Hodgepodge

Okay, so that one little sketch was so much fun that I had to expand it a bit... :D

knitting tutorial made by a twenty-something knitting influencer: 18 min long, 12 of those minutes being the intro and a sponsor plug, they show the first few steps of the tutorial at the slowest speed known to man, they show the most important steps at a neck-break speed, they stop every five seconds to talk about what they just did, 40,000 comments filled with questions ranging from insightful to “how do i knit”, filmed with a camera that costs more than a car, the tutorial is incorrect.

knitting tutorial made by a seventy-something grandmother: two min long, filmed 17 years ago, shows you what you want with the skilled patient hands of a beloved deity, made with the world’s shittiest camera, the best video on the fucking internet, four comments and 30 views, you lose the video and never find it again.

two things i’m noticing in the notes:

1. every artist/crafter/cook agreeing that influencers in their communities also pull shit like this

2. ppl shouting out their fav old lady tutorials and being like “i would die for u diane”

Mechanical snencils

boycott eurovision. free palestine. fuck the zionist occupation.

sketches of the 10th doctor as a little weasel

please rb so other wheelchair users see this :)

have some taz sapphics, on the house

i’ll blow myself up just to hold u again

One of the things that pisses me off most about this genocide and overall occupation is how many people say it's so complicated and there's so much nuance and there isn't one easy solution. This is one of the simplest things I have ever seen. Zionists invaded palestine in 1947-48. They have occupied it for 76 years while taking more and more land. They kidnap and torture and massacre Palestinians day in day out for those 76 years. They control every aspect of Palestinian life, including their water and medical care. And now they are committing another genocide against them. Where is the complication? What is hard to understand? "Well, Jewish people need a place where they won't be discriminated against" I absolutely agree. So make every country in the world safe for Jewish people. Fight against anti Semitism across the world. Don't commit a genocide and set up an ethnostate.

What you describe here could be summed up by the Bundist concept of Doikayt (דאָיִקייט). "Hereness". It is the idea of making wherever Jews live in diaspora safe enough to be our home, fighting anti-semitism, fighting fascism, and strengthening our community. It is a notion that stands in stark contrast to the Zionist occupier obsession with "Thereness"/Isnotreal and forcing somewhere else to be a genocidal ethnostate.) Zionists have tried to hide this history from us. But, of course, mention Bundism/Doikayt to any Zionist and they will mock those of the Jewish Labour Bund who were murdered during the holocaust and tell us this concept is "dead". Anti-Zionist movements and thought from Jews terrify Zionists because it proves how faulty and unnecessary their ideology is.

I implore my fellow Jews to learn more about Doikayt/Bundism, don't let Zionists hide your history from you. Stand up, be loudly anti-Zionist, be loudly anti-fascist, stand up against the injustice and genocide that Isnotreal perpetrates! The occupation of Palestine and the genocide of her people must end! FREE PALESTINE!

israel is bombing rafah. as you read this, israel is bombing the one place they told palestinians was safe. they kept pushing the palestinians south and now they are bombing the only "safe" place left. israel is bombing rafah.

How can you talk about anything else today. She was six. Millions heard her cries begging to be saved. We heard her older cousin be slaughtered, heard the baby pull the phone from her cousin's dead hands, heard her cry and beg to be saved, to be allowed to live, to be pardoned for a crime no one in that fucking car committed. The occupation knew she was there, knew she was the only one alive in that pile of bodies, and they killed her anyway. They knew, they knew, they knew. They allowed paramedics to approach her, and then bombed them just mere meters away from her, then killed her. The occupation allowed them to believe she could be saved and then killed all of them moments away from her rescue. She was in a car fleeing the evacuation zone along the correct route as instructed. The ambulance waited three hours, three hours of her being trapped between the rotting bodies of her dead family, for the occupation's permission to save her, and when they gave it, the occupation killed them anyway. What else is there to say. How can you quantify that level of cruelty. How many more worse things have happened that we don't have a recording of? How much evil has the zionist occupation regime been allowed to get away with in the interest of western imperialism? How many six year old girls who love bratz, who have a bluey plush, who want to grow up to be doctors or ballerinas or astronauts, have been sniped from this earth? Their bodies desecrated, left to bloat and be eaten by animals and have their graves bulldozed and their organs taken? At least ten fucking thousand. At least.

It's okay if you've pushed yourself too far. It's okay if you overdid it and are dealing with the consequences. It's okay if you did something that made your condition worse, intentionally or unintentionally. You have autonomy & do not have to only do things that make you "better".

Canary in a coal mine