the CDC repeatedly pretending this works the other way round), remains on its trajectory toward lax, open exposure of anyone and everyone to each new strain of covid, perpetuating a society that is profoundly hostile to disabled people and careless with everyone's life and health. this fucking sucks. it sucked that we have treated the flu like this for years, and it sucks that we are now doing it with a virus that we are still relatively immunologically naïve to, and that produces, statistically, even more death and disability than the flu. and it sucks that the predominating explanations of this state of affairs from the 'cautious' emphasise not the structural forces that shape knowledge production under capitalism, but instead invoke a psychological narrative whereby individuals simply need to be sufficiently terrified into producing mass action.

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opening commissions again

pics are example of style. base price is $90 and the idea is that i put more of a personal spin on your request. i also said this on twitter. please read my carrd and then send me a msg if you are interested :)

#commissions

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i was watching my bro play hades recently

#hades #artemis #thanatos #zagreus #thanzag #art #zagreus and thanatos still make my head spin so much (positive) i just cant bring myself to say anything about them as a result

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giving even a single shit abt covid will actually make u feel fucking crazy sometimes lol

#i feel like the only person who wears a mask in my entire city

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fyi if you're planning on upgrading from the free trial any time soon, ffxiv is on sale on steam rn

omg thank you! yeah my friend showed me so im planning on buying it soon but continuing on the free trial until i beat stormblood :9

#asks #anonymous

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goodnight everyone (:

do your daily click

spreadsheet of families in Gaza you can help today

donate to:

Buy an e-sim

Help diabetics in Gaza

The PCRF

Anera

UNRWA

Taawon

Help Gaza Children

Sudan Tarada Initiative

Help a Sudanese family escape conflict

Darfur Women Action

Ramadan for Sudan

Period products in Sudan

Sudan Emergency Appeal

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i bet your wol looked super cute with haurchefant!!!

:)

ty! <3 honestly i think we look out of place together but who cares!!! the most fun i have in the game is running up to haurchefant and doing this and thats just the truth

#asks #anonymous #size diff enjoyers (like me) rejoice ! #except i'm going to make my wol taller as soon as i get the chance lol #oc/char ship is really like killing the me that cringes isn't it

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by the way, what does your wol look like? what class do you like playing?

her name is meade (after the alcohol) and i play warrior bc i really like berserker as a concept like being full of rage and being kind of rough around the edges and all that. and tanking is so much fun

what i really want is to be a viera so im going to change her once i hit shb but i wish i could keep the face/pigtails. for now i just draw her w bunny ears and the nose like i did this super long time ago

#asks #anonymous #the orange outfit i consider her default outfit #i have a lot of incomplete drawings of her bc ff clothing explodes my brain but i love big armour

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your ffxiv thoughts are so touching, it makes me feel like i'm playing the expansion again. you really nailed it on the head - what makes it work. how you feel like you're completely alone in the world at the beginning and the only person who takes you in is haurchefant. and the atmosphere! of ishgard! the architecture, the gloom, the music! it's so fucking crazy. i guess you understand why everyone says heavensward is so much better than ARR now. it literally is that good 😭

omg thank you... yeah i was so surprised all of that was happening like what a dramatic game. i love arr a lot like its old-school fantasy feeling and writing style is really fun and i love reading the paragraphs of the most random and verbose shit the sidequest npcs have to say. but i also felt like i was trapped in arr for so long bc of how its not very focused story-wise and my sis who has been playing for awhile would be telling me how good hvw is..... and it really is just that good. once i hit coerthas for the first time in post-arr it felt like everything changed. i dont even want to move forward in this game i just want to do post-arr and hvw again. i want to stay in ishgard forever

#asks #anonymous #thank you for the ask/s btw (i'm assuming you sent both) i love to yap :3 #heavensward spoilers #spoilers #ffxiv spoilers