page from LIKE AN OWL OF THE WASTE PLACES #zine
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booktok videos should be categorized as some sort of threat to public health
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‼️🇵🇸 An activist, who destroyed multiple engine parts of the jets Israel uses, has been released!
🔸 Source: pal_action
More info from NRK (Norwegian media), 22. April 2024:
[...] The art student [Sørensen] has been active in the pro-Palestine movement for a long time. Following the sabotage, he's received support from the British action group Palestine Action, who published a picture of him when he was released from prison. "It's because of the horrible things that are happening in Palestine right now. It's the most fucked up thing I've ever seen in my life," Sørensen said. In November, FriFagbevegelse [Norwegian union paper] published an interview with the defense giant Lockheed Martin about the F-35 fighter jet that is being used in the war in Gaza. They are the ones who assemble the planes in the USA. "All F-35 fighters have parts made in Norway", they confirmed in an email to the newspaper. Norwegian authorities say it is forbidden to sell weapons to Israel. However, the sale of parts to the defense manufacturer Lockheed Martin, destined for the United States, is legal, because American export regulations then apply
For Europeans reading: your country, even if it has a ban on weapon exports to Israel, may similarly be aiding the genocide in Gaza "indirectly" through weapon exports to the US.
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reminder:
- anyone with any visual impairment can identify as blind ("visual impairment" describes your best possible vision WITH correction, not without)
- you can't spot a blind person by looking at them from a distance, not all of us use canes or have guide dogs
- not all of us have "unusual" looking eyes either
- blindness as an identity exceeds legal blindness
- blindness is a spectrum; 93% of the people who are considered legally blind have some residual vision, with the percentage being even higher when taking into account all blind people
- there are many forms of blindness, from low visual acuity to restricted visual field to low depth perception to cortical visual impairment and so much more, we are not a monolith
- blind people can use technology with a variety of accessibility settings and aids, or, depending on their condition, without any help
- using braille is becoming less common among blind people, don't assume we can read it
- blind people can live independently, having to ask for help sometimes isn't the same as dependence
- some blind people carry a short white cane diagonally in front of their upper body, these are known as symbol canes or ID canes and are used to let other people know that they can't see well (note that these aren't used in all countries, some countries have other symbols)
- not all blind people wear sunglasses 24/7, but the stereotype comes from the fact that a lot of us have problems with photosensitivity, or are tired of sighted people giving us crap for our eyes
- if you feel like you're not "blind enough" to use a cane, audio description, large text, a screen reader or other accessibility aids, trust me that you are and you're not taking away from other blind people by getting your needs met, if you feel like it would make your life easier, it's for you. you don't owe anyone a certain level of suffering to use disability aids
I gotta apologize to Hillary Clinton. I really thought she ran the worst election campaign of all time, but here’s Joe Biden coming in clutch basing his entire reelection on supporting genocide and beating up college students.
“Joe-bi Wan Kenobi”
you should never forget about call me maybe by carly rae jepsen
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'people can write whatever the fuck they want' and 'its good to approach writing about sensitive topics with some diligence and forethought' are statements which can and do coexist
No actually it's not antisemitic to exclude zionists from antizionist spaces.
Just in the last week or so I've seen at least three different instances of zionists complaining because they showed up to an antizionist protest explicitly to start shit, and were ignored.
And in the same time period, several instances of zionists using extremely antisemitic language toward antizionist Jews.
It's incredibly disingenuous to imply that ignoring agitators is hostile; it plays right into the agitators' hands.
emily gwen, the creator of the sunset lesbian flag that we’ve come to commonly use, still continues to live in poverty.
multi-billion dollar companies have used their design and made profit from it, and yet they have not seen a cent for their creation.
i’ve been friends with emily for years, and i have not once seen them be financially stable the entire time. i’ve seen them homeless, unemployed, starving. right now, they need our help more than ever.
please consider donating to emily’s ko-fi, especially if you’ve used their design to create something and profited from it.
MY FRIEND EMILY DESPERATELY NEEDS HELP RIGHT NOW.
PLEASE REBLOG THIS AND CONSIDER DONATING TO KEEP THEM AFLOAT, EVEN IF YOU CAN’T GIVE TOO MUCH. THEY DO NOT HAVE CONSISTENT AND STABLE HOUSING RIGHT NOW AND NOBODY IS HIRING EVEN IF THEY’RE APPLYING TO JOBS DAILY. EMILY’S BILLS ARE PILING UP AND THEY’VE BEEN PUTTING OFF THERAPY + PSYCHIATRIST + DOCTOR’S APPOINTMENTS BECAUSE THEY CAN’T AFFORD IT.
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I really like how many of the world’s most iconic structures and places are just right next to some of the most mundane stuff imaginable, for example
Stonehenge
Is right next to a busy road
The Pyramids of Giza
Are at the outskirts of Cairo
Niagara Falls
Are part of the town of the same name
And Agrippa’s Pantheon
Is crammed inside downtown Rome
It just so interesting to notice.
I lived in Nîmes for three years, and the mundane feeling I got whenever I would walk from my apartment, by the Roman coloseum in the city which was 2000+ years old, and continue with my life because it was just sort of there still surprises me when I think about it.
This post is just that feeling put into words and pictures.
I loved walking into York and turning the corner to see the cathedral rising up, the heart of the city, as it was designed to be.
It’s a reminder that history doesn’t exist in a vacuum, only in books and museums and stock photos. It’s a fallen tree covered in new growth.
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microdosing on vulnerability by saying 'yeah..........' in the tags of poems i rb that i identify with
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how is a little freak like me supposed to make it in this world