#SHE CAN SPEAK ARABIC

[fanfic-writer-and-rambler]

Kate Kane and Bruce Wayne are sitting in the living room. Kate Kane is spray painting a desk with a splatter design she's bringing back to her place. Bruce is reading a book about depression.

Bruce: Can you not stain my floor?

Kate nods, shakes the spray can and aims the spray nozzle directly can at the wood floor then returns to spraying the desk.

Kate: Damn thing got jammed. Whoops.

Bruce, exhausted: I shouldn't have even said anything.

Kate lowers her face mask.

Kate: Cuzzo, I forgot to tell you one last thing about the bat-

Bruce: Bar Mitzvah.

Kate: Yeah that, so Damien asked me about the trip we were going to. I remembered you never told him about it. I made the right decision... I told him about everything. He wants to go, so again doing the right thing and to respect your wishes, said he can go as long as you both agree. That's how Talia was brought into the mix.

Bruce Wayne, focusing on the book, but his left leg shaking with rage.

Bruce: How did you happen to bring her into this?

Kate: I asked Damien for her number and informed her about the entire event. Man that lady is hot when she's angry. She should be calling in about a minute. She probably won't be that mad... Don't worry about it.

Kate lifts her face mask back to her mouth and returns to her splatter spray paint project. Bruce let's out a long sigh right when his cell phone rings. He slaps the book to his face.

Kate: She's going to keep calling.

Bruce: I... Am aware.

Bruce reluctantly answers the phone.

Bruce: Hel-

Talia (on the phone): You himar! How dare you, ya 'ayuha alwaghad!

Bruce: Hey, I can let the jackass insult slide-

Kate: Cause it's true.

Bruce: Shut up! I will not excuse calling me a bastard!

Talia: Oh I'm so sorry it's just that I was told that you were going to a bar mitzvah and you won't bring Damien! Nope! Nope! You will not deprive our sweet son the enjoyment of meeting extended family or learning his Jewish heritage!

Bruce: Neither of us are practicing Judaism!

Talia: Doesn't mean he can't learn about it! I don't agree with a lot that my father does, but Dami deserves to learn about our heritage and the same goes for you! Has he even had his own Bar Mitzvah?

Bruce: No because he's not 13 and we're not JEWISH!

Kate: You are, Cuzzo.

Bruce: Practicing! We're not practicing!

Kate: Calm down, you're schvitzing.

Talia: Bruce Wayne, you better take that our tifl saghir latif that I spent 12 hours pushing out of my almihbal, to that party or I will wreck havoc on you! You understand me? I have people who can make you inconvenience you at every turn. Missing items, flat tires, dates with the Cat lady Take him to the bar mitzvah! NOW!

Ra Al Ghul in the background: That's my girl!

Kate: You tell him Talia! You tell him!

Talia: Tell your sister I said thank you!

Bruce: She's not my fucking sister! I will take him! GOD!

Bruce ends the call and storms as Kate chuckles softly.

Kate: His embarrassment brings me constant joy. Thank you whatever God hears me for that man.

[feluka]

GPS lady on google maps in this country is like:

turn left at a̷̢͔̬̓̈́̿͐b̸̡̖͗̅̅̌a̵̩̘̳̾͝a̸̢̛͓̒̾̕s̵̛̲l̸̠̟̇à̸̰q̸̖̲̜͑͌̚̕ͅǎ̴̜a̷͙͂d̵̗̘͛͝ street 😊

[toiletpotato]

Hi friends!

I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me identify this piece of text?

I know it is from a religious text, but I was wondering what the passage itself is.

I have tried to identify the piece myself using technology to no avail, thus I come to you all.

thank you in advance 💖💖

[fireflowersims]

We haven't learned. We haven't learned shit at all.

My country's wealth is directly linked to the exploitation and colonization of other peoples. We call the violent acts commited in Indonesia after ww2 "police actions" as if it wasn't horrific crimes against people who were (justifiably) tired of being occupied and abused by foreign invaders and colonizing dickhats.

Sure, we "lost" the Dutch East Indies. We are not actively colonizing anymore. And yet, we still haven't learned a thing. That "VOC mentality" was never gone, it's still there. It's that mentality of thinking business above everything else, money makes right, who cares how horrifically you abuse people, who cares about the massacre of the Banda islands when you now have all the yummy nutmeg to use and sell. It's not something to be admired, it's something we have to address and resolve, but we're not. We're not doing that, but we have to if we ever want justice of any kind.

We're ruled by dickheads who think that saying "from the river to the sea" is a hatecrime that should be condemned. "Yeah sure, you would've probably said the same thing about the utterance of "Republik Indonesia" less than 100 years ago, no?" is what I say to that. We have not successfully freed ourselves of this damn colonizer mindset!

The only reason the Netherlands ever stopped the "police actions" is because we were threatened with sanctions. Post WW2, it was stop the "police actions" (read: many war crimes) or lose the money from the Marshall Plan needed to rebuild your ruined country. The choice was easy enough.

