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life tip: sometimes there's a bird outside & you can look at it

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Love and care about most in the world. The big question.

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hello september. i’m greeted by your moss covered hands and dew on the windowsill. things are changing once again. this time, i let them.

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Victor Vasarely TER UR NB 1966/1976

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Quick message to my followers in Western Europe. I guess I should prepare to die along with my entire family for the sake of your comfort, but who am I, we Ukrainians are not human enough anyway, are we?

All for the sake of your elected governments to keep sucking all of Putin's extremities.

Every time you see photos of destroyed Ukrainian cities, of massacred Ukrainians, please remember: you are financing this. You are paying Putin to do this. You are encouraging him to keep doing this.

But who am I talking to. Your comfort is obviously more important than my life.

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SORORITÉ VINTAGE - Click to enlarge! if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways  

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poster girl fw22

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Marchesa | Spring/Summer 2016

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Linda Friesen “Twilight” collection

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MUGLER Couture Fall/Winter 1995 if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways  

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I think part of the problem is that the west, including the leftists, can only envision political and historical complexity, whether as conspiracy theories or deep state etc as a Western thing. I believe that partly it's because of ignorance and prejudice if not racism.

To them Eastern Europe is one dimensional. They can't fathom transcribing a level of complexity of thought, will, political discourse, etc. to us that they do to their own governments or states. They constantly try to understand us within a constrained, easy to digest, simple point of reference.

They think it's different from how conservatives diminish and marginalize because they think they're well read or educated, which blinds them to their own bias and prejudice.

Even with Russia, where it should be easy to see the breadth of experiences, political manipulation, cultural contradictions, historical conflicts, even psychosocial nuances, they can't quite get there.

This need to reduce us to simple, digestible cookie cutter versions of other situations and conflicts they think they know means running with any one issue they can easily process and having it reflect the entirety of our experience as far as they're concerned.

If there's a neo-nazi group in Ukraine, then all Ukranians are neo-nazis.

If Ukranians pass language laws, then it must be because they're racist.

The situation in Ukraine is just like Iraq/Afghanistan/Vietnam etc because US was involved there and is involved here so therefore it's the same.

US is giving weapons to urkaine, it's going to be just like the Taliban.

Again, they are resistant to admitting their own ignorance and confusion.

Obviously they're not unique in this. We all do this to faraway people and places. The difference though is that they sit in a position of power. decisions their leaders make can end lives across the ocean or help save them.

They have more impact on those places they've reduced to popcorn movies than we will ever have on them.

And I really don't think they understand this fundamental thing about themselves. That no matter how much they may rail against western liberal ideology or whatever they are shaped by it anyway. That includes how they see the rest of the world.

I could be wrong of course, but that's the sense I get whenever I encounter a reductionist view of the war in Ukranian. Whether that's it's all a CIA conspiracy or NATO conspiracy or Russia is attacking nazis. It all boils down to "I don't know much about this country and culture and it's complex history but I've seen something similar once with another simple people nation so I definitely know what's going on"

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Friendly reminder that if you call Eastern Europeans ‘snowflakes’ for not laughing at your war memes, you’re not quirky, you’re just a fucking asshole.

And you don’t get to tell us to ‘take a joke’ about a war that is happening few km from our borders (for non Ukrainians balkans).

If the war is not affecting you, your families, your friends or your other close ones, stop the ‘but this is my coping mechanism 🥺’ bullshit.

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robert pattinson's neil living in my mind rent-free

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tw// explosion

Hello, hope all of you are safe and doing well.

You may have heard of what happened in Lebanon today and if not, basically, there was a big explosion in Beirut that affected many cities, destroyed shops, homes, cars, caused many injuries and deaths. The cause is uncertain.

As a fellow lebanese myself (that also lives there), today was absolutely terrifying, probably the scariest moments of my life. We heard a deafening sound as the floors were shaking. Some of us thought it was an attack, others thought it was an earthquake. As soon as it ended many expected a second one, which luckily never happened.

Here's a video of what happened that was sent to me, there are also many others that you can find online.

Windows were broken, doors wrecked, cars flipped over, buildings collapsed, people hit by flying or falling objects, and unfortunately, many didn't make it out alive.

We were one of the lucky ones, our families and friends were all safe and our homes were fine.

Some people couldn't even get out of the crumbling builings, so we saw corpses being pulled out, although some people survived the crash. But wherever we looked, there was blood, poeple were half covered in it, their shirts, pants, hair, everything. And that sight was traumatizing.

We watched the news with elders severely injured, children with blood-spattered shirts and people in pain that couldn't get in the hospitals because they were full.

Some people are missing. Just try to imagine the pain and fear their families and friends are feeling.

Articles about what happened, there are a lot more

Not only are we in the middle of a pandemic, but Lebanon is also going through a very serious economical crisis. To give you an example, before, $1 equaled 1 500 lebanese pounds. Nowadays, $1 equals more than 7 000 lebanese pounds. Not to mention that we obviously don't have any dollars at disposition, so yeah we're fucked.

People are hungry, homeless, unemployed. And even if they are getting paid, it'll be useless since the prices of everything went up because they were affected by the economical fiasco.

Important additional information

Today, I heard my 7 year old cousins scream in fear that they were going to die. I saw my aunt shaking, worried that her children won't survive. I saw my dad freak out while trying to reassure us when we both knew that we were uncertain about the next minutes of our lives. I heard the panic in the trembling voices of my family and friends as they couldn't believe what had just happened. I thought my loved ones and I were going to die in the next seconds.

I'm never forgetting those moments and feelings.

I don't think signing petitions will help, i don't even know if the following links will help either, I just know Lebanon and it's people are desperate for anything because the future of this country is extremely uncertain.

https://helplebanonnow.carrd.co/

https://lebanoncrisis.carrd.co/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/lebanonneedsorg?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link

https://helplebanon.carrd.co/

http://redcross.org.lb/SubPage.aspx?pageid=1370&PID=158

http://www.caritas.org.lb/get_involved/donate

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lebanon-relief?utm_term=PYp7gXzyD

I think donating to the red cross would be the most helpful, so if you are considering it, it'd be great.

There are so many great threads on twitter about what you can do to help, just search help lebanon or something to find them. Also if you can, please donate, and as I said, the lebanese pound is pretty much worthless currently so USD is way more useful to us.