anyway just because I saw a different permutation of this meme I have to share literally my favourite version of it:
It's just so perfect. The amount of blackout text. The fact it works without additions. The succinctness of the phrase. The palaeontology basis. The way it implies that tetrapods only left the water and evolved in 1562.
*chefs kiss*
The strange and surreal furniture by Korean designer/artist Lila Jang.
everyone make sure to set out cheese & crackers for neil tonight <3
[ID: a screenshot from the website Queering The Map, with a pinpoint in Palestine. The pinpoint reads “i am trans, and i am Palestinian. i will not chose between my country and my queerness and i will not let colonisers erase one half of me so the other can be free. allah's love is for all”]
great question. while a lot of these gofundmes started to fund evacuations, since the border will not open they have shifted to covering the costs of daily survival in gaza
the cost of food alone in gaza right now has been reported by journalists on the ground (including @siraj2024) to be 20 times the normal price.
and it varies based on location. the north is currently being starved by the IOF so food prices are higher
and there is a lot of evidence on tumblr that proves that these fundraisers do help
@ma7moudgaza2 was able to buy a tent for his family and is currently trying to pay for a solar panel
@siraj2024 was able to secure rent for a (bombed out, but still) apartment for his family over the winter
@mohdiwais was able to fund medical care for his sister after she was shot by the IOF using funds he raised on tumblr
a gaza-based charity called care for gaza has also been directly assisting families with funds used from their gofundme. they even post videos of themselves giving out food
and those are just a few examples. hope this helped!
*Takes you by the shoulders* I ADORE character profiles and character trivia and likes and dislikes sections. I love knowing this ruthless, heartless, cruel man of a character has a childish dislike for mandarin oranges. I believe in the inherent beauty of all characters, no matter the background or moral stance, being made fundamentally human by assigning them insignificant culinary preferences. I stand by the supremacy of humanizing villains by giving them relatable tastes and trivial interests and ordinary hobbies. I treasure the hidden reminders that everyone is inherently human even when everything else we know about a character might suggest the contrary.
heart stealer back at work
Moataz Abu Sakran and family (verified by el-shab-hussein, nabulsi, and northgazaupdates, submitted by @moatazart) LESS THAN 3 WEEKS REMAINING
Suad Ahmad, her newborn baby, and family (verified by nabulsi and northgazaupdates)
Ahmad and family (verified by sayruq, submitted by @wlaabkr)
Eman and family (displaced to Egypt from Gaza) (verified by moatazart)
Eman and family (Sudan) (verified by fairuzfan, submitted by @emooz-8)
Alia, her son Yasser, and their family (verified by el-shab-hussein and northgazaupdates, submitted by @aalya1988)
Lina Zeyad and family (verified by nabulsi, submitted by @lina-zeyad)
Mohammed Almanasra and family (verified by sar-soor and 90-ghost et al, submitted by @save-mohammad-family
Ahmed Al-Nabih and family (verified by el-shab-hussein nabulsi et al, submitted by @ahmedalnabeeh11)
Amal Ashour and family (verified by el-shab-hussein nabulsi, submitted by @amalashuor)
Karam and family (verified by gazagfmboost et al, submitted by @karamrafeek)
Iyad and family (verified by 90-ghost, submitted by @eyadeyadsblog)
Fadi, Shahed, and family (verified by el-shab-hussein, submitted by @shahedsharif11)
Ahmed Alanqar and family (verified by sar-soor et al, submitted by @zinaeleenyamin)
Baby Youssef and family (verified by apollos-olives, submitted by @realmadred123 )
Amna Merwan and Family (verified by 90-ghost, submitted by @ismailmerwan)
Intisar and Bashaer Abushammaleh and family (verified by nabulsi, submitted by @bshaeromars-blog
netanyahu is a scumbag and will burn in hell forever, don't get me wrong, but the idea that hamas is the good guys and they would've handed over the civillians they kidnapped and tortured and raped if only israel asked nicely is naive as hell. hamas and the israeli government+military all need to be executed by the hague. hamas are no different to the taliban, and anyone thinking otherwise is proving they haven't been listening to palestinian women or gay palestinians or non-muslim palestinians, because these groups have been speaking for decades about how brutal hamas's reign has been and how they need to be removed for liberation to ever happen. terminally online people pretend to care about palestine for social media pats on the back, but they only care about liberating palestine from israel, not about truly liberating palestinians from the undemocratic violent theocracy they're stuck living under.
On top of there not being any evidence of maltreatment of Israeli hostages, we know Hamas would release the hostages because they have done it numerous times across the years, including in the past eight months, though diplomacy, in case you just joined the conversation on Palestine.
Hamas was democratically elected, whether you like it or not. Hamas are Palestinians, and who makes up Hamas? Victims of Israeli violence. Hamas have treated the hostages in their care with drastically greater humanity than Israel ever treated Palestinian captives, a fact made evident by merely looking at pictures of the smiling freed Israeli hostages vs. the horrific state of anyone coming out of Israeli captivity. Comparing them to the Taliban, the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of terrorists, shows how much understanding you have of Muslim societies.
On top of this, you are sending this to a Palestinian woman whose husband’s family in Gaza has lived there as Christians for generations, and guess who destroyed their oldest church? Not Hamas, but Israel. Guess who bombed and killed a number of them? Not Hamas, but Israel. Guess who caused them everlasting suffering and trauma? Not Hamas, but Israel. And guess who has displaced all of them? Not Hamas, but Israel. I can tell you right now that that they would choose to be ruled by Hamas over the fucking terrorist state that is actively seeking their annihilation.
The infantilisation of Palestinians and painting them as if they need outside help to guide their liberation is disgusting. It's not the job of non Palestinians to determine what liberation looks like for us or to map out our way towards freedom for us.
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