#tasks incomplete

[dovey28]

trapped on floor in three towels artificial sun so hot face burn ive been in burning bush. surely lesbian hardcore sex movie. cant articulate pen pencil paint brush with paint. stuck on flloor. revised tasks couldnt complete Nirmal. i dont understand this person "your name is boring almost as boring as mine"

and they it is replaced by them no choice to me.

floor for a while time for codeine

[mcls899]

suburbs au marinette wip i’ll probably finish in a century or two (featuring lovestruck chat in the back)

[angelcoupon]

ONE EXAM DOWN

[faggling]

I love taking care of people omggg 😍😍😍

[old-skulls]

sorry babe can’t talk i have to spend the next half hour chopping up fallout new vegas corpses and stuffing them in a dumpster

[darkseldarine]

I wish I'd actually internalized this about ttrpgs when I was younger (especially in regards to d&d) but I think you should never be expected to make your own campaign setting. You're no more Morally Pure or Righteous for making your own setting than just running in one that already exists. If you otherwise like an existing setting but don't vibe with some parts then you can just tweak it and make your own spin. You don't have to build everything from ground up.

Don't be like me and abandon 5 different half-baked settings I didn't have fun making over the course of ~7 years, all of which were never played in. When I could've used all that time I spent to just run in the forgotten realms lmao.

[tiressian]

I beat the stupid ass minigame with the situps/crunches in ff7 rebirth but victory never tasted so hollow

...i wish i could make the moogles explode with my mind

[user-using-this-social]

how I feel after sleeping all afternoon and not completing my tasks

[herewithinthevoid]

8. Repeat Steps 1-7 until The End of Time™

How To Do A Task™:

Think about The Task™

Think vividly about doing The Task™

Eat snacks while thinking about The Task™

Do every task that isn't The Task™

?????

Oh damn, you just didn't do The Task™

Promise yourself that Tomorrow you'll do The Task™ for real, this time you mean it

[bonetrousle]

This time im really gonna do it (complete the video game ffx)

[majormeilani]

demand avoidance+executive dysfunction i hate you

[barrymccaulkinem]

hehehe i finished my erotic fanfiction.

this could be a new fixation starting.. i already have ideas for more ;p

[toki-pona]

I keep seeing people boil the entire war down to "Israelis are bad, Palestinians are good," but it's never that simple. So it's good that there are some posts like this asking "where's your sympathy for the Israeli hostages?" It's true: taking hostages is a war crime and innocent civilians do not deserve to be taken prisoner/tortured/raped/killed, and it's wrong to say that this is any form of justice. I've seen some people celebrating Hamas attacking civilians and taking hostages, and it's bad that that's being condoned instead of condemned. Hamas is committing war crimes.

And so is Israel. Of the posts I've seen that (rightfully!) demand sympathy and attention for Hamas' Israeli prisoners, none have talked about all the prisoners Israel has been taking. To show a fuller picture of captives on each side of the war (and, honestly, to develop a better understanding for myself through researching this, since there's so goddamn much misinformation and so many baseless claims going around), here's a comparison.

Hamas is holding 92 Israeli captives. Israel is holding at least 9,100 Palestinian captives. Let's dig into some sources, some in support of each side. Bold and colours in the quotes are my own.

"The [Israeli] army said that 40 of the 132 hostages that Hamas is holding in Gaza had been killed." [source, 2024-05-16] That means Hamas is currently holding 92 hostages. (We're talking about live hostages here, since that's what the original post was about. Deaths of course should not be ignored; here is a page with filterable stats on deaths and injuries on each side.)

"While some Palestinians have been released, 9,100 [Palestinians] remain captive. That’s a sharp uptick from the 5,200 that were in Israeli prisons before October 7. These figures do not include the thousands of adults and children the Israeli army has reportedly detained, tortured and interrogated in makeshift prisons across Gaza, outside any legal or civilian oversight." [source, 2024-03-22] 92 vs 9,100, and that second figure is a lowball.

