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Can people from the United States stop making jokes about “WW3 😜”….there are people in Iran evacuating their neighborhoods, places they grew up, and all YOU are experiencing is watching the news and a few TikToks….

You are not at war, you will most likely never see war, and if your “dark humor” is coming at the expense of others then it is not dark humor, you’re just an asshole.

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"Fuck Me Up" by Ben Eales, feat. Cannonball Statman and Blight!

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Today a very friendly Golden Retriever came up to me and I said "hey buddy :D" and the owner asked "do you know each other?" like his dog had a social life he didn't know about

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Listening to the Cocteau Twins always makes me happy

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fuck you hostile architecture fuck you requiring proof of someone’s address fuck you removing benches fuck you street sweeps fuck you pay-to-unlock bathrooms fuck you anti-encampment laws fuck you parking meters fuck you homeless shelters/hostels that make you pay, that have a cap on the amount of personal belongings you can have, that have rampant unaddressed abuse fuck you anti-homeless laws fuck you police fuck you fuck everything that criminalises being homeless

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Cannonball Statman on antifolk (from a 2024 interview with Kléo Michel-Valentin SPARK)

"...antifolk never really became a genre in that way – it was only ever a kind of terrifying international conspiracy to make all this music and other forms of art in these new and different ways that we thought were fun and cool."

Full interview at cannonballstatman.com/antifolk/

Cannonball Statman trio performing at the former "home of AntiFolk" Sidewalk NYC, in 2014 (photo by Joe Bottari)

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Tasneem also just wrote me that Tala and her family of 6 in besieged Rafah are raising funds for their survival - please support them if you have the means!

Please donate to my friend Tasneem's cousin Fatima if you have the means! Fatima's home in Gaza was destroyed and she needs money to survive.

Tasneem is also continuing to raise funds to evacuate Gaza with her 3 children, and her fundraiser can be found at this link if you're able to support her as well: https://gofundme.com/f/help-tasneem-and-her-family-rebuild-their-home

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I also want to point out that as usual, in spite of everything, Palestinians have continued to make irreplaceable contributions to culture at home & abroad, and to liberation struggles everywhere.

As a cultural worker myself, I've sometimes had to remind other artists that Palestinian artists exist, both in Palestine and all over the world, that they do incredible work and some of them are personal friends of mine. So when you tell me to "shut up about Palestine" for the sake of comforting European racists, you're asking me to participate in the erasure of people I personally care about who've made a positive impact on your culture & my own.

And, I don't owe any comfort to European racists to begin with! They tried to erase my own culture and killed many of my ancestors less than a century ago. They only pretend to care about our culture today as far as it can be horribly contorted to serve the now decades-long campaign of genocidal violence against our Palestinian cousins.

Anyway, one Palestinian musician you might really like is Line On Some Trip! She's continued to write & release some great music in recent years and she's even helped me & some of our other friends with booking some of our DIY tours. This song from her first album is probably still my favorite of hers:

https://lostmusic.bandcamp.com/track/falestini

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reminder that visibly religious people belong at pride. that person wearing a hijab is not a threat to you. that person wearing tzitzit and a kippah is not a threat to you. someone simply wearing an item that is culturally or religiously important to them is not a threat to you. however, your aggression upon seeing a religious person at pride is a threat to them.

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Everyone on tumblr has Conditions. maladies. I log onto tumblr and my mutuals are unwellposting. Conditions I didn't even know existed and sound like dark curses but I will see a post from friend like "died about 60% today, fine now. Made egg on toast #yummytoast". There are so many people in this world with life experiences

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it pisses me off that I'm a good little addict who is legitimately trying my best to be sober (55 days and counting) and to focus on my career as an academic etc etc but the moment I acknowledge the fact that recovery is not always the same as sobriety everyone starts screaming and crying about how unhealthy my lifestyle is. as if they know anything about it. which is why it's so important to me that I align myself with even the most fucked up addict. because none of us are good to a certain kind of person (which is to say most people)

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there is an untapped market for sad, messy, country songs for trans people. imagine how gut wrenching a poly t4t breakup song would be

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These people are so obnoxious, they were always in my city back in the late 2000s or something like that

One night they accosted me on my way home, and asked me if I could take a picture of them like this in front of the Myrtle-Willoughby station.

I wasn't having it. I barked (very loud), wagged my tail aggressively and jumped up and down seven times in quick succession. they freaked tf out & never came back to NYC. Good riddance

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what ELSE is in the teaches of peaches?

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i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

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…destinazione paradiso

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My friend Fadel ( @fadel-dani ) relies on asking strangers for money in order to survive. It is an extremely vulnerable and precarious position for anyone to be in, even in otherwise stable conditions. But he does not have the privilege of living within otherwise stable conditions.

He is a young man with a chronic illness for which he cannot afford the medication.

He survived Israel bombing his family's house, leaving him homeless and severely injured.

Shrapnel is still deep in the tissue of his body, causing chronic pain, because the medical infrastructure in Gaza is decimated and he must travel outside the country to receive surgery as soon as possible.

The availability of food has dropped and the price of food has raised dramatically as the people of Gaza endure a genocidal famine.

During all of this, Fadel has spent his very limited energy building relationships with strangers in the hopes that enough of us can help him to raise the money he needs to get to a hospital for surgery and treatment. He got his campaign vetted by @gazavetters list (#197), @90-ghost, and @a-shade-of-blue to make sure that people would trust him.

He raised nearly 50% of his goal, only for GoFundMe to cruelly delete his fundraiser with no warning or explanation (something this company has done to many Palestinians trying to survive genocide) and he was forced to start over with a new campaign. Despite GoFundMe's deletion of his first campaign automatically returning all donations to the donors, most people who previously donated have not taken the time to send that money back to him.

Today as I write this (May 25, 2025) he has only raised 23% of his goal, just under half of where he had been a month ago when his previous campaign was deleted.

Please, please send some money to Fadel. Every campaign by someone surviving genocide is urgent, everyone is trying to escape to safety and avoid bombing. Fadel has been bombed already and desperately needs medical care for his injuries. He is a generous, compassionate young man, and I have no doubt in my mind that were positions reversed and you were in his place, he would help you to survive. Please offer him the same compassion.