#current events mention

[pikmin-applebloom-art]

A textile-inspired tribute to Palestine, Turtle Island, Èire, Alba, and Korea.

Palestine should be free from the IOF.

I used Korean embroidery, Celtic Tartans, Turtle Island beadwork, and kufiya patterns of Palestinian origin as my muses. I limited the palette to colors used in the Palestinian Flag.

I decided to make this while abstaining from drawing characters.

#digital art #free palestine #beadwork #made in csp #embroidery #tartan #kufiya #current events mention #free gaza #stop the genocide

[lacewise]

I was explaining Evangelical Christian poisoning to one of my friends (she doesn’t have a lot of exposure to it because she’s Jewish) and I said, “You’d be surprised how many people think getting martyred is more powerful and more important than good works. It’s the Christianity.”

And I think that’s the full explanation of why one conflict has to be so much worse than every other (because they care about it), why they would throw over their own politics, ethics, and morals to coalition with Truly The Worst People Ever Devised, why there has to be a clearcut Ultimate Bad Guy (they view The Ultimate Bad Guys as a collective) and Ultimate Good Guys (they always view the Ultimate Good Guys as individuals), etc.

Even if they’re wrong, they’re lying, etc, they think they will be vindicated and deified as martyrs after their death. They don’t have to do real research. They don’t have to say true things. They don’t have to check they’re the ones being tricked or supporting violence, they can’t be held to the standard of fact-checking, ever. For any reason. Because they’ll be canonized. Because they’ll be martyrs.

It just… is the Christianity.

There are a lot of very bad things impacting a lot of people right now. There are a lot of violent and powerful people using civilians as pawns, sacrifices, or human shields in desperate power grabs. This is happening all over, to many groups of people. Please check your information sources, your media literacy, your critical thinking skills. Please be gentle with yourselves and don’t overwhelm your mind with violent scenes and imagery. Please rest.

Consider donating to aid organizations, like Standing Together.

Follow people who don’t hide the nuance of situations, and keep at least vaguely aware of concurrent events. And: cannot stress this enough, Take. Breaks.

Not resting and letting your mind process makes everyone much more vulnerable to being tricked. Propaganda works the same as marketing fraud which works the same as other types of scams. The more emotional, the more exhausted, the more desperate for change: the easier it is to spread lies. And once those lies spread, it is extremely difficult to trace them back to their origins.

That’s all I have to say. I should be back to my irregularly scheduled lace programming this weekend (provided my paints cooperate).

#off topic #not fiber arts #current events mention #tw current events #cw current events #current events #politics #cw politics #violence mention #violence mention tw #cw violence #cw violence mention #social media disinformation tactics #disinformation #misinformation #evangelical christianity #cw christianity

[simpletoymaker]

#ooc™ ☆ « social media manager » #current events mention #tbd. #bad vibes cw #negative cw #[ mgrmgrmrgm shakes bar of cage #[ i want to do halloween wondertainment stuff!!! #[ vibes. are not vibing though #[ if people are chill with it might do late halloween stuff but hrmgrm #[ current events. sure happened. #[ if anyone knew i live in seoul i Am safe and well! didnt go home for the weekend so still in incheon in dormitories #[ and for those unaware feel free to dm/ask me ab it do be extra careful when looking it up though #[ bc people seem to have forgot what 'content warning's are #[ but /man/ wondertain.ment is like the Perfect muse for halloween stuff #[ i think he gets to be a bit deranged every halloween as a treat #[ halloween and april fools are the two days the foundation should worry ab <3 #[ also been on and off writing up my interp of isabel to be more solid... bc rotates her... still trying to think ab a face claim #[ kind of tempted to go w/ mary poppins as a joke but hrmgrm hard to find face claims! #[ current wondertainment i literally just stumbled across from googling 'actors who wear a top hat and have a mustache' and got lucky #[ anyway yeah vibes all over the place so wont be active on my blogs - not that. i rly am here anyway djlsfdl- #[ but shakes bastard toymaker like rat #[ maybe an inbox call hallowen themed...

[moved-to-void-kissed]

As someone who is (partially) English, all I have to say about the matter that hasn’t already been said is.. I’m not looking forward to the oversaturation of the news and everything being about this for the next ages.

Things may be delayed today render-wise but I assure you that is not due to any overarching current events. I have done any caring I might have had to pretend to already. It’s just because things have been hectic here with university preparations and also the fact that our dog is currently ill.

Hoping everyone is.. enjoying? the current state of the internet?

