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First ever tattoos done by me!

Ive been afk for w little while and one of the reasons was that I finished a tattooing basics course :D

One of the tattoos is on fake skin, and two on actual people. They were done while supervised by an experienced tattoo artist, and I learned so much. In spring, I will be going back to the studio I studied in to be trained further bc the artist liked my passion for tattooing and art in general (I have to finish my portfolio this month tho💀)

There are obviously things to improve, believe me, Ive been nitpicking the pictures constantly, but for my first ever tattoos, Im quite happy. At some point, I'll do touchups on the tattoos. For now I'll keep studying and training by doing other designs

Im truly becoming a competent adult man 🙏

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RAT MUG!!!!

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I'm making new pants right now and I desperately need everyone in the world to see my new pocket

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your pfp is very very gender

Thank you! ☺️

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Hello my friends,lam lara it is still early winter, but the cold is very severe inside the tent 😔 No winter clothes, no warm bedding, no heavy blankets, no nutritious food, and nothing sweet that gives us energy and warmth. This is how our life has become in the war and after displacement. My family and I remember at night how we used to live before the war in our house. Perhaps these memories make us feel a little warm, but unfortunately the cold has penetrated our bodies and we cannot do anything. Perhaps someone with a merciful heart will see this story of a family that lost everything and left the house without anything and decide to donate to them and contribute to their happiness and warmth. Help us and be a support to us in this terrifying nightmare that we are living, even if it is with something simple 💔😔🥹Your donation will save us and make us happy 🌺

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #241 )✅️

Every donation, no matter how small, will make a big difference in helping us rebuild our lives and provide necessities for my family.

Please donate and share my campaign to help me and my family from this damned war 🥺⚘️🙏👇

https://chuffed.org/project/115246-helping-my-displaced-family-in-the-gaza-war

vetted fundraiser for a family in Gaza. Help if possible

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it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

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Anyone whose able, please donate. People dont deserve to suffer like this. This is a vetted fundraiser.

An Emotional Plea from Lana in Gaza ,sos

Please donate or share my story 💔🍉

Hello everyone, I am Lana, a university student from gaza. I was in my second year of studying software engineering when the war came and took everything. It took my beautiful new home, which we had just built after losing our previous one in the 2014 war. It also took away many of my friends and family members...

We emerged from the rubble of our home at the start of the war, after losing many of our family members. My father was severely injured, left battling pain and the brink of death.

We were forced to leave our area and head to southern Gaza, engulfed in fear and panic, passing by tanks and the sounds of shelling all around us. We found ourselves compelled to seek refuge in a tent, far away from our homeland and dreams.

We were forced to relocate around eight times from tent to tent, intensifying our suffering. Each tent carries with it memories of pain and lost hope, lacking safety and privacy, flooded by cold rain, and devoid of food and medicine. Each time we try to start anew, we find ourselves facing the struggle for survival in harsh conditions, surrounded by anxiety and turmoil.

Life in Gaza is like living on the edge of survival every single day. The air feels heavy with uncertainty, as if every breath could be the last. There’s an overwhelming sense of loss in every corner—homes reduced to rubble, dreams shattered, and families torn apart. Every day is a battle, not just against the physical destruction, but against the hunger, the fear, and the feeling of being forgotten by the world. It’s a life where hope flickers like a candle in the wind, constantly threatened by the darkness around.

I need your help to get through this ordeal. Any small support can make a difference. Please remember that we are living in hell and we need hope to survive..💔🙏

Vetted by 👈

@gaza-evacuation-funds

@nabulsi @el-shab-hussein

And @ibtisams #list 13

Now everything changed 😭

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Photo update of my patchshorts

Im trying to go for a heavily red theme, should add some more red stuff and also get red fabric for the non painted patches.

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Patchshorts update

Update on my patchshorts. I started them in 2023 but most of my progress is from june 2024.

Summary of what Ive accomplished: extended the width of the legs with sweatpant fabric, lined half of the patcshorts, added many patches.

What I still need to do: add patches to the seam of the sweatpants to prevent the pants from tearing, add patches to all jean fabric spots, finish lining.

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if anyones able to, help this person out with some coin

Need Help

Hi everyone I’m a college student struggling with rent and bills. I have 2 months rent due and I also need some money for groceries. My situation is getting really bad. I’m in urgent need of some help right now. Please help in any way possible. Any amount would be very helpful. Please consider helping.

