Ways to support Ukraine 🇺🇦

More than 500,000 people have already left Ukraine due to the invasion by the Russian Federation. The European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management estimates that roughly 18 million Ukrainians will be affected by the conflict in humanitarian terms, with 7 million internally displaced and 4 million seeking refuge elsewhere. To help those still in Ukraine, as well as Ukrainian refugees, we’ve compiled this list of resources.

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30 trucks for 300,000+ starving people

ID: a tweet by @/MHDKSAFA, Mohamad Safa, who says "the baby who remained under the rubble all night in Gaza has made it safely. i see no one sharing. if he were dead, everyone would share! share positivity..."

attached is a photo of a baby with sparse, downy brown hair and dark eyes, wearing a blue shirt and bib with a tan bear head on it. he is lying in a white sheet and a wrap blanket of a blue animal with round ears. someone's hands are in view, one holding his.

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No middle sliders, but if you have an "it depends", put it in the tags or reblogs!

Storytelling (no matter the medium) needs excitement! Charisma! Presence!

The narrator (no matter the POV) needs an opinion in order for the audience to fully immerse in the narrative.

The lights flared and the cameras turned on to capture the action.

vs.

The lights! The camera! The action!

🇵🇸 the University of New Mexico is camping for for a free Palestine!! 🇵🇸

UNM is not happy about this

our encampment lives!! we made it through night 1!!!

[ID: a cardboard sign saying "cops go home we're staying"]

Day 3 of the encampment!! we're still here!!!

Day 4!!! we are not leaving until UNM divests!!

Day 5!!!

numbers dwindled as dead week approaches. we only had ~11 people this night. cops left expired citations early in the night but left and did not return! one demonstrated real maturity (/sarcasm) by putting an L to their forehead while passing us

we are still here and we will be here until UNM divests!!

police raided camp, stole a bunch of shit we are allowed to have, and then assaulted someone at the camp.

day 6! last night police gave notice that we are not allowed to sleep there anymore. they harassed the group 4 times during the night to make sure no one was sleeping. people stayed overnight with little to no rest.

day 7! resident life and student housing wants us gone by Monday. we have no plans to leave. last night the cops visited several times but most of the time they left before reaching camp. one of the times that they made it to camp they pushed me around alongside at least 2 other people. no one was injured or arrested.

if anyone could support us with some phone calls we could really use some help. police have been becoming increasingly violent. in particular officer Nicole Thorn (badge # 1238) and Travis Lente (badge # 1252) have been violent towards students. please help by calling the following numbers and demanding that, at minimum, they be reassigned due to their pattern of escalation and aggression. PROTECT THE PACK! HANDS OFF OUR STUDENTS!

Joseph Silva, Chief (505)277-1933

Christine Chandler, Deputy Chief (505)277-1934

Arturo Gonzalez, Commander, (505)277-3065

Tim Stump, Commander, (505)277-1935

Pete Guevera, Lieutenant, (505)277-0992

cops came by again and shoved me again. this time not just shoulder checking me but using their hands to full force shove me. I was the only one shoved and I was not injured. they are planning to remove us tonight and if they're using this much force in the daytime they will only use more at night.

the camp survived the night! happy day 8!!!

we! are! still! here!

RLSH still wants us gone today so we'll likely be facing violence from the police. we're very worried about the possibility of tear gas being deployed in camp. we are prepared for this but calling UNM PD is so helpful. let them know that the world is watching them and that they will not get away with harming us.

today we're holding a rally and march at 6pm. we demand:

Declare; a public call for ceasefire and an end to the occupation

Disclosure; of all UNM investments

Divestment; from all companies involved in the genocide of Palestinians

We took the student union building!!!! 🎉🎉

28+ state police cars outside, 10+ UNM PD, no arrests so far

multiple people were maced and arrested but we held the building until about 4am

camp is back up!

one of my friends was pretty badly beaten by riot police

camp is still going! it's day 10? 11? I've lost track I pulled an all nighter yesterday it doesn't feel like the protest was two nights ago. a total of 16 people were arrested and many people experienced police brutality. multiple people sustained injuries from the police. almost, if not all, of our comrades are out of jail

I was wondering if people on tumblr preferred gifs to videos. Many people told me that the sound was missing (and because I'm proud of my owl dubbing). I repost the video version here

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.  

