i try not to let myself get ragebaited by AI but i hate AI fake animal photography. the beautiful animals of the world are there for us to see and you show me air brushed sparkly big eye cyber slop instead? i hate you
archeologists forever finding ancient little statues of fat women & animal people yet we still hating ? its been our favourite shit since we were apes and if u don’t understand this u need to get hit on the fucking head
I like preschool lunch time because it means I get to observe the Preschool Agora. or 3-4 year olds having conversations amongst each other in a large group. such as today they discussed who’s been a baby before (conclusion: “even people we don’t know”) and who the first people were on earth (“let me guess,” said one, “me.”)
Right now we have 7 kitchens running in and around Gaza City, 5 water trucks delivering fresh water every morning, and our health clinic is still seeing patients.
Sadly, our classroom was bombed—but we’ve pivoted to something bigger:
Delivered 4,250 food parcels so far; another 2,550 parcels ready to go; in the middle area, we delivered 600 parcels and opened a new kitchen; we keep showing up for hospitals with meals.
Each food parcel = 40–60 meals. It’s not just about helping one family—it feeds whole networks of relatives, neighbors, and displaced people.
In doing this, we’re also showing the world (and the bad actors watching us) that you can give away a lot of food in Gaza without harming Palestinians. Our signage makes that crystal clear. One moving moment: we’ve been operating from inside an Orthodox and Catholic church. Families shelter there, and they benefit from the food too. Our young team—many who had never met a Christian before—are learning about unity and friendship in real time. Feeding people from a church feels like something Jesus himself would have blessed.
We hear the drones above us, and we know they don’t like what we’re doing. But we’ll keep feeding as long as we’re allowed. Our system works: families sign up on a link, we close it when full, assemble the food, and text pickup times. No chaos, no exploitation—just neighbors helping neighbors. Each distribution serves 500–1,000 people with dignity.
The notes on this one are starting to irk me. To read “Christian” or “Catholic church” and to assume that churches within Palestine!! must perforce be founded and run by people from the West just because they’re churches, or that the Christians in them must be Western, is very ignorant. Some have even leapt over what the post actually says (some of the volunteer team have never met a Christian before) to somehow assume that the volunteers are Western non-Palestinian Christians? The volunteers and the people being served are all Palestinian. There are Christians who are Palestinian (and Armenian-Palestinian, and Greek-Palestinian).
Nor are Palestinian Christians some kind of oppressor class. The social role of Christianity in the Levant is different from whatever you are used to seeing in the Christian-majority West. Christians are a marginalised community within Palestine. From an essay I wrote on the subject:
[…] The Palestinian Authority has stated an intent to try to keep Christians in the West Bank by promoting Christmas festivities. In 2022, a Nativity scene and Christmas tree were publicly displayed in مَيْدَان المَهْد (“maydān al-mahd”; Manger Square) in Bethlehem: the Catholic Church in Bethlehem lights the tree for Advent, beginning four Sundays before Christmas. A Christmas parade, with brightly lit floats carrying Christmas trees, people dressed as angels and Santa Clauses, and Nativity scenes with live actors, took place again for the first time after having been interrupted due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and was broadly attended by Muslims and Christians.
[…] During the first and second اِنْتِفَاضَات (“intifāḍāt”; singular اِنْتِفَاضَة “intifāḍa,” “uprising” or “rebellion”), the tree in Bethlehem was no longer lit due to widespread mourning—Masses continued, but not the public festivities. Instead, private celebrations would take place within the home. Some families began buying artificial Christmas trees rather than real ones, since they were easier to tuck away from windows where they would not be seen from the outside. Even after the lights returned, Israeli military border walls, checkpoints, and curfews hampered Christmas celebrations for many: Christians from Gaza need permits from the Israeli military to take pilgrimages to, or visit family in, Bethlehem and other places in the West Bank, and the majority of those requested are not granted.
So yes, the fact that the volunteer team is coming into contact with a marginalised and isolated community that they had not previously formed any personal relationships with, is a straightforwardly good thing.
