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writers be like; anyone gonna write this story? and then not wait for an answer. and then not write it either

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fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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happy birthday marble hornets my beloved

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just found out that if i stay in my room all the time my life will eventually shrink to the size of it and i will lose all memory of how to function as a person. shocked & upset

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mind if I come over and behave somewhat like a scared animal before I adjust

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no i didnt get that from a video essay im a little more well read than that thanks. i got it from the abstract for a study i didnt read the rest of

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Its also a part of the racism of it all, but even on its own i think its also ignorance and stupidity that when White people protest against diversity in media, especially for historical settings, it's like people just assume that nobody before like 100 years ago traveled around, immigrated, and/or had kids with other ethnicities. They think everyone just stayed in their "own countries" (& the concept of countries & race within them is very modern & constantly changing but they ignore that too) & continents of origin the whole time & that immigration is something millions of people just randomly decided to do very recently.

But when it comes down to it, what they're actually mad about is that not everything is about them, because these same people will ALSO whine about games or films starring Native American characters set during a time period where there weren't that many White settlers yet set in.... North America, where Native Americans are.... Native to.

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i like when one of those daily posts about how watching challenging adult media for grown ups and adults with good reading comprehension and mature critical thinking is good for your critical comprehension and thinking and reading, understanding even, but if you only watch baby shows like steven hotel and barney your brain will wither your reading comprehension critical thinking will suffer and your body will start to smell worse and if you cant handle the dark, challenging, difficult, complex adult media for grown ups that I like then you're probably a bad person who got bad grades in high school etc. basically a lot of self-aggrandizing about watching incrementally better tv and reading incrementally better books than some other people on the watching books and reading tv shows website, we've all seen this, and then you go to OP's blog and the mature difficult challenging thought provoking, dark, provocative media for adults theyre talking about is House MD

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"the curtains are just blue" is a terrible rejection of intellectualism and curious thought that contributes to people fundamentally misunderstanding the purpose of a piece but i think something even more insidious brews adjacent to that total inability to engage with the premise of art and it's "okay but curtains couldn't even BE blue during this time period. were they stupid?"

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anybody else wish they could just hit a reset button and completely restart their life

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answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.

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the em dash and i are in a torrid toxic love affair

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where is all the art that perfectly appeals specifically to my exact tastes and desires and nobody elses