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Palestinians are not "animals."

They are not "children of darkness."

Little kids are rescuing cats and trying to comfort them when they themselves are terrified.

A doctor broke down when his father and brother came into the trauma unit.

And several of his colleagues hugged and gathered to comfort him.

Journalists are playing with babies.

Doctors are refusing to evacuate hospitals because their patients can't and refuse to leave them.

There's a little boy who gives tea to the journalists and thanks them for spreading their stories.

He's displaced at the hospital, his home is gone.

A kid was asked what he wants to be when he grows up and he said kids in Gaza don't grow up.

Kids are writing their names on their arms so they can be identified.

Momin Kireka is a Palestinian journalist who was disabled by an Israeli attack in 2008.

And despite the difficulty in moving around, he vows to continue to show the world the truth.

Awni, a young Palestinian boy has a gaming YouTube channel he loved so much.

He was killed in the bombing.

Mohammed Sami was an artist who's dream was to open an art gallery.

He was playing with the kids to raise their spirits. And the next day he was killed.

They are victims.

They are going through unimaginable horrors and still find it in their hearts to be kind.

They have hopes and dreams just like you and I.

They are people.

And they deserve to be remembered as such.

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[She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron / The Morning Stars (Les Etoiles Du Matin) (1887) by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson]

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[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron / Wandgemälde in der Sagenhalle zu Schreiberhau by Herman Hendrich]

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[Quote by Maya Angelou / The Guiding Light by Andrea Fossati]

alt text: "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

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[The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway / Painting by Beneš Knüpfer]

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[Shakespeare’s Hamlet / Ophelia by John Everett Millais]

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[The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck / Venedi Piazzetta bei Nacht by Ippolito Caffi]

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[The Picture of Gray by Oscar Wilde / Rêverie dans l'atelier by Émile-Louis Foubert]

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[Victor Hugo in a letter to Edouard Thierry (dated 23 September, 1843) / Funérailles de Victor Hugo – la veillée sous l’arc de triomphe (1885) by Georges Jules Victor Clairin]

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One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

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[Wuthering Heights by Emily Brönte / The Other Side (1918) by Dean Cornwell]

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[Frankenstein by Mary Shelley / River Landscape in Moonlight by Aert van der Neer]

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May the last four months of 2023 be the change you’ve been waiting for

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[A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen / Despair by Leon de Smet]

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[Wuthering Heights by Emily Brönte / Dancing Fairies (1866) by August Malmström]

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crying because august is almost over

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[East of Eden by John Steinbeck / Falling Star (1884) by Witold Pruszkowski]

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[East of Eden by John Steinbeck // Cain And Abel by Follower of Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (Italian, 1573-1626)]

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