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Update Harvard students are walking out in solidarity with Columbia’s students

These are billion dollar for profit institutions that directly impact financial backing of Israel’s apartheid regime

MIT is walking out! Do you not understand how huge this is? Do you understand what holds Israel afloat?

In solidarity with Columbia Yale students have just constructed an encampment. Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing.

[image description: a screenshot of a tweet by braxtonbrew96 that reads, "unc students right now starting an encampment outside of the university administration building in solidarity with columbia students and palestine 🇵🇸." below the tweet is a video showing the encampment. the tweet has been quote retweeted by aditilrao, who adds, "encampments on every campus until the cops are off them all!! reclamation ❤️‍🔥 abolition ❤️‍🔥 divestment now ❤️‍🔥." end description.]

unc-chapel hill students as well! this is as of 4/19/24.

Not socialist in a “I won’t have to work” type of way but socialist in a “I’ll still be working but I won’t be worried I won’t make the rent” type of way. In a “billions won’t be hoarded by one person” type of way. In a “janitors, fast-food workers, child care workers, preschool teachers, hotel clerks, personal care and home health aides, and grocery store cashiers, will live comfortably” type of way. In a “the sick and elderly will be cared for” type of way. In a “no child should work” type of way.

happy black sails on netflix to all who celebrate

it really is insane how waking up early will grant you access to some of the most beautiful sights and sensations in the world that will make you want to live forever, but only if you overcome the gauntlet of a thousand razors that is getting out of bed early. truly one of life's little saw traps.

Honestly the best part of being a barista was charging cops for their drinks. They're so used to getting free shit so it was SOOOOO good for them to pull up to the window and for me to be like "$6.47 :)" and them to make this whole elaborate display of slowly pulling their wallet out and handing their card over bc they weren't expecting to pay. I'd charge you double if I could, oink oink bitch

how could you leave this in the tags

I’ve seen the idea tossed around on here that Darcy and Emma Woodhouse have similar character arcs, and I’d like to expand on that idea. Every female lead from a Jane Austen novel has a male equivalent with a similar personality and plot arc in one of the other books. Don’t believe me? Read on.

Emma Woodhouse & Fitzwilliam Darcy

Both Emma and Darcy were handed all of life’s gifts on a silver platter: looks, money, brains. They were also given a ton of social responsibility at a relatively young age, and with no one to check their worst impulses, they are solely reliant on their own judgement, motivated by good intentions but sometimes screwing up royally. They both fall for the only person who is capable of calling them out on their BS. They both ruin a friend’s chance at happiness in love due to concerns about social class, only to bring the couple back together after learning the error of their ways. Occasionally they come off as haughty, and they have a tendency to say rude things that they don’t really mean without thinking, but they love their family and friends fiercely, and grow immensely as people over the course of their respective novels.

Fanny Price & Edward Ferrars

This isn’t a comparison I’ve heard outside of my own head, but there are so many parallels between these two! They’re both quiet people who have a tendency to fade into the background, overwhelmed by the more dominant personalities of their families, but containing hidden depths and a moral compass of steel. Both are faced with the prospect of marrying an exceptionally wealthy person, and are subject to huge amounts of pressure from their families, only to turn them down. At that point in the narrative, they stand no chance of ever getting to be with the person they love, and risk poverty and ostracism by turning down the rich suitor, and they do it anyway. Not out of any hope of truly finding love, mind you, but because they believe it is the right thing to do, and thus the only thing to be done.

Elizabeth Bennet & Henry Tilney

Both Lizzie and Tilney are mega-extroverts. They love nothing more than to poke fun, both at others and at themselves. They’re the life of the party, the center of attention. Not exceptionally attractive, but you’re too busy laughing to notice. They both cause family falling-outs by rejecting wealth in the hopes of gaining love, and they both have a sweetly-introverted sister who they love more than anything on the face of this planet.

Elinor Dashwood & George Knightley

These two have the same sort of energy: almost a Mom Friend. They’re intensely pragmatic, thinking realistically about finances and the other humdrum realities of life that others refuse to acknowledge. In social situations they fulfill the same part in the dynamic, smoothing over ruffled feathers and putting up with some true absurdities, always the very picture of kindness and propriety. Elinor’s reactions to Anne Steele and the other less-intelligent people she meets at Barton Park read very similarly to how Knightley handles Mrs. Elton. Knightley’s pre-romantic dynamic with Emma is similar to Elinor’s with Marianne, the same sort of exasperated fondness at their best friend who can’t control her impulses and thinks she knows everything.

Marianne Dashwood & Frederick Wentworth

Both Wentworth and Marianne have the same hot-headed force of will, which serves Wentworth so well in the Navy and Marianne so poorly in London drawing rooms. They’re both unlucky in their first loves, thinking things are reciprocated and expecting a ring when there was none forthcoming, due more to familial pressures than to lack of affection by their counterpart. The difference in their fates is due not to them, but to their love interests: Anne is the very definition of constancy and devotion, and Willoughby is… not, to say the least.