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another option:

turning it into a windows 95 logo is also acceptable.

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Cool concept this bottle cap jean chain! Love new diy concepts though this one definitely seems like a challenging one with all the drill holes and jump ring connections but still possible :3

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Decided to give this jacket's stitching some love to make it more bold. Not sure how much more I'll do because it tears through my fingers doing this, but I'll at least go over the patches again.

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My personal complex feelings about staying in Latvia

Me and my partner got an amazing housing offer here, which means we wouldnt move away to a different country like planned which has left me with many complicated feelings :/ mostly about how disgustingly nationalistic and xenophobic this place is so a lotta complaining down below:

Some of the things i hate about this place:

Eastern europeans stop being xenophobic challenge has a 100% fail rate 🫶 xenophobia is just built into the culture in the baltics, its so maddening. People born in latvia who grew up latvian but just have russian parents are considered to be foreigners and treated as such. The amount of friends I have from russian families or that (god-forbid) have an accent of any kind who get the most vile shit said to them is insane. Dont even get me started on when the xenophobia turns racist...

My boyfriends dad is american so he keeps getting treated like a foreigner even though he literally has close to 0 memories of america cuz last he was there he was 5!!

The xenophobia is so ingrained into the culture here that i genuinely dont think itll ever leave :/ itll improve in small numbers but the small number of ppl that realize this, wanna leave lol cuz its EVERYWHERE

And yes its so ingrained here, even left leaning people will often have xenophobia they havent worked through🤧

Latvian nationalism is so intense, ive been treated and keep getting treated as an outcast/foreigner because I have a speech impediment and so i dont speak latvian eloquently ♥️

Then theres the recently gone through mandatory military conscription because boomers have a hate boner for russia and normal boner for military power, so latvian amab people will be forced to do (depending on whether you volunteer or not) year/s of military training and then their location tracked for years and years just in case 😃 this could even affect me cuz i wanna have my documents changed to reflect that im a man. Id rather eat screws than ever serve a nation funded cult. I mean just every class would be hours of nationalistic conservative propaganda garbage. We already have plenty!! Ever interacted with latvian media? lol

Ofc every other type of bigotry is just as present here bc ofc... transphobia and homophobia is still very present, out and about its less due to gen z getting older but the medical system and legal system still have a lot of issues with it. A whole lotta racism, latvia has a lotta problems with nazis and skinheads, which has lead to poc being attacked in many different ways.

i dont feel at home here, i feel at home with my friends and fellow leftists, but the country as a whole? Never welcomed me and I dont even want it to :/ rrly going through the emotions rn, cuz the offer is just too good, the housing markets in shambles worldwide, wed never get an offer like that again. So now i have to face a future where i stay in this shithole :/

I am apart of small political orgs so its not even like im not doing anything, but i dont think id see much change here before im around retirement age :[ which sucks when youre doing your best to enact change

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People & countries mentioned in the thread:

DR Congo - M23, Cobalt

Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview); Twitter Explanation on Sudan

Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)

the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews

Hawai'i - IWGIA

Syria - Amnesty International

Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)

Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)

Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report

Tibetans - SaveTibet.org, United Nations

Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations

West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch

Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd

Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch

Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR

Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me

Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank

Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International

Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights

Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF

Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News

Ukraine - Human Rights Watch (April 2022), Support Ukraine Now (SUN), Ukraine Website, Schools & Education (HRW), Dnieper River advancement (Nov. 15, 2023 - Ap News)

Reblogs with Links / From Others

Indigenous Ppl of Canada, Cambodia, Mexico, Colombia

Libya

Armenia Reblog 1, Armenia Reblog 2

Armenia, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Indigenous Americans, Black ppl (US)

Rohingya (Myanmar)

More Hawai'i Links from @sageisnazty - Ka Lahui Hawaii, Nation of Hawai'i on Soverignty, Rejected Apology Resolution

From @rodeodeparis: Assyrian Policy Institute, Free Yezidi

From @is-this-a-cool-url: North American Manipur Tribal Association (NAMTA)

From @dougielombax & compiled by @azhdakha: Assyrians & Yazidis

West Sahara conflict

Last Updated: Feb. 19th, 2024 (If I missed smth before this, feel free to @ me to add it)