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My friend blocked me because I wouldn’t stop sending him this picture

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psst... they don't like it because it is a label they didn't choose for themselves.

They don't like feeling "queer"ed.

as an entire queer trans allosexual i think it's weird when other allosexuals don't like the term allosexual for themselves. it just means not asexual. smacks of cis people who scream and howl and pee their pants about being called cis

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Concept: Depressing dystopian factory where everything is gray and samey and the workers are called by their employee numbers by an ominous deep voice.

But it's a really great place to work with high salaries, excellent benefits, and a flexible working schedule with plenty of paid leave. They just like the dystopian aesthetic.

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Thank you for explaining it, @neilgaiman.

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Just so you know, the US government (as well as several US states) actually put legislation on the books to try to ban boycotts of Israeli products, because it was seen as the work of a foreign adversary to damage Israel's standing on the world stage.

The adversary? The Palestinian nonprofit organization Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, which is formed on the model of the anti-apartheid movement from South Africa. To quote Wikipedia on Israel's horrifically successful propaganda and international lobbying campaign against this movement (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions):

<blockquote>Some critics accuse the BDS movement of antisemitism,[15][16][17] a charge the movement denies, calling it an attempt to conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism. The Israel lobby in the United States has made opposing BDS one of its top priorities.[18] Since 2015, the Israeli government has spent millions of dollars to promote the view that BDS is antisemitic and have it legally banned in foreign countries.[19] Multiple countries and the majority of U.S. states have passed anti-BDS laws.</blockquote>

I refuse to let the US government and its member state governments tell me I can't choose to avoid a product based on its country of origin. Fortunately, since spending money (or not) is a method of political speech under the otherwise damaging Citizen's United ruling, it seems extremely difficult to prosecute anyone under those laws... but I am not a lawyer, and I'm not advising you to violate laws you may be subject to.

I haven't had much about Palestine show up on my dash lately. But I am still doing what little I can to reduce the net exports of thenation which has been found guilty of apartheid against Palestinians, and I encourage you to evaluate the legal climate where you live and, if you can do so, to avoid products from the perpetrating nation of that apartheid, unless the product is verifiably Palestinian-origin with the chain of provenance not going through any non-Palestinian Israeli hands.

The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know

Five free eBooks on the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Pluto Books Free Palestine Reading List 30-50% off

LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources

(includes some of the reading material recced below)

The Cambridge UCU and Pal Society Resources List

List of Academic and Literary Books Compiled by Dr. Kiran Grewal

Academic Books (many available in Goldsmiths library)

Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury

Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge

(2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications

(2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press

(2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books

(2017) The Biggest Prison on earth: A history of the Occupied territories, OneWorld Publications

(2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press

Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, MacMillan

Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books

Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.

Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press

Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press

(2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

(2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press

Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World (CURRENTLY FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON VERSO)

Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for some: law and the question of Palestine, Stanford University Press

Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press

Joseph Massad (2006) The persistence of the Palestinian question: essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House

Memoirs, Novels & Poetry:

Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)

Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine

Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: forays into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books

Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books

Fatma Kassem (2011) Palestinian Women: Narratives, histories and gendered memory, Bloombsbury

Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury

Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury

Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books

The Works of Mahmoud Darwish

Human Rights Reports & Documents

Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’

UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022

UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022

Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022

Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021

Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)

Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004

Films

Lemon Tree (2008)

Where Should The Birds Fly (2013)

Naila and the Uprising (2017)

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Omar (2013)

Paradise Now (2005)

5 Broken Cameras (2011)

The Gatekeepers (2012)

Foxtrot (2017)

Gaza Mon Amour (2020)

The Viewing Booth (2020)

Innocence (2022) - Innocence (2022) | IDFA Archive

The Village Under the Forest (2013)

Palestine Film Institute's films on Gaza

Abby Martin - Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin

Dan Cohen - Gaza Fights Back | MintPress News Original Documentary

‘The Promise’, directed by Peter Kosminsky (2010) (4 part miniseries on the creation of Israel)

Sources:

https://www.972mag.com/

https://jewishcurrents.org/

Jadaliyya ‘Gaza in Context’ Series

Jadaliyya ��War on Palestine” podcast - The War on Palestine Podcast: Episode 1

Border Chronicle, Interview with Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper

