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Waving Palestinian flags, wearing traditional Palestinian garments, or if we're being honest, just being Palestinian, is now officially "too political" for Eurovision.

Literally, all Saade did was wear a keffiyeh around his wrist—while being Palestinian—and that was enough to get a statement from the EBU, and have his opening performance scrubbed from Youtube.

If you're not already boycotting Eurovision this year, then what the fuck is wrong with you?

Below are two statements from Saade. The first one, giving his reason for participating, was posted a few days ago, and the other was in response to the EBU accusing him of 'compromising the non-political nature' of the Genocide Song Contest:

Reminder again to BOYCOTT EUROVISION 🇵🇸

Worship

jerma plays l.a. noire

MONKEY MAN (2024)

stop drawing for others. don't draw for yourself either. play video games

idgaf how autistic you are stop being racist😭😭

idgaf how autistic you are stop being racist😭😭

white autistics get to struggle with being racist and black autistics get murdered for existing

Insane to me that the UK government is slowly trying to legislate trans people out of existence and I have not seen a single person talk about it

Single sex toilets are now legally required in all new buildings, the cass review may lead to a complete shutdown of all trans healthcare, single sex wards are being introduced to HOSPITALS and claims that trans people will be treated in private rooms is almost laughable given the current bed shortages, ensuring that trans people will be forced to wait even longer for life-saving procedures. Trans teenagers are being murdered and the government does not care. We are slowly being driven out of all public spaces and all healthcare.

Also in the last few days new NHS England guidance was leaked to the Good Law Project that states that the 6000+ kids on the wait list for NHS gender affirming care are going to be invited to deceptive face-to-face "mental health assessments" with their provider (in some areas starting as soon as 30th June 2024), and if they're found to be accessing transition care outside the NHS they may be advised to stop, and if they don't may face a safeguarding referral to local authorities. We don't know how serious this will get yet, but it's potentially extremely bad. The Good Law Project has said "It's reasonable to describe this as an attempt to force people to detransition".

I'm sorry I haven't seen any actionable steps to take about this yet as it's a developing issue, other than that it's very important you don't tell anyone if you or your child (or anyone else) are accessing gender affirming care outside the NHS.

This article has more details, and the author is a good person to follow for updates, as well as the Good Law Project themselves. Don't forget this isn't a time for panic, but instead to stay informed as best you can, care for each other, and get involved in pushing back against this.

Sorry for tagging your art with just # oogh or # oh. Just know this means im profoundly moved

the killer??

[ID: security video of a cat entering a house through a cat door as it holds a knife in its mouth. .end ID]

We need to bring back children’s programming that focuses on reading. I’m so serious

WE NEED THEM BACK ‼️‼️‼️

fun fact there's a political reason for less learning shows--the push for advertising in children's entertainment and deregulation surrounding it

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

can't have shit in Baltimore

oh my goddd just like the prestige drama television series The Wire (2002-2008)

somehow this guy was the most considerate carjacker in all of Baltimore. did he pull a gun on me? yeah. but he let me keep my phone and my wallet, and when he was driving away he rolled down the window and yelled at me "REPORT YOUR CAR STOLEN!" (the cops were confused and laughed when I told them this)

I told my husband @beemovieerotica that's what great about Baltimore, the crime is streamlined here.

the youth today, they have no class. these zoomers don't understand social cues and good manners. it takes a real upstanding citizen to rob your car at gunpoint and then immediately yell at you how to resolve your current dilemma. that's called community building

the downside of having comprehensive insurance

fucking love this city

also to all the bungo stray dog fans out there - yes, my gay ass little car was also being used as a fucking getaway vehicle.

White People on tumblr who dont listen to rap, ignoring all the racial and historical context of why Kendrick is going against drake to just make it a fun trendy meme/ Kendrick being a hater is the same exact reason Kendrick called drake a colonizer

As someone who knows, like, nothing at all about rap, could someone give me a SparkNotes rundown on the racial/historical context of the situation? Because I've tried to find a good summary but mostly all I've found is very light hearted "lol this is hilarious" stuff or dramatised "OOHHHH, THERES BEEF' stuff, which hasn't really helped me work out what's going on

There are no "sparknotes" for years, if not at least decades of racial/historical context for a whole genre of music that leads to this point.

However, if you're truly interested in learning about it, F.D Signifier has a whole indepth video about Drake and where he stands in the Rap/Hip Hop community

Also

This is a good follow-up to that video

Also, for general understanding of how Hip Hop ended up comodified to give even more context and understanding why it's considered that Drake is just a colonizer in the genre, I recommend Lil Bill's 3 parter on how the hood and subsequently rap and hip-hop got comodified

Theres also vids going over every diss exchanged between Drake and Kendrick and all that but those don't go over why people like Drake are a problem.