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“Dogs don’t know what they look like. Dogs don’t even know what size they are. No doubt it’s our fault, for breeding them into such weird shapes and sizes. My brother’s dachshund, standing tall at eight inches, would attack a Great Dane in the full conviction that she could tear it apart. When a little dog is assaulting its ankles the big dog often stands there looking confused — “Should I eat it? Will it eat me? I am bigger than it, aren’t I?” But then the Great Dane will come and try to sit in your lap and mash you flat, under the impression that it is a Peke-a-poo… Cats know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. That is why their tail is there. It is a cat’s way of maintaining a relationship. Housecats know that they are small, and that it matters. When a cat meets a threatening dog and can’t make either a horizontal or a vertical escape, it’ll suddenly triple its size, inflating itself into a sort of weird fur blowfish, and it may work, because the dog gets confused again — “I thought that was a cat. Aren’t I bigger than cats? Will it eat me?” … A lot of us humans are like dogs: we really don’t know what size we are, how we’re shaped, what we look like. The most extreme example of this ignorance must be the people who design the seats on airplanes. At the other extreme, the people who have the most accurate, vivid sense of their own appearance may be dancers. What dancers look like is, after all, what they do.”

— Ursula Le Guin, in The Wave in the Mind (via fortooate)

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Mohammed Abu Alwan is trying to keep himself and his children alive through famine in Gaza. Young Ghina and twins Saba and Qusay need formula, supplements, and flour, all of which costs about $200 per day.

You can help via GoFundMe

or via:

Venmo: gothhabiba Paypal: paypal.me/Najia Cashapp: $NajiaK

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

$0 / $200 (for Thu, Aug 7)

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letterboxd film writing: one-liner review that isn't funny and only engages with superficial elements of the literal plot

wikipedia film writing: five-paragraph summary written by someone who did not understand superficial elements of the literal plot

professional film writing: a press release that the studio approved

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Infant needs food, medicine, and shelter—please help

I'll be quick. I'm writing this on behalf of Ammar, the infant child of our friend Samah, who lives trapped in Gaza, suffering bombardment and starvation at the hands of the Israeli army. I and my friend @murderbot have been in touch with her over the course of the past few months as she desperately tries to save Ammar's life.

With a few generous donations and by draining most of our savings, we've managed to come up with the money to get him enough medicine to keep him alive so far, but we are out of resources and need your help. Without that help, Ammar is likely to die.

Ammar needs three things urgently:

US$635 for a small amount of milk and diapers—he has not eaten in two days;

US$1025 for one of his weekly medical injections to treat his heart—if not delivered on time, he will need even more expensive medicine to stay alive;

US$2429 to pay off the debt on the tent he is living in with his mother—without this, the tent will be repossessed and he will be left out in the open to die.

All of these are urgent. The food is necessary ASAP, and the injection must be delivered by Tuesday morning (USA time). The tent will be repossessed if we can't pay for it by the 2nd of August.

If you can spare anything at all for any of these, please use one of the links below to donate. Proof that the money goes to Samah is here: (link).

For milk and diapers: https://ko-fi.com/acquisitioninitialization

For medicine: https://ko-fi.com/starryeyedgiant

For the tent payment: https://ko-fi.com/systemprotocol

If you can spare anything, you have our gratitude. If not, please please share this.

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Anjana Vasan for Radio Times (ph: Rachel Louise Brown)

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Angel / Massive Attack

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Before, Now & Then (2022) dir. Kamila Andini

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Vilmos Huszár - Vincent, 1915, oil on Eternit (fibrated concrete) in the artist's frame, 82.1 x 61.2 cm

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Hiya! Here's your Daily Reminder to Click for Palestine! 🕊️

Click for the other causes as well if you can!

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En ole vielä kertaakaan pystynyt lukemaan Tuusulanjärven kalakeittoa hajoamatta.

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Mohammed Abu Alwan is trying to keep himself and his children alive through famine in Gaza. Young Ghina and twins Saba and Qusay need formula, supplements, and flour, all of which costs about $200 per day.

You can help via GoFundMe

or via:

Venmo: gothhabiba Paypal: paypal.me/Najia Cashapp: $NajiaK

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

$0 / $200 (for Wed, Aug 6)

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Hannah Flowers (Australian, b. Tasmania, Australia, based Scotland) - The Toad of Death, Paintings: Oil on Linen Panel

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violence and death and dying and blood and guts and gore and violence and viscera and fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you

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Joining the war on queerbait on the side of queerbait bc after a time you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical but is often true

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The anti-trans hysteria du jour on perfidious Albion is that a retail employee who was trans asked a mother and child shopping at her store if they needed any help

That’s it

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can we send up a quick thank you to pdf uploaders, torrent seeders, copy sharers, scanlators, fansubbers, digitizers, paywall dodgers, and various other internet archivers for making niche art and information more accessible in a media landscape where all but the most profitable mainstream are often tossed aside and left to rot

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Infant needs food, medicine, and shelter—please help

I'll be quick. I'm writing this on behalf of Ammar, the infant child of our friend Samah, who lives trapped in Gaza, suffering bombardment and starvation at the hands of the Israeli army. I and my friend @murderbot have been in touch with her over the course of the past few months as she desperately tries to save Ammar's life.

With a few generous donations and by draining most of our savings, we've managed to come up with the money to get him enough medicine to keep him alive so far, but we are out of resources and need your help. Without that help, Ammar is likely to die.

Ammar needs three things urgently:

US$635 for a small amount of milk and diapers—he has not eaten in two days;

US$1025 for one of his weekly medical injections to treat his heart—if not delivered on time, he will need even more expensive medicine to stay alive;

US$2429 to pay off the debt on the tent he is living in with his mother—without this, the tent will be repossessed and he will be left out in the open to die.

All of these are urgent. The food is necessary ASAP, and the injection must be delivered by Tuesday morning (USA time). The tent will be repossessed if we can't pay for it by the 2nd of August.

If you can spare anything at all for any of these, please use one of the links below to donate. Proof that the money goes to Samah is here: (link).

For milk and diapers: https://ko-fi.com/acquisitioninitialization

For medicine: https://ko-fi.com/starryeyedgiant

For the tent payment: https://ko-fi.com/systemprotocol

If you can spare anything, you have our gratitude. If not, please please share this.