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Click the actual post, it will take you to the tweet itself and the article. And tw only for my palestinian friends, but this is harrowing. And just.. depraved. No words. I really think it is worth reading.

"There is a feeling that senior officials in the army are aware of their failure on October 7, and are busy with the question of how to provide the Israeli public with an image [of victory] that will salvage their reputation.”

To be clear, the framing of the article is shaky, but the details of it is stomach churning. IDF is using AI to generate targets. Every civilian death was intentional.

“These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”

I also want to add something that became clearer to me from philippine politics, as a survivor of Duterte's war on drugs where cops literally shot at me.

The duterte administration called every single leftist voice "terrorists", using that to push out laws making it legal to redtag, leading to arrests and imprisonment, literally murdering activists in broad daylight- it should have made it clear to everyone that the word "terrorist" as a descriptor is just a boogeyman. A tool of the fascist.

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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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Reminder:

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The sumoud convoy is on its way to meet 35,000 other volunteers from around the world to break the siege. People in Europe are on flights to Cairo. Eyes on the road. Don't let this be ignored by our governments. They can stop 12 but they can't stop thousands

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Grave offerings and burying the dead with tools and goods is actually such a deeply human thing to do. It's not really even necessarily about how much you believe in a literal afterlife or them taking the tools with them. It's also just going Wait, I'm Not Done Taking Care Of You, let me make you one more pair of socks so your feet won't be cold when you go wherever it is where I can't follow.

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ok so i wrote a poem. everyone clap

inspired by @two-bees-poetry 's june poetry prompts, #6. the king's head

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I’d just also like to point out that just because a business has Pride merch, doesn’t mean they care. Products take some time to plan and produce, even in fast fashion. It’s probable that stuff available in stores this month have been on the calendar for months, already produced, and it’s not in their interest to toss them. It takes more than Pride merch to actually mean anything.

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my main character is a teenage lesbian

Happy pride month, everybody! In that spirit, here’s a queer poem I wrote when I was sixteen:

Lots of love,

Alex, proud butch lesbian :)

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Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

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I found my old post and lmao, 8 years have passed and things haven't changed at all (even got worse)

No, most artists still don't like it when people do that.

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you guys need to let go of any rigid belief in what being nonbinary is because it can be anything. like someone can look completely average in gender presentation and do literally nothing to set themselves apart from their assigned gender and still be nonbinary.

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WRITEBLR - ASK GAME

NOTEBOOK - How many notebooks do you have, and how many of them are empty, used, or full?

PEN - Do you have good handwriting?

QUILL - What's your most controversial writer opinion?

LAPTOP - What do you use to write?

WORD - What word do you use too many times, but refuse to stop using?

SENTENCE - What are you best at?

PHRASE - Has your family read your writing? If not, why not?

METAPHOR - Do you use the oxford comma? Defend your stance!

SIMILE - How good are you at writing, compared to your favourite author?

IMAGERY - What's the best thing you've ever written?

HERO - How similar are you to your hero? Was the intentional?

VILLAIN - How similar are you to your villain? Was that intentional?

LOVER - Do you love your love interest?

BOOK - What are you going to do with your WIP when it's finished?

NOVEL - What's your favourite book?

NOVELLA - If you had to guess, how many words do you think you've written this year so far?

WRITER - Do you write because you want to or because you need to?

PUBLISH - Is your writing on the same level as published books?

CHAPTER - How long do your chapters/scenes tend to be?

PARAGRAPH - Give your best writing advice!

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🏹 BO & ARO 🗡️

This dynamic duo are the stars of a short full-colour comic I worked on with the writer of the Fantasy High webtoon, which is exclusively available as part of Lifeline Comics' latest LGBTQ+ comic anthology, “Aces & Aros”! The Kickstarter is live until June 27 2025 and is absolutely jam packed with goodies, including digital editions, softcover & hardback print editions, pins, bundles, and a ton of top notch queer stories!

💚🤍🩶🖤 Go show the Kickstarter some love! 🖤🩶🤍💜

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BJ has a very clear understanding of Objectives unfortunately he lacks that level of comprehension when it comes to tactics methods procedures etc. Thus: his Behaviors.

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Late autumn evening moon