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A story of Olives and Cactus:

“Wherever you see cactus, know there was a Palestinian village in that place ” . That’s what they tell you if you ever visit the West Bank. Israel has been removing, bulldozing , erasing villages and cities for decades to terraform the land . But the problem is , Cactus keeps growing back . No matter how they try to destroy the land and the soil and build their settlements , cactus keep coming back.

A friend of mine just came back from there carrying a gift for me : Locally squeezed olive oil from a her village in the West Bank . “Forget the commercial stuff you buy from stores. We squeeze oil in our own villages.”

They squeeze the olives on the stone mills, use clean dedicated straw bags to squeeze it on the extruding machines . Same process that has been done for 100,200, 400 maybe 600 years . As old as these trees. You take a product of the land , squeeze it to its limits and you get that pure green gold.

A healing potion of life .

“Just put some oil” is the answer for everything in Palestine. Hungry ? Add oil. A bit sick ? Rub oil. Want to feel better about the world? Oil as old as the earth is there for you. They are not just olive trees. They are family . They are there to feed you , heal you and take care of you. How can you uproot a member of the family and call this land yours ? I have no idea . The trees don’t agree with that . And cactus definitely don’t agree with that. Maybe we got it all wrong! Maybe olive trees are not just an extension of Palestinian heritage. Maybe, Palestinians themselves are an extension of the land . They are like the trees . You can beat them , you can pressure them , you can squeeze them and push them beyond any human limits. But they don’t die . Like crushed olives that produce green gold. And from death, a million lives will be born. And their pain will eventually be the healing potion for all of us.

And if you try to uproot them , they won’t go away . You think they will. But they come back. Like cactus . To defy you , to stand up against you , take your abuse and prick you back. They are there , to stay . Forever

By Bassem Youssef

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The IDF rounds up Gazans and deliberately bombs them where civilians were told to “evacuate to.” Israel has created an extermination camp.

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Oh my god the more we learn about Tumblrs internal structure the more things are making sense to me.

"you had HOW many people working on Tumblr? No wonder it was losing 30M$ a year."

I think people keep hoping Tumblr will be the next Twitter, when this whole time they should've been treating it like an explosively successful 3-man indie game.

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Next time I see OT Mean vs NT Nice bullshit, I’m going to use this 👇

OT God: you weren’t actually supposed to kill your son, dipshit. This was a test. And you failed.

NT God: I’m going to kill my kid to help y’all. You’re welcome.

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It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.

I want to see a sci fi universe where we’re actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.

How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldn’t be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare “animal” races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?

Like that old story “they’re made of meat,” only we’re scarier.

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What are some things you look out for to make sure you’re not accidentally engaging with Messianic resources? We’re working on putting together a quick guide for folks unsure of the red flags.

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James McGraw Flint/Thomas Hamilton + Text Posts

Bonus:

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Time for my periodic occasional random post, today it is a little experiment I did with pile-weaving wool! I will eventually try scaling this up to make a long bad that could be used as trim for a winter cloak :)

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This was originally going to be a lot longer, but I ran out of steam! I have some thoughts to continue it later if I feel up to it!

-Yamino

P.S. Shoutout to my wife @summerlightning for helping me bounce off ideas and editing the text!

Edit: This comic has sequels!

(Part 2)

(Part 3)

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"Just one more thing Loki, when you accused me a going to Samsø to do seiðr, you said something was funny about me being a woman. Something bothered me about that, see, I tend to notice these uh... inconsistencies. See, I seem to remember you doing the exact same thing when you gave birth to that horse, uh.. Sleipnir. Sorry, sorry, that's besides the point. But could you just run me through again what you were doing on the night of Baldr's death?"

Columbo: is it Odin?

Yes, Columbo is Odin.

Old man

One eye

Mysterious

Wise

Music

Vagabond energy

Submitted by anonymous.

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Columbo: is it Odin?

Yes, Columbo is Odin.

Old man

One eye

Mysterious

Wise

Music

Vagabond energy

Submitted by anonymous.

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