NGOs

B’Tselem

Breaking the Silence

Al Haq

Palestinian Feminist Collective

Yesh Din

DAWN

Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch

Gisha

Forensic Architecture

Instagram Accounts

gazangirl

mohammedelkurd

khaledbeydoun

motaz_azaiza

wizard_bisan1

etafrum

sara_mardini963

Twitter(X) Accounts

@PalStudies - Institute for Palestine Studies

@medicalaidpal

@middleeastmatters

@KenRoth - former executive director of Human Rights Watch

@YairWallach - Reader in Israel Studies at SOAS

@ PhilipProudfoot - researcher on development, humanitarianism and Arab states

@btselem - Israeli human rights documentation centre

@MairavZ - Senior Israel-Palestine Analyst at Crisis Group

@rohantalbot - Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at MedicalAidPal

@sarahleah1 - Executive Director of DAWN (democracy and human rights in MENA)

@alhaq_org - Palestinian human rights organisation

@FranceskAlbs - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories

@Yesh_Din - Israeli human rights organisation

@sfardm - Michael Sfard, Israeli Human Rights Lawyer

@EphstainItay - Israeli international humanitarian lawyer

@saribashi - Program director for Human Rights Watch (Israeli living in Palestine)

@Gisha_Access - Israeli NGO

@_ZachFoster - Historian

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(if any links are broken let me know. Or pull up the current post to check whether it's fixed.)

From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

(I took the first video down because turns out the animator is a terf and it links to her blog. Really sorry for any distress.)

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The most fucked up part of this?

The American Psychological Association says that it's "normal" (aka, neurotypical) to *not* have that much empathy, and that having that much empathy is literally a trait of autism.

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Ah, so I'm doing commentary on the content of a vignette. (I love the '#hero x villain' tag so much, and thank you OP for writing this that I can think about.and comment on!)

No life lost is ever minor.

In a war, you have to think in terms of "minor casualties" and "major casualties" because they affect and impact how future battles in the war can be fought. But the general Heroes and Villains framework tends not to be in wartime, instead in peace.

"minor", in terms of losses of life, tends to be a way of saying "I don't have a problem accepting this."

And conversely, "acceptable losses" tends to be a way of concealing how difficult it was for the speaker to conceptualize and integrate the fact that the people they speak of, those unique and priceless viewpoints, would no longer get to experience and impact the world they had existed within.

And yet, Villain dismisses them as "minor".

What is the difference between a villain and a general, if they can both sleep at night?

P.O.V: Villain finds out Hero's burden.

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"What are you doing here?" Villain asked, walking behind Hero. Villain held an umbrella over Hero to stop them from getting more wet then they were already.

"What do you mean? Why I'm in a graveyard?" Hero asked rhetorically with a slight scoff, kneeling beside a grave. "That's question seems more fitting for you."

"I asked first." Villain said with venom in their tone, glaring at Hero.

Hero went quiet. It wasn't every day that they got to open up to someone, let alone to their mortal enemy.

"Well? Cat got your tongue?" Villain raised an eyebrow.

"Shut it. I'm not opening up to you." Hero responded, only briefly turning away from the gravestone to glare at Villain.

"I didn't say you had to open up, I asked why you were here. Surely, you don't know 53 people personally." Hero's eyes widened as Villain pointed out how many graves Hero had visited and left flowers at.

"And you intend to visit about 20 more, based on the amount of flowers left in the bouquet." Villain smirked, knowing they had cornered Hero to make them speak.

Hero hesitated for a second before speaking, "No... You're right. I didn't know these people personally."

"Then why are you paying your respects?"

"Because I killed these people."

Villain froze, completely shocked by Hero's words. They had never seen Hero even raise a finger to the worst of the civilians, let alone end someone's life. Hero was an angel, at least, that's what Villain thought.

"Why? How?" Villain asked, watching Hero stand up.

"They got caught in the cross-fire of my fights." Villain's eyes softened. Hero was still an angel, but one ridden with guilt for something they couldn't control.

"It's not your fault, you know..." Villain's tone raised, and they spoke slower, as if talking to a scared child.

"...what?" Hero didn't understand. They had killed them. They had gotten to reckless when fighting villains, and killed these people.

"It's not your fault. You didn't kill these people. Why are you holding yourself responsible?" Villain placed a hand on Hero's shoulder, silence filling the air, interrupted by only the sound of rain hitting the ground and umbrella.

