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if any new jersey friends want to disrupt another disgusting and shameless attempt to steal and sell Palestinian land, here you go!
https://twitter.com/Kahlissee/status/1772156728169124272?t=CtukwhXPIdJeaR2RP6bLDg&s=19
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Thank you for sharing this! This is happening in a few days -this upcoming weekend (March 31st, 2024). For folks living in New Jersey, and are able to disrupt, resist, and protest -please do!
Update! (as of March 28th, 2024): They have moved this 'event' to online. We do not have the direct zoom link as of yet, and OP highlights being careful while signing up to prevent doxxing since more information is required to now sign up.
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politijohn · 2 days
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witchywitchy · 1 day
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These murderers are admitting they lied only after the damage has been done and is STILL ongoing, and I am beyond pissed.
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whokilledjared · 2 days
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the sluttiest thing a man can do is be himself. (& takes on social media)
Hi.
I'm lonely.
The moment I got "two weeks off school" in sophomore year, life went to 4x speed & I can't turn it off no matter how hard I try.
Maybe COVID-19 adolescence did numbers on me. Somewhere between the iPhone 5c and ChatGPT, 14-hour screen times have live-streamed to me a steady, homogenous death of culture.
Nothing is cool anymore. Nothing is sacred. Every movement is a trend, and every cult classic a sequel.
The value we place on things being beautiful, on being "cool," and our gatekept appreciation of how hard these things were to find: it's been co-opted, or perhaps stolen. It's been stolen by the new merchant class. "Disruptors" and "innovators" turning our lives into a burgeoning black mirror prequel. Soon, we'll graduate too, and we'll wring every morsel of value in each others' lives dry for cash.
Plain and simple, I think we're being manipulated.
Your dates are an algorithm. Your music is a social signal. And Zuck knows when you sleep.*
God. What the fuck are we doing???
“Individuation is becoming the thing which is not the ego, and that is very strange.” — Carl Jung
Recently, I deleted Instagram. My first impulse was to post a story or something, announcing my departure. But then, I thought that would be lame.
I got rid of my account, too. Kinda. Over 1 year, over 800 followers removed, and what remains of me is a little grey icon, and "JM_0000000010" where my name and face used to be.
yay.
There were many people I wish I could have been friends with, but I wonder, too, why I find myself so drawn to the validation of others. Does social media affect me worse, or do we all just choose to ignore it, languishing in private?
At any rate, this last year has almost felt like re-learning how to be a human being.
Personally, I think one of the biggest markers for maturity is when you become willing to disappoint the people you know in favor of what feels right to you, when you start to unravel the stories you’ve told yourself (or been told) about who you are and what you should be. In short, the sluttiest thing a man can do is be himself.
And sometimes, I think about every college student that has ever lived. My grandmother, my dad, and so on. Just consider for a moment all kids who graduated before 2010:
What was it like for the ones in 1940? To walk around, before a campus had computers? In 2006: To meet someone pretty, but forget their number? In 1999: To cram into dorms, and watch Seinfeld live on-air?
Would I, like my dad in 1988, have braved cold night, brisk wind, & landline phone-call just to knock and see if my friends were too busy to hang?
What stories could I tell if there was even the slightest chance of getting lost on the way home from a party?
Humans are social creatures. We crave our friends like water. To me, the clearest difference between Dasani and Instagram is that one of them comes in a bottle.
Yet despite these distractions and comforts we have in 2024, somehow, we still have engineering students. People who carve out time in their day to sit down, look at paper, and solve differential equations. But then, that's not so hard, is it? It just takes time. Precious, fucking, time.
At Meta, leagues and leagues of these engineers power behavioral scientists, who are competing for the highest salary. Their benchmarks? Your FOMO. Guilt. Anxiety. Obsession. The worse you feel, the more you engage with their content. The more you engage with their content, well, you're starting to get the point.
Try something for me: Open up Instagram, but don't tap anything. What happens? How many little animations? How many tiny nudges prompting you to get lost? Our home-pages are billion-dollar diving boards, hoisting us over engineered catacombs of subconscious quicksand.
My homepage is my FOMO, my envy, and my crushes. The pain and struggle of trying to be someone who I am not. My little existential crises, bundled-up, packaged, and shipped with a like button.
To abandon your social networks entirely, however, requires a safety net of close friends. After all, your friends are online, and you'd be miserable without them.
This is the problem with our monkey brains. Millennia of sociological natural-selection have made us quite great at feeling terrible. We're damn good at making tribal status games to play with, too.
Seeking refuge in quirked up septum piercings and boygenius listeners, my time in counter-cultural, alternative "scenes" between St. Louis and Tampa has shown me that even the weirdest of folks and the most removed can accidentally find themselves reduced to nothing more than high-school popularity contests. Even if I love them. Even if they're amazing people. We're human.
We can't "quit social media" as much as we can't "quit bottled water" Sure, we can, but it's inconvenient. And even without a bottle, we're still drinking water.
So I lost touch with my friends. I got no new updates on their lives. I forced myself into the inconvenience of not having a phone to reach for in fleeting moments of boredom. Suddenly, I was out of the loop. Suddenly, I was bored. And suddenly, nobody missed me. My only friends were the ones I had the time to text. Everyone else ... does not exist.
Weekends have become more valuable than ever. Without the empty social calories of seeing my friends' pictures, I find myself planning hangouts as often as my schedule allows. I have more lunches, more study sessions, and more is done in the company of less.
And I have the time to breathe.
