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“It Is an Honor to Be Suspended for Palestine”

Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024

In this in-depth report, participants offer a blow-by-blow account of the events at Columbia, appraising the tactics that the demonstrators have employed and the challenges that they face.

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The fact that homelessness is controversial tells you everything you need to know about conservatives.

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What I hate most about those crappy "Dracula is after his destined reincarnated wifey" adaptations is that they absolutely obliterate Mina Harker's entire personality, agency, intelligence, bravery, loyalty, and tragedy, for the sake of the 589th version of the Rich Violent Guy And Girl Who Tames Him trope.

Because Mina to them is not a character with layers, interests, complexes, fears, and incredible strength.

She is a prop for the sexy vampire lord to have the equivalent of a bastardised Hades/Persephone romance with.

She therefore is not allowed to be the actual main protagonist, the woman who became one with death and defied it, the person who saved everyone, and a literal survivor. The one who wrote the novel Dracula.

Yet every Updated Dracula With Feminism demotes her to a love interest who submits to her fate and forgiving a random man who hurts her and kills her loved ones. Hell.

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the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belonging, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.

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i miss the bad guys. like they really took the only good thing about zootopia (furries) and made it infinitely better by Not being copaganda

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unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

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call it what u will, identifying with an animal is one of the most ancient and universal human experiences. the oldest known depiction of a human has a lions head. i am being dead serious when i say there are few things in this world more normal than being a furry

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WATCH THIS VIDEO

a very, VERY important post. spread everywhere and screen record the video to your phone. or message me and ill happily send you the video. give to every woman and girl you know.

bc as they both said / demonstrated, its not only super easy to do, but super easy to miss.

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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i rlly hope it gets easier soon bc i am fucking losing my mind

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i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.

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Quite the photo.

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me: *rolls over and goes back to sleep*

the necromancer who just spent several days constructing and performing a ritual to raise me from the dead: