This what not what i was expected from the comments-

Palestinians are trying to rebuild their lives in Northern and Central Gaza as the occupation focuses its genocidal war machine on the South, particularly Rafah

genuinely, samir34's art of muslim dragonball characters is what artists in galleries are desperately trying to emulate. his shit has so much actual heart in it

TONIGHT. WE’RE DRINKING FROM THE POND.

where did op go?

made in honor of the now-extinct population of Falasteen crocodiles, the sunbirds that almost lost their names, and everyone else surviving the attempted erasure.

posted the other week as part of an ongoing fundraiser offering free prints and paid, with 100% of proceeds going to Care for Gaza. it has since been translated, wheatpasted, and flown on kites all over the world from Saigon to Scotland...!!!

monetary donations are never a substitute for holistic political action, and a push for a different world... but the shows of solidarity and support have lifted my spirits so much.

this is now available on a t-shirt too, screenprinted by hand in Texas!same deal: all profits go to food, medicine, and other critical supplies via Care for Gaza (& the PCRF). thank you for sharing.

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WHY DID THEY DELETE THAT SCENE OH MY GOD

Storyboard by Yasmin Khudari!!

jesus no

observe.

The fucking op name killed me

Something terrible happened here

This post is legendary

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

something about foreshadowing being more prominent the second time around reading a story but in a way that the meaning is changed forever and you can never view a story the same as you once did before. do you know what i mean.

literally so insane how you can never go back to the innocence of it all. you see all the signs coming and you know how it ends. but there's nothing you can do to turn a blind eye to it anymore. it hits you and you just have to keep going.

Rest in Peace, Bernard Hill 🤍🕊

Before Israel killed him, Palestinian scholar Refaat Al Areer wrote to his daughter:

Yesterday Israel killed his daughter Al-Shaymaa along with her husband and baby.

Who is going to tell Refaat and Shayma's story? Who's going to continue to tell the world how Israel obliterated entire bloodlines?

Refaat's poem continues to say

We must promise to keep the tale alive and to uphold the legacy of Refaat, Shayma and the 40,000 others who were murdered by Israel in its ongoing genocide.

Try as they might, but Palestine will never die.

Imsane rule

I love posts like this. Terminally online people finding out that reality isn't anything like the propaganda they've been fed. Terfs realizing that nobody likes their weird mental gymnastics. Incels realizing their bone measurement bullshit means nothing. It's always magical to watch someone's toxic world view crumble before them

I don’t like how the comments are like “haha you’re so stupid for believing those things, your ideals are crumbling” like that’s not how you deradicalize people. (You’re also not immune to radicalization btw) and you don’t get internet points for mocking people for learning and growing. GOOD FOR THIS GUY!! I’m so happy for him that he was able to get out of a community that obviously preyed on his anxiety, fear, and poor self esteem to keep him controlled. I hope he makes friends and continues to realize that YES the incels WERE lying to him, and YES he is allowed to be in a society and YES he has inherent worth as a human being beyond his physical body. GOOD FOR HIM!!!!

there's a pretty intense one posted after you posted this where someone pointed out that deradicalization is important and you can't just get rid of bad people without addressing the root of the problem and got an "I loathe you on a personal level." for one reply. over the possibility of deradicalization! like, i understand given context, but holy shit we have got to start understanding that the answer to there being bad people with dangerous ideas is not to hope that we get to get rid of all of the bad people eventually--it's to turn those bad people into less bad people, then not bad people, then good people. it's a messy and strenuous process that is uncomfortable for everyone involved but its necessary

similarly i see a lot of sentiment in general against "praising people for basic decency" but like. humans are simple creatures. if you being nice and exercising good habits is constantly met with people pointedly refusing to congratulate you on improving, and your bad habits are encouraged quite a lot--and ESPECIALLY if people treat you like you still have your bad habits even after you throw them away just for having ever had those bad habits--then you're gonna backslide and confirm what people thought: you were ontologically evil and just trying to trick them when you were sincerely trying.

tumblr just doesn't believe that people can change for the better, it feels.

As far as "praising people for basic decency", I think people fuck up when they say that by forgetting that people deserve praise for the first step. People always deserve praise for significant progress but also for that first occasion. As an adult who has tied my own shoes for more than 2 decades now, I don't deserve a cookie for tying my shoes today. It's a non event, because it's easy and routine for me. FOR ME.

Someone who has never tied their own shoes before, regardless of age, deserves a cookie for managing it today though.

Also if illness or injury fucked or injury fucked with my ability to tie shoelaces, I would deserve a goddamn cookie for managing to tie my laces again. Just to be clear, because it wouldn't be easy or routine for me in that case.

Stop comparing people to your own capacity for five fucking minutes and think instead about how much better they're doing today vs last month.

Some people don't pick up the important life skills of making friends and figuring out who is or isn't full of shit in a timely manner. Then they grow up and they fall in with people who are full of shit - they deserve a fucking cookie for figuring out that community is full of shit.

One of the core issues with incel ideology is that it ends up self reinforcing; Too much time spent in incel spaces means they end up adopting their meme laden hateful vernacular, which makes communicating with them incredibly unpleasant and difficult, which makes people avoid them, which makes them think that the point about how everyone will hate them forever is true, which makes them dig deeper into incel space which-you get it. The same is broadly true for TERFs and white nationalists, although that is a Venn diagram with a lot of overlap.

Getting people out and communicating with normal people before they get in too deep, before they take the Black Pill or start transvestigating their friends, is crucial to deradicalization. It might grate against your sensibilities to congratulate someone for not using the word "Femoid" or suggesting that some random women are secretly trans, but letting people know that there's an out, that they aren't permanently ruined by their time spent in these circles, is the best tool to help them leave.

my dad actually started repeating a couple incel talking points the other day and i paused the whole conversation to brief him on what incels were and how these initially plausible concepts were the start of a very dangerous funnel that would leave you bitter, miserable, and isolated... and dependent on the group of assholes who had led you to that despair. and also that the concepts themselves broke down quickly once you started thinking about real life counter examples.

it's hard to deal with entrenched ideology, but it's always worth working this particular angle of 'scammers want you to be scared and angry about a problem they made up, so you trust the very guys who are ripping you off.' it's the most efficient wedge ive ever found to let the light in.

like, people wrapped in cynicism and bitterness dismiss you if you try to jolly them out of it and they hate you if you just bluntly fight them. but we're all inclined to listen if someone who cares about says 'oh, wait, i think maybe you're getting scammed.'

I miss the era where there'd be outtakes to animated movies like toy story or early 2000s barbie movies that shit was hilarious and so wholesome

what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”

That’s actually fascinating, does anyone have any examples?

Chinese-American food is a really good example of this and this article provides a good intro to the history http://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/03/illustrated-history-of-americanized-chinese-food

I took an entire class about Italian American immigrant cuisine and how it’s a product of their unique immigrant experience. The TL;DR is that many Italian immigrants came from the south (the poor) part of Italy, and were used to a mostly vegetable-based diet. However, when they came to the US they found foods that rich northern Italians were depicted as eating, such as sugar, coffee, wine, and meat, available for prices they could afford for the very first time. This is why Italian Americans were the first to combine meatballs with pasta, and why a lot of Italian American food is sugary and/or fattening. Italian American cuisine is a celebration of Italian immigrants’ newfound access to foods they hadn’t been able to access back home.

(Source: Cinotto, Simone. The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City. Chicago: U of Illinois, 2013. Print.)

Stuff you Missed in History Class has a really good podcast overview of “Foreign Food” in the US.

I LOVE learning about stuff like this :D

that corned beef and cabbage thing you hear abou irish americans is actually from a similar situation but because they weren’t allowed to eat that stuff due to that artificial famine

<3 FOOD HISTORY <3

Everyone knows Korean barbecue, right? It looks like this, right?

Well, this is called a “flanken cut” and was actually unheard of in traditional Korean cooking. In traditional galbi, the bone is cut about two inches long, separated into individual bones, and the meat is butterflied into a long, thin ribbon, like this:

In fact, the style of galbi with the bones cut short across the length is called “LA Galbi,” as in “Los Angeles-style.” So the “traditional Korean barbecue” is actually a Korean-American dish.

Now, here’s where things get interesting. You see, flanken-cut ribs aren’t actually all that popular in American cooking either. Where they are often used however, is in Mexican cooking, for tablitas.

So you have to imagine these Korean-American immigrants in 1970s Los Angeles getting a hankering for their traditional barbecue. Perhaps they end up going to a corner butcher shop to buy short ribs. Perhaps that butcher shop is owned by a Mexican family. Perhaps they end up buying flanken-cut short ribs for tablitas because that’s what’s available. Perhaps they get slightly weirded out by the way the bones are cut so short, but give it a chance anyway. “Holy crap this is delicious, and you can use the bones as a little handle too, so now galbi is finger food!” Soon, they actually come to prefer the flanken cut over the traditional cut: it’s easier to cook, easier to serve, and delicious, to boot! 

Time goes on, Asian fusion becomes popular, and suddenly the flanken cut short rib becomes better known as “Korean BBQ,” when it actually originated as a Korean-Mexican fusion dish!

I don’t know that it actually happened this way, but I like to think it did.

Corned beef and cabbage as we know it today? That came to the Irish immigrants via their Jewish neighbors at kosher delis.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/

The Irish immigrants almost solely bought their meat from kosher butchers. And what we think of today as Irish corned beef is actually Jewish corned beef thrown into a pot with cabbage and potatoes. The Jewish population in New York City at the time were relatively new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe. The corned beef they made was from brisket, a kosher cut of meat from the front of the cow. Since brisket is a tougher cut, the salting and cooking processes transformed the meat into the extremely tender, flavorful corned beef we know of today.

The Irish may have been drawn to settling near Jewish neighborhoods and shopping at Jewish butchers because their cultures had many parallels. Both groups were scattered across the globe to escape oppression, had a sacred lost homeland, discriminated against in the US, and had a love for the arts. There was an understanding between the two groups, which was a comfort to the newly arriving immigrants. This relationship can be seen in Irish, Irish-American and Jewish-American folklore. It is not a coincidence that James Joyce made the main character of his masterpiece Ulysses, Leopold Bloom, a man born to Jewish and Irish parents. 

Ahh, similar origin to fish and chips in the UK then.

That meal came about either in London or the North of England where Jewish immigrant fried fish venders decided to team up with the Irish cooked potato sellers to produce the meal everyone associates with the UK.

Because while a bunch of stuff from the UK was lifted and adapted from folks we colonised (Mulligatawny soup for example, was an adaptation of a soup recipe found in India and which British chefs tried to approximate back home), some of it was made by folks who actively moved here (like tikka masala, that originated in a restaurant up in Scotland).

Super interesting.

And that’s BEFORE we get into replacing a staple crop! So in the Southern US, you have two groups of people, one who used oats and one who used plantains, and they BOTH replace their staples with corn. And then you get Southern food.

For those interested in a really deep dive on Chinese food in the United States, I cannot over-recommend Jennifer 8 Lee’s Fortune Cookie Chronicles.

artistry of decorating your own home / mosaics done by locals at near their flats, Kyiv, Ukrainie