Jane Bennet & Colonel Brandon

(For the record, I know the Bingleys aren’t technically protagonists, but I’m including them anyway because I love them, and you can’t tell me not to). Both Jane and the Colonel are painfully reserved, to the point where others underestimate the true depths of their feelings, but just because it’s not obvious doesn’t mean it’s not there. Other people (Willoughby, Darcy) misinterpret this quietness, reading what they want into Jane and CB’s characters to serve their own ends. They’re loved by all in their respective social circles, and everyone in their stories supports their romantic aims, but family scandals, as well as rivals real and imagined, keep the lovers apart until the end of their respective books.

Anne Elliot & Edmund Bertram

They’re both unassuming, introverted middle children of baronets, sandwiched between frivolous, self-important older siblings who spend away the younger sibling’s inheritance, and younger sisters who will do anything for attention. They’re both portrayed by the narrative as being the only person in their family with more sense than vanity, doing their best to set their wayward relatives on better paths. Both make a decision early on regarding their love lives that seemed to be a great idea at the time, only coming back to bite them later (Edmund’s involvement with Mary despite their differing goals/values, Anne’s rejection of Wentworth). They both come to their senses at the end, getting together with the one who had been Admiring Them All Along in the background.

Catherine Morland & Charles Bingley

They’re both giant people pleasers, earnest but naïve and easily lead by others. Whether it’s Darcy telling Bingley not to propose to Jane, or Catherine taking Isabella Thorpe’s abundant bad advice, they both trust their friends wholeheartedly, which leads to some misfortune for them both. Catherine and Bingley are sometimes perceived as less intelligent, but they just lack experience. They come off as younger than their peers, falling in love easily and not worrying much about the greater world and its judgements.

Wanted to bring some attention to BDS’s Join a BDS Campaign page for anyone who want to take action locally and isn’t sure where to start. I’ve found multiple organizations in my city through this search engine, and they usually have IG pages/newsletters if you wanna keep tabs. My local organization provides transportation to statewide rallies if you don’t have the means to drive there yourself, hosts phone banks on Zoom where locals collectively call state and city reps and pressure them to publicly speak out against the genocide in Gaza, and organizes fundraisers to raise money to humanitarian aid in Gaza. Basically you’ll have a lot of opportunities to help if that’s something you’re interested in. Marching is an option, but it’s not the only thing if you’d rather get involved in other ways.

It has been so incredibly fulfilling to work alongside people in my city who’re just as invested in Palestine’s liberation as me. I really do recommend this to anyone who’s interested enough and has the time of day to help. If you’re busy, there are still some low-impact things you can do like emailing reps, leaving public comments, and donating. These organizations usually make it more accessible by giving you the resources to assist w that on a local scale. It really does make a difference, however small it may be.

Adding that BDS’s IWA program (Israel Apartheid Week) starts on March 1st, so keep tabs on that if you’re interested. I believe it’s kind of similar to the global strike Bisan held, where they host a plethora of events to help bring heightened awareness/assistance towards aiding Palestine. You can sign up for the BDS newsletter here if you want to keep tabs on stuff like that in the future.

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Let me tell you about Oregon mail in voting because I fucking love voting in this state.

They send you an entire book with information on all the candidates and bills right there. The way proposed bills and amendments are formatted is they have a neutral, plain language summary, the actual text of the bill, and then arguments for or against submitted by various groups. It's a solid summary of the issue being voted on and its various sides delivered right to your doorstep. Sometimes the sheriffs claim something that's the literal opposite of what the bill says and you can see the blatant lies because the text of the bill is literally on the previous page. It's great, everywhere should do this.

The arguments section is usually like 2-3 pages, 4-6 if its a controversial issue. The arguments section for this amendment was TWELVE pages long with not a single argument against. 12 whole pages of unanimous bipartisan support. Bills dealing with gun control and drugs haven't been this long!

We did it. We found the bipartisan agreement everyone's been looking for and its that senators should have to show up to their fucking jobs. Truly everybody disliked this.

So as the GOP throw their little tantrums, please know that their own voter base was absolutely dragging their asses over this and laugh at their baby tears.

this reply kills me 😭

this is "if you can't afford to pay your workers you can't afford to stay in business". I'm sorry, if you can't train your AI without copyrighted material, you have no business doing what you're doing.

If you are using copyrighted material you need to license it and compensate the owner just like anyone else were you born in a barn?

Saw this tweet on Blue Sky yesterday

"20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, do that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital."

Antique 1920's Rat Perfume Figural Bottle from Germany ebay Diane's Clearinghouse

Item: bottle of Rat Musk

i love posts that are like “life doesn’t end at 25! it’s ok to have new experiences and meet new people at 26, or even 27 :-)”

from the introduction to emily wilsons translation of the iliad

"Kill them with kindness" WRONG. drop the opera house chandelier on them.

i think more people would be getting laid if it wasn't a logistical nightmare

to get high speed railed