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GIFTOBER 2023 • day 21: spring/autumn
OVER THE GARDEN WALL (2014) Chapter 2: Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee
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Another aspect of the Gaza Genocide that I want to talk about is the complicity of Internet banking and crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe.
I have seen multiple Gazans raise enough money to leave for Egypt, but the banks and the crowdfunding websites freeze their money or cancel their funds for "suspicious activity" or whatever. Every day that passes in Gaza supplies get more scarce, conditions get more deadly, and the price to cross into Egypt gets more expensive. I've seen people, like ghost-90 here on Tumblr, raise the full amount to get their entire family out of Gaza, but their money gets frozen for so long that the original goal is only a fraction of the price now needed to cross the boarder.
These financial institutions should not be allowed to get away with contributing to the death toll in Gaza. They are intentionally keeping people trapped in a kill zone by withholding money that is rightfully theirs.
I'm so pissed and angry that every avenue for relief for Palestinians is being cut of left and right. It is vile that Gazans are being extorted for 10s of thousands of dollars by the Egyptian gov just to save their family's lives, but even when they play by this corrupt game, the world still finds a way to make them suffer.
My heart is with every Palestinian for the rest of time, from river to sea you will all be free. 🇵🇸❤️
Some more information from killy, the organizer of ghost-90's crowdfund, about how fucked the process is for Gazans to actually get paid out by GoFundMe.
And this is just one story from one person who had a little visibility at the time. How many funds have been frozen that no one knows about cuz they don't have any visibility? How many do we not know about cuz the recipient died while waiting for their funds to be released?
These financial institutions have blood on their hands just as much as the bastards dropping the bombs.
And for the people in the notes saying that the banks are just fallowing the law, laws that allow free transfer of money to Western countries but heavily criticizes and restricts money sent to the Middle East (or really any country that isnt part of the West) is racist and imperialist. Fallowing racist laws is still racist. But I think y'all might be understating how much power the banks have in this situation, they are choosing to fallow these "laws" of their own volition.
Don't try to cover for multi-billion dollar organizations that are directly profiting off genocide and people's desire to save their families from brutal death.
I'm glad for your help and thanks to anyone still helping 🙏❤️
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do you know what exactly it is that the splatfest food vendors around splatsville could be making?
well its all very low poly, but i can pretty confidently identify some takoyaki, dumplings and maybe dango, and churros?
as for the rest of it, uh.. ur guess is as good as mine
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The fluffiest Splatfest.
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A little drawing of them. For me. As a treat
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Chūshingura (47 Rōnin)
47 gishi (Gishi shijushichi zu 義士四十七図) ou Akō gishi.
Par ordre alphabétique :
05 - Hara Sōemon Mototoki 06 - Hayami Tozaemon Mitsutaka 07 - Hazama Jujiro Mitsuoki 08 - Hazama Kihei Mitsunobu
Ogata Gekkō 尾形月耕 (1859 - 1920).
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slapped some colors on that one wooooo
Osamu Tezuka
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Some of the “tetrapod vertebrate” wildlife on the avian homeplanet in Runaway to the Stars. All of them have six or less fairly simple eyes with a retina, lens, and sphincter eyelid; four legs with four digits or less; and an axial skeleton ending in a pelvis. Like a frog, they have no tail vertebrae– any “tail” you find on avian wildlife (and on avians) is a muscular structure connected to a knob at the end of the pelvis. Avians are part an extremely small and recent group in the feathered clade, who are the first “tetrapods” on their planet to evolve powered flight. I drew one of the non-sapient members of the group here.
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A patron asked about young avian activities and school life! Young avians mature very slowly in comparison to most flying animals. Earth birds generally reach full size and are capable of flight in under a year, but avian young take much longer than this, perhaps because of their evolutionary history as sapients untroubled by any terrestrial predators larger than them. They grow up ridiculously fast by human standards though: at one year an avian can stand bipedally and run, at 3 years they grow flight feathers and can speak with the coherence of a 7 year old human, by 5-7 years old they’re full adult size and begin puberty, at 12 years old they are legal adults under most governments.
Favorite games among youngsters are often very active and put to trial their still uncoordinated motion control. These youngsters are playing ringbite, a sport where players can only hold the “ball” with their beak. When their flight feathers grow in next spring they’ll upgrade to flying ringbite, and be really terrible at it for a while. Their dunparents will be kissing many a skinned ankle.
Avian school life is sort of… nonexistent? And when existent, extremely non-universal. Avian societies tend to subsidize a very different set of public amenities than real human governments do; with nearly universal public housing and meal allowances but rarely any public schools. Free housing and meals are vital for avian society to function, as duns raise children alone, and often cannot work and support multiple children at the same time. Education tends to either happen through dunparents passing on basic knowledge to kids, undirected book and web reading, or paid private tutors. Tutors almost always teach clients one-on-one, and often on very specific topics. Many of these tutors are brights, who scope out successors and apprentices for their business by choosing favorite students.
This lack of basic universal education leads to a lot of avians not really knowing much outside of their chosen field. A brilliant engineer could know almost nothing about basic biology and the history of their own country, other than whatever they happened to read about it on their tablet. This worsens a lot of class divides in avian countries and makes populations very easy to politically manipulate, because to people who cant afford books or tutors, whatever politician is paying the most to have their message reach them is the majority of the information they get.
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With tube plants, I’m really curious if any are edible, and if so what’re they like, and how avian culture sees them. While Taxonomically they’re animals, does avian culture consider them plants? For a random example, let’s say the avians, like us, had a religious period where they can’t eat meat. Would worm plants be considered off limits, or the same as anything else? Not saying that religion or whatever exists, it’s just the first frame of reference I could think of. Another example might be how fungi are considered vegetables, but are an entirely different kingdom.
As for eating, I’m curious if they have a more meat-like texture and taste, or a more plant-like one. I’m assuming the former. If they’re eaten, what are the parts that are eaten and how are they usually prepared? Do the avians have any traditions or culture regarding the tube, like we do with wishbone breaking or bone carving? Is it possible to farm them, and are they?
Avian cultures usually classify plantworms in the same group of food as shellfish, which they resemble the most nutritionally. They are more like a clam than a plant. Many are toxic as a defense against being eaten, but the ones avians can consume are usually cooked whole (in or out of shell) unless a specific body part is unpalatable (usually the gut or frond tentacles). For larger worms, they may be trimmed down to the tastiest part, the retractor muscle. It's very possible to farm them, and many are also cultivated for their beauty as landscaping plants. Their tubes are most commonly used to make plaster for building, or beads.
Vegetarianism is overall more rare in avian cultures than ours because they have a higher calorie-per-pound requirement than humans and many live on small islands where grain agriculture is more difficult to live off exclusively than fishing. There are several grades of culturally distinct pescetarian diets in modern avian cultures though, some of which view eating large "vertebrates" as unacceptable, land animals as unacceptable, vertebrates in general as unacceptable, only plantworms are acceptable, or hardline only plant matter and eggs (which may or may not include plant worm "leaves and flowers"... which can grow back). Hardline vegetarianism or veganism is more common among flightless avian cultures, who historically have had the most arable land.
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Its from that meme
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I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."
"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.
"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?
"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.
If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.
You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.
"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.