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hey, y'all. this month has been pretty rough for me financially, with a bunch of unexpected bills i had to pay and even having to deal with taking in another pet and the expenses that ensued. i asked for help with that before and got it, for which i am very grateful as i could not have taken her to the vet without it, but now i'm having to deal with food and medicine expenses that i ended up putting off because of that and that i have no way to handle right now.

so i ask, if you're able to help me out, to please consider donating to my ko-fi account! or if not, just sharing this post would be a huge help. thank you!! 💗💞💗💞

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Statement: Student organizations in the Gaza Strip in solidarity with the Student Intifada in the United States

In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful… We, the students of Gaza, salute the students of Columbia University, Yale University, New York University, Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, and dozens of universities across the United States who are rising up in solidarity with Gaza and to put an end to the Zionist-U.S. genocide against our people in Gaza. As we remain under the bombs of occupation, resisting Nazi genocide, grieving for our martyred colleagues and faculty, and witnessing the destruction of our universities, we welcome the examples of solidarity offered by students facing arrest, police violence, suspension, eviction, and expulsion in order to demand that their universities end their complicity in the Zionist-U.S. genocide and renounce their support for the occupation and the war profiteers that arm it. We have seen hundreds of students arrested across the United States as they work to transform their universities into “Popular Universities for Gaza.” Students, faculty, and staff are disrupting university operations and making clear that while universities in Gaza are being bombed, university business cannot continue as usual in the United States. These actions come as university administrations collaborate with members of Congress to discredit conscientious student activists and faculty, expel students, ban events, shut down student organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine, and condemn activists working to end the Nazi genocide. At the same time, these same universities invest in the same companies that profit from the continued sale of weapons to the Zionist regime to continue its genocidal offensive. Our students – and our educational system as a whole – in occupied Palestine are subjected to ongoing genocidal aggression: our universities destroyed and bombed, our student organizations banned, and our student leaders subjected to torture, assassination and mass imprisonment. However, in Palestine and around the world, the student movement has always been a driving force of our struggle for liberation. When we see videos and images from American universities today, we are reminded of our history of student struggle as well as the student uprisings of 1968, which challenged imperialism from Vietnam to Palestine and reshaped the face of Europe and the United States. Now, in 2024, the student movement is once again leading the way. From here in Gaza, we see you and salute you. Your actions and activism matter, especially in the heart of the empire, in the United States. As members of Congress agree to provide $26 billion in additional weapons to bomb our people and continue the Zionist-U.S. genocide, you are taking meaningful action to shut down the war machine on your campuses. It is clear that a new generation is rising that will no longer accept Zionism, racism and genocide, and that stands with Palestine and our liberation from the river to the sea. Your global student solidarity is breaking boundaries, and it is time to smash the US imperialist war machine. From Gaza to Columbia, to Ann Arbor and Berkeley, our hands are joined to end Nazi genocide and achieve our collective liberation.

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STORE LINK

Still trying to raise money for general medical and QOL stuff.

If you’re interested in a pet painting commission (bottom row examples) let me know! Each one is acrylic on canvas.

I’m also capable of doing custom pendants if there’s a style you’ve seen me do before, but you want it in a different color/it’s sold out. (Wire wraps can be done in copper or sterling silver)

Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/hshinai

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/dnacademic

Cashapp: $hshinai

Venmo: @ hauntedshinai

More details on the paintings below:

10" x 20" (first image, good for focus on just one animal) ~100$

20" x 16" (second image) ~180$

24" x 20" ~200+

I also have other canvases like these 12" hearts and stuff like that, those would also be ~100$

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In case anyone is having a bad night:

Here is the fudgiest brownie in a mug recipe I’ve found

Here are some fun sites

Here is a master post of Adventure Time episodes and comics

Here is a master post of movies including Disney and Studio Ghibli

Here is a master post of other master posts to TV shows and movies

*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*

You’ll be okay, friend <3

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help me move to a safer state

hi everybody! i'm a disabled trans guy living in rural missouri currently while i finish up my bachelors. this spring i graduate and while i'm currently waiting on graduate application decisions, i'm going to be moving either way (either in with my partner in chicago or to minneapolis). because of the situation, i've been unable to find work recently. i've been living off my savings and while i'll be able to pay rent for the next few months, i have no idea if i'll be able to afford moving. i finally have a way out and an end in sight though so i'm not going to give up on getting out of missouri as we move towards increasingly draconian legislation.

tldr: i'm a disabled transmasc living in a rural area unable to get a job due to extenuating circumstances. anything helps while i gear up to move this summer.

my pay//pal is here.

i also do commissions! if you're interested in a commission please reference this post.