#a call from the void #not strictly about selfshipping #logistics #um #current events mention #animal illness tw #ask to tag #I did really well in terms of getting ahead of myself last night only to have since started all over from scratch today #so I’m not any further ahead of myself #and I really should try to be tomorrow because saturday is when I actually go

[prokopetz]

My favourite thing about the latest Twitter meltdown is all the artists reanimating their dead Tumblr accounts today and immediately being greeted with hundreds of notes because even a Tumblr account they literally have not posted to in 3–5 years has more active and engaged followers than the Twitter account that they've been updating daily.

#tumblr #twitter #blogging #social media #current events #death mention

[intersectionalpraxis]

Dozens of women were arrested from their homes and refugee centers, taken to Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza, their hijabs were removed from their heads, blindfolded, and they were searched. Many of them were subjected to sexual harassment, beatings and abuse. [@/mhdksafa on X. 12/28/23.]

I won't forgive ANYONE who calls themselves a feminist -for remaining silent about this genocide -you ARE complicit. During any and all instances of institutionalized and systematic violence, oppression, and abuse being executed by all imperial and colonial forces around the world -for you to say nothing -shame on ALL of you for cherry picking your 'issues.'

#feminist #feminism #social justice #free palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #palestine #free gaza #settler violence #settler colonialism #violence against women #islamphobia #colonial violence #tw islamophobia #end the occupation #end the genocide #ceasefire now #ceasefire #current events #tw sa mention

[sayruq]

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #genocide #not to mention covid-19 is still a thing and winter is here

[catwingsathena]

My sister puts glasses away upside down.

Because our mother does,

Because her mother did,

Because her mother lived through the Dust Bowl.

One day my father sat me down and told me about epigenetics.

How the trauma he went through

As a child in an abusive home

Wrote itself into his DNA

And, in turn, into mine.

How he and his brothers,

In various ways,

Are all sick from it.

How I might be too, someday,

And I’m not sure I’m not.

I hear people say,

When will we get back to normal?

And I think of a woman born in the twenty-first century

Who puts her glasses away differently

Because of what her great-grandmother endured

Ninety years before.

#poetry #current events #covid 19 #abuse mention #trauma mention #family #catwings chatter #i suppose #personal

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Even CNN is reporting the truth more now. But if you are held without being charged, you aren’t a prisoner, you’ve been kidnapped and are a HOSTAGE. And human rights organizations have said that the other 50%, who were charged, were mainly charged with throwing rocks, and that even most of that was made up.

For all the pro israel who came to my posts of Palestinian children celebrating their freedom, calling them terrorists and criminals. Israel is an occupation state, they don't need a reason to arrest you as long as you're Palestinian.

#so done with israelis calling Palestinian children terrorists when they've been arrested since they were younger than 13 & tortured & beaten #for no reason no charge or for throwing a rock at a military tank #not to mention the kids charged for stabbing when there's literally no proof which is why they're not allowed lawyers or trials #israeli soldiers would go as much as planting a knife in the scene which #i think is absolutely unnecessary since they can arrest people without any charge #palestine #gaza #israel #important #current events #free palestine #ethnic cleansing #free gaza #israel apartheid #israel is a terrorist state #israel is an apartheid state #cnn #world news

[stephfandomdumps]

ready the crabs

#queen elizabeth #uk politics #british royal family #queen elizabeth ii #the queen #england #uk #london bridge #operation london bridge #british politics #ukpol #current events #world politics #tw pedophila mention

[stuhde]

i had shared what is happening in sudan on a long facebook post last night, but it virtually received almost little to no engagement or shares from the nearly 600 “friends” i have on the site.

this morning, my great-aunt was shot by the soldiers fighting for power, and God forbid, i lose more of my family members before eid this friday.

please read below to understand what is happening and how you can help my country. i hope the tumblr community can show more kindness than the lack of support and advocacy i’ve seen elsewhere.

يا رب اجعل هذا البلد آمناً 🇸🇩

the lack of awareness and advocacy from the African, Arab, and Muslim diaspora and the human rights community has been painful.

while Western media has done little to no coverage of the ongoing conflict in the capital city of my motherland, Sudan, it appears that the rest of the world also partakes in normalizing crimes and violence against SWANA people.

violence and war hurting the SWANA region are NOT ordinary occurrences — no one, regardless of race, creed, ethnicity, religion, and gender, should experience the unprecedented amount of violence that harms my two living grandmothers, aunts and uncles, and baby cousins who live in Khartoum.

your decision to ignore reading or educating and discussing with others about what is likely to be a civil war is complicity in viewing SWANA people as individuals who regularly experience conflict and are undeserving of help.

the silence is damaging, and it is up to us as privileged members of the diaspora (or individuals living in the Western world committed to human rights) to support the people of my country and their dream for a stable, democratically elected government.