But hang on... before October 7? Now why would Israel have over 5,000 Palestinian captives before the attack they're claiming to be retaliating against? Well, it turns out they've been at that for quite some time: "Israel arrested some 800,000 Palestinians since the June 1967 War. [...] Israel arrested 7,000 Palestinian children [from 2002-2012]. The [Palestinian Prime Minister's] office said that the children were held in Israeli jails in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

"The statement added that the prisoners were exposed to various types of interrogation. It added that 80 percent of them were tortured. 'The Israeli Supreme Court allowed the use torture during interrogation in violation of the international laws and related treaties,' the statement said." [source, 2012-12-12]

Now I know what you're yelling at me through your screen: I'm comparing prisoners to hostages. Those aren't the same thing; hostages don't deserve to be hostages but prisoners do deserve to be prisoners. And it's true that Israel claims that these prisoners are criminals and that they deserve to be imprisoned. But even if they were all vicious baby-murderers and their imprisonment were entirely justified (even those 7,000 children across just one decade), there is no excuse for what they are being subject to.

"An internal UN report describes widespread abuse of Palestinian detainees in Israeli detention centres, including beatings, dog attacks, the prolonged use of stress positions and sexual assault." [source, 2024-03-05] There isn't a crime you can commit that makes you deserving of beating and rape. And yet recall that figure from before about 80% of Israel's Palestinian prisoners being tortured.

Now back to the civilian hostages Hamas is holding. They should of course be released. And in fact they could have been released back in October (plus an end to the war!) had Israel agreed to Hamas' proposal:

"...Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but [Israel's] government rejected the offer. [...] There is no doubt that Netanyahu is preventing a deal. Netanyahu knows that if he goes to elections at this time he won’t be able to form a new government, and he is motivated by cold political considerations." [source, 2024-04-26]

I'm not going to pretend that Hamas are angels, but they literally made the offer of "we'll give you these hostages back if you promise to not invade Gaza." Hostages returned, plus no Gaza invasion. I cannot think of a proposal that is more aimed toward an immediate end to hostage-holding and war. But guess what Israel decided to do. I'm trying to see both sides here, so if anyone has any info I haven't seen on why Israel refused this, please let me know. The only conclusion I'm seeing is that Netanyahu doesn't care about hostages and doesn't care about a ceasefire or peace.

Of course we should remember that those 92 human beings don't deserve what Hamas is doing to them. But that does not mean we should turn a blind eye to the 9,100+ human beings who don't deserve what Israel is doing to them. Both are wrong, and we need to keep the crimes of both sides in our minds and mouths, not just the crimes of the side we don't like.

justhallel

🎗️🎗️

[cyber-crustacean]

Shrimp so eeeeepy look at their cute little faceeee the way their antenna twitchy twitch, you wouldn't kill such a cute little face would you big guyyyy

[dinosaur-ears]

An incomplete list of reasons why crafting helps my mental health (and might help yours, too):

It stops me from doom scrolling: can't go on social media if my hands are full of yarn.

It gives me a sense of agency: a lot of things are messed up in a way that's beyond my control, but I can make something that didn't used to exist. It's evidence that I'm alive and I can impact the world, even if the impact is small.

It builds my tolerance for mistakes: I grew up a perfectionist , which is really bad for my wellness and my ability to complete tasks. But crafts are a great source of low-stakes mistakes to help me learn how to handle imperfection. And while there are certainly mistakes I'll always fix, I also have many opportunities to decide a mistake is acceptable and leave it in favor of getting to the finish line.

It interrupts rumination: even if I'm still chewing on some troubling news, it's not front of mind if I need to focus on getting this seam straight or whatever

It helps me meet good people: although there are obvious exceptions, I've found most craft-centered spaces (IRL and online) to be full or supportive, kind, helpful people in all walks of life

It encourages a growth mindset: I'm always learning new things in crafting, and that builds my identity as someone who can grow and improve.

And finally, making your own clothes is empowering: I know this is specific to fiber crafts, but it's important. When you make your own clothes, you flip the notion that you're supposed to "fit into" a certain size and instead remember that clothes are supposed to fit you. You get to learn how to dress the body you have with love and care, instead of allowing manufacturers decide how clothes should look.