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I AM DOING A HUNGER STRIKE FOR GAZA

It has been almost 200 days of genocide in Gaza, and during this time Palestinians have been in the worst stage of starvation and famine. Children have begun dying from starvation and malnutrition, and more and more photos of Palestinian children are coming out where the child is nothing more than skin and bones.

Personally, I know I take the food I eat for granted every single day. I am no more deserving of a meal than the children of Gaza, so for that reason me and a few of my friends will be doing a minimum of FIVE day hunger strike in solidarity with my brothers and sisters in Palestine.

We will be starting on 1 May, as to hunger strike safely there is preparation needed. I making this post now in case anyone wants to join me and will want to prepare. I am not doing a dry hunger strike, I will be having fluids and I also don’t believe I will be able to hunger strike safely for more than 15 days for health reasons.

“Sponsor me” on my hunger strike!

If you send me proof of a $50 USD donation to Anera (the equivalent of feeding 180 Palestinians), I will add ONE day to my hunger strike (a maximum of 15 days)

Join me on my hunger strike!

If you think this is something you would be able to participate in, I encourage you to participate in any capacity that you can- as long as you’re doing it SAFELY

Here is a resource I have been following to prepare ***YOU CAN’T JUST START A HUNGER STRIKE BY CUTTING OUT FOOD COMPLETELY AND NOT PREPARING***

If you want to participate, please do your research and do it safely. I am doing this for the Gazan children who don’t have a choice right now, and I know in my heart I owe it to them. There is so much we consider a basic right and take for granted that people in Gaza don’t have access to. This hunger strike is solely in solidarity/raise money for Anera, there is no specific end result.

More information on hunger strikes (and why they needed to be prepared for if you’re choosing to do one)

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It’s hard to feel bad for people like this when they spend a good chunk of their time defending people like Taika Waititi, who has made multiple antiblack tweets in the past and shown his support for Israel by signing the letter congratulating Joe Biden for how he was “handling the conflict”.

This is gonna be a long post, just a heads up ❤️

You know what also isn’t cool or sexy? Denying the fact your favorite antiblack show runner is a Zionist just so you can continue watching a TV show without feeling guilty. https://deadline.com/2023/10/hollywood-thanks-joe-biden-israel-hostages-letter-1235581070/amp/

Posts like this are also enraging and give people an out to be completely apathetic towards things that don’t have a direct impact on their lives. No one, no Palestinian, no Arab, no Middle Easterner, no activist, absolutely no one is saying you have to watch graphic videos of child murder or violence; and what exactly is so hard about reblogging a post or two that contains information, or resources, or a gofundme so a family can find safety? What is so hard about that? You’re not babies that need to be coddled and told it’s okay that you don’t care about others, because it’s absolutely not okay, and anyone with this mentality should be ashamed of themselves. Apathy and choosing to ignore the violence in front of you isn’t “prioritizing your mental health”, it’s giving yourself an excuse to not care about things that don’t affect you. Making up a brown person to be mad at is, in jaskierx’s words, “neither cool nor sexy”.

This is also what they had to say in response to Ibtisam, my friend and a Palestinian blogger, who announced she was going on a hunger strike in solidarity with the people who’re currently being starved in Gaza. A lot of me me me going on with this post, not to mention the fact that they completely gloss over how not once did Ibtisam say that anyone was obligated to join in the strike, or how she linked resources so people who did want to participate could do it safely. This is blatant racism and an attack on a Palestinian blogger (not to mention the fact Ibtisam was very vocal about her displeasure over the fact people were throwing money at a billboard while simultaneously claiming there was nothing they could do to help Palestinians).

Jaskierx is a complete piece of shit who dosent deserve as large of a platform as they have, but I’m done talking about them for now.

Please share this post https://www.tumblr.com/ibtisams/747830056732213248/i-am-doing-a-hunger-strike-for-gaza-it-has-been and help @ibtisams with spreading awareness about her and other bloggers hunger strike. There’s donations, goals to be achieved, and information on how to SAFELY to a hunger strike if you so wish. 🇵🇸❤️

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Las serpientes son pajitas grandes

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Las serpientes son pajitas grandes

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Mr Chocolate Guy really is out there doing Things huh

Also, rendition of how to enjoy this piece:

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You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

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Bind

Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

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