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some of my favorite replies to this tweet. happy lesbian visibility week!

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“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”

a hero emerges 

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A word from Bisan to the students of the U.S. in their campus solidarity encampments.

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fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders

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Hey, happy Earth Day! Who wants to talk about climate change?

Yeah, okay, fair, I kinda figured the answer to that would be "ugh do we have to?" What if I told you I have good news though? Good news with caveats, but still good news.

What if I told you that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, we've avoided a whole degree celsius of global warming by 2100, or maybe more?

Current projections are 2.7C, which is way better than the 3-5C (with a median of 3.7C) we were expecting in 2015. It's not where we want to be - 1.5C - but it is big, noticeable progress!

And it's not like we either hit 1.5C and avoid all the big scary consequences or fail to hit 1.5C and get all of them - every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid is going to prevent more severe problems like extreme weather, sea level rise, etc.

This means that climate change mitigation efforts are having a noticeable impact! This means a dramatically better, safer future - and if we keep pushing, we could lower the amount of global warming we end up with even further. This is huge progress, and we need to celebrate it, even though the fight isn't over.

It's working. Keep going.

#every mitigation effort is worthwhile! #as well as every effort we take to adapt #to the things that will happen

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More unpopular Toshiro opinions:

-there’s nothing wrong with having a crush on a girl with an undetermined sexuality

-Toshiro may have been rich but the Toudens grew up pretty comfy as the children of a village chief

-There’s no indication that Toshiro is misogynistic, and he’s certainly not an incel. Learn what words mean.

-I know chimera Falin is sexy but being horrified that your formerly kind and gentle crush has been fused with the thing that killed her and is now being mind controlled and killing everyone in sight is an understandable response

-Relatedly, regardless of the ethics of black magic by itself, “you have doomed your sister and yourself to being jailed or worse by the imperialist nation” is a reasonable concern

-no one is offended that Toshiro proposed to Falin

-Falin and Laios have a lot in common but none of the things that Toshiro criticizes Laios for are true of Falin because they are different people

-Toshiro explicitly likes Falin for her personality

He was hurtful to Laios and you don’t have to like him but at least understand him before you hate him

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When the RSF militia overran West Darfur up to 700,000 African Masalit were able to flee on foot in to Eastern Chad given its proximity. In this clip from June is Chadian border guards urging refugees to run to the border as RSF militiamen were still firing on them, towards the end of the clip one of the border guards says they managed to shoot one. El Fashir is no where near the border, if the city falls there is no where to escape to from the militia. I’ve posted a lot on El Fashir today but this isn’t hyperbole the situation is critical!

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I was gonna make a horny positivity post but I'm kinda sick of tgirls having to use sex to get any respect so uh, idk, love fat tgirls. Their dimples and their cellulite and their soft tummies and arms and thighs and their tits whether big or small and their asses even if they're flat. Idk. That's your sister. That's a person. Buy em dinner, invite them to a movie, tell em you thought about them at the store.

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On related note, a few years ago, the Entomological Society of America officially discontinued the use of "gypsy moth" and "gyspy ant" as common names for Lymantria dispar and Aphaenogaster araneoides. L. Dispar is now known as the "spongy moth," so named for the appearance of their eggs, but I don't think a new common name has caught on for the ant species yet.

These changes we brought about, in large part, by the advocacy of Romani people in academia. You might not think that bug names are a very serious issue, but I believe that language matters. These species became known as "gypsies" because their attributes were likened to certain stereotypes and negative perceptions of actual Roma, so the continued use of those names reaffirmed those negative associations in the public consciousness. Slurs and pejoratives can never be truly decontexualized.

In my mind, one of the biggest obstacles that Romani people face when we are trying to advocate for ourselves is a lack of recognition as a marginalized group that deserves the necessary consideration. Even for seemingly trivial matters, like bugs or comic book characters, the way that people talk about us-- and talk down to us, when we get involved-- is telling. So, I always think that changes like this are a win, because it means that people are willing to learn and grant us the dignity we deserve. And there's nothing wrong with wanting to effect change in your own field, even arts and science.

#amazing!