But noooooo, we can't sanction Israel to get them to, ya know, STOP BOMBING HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS AND CIVILIANS IN GENERAL!!! They're our friends! Fuck no. I know why those asshats ain't sanctioning Israel (at least one of the reasons): they'd lose access to fucking Pegasus; spyware surpreme. Wanna spy on some journalists? Perhaps the opposition? Scary activists? Pegasus is THE spyware for you! Infect ppl's phones and suck up All Teh Data wihout them knowing. Suspected detection of the stuff somehow? Self-destruct, boom. Fantastic stuff if you're into violating ppl's privacy. I don't see this talked about a lot, but Israel is Scary in the cyberwarfare department. And they sell this expertise.

I support Palestine. I hope to see it freed someday. Hopefully soon

To Israel(is): decolonize ur shit. I know, it's hard, it's painful, you'll have to question and unlearn a lot of things. Heck, it may give you an existential and/or moral crisis for a bit. I still get one about nutmeg sometimes. But just like desinfecting a wound, it is ultimately beneficial.

PALESTINIAN PEOPLE DESERVE LIFE AS MUCH AS ANY OTHER PEOPLE

[moldwood]

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[rosefulmadness]

bro why are languages so hard like come on now I just wanna be able to communicate

with friends? with family? with my roots? all of them THAT'S A LOT OF LANGUAGES WITH THEIR OWN ALPHABETS there's never enough time

[shmowder]

just need to vent about the Olympics

[swagging-back-to]

the most unrealistic part of steven universe is that the zoomans speak and understand modernized english.

[cosmogyros]

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[justsleepyrune]

writing character voices is always a Time and a half, because i can't remember accents for the life of me.

i'll be doing my merry little thing and then remember blank speaks french

[cruelsister-moved2]

me today in first arabic class when i saw shin and first example word was beyt and i can write my name way easier than all the guys called jack and shit followed by immediate rapid ego death when i realise i have to learn 3 versions of every letter and the teacher says she doesn't even understand moroccan arabic as a native speaker and then shows us arabic cursive thats literally just squiggles with no diacritics 😭😭😭

[notquiteaghost]

i refuse to make a tiktok but i get a lot of insane customer service stories on my fyp & now i am once again thinking about when i worked in retail & we had a woman come in with a carton of milk wanting a refund cuz she said it was out of date when she bought it, but – this is the insane bit – it was empty. she drank it. it cost £1.29, she had actually used it, she did not have a receipt to prove she had bought it when it was out of date, and she spent the best part of fifteen minutes arguing with a supervisor for a refund. she did not win!

[bwaldorf]

twitter finally asking the real questions

[whimsicalpdf]

oh colonisation sucks man

[deulalune]

Bisan brings up an excellent point about disabled Palestinians. Palestinian liberation is a climate, racism all problems. It is everyone’s business.

Video transcription (includes sign language part):

[Text says "People with disabilities in the Bombing"]

Bisan: Hey everyone. Have you ever thought about the people with disabilities in Gaza? I mean those people with disability in the hearing. How can they hear the bombings and just escape? Those who cannot move, those who cannot see the road in front of them, how can they escape? How can they just survive this? Okay, so during the past few days, I've been hearing more and more stories. One of them was on X (Twitter) and a girl was talking about an old woman. She was blind and she was killed during a bombing on the neighbourhood that they're living in. And another friend yesterday --he's deaf-- and he was talking about those people who were killed. Some of his neighbours were killed because they did not hear the soldiers, the Israeli soldiers, warning them. So, yeah. No one is safe in Gaza. You can just see the video of this friend, and I'll be translating his signs.

[Video cuts to a man speaking in sign language.]

Hello everyone. Hope you're doing well. I know people from the deaf community. They were displaced at to Khaleefa school in Jabalia - North of Gaza. They were three - and they were all killed! The Israeli soldiers told them to stop while they were escaping! But they didn't hear, so they shot and killed them! [Man shows his phone with a picture of the three boys in it on the right.

There's arabic text on the left that translates to

"The deaf martyrs, may God have mercy on them,

Lord of Paradise

(translated with Google

Translate) and below the text is a bia

emoii.

[fairuzfan]

I legitimately despise all of the people who were vocally speaking out about biden to only full throatedly support Kamala because all that hard earned pushback and solidarity is just slowly receeding to the point where kamala is certain she can make empty promises and be rewarded for them AND publicly show disgust to Palestinian protestors while having people defend her as if she's not the privileged politician that we've been saying she is. The reason she feels so comfortable about yelling at arab and Palestinian protestors is because you guys just outwardly supported her without any pushback. I can't believe that all these months worth of education and watching children being burned alive and you're jumping at the chance to promote the person who knows how to speak nicely without actually doing anything.

If you had shown some amount of pushback these past couple weeks, she would never have dared to pull these stunts. If you had made it an actual hardline issue, she would have known that she can't be wishy washy about these things. But of course you'd rather protect yourself than millions of people at the mercy of your policies without so much as a say in anything.