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Loons and Stars

@anthropologicalhands / anthropologicalhands.tumblr.com

call me ellie. writes a lot. when in doubt, be genre-savvy
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Fundraiser masterpost

This is a masterpost for the evacuation fundraisers I've vetted so far, a few other fundraisers I find trustworthy but have not been able to vet (inability to communicate with the organizer), and a few semi-completed fundraisers or fundraisers for a different purpose (like house rebuilding, or aid distribution). The numbers next to the names have no significance beyond ease of navigation for me for when I check their progress in the future. Occasionally I will update these with new info.

VETTED FAMILY ESCAPE FUNDRAISERS

UNVETTED, BUT HIGHLY LIKELY LEGITIMATE ESCAPE FUNDRAISERS:

OTHER FUNDRAISERS:

#palestine#fundraisers
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sharkface

They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

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writterings

here's some instructions for anyone who doesn't know how to opt out:

  1. login in on desktop, it's not available on mobile yet
  2. click "Account"
  3. click on your blog
  4. go to "Blog Settings"
  5. go to "Visibility"
  6. Scroll down to the bottom option
  7. turn the toggle ON, not off

you will have to do this individually for each sideblog you have too, no way to do it for each account in one go

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faejilly

It's available on my mobile! New updates are always staggered, so if you don't see it in your settings yet, just try again later.

(Same process though. Blog-Visible-Opt FOR prevention. If you previously marked your blog to not be searchable, you should be opted out of 3rd party sharing, but if not you have to do it manually.)

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jadesabre301

so I can't even find where I marked myself as non-searchable, but I also can't find anywhere to opt out of this, so I'm guessing I'm covered?

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7amaspayrollmanager

Exactly. Especially slide 4 because we know why he would receive such wide attention bc of the contradiction and that's why you had both PFLP and Hamas release statements commending him. Who knows how far reaching the effects of his act will be, but hearing CNN inadvertently call israelis colonizers? Mind shattering

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Hulu Faces Backlash, Boycotts For Streaming 'Visit Gaza' Ad
The video suggested Gaza would be a tourist paradise, if not for Hamas.
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Hulu is being harshly criticized for streaming a pro-Israel ad which brazenly claims Gaza would be a vacation destination if not for Hamas. Mimicking a glossy tourism pitch, the 30-second ad invites people to “Come visit beautiful Gaza” in text on-screen while showcasing what appear to be AI-generated images of pristine beaches, luxury hotels and happy travelers. A narrator tells people they can “embrace the vibrant nightlife of the city and experience a culture rich in tradition” in the region, where the United Nations says about 100,000 people have been killed, injured or gone missing since Israel’s retaliation campaign following the Oct. 7 attacks that killed 1,200 people. The sunny tone abruptly shifts as the narrator declares, “This is what Gaza could have been like without Hamas” and photos of Palestinian adults and children with weapons flicker on-screen. It ends saying, “Free Gaza From Hamas Now”

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help.hulu.com

If you have a Hulu subscription, you should cancel it and tell them why.

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Anonymous asked:

Is there a video of when Bryke mocked Zutara fanart? I've heard about it from multiple people on here but would like to see it myself. They're the worst people ever for doing that.

firelxdykatara answered:

If you just look up Book 4: Air on youtube, it should be one of the first results, the full title being Avatar Book 4: Air SDCC ^_^ (with subtitles), and, honestly, it starts innocently enough, and seems like it’s light-hearted fun... but then it quickly devolves into zutara-bashing, using fanart sent to them by their fans--most of whom were young girls, especially back in 2008 when atla was new and had a much younger fanbase--and includes this lovely gem:

“Women who think Zuko and Katara should be together will forever have doomed relationships.”

And then, to add insult to injury, after a segment which proves they know nothing about Katara (really? they’d never talk about anything of substance? so i just hallucinated the entirety of their interactions from The Southern Raiders right through to the end of the show, huh???), a screen comes up saying ‘THANKS FOR ALL THE FANART THROUGH THE YEARS’, except ‘ALL’ is replaced, first with ‘SOME’ and then ‘MOST’, clearly taking a potshot at the zutara art they’d been sent, which is like.... incredibly childish and petty, and these are grown ass men getting pissed at teenage and younger children who watched their show and loved it enough to create art of it, only to see it manipulated by the creators (without even an attempt at crediting the artists, from what I can tell) to shit on them for shipping something that wasn’t canon and that Bryke didn’t approve of.

