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I’ve yet to see St. Valentine’s skull on tumblr this year so here you go:
happy optional memorial of saint valentine, bishop and martyr
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Isabella Hammad, from Enter Ghost
[Text ID: Haneen once compared Palestine to an exposed part of an electronic network, where someone has cut the rubber coating with a knife to show the wires and currents underneath. She probably didn't say that exactly, but that was the image she had brought into my mind. That this place revealed something about the whole world.]
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“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.”
~Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five”
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Hello Kitty NK62 phone･ﾟﾟ･｡♡
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Lit Hub has posted an article with the names, photos and biographies of the Palestinian poets and writers killed by the IOF since the beginning of October. May we remember them, their names & their poems 🍉🕊🍓🪁
"Since October 7, Israel has killed at least thirteen Palestinian poets and writers in Gaza.
If we think of ourselves as a global literary community, then these people were our fellow travelers, our peers.
They—just like the more than 66 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza in the line of duty; just like every one of the more than 21,000 innocent people massacred in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel over the past 75 days—deserve to be remembered."
the article notably quotes the poem “Life” by Saleem Al-Naffar, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Dec. 7: “Knives might eat / what remains of my ribs, / machines might smash / what remains of stones, / but life is coming, / for that is its way, / creating life even for us.”
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Brooch (English, 1830-1850).
Bloomed and chased coloured gold; separate shell petals.
© The Trustees of the British Museum.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.
Source: britishmuseum.org
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when the archives filled with centuries worth of culture were bombed, when the library that people loved and cherished is obliterated, when bisan said there was no present, past, or future for them to hold onto anymore. they are trying to make Gaza a hollow word. they are trying to make it a ghost. but they can't! because they are alive! we are alive! we are alive!
we are alive!
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It's so sad that I am hearing of Bosnian genocide survivors talk about how they are triggered by the genocide denial happening around gaza. That the rhetoric that is being thrown around in the media and the rationalization for killing thousands and the talk of "let's be careful of what we call genocide. Let's wait before we call it that" is repetitive of what they were hearing when they were living through it
And Holocaust survivors who were protesting in DC and feeling the burden of having to come out and protest another genocide being done in their name except the media has completely sidelined them because it does not fit the narrative.
I have no other words except how terrible this is but it feels comforting in a weird way that genocide survivors are standing with Gaza. Who needs the acknowledgement of governments when you have them
An interview with genocide researcher and survivor of the Bosnian genocide Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura
My initial reaction to seeing the destruction of Gaza — the videos of children being pulled out of rubble, the bodies of the dead — was that it reminded me so much of my own experience. It was hard for me these past two weeks to go to sleep and sleep through the night. I would dream of Gaza. I would dream of Sarajevo, I would dream of Visegrad, I would dream of Srebrenica. I was seeing it all play out and it was terrifying. So my initial reaction was: Dear God, this is going to be a genocide. We saw what happened on Oct. 7. The immediate reaction of Israeli politicians, government leaders and defense forces was to publicly and openly call for the destruction of Gaza. “We’re going to destroy them all.” “These are human animals.” “We’re cutting off food, electricity, water, aid.” That was the first red flag to me, when they said “we’re cutting everything off.” It instantly put me back to living in Sarajevo during the siege, when we were completely cut off from the world. We had no way in or out. We were being bombarded every single day. There was not a day that they did not shell us, attack us with snipers, throwing grenades, bombs, whatever they could. There was not a single day where we were able to breathe. Knowing that the Palestinians in Gaza are going through this as well right now, it was difficult for me not to see those similarities instantly. What do you say when [Israel] cuts off their access to water, to electricity, to food, to aid, and then they bomb them? How do you not describe that as genocide?
