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Information for anyone who wants to make a donation in support of Ukraine:

Hospitallers - Ukrainian volunteer medical battalion, which provides first aid and evacuates wounded Ukrainian soldiers

Ukrainian charity fund "Come Back Alive"

Ukrainian charity foundation of Serhiy Pritula

United24 - the official platform for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine

Sternenko Foundation (drones for the UAF)

These are the main platforms that most Ukrainians (myself included) regularly use to donate to support our armed forces. Ukraine needs the military aid, because only through victory we can achieve peace. Russia's only goal is to destroy us. If russia is not defeated, there will be no future for Ukraine.

These funds buy vehicles for the evacuation of the wounded, thermal imagers, body armor and everything else our defenders need to survive.

Why you should NOT donate to the Red Cross

Any help, no matter how small, is greatly appreciated. Thank you ❤️

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Tonight russia carried out another terrorist attack on Kyiv, Odesa and other Ukrainian cities, using shahed drones and ballistic missiles. Kyiv alone was attacked with 175 drones and 14 missiles. In total, Ukraine was attacked by more than 440 drones and 32 missiles in one night.

In the video - a shahed drone hits a residential apartment building. (turn on the sound if you want to hear what Ukrainians have been hearing every night for years)

In Kyiv, currently reported 60 injured and 14 killed, but the rescue operation is ongoing.

At the very same time, trump says he refuses to approve additional sanctions on russia, because it costs the US money, and because russia is *this* close to signing a peace deal, obviously.

He and others like him are simply waiting for Ukraine to run out of people and resources for resistance, so they can finally give russia what it wants and continue with business as usual.

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Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

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Juneteenth ❤️

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As AI art gets harder to clock, I feel like we are going to need to have a discussion about attribution and it's probably going to bum some people out.

Because the surest way to avoid platforming, reblogging, or encouraging AI art posting is to know where every image you share originated and that's 1) boring, tedious research and 2) extremely limiting in what you feel you can reblog. But if unattributed images never gets traction, people will start attributing their images.

I've been guilty of this in the past, but for a while now it's been my policy that if I can't verify the origin, I don't share the image. That goes for stuff like screen grabs of headlines too -- more than once I've avoided spreading misinformation by saving a post to research before I reblog, then seeing the post refuted before I've been able to verify it.

And I usually try to attribute photos I take -- case in point, the "woman with shrimp" post gets a lot of attention but not one comment about it being AI, despite it being pretty similar to something you'd get from an AI. That's because I clearly state it's in a museum and link to its catalogue page.

I'm not saying this to scold anyone -- I think yelling at the Internet to cite its sources is very much a losing game -- but because I don't see this discussed much. We're such fertile ground to be fooled by AI art because we've grown accustomed to not questioning the origins of any given image. And of course I also want to encourage both OPs to attribute their images and rebloggers to verify unattributed ones.

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alas poor griddle

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if you want to materially aid palestinians undergoing genocide, please consider donating to the zahrat alhanun mutual aid fund. i personally am in contact with some of the organizers and can attest to the work they do. they're currently low on resources for the palestinian students and families that rely on them. you can learn more about ZAMA here! please share widely!!!!!

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i'm in kyiv for the week for the first time in 4 years.

russia launched 300+ drones at ukraine last night over the course of 5 hours; one of the biggest attacks of the war so far. the explosions were constant, some of them so close that our building was shaking from the impact. i could hear the buzzing of the shaheds overhead; normally, russia sends around 5-7 of these drones to kyiv every night, but last night, it was around 40. by the time the sun came up, the cloud of smoke that hung over kyiv was so dark that you couldn't see the sky.

but being pulled out of bed at 2 am under threat of ballistics and drone attacks has been an average experience for ukrainians for over 3 years now. they're used to it, they say "I'm from sumy/zaporozhzhia/kramatorsk, this is nothing". it doesn't matter if they're tired or they've been bombed out of their homes, they still have to get up and go to work or school or run errands and do all the things that make their country function while russia tries to grind it down by turning their peaceful skies into fire.

don't forget about them. don't forget about what's happening here in ukraine.

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hey so i think i've become more attached to these characters than i expected

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one last TSWWL post before i seriously lock in

process GIF & alternative color combos just in case the red & teal won't mix well... lowkey i think the gold would eat on real paper but let me know what you guys think

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is shaving defiance? is promoting plastic surgery girl's girl behaviour? is makeup self care? are heels empowering? is reading apolitical? is voting feminist? is giving up on your career freeing? is starting a traditional family with 5 kids my own choice? is having rights feminist?

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i wear my heart on my sleeve

i hold my knife in my hand

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I revamped this for Pride month <3

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the original butchfem (dear daniel & hello kitty)

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Claudia sketches

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❣️hi i want to take a couple more sketch commissions, please dm me if you're interested

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some more examples stylistically

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more recent examples of what can also be expected from a coloured sketch

❣️hi i want to take a couple more sketch commissions, please dm me if you're interested

payment with ko-fi

some more examples stylistically