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New zine that's free for anyone to print and distribute! Read the whole thing at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the rest of this post.

UPDATE 4/11/2023:

I swapped out the colloidal silver nasal spray info for xylitol nasal spray info. I originally included colloidal silver spray because of the linked study and recommendation from RTHM, but I don't want to be pointing people toward something with notable health risks. Xylitol spray (Xlear) is also cheaper and more widely available!

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i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

#this is also a special post

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

#no one is currently fronting so i guess i'll use this as my reblog account but only for Special Posts #and this is definitely a Special Post #i just like this a lot

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(North Star) I'm told tumblr has done something horrible in my absence. Great! It appears Rostrum deleted all of our art on our tumblr, but I have good news for those of you who want to keep following our art.

I set up a RSS feed for our site! So enjoy reading! (It's mostly Wandersong posts ve imported from our @songwings blog, but there's some original writings and art too... it will have more over time...)

#wingmate talks #what is this? about ai? is it always ai. what happened. i do not care to know #new site :) #web dev #it looks soooooo good i am so happy vesta made it and that everyone else added to it

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(rostrum) deleted all our art on this blog.

...it's backed up elsewhere. it exists somewhere else and we will repost it to our personal site. second mirror on comicfury which has way more of our art but we've been wanting to move all our art to our own site for a while now.

i don't trust tumblr with our art anymore. we'll figure out a different place for our art to reside.

#rostrumposts #wingmate talks #...

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its official: tumblr is selling our data to Midjourney

we'd been hearing rumors about this for a bit but now its open and out there. some details from this article

it goes without saying, but if @staff goes through with this its going to be an utter shitshow and im all but certain the website will not survive it.

#GRRRRRRRRRR #might as well delete all our art right now... #we do have it backed up somewhere else thankfully #but fuck this #fuck fuck fuck fuck

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make a cohost account, make a blue skies account, make a pillow fort account, make a artfol account, share your discord, make a back-up account, make another account, make another account, make another account-

#vestaposts #see prev tags #also i will say that this is not an official announcement or that ve are leaving or anything #but this site is not safe for queer or bipoc or disabled people #we all know what happened #and i do not think ve will be staying on such a site for that long #it's good to have a backup plan

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in light of israel's looming invasion on rafah, south africa implored the icj to call for the protection of palestinians with new preliminary orders. the icj denied this request, insisting that its january orders would be sufficient enough in ensuring the safety of people residing in rafah.

we have all seen how israel responded to the icj verdict earlier this month. they have all but intensified their attacks on palestinians, their favorite of whom seem to be children. this will end in a bloodbath. palestinians, already malnourished and living in literal tents, will be bombarded, they will be shot, they will be slaughtered. and when i say palestinians, a lot of them are actual toddlers. the videos coming out of this are proof enough.

at this point, it has been made amply clear that palestinians will never experience safety in their own homeland. a lot of the families in gaza are trying to raise funds to get out of it, because there's nowhere left to go.

there is nowhere left to go. if these people don't get the funds necessary to escape, they will die.

it's vital that you go to operation olive branch's spreadsheet, choose a family that resonates with you, and donate as much as you can to their gofundme. every last dollar counts. one dollar could be the difference between life and death for a family. please don't fall victim to the bystander effect. your contribution counts, however little it may be. and whether you're able to donate or not, spread this to as many people as you can. each second we stay silent is a second an entire family is brutally massacred.

#reblog #palestine

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The disabled community fucking NEEDS to rally for Palestine. Israel is creating millions more of us. They are permanently disabling people, robbing them of their ability, their agency, and giving no support. Disabled Palestinians are dying not just from violence but from neglect due to lack of resources, which is violence itself. We have to support these people, people who haven't even been able to come to terms with the fact that their limbs are missing, they're severely traumatized, they can't move without pain, they've been so focused on just surviving. There cannot be a single Palestinian left without physical and/or mental trauma. And there are absolutely no resources being given to them, they're being actively withheld.

Please give anything you can offer. Money, coping mechanisms, resources, information, emotional support, e-sims, you could probably even donate any disability aids you don't use anymore to refugees in your home country. I know a lot of us are unable to protest right now. Sharing information is also extremely important. There ARE things we can do. Protesting is only one aspect of activism. Sending emails, making phone calls, directly supporting Palestinians in one of the ways I said above.

Just like covid is a mass disabling event, a genocide is a mass disabling event. Please do not forget this and remember, you CAN make a difference.