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It’s been horrific to see the levels of dehumanization. That they’re considered terrorists, that they’re all extremists, that they got what they deserve. That sort of rhetoric is so similar to the Serbian propaganda prior to the genocide. We were classified as terrorists. The Serb civilians were told, “If you don’t kill them, they’re going to kill you. They’re going to attack you.” Meanwhile, we had no plans of attacking. We wanted to live in peace with our neighbors, as we always had. We just wanted freedom, just like any other person wants. There wasn’t a systematic plan in place of the Bosniak Muslim population to ever attack any of its neighbors. But there was a systematic plan in place from Serb leadership to attack and exterminate the Bosniak Muslim population. In order for any government to to commit a genocide, it needs the enablement of the population. We’ve seen in the Holocaust that people stood by and stayed silent while Jews were taken off to concentration camps, while their properties were looted, while they were forcibly displaced and put in ghettos all over Europe. So, for any government to commit genocide, they have to push severe propaganda. It’s disinformation with the goal of making that population of people so fully dehumanized that when we start to bomb and kill and massacre them, the world just simply stands by, because to them these are not valuable lives. These are not human lives. They are animals to be exterminated, and if we don’t exterminate them, they’re going to attack all of us. They’re going to attack the sanctity of our life, of the way that we live our lives.
Read the whole thing
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Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they developed out of objective evidence? No. They come from works of fiction written by US liberals, and from them alone. They come from three kinds of fiction: childrens TV shows, US highschool's required reading list, and video game storylines.
— Mao Zedong, Where Do Correct Ideas Come from? (May 1963)
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Content warnings for antiblack, transphobic, classist violence
This is unbearably horrible. He was just trying to survive and he was murdered for it. He was turned away from multiple shelters before this, the culture we live in failed him in every way. Rest in peace Banko 💔
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Over the past few months, Fox has used tracks from the band’s latest album 10,000 gecs as transitional music for its afternoon panel show The Five, with co-anchor Greg Gutfeld even referring to Dylan Brady and Laura Les’s outfit as “the best new band out”. He also gave a shout-out to Death Grips and Killing Joke, adding that the music was “amazing”.
The madness began in late March when Gutfeld boldly claimed that “Biden’s green agenda is actually helping China to cash in” during a taping of The Five. As the show cut to a commercial break, viewers could hear gecs song “The Most Wanted Person In The United States” play out while a photo of Biden remained on screen. Then on April 4, as Gutfeld announced that the “Chinese sky balloons” had managed to “scoop up more sensitive secrets than what Joe Biden told us about”, the band’s track “Doritos & Fritos” played the segment out.
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Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they developed out of objective evidence? No. They come from works of fiction written by US liberals, and from them alone. They come from three kinds of fiction: childrens TV shows, US highschool's required reading list, and video game storylines.
— Mao Zedong, Where Do Correct Ideas Come from? (May 1963)
are you shitting me, antibiotic eye drops have been going like craaazy here
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A new strain, dubbed Arcturus (XBB 1.16), is becoming prominent in India, and “an infantile phenotype seems [to be] emerging”. Pediatric cases are on the rise with a new symptom: conjunctivitis, more commonly known as “pink eye”.
XBB.1.16 is a recombinant of two descendants of so-called “stealth Omicron” BA.2. A preprint study updated Sunday from scientists at the University of Tokyo suggests that it spreads about 1.17 to 1.27 times more efficiently than relatives XBB.1 and XBB.1.5, also known as “Kraken,” which currently dominates U.S. cases.
XBB.1.16’s increased ability to outpace other variants suggest that it “will spread worldwide in the near future,” researchers wrote, adding that the variant is “robustly resistant” to antibodies from a variety of COVID variants, including “stealth Omicron” BA.2 and BA.5, which surged globally last summer.
Your vaccine, now woefully outdated especially if you did not receive the bivalent booster, will only marginally protect you. Even if you caught Covid within the last 6 months, your antibodies are negligible.
If you know anyone who has recently returned from India or any neighboring countries, encourage them to mask and isolate. If you or your children are experiencing mild cold/allergy symptoms, especially red, itchy, watery, and/or sticky eyes, please wear a mask, isolate if you can, and test for Covid. “Adenovirus, which has symptoms similar to COVID, can also result in conjunctivitis. Adenovirus and COVID are impossible to distinguish from each other without testing.”
At the time of this posting, it looks like XBB 1.16/Arcturus has already made it to the US, UK, most of Europe, and even Australia and New Zealand. The lineage is being tracked here.
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hit it, Neil!
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dreamful
hello kitty themed bathroom ｡‧𓂃ᜊ