"Because I did. I was to reckless with my power, I should have been more careful, I could ha—"

"Hero." Villain cut them off. "You couldn't control it. It's not your fault. You were doing your job. Think about it. If you were more cautious, you couldn't have taken down some of the greatest villains, like Supervillain. These minor losses were simply the effects of saving many more people in the future. So please, calm down, and stop blaming yourself." Villain ended their speech with a sigh. "Please."

"...I can't promise anything." Hero responded, avoiding Villain's gaze.

"Then try."

Hero smiled softly, nodding as they took Villain's hand off their shoulder, interlocking their hands.

"Alright, thank you, Villain."

Then, a realization dawned on Hero.

"Why are you here?" Hero said with skepticism. "And how did you know how many graves I visited?"

"U-uhm... haha... so..." Villain tried to squirm out of Hero's hand, but god were they strong.

This time, it was Hero's turn to raise an eyebrow and smirk.

"Looks like I've got a little stalker on my hands."

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Something that should be illegal:

Basically, someone trying to profit off of the destruction of someone else's livelihood by tattling about what they've publicly talked about.

Doing this kind of tattling thing to anyone -- even someone whose politics you despise -- is reprehensible in wage-slavery capitalism. Profiteering from it should be considered extortion at best (obtaining money you have no right to by destroying someone else's life -- basically, you're doing blackmail but collecting from the person you have induced to destroy the person's life), and should also be privately actionable as the tort of malicious interference in the performance of a contract.

And any employer who lets themselves be manipulated this way needs to see their company go bankrupt for false termination.

(I make exceptions for targeting people who have a net worth over $2 million (i.e., those who are independently wealthy) and politicians, political appointees, and for disclosures of known lawbreaking by cops and judges.)

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@staff Could we please have the boop button back as something more than just an April 1 thing?

Oh, and if you could do these other 3 things too, that would be most excellent. (Or, if there are actually reasons for why you suppress these voices and topic, though, explaining them would go a long way toward helping us understand that they aren't arbitrary, capricious, or mandated/coerced by any government or political power.)

ideas for tumblr staff

dont remove the boop button

stop banning trans women for no reason

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If your bf's mom has never actually cuddled without sex happening...

1. Is she okay?

2. Does she view all interpersonal contact as a prelude to sex?

3. When did she stop touching her children (hugs, shoulderpats, etc)

4. Was she abused as a kid?

5. Was your boyfriend or her other children abused?

pls rb if you think cuddling doesn't have to be s3xual

im tryna prove a point to my bf's mother help me out

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I'm surprised I haven't seen a paraphrase of Hamilton: the Musical on here yet...

Democrats have ideals. Trump has none.

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You motherfuckers yes I hate Kamala too but when she is announced to be the Democratic candidate we are all going to shoot fireworks and go to the goddamn polls

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If you think that's bad, just wait until some of these undereducated people get hired to have law enforcement powers.

Imagine a cop who makes up a law on the spot and expects you to already know it because it's "common sense".

I wish I only had to imagine it. But I don't, because it happened to me, multiple times, in California. I believe they added a civics section to their GED test as a result.

(And I'm fairly certain there are factions of various governments who even now just don't care that a law must be at the very least available for perusal before it can be enforced. which is a situation indistinguishable from the executive just making up a law on the spot.)

One of my students as we’re packing up to leave class: hey, could you like, explain how the electoral college works next class? Because it’s my first time voting and that seems important but I don’t get it. A second student: oh yeah. I’m like that meme. I’ve heard those words so many times but I’m afraid to ask what it means at this point. A third student: the electoral college is bullshit, that’s all you need to know.

Original student: but. I still want to know why it’s bullshit?

A fourth student: is it not, like, an actual college? In DC or something?

Original student: I don’t think so?

Second student: could you explain the different government branches too? Like legislative and judicial and executing?

Me: I think you mean executive. And yes. Uh. Yes, I think it might be good for me to talk about these things. Good plan, guys.

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I'm an American and I also sign this message, below @xiaq .

Am I going to have to smack every person on the fence about this give me equal rights 

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Watching US Politics as a non-American is like watching a horror movie where you're begging the protagonists to save themselves, except if the killer gets them then you get poisoned in real life.

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The problem: Only people who do not adhere to morality go places.

The solution: ??????????????????????