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｢Valentina｣ Music Video Making Film

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Cynthia von Bulow of Women of Sodom, photographed by Michael Barkavy 𖤐

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lapin. mathild gros / ma pauvre amie

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“A Palestinian girl sits under a mural of a dove holding an olive branch on the wall of her home in the Shatti refugee camp in Gaza City.”

Photographed by Fayez Nureldine.

20 July 2000.

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“To be loved is to be changed.”

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Most unstable girl you know: I need to go to grad scjool

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Victoria Morton (British, 1971), About Listening, 2021. Oil on canvas, 230 x 220 cm.

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heartbreaking news. between this, tougher crackdown on illegal tv streaming sites (kimcartoon has just permanently gone down), coming after scanlation sites, and the general moral panic around AI having people actually root for wider nets and stricter enforcement of copyright/ip law, i have a feeling the state of art and media online is going to get much much worse.

the precedent this sets for what people are allowed to do with physical print books they own is absolutely horrible, since there is nothing the Internet Archive loaned out that they didn't have a 1:1 legally acquired physical copy of before digitizing.

“This appeal presents the following question: Is it ‘fair use’ for a nonprofit organization to scan copyright-protected print books in their entirety, and distribute those digital copies online, in full, for free, subject to a one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio between its print copies and the digital copies it makes available at any given time, all without authorization from the copyright-holding publishers or authors? Applying the relevant provisions of the Copyright Act as well as binding Supreme Court and Second Circuit precedent, we conclude the answer is no,” the decision states. [...] “This characterization confuses IA’s practices with traditional library lending of print books. IA does not perform the traditional functions of a library; it prepares derivatives of Publishers’ Works and delivers those derivatives to its users in full,” the court held. “Whether it delivers the copies on a one-to-one owned-to-loaned basis or not, IA’s recasting of the Works as digital books is not transformative.”

i hope all of the authors who went to bat for taking books away from the public don't know a moment of peace for the rest of their careers lol. i hope it was worth solidifying the publishing industry's grip on the entire sphere of literature just to get a few extra royalty pennies in your pockets.

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wuhhhh😻😻

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Palestinian tiktoker Medo Halimy was martyred yesterday. He was growing a garden and making "a day in the life" tiktoks while in Gaza. He was just 19 years old and now he's gone, but y'all wanna pretend that people wanting hard stances against genocide is some kind of moral superiority issue and not the fact that people are literally dying.

This is his family's gofundme that's still linked to his tiktok. Please send some help their way so they no longer have to lose more of their family.

https://gofund.me/c22e7fed

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I get it, I really do, but I feel like ppl w decision paralysis related to Gazans are also suffering from a kind of non-malignant egotism

"who do I decide to give it to? everyone needs help! I can't help them all!"

You're not the only person they're asking!!!!!

If you choose one person to help that day, a bunch of other ppl choose others

stopping to overthink your inflated importance as an individual versus one in many is what's giving you paralysis

the more you burden yourself as an incapable hero the less you all act as a group-- which is the exact answer you're looking for

fkn close your eyes, scroll on OOB and donate to whoever you click on first

you're not god, it's not your job to save everyone

JUST DO SOMETHING

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Kinda obsessed with this lil collab graphic I made

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Red Fuji, Ueno 上野

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pat mcgrath porcelain doll makeup by isabellrrose

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Another great campaign to support is Ahmed and his twin brother Abdulraman @ahmedalnabeeh11. Their mother Tahani, who is 62, has chronic health problems that have been worsening in the harsh conditions and heat the family has been enduring since their house was destroyed. Ahmed is asking for help to evacuate himself, Abdulraman, their younger brother Karam, and Tahani. You might have seen some of Ahmed's posts on here, but the campaign is still less than 2/3rds funded, and their situation is growing more desperate.

This campaign is #218 on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi's spreadsheet.

€17,940 / €30,000