what is happening in Sudan is a fight that started on April 15 between two competing forces for power — the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — neither groups are representative of the needs of our people. The Sudan Army is loyal to the dictator, Omar Al-Bashir, and the RSF is responsible for the genocide in Darfur.

with both power struggles backed by different Arab and Gulf nations, the two parties have been fighting for power for the last few years. While they worked together to try and end the people’s revolution, they lost. however, they are now in a constant power play of who will get to rule the nation.

this all means that war is NOT a reflection of my country — violence does not represent the SWANA people. Sudan is a nation of beautiful culture, strong women, intellectual and influential Islamic scholars, poets, and youth at the front lines of the revolution. we are a people committed to a region of peace for ourselves and the rest of the Ummah.

my family and the rest of Sudan’s innocent civilians are at the most risk, with many currently without drinking water, food to eat, electricity, and complete blockage to any mosques during the final nights of Ramadan, our holiest month of the year.

i ask that you please keep Sudan and our people in your prayers — donate to the Sudan Red Crescent or a mutual aid GoFund Me, email your representatives if you live in a country that can put pressure on either competing force of power, discuss this with your family and friends, and please do not forget to think about SWANA people — our brothers and sisters in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and many others need our love and support.

الردة_مستحيلة ✊🏾

#KeepEyesOnSudan

#lama makes a monologue #tw: war #tw: death #tw: violence #tw: gun mention #KeepEyesOnSudan #keep eyes on sudan #sudan coup #SudanCoup #sudan #sudan crisis #SWANA #MENA #north africa #middle east #current events #news #war #violence #long reads #long post #Sudan_Update #sudan update

[troythecatfish]

#threads #threads app #jk rowling #tw jkr mention #cw jkr #harry potter #fuck jkr #anti jkr #screw jkr #jkr is trash #current events #social justice #human rights #important #i do not support jkr #trans rights #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbtq #trans community #lgbtq community #lgbtqia+

[lacewise]

The amount of YouTubers I’ve seen deciding to deceptively frame situations or arguments and then

The amount of commenters being smug because they didn’t ‘believe’ the original story coming from affected parties or respected outlets (which was much closer to the truth) is absolutely wild.

Don’t base your view of the world on being a reactionary to everything. That’s a sign of immaturity and lack of research skills, not a confirmation that cynicism is a sign of cleverness.

Once again: this is how propaganda works. ‘You can’t believe your eyes. You can’t believe other people. The truth is unknowable and nothing ever happens but what we make up.’ You sound like KGB agents.

What’s worse is I’ve seen people reject primary sources in favor of mainstream outlets when the affected parties were obviously telling the truth (sometimes with video) and those same people rejecting mainstream coverage in favor of primary sources, only because the primary sources run cults of personality.

Influencers need to stop doing this and audiences need to learn information literacy

#off topic #not fiber arts #social media disinformation tactics #disinformation #misinformation #propaganda #current events mention #politics mention

[trifoliate-undergrowth]

....hm. I never interact with the youtube news recommendations or movie recommendations. But they did this today.

#I don't understand The Algorithm that well #are lots of people watchign movies about cops suddenly? was this lineup like a conscious decision or generated #it feels. hm. off #idk #current events mention

[halcyonn-the-ratking]

can the 2020's stop speedrunning historical events pretty pretty please

please

#looking back on it could be interesting #learning it in history would be wild #but living it? #nah #russia #ukraine #wagner group #oceangate #titanic #current events #but shoutout to my fav news anchor: #dean winchester #(actually i havent gotten around to watching spn yet) #its on the list #edit: if fall out boy had released their cover of we didn't start the fire just ONE MONTH later #think of how many more things could have been mentioned

[prokopetz]

"Private submarine carrying several billionaire tourists goes missing while surveying the wreckage of the Titanic."

Well, it had to happen eventually. This is where big-ticket extreme tourism and shooting untrained assholes into space and such was always going to lead – frankly, it's surprising that it took this long for a major incident to crop up.

"One of the missing passengers is the president and CEO of the company that owns and operates the submarine."

Huh. Well, points for putting his money where his mouth is, I guess. I wonder if–

"The missing CEO's name is Stockton Rush."

Oh, bullshit. That's not a real person – that's the name of a guy who builds an inexplicably 1950s-themed underwater theme park and then gets eaten by a shark in a cautionary tale about the perils of libertarianism. That's the name of a guy who carries off an oceanfront real estate scam that somehow ends with Superman fighting a telepathic squid. Fucking "Stockton Rush". Unbelievable.

#current events #titanic submarine #titan submersible #oceangate #tourism #extreme tourism #billionaires #capitalism #nameology #violence mention #death mention #swearing