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom: 

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke €(herring with potatoes and cottage cheese). Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

here’s the updated link, the project is now called “in her kitchen”

sometimes my friends send me good reels

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We didn't even post this reel/tiktok here and it's made it onto here!! That's so wild!!! It's so weird finding your own music/content out in the wild!!!

woahhh hello :DD

Hey there! Thanks for enjoying and sharing our stuff! I'm the banjo player and @swampysyd is the vocalist!

every day there is some future fucking lib congressional staffer in my notes saying "sure what biden is doing now is bad but if Trump were in office he'd be doing X" and then biden does X the next day

"The arabic word for uprising is antisemitic and those who use it should be prosecuted" would've been used in goddamn campaign ads for biden if the Trump administration had said it but Biden did it so the response from the blueanon crowd will range from private discomfort to enthusiastic agreement.

You don’t say.

For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better. 

She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.

Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest.  Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear.  I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”

She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there. 

You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.

“I never thought leopards would eat MY face, until I realized they totally would, and they will eat your face, too!” warns defector from the leopards-eating-faces party

don’t hide this in the tags….

#really important actually#like. it’s so important that we allow people to STOP voting for leopards eating faces#because if you attack anyone leaving the leopards eating faces party when they realize it’s bad#the only support system they’ll have is the people who want them to come back to it#you have to make it possible for people escape instead of considering them forever tainted and impure and inherently evil

May 2024 - With Eurovision coming up, and the fascist state of Israel being allowed to pinkwash their genocide of the Palestinian people once again, let's remember Icelandic anti-capitalist band Hatari who showed their support for Palestine in 2019 when Eurovision was being held in Tel Aviv, and were fined for it (€5000,- lmao). Later that same month they brought out the pro-Palestinian song Klefi / Samed (صامد) together with Palestinian artist Bashar Murad.

anyway, the BDS movement is calling for a boycott of Eurovision 2024!

You're a dumbass who the fuck says something like that

a few months ago my friend called me and told me she was moving back up near me from 7 hours south in the middle of nowhere and asked if i would help her because she couldn’t move the furniture by herself and the town was so small there was no moving company (there were actually only 5 or six businesses in the whole town including both restaurants) and she had no one else down there to ask. 

And even though money is pretty tight for her, she told me I could name my price if I would help her, because it was so far away.

I told her she was a dummy for thinking i would take her money but that i would accept the traditional helping-a-friend-move price: a meal (i know she would feel wrong about herself if she didn’t do something for me in return, that’s just how she is) Tradition suggests pizza and beer, we opted for enchiladas and a margarita.

we crashed on the floor of the empty place and left back north in the morning - when we got back to the city three more friends met us at her storage place (the place she was moving into wouldn’t be vacant for a couple months) and we started to move all her stuff up to a storage room on the THIRD FLOOR (because large city storage places be like that)

we had just taken the first box out of the truck when the (only) lady working there walked by and told us they closed in an hour and twenty minutes, and she couldn’t stay even a little late because she had to get to her other job.

One hour twenty minutes. To completely un-jenga a large uhaul and re-tetris it back into a similar sized room on the third floor.

We all just, shared a look, took off hoodies, and got the fuck down to business. 

It was actually.. I still cherish look we passed around. The tiny eyebrow quirks and chin nods. The eye glints. The bigger breath we each took as we prepared to kick it up several gears. That moment of wordless connection, when we all just silently agreed that we were damn well going to do the impossible and didn’t even waste the time it would take to say anything, just got to it.

And we did it too. Finished with exactly two full minutes to spare. And then we all went for dinner and drinks to celebrate. And my friend’s friends that came to help? Two of them were acquaintances/friends of mine already. Like I lived with one for a year a decade ago sort of thing. But this experience? Brought us all closer. Made myself a new friend too.

And the friend i helped move? She and I are closer than ever because of it.

When i left our storage success diner to go home, she asked me again if I was sure i wouldn’t take any money.

I said “I ever tell you when I was 22 I went down to Hollywood to try that scene out? Anyway ten months later, when I just couldn’t do it anymore, and needed to come back, I called one of my best friends and said i can’t do this anymore i need to come back. You know what he said? He said: I’ll be there tomorrow. Not how much will you pay me, not what do i get out of it, not will you be able to cover my gas, just: I’ll be there tomorrow. Okay? You’re my friend. If you need help, I’m going to be there”

If helping someone move ruins your friendship, you’re doing at least one of those two things very wrong.

Reblogging for the last line

Zionists are the scum of the earth

i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.