And in this calm, I think I found my answer: it's my misplaced ambition. These fears of anxiety and people I thought I would miss, they seem represent something I want to see more of within myself. Something I want to develop, lean into more deeply, as an individual. And I think that's quite normal; to look out into the world and feel attracted to things we want to see more of. This is, I think, how everyone develops their own definition of beauty — and of coolness. It's largely the intersection of what we find most interesting, and what we want to see more of in the world. Because beauty and coolness, by definition, are rare and hard to find. If they were everywhere, nothing be beautiful, nor would anything be cool.
When we all turn into wrinkles and cataracts, bad backs and heart attacks, for a brief, glorious moment, our lives are going to flash before our eyes. In this moment, you'll see your story. The ultimate progression of you.
How much of that will be skibidi toilet and reaction clips? How much of that will be arguing on the internet? Can you tell me, just how much of your life will you have skipped over to pacify your intentionally-lowered attention span?
That girl whose number you couldn't find Those passing questions over coffee that you couldn't search on Google The boredom of a subway ride
Those are not inconveniences, they're what the older generations refer to as "life."
* (oh, but if you can't sleep, consider this aside: Google knows the angle you walk at, how fast you're walking, and they've got crowdsourced pictures of everywhere around you at all times of the day. fun bedtime thoughts <3)
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troythecatfish · 3 days
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longlivepalestina · 14 hours
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Nothing and I mean nothing, makes me more mad than Israelis who live a super privileged life whilst in that same place another group of people, the indigenous people of that land, suffer immensely because of them and their colonial state and then those same Israelis dare to be like yeah i have this awesome life but "bOth sIdeS aRe aT fAuLt" or "bOth sIdeS sUffEr" (actually miss me with your bothisdes bullhonkey) they are writing that in their stolen homes, they say this sitting cozily not in any danger living their lives normally, they say writing this from their phones, laptops, computers, with internet access and their fridges full with food.
All the while we have palestinians starving to death because of Israhell, palestinians that have no roof over their head and have to live in tents, refugee camps in any weather conditions, palestinians who we gladly will send esims to because there is no other way for them to show the world whats being done to them otherwise and lets not forget palestinians are getting bombed and massacred by the colonial state that is Israel, the very same state and the same group of people that stole their homes and kicked them out of their homes. And then Israelis dare compare themselves to Palestinians.
I literally had a discussion with an idiot yesterday, who literally posted how well she has it and posted pictures of how beautiful life is for her in occupied palestine and then she said "i watch the news and then i get sad uwu🥺 this is all hamas fault, palestinians chose them" (yk act like the victim and blame others for whats happening, typical settler behavior shit) and i just - mottherfucker... how tone deaf do you wanna be? Israelis; yes.
I hate you all honestly. Palestine will survive this, they have been living their since the beginning of times and always managed to survive, you can count on that they will prevail.
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taviamoth · 1 day
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Testimonies from the survivors of the massacres at Al Shifa hospital.
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alwaysbewoke · 2 days
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It still needs approval from the Senate and royal endorsement to become law, but experts are saying that by the end of 2024 Thailand will officially become the first South East Asian country to recognize 'same-sex unions.'
400 of the 415 lawmakers present approved this bill, and will give couples equals rights for marital tax savings, inheriting property to giving medical consent for partners during treatments if someone is unconscious/etc.
This is a historic moment and I'm sure many couples will be registering their marriages soon. This is wonderful news 🇹🇭🌈
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violottie · 1 day
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tw: rape, sexual assault, violence on women & children
"SAVING THE WOMEN OF CONGO!
"Congolese women are paying a terrible price for the conflict in eastern DRC. Those who escape the violence are often forced to find shelter in makeshift tent camps, without proper facilities or security - where they face a high risk of sexual assault." from African Stream, 26/Mar/2024:
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Many have children in their care and seek work outside the camps, including in dangerous cobalt mines. This has also left them vulnerable to militants who abduct and rape.
Children are also subjected to sexual abuse, with stigma and unwanted pregnancies making the trauma even harder to bear.
According to a UNICEF report, the rise in sexual violence in Congo went up by 37% in the first three months of 2023, compared with the year before.
The systematic use of rape as a weapon of war has been labeled a “medical and humanitarian emergency,” as aid groups struggle to provide adequate health and psychological services to affected women and children.
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queerbrownvegan · 2 days
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I have found that I should not have to make people feel comfortable when they are comfortable making people uncomfortable.
-qbv
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fairiedance · 2 days
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I took a vintage ornamentation and turned it into a Palestinian flag for my fundraiser. The design can be found here.
As usual ALL PROCEEDS from my designs are for my Palestinian best friend to help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He has also been supporting his girlfriend staying with him here in America these past few months; she is now heading back home. The immediate area around where she is from has been fairly secure recently. We're really hoping it stays that way. It will be sad to see her go, he has been noticeably less depressed with her here. She has been a great comfort to him.
Here is the above demonstrated on a few products:
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You can find my full shop here. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. I have 158 designs and counting, I'm not going to stop making them until my friends family is safe. Here's a sample of some of my other stuff, displayed here on stickers:
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Thank you to everyone who has helped so far!
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troythecatfish · 1 day
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1st April - global strike for Palestine. Block the roads, block the embassies. Block the weapons. Block the businesses supporting Israel....
No more life as normal, while genocide is happening
If there is to be an end to this horror, it's on us to stop it. Let's do this ✊🇵🇸
freepalestine
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