You could argue that this isn’t the point when people are starving, but I think that stereotyping and false beliefs about Palestine and its supposed lack of ethnic or religious diversity are actually cornerstones of Zionist thinking. They want you to believe that Israel is destroying a one-dimensional, intolerant, fanatical society, not one in which communities of various religious, ethnic, and national backgrounds have been interwoven for centuries.
when americans scold you about not voting for the democrat candidate but you’re literally not someone who has ever had voting rights in the united states
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As a USAmerican you need to understand that:
One of your big cultural exports is far right propaganda that causes harm to minorities worldwide.
One of your most important exports is death and violence inflicted on innocents in the global south.
This continues to happen because it’s a strategy that mobilizes enough yeehaw dipshits to secure power for some ancient, ridiculously bigoted ghouls.
People worldwide have a right to complain about this.
They will not pokemon go to the polls to back up those complaints, because they don’t get to do that.
The idea that non-police lynchings ever stopped in the US instead of whites just becoming craftier (evil) about it is so weird to me like
Sure they ain’t picnicking at a public hanging anymore but you seen how many more missing posters there’s been the past few years in particular right? How so many Black and Brown children are just fuckin disappearing too and never making anything more than a Facebook missing post?
We just only hear about them when someone cares about them enough to set fire to everything until it gets noticed.
Yes. Mainly by law enforcement or people working with them. We watch us disappear into human trafficking and mass graves and we can do literally nothing about it besides hope one of our loved ones wasnt one of them when we get news they’ve disappeared.
The law doesn’t exist to protect Black people, it exists to kill us.
If (or when) Bitcoin is no longer a thing, ASICs [Application-specific integrated circuits] cannot be put to work to find cures for cancer or calculate future weather conditions on Mars. ASICs can only mine Bitcoin. When they’re burned out, usually after 18 months or so, they’re scrapped. For every 100 ASIC units coming off the factory conveyor belt today, only three will go on to guess the number correctly. Retired ASICs create around 37,000 tonnes of burned-out electronic waste every year; more than the Netherlands produces. For every one transaction entered on the Bitcoin blockchain today, the equivalent of two iPhones worth of e-waste was produced. And most of this burned-out kit is being shipped illegally to its final resting place in South Asia or Africa. The waste machines are often contaminated with so-called forever chemicals such as polyfluoroalkyl substances. Their use as a non-conductive coolant fluid is popular among Bitcoin miners. When improperly disposed of though, cancer rates and thyroid disease rocket. The chemicals’ persistence also causes environmental problems – forever.
Peter Howson, Let Them Eat Crypto: The Blockchain Scam That’s Ruining the World
people have said good things about you behind your back, without your knowledge. people have shared their love for you with others.
Read it again. I love this rarely considered perspective. It can help change your entire mood.
my therapist said actually assuming ppl aren’t mad at you is the better option cause it makes u feel sane (important) AND it means when ppl ARE mad at you they can tell you when they feel ready to and you aren’t in a bad place to hear it after beating yourself up abt it for like weeks or whatever
This. THIIIIIS. Read it again and again if you need to.
You will stay so much saner if you just work from what people tell you and don’t try to play 4D chess with regard to what they “secretly” feel or think. It also gives them the dignity of autonomy from your imagined version of them: they aren’t who they were yesterday; let them author themselves continuously with their choices. Let them co-author their relationship with you, instead of writing contempt into your story of who they are as a form of self-harm.
Even if they DID have an uncharitable thought, maybe don’t assess them on that, or behave in response to it, if they don’t act on it. It’s equally creepy and egotistical as walking around believing people secretly worship you, trust me: negative exceptionalism is still exceptionalism.
Most of the time people aren’t thinking of you at all; life is exhausting, if we’re focused on someone in a negative way it’s probably because they created a problem just then, and part of living in community is learning to solve those rather than let them fester. Drifting thoughts of people when they aren’t around tend to be positive. But they’re also drifting - something else we need to learn to do, as pointed out above, is to snatch at those positive thoughts out of the air and let people know: I see you reflected in the world around me. I appreciate you. I love that you love things.
It used to be automatic, because we used to bump into each other all day going about our tasks and chores. But all the technology that makes it possible to be alone makes it possible to reach out, too. Make that normal.
the way the worst type of nerd talks about it on this website, youd think that capitalism is uniquely accomodating towards disabled people whereas every communist revolution has resulted in the mass execution of wheelchair users
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