The fact that they had ‘Katara’ say ‘I never should have doubted the will of Mike and Bryan’ is like... the cherry on top of a shit sundae, tbh, and really speaks to how much thought they gave to her agency in her own romantic narrative. (Hint: they didn’t think about it at all. They didn’t care. They wanted to put her with Aang, no matter how little work was done to make her making that choice in the end make sense.)

Anyway, yeah, the whole thing is trash and I have no reason to believe Bryke ever learned to respect their fanbase, especially not given the ‘comic’ Bryan (I think?) drew after book 1 of LoK received criticism, or the fact that he put the book 4: air video up on his tumblr years later, along with a screenshot of the definition of the word ‘joke’, showing he doesn’t understand what was wrong with the video in the first place.

Calling it a ‘joke’ doesn’t change the fact that it was deliberately, needlessly cruel to a huge portion of their fanbase, and extremely disrespectful, not to mention ungrateful.

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#anti bryke#atla#i still remember this#and that they did NOT ask for permission for any of the art they used in the video#i followed some artists at the time who were really upset their ship art was used like this!#this is the big thing that keeps me from loving atla as much as i did when i was a kid
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There's one charity that I haven't seen shared here personally, and that's Care for Gaza.

They're shared a lot on twitter as a reputable on-the-ground relief source. You can donate to their gofundme to help their efforts here.

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crimson-ashes

They’re a grassroot organisation that regularly supply Palestinians with fresh food!

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SUPPORT PALESTINIAN BUSINESSES

while it’s important for us to protest, raise awareness, boycott, and pressure our governments… it is also important that we appreciate palestinian people and palestinian culture. they are more than just victims. they are artists, entrepreneurs, fashion designers, movie makers, writers, musicians, scholars—they are people. so let’s celebrate all that makes palestinians who they are by supporting their businesses and showing our appreciation and solidarity.
#palestine#q
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The biggest anti-war protest in Israel to date took place today (1/18/24)! Double the size of the last one I read about a while back:

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Protesters march in Tel Aviv, demanding a cease-fire in Gaza
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Haaretz.com

(Paywall-free link)

Cops allow anti-war demo after High Court says the right to protest is 'fundamental' | The Times of Israel
Cops allow anti-war demo after High Court says the right to protest is 'fundamental' | The Times of Israel
timesofisrael.com

Now is as good a time as ever to support Standing Together and Women Wage Peace, who organized this anti-war demonstration. They’re both made up of coalitions of Israeli and Palestinian peace activists.

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English | standing-together
Standing Together is the grassroots people’s movement in Israel. We organize Jews and Arabs, locally and nationally, around campaigns for pe
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Women Wage Peace - Women Wage Peace
Yes, there’s another waysee how our unique WORK PLAN › encourages a favorable outcomeYes, we have international backingconsider the power of
Women Wage Peace

Also if you have a bit of spare time, consider learning more about and supporting Israeli conscientious objectors (people who refuse the IDF draft). Helping people who refuse to serve is an excellent way to pave the way for more to do so in future.

Here are two stories, and organizations who support IDF refusers:

Refuser Updates — Refuser Solidarity Network
Refuser Updates — Refuser Solidarity Network
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And Breaking the Silence, IDF veterans’ testimonies about crimes against Palestinians since the Second Intifada and up to the present moment (more important than ever since Chile and Mexico are bringing a case against Israel for war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank as of today):

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Breaking the Silence
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada a
Breaking the Silence
#israel#palestine
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tuned into Plestia's live with Rahma Zein's second account (she got shadowbanned). key moments:

  • plestia talked about her adjustment to living in australia. "it's 1:30am now and it's normal for me and many palestinians who live abroad to be awake hours into the morning. i am scared of sleeping. because of the time difference, i'm scared if i sleep i will wake up to bad news. in gaza i was scared of the sound of the bombs, here i am scared of the quiet."
  • contacting family and friends in gaza is near impossible. "sometimes i feel like a crazy person, calling 20 times in a row hoping that on the 21st time the call might go through."
  • on the destruction of entire communities and neighbourhoods: "i'm scared when i go back to gaza i won't recognise it anymore. someone sent me a picture of my neighbourhood, and i couldn't tell it was mine at first. all my favourite places, cafes where the aunties used to give me extra food and ask about my day, have been destroyed. i dread looking at my gallery or seeing snapchat memories because most of these people in the pictures are no longer alive."
  • rahma asked plestia to talk about one story that stuck with her. plestia said "i remember walking one time on the 'safe corridor', that's what they called it anyway, and i saw an older woman clutching onto a donkey cart where her son's body was, refusing to let go of it. i asked my colleague what the smell was, he said it's dead bodies under the rubble. it was the first time i familiarised myself with the smell. the son's body was decaying and the woman told me about cats and animals eating away at it. i've had children talk to me about birds eating away at their parents' decomposing bodies and not being able to chase them away."
  • "it seems so silly to go to hospitals for minor sicknesses now. i can't even think about how many palestinian children are going to be terrified of hospitals now. there was a girl who was taken to the hospital to get treatment for injuries by one of the bombs, and while she was in the bathroom another bomb landed nearby. the impact from that sent the ceiling crashing down on her.. she got another injury while getting treated for her first one."
  • "i hate how people talk about our resilience - as if it's okay that this is happening to us. we are only surviving because we have to, because we have no other choice."
  • rahma brought up the way family homes are set up in palestine and asked plestia to elaborate. "basically, there are floors. someone will live on the ground floor, and then their married son lives with his children on the floor above them, and then their successors above them and so on. so when family homes are targeted, they wipe out entire families. many families officially no longer exist."
  • "i used to wear my journalist helmet and vest all the time, felt naked without it, even slept with the vest on sometimes until i realised it only made me more of a target. they didn't give me any protection, only headaches and back pain."
  • "i am an optimistic person, i loved covering sweet sentimental things, like at my graduation asking parents of top graduates how they feel about their children graduating. that's what i love reporting on. i wanted to cover things like that when i came back to gaza, show the beautiful side of gaza that the media didn't really show, but i didn't have the chance." "do you think they'll give you right of return?" "i can only hope."
  • plestia mentioned how hard it was being a journalist with limited access to the internet, charging facilities, no mics, lack of equipment and how difficult it was uploading things. rahma asked her what's one story that wasn't really recorded or posted due to these constraints; plestia said "the evacuations. sometimes they informed us about them, sometimes they didn't. you have no idea how hard it was, everyone looking for their family members, making sure every one was there, taking to the streets in 5 minutes and not knowing which way to go. i remember i went to my friend's house for shelter for 30 minutes before the first evacuation was announced and we ran to another family's house, stayed there for 2 days before another evacuation was announced. me, my friend, and that family all evacuated together to another family's house. there were already so many people there seeking shelter, it wasn't just one family staying there. none of us knew how long we had in any place."
  • before october 7th, palestinians were used to limitations on electricity. plestia used to plan her day's tasks around when the electricity was working. "for example when the electricity was on from 12 to 4, i would say i will do my laundry and charge the phones during this time. life wasn't exactly 'normal', but all of us pray to have those days back in comparison to what we are experiencing now." plestia also said that cars are running on cooking oil now because there is no fuel.
  • on hygiene: "many pregnant women have to give birth without any pain medication or medical attention. once we ran out of medicine, that was it. women who had to get C-sections couldn't stay to recover or get followup treatments because someone else needed the bed. we have no water, no tissues, no pads, barely any bathrooms. in the shelter schools you have to wait an hour before even getting to use the bathroom because of how many people are there."
  • "something you don't hear about is how many people die because of sadness. there's so many ways to die in gaza, because of the bombardment, because of starvation, the lack of resources, but i also know many elderly people who died because their hearts couldn't take it anymore. i have been in gaza before and lived through 4 aggressions, but nothing compared to this one."
  • a recurring sentiment that was echoed in the video: "sometimes i thought to myself: who am i recording this for? because we've already shown everything, we've already talked about everything. everything has already been said, the proof is everywhere, nothing i talked about today is new." rahma said the first video posted about what's happening in palestine should've been enough.
  • she is 22 today. plestia's closing words: don't stop talking about us, don't stop boycotting, don't stop protesting, please don't get bored of fighting for palestine.
#palestine
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sindri42

So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.

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gailcarriger

I knew pastry would save the world one day.

rosalarian

This is a good use of AI! Do the tedious work so the worker can socialize with the customer. And then use that same AI to fight cancer. This is fantastic! I hate AI “art” but not AI as a whole.

#ai#i looked this up - the article cited is a couple years old#but there are still updates about the system#its cool! good reminder to me a out ai and what it can be used for
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