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I want to die in Gaza. I'm not very interested in my life, but please don't let me see my sisters die in front of me. Please help us evacuate them from Gaza. There isn't much money left to evacuate them. Please donate and share the campaign

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Another thing is that when this aggression started, we were so worried about winter and how displaced people in tents will survive it. Earlier this week the temperature in Gaza hit 38 degrees (100 Fahrenheit) and we are now wondering how will displaced people survive the heat in those tents.

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If southern Lebanon after 2006 is any guide, it will take much longer than that. If it's ever finished at all; Lebanon still isn't. Funders lose interest after the first few years.

Making Gaza safe again from unexploded bombs could take 14 years

“All I can say is that at least 10 per cent of the ammunition that is being fired potentially fails to function… we’re talking about 14 years of work with 100 trucks, so that’s 14 years [...] to remove the debris.”

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NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

In this sonification of Perseus. the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center. (source)

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Mayan carved stone entrance, caves of Xcaret, Riviera Maya, Mexico

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Mumia Abu-Jamal addressing the CUNY Gaza solidarity encampment.

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nothing like finding writing errors that you know you did not put in there (the copy process did) months after publication

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proud of CUNY today (video of faculty putting themselves between students and police)

from organizers with CUNY's Rank and File Action:

You may have heard that yesterday, CUNY students and workers established a Gaza Solidarity Encampment at City College, inspired by the student encampments begun at Columbia, New School, NYU, and other campuses around the globe this week. Activists unveiled their Five Demands for CUNY administration: divest from all Zionist companies, boycott events in collaboration with the Zionist state, stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their supporters, demilitarize CUNY campuses, and fully fund the People’s CUNY. Organizers are drawing from the legacy of student protests at CUNY, specifically the five demands launched by Black and Puerto Rican students at CCNY in 1969.

Hundreds of students and workers have flooded the quad with a joyful and hopeful spirit while fending off repressive threats by cops, public safety, and CUNY administration. If you are in the city, please show up to City College to support the encampment, and stay if possible. Lists of supplies needed are posted on a rolling basis to @cunygse Instagram, and you can also make a donation to support the encampment by [V] (@cuny4p) and [C] ($cuny4p) (please just say “GSE” when you donate).

and as always, here is a list of verified fundraisers for people trying to get to Egypt for safety. the encampments are important, but Gaza and Palestinians are why.

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i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.

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everybody tweets like a social theorist these days, blaming their sad little lives on the commodification of art, decline of third spaces, hyperindividualism, and other such nonsense. I, on the other hand, know what's causing my misery--the demiurge's curse

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US-backed Israhell has been and continues to starve and deprive Palestinian people. Having access to basic necessities like food and water is a HUMAN RIGHT. This is beyond horrific.

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INSANE thing to tweet when it's illegal to protest in three states, abortion is banned in multiple states, refusing to serve queer people is legal nationwide, trans girls + women can't participate in sports, access to gender-confirming care is becoming illegal for kids, and PALESTINE IN GENERAL

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The Columbia University student divestment encampment protest, April 2024

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Another fundraiser I trust!

He has a tumblr, and it seems he's very new to it and doesn't know how to use it properly so he ends up looking like a bot but dw he is legit. I had a long conversation with Mahmoud over DM's just to go over everything. It all checks out. Please consider donating to get his family out of Ghazzah! Additionally, his brother-in-law is special needs and cannot be taken care of in a tent!

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The WPP photograph of the year is from Palestine - a woman clutching a child's wrapped corpse - and I feel some type of way about the fact that the photo is a PERFECT entry in the western european Christian art tradition of the Pietá, (the positions, the colors - woman in deep blue with a goldenrod hijab, child in a white sheet - the proportions, everything) but conveniently in a perfectly clean room, no blood or dirt to be seen, and with no visible faces. Like of course it's this one because Palestinian suffering and personhood can't be legible until you pass it through the filter of 600 years of European art history.

However, I also know that none of this matters, we are well past the era when a striking image could cause political change or affect the course of the genocide, so like, fine. It is a beautiful photograph of mourning nonetheless. The photographer Muhammad Salem is obviously conflicted about getting the award, from his statement, because who wants to be celebrated for the suffering of their people? The photo is full of contradictions because the world that made it possible is. I'm gonna go buy an esim for Gaza.