you can give seven days of internet connection to someone in gaza for just 6 USD

gazaesims.com is a website dedicated to helping people donate esims for people in gaza. there are multiple options for where to purchase an esim to donate, for the price i listed you want to use nomad esims. you can get a $3 discount by using someone's referral code from the notes of this post. it also will give the referrer credit to buy more esims! (you can only use a referral code on your first purchase) BACKPACKNOMAD is another code to get $3 off your first purchase, it's been working for some people but not others so try out a referral code instead if you can't get it to work. also it took over an hour for the email with my information to come through so don't panic if it doesn't show up right away. (logging back into your nomad account seems to have helped some people get their emails to send!) (nomad promo codes do not work on plans that are already on sale, unlimited plans, and plans under $5)

edit as of 1/1/24: they are running out of all esims types right now! please donate esims from any of the platforms: nomad, airalo, holafly, simly, and mogo. here is a purchase guide i made that covers all of them. the crew is asking for people to reply to emails they sent that contain esims that are still unactivated. you can see gothhabiba’s guide for how to tell if your esims have been activated.

1/12/24: once again super low on esims! all of the above links should still be accurate on what to do.

My referral code: OSCA46XR

loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done

Aurora above Edinburgh, by Kyle Bonallo

Fred Hampton Jr visiting his father on Father’s Day…his grave is annually shot by local police

.Some context for this:

-Fred Hampton was a black activist from Chicago – an extraordinary speaker, youth organizer for the NAACP. 

-He joined the Black Panthers and shone so brightly that he was made chair of the Chicago chapter when he was only 20.

-He founded the Rainbow Coalition, which brought together Black and Latino activists and radical anti-poverty Catholics.  He forged an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them make peace and work for social change.

-In 1967, when he was just 19, Hampton was identified by the FBI as a “radical threat.” The FBI tried to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation to get the groups he’d drawn together to distrust each other, and getting an FBI plant next to him as a bodyguard.  

-(This is part of an illegal FBI program called COINTELPRO, which aimed to paint black civil rights activists (among others) as violent and threatening.  If you’ve only seen pictures of the Black Panthers as armed and dangerous revolutionaries, and never heard of their children’s breakfast program, their community health clinics, or their “copwatch” patrols, this is why.   It’s because COINTELPRO was a highly successful work of political propaganda.)  

-On December 3, 1969, Hampton taught a political education course at a local church, and then several Panthers gathered at his apartment for a late dinner.  One of them was the FBI plant bodyguard, who drugged Hampton.  

-At 4:45 AM on December 4, a squad of Chicago Police officers and FBI agents with a warrant to search for weapons stormed the apartment. Investigations later showed they fired between 90 and 99 times.  The Panther on security detail, Mark Clark, was holding a shotgun.  He was shot, and the gun went off into the ceiling.  This was the only shot fired by the Panthers. 

-Fred Hampton, in another room, didn’t awaken.  He was shot in his bed.  Twice, in the head, at point-blank range.  He was 21.  

-Four weeks after witnessing Hampton’s death, his finance Deborah Johnson gave birth to their son, Fred Hampton Jr.  That’s him in the photograph, visiting the grave of a father who died before he was born.  A resting place riddled with bullets.  

found in a british heart foundation charity shop in buckinghamshire, england

certified soup post

wish we had more internal organ emojis

Puppies getting warm and toasty by the fire, ok?

KITTIES SLAPPING AND HITTING BY THE FIRE

everyone get unemployed. i will provide for us.

I love how safe everyone in the comments feels about being entirely dependant on a potentially psychopathic benefactor 😁

im nice…..

He’s literally nice

im losing my mind bc ive never seen great british bake off before and my friend has it on and I was just like “NOEL FIELDING????” and my friend was like “who? the host?”

and it turns out she knows nothing about him outside of great british bakeoff. we could not possibly have more vastly different ideas of this man and his work.

she said “he’s so sweet. he’s always so cute in his sweaters” while I’m looking at Old Gregg

A white kangaroo. Nothing special apart from that this was taken in Finland.

A bit lost

My guy off the shits

Odd mouse

What the hell is going on in Finland??

[ID: a sped up and looped video of a bunch of piglets running around an adult pig in a quick swarm. There is fast paced music with a video game feel playing. /end ID]

"ukraine invasion" vs "israel-hamas war" hm. something something wording and western media bias and propaganda

Charles III: Don't paint my hands or face red, I don't want people to think I've got blood on them.

Painter: Of course, your majesty.

I can't even process how they did this. It's covered in rough and scattered paintstrokes. It's detailed to a pintip. It's all symbolic. It's a king's portrait. The slight red tint to his hands and face obscured by the red that soaks the painting. The lighting looking like it's filtered through leaves. A monarch butterfly above his shoulder. I don't yet know the artist but god they deserve a museum if this is their work.

The artist is Jonathan Yeo, who is a world-famous portraitist.

He first got famous in 2007 when he made an unauthorized portrait of then US president George W. Bush made out of porn magazine clippings

fuuuck my stupid gay tail all the ideal dogs point at laugh at my dumb faggy tail