(BTW this is not one of those "you should care about them because they're like us!" things, everyone should care about Palestinians because they're human beings. The point of this post is to discuss what we as disabled people can do to support people who are suddenly disabled without help. Becoming disabled is not easy even with support and healthcare.)

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even as a latin american who knows what it feels to be ignored by powerful nations it fucking burns a hole in my chest to see how few shits anyone has given about sudan or rwanda or cambodia or laos or bosnia or artsakh or the russifications of native russians like the enets and ket or the 99999 kfghjillion fucking coups the us has wormed its way into latin america. i am begging for this time to be different. never forget about palestine. keep talking about it

#palestine #i visited cambodia before. it was so bad... the sheer scale of the damage.... that country is not okay and might not recover for so long #let's hold our government accountable

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THIS!!!!!!!!!! most of us feel like we aren't doing enough because we can't physically stop a genocide but speaking helps!! pressuring helps!! boycotting helps and protesting helps!! please don't give up on Palestinians not when the entire world has turned their backs on them

here is how YOU can help Palestine

#palestine #reblog

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the fact that Israel can precisely target ONE apartment in an entire residential block in BEIRUT to kill two hamas leaders, proves once again that they CHOSE to carpet-bomb Gaza and murder 31.000 Palestinians to "defend themselves" against Hamas. Israel CHOSE to kill civilians, they CHOSE to bomb every hospital, every school, every refugee camp, every residential block. israel does NOTHING to spare the lives of palestinians, they want to thin out the population of gaza so they'd be able to settle their citizens there.

this is a genocide it's an ethnical cleansing PLEASE WAKE UP don't stop talking about Palestine it is not a trend, people are still dying, Israel has no plan to stop if WE don't force it to, through public pressure and protesting and boycotting. it's the least we can do.

#palestine #reblog

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The UN General Assembly just voted on a ceasefire in Gaza!!!!

AND vetoes do not apply within a General Assembly so the US and UK could NOT shut it down!!!

#palestine #reblog #let's celebrate this!

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a few people are tagging our short films post as "undescribed" and i'm so sorry.......... ve tried and waited for a while but our brain was too kaput and our mind tired of these projects ve worked on for months to describe them........... for what it's worth ve try to describe the plots in a quick description on vimeo! sorry ve couldn't describe the whole films in detail though

#shardposts #wingmate talks #yall are welcome to describe them though if you want and have the energy to do so

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I fear I've been putting too much thought into the genocidal country, and not enough passion into Palestine. It is not enough to hate the oppressor, literally anyone can: it's about loving freedom and loving liberation. It's like when we say you have to love Black people more than you hate the cops, love indigenous people more than you hate America, and love Jewish people more than you hate nazis. The lives of the marginalized are so much more than the lives of the people that hate them, you feel?

#reblog #palestine

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In ASL and SSL, this is the gesture for "Inshallah," which means means "God willing"; it's used to express hope that a specific future event will come to pass.

In a few hours, a temporary ceasefire or "humanitarian pause" is going to start

But what happens after? Does israel get to resume bombing on Monday, business as usual? 4 days is not enough to even begin digging out all the bodies from the rubble.

Inshallah, we will not stop at a ceasefire

Inshallah, we will see complete liberation for Palestine

🇵🇸 Things you can do below 🇵🇸

🍉 SHARE posts from Palestinians, especially journalists on the ground (copy link on IG works just as well as sharing?). They're literally dying for that footage 🙃 let's make sure it counts

🍉 DONATE an E-sim @connectinghumanity_ on IG

🍉 BOYCOTT brands listed by @bdsnationalcommittee on IG

Official boycott targets: AXA, Puma, Carrefour, Siemens, Ahava, HP, Sodastream, any products from Israel

Organic boycott targets: Domino's, McDonald's, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Wix

🍉 PRESSURE your governments & officials to call for a ceasefire and #InvokeGenocideConvention at the ICJ (rootsaction.org)

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it was also important to me to include an Al-Qassam fighter in this, because they're often scapegoated by western media, and also in well-meaning allies who say "but civilians are not Hamas"

most civilians are not Hamas, but they don't denounce them either. Palestinians call them freedom fighters, protectors

Because the resistance is not a bunch of evil, violent outliers; they are as much victims of the occupation as the women, children, and non-combatants are

I will never condemn boys who live along the coast but have never seen the sea.

#not my art #reblog