theproudweird

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"The most terrible loneliness is not the kind that comes from being alone, but the kind that comes from being misunderstood. It is the loneliness of standing in a crowded room, surrounded by people who do not see you, who do not hear you, who do not know the true essence of who you are. And in that loneliness, you feel as though you are fading, disappearing into the background, until you are nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of your former self."

- George Orwell, 1984

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just a girl in her room trying to forgive herself

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Might fuck around and start believing I am worthy of all the things i desire.

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The secret to being a private person is to overshare dumb shit so people think you are an open book but then not tell them any of the important details of your life.

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your life will be wonderful because you will make it wonderful, and it will be full of love because you are full of love.

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i know it may seem miniscule, but i genuinely can't stop thinking about how students in gaza were preparing for school around this time last year. and it's not just gazan children i'm referring to. it's little kids who were about to have their first ever day of school. it's university students in their last year of college. it's grad students who've been working so hard in their field, who just had years of labor and effort torn away just like that. we all have the luxury of continuing on, of starting this new chapter in our lives, while theirs seem to be on permanent arrest. it's just not fair. it's heartbreaking

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Hey everyone, this is Bisan from Gaza. I'm still alive but Hind is not. Do you remember Hind Rajab? This seven (7) years old child who was missed 12 days ago. Hind was in a car with five (5) family members and they were all killed - except Hind - by an Israeli bomb, and then she called the Ambulance, she asked them to rescue her. Two Ambulance men from the Red Crescent tried to do this but they were also missed. Now; today they were found killed. The body of Hind found killed, found murdered. It's just a new massacre added to the list of endlessly massacres committed by Israel against my people; Palestinians in Gaza right now.

No one holds Israel accountable until now. No one is doing anything. Hind was killed. Who is the next? I don't know, it might be any one of us, but I mean, it's a new, it's a new massacre - she is murdered. You all heard her story, you all heard her voice asking for help saying (Bisan speaks in Arabic first then translates to English the following) "take me with you, take me from here". She was between dead bodies for days, alone and no one could rescue her. We knew where she was, we knew that she was okay, we knew that she could contact the Red Crescent but no one rescued her.

-- Bisan on Instagram, 02.10.2024

There really is nothing left to say.

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Seeing footage of the aftermath of the flour massacre in Gaza is so painful

"Where is my daughter? Tell her I don't want flour anymore"

"My brother was shot holding a bag of flour. He kept holding on to it so they kept shooting him"

"Why does flour have to be stained with blood?"

Over 100 have been killed. Every single one of them hungry. Every single one of them has someone waiting for them to come back with the bag of flour.

Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war against innocent civilians. Israel ambushes starving Palestinians and shoots them. Israel is not fighting a war to defend itself. This is another episode of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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One of the things that pisses me off most about this genocide and overall occupation is how many people say it's so complicated and there's so much nuance and there isn't one easy solution. This is one of the simplest things I have ever seen. Zionists invaded palestine in 1947-48. They have occupied it for 76 years while taking more and more land. They kidnap and torture and massacre Palestinians day in day out for those 76 years. They control every aspect of Palestinian life, including their water and medical care. And now they are committing another genocide against them. Where is the complication? What is hard to understand? "Well, Jewish people need a place where they won't be discriminated against" I absolutely agree. So make every country in the world safe for Jewish people. Fight against anti Semitism across the world. Don't commit a genocide and set up an ethnostate.

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🍉Data sources under the cut🍉

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Aaron Bushnell's final social media post before his self-immolation.

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Mirza Ghalib :

Sharab peene de masjid mein baith kar, ya wo jagah bata jahan khuda nahi

Iqbal :

Masjid khuda ka ghar hai koi peene ki jagah nahi, tu kaafir ke dil mein ja wahan khuda nahi

Ahmad Faraz :

Kafir ke dil se aaya hoon main ye dekh kar wahan par jagah nahi,

Khuda maujood hai wahan bhi kafir ko pata nahi

Wasi :

Khuda maujood hai puri duniya mein kahin bhi jagah nahi ,

Tu jannat mein ja wahan peena mana nahi

Saqi :

Peeta hoon gham e duniya bhulane ke liye,

Jannat mein kahan gham hai wahan peene mein maza nahi

Meer :

Hum peete hai maze ke liye bewajah badnaam gham hai ,

Puri botal peekar dekho phir duniya kya jannat se kam hai...

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— Sylvia Plath, from "Letters Home"

[text ID: I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still.]

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Brown guy urge to romanticise their mother's sacrifices and then proceed to enforce it on other women in his life.

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“you’re so pretty,” okay write poetry about me then.

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- Sylvia Plath, from 'Ariel'

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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙮 𝙄 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙄 𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙢𝙮 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙞𝙢...