A FLASH OF LIGHTNING

Sorry but in the year of our lord 2024 if your game has elaborate character customization and you can’t be fat WITH tummy jiggle physics in your fucking rtx raytracing photorealism game then you’re a fucking hack

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also what is with people tossing out support for nonbinary people when the nonbinary person is a celebrity. as soon as demi lovato changed their pronouns from they/them to they/she everyone, including supposed allies of the community, IMMEDIATELY dropped the “they” part of “they/she” and started referring to them as a woman again. then when “unholy” by sam smith and kim petras won a grammy people talked about how kim petras (just her) made trans history by being the first trans person to win a grammy. and yes this is something to be celebrated, but is sam smith not also trans by virtue of being nonbinary? did they not also make history? or do you not see them as nonbinary because they’re amab and not feminine enough to cross the man threshold for you? and yes nonbinary celebrities are not going to see you referring to them as if they were cis but your trans acquaintances sure as fuck are

Me and the terrifying supercomputer i pulled by understanding the sexual allure of the machine

They need more esims!

ID: Instagram post by mirna_elhelbawi. The text reads:

"Connecting Humanity" is in handwriting at the top left corner, and "Connecting Gaza" is written in a different handwriting font near the bottom right.

/End ID

They have easy to follow instructions for how to purchase, and the esims themselves are a range of prices (nomad has options from $9 -$32)

the flour massacre is ongoing. it is everyday. it was not an isolated event. it was not even the first time israel shot at and killed palestinians going for aid (they do it whenever they allow aid through). in fact, they did the exact same thing yesterday morning. just because smaller-scale murders go under the radar for lack of shock factor doesn’t mean they’re not happening continuously.

i don't think people really understand what's happening in gaza. with each passing day that sees more and more palestinians dead, it's becoming easier and easier for those in the west to perceive them as nothing more than a statistic. they might engage w the occasional palestine post, sure, but it's just as easy to scroll right past that moments later w no real outrage for the genocide retained.

it's vital to stay reminded that palestinians who are with us today won't be with us tomorrow. it's happening every second of every minute of every hour, and it's relentless. somewhere in gaza a little girl is losing her mother, a little boy is watching his siblings bleed to death, elderly people are infirm with starvation and illness, palestinian women and girls are being sexually assaulted and kept in cages, fathers are leaving tents to find food for their families and not coming back. this is all happening right now, and it's a direct result of the west's complacency. it's a direct result of their not seeing arabs as people worth saving.

it might be hard to compute as a westerner, but this is real. don't let your privilege blind you to your humanity.

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I’m actually so physically sick reading this. These Palestinians were malnourished, sick, frail. They just wanted sustenance for themselves, for their children. And Israel knows this. It knows it has created a fish bowl where people are starving every day, where they’re so desperate for the smallest morsel of food that they’re willing to go anywhere to get it. So they deliberately—on purpose—planted aid in a certain location, stayed waiting while Palestinians all rushed over for this promise of food, and then they opened fire. Now 104 Palestinians are dead, and the footage of this is so heartbreaking it actually made me wanna throw up. I am so incredibly tired of Arab lives being dispensable, or fodder for shock value videos. And with the UN having cut entry for aid trucks, I don’t know what the surviving Palestinians will do. It’s hard living with the fact that people care for Arab people so little, they’re willing to watch this and do nothing. Why are we not human to you?

It’s wrong to even say “Now with x Palestinians dead hopefully people will wake up,” because Palestinians are not out here trying to be some sort of symbol for anybody. They just wanna live, and they deserve to live, and they shouldn’t be framed as some means to an end. But even in saying that, it’s not as if Palestinian slaughter has stopped anyone anyway. People said Hind’s death would mobilize a change, but that did nothing. People said the threat to invade Rafah would mobilize a change, but that did nothing. A man self-immolated days ago, and that caught international attention—and yet it did nothing. I just want these people to live. I can’t stop thinking about the Arab families still in northern Gaza and the hell they’re going through just to stay alive. It’s too much.

We need to keep advocating for Palestine. Defeat is no better of an alternative. But it just amazes me how long Arabs have been begging and pleading with you to humanize them, to take their plights seriously, and how even with these stacking atrocities it changes nothing. Not even the horrific footage is moving anyone who can actually do something to do it. Arab lives have always been dispensable.

The machine demands blood…..

[Image Description: white text on a blue background reading: FROM AARON BUSHNELL'S WILL: "I am sorry to my brother and my friends for leaving you like this. Of course, if I was truly sorry, I wouldn't be doing it. But the machine demands blood. None of this is fair."

"I wish for my remains to be cremated. I do not wish for my ashes to be scattered or my remains to be buried as my body does not belong anywhere in this world. If a time comes when Palestinians regain control of their land, and if the people native to the land would be open to the possibility, I would love for my ashes to be scattered in a free Palestine." /End ID]

source for anyone curious — shared by friends of his.

Please take the time to read this full article and know and understand Aaron Bushnell as he was, not how the Western media claims him to be. He was deeply intelligent, a man of deep convictions, and we can all learn something from him, even just by the way his friends speak about him. Please read this with an open mind and soft heart.

In case the esim process confuses you or you aren't able to buy them yourself for any other reason, crips for esims for Gaza is collecting donations, they've almost met their goal of $150,000 raised. Donating allows them to buy esims in bulk which allows them to obtain more than individuals would be able to. I just donated and it was super easy as you can use paypal.

I just did this! As someone who is easily overwhelmed and confused even in life or death matters, this is extremely handy and rewarding. Get at it!

btw palestinians have been saying this would happen for 130 days and all leaders in the world have brushed us off. everyone refused to listen to us when we said they were going to kill our people regardless of where they stay. we have been saying again and again, they will gather these people in the south in order to kill them all at once.

وين نروح ؟؟؟

palestinians in the north of gaza are getting killed for staying, but those leaving to the south (which was called a “safe zone”) are killed on their way there. those who got to the south are killed by snipers and, now, carpet bombing. palestinians can’t even go to egypt anymore . they are killed before they get there.

سأكرر … وين نروح ؟