Hi friends, a dear friend of mine needs monetary help. He needs oral surgery for one thing, and to make things worse he hasn't been able to work as much bc his van broke down. Please boost this for visibility!
Jeremiah has been a staunch friend of mine thru thick and thin, since 2015 he has beat alcoholism and remade himself! He just got engaged so even better days are ahead, if he can get through this rough patch. Thanks for considering!
If you're looking for something to reflect upon to commemorate this #nakba76 anniversary, I hope you will take a look at this documentary made by Israelis, about an Israeli researcher who looked into the Nakba events of a particular town, Tantura, and what he found. It was an Official Selection of the 2022 Sundance film festival.
It is not an easy watch. But a very necessary one.
Just watching @aljazeera a good point made that Netanyahu wants to keep this going, if it were to stop he would have to face up to what has happened both at home but also at the hands of the ICC. He knows he is finished
This trend of all gender bathrooms with multiple stalls. I don’t get it. Honestly it feels anti-trans to me or maybe it’s just anti-women. But I have fewer bathrooms I can comfortably use if the one on the floor I’m on is all genders.
Any one want to discuss? I’m not trying to to attack anyone I just really can’t fathom who we’re serving here. As a woman I need a space that I can retreat to. Not bc I was taught to be afraid but bc I’m a survivor of domestic violence.
@ttpphd thanks so much for responding. I don't have any hangups abt what body parts a woman was born with, my attitude is welcoming to any transwoman. It's funny bc I've def been in all gender bathrms that even had urinals and felt completely fine, but in restaurants and event spaces that were designed to have just one enormous bathroom, like the inside equivalent of the portapotty line. It's the crappy college bathrooms remade into all-gender just by charging the signs that weird me out.
@ttpphd I've been non-confirming all my life, but for me that just means I'm a feminist, not that I'm not a woman. Starts with the whole "women are people too" from the 70s, my mom was all about it. Femininity is a social construct, but womanhood is a vibe.
as I fast today in solidarity with starving Palestinians in Gaza, I'm cleaning my room and going through all the podcasts I can't listen to during the week.
This one is chilling, but also encouraging, so please give it a listen. 🇵🇸✊🏼
Oh rascal children of Gaza.
You who constantly disturbed me
with your screams under my window.
You who filled every morning
with rush and chaos.
You who broke my vase
and stole the lonely flower from my balcony.
Come back,
and scream all you want
and break all the vases.
Steal all the flowers.
Come back.
Just come back...
TIL that Sam Altman has a bunker that's ready for an apocalypse, and also believes that the machine OpenAI is in process of creating will eventually take over our world and do away with humans, which is why he has the bunker... This approach to life is boggling my mind. I can't comprehend his world view.
"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion."
Indeed, everyone should see this. When Palestinians refer to the Nakba, this is what they're talking about. And instead of processing what they had done they just swept out all under the rug of dehumanization of "the other." Smdh